Inkscape is also free and open-source just like GIMP, so you don’t need to worry about paying for new software. By comparison, Inkscape has much better text handling and allows you to type along a path while still leaving the text editable in case you need to revise it in the future. If you’re creating a lot of curved text, GIMP will quickly become a source of frustration thanks to its limited text options. Let’s look forwards to GIMP 3! A Better Option for Curved Text In my experience, this can get frustrating fairly quickly, but perhaps you’ve got more patience than I do 😉Īll of this automatic path creation makes me wonder why GIMP doesn’t have support for vector shapes or more effective path and text handling overall, but I suppose that’s partly the legacy of previous versions that relied upon now-outdated technology. If you want to change the content of your curved text, you’ll have to go back to the very beginning of the process and do it all over again. At this point, your text won’t be editable anymore, but you can apply any other edits or transforms just the way you would with any normal pixel layer. To move the selection around on the screen and reposition it as I'm dragging it out, I'll hold down my spacebar, which allows me to move the selection around wherever I want it, and then I'll release the spacebar to continue dragging the selection larger.Click the Fill button, and GIMP will use the curved text path as a stencil for filling with your chosen foreground color. Then I'm simply going to click in the center of the planet and drag out a selection until my selection is a bit larger than the planet, giving my text room to wrap around it.Ĭhances are, the spot where I initially clicked my mouse was not the dead center of the planet, which means my selection will need to be repositioned. Then I'm going to hold down my Shift key to constrain my selection to a perfect circle and I'm going to hold down my Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) key to tell Photoshop to use the point I'm about to click on as the center of my selection, so the selection extends out in all directions from that point.
With my Elliptical Marquee Tool selected, I'm going to position my mouse as close to the center of the planet as possible to start with. Step 2: Drag A Selection Around The Object, A Bit Larger Than The Object Itself Select the Elliptical Marquee Tool from the Tools palette.
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