Thank you. I am not trying to complete any minor task. I am trying to learn Gimp.
Now, sample tutorials. I am not saying they are not good tutorials, and I actually appreciate their effort very much. Only that it helps if they say to what version it was targeting and when it was written. For example, this one: http://gimpology.com/submission/view/how_to_outline_text/ At step 3, I got lost, because "Create Path from Text" isn't available to me. Another one here: http://www.obscurasite.com/artstuff/tutorials/gimp-text-outline/ I got lost at the 2nd step, because pressing the right mouse button on the image does not give me the so-called "Dialogs [image: ->] Layers&Channels" menu options. Also, the tiny little button the author mentions under Add Some Color section does'nt seem to be available to me for my version. One more at: http://gimp-tutorials.net/outlinetext I got lost at Step 6, because "Alpha to Selection" is grayed out and thus I cannot select it. See how frustrating it is? Maybe I am doing something wrong or maybe I am having bad luck in picking up tutorials that are targeting at a different version of Gimp. On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Ajay Gautam <[email protected]> wrote: > Gimp could be a little difficult in the beginning. Takes time and > patience - stick with it. > > Why not use MS Paint for simple tasks such as these? > > Aj > > On 2/9/09, Don <[email protected]> wrote: > > Very new to GIMP. > > > > I am so frustrated to learn GIMP. > > > > Tonight, I simply want to create a text and then outline it as a text. > Then > > I googled. But the thing is, I cannot follow any of the tutorials I dug > > out. Not because I didn't follow closely, but because not all of the > menu > > items the tutorials talk about are available to me (and what can I do > then?) > > and most of the tutorials don't tell us when it was written and what > version > > of Gimp it was targeting. > > > > So frustrating. > > > > BTW, I am using Gimp 2.6.2 on Windows XP Professional SP2. > > > > > -- > Happiness is a long walk with a putter. >
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