You will not notice any difference with your path (flipping a perfect, symmetrical circle will create no difference). Click on the circle path once to flip it horizontally. Make sure the Direction is set to Horizontal. With the Selection Copy path still selected, grab your Flip tool (denoted by the red arrow in the photo above) and change the Transform mode to Path (the third icon from the left in the Tool Options for the Rotate Tool – denoted by the green arrow above). You should now have two paths, one titled “Selection” and one titled “Selection Copy” (denoted by the green arrow). For starters, head back over to your Paths dialogue if you aren’t there already, click on your circular path (titled “Selection” in the image above), and click the “Duplicate” icon (denoted by the red arrow above).
However, you’ll want to make sure your text on the top portion of the circle ends up at the top, and the bottom text ends up at the bottom. Now that you have a circular path, you can wrap your text around it easily.
GIMP CURVE TEXT HOW TO
For demonstration purposes, I just typed “Wrap Your Text” on one line, then clicked on another spot lower in my image window and typed the second line “Easily in GIMP.” I used the free Animosa Bold font (which you can learn how to download and install via this GIMP article) with a font size of 100 and a dark blue color. This will bring up the text editor (denoted by the green arrow), as well as create a text box (denoted by the blue arrow). Next, grab your text tool (denoted by the red arrow in the image above) and click anywhere inside of the image window (the main area where you can see your document). Your circle will have disappeared now, but fret not! Click the “show/hide” icon next to the circle path you just created in the Paths dialogue to unhide your circle path (denoted by the red arrow in the photo above). You can deselect the original selection area you drew by going to Select>None or hitting ctrl+shift+a on your keyboard. This will create a new path from your circle selection area. Then, click on the “Selection to Path” icon (denoted by the blue arrow in the photo above). To do this, click on your Paths dialogue tab (denoted by the red arrow in the photo above).
Now that you’ve drawn your circle, you’ll need to convert it to a path so that you can draw your text around the circle. You should now have a nice, centered circle selection area. You should be able to drag that until it snaps to the horizontal and vertical center guides. There is a little crosshair in the middle of your selection area that tells you where the center of your selection area is. You can also reposition your circle by clicking inside the selection area and dragging it around (you must have your Ellipse Select tool still enabled while doing this). The final size of my circle is 650 px by 650 pixels, which I can manually set in the Size fields under the Tool Options for the ellipse select tool (denoted by the blue arrow in the photo above). This indicates the boundary of your circle selection. You should now see “marching ants” going around the border of the circle area. Once I am satisfied with the size of my ellipse, I’ll release my mouse. If I hold the shift key as well, the ellipse will be drawn with a fixed aspect ratio of 1:1 – or in other words it will be drawn as a perfect circle. If I hold the ctrl key, the ellipse shape will draw from the center. I will click and drag with this tool to begin drawing an ellipse. Next, I will add a circle to my composition by clicking on the Ellipse Select Tool (denoted by the red arrow in the photo above). Repeat this step, changing the Direction to Vertical. Click OK to create a horizontally centered guide. To do this, go to Image>Guides>New Guide (By Percent).Ĭhoose Horizontal from the Direction dropdown first, and set the Position (in %) value to 50. You’ll want to easily be able to locate the center of your composition, and the best way to do that is to set horizontal and vertical center guides. To do this, go to File>New.Ĭhoose your document size (I recommend create a square document to make this tutorial go a lot more smoothly – I went with 1080 by 1080), and click OK. You’ll first need to create a new composition within GIMP so you can write your text. Want to wrap your text around a circle? Good news – It’s really easy to do in GIMP 2.10! In this How-To Article, I’ll show you how to wrap any text around a circle shape.
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