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Text Outline In Gimp

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Text Outline In Gimp

Miles
Jun 21 2008, 06:18 PM
Hello,
When I first started using GIMP, it took me a while to figure it out, and I made a few mistakes. Well, here's a tutorial so others won't! Although, you will need some VERY basic knowledge of the gimp, ie placing text and choosing a colour. Anyway;
1) Create a new image. Any size is ok.
2) Put in some text of your choice. Now, select the text, and using the text tool, click the button marked "Path from Text".
3) Now, make a new transparent layer.
4) Selecting the new transparent layer, make sure it is below the text layer, and then use the select menu's from path option.
5) Select menu -> click the grow option, and enter in a number of pixels.
6) Fill the selection with the colour of your choice.

And voila! You have a text outline!

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yordan
Jul 10 2008, 12:00 PM
Remember our forum rules as expressed here http://www.astahost.com/how-s-tutorials-f6.html :
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The Tutorials have to be of a bare minimum length of 500 words to be accepted.

Your topic is interesting and useful, but it's far below this 500 words thereshold.
Please, next time, make an effort and write down more didactical texts instead of writing short notice.
I will simply refuse your next tutorials if they keep being so short.
Regards
yordan

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(G)John Rivera
Oct 12 2009, 12:49 PM

This tutorial was straight to the point and helped me a great deal. Thanks!

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