graphic on a curve/text??? - SBB Digital Scrapbooking Forums | Scrapbook-Bytes

alb52 · #1 (**permalink**) 05-25-2006

say i have a stitch graphic (that i can easily make that into a brush)..but it's a straight stitched line. then, i have my text (on a vector layer) that i can convert to a curve if needs be... and i want the stitching to basically stitch the lines of the text.... i guess an easier way to explain it is that i want to make my own stitched text!? or something... lol any ideas???

Tracey R (Haley64) · #2 (**permalink**) 05-25-2006

LOL yep!! I have a tube that is just called "Stitch.tub" I don't know where it came from and since it uses the old .tub extension I am assuming I have had it for awhile, It might of come from this page the Scrapbooking Emblishments download (the one with the buttons for a preview) anyway, or if you know how to make a tube for stitching you can download a script from here: http://pixelnook.home.comcast.net/index.html Look for both of these two.
VectorPaint - Paints the edges of vector objects with the Paint Brush of your choice.
VectorTube - Paints the edges of vector objects with the Picture Tube of your choice.
The last image on this page http://scrapbook-bytes.com/cgi-scrip...icle_436.shtml shows you what the vector tube can do with stitching and other tubes.

Then create your text as Vector text and you can use these scripts and it will make the stitching follow you text outline. You will need to adjust the size and placement of either your tube or brush before you run the script.

Another way would be to look in your Line Style, when you create text you can have both the fill and the outline option, turn off the fill color, I have a line called "Dashed" select that one and adjust your line width.

Also there is a font called Stitch and *itch http://www.searchfreefonts.com/fonts/s71.htm, 3rd one from the bottom.You could use that and then just add you stitch holes on a seperate layer beneath your text layer to make it look more realistic!
HTH's

alb52 · #3 (**permalink**) 05-25-2006

ok so the scripts are totally cool.

what i don't get is the "adjustment of placement of tube" before i run the script. let's say i just have one stitch that is the tube. i want it to connect stitch to stitch (or close enough) as it traces the outline of the text. right now, when i run the script, all it does is puts the stitches the same direction (like horizontal) all over the letters... if that makes any sense...

Tracey R (Haley64) · #4 (**permalink**) 05-26-2006

Tubes like a stitch where it needs to turn corners and follow definate path are not easy to create and can't be created with just one tube image.
Were you able to download the tube pack at the corel site which has that one stitch tube? That one does not create a continous back to back running stitch it creates the stitches with a space between the stitches. But that particular tube has 80 cells to create just one stitch. It needs all of those little cells so that the thread can actually turn corners and to leave a blank space between the stitches. Does that make sense?
PSP also has a standard Thread Red tube, you can just drag the .tub image into PSP just like a normal image. you will see that it has 10 little parts to create a thread that can turn and bend. Here is now I made a stitching tube out of this, I created a new image at 250x250, Turn on your grids and set the size at 50x50 pixels, copy the ThreadRed image and paste into your new image and line up the little images in the centers of the grids. Now with your selection tool select the first 5 images in a rectangle selection, copy these and paste into your new image so now you will have 15 little images. And you bottom two grid cell rows will be empty. Now go to Export Tube, change the settings in there to 5 cells across and 5 cells down. Continuous, 1, Incremental and scale 100 name it and hit save.
Creating tubes that actually bend and curve from scratch is tedious and hard unless you have a lot of experience in tube making. In the beginning PSP's tubes were basically just to stamp a image onto your paper, it had the ability to run through numerous images and basically were transparent .png's. Then someone really smart, figured out how to make images that worked like the little flip corner books where the comic images seemed to become animated as you flipped through the pages...do you remember ever seeing those?
Anyway that is how a stitch tube is made, a series of little parts and pieces and then set into motion depending on the step size how fast and far apart the stitch image is created.
I realize the ThreadRed tube might not be the type of thread you are looking for with it's texture, but you can colorize it which helps a lot!!

If you are interested in the stitching tub I made just PM me with your email and I will send it to you!

I did a screen shot to show you what I am talking about you can see it here