On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 6:02 PM, David Grant wrote:

Can Gimp superimpose text in landscape orientation on photo?

You mean, whether with GIMP you can

1) Open an image 2) Select Text tool
3) Click on the image
4) Type your text
5) Export to some file?

Yes, you can.

Alexandre

On 08/27/2013 07:02 AM, David Grant wrote:

Can Gimp superimpose text in landscape orientation on photo?

If you have a text page (possibly a pdf) you want superimposed, you first have to remove the (most likely white) background and sharpen the (probably black) text a bit. Then you will have to resize the text so it fits on the photo where you want it to be.

So --

Open the photo in gimp Under the Open men pick "Open as layers" and select the text page. You now have two layers, the text page on top of the photo, and within the boundaries of the text page the photo is not visible. Make sure the text page is the active layer, then select by color the white background of the text page. Now the photo will show through.

Adjust the range the the selection. Play with it. Maybe change the color of the text.

When you're happy, export the result. Save the xcf file in case you want to do more with it.

Have fun.

-- Burnie

From: dgrant@thecommonlot.com
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 10:02:09 -0400 To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org
Subject: [Gimp-user] Can Gimp superimpose text in landscape orientation on photo?

Can Gimp superimpose text in landscape orientation on photo? If so, I can not find in the documentation how to do this.

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You're asking in the right place, but it's not entirely clear what you're trying to do.

The way I interpret the question, you have a photo (in landscape orientation) and you want to add text to it in GIMP. If your camera tagged that the photo is landscape instead of portrait then GIMP will automatically rotate the image 90 degrees when you open the file so the correct side faces up and you can simply superimpose text using the Text tool; no further editing is required.

If GIMP does not (the photo opens "sideways"), you can still use the Text tool like normal, however you will need to manually rotate one layer (either the text layer or the photo layer) by 90 degrees so they match up the way you want. Preferably the photo layer, because GIMP doesn't support editing a text layer after making non-text edits (like rotation) to it - if you try, GIMP warns you it has to revert the modifications to that layer.

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