Hello,

if you are writing text with the Text tool, there may be some other causes, if you cant see the text.
First: check your foreground color. If you are using the same text color as is the background oft he image, you will not see your text. Second: if you are working with layers, make shure the uppermost layer is active before you begin typing. Otherwise the text may be hidden behind an overlaying layer.
Greetings

Klaus Goelker

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1. Re: Game of GIMP (Gunold Brunbauer) 2. Re: How do I insert text? (Steve Kinney)

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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 19:35:05 +0200 From: Gunold Brunbauer
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I think GIMP deserves some promotion. Thats why I implemented a "Game of GIMP". You can find it here: http://www.bilderstroeme.de/gameOfGimp. I hope you have fun and use it to promote gimp. I would like to make a version for android and iphones, too, but I don't have a developer-account. So I'm looking for someone who could be able to put such a version into the aplle store or into th google play store. Thanks,
Gunold

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Hello,

if you are writing text with the Text tool, there may be some other causes, if you cant see the text.
First: check your foreground color. If you are using the same text color as is the background of the image, you will not see your text. Second: if you are working with layers, make shure the uppermost layer is active before you begin typing. Otherwise the text may be hidden behind an overlaying layer.
Greetings

Klaus Goelker klaus@goelker.com

Message: 2 Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 19:36:43 -0400 From: Steve Kinney
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On 10/07/2014 12:05 AM, Paul_Mccarthy wrote:

Hi everyone,

As hard as I try to follow tutorials etc, I can't see text when I try to add it to a photo.

The Help file within Gimp suggests that if I select the Text tool and click on an area of the canvas, I should see text as soon as I start typing.

The text comes up in the "Layers - Brushes" sidebar and I can see a cursor moving in the text box on the canvas, but I see no text on the canvas at all.

That's quite bizarre - there is no connection between the Brushes dialog

and the text tool - if you see a moving cursor on the image canvas,

nothing should happen anywhere else while you type. My first impulse

would be to check whether I had the current stable version of the GIMP from

an "official" source - and even if so, I would reinstall it anyway just to

make certain.

If you don't see the text appearing in in the image as you type, that

might be because it's too small to see: The larger the image you are adding

text to, the harder the letters will be to see, unless you have selected a

font & size that are large enough to show up. Next time around try

typing something, do Control+a to select what you typed, and increase the

size via the on-canvas control box to see what happens. Worth a try

anyway.

:o)

Steve

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