=== zniavre_ is now known as Teuze === Teuze is now known as zniavre [12:26] good day all [19:38] doctormo, you about? [19:39] I was wondering if there is any way to make a text graphic look good with gimp? [19:39] even if I increase the resolution, the text in a gif looks pixelated - it's on a transparent background.... [19:45] hello palhmbs [19:45] if you show me the image and perhaps explain the steps taken, i might be bale to help [19:47] palhmbs: I am about [19:48] palhmbs: How did you make the image? [19:49] with gimp - just created a text element - then exported it as jpg [19:49] it's white on transparent [19:49] the effect is ugly [19:51] palhmbs: jpg introduces artifacts, worst and most obvious on edged showing strong contrast [19:52] is it best to use svg - with text converted to paths instead? [19:52] or are their other formats / ways of doing this that doesn't introduce those artifacts... [19:53] palhmbs: gif and png do well with strong contrast [19:54] png isn't limited to 256 colors as gif is, afair [19:54] i'll try a png thanks [20:00] png is just fine - that's great - thanks [20:02] np [20:06] this seems to be one of the better articles about the differences: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/30941/whats-the-difference-between-jpg-png-and-gif/ [22:30] this is a cool command - find . -size +100k -exec gimp {} \; [22:31] just figured out how to do it... [22:48] mogrify -quality 40 +profile "*" --- is also awesome specially if you combine it with find -exec -- :D [23:01] Welcome to batch image processing ;) [23:22] thank you [23:23] I've done a bit of imagemagick stuffs before :D [23:25] I drag a pic of the current cloud & sun position on earth -- http://static.die.net/earth/rectangular/ --- then grab an image of the isobaric pressures and make it transparent and white and overlay and combine --- http://paulhomebus.developingcraftsmanship.com/ [23:26] http://static.die.net/earth/rectangular/ \== http://www.die.net/earth/ [23:27] I also chop the image up and rejoin them - so that the image centers on a location (New Zealand)