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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.)
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.)
