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Changing a Text Layer

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Changing a Text Layer Rhino 11 May 16:00
  Changing a Text Layer Noel Stoutenburg 11 May 18:18
   Changing a Text Layer John Culleton 11 May 19:12
    Changing a Text Layer Chris Mohler 11 May 19:25
   Changing a Text Layer Ofnuts 11 May 19:40
   Changing a Text Layer Akkana Peck 12 May 02:50
Rhino
2011-05-11 16:00:52 UTC (over 13 years ago)

Changing a Text Layer

I'm having trouble accessing text layers in a logo I am trying to make.

Each time I create text, it gets put into its own layer; that seems to be the way GIMP does things. I'm fine with that. However, once I've completed making a text layer and moved on to creating a second text layer, I can't seem to get back to the first text layer to make changes, such as the colour of the text or the size of the font.

The window for the graphic indicates that there are several layers but I can seem to get back to any previous layer. I don't see any menu options for accessing one of the other layers. PageUp and PageDown don't show me the different layers. It's as if the layer's content, colour, font, etc. can't be changed once I've started a new layer.

What am I doing wrong? How do I access the layers that I created before the current layer?

I am using GIMP 2.6.11 and running on Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 2.

-- Rhino

Noel Stoutenburg
2011-05-11 18:18:25 UTC (over 13 years ago)

Changing a Text Layer

Rhino wrote:

What am I doing wrong? How do I access the layers that I created before the current layer?

If you want to make changes to an existing text layer, in the layer dialog, make the layer containing the text you want to change the active layer, and then click on any bit of the text in the layer. Note though, that every text window is an independant layer, and if you've applied nearly any other modification to the layer, even only merging it with another text layer, it is no longer a text layer, and you can't modify the text with the text editor. As long as each text element is an individual text layer, and has not been modified, except for the text attributes, you can edit the text in the layer.

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John Culleton
2011-05-11 19:12:21 UTC (over 13 years ago)

Changing a Text Layer

On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 02:18:25 pm Noel Stoutenburg wrote:

Rhino wrote:

What am I doing wrong? How do I access the layers that I created before the current layer?

If you want to make changes to an existing text layer, in the layer dialog, make the layer containing the text you want to change the active layer,

In the layer window when you click on a layer the whole layer bar gets a blue background and that is the active layer. To isolate that layer click the eye icon for each other layer. That makes the other layers invisible. If the eye icon is visible then that layer is visible and if it isn't then the layer is invisible.

Just remember, the layer with the blue background is the active layer and the layer(s) with the eye icon are visible. That is obvious to experienced users but not necessarily obvious to those coming to Gimp from other software.

Chris Mohler
2011-05-11 19:25:03 UTC (over 13 years ago)

Changing a Text Layer

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:12 PM, John Culleton wrote:

In the layer window when you  click on a layer the whole layer bar gets a blue background and that is the active layer.

Yes - click on a layer in the layers dialog (Windows->Dockable Dialogs->Layers or press CTRL-L) to make that layer the active layer. However, the highlight color in the layers dialog may or may not be blue (mine is orange).

Chris

Ofnuts
2011-05-11 19:40:20 UTC (over 13 years ago)

Changing a Text Layer

On 05/11/2011 08:18 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:

Rhino wrote:

What am I doing wrong? How do I access the layers that I created before the current layer?

If you want to make changes to an existing text layer, in the layer dialog, make the layer containing the text you want to change the active layer, and then click on any bit of the text in the layer. Note though, that every text window is an independant layer, and if you've applied nearly any other modification to the layer, even only merging it with another text layer, it is no longer a text layer, and you can't modify the text with the text editor. As long as each text element is an individual text layer, and has not been modified, except for the text attributes, you can edit the text in the layer.

Furthermore, for really crisp results it is better to avoid appling gemoetry transforms to the text layer. It is luch better to generate a "path" frol the text ("Path from text" button), and apply the geometrical transforms to the path (all transform tools can be applied to paths), and once everything is in place to make a selection from the path and fill it.

Akkana Peck
2011-05-12 02:50:05 UTC (over 13 years ago)

Changing a Text Layer

Noel Stoutenburg writes:

If you want to make changes to an existing text layer, in the layer dialog, make the layer containing the text you want to change the active layer, and then click on any bit of the text in the layer. [ ... ] [ ... ] As long as each text element is an individual text layer, and has not been modified, except for the text attributes, you can edit the text in the layer.

It can be hard to click on part of a text layer, especially if the text is small. Another way to get the text layer attributes back so you can modify them is to right-click on the layer in the Layers dialog and choose the first item in the menu, "Text tool".

...Akkana