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Edit text problem?

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Edit text problem? Alex 09 Feb 13:45
  Edit text problem? Joe Carsto 10 Feb 17:46
Edit text problem? . 09 Feb 13:56
  Edit text problem? Nishandh M 09 Feb 21:01
Alex
2011-02-09 13:45:51 UTC (almost 14 years ago)

Edit text problem?

I made a banner with a transparent background and put text onto it. There's only 1 layer- the background. It was saved as a gif.

Is there a way to edit the text in it again because I can't edit it now?

.
2011-02-09 13:56:49 UTC (almost 14 years ago)

Edit text problem?

Thanks

On 02/09/2011 08:50 AM, Olivier Lecarme wrote:

Alex wrote:

I made a banner with a transparent background and put text onto it. There's only 1 layer- the background. It was saved as a gif.

Your image was not saved, which would have been saving to XCF. It was exported to GIF, which does not remember anything about layers, for example.

Is there a way to edit the text in it again because I can't edit it now?

You cannot change your image back to a text layer, but you can still change it. It would probably be better to start again, and to save your image XCF, before exporting also to GIF.

Nishandh M
2011-02-09 21:01:00 UTC (almost 14 years ago)

Edit text problem?

:D pls attach the banner, so that I can suggest possible workflows. Check you documentary history in GIMP, may be some intermediate stage is left in temp.

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:26 PM, . wrote:

Thanks

On 02/09/2011 08:50 AM, Olivier Lecarme wrote:

Alex wrote:

I made a banner with a transparent background and put text onto it. There's only 1 layer- the background. It was saved as a gif.

Your image was not saved, which would have been saving to XCF. It was exported to GIF, which does not remember anything about layers, for example.

Is there a way to edit the text in it again because I can't edit it now?

You cannot change your image back to a text layer, but you can still change it. It would probably be better to start again, and to save your image XCF, before exporting also to GIF.

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Joe Carsto
2011-02-10 17:46:36 UTC (almost 14 years ago)

Edit text problem?

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Alex wrote:

I made a banner with a transparent background and put text onto it. There's only 1 layer- the background. It was saved as a gif.

Is there a way to edit the text in it again because I can't edit it now?

You need to save your image in GIMP native format using .XCF extension in order to be able to edit your text at a later time.