[plug] anyone here REALLY good with GIMP?

[Senectus .]

On 5/8/05, Gavin Chester <gavinchester1 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Senectus I guess I didn't re-read your first post about the source of
> your material.  I don't know about XP supporting svg backgrounds, so
> can't help you there.  However, a quick search on converting bitmaps to
> svg (terms used: "text bitmap trace linux convert gpl") reminded me that
> there are some good tools out there if you want to explore that option.
> Inkscape, I mentioned previously, will do it and so will a gpl
> application called autotrace (http://autotrace.sourceforge.net).  The
> search gave lots of useful hits and makes for good reading.  I had gone
> down this path a little myself once, but had forgotten everything :-(
> 
> Thing is, once you convert the original (at least the text) to svg you
> can then save it in bitmap/jpeg/whatever for web use at the scale that
> you need rather than magnifying the pixels by working with bmps as your
> originals.  Oh, and see if you can get a higher resolution original of
> the jpeg image to minimise the degradation as you scale and manipulate
> that.  Just a couple of thoughts.
> 

Cool thanks.. I'll go explore those in a moment.. feeling creative again :-P

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