A quickie, mostly an experimentation at getting the 3D look for the cut.



For the 3D look:

- Get a selection on the cut outline, and then a path from the selection
- Duplicate the path, and use the scale tool in path mode to shrink it a bit
- Use my path-inbetweener script to generate 7 intermediate paths between these two paths.
- Merge all these paths, and stroke the result
- Blur a bit

PS: Yes, the loop in the "P" is floating in thin air, so what?

I think if the sides of the cutout had texture it would look a bit more 3D. The stroked and blurred paths do give it somewhat of a cutout look but i think it needs contrast. Or possibly a light to darker gradient fill?

Not sure there is a way to make a gradient fill on that, but the successive paths could be stroked using colors from a gradient... That would require a script, but I already have something similar that should be easy to improve on.

Might benefit if the text was warped to the pumpkin shape.

A quick stab at it http://i.imgur.com/cbsD5Co.jpg

The P in GIMP is still not correct but 'general idea is there.

Pure laziness. I played with Map object last night but didn't get the result I wanted with either cylinder or sphere and didn't want to spend too much time on that part