Now, before you all come up with the idea that I am an expert in Gimp, let me just state this clearly: I AM NOT. I came up with this workaround because I did a button with GIMP sometime ago and no matter how closely I look on Gimp’s toolbar, I can’t find said feature of bolding a text. So I Googled for an answer after having found out that Gimp doesn’t allow for making a font bold (unless the font naturally has a bold type, i.e., Arial Black for Arial), and came up with the
Layer => Text to selection => Text to selection => Select => Grow then Fill
solution. The font I was using (Shoebop) didn’t look nice with that workaround, and since I really needed to make the font more readable (because it is just a 125×125 button), I thought of duplicating the layer that contains the text I wanted to make bold. Now I am not very good with instructions, but I’ll try my best. So here’s what you do:
- On Gimp, click on the “A” symbol on the toolbox window to choose the text tool.
- Type in the text that you need to see in your GIMP document and adjust the font type, size and style.
- Hit CTRL + Shift + D to duplicate the layer.
- Move the new layer a bit to the right or to the left, for the text to have a bold appearance.
So there. You have now made your font “bold”. I know. It’s the lazy-ass way out. But it works for my needs. So I hope this little tutorial helps. If you know of a better easier (read: one-click) workaround, I’ll be more than glad to update this post. 🙂
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hi! welcome back to blogging! :celebrate:
is this your new layout :question:
soo cute :nod:
me bago na naman sya layout? hindi ko na naman alam? waaahhh! naiiyak na ako! hahaha! baliw?? LOL
Late welcome back greetings nato. LOL
very nice blog u have here Kaye…
Anyway I have a tag for you if u don’t mind. It’s a Friendship Chain.
Have a nice day!
tag me too, tag me too! hahahahah! papansin :tongue:
Mas maganda niya blog niya ngayon. Ang laki ng improvement niya po, noh?
true, kaya gusto ko din ng layout na gawa nya. 🙂
Today, after hours of trial_and_error things I found the following workaround of making bold text without having separate bold type of the font:
1. gimp-2.6.6 on slackware-12.2 (no other programs are used for the purpose, just gimp itself)
2. Type the text and select the font via the “Aa” button in the toolbox
3. In the “Layer” menu four item will suprisingly appear – click on “Text to Path”
4. In the toolbox – select the “Paintbrush Tool” and choose the desired brush (in my case it was “Circle (01))
5. In “Edit” menu – click on “Stroke Path”
6. In the dialog – select the “Stroke with a paint tool” radio button
7. In the same dialog – select “Paintbrush” from the drop-down combo-box and leave “Emulate brush dynamics” unchecked
8. Click “Stroke” button
9. Look at the result 😉
NOTE: If the result is not good enough, undo the stroking and try with other brush parameters
@ slonmron: nice workaround! i hope someone benefits from this. 🙂
Thanks mommy kaye and slonmron for explaining your methods. Keep up the good work 🙂
I benefit from this..thanks for sharing Mr. slonmron 🙂
nice one! more professional solution, but i’d still stick with marce kaye’s solution since it’s simpler 🙂
Sorry po pero wala akong naintindihan 🙁 Sobrang stupid ko pagdating sa WP 🙁
i need to bookmark this coz I’m finding my way in GIMP…
ako rin. ano ba un. papansin na gaya gaya pa. hahahaha
Same here. Book marked the blog na 🙂
i have a hard time adding TEXT kaya sa GIMP…do I need to install the fonts pa?
no marce. the fonts installed in your OS will be detected by GIMP automatically. 🙂
wow. in fairness nagreply ka kaye. tampo ako. bat sakin di ka reply? la ba wenta mga tanong ko? malamang. bwahahahahaha
Ako, completely blanko pagdating sa mga bagay na’to 🙁
kelangan ko din to pag mag aaral na ko gumawa ng header at banners at kung ano ano pang arts. pero for the meantime, pagawa pa din ako sayo marce hihihi
pero wag lahat may bayad ha. hahahahaha
Ang galing naman ni ate K! Siya na. 🙂
Thanks for this! Simple but effective. 🙂
Ako talaga, walang knowledge. As in, zero.
wala akong naintindihan
Ako rin po! Since last year pa ‘to, ngayon ba, meron ka ng naintindihan 😀
Thanks for this. The font I was using didn’t have a bold and this worked perfectly.
Miss K has been helping a lot of people from the blogosphere. Thanks to her!
thanks for sharing this simple tweaks. In case i don’t win, i have some few articles from you to help me tweak my DIY template. 😀
Maganda naman po yung templates mo 🙂
Something borrowed ang gamit ko dear. sana yung wala ako kaparehas para masaya. 🙂
its great that you are sharing your knowledge for FREE kaye:) I salute you
Sobrang bait niya po ate noh? At may giveaway pa siya ngayon!
LOL suki ni NIKO sa comments :))
san ba galing mga ideas nyo?? share naman.. 😀
after playing around with gimp for quite some time, i figured out that every font is offered twice: one normal and one bold, so if you just select the font you need with bold, the problem is solved 😉
unfortunately not all fonts have a bold version, which is why i came up with this quick and dirty trick in the first place 😉
🙂
lol
cool 😀
Thanks for sharing – used it to make a font better readable, without actually making it bold (which made the letters too thick to my liking).