Re: Manipulating Text

--- Andrea <[email protected]> wrote:
> I keep hoping GIMP will be easier to use than Photoshop but so far...
> not so much!  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?

When you create text, it's automatically assigned its own layer.  At
this point you simply it around like any other layer.  To rotate it,
use the Layer->Transform menu and select one of the Rotate items.

Hope that helps.


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