I tried following other, newer tutorials for this one and failed about 20 times. Even though the UI has changed quite a bit in the last 7 years, this vid actually made me succeed 😄 Thank you very much Irv, You brought my new Business 1 step closer to be up & running 🙂
This is the best 2 separate text lines wrap around a circle (one text on the top - other at the bottom of the circle) - Have been watching many difference other videos and never accomplished until I found this video. THANK YOU SO MUCH
Great video. I needed to find out how to add curved text to my images and this tutorial fits the bill exactly. All of the steps were described clearly and at a pace that was easy to follow. I'm now adding curved text to my images like a pro.
You did a great job explaining this. I followed it easily and created exactly what I had hoped I would. Thank you for taking the time to do this. It was extremely helpful!
Thank you, makes a lot more sense now. In fact what I've taken away is if I want to create a detailed curved image it might be easier to work on it as a separate project and save it as a PNG.
Thanks for putting this tutorial out Irv. I fought with text around a circle for 1 1/2 days. That is until I found yours. Good stuff. Thanks a million. I've worked with Gimp for a ver long time off and on. It seem the last time was a very long time off.. hahaha cheers
Every time you use the rotation tool on rasterized text, you're doing destructive editing, and the quality of the rasterized text is degrading. Usually the degradation is too minor to be noticeable, but it can become a problem if you're working with very fine print (for example, if you're designing a cd/dvd label with lots of really tiny text around the perimeter). With fine print, you can avoid destructive editing by adding just a couple steps to this tutorial: First, follow the tutorial as normal, but when you rotate your text, pay attention to the number of degrees the text needs to be rotated. This text isn't going to be your final text -- it's just a test to see how many degrees of rotation are needed. Once you have the number of degrees, delete the text you just rotated, and then go back to the circle path and rotate the circle path the correct number of degrees (change settings on the rotation tool to rotate path instead of layer). Then go back to your *vector* text layer and re-do text-along-path onto the now pre-rotated circle path.
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Hey Lon W, good to hear from you. When I did this I knew it was a long, hard, dry grind to follow, so I wondered if anyone would spend the time to grind through it, and it's great to hear that it worked for you.
you did a wonderful job explaining to me I'm very pleased with your video awesome work thumbs up now I understand how to do it cause in the past i was so confused . gracias muchas gracias por tu labor ..☕︎👍
Thank you for the help. Great Video. I'm designing t-shirts for our just traveling thru brand and I'm a beginner. This allowed me to complete my t-shirt within a few hours.
tried this for an hour and gave up. the toolbars you have dont even show up on my screen :/ gimp is really good at making simple things ridiculously difficult.
Awesome video. When I do text along path it does curve it and put it where it should be, but it is offset and it seems to be connected with the size of the box I draw when I start writing text. I worked around it by double clicking resize box on the text box, rotating, and than later moving the text vertically. Do you maybe know why is it happening
Omg, you are a life saver! I still couldnt get my lower reversed text to work. But I got WAAAY further than I ever had! Gimp is absolutely HORRIBLE! My old pc crashed, otherwise I would be using a MUCH better program. WinPCSign. So much simpler yet more powerful.
Thanks for the tutorial! I can't get it to work like in the video though. The bottom text won't rotate correctly, but will instead rotate around some seemingly arbitrary axis. Any guess on why this happens? (First this happened to the top text too, but then I started from scratch and repeated the whole process, and it worked ok for the top text but sadly not for the bottom text.)
I dont want a bottom and top text layer. i just want one layer that wraps all the way around the circle like the writing around a CD or DVD disc. using your tutorial I jist have all my text bunched up into 1 corner and its in a paragraph form.
the step at 9:20 (stroke path) wasnt working for me) it wasnt adding any color to it. so i just did path to selection and went to 'fill with foreground color' just like when you are coloring any selection
Hi, I have tried this for 3 days now and it doesnt work. Its so frustrating. I had Corel Draw and could do this in 30 seconds, but waited and the trial version expired and I dont have $424.00 to buy it. I do the steps over and over and over and over hoping for a different result (maybe Im crazy, hope not) but what it will do, Im trying to use the ellipse and not make a round circle but only curve, so the text is a bit curved. It has 2 results. It usually takes the sentence and tries to put it on one spot? so it looks like a red can of paint thrown at the spot. or now Im getting where it creates the path and I add text, not sure which layer Im adding to, but it will follow the path... only it starts arbitrarily on the left edge, upside down and reverse. I cannot shift the text. and today I got it to fall on the lower arc curving UP, of course I need it on top and curving DOWN. new version of GIMP, its so hard to use, also I think its buggy because the text will be white and no color setting has any effect, try brushes, white, set the brush to any color and its white. clear/dump and start over, take a brush, add color and its that color. Ive used alot of older CAD programs alot of years but this is really hard to use. like i said Corel draw I had it tracing the path in a minute literally. will look for another program but any tips are appreciated, thanks
Same here, I have followed different videos to put text around a circle step by step and they don't work. There is always some step left out or I missed because the person doing the video simply does not explain clearly. Gimp is very difficult to use.
