Well, its sort of DIY

Word art in word will so that...

geoff coughed up some electrons that declared:

Possibly GIMP - certainly you can run text in any font round an arbitrary path (derived from something else or drawn with beziers).

There are pattern fills which may be persuaded to do a gradient fill - not sure, haven't gone in that direction much with GIMP - I usually just fix up my photos in it.

Inkscape makes gradient fills easy, but I'm not sure if that will let you bend text.

Both are free.

Cheers

Tim

I'll revisit it then,

I was too quick to dismiss Word it would seem

thanks

Well obviously. I was going to say just that...

:-)

In message , Tim S writes

Tried that - I'm obviously too thick to do it

OK - I'll look at that, cheers

What a palarva for a 'kin T-shirt with a joke that nobody will understand anyway

If you want free then the OpenOffice.org application includes FontWorks which allows you to distort and colour text as you wish. If you want something fancier, then Google Sketchup and Inkscape both give you options for different types of distortion, extrusion, effects, fills, material, shaders etc.

Buy a few white t-shirts and scrawl exactly that on them in marker pen - I bet you could sell 'em :-)

Its a bit limited - but it can do a number of present distortions and fills.

If you want something custom, then let me know and I can knock it up in photoshop or illustrator.

It does - I designed a frisbee with text wrapping around it a while ago, although ISTR I had murder getting the place producing them to read the file... think it had to be re-loaded in Illustrator and resaved.

Inkscape is a free software package for drawing line art (*). A solid fill of an outline is where the outline is, um, filled with a single solid colour. A gradient fill is where the colour changes. For example, light blue at the top to dark blue at the bottom. Bending text is drawing the outline of text characters to follow a curve. What else didn't you understand?

Drop shadows and transparencies, whilst you are doing so well..;-) Oh and pattern fill..that's a nice one.

Take some letters and dint fill and remove outline, use them to make a 'stencil, in a white sheet..scan some nice woodgrain in..slip teh bitmap behind and cut the letters out, then add a bit of drop shadow..looks like embossed or machined wooden letters..

It was the GIMP bit

it must have been remembering your favourite searches ;-)

Owain

Had a play today and the job's done and dusted

just a matter of looking in the correct place

cheers

Could have been better, the red / white of the Indonesian flag on the lettering didn't work too well, but ...

The weak joke being "Saya tidak tahu" - I don't know, so

"What's it say on your T-shirt?"

"I don't know"

Worse jokes exist ...

Well I suppose that's one way of getting a gradient colour fill over the letters...

Andy