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Putting the finishing touches to my HomeSeer (home automation, X10, IR that kind of thing) plugin I was >carefully< looking at the current MediaPortal screens. Some have semi transparent text in the top left of the screen.
I know one comes from mediaportaltext.png and have opened this in GIMP, but it isn't just 'straight' text, it is a single layer with graduation.
I'd like to reproduce this (my screen is a bit bare) but I am a zillion miles from being an artist.
Was this done using something I could do (eg, text, some font, some size, apply a filter, merge layers type of thing) or is it a case needing to be artistic?
Consider me "artistically challenged" and any help appreciated.
(Did a search but couldn't really find anything relevant, perhaps I just didn't know what to ask.)
I know one comes from mediaportaltext.png and have opened this in GIMP, but it isn't just 'straight' text, it is a single layer with graduation.
I'd like to reproduce this (my screen is a bit bare) but I am a zillion miles from being an artist.
Was this done using something I could do (eg, text, some font, some size, apply a filter, merge layers type of thing) or is it a case needing to be artistic?
Consider me "artistically challenged" and any help appreciated.
(Did a search but couldn't really find anything relevant, perhaps I just didn't know what to ask.)