Miles 0 Report post Posted June 21, 2008 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! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yordan 10 Report post Posted July 10, 2008 Remember our forum rules as expressed here http://forums.xisto.com/topic/6-forum/ : 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.Regardsyordan Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted October 12, 2009 This tutorial was straight to the point and helped me a great deal. Thanks! -reply by John Rivera Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted November 29, 2009 YAY this was incredibly helpful! I always get lost in very tech-talk tutorials but this one I actually understood! Immeasurably useful, thank you -reply by aimsleydale Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted January 11, 2011 Awesome tutorial on Gimp Text OutlineText Outline In GimpThis was exactly what I was looking for and what I needed. I suppose you could have made it more wordy just for the sake of doing so or could have written an article below it to talk about why it is helpful to appease Xisto but wow this was so awesome and simple. Thank you so much! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted March 13, 2011 ConvolutedText Outline In Gimp The tutorial's clearly written by someone who's a little confused by the whole process. Either convert the text to a path(right click on the text layer in the layers dialogue and choose Text to Path), add new layer and then Edit > Stroke Path _OR_ Alpha or Text to selection, grow selection, create new layer, Edit > Fill with FG. Your tutorial seems to go halfway and then do something that renders the path creation step completely pointless. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted June 19, 2011 GIMP; Text OutlineText Outline In GimpThanks a lot for this!I'd looked around at many other tutorials, but this one was definitely the most easy to follow... And it worked. ^^ Thanks again. -reply by SAGA, Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
