Gimp Lesson 11 | Text Basics for Beginners

welcome to another tutorial in this video we're going to be looking at the text tool in and learn how to create and modify text within go ahead and locate your text tool it's going to be maybe the letter A icon and with this icon set if we hover over we can see the shortcut key to get into this is T T for text so if we're in the move tool for example we can hit the T key on our keyboard to quickly get into this tool and also once we're in the tool we see some different options for it right down here we see what type of font it is this is a serif font the size currently is 60 and the color is black and there's some different options here as well so that means when we go to create this if we just left-click in here it creates these four boxes this is our sort of our dynamic text box and we can just start typing in right now we type our text and sure enough it's the color it's black it's using this serif font and the size is 60 now if we want to change it or change any part of it we can select maybe if we want this is to be larger we just left click and hold to select those two letters and then we can change the size up here by going plus and minus and so we can make just those larger if we want just a certain letter to be much larger we select that letter by left-clicking and dragging till it has a box around it and then we can use plus and minus up here to change we don't use the plus and minus over here because that's going to change the entire selection or it's going to change the attributes for the next text box that we create so whatever is selected is going to be what's changed up here we can also double click and just type in a value so 150 we can make a giant s there notice something you want to pay attention to is if you bring in an image and I have one loaded in here actually before we do this I want to call your attention to the layers when we created this we've created a text layer on top of our white background which means if we ever want to we can get back in here and edit it say we're using the move tool or maybe we select something we want to get back in and edit this text all we have to do is click on the text tool and then click in here and we can erase and start typing in something else if we want to do we can also resize the text box by dragging these handles over here and if we want to move it around we could use the move tool but you can also hold down the Alt key on your keyboard and just click somewhere within the text box and drag this moves the entire text box and again to resize the text box you can hover to the top or the sides and notice if you do resize it since this is a dynamic text box it will kind of push the the text to the next portion of the box that makes sense it won't run off the side but it will run off the tops and the bottoms okay I'm going to go to this image here because this is a quite a large image we can see it's like five thousand pixels by thirty five hundred pixels and it's 300 dpi so if we grab the same text tool with the same settings the 60 size and we click and we start typing in that same thing notice it's much much smaller it appears to be smaller and that's because the image is so much larger so relative to this image size the text appears to be small but it is still the same size as it was over here at least before we started messing with it so to change the size again we can come over here and just change the size of the text we can click in here and type in 150 and get some larger text we might also want to change the color if I move this over top of the green leaf by holding down the Alt key and I drag it on top of the leaf now it's hard to see that so we might want a lighter color text we can click over here and change the color we can change it to something maybe like a light blue and then we go okay now that stands out a little bit better again the color change is happening here in the text options and not the color selector here where we would change it for our brush so make sure you pay attention to that but we can bring in some text so maybe I'll come back here well I can do it right here if we want to draw a text box another thing we can do is create a new text box by left clicking and holding and dragging that down then we can create a specific area to keep our text within and I have a on my desktop a file just a text file of some sample text it looks like this just sample just Latin I believe satin satin sample Latin text and I could copy it I could just highlight it all and right-click and go copy and then bring it in here right-click and go paste to get that text in here but I'm gonna go ctrl Z oh it's not let us ctrl Z because something we could also do is when we have our text box created I can right click and I can go open text file and that lets me choose a text file on my computer that already has text in it and it will bring it in text cannot be rendered it is likely too big please make sure please make it shorter or use a smaller font so this is just a notice saying it's running off the edge but what I could do I wonder if it brought it all in if I resize this so there's more text under here that I can access by just resizing this box to display all of the text so that's a nice warning that it gave me that I was cutting off some of the text I'm moving this by holding down the Alt key I've mentioned that a few times but we could also grab the move tool and it moves just like we would expect any other layer so here we have three layers we have this blue text this blacks black text and then also the actual image so I can set this to move active layer and make sure I'm selected on the layer I want to move and I can just left click and move this without having to press the Alt key I want to show something here we can this turn off just like we would any layer we can turn off and view this without one of the layers so we could also I'll move this out of the way because I want to show something we can do if we want to edit something in here we get back into the text tool to do an edit it's not the selection tool if we try to select the text it's going to select the pixels of that text on that text layer but if we want to get in and edit this we can select it we could go to select all we can select it with or click inside of it it what I mean to say with the text tool were active and then we can make changes so under here there's this justification so we want all this text to be centered we can click here to Center all the text we can put it in sort of a paragraph format with the edges aligned so the edges all the text runs to the edges and it creates some spacing to create sort of a more of a block of text we can do right justified or left justified we could indent this first word by we can hover over and read what these are but this top one is the indent and we can indent that first word by making this a little bit larger or we can type in a quite a large value and see how that indents it again it's going to be different depending on what size image you're using so a 800 pixels is usually quite a large indentation but since this is a large image it doesn't really add this a little bit dramatic anyway the next one here this is the line spacing and the font spacing or the letter spacing so this is what you do like remember when you're in school and you had to write an essay and you had to have like five pages you'd like stretch the the spacing between the lines that's exactly what this tool here does and if you really want to get creative you could adjust the spacing between letters anyway that's what it's lets you do very very useful if you're working with text and you want to kind of give it that added dimension and fill in certain areas yeah that's but all we're going to use there's this there's this editor here you can go use editor you can adjust the text in here as well and edit it and it will edit it on here and you can do some of these same tools but it's sort of redundant because you can change it you can just come in and change it in real time on here but just know there is an editor if you prefer to work that way to change the font well we can select or we can change the font over here this will just change all of our font so we click and there's ways you can choose the way that this font the way the fonts are being displayed so you can come over here and look at it in a grid instead we can create it larger so we can get a better view of what these fonts look like and there's even a breakout if you do this last one it's kind of nice if you're working with fonts a lot you can add over here so that the font selection comes over here on this side instead so just like we had our layers was the we were looking at before now we have a new window a new font dialog or tool box just for selecting fonts and browsing through fonts that are installed on our system and that's exactly what these are just fonts installed on the system not special fonts that come with necessarily so if a fonts installed in your system it should be able to get pulled in and appear in this list okay this is the last thing I was going to show you if we grab the brush tool let's go back to our layers over here and let's draw if we grab the let's grab a brush and it's just black right now we want to draw well first of all we can't draw over here nothing is happening because we're on this text layer and notice this layer has a little a on it showing us that this is a text layer which is what lets us be able to get in here and make changes to it after the fact we can draw on this so if I wanted to do some drawing on top of these letters I can do that but that changed this now to I'm not sure what it's called but it's a different layer it's not a text layer anymore which means if I want to come back to the text tool to make an edit and click in here it's going to bring up this dialog that says the layer selected is a text layer but has not been modified using or has been modified using other tools so we can either create a new layer to edit on top of this or we can edit it but if we do we're going to lose or does it say it basically it'll discard yeah discard all the modifications we've made so if I go to edit that's gone now I can edit the text but all the drawing I did on top of there is gone so it's a good idea it's a I recommend just keeping your text layers as text and then if you want to draw something go ahead and add in a new layer and draw on top of that new layer you can make it a transparent layer oops but that's what I would recommend doing instead of trying to draw within your text layers hopefully I found this video informative I kind of rented that quickly but we are gonna touch on more advanced options for making text look pretty you can do text a path and you can do some pretty cool things adding texture and dimension and 3d text and all kinds of stuff like that but I'm going to end this video here go and leave your questions and comments below if you have an and we'll catch you in the next video

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Length: 11min 15sec (675 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 06 2019