Add border to text gimp plus#

There are more other ways through which you can create an outline of the text of any text, but we discussed two of them, which are the easiest and quickest way of doing this.

You will get a smooth outline of the text by the second method. Now off text layer as well as a background layer for seeing your outline text. Do settings in this dialog box as per your choice and hit on Stroke button of this dialog box.Д«efore hitting on the Stroke button of this box, I will change the foreground color to white for my text outline, and when I hit on stroke button, I will get this type of outline around my text. All the settings are the same in this dialog box as previous. If there is no any this type of tab, then go to the Window menu of the menu bar, then go to the Dockable Dialog box, then choose the Paths option from the scroll-down list.ДЄnd make right-click on the Path layer of the text layer in the Paths tab, then choose the Stroke Path option from the scroll-down list.ДЄnd you will have this same dialog box as we got in the first method. You can navigate it in your user interface. Go to PathвЂ™s tab, which is below to layers panel in my user interface. Now select a transparent layer in the layers panel. Go to the Layers panel and make right-click on the text layer, then choose the вЂText to pathвЂ™ option from the scroll-down list. Let us discuss other way for creating an outline of the text. You can also disable the background layer by clicking on the eye button of this layer for seeing a text outline with transparent background. Now disable selection around the text by clicking on the вЂNoneвЂ™ option of the Select menu of the menu bar.ДЄnd you will get this type of outline around your text.Дisable the text layer by clicking on the eye button of this layer for seeing the outline stroke of text. Now hit on Stroke button of this dialog box after doing your desired settings.ДЄnd you will have this stroke around your text. You can choose the pattern of the line for an outline, such as you can go with a dashed line, dots and many others from this list.

I will choose the round option for a smooth outline in joint style. Here you can choose cap style and joint style for the outline.

Add border to text gimp plus#

Input your desired value in the Line Width option according to the width of outline you want.Д¬lick on the plus button of the вЂLine StyleвЂ™ option of this dialog box for seeing more option. Enable the Stroke Line option of this dialog box by clicking on the radio button of this option. The stroke selection dialog box will be open. Now select the transparent layer in the layers panel by click on it.ДЄnd go to вЂEdit menuвЂ™ of the menu bar, then click on the вЂStroke SelectionвЂ™ option of the drop-down list. I will choose a yellow color from this box and hit on the ok button of this color box. Now make right-click on the text layer and choose the вЂAlpha to SelectionвЂ™ option from the drop-down list.Д¬hoose the color in the foreground color box of gimp as per your choice, and your chosen color will be the color of the outline of the text. Move this layer below to the layer panelвЂ™s text layer with the help of the mouse left button.

I will create a transparent layer by choosing the Transparency option in the вЂFill withвЂ™ option of this dialog box and hit on the Ok button of this box. Now click on Create new layer button of the layers panel, which I at the right side of the working screen for creating a new layer.

Now move this text at the center of the document with the help of the move tool. Set horizontal guide at 50 % by giving 50 value in the Position option of this dialog box, then hit the Ok button of this dialog box. For this, go to the Image menu of the menu bar and go to the Guides option of the drop-down list, then click on the New Guides (by percentage) option of the new drop-down list. Adjust this text at the center of the document.