Gimp. Lesson 5. Creating a glowing text (Topic)

This tutorial teaches you how to create glowing text in the Gimp editor.

About Gimp

Gimp is a free photo editing program that is a good analogue of the graphics editor Adobe Photoshop . Also Gimp is a powerful graphics editor that allows you to edit and save images on your computer in all popular formats.

Benefits of the Gimp

• Gimp can replace the popular paid image editor - Adobe Photoshop for most photo editing tasks.
• Ability to edit the finished image, create a new one by using the toolbar.
• Creating animated images ( graphic format gif);
• Even a beginner can handle editor control;
• Available in English and USA;
• Fully customizable interface .

For information on how to free download the Gimp program, its installation and interface, see the article "An overview of the Gimp graphical editor".

How to create glowing text

In this lesson, we will learn not to edit existing images , but to create new ones. Let's start by working on the texts in the Gimp graphics editor. Namely, let's try to create glowing text with our own hands.

To do this, perform the following steps in order:

Step 1. Go to the Gimp program and create a new picture. (" File " - " New ... ").

The following window will appear in front of you:

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Author: Jake Pinkman