Gimp: Course For Beginners 4: Text Tool

In this tutorial we will add text to an image. When we have opened our image, we click on the text tool in the toolbox. The tool options will open and we will start by enlarging the size, because otherwise our begin text will appear very small. Type in 100. Later we can always make our text larger or smaller. Now click in the image where the text should start. There will appear a small work window above it. Start typing the text. In the layer box will appear a text layer which is active. Click enter to make a new line. The size of the text area adjusts itself automatically. To choose another font, we place our cursor above the AA icon and turn, without clicking, the mouse wheel. We can see that the font of out text changes. So this is an easy and fast way to choose our font. If we already know what font we want to use, we can fill in the first letters and the font name will show up. Now we are going to make our text bigger. Select by click and drag the whole text. We can type in a certain value, but when we click on the little triangle, the text enlarges with every click, so we can exactly see what we are doing. Deselect the selection. The words have now the proper size, but are partly outside the image. To change this we click the move tool in the toolbox. We must click exactly in one off the letters, so we can see the cursor changing in the move tool. Then we can, by click and drag, move the entire text. Select the text tool again and select the whole text. We now will look at some options of the text tool. Here we can change the text to bold, to Italic, underline it or strike it through. Deselect the text. In the toolbox we can choose the options left justified, right justified, centered or filled. Here we can adjust the line spacing and here the letter spacing. We are going to change the color of the first word. The text tool is selected and the text layer is active. Double click on the first word. Go to the work window and click the color option. Here we can choose our color, in this case blue. Click okay. Deselect the word. Go to the foreground-background option en click on the white color. Click and drag it to the second word. This word becomes white. We can do this with any color that is selected in fore- and background option. Click filters in the menu bar, light and shadow and drop shadow. The values that we fill in here will be applied to the whole text. We make the x and y offset 10. this will give us a shadow right and below the text. We can also fill in a negative value which will give a shadow on the left and above. With the blur radius on the default 15, we will get a soft edged shadow. We will type in 0, so we will get a hard edge. Here we can choose the color of the shadow. In this case we choose bright red. Put the opacity at 100. Click okay to see the result. If necessary we can undo our actions with Ctrl+Z or make further adjustments by going back to the drop shadow option. Satisfied with the result? If so, we go to the next step. Make the background layer invisible by clicking the eye. Right click on the top layer and select merge visible layer Click merge. Now the text has become one layer, and we can edit it as if it was an image. But we can no longer edit it as a text layer though. Make the background visible again and select in the toolbox the perspective tool. Click in the image and drag to make a dynamic perspective. Click transform. So, there we have it, the basics of the text tool with a little extra. Hope you liked the video. Thanks for watching.

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Length: 5min 29sec (329 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 28 2017