Veeery carefully
On Windows Paint is like Notepad. Barely functional. There are layers now though, which is a step into right direction. For anything decent you need 3rd party software.
Or use online editor like Photopea or Vector Ink. Checked just now and you can warp text there.
Just type normally along one side and then
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“Woh odd, I rotate text in ms paint”
Good job!
Instead of using MS Paint, maybe you should use Inkscape for such projects. It can easily align text along lines, but the best thing is that it is vector based, so the images easily scale. Very useful for logos.
That’s all well and good until you need more jpeg.
You can always export an Inkscape image as a bitmap in whatever resolution you’ll probably need.
I once did an export with a width of >10000px (85cm ~=33.5in @ 300dpi). Yes, the file size sucked. But it looked good.
Will it handle seven pixels?
Or Gimp
Gimp is free, but God is the interface terrible.
Lots of free software is great. I love my QGIS and I escape, but Gimp just can’t replace photoshop for me.
Good thing is that GIMP 3.0 is right around the corner, bringing a port from GTK2 to GTK3 and with that a much more modern GUI.
Inkscape would still be better for this in particular though.
Or GIMP, yes, but for that kind of logo, Inkscape is definitely the better choice.
It always depends on the project.
I actually kind of like this way better
I really enjoy the ::woosh:: in the comments over the symbolism.
Like this
Install GIMP, Krita, or Inkscape instead
GiMP needs to die. It is a misbegotten heap of well-intentioned, functional, held-together-with-love-and-bubble-gum half effort
It doesn’t need to die, it needs to be improved.
It’s like saying this app is kind of ugly. Let’s kill all the progress it has made and start over.
It also needs a better name.
Nah, it doesn’t need to impress shareholders. It already is known as GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program). If they were to rename it, it would lose its name recognition.
Gimp 2.x has improved and tbf gimp was never that bad it’s just that people that use Photoshop think only they should have an opinion.
Yeah, I’m not really the person to say anything about GIMP, I’ve been using Krita for as long as I’ve been on Linux.
My partner uses krita and she’s hasn’t used anything else. Hopefully it being open source gets her to move to Linux soon 🐧
GIMP is great. I love to use it.
It’s not perfect, but it’s served me well over the past ten years.fork it and make it better or pay someone else to or accept the downvotes for irrationality
If you don’t like it, buy a photoshop subscription instead, it’s a heap of big corporate greed, money drain intended, functional, held together with ai features and licensing scams full effort.
Also anything you make on it is Adobe’s to train their AI with
Everything in the cloud is their property. And everything works in the cloud, so. Yeah. Cloud software is awesome. Pay per month, everything you make isn’t your property. It’s double penetration without lube, while all you wanted to do is some photo editing or illustrating.
Piracy is the answer. Back in the days you would miss out on things when pirating, compared to the purchased version. Now you’re missing out when you pay, compared to piracy. Why would I pay to have more restrictions and less rights then when I pirate for free? When I get caught with an illegal copy of photoshop, whatever I created will still be my property. I’ll get a fine, but still have more rights then a paying customer.
It’s a fucking dystopian world we live in.
If the person who died in Disneyland due to their allergy never used Disney+ but would have illegally downloaded a Disney movie instead, the lawsuit wouldn’t have been rejected by Disney as they never lost their rights by agreeing to their terms of service.
I rather have the risk to get a fine for illegal downloading then to pay to lose my rights.
So whenever there’s an open source project, no matter how imperfect it may be, to help people achieve their goal without mega corporate rape, I wouldn’t dare say anything bad about it. I don’t want to pirate, I feel like I have no choice and open source projects like Gimp are a great alternative. Also, I don’t mind paying for something if it would become my property and I would keep my rights and privacy.
Each letter gets it’s own text box. You rotate them once by one. You’ll need to measure distance from inner perimeter of the circle and manage the exact angle to center. So a protractor, string, or drawn line can help. (Draw the line before putting the center picture in.
Source - Am Millennial, MSPaint was it back in the day.
Or, alternatively, use a professional paint program. Which does not necessarily have to be commercial.
- Take a picture of the original text with your phone at an angle.
- Email the crooked image to yourself.
- Copy the rotated text from the crooked image into the destination image.
That’s way harder than what I do, but I’m lucky enough to have access to a flat bed scanner. I just print it out, and then scan it at every angle. That way when I email the scanned photos to myself I have all the angles at once.
This is much too high quality to be called a shitpost.
It’s Ms post
The new MS photos app actually has an AI-powered tool that can do precisely this. Was shocked at how well it worked for this exact use case.
You need AI to help you rotate text?
Sorry for using the solution that was right in front of me, free, and took ten seconds.
Should have watched a YouTube tutorial, paid for photoshop and done it myself the good old fashioned way.
One pixel at a time.
Comments saying “you don’t” are weak shit. The answer is you rotate each letter one by one.
It will look like shit because they will be ever so slightly misaligned, but such is the fate of the brave
There are ways to deal with the kerning and angles. Mostly be drawing lines you later get rid of.
that’s how you do hand lettering too!
