Using Border Average For Text

Odinbc · **Posted:** Sat Jan 26, 2013 4:26 am **(#1)**

Esper, your a text guy, now that your here and this is a text subject so here goes.
Have you tried using, Colors menu > Info > Border Average... on an image you wish to add text on top of? If not give it a go!
Check your foreground color when you do.

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2770

Odinbc wrote:

Esper, your a text guy, now that your here and this is a text subject so here goes.
Have you tried using, Colors menu, Info, Border Average... on an image you wish to add text on top of? If not give it a go!
Check your foreground color when you do.

i dont understand what you are saying

EDIT: wait, now i do,
will check

EDIT 2: im not quite sure what you want here from me
i used the script made a text, and then used Border Average, it seems to do nothing.....ir at least i cant see any difference :bluesad

Odinbc · **Posted:** Sat Jan 26, 2013 5:24 am **(#3)**

Sorry my bad! It was not related to this thread.
You would use Border Average if you open any normal image and wished to overlay it with text. Border Average take an image color average and automatically adds it to the foreground color. This makes it much easier to find compatible text colors for an image.

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2770

Odinbc wrote:

Sorry my bad! It was not related to this thread.
You would use Border Average if you open any normal image and wished to overlay it with text. Border Average take an image color average and automatically adds it to the foreground color. This makes it much easier to find compatible text colors for an image.

ah, thats good, thanks Odin !

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Where do you find this border average you are talking about Odin? :oops:

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2770

molly wrote:

Where do you find this border average you are talking about Odin? :oops:

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molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Thank you Esper. I wasn't looking under colors. I still don't know what you do with it cuz I tried it and nothing happens.

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2770

Colours -> Info -> Border Average

molly asked:

Quote:

I still don't know what you do with it cuz I tried it and nothing happens.

Odinbc wrote:

Border Average take an image color average and automatically adds it to the foreground color.

so you take a colorful picture and run Border Average on it
what you will get is the average color as the foreground color

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molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

I tried it again and it did change my foreground color but I didn't get that average color box that you show.

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2770

thats just something i added for demonstration purposes

i used a gradient on the canvas, no black borders either
sorry if that was making things unclear

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Thanks Esper, this will come in handy
Anyway it is just one of the Trillian things I haven't discovered yet on this Huge App.

Akros · **Joined:** Jan 10, 2013 **Posts:** 863

Thx guys!

2-ton · **Posted:** Sat Jan 26, 2013 4:07 pm **(#13)**

That is really cool info! I can't believe how many things there are that I have never known about in Gimp!

AnMal · **Posted:** Sat Jan 26, 2013 9:02 pm **(#14)**

aah, this is actually very helpful! thanks, odinbc, for bringing it up.

Odinbc · **Posted:** Sun Jan 27, 2013 12:50 am **(#15)**

If you have an image that has border areas of similar color, make a selection of the area with the most color concentration before you run Border Average.

Graechan · **Posted:** Sun Jan 27, 2013 2:40 am **(#16)**

Good find Odin I think I'll add it to my outline script tomorrow

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

You are one busy little Script Bee Graechan,...keep em coming

2-ton · **Posted:** Mon Jan 28, 2013 11:45 am **(#18)**

I've tried it on a few photos, and I always seem to get an almost black or a light grey. I never get anything very colorful.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Try what Oden mentioned. Make a selection of a part of you image that you would like your foreground to be and run the script on that selection

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