Introduce Myself

fried001 · **Joined:** Oct 30, 2012 **Posts:** 1

Hi,

I use Gimp for my wedding photography.
It's not an easy program to use,
but I hope will learn a lot of you all!

Peter

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

Hi and welcome to the forums, I think to start with Gimp can seem very daunting but after following a few tutorials the controls and functions soon become second nature, though most of us on here are still learning and finding new ways to achieve things.

Draconian · **Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2012 5:49 am **(#3)**

Welcome to Gimp Chat!

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

You came to the right place fried001. We have a lot of talented members here that are eager to help with any questions about GIMP.

2-ton · **Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:16 am **(#5)**

Oooh, Molly, great job on the engraving...how did you achieve that?

Oregonian · **Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:52 am **(#6)**

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

Welcome aboard, fried!

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

2-ton wrote:

Oooh, Molly, great job on the engraving...how did you achieve that?

@2-ton, that was just one of the logo scripts. File > Create > Logo. I am not sure now which one it is but I will try to find out.

Found it. File > Create > Logo > Shadowy. Just type in a word and it will do its thing

2-ton · **Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:16 pm **(#9)**

boo hoo, I don't have it.

2-ton · **Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:12 pm **(#10)**

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

welcome to GC fried001

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

2-ton wrote:

looks great.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

This is one of my favorite logo filters. You should try some more of them 2-ton. Sometimes we forget they are there.

Erisian · **Posted:** Wed Oct 31, 2012 9:19 am **(#14)**

Welcome to Gimp Chat Peter.

Mokonafan · **Posted:** Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:43 am **(#15)**

Welcome to GimpChat!

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

I was messing with different metallic gradients on that logo script and also turned off the background layer

AnMal · **Posted:** Wed Oct 31, 2012 4:08 pm **(#17)**

fried001: welcome to gimp chat!

2-ton · **Posted:** Wed Oct 31, 2012 8:35 pm **(#18)**

Great idea, Akky...gives text that little oomph even with no background. BTW, I didn't notice if it gives a choice of background size, as in the whole canvas size.

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

I think it just changes according to the size of the font

paynekj · **Posted:** Thu Nov 01, 2012 8:21 am **(#20)**

Hi Peter and welcome to GimpChat.

Kevin