Adding Text

To add text to your photos, select the “Text” tool (1) in the toolbox and click in the image.
This opens the “GIMP text editor”(2), placing four squares in the image that tell you where the text will be placed (3). I will call this the text box.
In the window that opens, enter the text you want to add to your image.

 

As soon as you start typing, the text is shown in the preview (1) and an extra layer, and a text layer (2) are automatically added in the “Layers” dialog.
By clicking on the “Clear” option (3) you can remove the text in the window.
The two adjacent buttons “LTR” and “RTL” are used to determine whether the text must be typed from left to right or from right to left. For most of us, this is from left to right, of course, but there are others who write from right to left.
By clicking on the “Open” button, we can enter text, for example, a text document. But we’ll go into the details later.
Click the “Close” button when you’re done.

 

Editing Text

To edit text that has already been added to your image, first select the layer with the text (1).

This places a dotted border around the text (2).
Select the text tool and then click the text you want to change (3).
This will again open the “GIMP text editor” window, where you can change the text.

While the text is selected, select the options in the options window that you are going to use, for example, the font, color or change font.

 

Entering Text

If you want to enter text in GIMP, it must be encoded according to the charset, UTF 8.
For example, suppose you have a text file.
A Word document is not encoded according to the UTF 8 charset, so if you still wish to enter it, you must first save it as a .txt file.

Then click the “Open” button in the “GIMP text editor” window, and navigate to the file you want to import, and click the “Open” button.
This will remove all text from this file into the GIMP text editor window.

 

Moving text

A text layer can be moved in just the same way as any other laye

Select the layer with the text in the layer panel (1), then select the “Move” tool (2) in the toolbox and click and drag the text tool to the desired position (3).

Optionally you can also use the arrow keys on your keyboard.

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