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We're very close to finishing now, some minor touches, like
adding some fuel to our burning letters might be nice. As the idea
is to get people to contribute money or charcoal to the street
party, I combined many British pound signs, flipped, rotated and
moved to overlap with each other to attempt to try and make it
resemble pieces of charcoal. This was naturally done on a new
layer, using the text tool to place a single pound sign on the
layer, and then detaching the transform menu (click the dotted line
on the menu to detach any menu) to make it easier to use. Then
there was a great repetition of copying, pasting and
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A final bit of text, persuading folk to get their hands in
their pockets or bring round some charcoal is needed. For this
we'll use the dynamic text tool, so that we have greater control
over the formatting and re-editing of the text. I filled a couple
of words with some nice patterns to give them a bit more
interest. Use the tipped paint tin and double-click to set
'pattern' and double-click the pattern square in the tool box to
bring up the patterns.
Once that is done, our final task is to make the background a
little more friendly (though white is cheap!), by adding a faint
texture to it. To do this, create another layer just above the
background (higlight the background layer, and press Ctrl + N) and
press Ctrl + A to select the whole layer, and then fill it with a
pattern. To reduce the strength of the pattern, reduce the opacity
of the layer (see slider bar on layers dialogue box.
If you like, you can download the final xcf file here to play with, but beware, it's a
whopping 1.6 MB download! Still, with the xcf file you'll get all
the detail and all the layers exactly as I left them. If you want
to just see a better quality image, then try this jpg file, which at 83k is more
manageable.
Have fun and please don't hesitate to give me
feedback!
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