January 30, 2006

Bleg

I'm trying to add colored, cursive text to a pic, but my image editor, Irfanview, only lets me pick from a selection of colors instead of letting me insert a number for my own color preference.
Do any of you know of an editor that will allow me to do that without having to pay $30 for it?
I am uzeng al my time and brane powar on this problim.

Posted by floridacracker at January 30, 2006 10:07 PM

   



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Here's a link to a good (free) program that is pretty much equal to Adobe Photoshop.

http://www.photofiltre.com/

Download that and give it a shot.

Posted by: Trambo at January 30, 2006 10:28 PM

I have a Photoshoppish-type program, but was hoping not to have to go that route. The learning-curve and all that.
Irfanview will let me insert cursive text, just not in the color I want. And I am all about color.

Posted by: Donnah at January 30, 2006 10:35 PM

I recommend GIMP (http://gimp.org/) as a good freeware Photoshop work-alike. Available for Windows, MacOSX and *nix.

Posted by: Russ at January 31, 2006 01:19 AM

I downloaded it, Russ. It looks like a whole lot more than I can handle, but I'll poke around.

Posted by: Donnah at January 31, 2006 02:23 AM

Hello FC:
I photoshop, and a couple of others. For you, go to http://cooltext.com, and take a look. You can do a logo type hit and lay it on or under the photo? I use that site a lot, (it's advertiser supported, no charge for use). Maybe log on, I don't remember. Awesome font selection, enhancements, colors.

Posted by: Frankly Opinionated at January 31, 2006 09:41 AM

Why don't you just use MS Paint?

You make a text box then:

Click on colors (on the top tool bar)
edit colors
define customs colors
add to custom colors
OK

You can make any color text under the sun. ( and the program is already on your computer)

Posted by: Cindy at January 31, 2006 01:16 PM

Hmm.

Posted by: Donnah at January 31, 2006 01:56 PM

Donnah, I know I'm late on this one.

But anyway -- I'm with Cindy. Use Paint, but make sure you set your screen font display to "smooth screen fonts".

Depends on the version of Windows, but the most likely way: right-click your desktop space, choose the "Appearance" tab, select "Effects", and then click the "Smooth Screen Fonts" box.

That will make the edges of your letters look nice and slick. I use it all the time.

Posted by: Baron Bodissey at February 6, 2006 07:24 PM