![]() Once the text boundary box is sized appropriately, we can just type some text. Your text will go into the black box inside the green areas shown above. If you’d like to re-size the box for some reason, you can now click and drag in any of the green areas shown below: Resize handles to modify text box boundary. This is what you should see on your canvas after clicking and dragging from the top-left to the bottom-right to define your text box: You don’t have to worry about being exact at this point, because you can adjust the boundaries of the box after the fact. You can click on the canvas where you’d like the top-left corner of your box to be, and drag the mouse down to the bottom right corner. We can now draw a box on our canvas (image) to hold the text. With the foreground color set, we can now use the Bucket Fill Tool to fill in our image: We want to set the color to black RGB(0, 0, 0): The “Change Foreground Color” dialog allows you to now set the foreground color. ![]() Click on the foreground color in the Color area to bring up the “Change Foreground Color” dialog (if your foreground color is already black you don’t have to do this step, but it can’t hurt to learn): The first step to doing so is to make sure that the Foreground Color is appropriately set. The first thing we are going to do is fill our new image with black. Chances are it will be a pure white image at this point (it may be a different color depending on how your GIMP is setup to handle new images - if it is, don’t worry). You’ll be presented with the new image on your canvas. When you’re ready, hit “ OK” to create the new image. You can make this new image any dimensions you want, but for this tutorial I am going to specify a Width of 256 px, and a Height of 128 px. GIMP’s website, YouTube, and howtogimp are great examples of this.This will open the “Create a New Image” dialog, with options for you to specify: Learning it might take time but you’ll find tons of help from websites and their free materials. GIMP is an amazing image editor that comes with no price tag but still offers a complete set of features. Learning GIMP on YouTube is useful for those who want to learn by live example, not just text and images. ![]() Most of them explain the subjects thoroughly and easily. Although aren’t as many as Photoshop’s, it is not hard to find what you need. There are a lot of GIMP tutorials on YouTube. We think it will be useful for beginners and professionals alike. What’s more interesting is that howtogimp has written an ebook about using GIMP to its fullest potential. It doesn’t classify the tutorials based on the difficulty but provides a dedicated menu for digital painting, graphic design, and weekly GIMP news. The website mainly explains and discusses GIMP tutorials and gets frequent updates. In the Programming section, the tutorial lets you have a look at how to automate an edit and create a Perl script that will make your work more time effective. That’s where you will learn the concepts of Luminosity Masks, Tone Mapping, and Parametric Brushes. You’ll acquire more technical skills in the Photo Editing and Painting sections. There are in-depth instructions on creating a simple floating logo as well as make use of layer masks and basic color curves. In the Beginner section, you can learn basic skills to start working right away. It divides tutorials into several learning phases: Beginner, Photo Editing, Painting, and Programming. One of the best sources to learn GIMP is their own website. With the dynamic trends and demand in image editing, there will always be something new to learn. It is not just about the huge amount of information. However, it is an endless process if you intend to master GIMP. Especially when you’re familiar with other image editors. If you just want to learn the basics, it won’t take long at all. Even if you are working for someone else who uses Photoshop, you can open and edit PhotoShop files in GIMP. If you can’t get what you want from the pre-installed features, there is likely a plugin for that. It won’t take much of your disk and slow down your computer.
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