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by vmiceli
2013-08-18T08:18:20-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: Text on image - Replicating old film camera data backs
Replies: 5
Views: 1892

Re: Text on image - Replicating old film camera data backs

Thanks a million Fred, you are correct, the red text wasn't opaque enough. Your settings made it work. I need to fine tune the numbers to get the blur to produce a noticeable effect though.

Thanks!

Vincenzo
by vmiceli
2013-08-17T12:45:42-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: Text on image - Replicating old film camera data backs
Replies: 5
Views: 1892

Re: Text on image - Replicating old film camera data backs

Thanks Fred, I'm using ImageMagick-6.8.6-8 on Windows 7. The look of the text is as follows: This is the text on its own written to a jpg: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tbdx5o7xnfnnme9/font_fuzzy_crop.jpg If I create the above in a transparent layer and combine with original I get the much less ...
by vmiceli
2013-08-17T12:08:57-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: Text on image - Replicating old film camera data backs
Replies: 5
Views: 1892

Text on image - Replicating old film camera data backs

Hello folks, I'm trying to replicate the look of the date and time that was imprinted on the old film SLRs with data back. They printed with a red lamp that left a glowing text on the photo. My idea is to take the exif data and print date and time in a red text with a bit of blur to make it glow ...