Wow..that was the missing step that I'm looking for! I never thought it would be that easy. Thanks for pointing out the way for me, I appreciate your 30 min effort just to find the answer for my question. I did as you point out in your tutorial and it worked flawlessly every time, just like what I wanted. Thanks again, people like you make big changes in other peoples lives...and that's a compliment. :)

"3: Then click on "text to path" in the "Tool options""

I'm lost on this step. I've been looking for something that says "text to path" for like 10 minutes now... obviously I'm a noob. Could someone help me out on that? Maybe be a little more specific. I know, I'm lame. I tried. Sorry. Thanks so much.

Hi. as you know, I'm translating your good tutorials to korean and remaking using flash.
here's a my another work.
http://gimp.kr/entry/GIMP-tutorial-6-Text-to-Path

thanks again.

alright the exact text wasn't "text to path", its "text along path" and its right above the "Create path from text". I'm using 2.4 but as far as i can remember its the same.

why don't you check out the flash video even though its in Korean you can see what he clicks on :)
http://gimp.kr/entry/GIMP-tutorial-6-Text-to-Path

Same here. I cannot find that button "Text along Path". I tried to add "Dialogs" and I can't find it still. I am using Gimp 2.2.13

so that was the reason :) glad you got it all worked out now.

FYI mine was GIMP RC1 (release candidate 1) and I found out it was unstable when it suddenly crashed while I'm working on a picture of my daughter a couple of days ago. I've done some googling and I found out that GIMP RC3 has been released and downloaded it. I haven't encounter any problems yet but till today it worked fine. You can download it at http://filehippo.com/download_the_gimp/. Happy GIMPing!

I downloaded Gimp 2.4 RC3 and it has no script fu. Can anyone tell me how to install them???

Hi,

Thanks for all the great info. One more question. Can you change the final font that your text is after you have it follow a path?

Thanks

Hey i'am having the same problem as the two pople before me. How do you change the color, font and how do you actualy "work" with the text. I can't figure it out.

Thx Loudík

i can't get it off of step 5. *silly i know* but for some reason the "green or pink" thats surrounding my words won't go away...its frustrating. please help?!

I create my path, but when I click on the text button, my path disappears. I write the text and then click text to path, but there isn't a path for it to follow. how do I keep the path up?

I have succeed to make it correctly , but i have the following problem:

If i draw out a "big" path , and i type a "small" text , then the text is not  covering the whole path but only one part of it.

This make some sense , but on the other hand is there any way to "expand" your small text to fit the whole drawn path , no matter how much will be distorted ?

Thanks in advance....

 Monaxoss GR

Path disappears: You missed a part of step 1. In the Layers, Channels, Paths, Undo window, click the "open paths dialog" tab (looks like a bunch of paths). Highlight the path you just made and mouse over to the left of it and click the 1st empty box, an eye will appear there and the path will show up.

For those trying to change the text: After step 2, before step 3, in the text tool window under the tool selections, set the font style, it's size and the letter spacing (a_b). Don't worry about the color, since you'll fill that in later when it's a selection. Next click the Text along Path button. If all the text doesn't fit along the path, hit Ctrl+Z to go back one step, and adjust font size and the letter spacing accordingly. Then hit the Text along Path button again. Rinse and repeat until it looks like you want.

 stuck...: To get rid of the green or pink paths and outlines un-click the eye icon in the "open paths dialog" tab in the Layers, channels... window. Then press Ctrl+Shift+A. That should de-select everything. That's all those colored lines where. But don't do it until after you made a new transparent layer (hit Ctrl+L and click on the icon that looks like a piece of paper with the top right corner folded down) and then filled the selection with a color or gradient like you normally would color in a shape. That last bit should help "I think I'm having the same".

I tried this after reading some other tutorial, but that one did not work so well for me. Yours did, so, thanks again.

Where's this eye icon? o.O I'm using the latest version of Gimp - I can't seem to find it.

Okay, I'm fine until step 5. I click on the path to selection icon, and there is no dashed selection happening, so I'm unable to bucket fill the font with color. It looks like each individual letter is being selected--they all have the shimmering dashed lines around them, but the bucket fill still does not work. In one of the later entries something is mentioned in passing something about creating a layer with it? I don't understand!

First off: what a nice guide :)

I seem to be able to follow it all the way down.

But (of course) I do encounter a problem: after filling in the selected text outline, I try to export the image to jpg.

The result is only partially what I want, as there is a vague greyish line running diagonally over my entire picture.
That line runs from the last Path-anchor I have made to the top-left corner of my picture. It also shows up in the pink outline, and in the image you used as example it is visible too. It seems, that with using the paint bucket, I also filled this weird diagonal selection.

How do I get rid of it?

I cant get this diagonal line off of it. It leaves the last letter off of the word and replaces it with the diagonal line going up to the corner.

You forgot to mention that you need to use the select all function to actually fill the picture...

I'm on #5 still. I saved my image as a jpg and still didn't show the curved text. Can someone please explain further what has to happen?
Thanks,
T

When I press the text button, my path is gone. Is this normal?

Thanks! Worked perfectly.

when the selection is active or in other words those dotted lines are around it create a new layer and use the paint bucket or blend tool to apply colour.

Hey,
I'm trying to write something on a circular selection.
So I draw a circular selection, make it a path, the add my text and draw it around my path. It works but the text is written upside down on the lower part of the circle...any idea on how to tell gimp to draw the text the other way around?
Thanks,
RizThon

Thanks very much for this tutorial. With the comment on "Extra Help," I was able to figure it out -- no other site I found did as well as this one. I should probably have read up on layers, selections, and filling tools before jumping in here, but I gotta start somewhere. So, I can finish my project on time, and I learned a thing or two. So thank you!

It seems like you haven't followed step 4.

"4: Go to the path dialog and right click the text path and select "Path to selection""

You need to have an active selection around the path you created, this will allow you to use the paint bucket to fill the selection.

Adding a new layer will allow the text to be a separated layer as opposed to it being part of the background, that's all.

TQ GImper !! ... i helped me alot !!

I LOVE U !! ( i not a gay la >.< )

but i need ur help now ... i i need to insert chinese words in the Text .. but when i key in the words .. it won't shown up ... why is this happening ?

I need it urgent >.< ..

TQ tq ...