Ask the Maker 2017 with NEW ADDITION!

[aida_rose]

July 1st means it's time for round 9 of Ask the Maker here at icon_talk!

Here you'll get the chance to ask icon makers who sign up questions about their icons and other graphics. You can ask for tutorials, guides/"How to", or ask any other questions related their work so these makers can create a Q&A post with the answers to all the questions they get. As

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[cool_spectrum]

Username + where you post your work: cool_spectrum @ classic_shades
What can we request from you (tutorials, Q&A, guides etc. .PSDs are not allowed: I'm up for anything and I will try to be more prompt than I've been in years past.

[rizbef]

Any chance you could write some sort of guide for using text in gimp? (Unless I'm mistaken and you don't use gimp, sorry I read it somewhere). For the life of me I cannot figure out how to get good text; it always looks flat or too sharp/too blurry, one solid color with no lighting, etc. I read a gimp tutorial that mentioned something about using text to path?? I tried to use that but it looked really bad...

Any advice you have would be most welcome!

[cool_spectrum]

Ooh, that sounds like an interesting challenge, sure! I'm not sure about putting text on a path (I'm too lazy to figure that one out, myself), but I think I have a few hacks that might be helpful for fellow GIMP users.

[novindalf]

Seconding this! I always have to do my text work in PowerPoint and paste as a new layer in Gimp, so I'd love to learn how you do it within Gimp itself!

[rizbef]

I didn't even know you could do this! How interesting. How does that work? Do you export it from PP as a png file?

[novindalf]

I just make the text the way I want in a text box in PP and then copy it and paste it into the icon I'm working on in Gimp as a new layer

[cool_spectrum]

I'd never thought about doing the text in a different program before. The results in your icons are lovely, so maybe it's worth a shot XD

Here's a link to my guide. Sorry in advance about the length...

[cool_spectrum]

Okay, I apologize for the length on this in advance! Here's the guide.
I hope it's helpful for you, but please let me know if I missed anything.

[rizbef]

Noooo the length is perfect! <3 This is so helpful :D Thank you so much for taking the time to write all of it!