Chapter 5. Type Effects
Chapter 1 covered some of the basics of using text in GIMP. In Chapter 5, you’ll see how you can use lighting, shadows, color, texture, shape, and perspective to make the most of fonts.
GIMP isn’t designed to be used as a font editor; it’s a graphic design tool. But what you can do with text in GIMP is far more interesting than what you can do with a font editor. GIMP offers you the ability to alter the environment in which the font is displayed. No matter which of the available fonts you use, you can alter the depth, color, and texture for a text string. And that broadens your graphic design possibilities in much more meaningful ...
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