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GnuTux · **Posted:** Wed Aug 22, 2012 6:23 pm **(#21)**

Yeah, it's almost cyberpunk.

Erisian · **Posted:** Wed Aug 22, 2012 6:26 pm **(#22)**

That's what I was thinking

Erisian · **Posted:** Thu Aug 23, 2012 4:17 pm **(#23)**

Esper wrote:

Erisian wrote:

Wow - I wasn't expecting this response.

you are a bit on fire at the moment :bigthup

did you make it the size it is now or worked on a bigger scale ?
im asking because you have those jagged edges
im wondering if its better to work on a bigger picture and resize it when its finished
my media-designer mate says he does it all the time

also, whats it with DPI ?
as far as i know a monitor has 72dpi, do you get a better result when you use a higher dpi in terms of jagged edges ?

Just had a thought. Maybe it's because it has to be reduced to 256 colours for saving as GIF.

Cyrilshark · **Joined:** May 29, 2010 **Posts:** 32

I'm late - but this is awesome. As is your signature

Erisian · **Posted:** Wed Aug 29, 2012 3:27 pm **(#25)**

Thank you very much Cyrilshark.

2-ton · **Posted:** Wed Aug 29, 2012 3:40 pm **(#26)**

speaking of you siggy...care to share the font and the method, or did I miss it somewhere?

Erisian · **Posted:** Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:03 pm **(#27)**

The font is Angelic War and it's free from DaFont. The method is half metal (see Drac's tutes) and half wood (a brown layer and a desaturated plasma overlay layer with motion blur.) I also used alpha to selection, selection to path and stroke path)

2-ton · **Posted:** Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:22 pm **(#28)**

what is the difference between ttf and otf fonts? Anyway, thanks for the info....I love your siggy!

*love this font...hard to figure out, though. There seem to be no caps but two slightly different lower cases.

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

Esper wrote:

jagged edges

i just watched this youtube tutorial by monsoonami (Chrome Beveled Text Effect), and hes smoothing the jagged lines he has with a G'Mic filter called 'Anisotropic smoothing' (under Enhancement), maybe thats something worth trying ?

Video from : www.youtube.com

Erisian · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2012 1:56 am **(#30)**

2-Ton - TTF are true type fonts and when printed come out exactly the same as on your screen. OTF I know very little about but in graphics, as with Gimp, it doesn't matter because a graphic will always come out as on screen. If there's a choice, I always use TTF in case I want to use it in type.

Esper - I think the conversion to 256 colour is responsible and I never do that until I've finished the animation. That makes a lot of layers to smooth. That is a good filter though as is thin brush smoothing (which I use more often)