![]() But I will say that I’ve had, at best, varying success with changes made in this toolbar consistently taking effect on the canvas. It would be overly dramatic to say that it’s a trap and isn’t helpful at all. Note: You might notice a helpful floating toolbar that appears above your text box at this point: You can’t see it properly yet, but I chose a Han Solo quote for this tutorial because I’m left unsupervised for long stretches: Don’t worry about typos- you can fix those later. No matter! Go ahead and type your text, even though it’s text for ants. Maybe it’s just me, but mine always shows up very tiny on my canvas. With the Text Tool selected, click pretty much anywhere on your canvas to lay down a text layer. Select it from your Toolbox window like so: You can find your Text Tool in your Toolbox window: To add text, you’ll need to access your "Text Tool". Your background image should open on its own canvas, fit to size: I named my image “birds” on account of the birds: It’s easiest to save an image to your computer so that you can open it by selecting “File” in the toolbar and then “Open”:įrom here you should be able to choose your image from wherever you’ve saved it and hit "Open". We won’t use this window much for this tutorial, but it’s very useful for more complicated projects.įirst you need your background image. Layers - This is where you can keep track of what elements and layers you have active on your canvas.All of the work you actually do will be done in this window. Canvas - This is where your image will open.Toolbox - This is where the most commonly used tools can be accessed easily. ![]() When you open Gimp, it should look something like this: If there’s a power surge or something and you have to re-do all of your work, you will be VERY sad. If you put in the work to learn Gimp, you’ll have more control over the images you create.Īs a quick note, there’s no autosave in Gimp, so save your image via the toolbar or “ctrl+s” often. Gimp’s a little less intuitive to use compared to options like Canva simply because it actually has a huge range of functions for most types of graphic design- it just takes a little bit more know-how to get around than some freemium programs. Gimp is a design program similar to PhotoShop but a little less user-friendly and a lot more free (as in completely free). Welcome to another Tutorial Tuesday! Today I’m going to show you how to make a blog image using Gimp. ![]()
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