Re: Manipulating Text

On 17/02/2008, Andrea <[email protected]> wrote:
> I keep hoping GIMP will be easier to use than Photoshop but so far...
>  not so much!

Neither is easy to learn. Both require understanding what you are
doing, and understanding concepts like layers. If you already know
either of them well, the other one will feel "more difficult" and
"less intuitive".

>  I want to add text to an image and then move it and/or
>  free rotate it for effect.  I did it once using an older version of
>  GIMP and when I tried again, I couldn't do it.  Now with newer version
>  (2.4.4) I still can't figure out how to grab text and do things with
>  it.  Help?

To be able to "grab text", the text must be on a separate layer in the
first place. If you already have saved the image in a format like JPEG
or PNG, it is just one layer, and "grabbing text" won't really be an
option. Please tell us more what exactly you have tried.

--tml


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