Graphics Software - Arced Text

My sister wants to create a logo for her friend. She wants to have arced text (curved text) in the logo. Is there any free programs that are able to do this?

I have checked out Paint.Net and Gimp. I don't think either of these will do it.

I do have AutoCAD R14, and a plug-in for arc aligned text. But the learning curve is kind of high for AutoCAD. I'm not all that proficient with it myself (I only use it to create blueprint type drawings - never any kind of graphics). I was hoping to find something that would be easier for her to use.

As I was typing this, I decided to open M$Word. I was surprised to find that it can do arced text (Word Art). But I have never used Word to create drawings before.

Anyone know of other options for her?

She basically wants to copy this logo, with the text changed:

BAD PUN!!!!

I have used word art before and for what you're doing it's going to be pretty hard. Basically what you will have to do is create one word art creation over the other one and blend them together. I don't know if you really want to fool with all that .

You could use some sort of drafting program you could create like one letter at a time and then rotate them into a circle. The circles will be simple to create and the rest of it's pretty straightforward so I think if you create the letters one at a time you can do it pretty easy.

Macromedia Flash is something that I have wanted to check out. But I think I'll wait until I have more time to make use of the 30 day trial.

*goes singing and dancing through the room* computer talk.....la la la....boring......la la la.........

You just missed an opportunity to your your crayons out.

Here is the finished product (resizing it for internet fuzzed it up a bit):



Compare to the original:


I ended up doing it all for her.

First I used Gimp to rotate the original image so that "Club Keno" was horizontal.

I put that into ACAD. Traced the outlines, and added the arced text. Then I removed the image, and saved the shape/text as a bitmap.

I used Word Art to create the "Club Soper" text.

Opened the ACAD bitmap in Paint.Net. Added the color and the "Club Soper" text. Then trimmed the black border around the logo (so as to not waste a bunch of ink when printing it).

Finally, used Gimp to rotate it back 13° like the original (if Paint.net can rotate less than 90°, I couldn't figure out how).

Thank you. I wasn't totally happy with "Club Soper" - it should be wider. But I got tired of screwing with it.

It's only for personal use, with her friend's basement karaoke machine. So I am not worried about getting sued.

if you figure it out let me know how.

I don't think it can. But I'll be playing with it again I'm sure. If I ever find out how, I'll let you know. I have only used M$ Paint, up 'til now.

Paint.net can rotate in small increments, and in 3D!

It's under Layers-->Rotate/Zoom.

OK I found it but how did you rotate around the Z axis.

Thanks, DH. I used that yellow for just to get a sample done, and my sister liked it. I told her that it would only take a few seconds to change it to whatever color she liked, but she told me to leave it. Fine with me.

What version are you using? I am using 2.6 Alpha1.

If you want a program that can sharpen images and re-size BMP and JPG's you can search for " IrfanView " online.

It is free and if it is no longer free email me and I will email the program and the plug-ins for it to you. REAL EASY to use.

I used it for years to re-render detailed pictures of Electronic components taken on the manufacturing floor with my Digital camera.

From 1024 to 800 or 640X480 the picture retains it's aspect ratio and all detail.

You can hit Shift+S and clear images up no problem in fact I let my brother use my digital camera at my wedding last year and he did not wait for the green LED in the reticule before shooting the pictures so 50% of them were out of focus and blurry. I spent 4 hours with IrfanView and I had all the pictures he took burnt into the DVD of the wedding with all the other pictures. In fact the recovered pic's were so good I used IrfanView to re-render all the other folks Digital pictures then made a new DVD of the wedding and made 3 copies of that and put them in the wife's hope chest.

I can't get it to load on my system. I posted on their website forum and they tell me that i have an acess problem to the registry key.
I shut down all spware and firewall but still no luck.

I'll post the crash log maybe somebody can make more sense of it than me.