[12:26] <coz_> good day all
[19:38] <palhmbs> doctormo, you about?
[19:39] <palhmbs> I was wondering if there is any way to make a text graphic look good with gimp?
[19:39] <palhmbs> even if I increase the resolution, the text in a gif looks pixelated - it's on a transparent background....
[19:45] <thorwil> hello palhmbs
[19:45] <thorwil> if you show me the image and perhaps explain the steps taken, i might be bale to help
[19:47] <doctormo> palhmbs: I am about
[19:48] <doctormo> palhmbs: How did you make the image?
[19:49] <palhmbs> with gimp - just created a text element - then exported it as jpg
[19:49] <palhmbs> it's white on transparent
[19:49] <palhmbs> the effect is ugly
[19:51] <thorwil> palhmbs: jpg introduces artifacts, worst and most obvious on edged showing strong contrast
[19:52] <palhmbs> is it best to use svg - with text converted to paths instead?
[19:52] <palhmbs> or are their other formats / ways of doing this that doesn't introduce those artifacts...
[19:53] <thorwil> palhmbs: gif and png do well with strong contrast
[19:54] <thorwil> png isn't limited to 256 colors as gif is, afair
[19:54] <palhmbs> i'll try a png thanks
[20:00] <palhmbs> png is just fine - that's great - thanks
[20:02] <thorwil> np
[20:06] <thorwil> 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] <palhmbs> this is a cool command - find . -size +100k -exec gimp {} \;
[22:31] <palhmbs> just figured out how to do it...
[22:48] <palhmbs> mogrify -quality 40 +profile "*" --- is also awesome specially if you combine it with find -exec -- :D
[23:01] <BlueBomber7> Welcome to batch image processing ;)
[23:22] <palhmbs> thank you
[23:23] <palhmbs> I've done a bit of imagemagick stuffs before :D
[23:25] <palhmbs> 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] <palhmbs> http://static.die.net/earth/rectangular/ \== http://www.die.net/earth/
[23:27] <palhmbs> I also chop the image up and rejoin them - so that the image centers on a location (New Zealand)