If you don’t want to apply a complex warp to your text using one of the Distort filters, you might be able to get away with using the Text Along Path method. Until then, this is the only way to apply complex warps to text in GIMP.

Hopefully, GIMP 3 will include much better text handling, but we’ll have to wait and see until it’s finally released to know for sure. You won’t be able to use the Text tool to edit it, so if you made a typo or you want to change the wording, you’ll have to use the Undo command to return to a point before you applied your text warp filter. Once you apply your filter, you’ll notice that the icon for your text layer has changed into a thumbnail of the image contents, which indicates that it’s now a normal pixel layer.

If you’re really determined to use GIMP to warp your text, there are two primary methods: rasterizing your text layer and then warping it, or typing your text along a path.Īfter warping, the text layer is just another pixel layer You can read my full comparison of GIMP vs Inkscape. It’s also free and open-source, and it has much better tools for working with text and letterforms. If you’re going to be doing a lot of work with text in projects like logo design and page layout, you’re better off using Inkscape. This process converts the text layer into pixel-based image data, and your text is no longer editable with the Text tool. If you want to keep your text editable, there’s very little you can do to a text layer – even rotating the layer causes GIMP to automatically rasterize your text. Hey Wilber, you should only be painting in a properly ventilated room or those fumes will mess with your head! Is that why your pupils are so dilated?Īs you might know from my other tutorials, working with text in GIMP can be frustrating even at the best of times.

Deform text in inkscape