I would just load in gimp, reduce color saturation to zero, increase contrast all the way, then increase brightness so the blacks are very light grey. Then type your text using the colour & font you want. Peace, tOM Trottier 2011 September 9 - Friday at 13:27 re:Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Elementary graphic… Rick <graham [ dot ] rick [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com>wrote… >Could you attach the image? > >If it is of decent quality (probably not if it was in a .doc) perhaps >you could round trip it back to vector format it with trace in >InkScape. > >Then you could do whatever you want with it. > >If it's a musical score, you could probably just use the png as a >temporary background template and redraw it in InkScape. I do that >all the time. > >On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Bruce Miller <subscribe [ at ] brmiller [ dot ] ca> wrote: >> My questions to this list are not always directly "Linux technical." But I do >> always appreciate the patience and helpfulness of participants on this list. >> >> The current challenge tells me that I have forgotten everything I ever knew >> about graphics, and that was very little to begin with. I am not sure even what >> terms to put into Google to begin looking. So, besides answering the direct >> question, I would also say a big thank you to any reference to a good >> introduction to graphics aimed at an absolute beginner. >> >> My fiancee and I wish to use a musical score as the faint background underneath >> the text of our wedding invitations. If it is not misuse of a technical term, I >> would characterize our goal as using the image as a "watermark." The invitations >> themselves will be printed in colour on "invitation" stock (heavy paper / light >> card). >> >> My fiancee, who is not Linux-literate, found a graphic of the score she wants to >> use. I believe that what she originally found was a .jpg, but she saved it in a >> .doc file. I have not succeeded in finding the original .jpg on the web, but >> have extracted the image and saved it in both .jpg and .png formats. >> >> Because this is a graphical image of a musical score, it is literally "line >> art," with 100% contrast between the black image and the white background. My >> task is first to lower the contrast (saturation? - I wish I knew the >> terminology ;-(. ) to the faintness of a watermark. The second task is to apply >> the champagne (greenish gold) which we wish to use for the text itself. >> >> My gut feeling is that these two tasks are trivial, but I have blanked out on >> where and how to learn to do them. Let's put it down to the stress of planning a >> wedding. >> >> We will offer a "virtual piece of wedding cake" and many thanks to anyone with >> the patience to help us past this task. >> >> With thanks in advance. >> >> Bruce Miller >> -- >> Bruce Miller, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada >> bruce [ at ] brmiller [ dot ] ca; (613) 745-1151 >> >> >> In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. >> attributed to Thomas Pickering, retired US diplomat, born 1931 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux mailing list >> Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca >> http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux >> > > > >-- >Religion is regarded by the common people as true, >by the wise as false, >and by the rulers as useful. > >— Lucius Annæus Seneca. > >Terrorism, the new religion. >_______________________________________________ >Linux mailing list >Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca >http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux -- tOM Trottier http://TomTrottier.com BBO:"0 carbon" 613-860-6633 tOM [ at ] Abacurial [ dot ] com Skype:Abacurial MD5 Fingerprint 27:B8:BA:91:70:E5:44:20:8F:29:EE:46:1E:52:F6:81 SHA1 23:3A:53:18:AB:83:B1:CA:O7:33:AF:10:11:24:27:95:22:98:4 E:7E -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS$/B$/IT$/O d++(--)@>+ s:+>: a++(--)>+++ C++>++++ ULH---> P+>+++ L+>++ !E W+++ N+ w++ O M !V P+ PE- Y+ PGP t 5- X R* tv+ b++ DI+++ D G e+++>++++ h----> r+++>++ y++++>++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------