Thank you very much. I'll definitely try it out tomorrow.
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Michael J. Hammel < mjham...@graphics-muse.org> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 23:00 -0500, Don wrote: > > 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 > > There shouldn't be much in the way of menu issues for this task. If you > need to outline text, try this: > > 1. Open a new window (File->New, any size should be fine to experiment > on). > 2. Choose the Text tool from the Toolbox. > 3. Click in the canvas window (also referred to as an image window). > This will open the Text Editor dialog window. > 4. Type some text in the Text Editor, then click on the Close button. > The text will be visible in the canvas window and has been added as a > new layer in the Layers dialog. > 5. Choose Layer->Transparency->Alpha to Selection. This will create a > selection around your text. > 6. Choose Layer->New to create a new layer (you want to outline the text > in a new layer so it doesn't modify the original text). The new layer > should be transparent, which should be the default setting in the New > Layer dialog that pops up. > 6. Choose Edit->Stroke Selection. This will open a dialog window where > you can select the way you will stroke (re: outline) the text. The > first time you can just choose the defaults and click on Stroke. Later > you can experiment with different settings to change the way the outline > is drawn. > 7. In the Layers dialog turn off the visibility of the text layer. Do > that by clicking on the eyeball to the left of the layer name and > preview image. > > Now you can see the outlined text. Things that you'll want to adjust in > your next attempt: > 1. the location of the text before you outline it. You may want to use > the move tool to place the text properly in the center of the canvas > window. > 2. The font, size, color, etc. of the text. This is handled in the Tool > Options dialog before you click on the canvas but after you've selected > the Text tool from the Toolbox. > 3. The style of the stroke in the Stroke Selection dialog. > 4. The foreground color from the Toolbox. The foreground color will be > used for the color of the outline when you stroke the selection. > > This may sound like a lot of work but it's really pretty easy once you > try it a few times. > > Hope that helps. > > -- > Michael J. Hammel > mjham...@graphics-muse.org / http://www.graphics-muse.org > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Without software to do something useful with it, hardware's nothing more > than a really complicated space heater. > --- Neil Stephenson > >
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