: How could i make this look less vomit enducing? lines maybe if i was radiating out some grey from the letters? to give them more shape, just like light grey emitating from the edges of the

@Vandalay110

Adding a drop shadow improved the overal "feeling" for me - but it might break the exact effect you intend, as it makes the whole thing easy to spot in an automatic way (without one having to stare at the picture until find counciously what the letters are).

I also remade the concept by creating the stripes with the grid filter (filters->render->pattern->gridand set "line width" to 0 - in this case I did use "height" = 12 and line-height=6), using a text layer as selection (Select by color is your friend), and copy-pasting the lines to a layer I could move in an independent way.

(After setting things in place, filters->Light and Shadow->Drop Shadow - one with less opacity than what is shown here may look better)



Extra hint: write the text with a Sans Serif, Bold font (everytime you want to add image effects to the letters themselves)

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