Intersecting wordart using Inkscape and Gimp Step 1

[sullyscroller]

At Kevins request i'm going to explain my way to do intersecting wordart. First thank you, thank you , thank you to Travis for his tutorial on doing it with Inkscape. This is my way cause i'm a puter dummy and simple works for me. To start ya gotta have both programs , open Inkscape, go to file-new-letter landscape. left klick text on left toolbar, choose Times news Roman-bold-centered.left clik on page ,Use all capitals and type your big letters. Now go to the arrow at the top of the left toolbar and left click it then left click your letters you just typed. It should put arrows at the corners. Left click and hold while you move it on the page. I use the top left corner to line it up. Then grab the arrow at the bottom right and stretch it to fill the top 1/2 of your document. Left click text tab on left toolbar again and your ready to do your second words in Birds of Paradise. Do your second set of words outside of your document , maybe to the left. set the size to 72, you will stretch them in a minute.Now is where you want to "kern" the letters. Kerning is very easy but watch Travis's video to see how. Once you have the spacing right click on the arrow on the left tab and then on your new text. place it over your first text and using the corner arrows adjust the size to what looks right to you. Then pick up the second set of letters and move it to the side. Go to edit tab up top and click duplicate, leftclick and hold and move the new one down . left click back on the top one ,this is very important that you work with the original one !!!! on the path tab up top click on dynamic offset. you will see the little diamond above your font, left click and hold while moving it up about 1/4 or so. Down at the bottom you see a color left click on a light gray or whatever you like. Now pick it up and place it over the large Times news Roman. Very important not to adjust the size with the corner arrows ,just adjust the whole thing all at once. when its right left click on the duplicate and center it over the other one. If you have made it this far with me SAVE SAVE SAVE  LOL. This is where i'm at with mine, not a pattern yet but next we will use Gimp. BTW i save as a png  rather than svg to make it easier in Gimp but you use what works best for you.

 

sully

Edited April 12, 2015 by sullyscroller

[amazingkevin]

Boy i hope i can follow these instructions  and finally learn something nice for a change , Thank you thank you thank you!!! :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:

[sullyscroller]

Just take your time and be sure to watch Travis's video as it helps with the locations on the toolbars. Inkscape has a lot of stuff in it.

 

sully