| 1: | Downloading the Gimp and GTK+ |
| 2: | Installing GTK+ |
| 3: | Installing the Gimp |
| 4: | Setting up the Gimp |
Image Cropping, Resizing and Saving in JPEG Format
| 1: | Getting Started |
| 2: | Opening Files and Setting Magnification |
| 3: | Cropping |
| 4: | Resizing |
| 5: | Saving as JPEG |
| 1: | Adding Text |
| 2: | Layers |
| 3: | Making a New Layer |
| 4: | Layer Stacking Order |
| 5: | Layer Opacity |
| 6: | Saving Images with Layers |
| 1: | Rectangular Selection |
| 2: | Elliptical Selection |
| 3: | Lasso Selection and Inversion |
| 4: | Selection and the Paintbrush |
| 5: | Selection by Color |
Working with Text and Layers
Adding Text
Let's begin by adding text to an image. To keep things interesting, I've chosen a new image to work with for this section. The first thing to do is to select the text tool, which is represented in the toolbar by a capital "T":
Once we select this tool, the options for the tool open in the lower part of the toolbar, and we can use these controls to choose the font, the font size, and the color:
Let's choose a color for our text. Clicking the color button produces a color selection pop-up, which gives you several methods for choosing color. We'll go with the default one for now and select a nice yellow:
The color button:
The color choosing window:
Choosing a yellow:
Now, if we click in the image, the Gimp Text Editor appears in a pop-up window:
If you type in the box, the same text appears on the image. If the text you type goes over the edge of the image, that's okay because you can change its position later:
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