Martin Bonner wrote:
On Aug 18, 12:50 am, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:
Tim S wrote:
Possibly GIMP - certainly you can run text in any font round an
arbitrary path (derived from something else or drawn with beziers).
There are pattern fills which may be persuaded to do a gradient fill
- not sure, haven't gone in that direction much with GIMP - I usually
just fix up my photos in it.
Inkscape makes gradient fills easy, but I'm not sure if that will let
you bend text.
Well obviously. I was going to say just that...

wtf is he talking about? :-)

Inkscape is a free software package for drawing line art (*).
A solid fill of an outline is where the outline is, um, filled with a
single solid colour.
A gradient fill is where the colour changes. For example, light blue
at the top to dark blue at the bottom.
Bending text is drawing the outline of text characters to follow a
curve.
What else didn't you understand?

Drop shadows and transparencies, whilst you are doing so well..;-)
Oh and pattern fill..that's a nice one.

Take some letters and dint fill and remove outline, use them to make a
'stencil, in a white sheet..scan some nice woodgrain in..slip teh bitmap
behind and cut the letters out, then add a bit of drop shadow..looks
like embossed or machined wooden letters..


*: I'm simplifying here. It does more (of course).