Black board and text effect updated to v4

Pocholo · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2022 4:09 pm **(#1)**

Updated to version 2 Made the chalk effect a little chalkier :hehe

****Please use a thin font to get the effect****

Version 3:
8/17/22 - Added a color option for the frame and created the miter effect on the frame

****Please use a thin font to get the effect****

Version 4 - Made an option to change the board color
and another option for thicker fonts

contrast_ · **Joined:** Oct 31, 2020 **Posts:** 2014

I'm working on something

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16173

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PixLab · **Posted:** Wed Aug 17, 2022 2:48 am **(#4)**

Looking at your code, no choice for the board color? blackboards can be green, khaki, dark blue as well, and all in between

https://www.google.com/search?q=classro ... 18&bih=882

nelo · **Posted:** Wed Aug 17, 2022 3:23 am **(#5)**

to further improve:
the wooden frame could have a miter

Pocholo · **Posted:** Wed Aug 17, 2022 10:16 am **(#6)**

Updated the version with some minor changes. go to the initial post and download it, please.
Thank you Rod, Patrice and nelo, your inputs are well appreciated. :hi5

AngelaHanley · **Joined:** Jun 04, 2022 **Posts:** 58

Pocholo · **Posted:** Thu Aug 18, 2022 2:57 pm **(#8)**

Thank you Angela!

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12845

Results look great, Pocholo.

Pocholo · **Posted:** Thu Aug 18, 2022 6:22 pm **(#10)**

Thank you lyle I'm glad you like it! :bigthup

racer-x · **Joined:** Apr 15, 2017 **Posts:** 1837

I use this sometimes to help make animations.

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teapot · **Joined:** Dec 09, 2018 **Posts:** 737

Nice one racer-x :kpix

Thank you for the plugin Pocholo.

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Issabella · **Posted:** Fri Aug 19, 2022 5:09 am **(#13)**

Lovely results, Racer and Teapot.
Pocholo, thanks for your new adapted plug-in- :tyspin

Pocholo · **Posted:** Fri Aug 19, 2022 10:27 am **(#14)**

@racer-x, That is pretty way to present the result. :jumpclap

@teapot, Thank you for your comment!
@Issabella, Thanks for liking and been a fan of plugins, I know you partner with dinasett to test his wonderful plugins. :tyspin

PixLab · **Posted:** Sat Aug 20, 2022 8:24 am **(#15)**

Hi Pocholo

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As you can see the chalk effect is only applied around the letters
I did tried with many fonts, same thing none of them got the chalk effect inside the text
here is the xcf, if you want to take a look

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PixLab · **Posted:** Sat Aug 20, 2022 9:17 am **(#16)**

OK I think I understood why, it works only with very thin fonts at fixed size hard coded at line 45 and call at line 48?

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45    size = 175
48    textLayer = pdb.gimp_text_fontname(img, None, 0, 0, customtext, 200, 1, size, PIXELS, fontname)

thus, at line 185 the brush is hard coded at size 15

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185 pdb.gimp_context_set_brush_size(15)

And this because you hard coded the selection shrink at line 172 to 1 for your path

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172 pdb.gimp_selection_shrink(img, 1)

No programmer here, just wanted to know why, am I right?

Pocholo · **Posted:** Sat Aug 20, 2022 10:13 am **(#17)**

Use a thin font, that's all. I should it stated in the initial post.

MareroQ · **Posted:** Sat Aug 20, 2022 9:13 pm **(#18)**

@PixLab.
I have a similar impression (no possibility to choose the color of the board and any font). This can be solved programmatically or by editing the layers... :hehe

Pocholo · **Posted:** Sun Aug 21, 2022 3:22 pm **(#19)**

New update: version 4
Thank you Patrice for your input and thank you Marek for the option idea. :hi5

PixLab · **Posted:** Mon Aug 22, 2022 2:54 am **(#20)**