On 01/01/2013 06:52 PM, Paul McCarthy wrote:

Hi. I have GIMP 2.8 and I've been looking everywhere to tell me how to insert a URL into an image or layer.

Can anyone help me please?

Thanks

As far as I know there is no such concept, and why would you want to do that? When you click on an image on a web page, the URL is in the HTML, not the image:

On Tue, 2013-01-01 at 17:52 +0000, Paul McCarthy wrote:

Hi. I have GIMP 2.8 and I've been looking everywhere to tell me how to insert a URL into an image or layer.

It depends on what you mean.

1. you want the text of the URL ("http://www.example.org/") to appear in the image...
(1) select the text tool ("t")
(2) type the URL directly on the canvas

A variant of this is to go to tool options, with the text tool active, and check the "use editor" button, and then you can paste the text of the URL into the editor.

2. you want to load an image that you found on the web

You can use File->open location to do this, or drag and drop a URL (a Web address) e.g. the icon to the left of the Web browser's address bar, onto the gimp toolbox or onto an image.

Remember that images published on the Web are subject to copyright laws of course.

3. you want to load something other than an image

Please tell us more clearly what you want to do. For example, there's a plugin to render a Web page as an image, or you could use file->create->screenshot.

Hope this helps.

Liam

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On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 14:30:48 -0500, Liam R E Quin wrote:

On Tue, 2013-01-01 at 17:52 +0000, Paul McCarthy wrote:

Hi. I have GIMP 2.8 and I've been looking everywhere to tell me how to insert a URL into an image or layer.

It depends on what you mean.

1. you want the text of the URL ("http://www.example.org/") to appear in the image...
(1) select the text tool ("t")
(2) type the URL directly on the canvas

A variant of this is to go to tool options, with the text tool active, and check the "use editor" button, and then you can paste the text of the URL into the editor.

2. you want to load an image that you found on the web

You can use File->open location to do this, or drag and drop a URL (a Web address) e.g. the icon to the left of the Web browser's address bar, onto the gimp toolbox or onto an image.

Remember that images published on the Web are subject to copyright laws of course.

3. you want to load something other than an image

Please tell us more clearly what you want to do. For example, there's a plugin to render a Web page as an image, or you could use file->create->screenshot.

I wonder if perhaps the original poster is thinking about an image map?

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