Re: Re: Manipulating Text

"Jacob Boerema" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.gimp.windows.user
Organization Duurswold genealogie
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 18 Feb 2008 at 2:54, Andrea wrote:

> I open my background image as the base layer then I create a new 
> layer for my text.  There is no "pick" tool where I can just grab 
> anything (I wish I could remember how I did it the one time it worked 
> with the old version).  I enter text and then I want to move it but I 
> have no way of doing that.  None of the select tools seem to work.

Make the text the active layer.
Select the move tool (the cross symbol, shortcut: m). You may also have to 
set it to move the active layer and then move it around.


Groeten,

Jacob Boerema
http://www.jacobboerema.nl/ (genealogie en bronbewerkingen)
http://www.jacobboerema.nl/Transcript/Freeware.htm (Transcript 2.2)


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