[Gimp-user] Text with multicoloue horizontal stripes

[RichardAinz <forums gimpusers com>]

Hi. I am new. Both here and to Gimp. Tested it a bit on and off, but the breakthrough for me was the single 
window mode, so now I am currently making an effort to learn something.

My first question is actually about somethin I am failing to do with Photoshop CS4. I create a text, 
rasterize it, then create the stripes via the rectangle tool (in this case I am messing with different 
national colours, like Germany). Now so far so god, but I never get around to actually be able to merge the 
strips with the text. The closest I have gotten is to see the text behind the stripes, but then the strips 
also covers the space between the text. I followed this tutorial for that: 
http://www.flash-game-design.com/tutorials/greenStripedText-photoshop-tutorial.html

I looked at Your Sweet Candy tutorial and, excluding some steps, seems to be relevant, but for step 15, where 
I do not want to select stripes available inGimp, but create new ones. Can you please point me in the right 
direction?

Thanks



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