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HI all,
I am new to GIMP.  Been a PS user but can no longer afford the way it's going so installed gimp 2.10.36 on C in a win 11 64 bit machine and GIMO portable on an external SSID on a win 10 64 bit machine, both laptops.and then

Both are set up to my preferences.     I am at the moment interested in logo creation and photo manipulation for website use

Trawled you tube and came across Davies Media Design and thought buying the masters course would be a good choice.  Turns out three quarters of the resources are missing and have been, according to the comments, for some years. DMD doesn't answer emails so somewhat disappointed.  Sorry if this is a DMD forum, if it is maybe the dude will read this and send me the missing resources.

Guess I won't be getting the Udemy Certificate from the video alone.

My current issues are:

I cant' seem to get stroking text to work.   I appreciate that its a different way of doing things but I can't get it to work to my satisfaction and its a somewhat convaluted way of doing it.  Maybe theres a plugin out there.

I also can't get text on a circle to work.  Text on the top part of the arc is fine but text on the lower places on the top right corner and i cant flip it to read upright.   However, despite copying logo by nick every step, i conclude that i must be missing something.

Does anyone know of an online teacher who someone as inexperienced as i can follow and the instructions work please?  Or is there a plug in for text on a circle?

I also now have Inkscape and I will say that as far as I am concerned it is far superior to Illustarator in ease of use.

Hopefully someone will read this and tell me where I am going wrong.

THanks for reading.

For the second question there is a plugin that makes things somewhat simpler. see https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-ofn-text-along-path

For the first question, please be more explicit, what do you expect, what do you do, and what do you get?

I am trying to achieve this

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_Wq_A-jkWQE/maxresdefault.jpg

but only achieve this

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6e/75/71/...7a1cdf.png


I appreciate that the problem is something that i am doing, but so far I ca't see what.

So you made a circle with a path, I see where you struggle

You need 2 text layers, the one for the top and another text for the bottom

once you made text along path for the top text, you STOP everything!, breath and read below

Now You need to invert/flip the circle made of path, BEFORE the second text or doing anything else.

1 Go to the path tab/dialog, click on the eye to make it visible, THEN go back to the layers' tab/dialog
2 Select the Flip Tool
3 In the Tool Options Select the path (to flip)
4 Select Vertical
5 Click once on the path, JUST ONCE, because it's a circle you won't see it flip (you could make an indent, though), if you click twice it's like you did not click, so click just ONCE

Explanation: it's called a Path, and as a path it has a start and an end..., thus for the second text to not be upside down, you need to flip the path

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Then now select your second text and do like the first text

(12-08-2023, 01:28 PM)theycallmejayne Wrote: [ -> ]I am trying to achieve this

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_Wq_A-jkWQE/maxresdefault.jpg

but only achieve this

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6e/75/71/...7a1cdf.png


I appreciate that the problem is something that i am doing, but so far I ca't see what.

So, as far as I can see,  typical two problems:

Path origin:


Gimp's native text-to-path function lays the text along a path, starting from the path beginning. But if you do a circle selection and Select > To path, the beginning of the path is a bit at random. The two solutions:

• if you know where the circle center is, rotate the result text path (around the center of course)
  
• cut the path open and close it again where you want the path to start. This may require several tries or some side measurement/computations if you want the text centered.
  

Text direction:

The text is laid out along the path and the path direction is clockwise so at the bottom of the circle the path goes right to left. The usual solution is to make a copy of the path and flip it with the flip tool, so the result path is now counter-clockwise and runs left to right at the bottom. But of course since you have two elements of text in opposite directions you have to call the text-to-path function twice for two different text elements.

Since you spotted my script

The "path origin" problem is alleviated because the script can center things in the path, so instead of figuring out where the path start, you just need to make sure that start and end are symmetrical (typically, by cutting the path along a horizontal line).

The "path direction" problem is just a flag in the script to tell it to reverse the path. In your case the script will however still require two be called twice, and you will have to cut the whole circle path in two halves (not necessarily equal), one for the top and one for the bottom.

(12-08-2023, 06:11 PM)PixLab Wrote: [ -> ]So you made a circle with a path, I see where you struggle  

You need 2 text layers, the one for the top and another text for the bottom

once you made text along path for the top text, you STOP everything!, breath and read below

Now You need to invert/flip the circle made of path, BEFORE the second text or doing anything else.

1 Go to the path tab/dialog, click on the eye to make it visible, THEN go back to the layers' tab/dialog
2 Select the Flip Tool
3 In the Tool Options Select the path (to flip)
4 Select Vertical
5 Click once on the path, JUST ONCE, because it's a circle you won't see it flip (you could make an indent, though), if you click twice it's like you did not click, so click just ONCE

Explanation: it's called a Path, and as a path it has a start and an end..., thus for the second text to not be upside down, you need to flip the path



Then now select your second text and do like the first text

Thank you

(12-08-2023, 06:20 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: [ -> ]

(12-08-2023, 01:28 PM)theycallmejayne Wrote: [ -> ]I am trying to achieve this

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_Wq_A-jkWQE/maxresdefault.jpg

but only achieve this

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6e/75/71/...7a1cdf.png


I appreciate that the problem is something that i am doing, but so far I ca't see what.

So, as far as I can see,  typical two problems:

Path origin:


Gimp's native text-to-path function lays the text along a path, starting from the path beginning. But if you do a circle selection and Select > To path, the beginning of the path is a bit at random. The two solutions:

• if you know where the circle center is, rotate the result text path (around the center of course)
  
• cut the path open and close it again where you want the path to start. This may require several tries or some side measurement/computations if you want the text centered.
  

Text direction:

The text is laid out along the path and the path direction is clockwise so at the bottom of the circle the path goes right to left. The usual solution is to make a copy of the path and flip it with the flip tool, so the result path is now counter-clockwise and runs left to right at the bottom. But of course since you have two elements of text in opposite directions you have to call the text-to-path function twice for two different text elements.

Since you spotted my script

The "path origin" problem is alleviated because the script can center things in the path, so instead of figuring out where the path start, you just need to make sure that start and end are symmetrical (typically, by cutting the path along a horizontal line).

The "path direction" problem is just a flag in the script to tell it to reverse the path. In your case the script will however still require two be called twice, and you will have to cut the whole circle path in two halves (not necessarily equal), one for the top and one for the bottom.

Thank you