A really simple little trick to adding normal text to an image and making it look interesting!

http://www.scottphotographics.com/how-to-make-see-through-text-to-image-in-gimp/

Very nice tutorial. I chose the Astronomy Picture of the Day and wanted a lot of it to show.

View the image I used here.

Sallyanne - very nice and the background colour goes really well with the text image.

Thankyou he4rty

Just an exercise Thank you Michael
@Oregonian - brillant solution

who know the words?

they are very nice
but my personal taste is in favour of backgrounds not so solid in colour, in order to let transpare a little of the image also in the background zones (like in the post that initiated this new game)

edit: just to remember the starting point:

@dinasset - Thank you for the comment
I agree with you for a more soft mask but also depends of the image you have.

@Marcello
yes, that's true, if the image is more or less insignificant....
but I believe that most of the times the person who does this likes the photo itself, not only the overriding text.
I noticed that the first comment appearing on the original site Michael pointed to (thanks!) says:
"Hey,
To make the solid colour layer slightly transparent – adjust the opacity of the layer to around 90%, which will be a slider (out of 100) located in the layers toolbar.
Thanks,
Mike"
So, maybe, about all of the above "experiments" can be improved -according to my personal taste- by applying also this little modification.
Maybe someone will try to do it...

edit: obviously I know very well the words you put in your text, but you have to use "diritta" not "dritta"....hehehe!

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
ché la diritta via era smarrita.

Midway on our life's journey, I found myself
In dark woods, the right road lost. To tell
About those woods is hard—so tangled and rough

@Dinasset - Yes Misprint...
@Ella Louise - Thank for the tranlation

gimper66, that is a beautiful composition!

my play



i wrote also a little script for that
in case you are interested in, let me know

(source image by GnuTux)

Is it ready now?

for you, SystemX
see new attachment on page 3
play and tell me your outcome

ps: in case you want do use my default font and do not have it, here it is



(remove the txt suffix)

Thanks Dinasset.
I'm already a great fan of V1 of that script.
I actually plugged it a few times in posts.
A few images contain results from it.
Due to time This is my best shot but another day I will post better.
Very cool spheres for GnuTux BRL script.
Diego Globe view is the key to a I'm working on.
Maybe I post it when finished.

Also between Diego Globe view and Graechans Manhattan script you can get some very cool mixes.

Thank you Michael.