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#GIMP HOW TO ADD BORDER TO TEXT WINDOWS#

I make an edit, then to add “a border (stroke) to your text, you need to first go to the Style tab on the Title Adjustments panel…” I assume that means the right-side panel and the “Text” tab. Then you simply switch the order of the layers.Okay, I’ll go through it step by step and hopefully you can show me where and how I’ve screwed up. Use the "select by color" tool, select your text, go up to the select drop-down, "grow" your selection by how many pixels you want, then fill in with your selected outline color. I didn't count the steps but another way is to duplicate your text layer. Works great and so easy.ġ) Right click the text layer and choose alpha to selection.ģ) Goto Edit>Stroke Selection and put it by 1 or however thick you want your text "border" to be. When I finally found the "create path" after right-clicking the text selection in Text tool nothing happened.

#GIMP HOW TO ADD BORDER TO TEXT WINDOWS#

Yeah, it didn't work for me in 2.8.6 on Windows 7. I tried it again with letters that have "hollows", like A, B, O, P, D and the outline didn't go inside of them, even on very large letters. right click and so on) but it did work! One question. I had to search around because my Gimp version-2.8.6-had the various parts for Text in different locations (i.e. Thanks! I'm looking forward to digging through this site - I'd even buy a t-shirt or kick into a tip jar. Is there some way to fix this?Įxactly what I needed.

Hi, I use a Mac, and I was trying to do this tutorial but weirdly when I select all my text, then turn it into a path, some of the text doesn't turn into part of the path. Thank you so so much! i definitely prefer my outline behind my test. Thanks so much for this! I'm super happy with it! Also trick with "stroke path" works as well (mentioned in commend by relsqui). I'm running AutoCAD 2010 and in trying to follow these directions my boxes and tool files are not same.ĭo you have a process for the latest version of AutoCAD?

Apr 29, 2010, thorne51 try out this tut:.

Apr 29, 2010, thorne51 go to Windows -> Dockable Dialogs -> Tool try drop shadow with no offset in your favorite neon color :).

Great tutorial now if i can do it in neon colors :) It is the one with the different font options and the 'create path from text' button. The image under step 3 above is the screen i've managed to make disappear. i accidentally closed a window and now can't seem to be able to find it. The pathing may vary for different versions of the software. A simple solution however was to select the text the layer belongs to then go to Layer > Stack > Raise Layer. For the record, I'm not sure if it's something with the version or if perhaps I'm missing something but what's happening is the layer remains above the text after choosing "select>none". It looks interesting and will have applications for some people, but it didn't give me what I was looking for.įabulous tut! This worked flawlessly save for one issue I had with v:2.6.6. The 4-step method creates an effect over the text. The original method looks nicer to me by placing the outline behind the original text. And perhaps it was the font I was using, but I got slightly different results. How would you do it then? Why not enlighten us?Īfter you create the path from text, go to the paths window, right-click the text outline, and select "stroke path." Done in four steps. Since nobody else has thought to ask the obvious question, I will. Thanks ive been trying to find out how to outline