[Gimp-user] Changing a Text Layer

2011-05-11 Thread Rhino
I'm having trouble accessing text layers in a logo I am trying to make. Each time I create text, it gets put into its own layer; that seems to be the way GIMP does things. I'm fine with that. However, once I've completed making a text layer and moved on to creating a second text layer, I can

Re: [Gimp-user] Changing a Text Layer

2011-05-11 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Rhino wrote: > What am I doing wrong? How do I access the layers that I created before > the current layer? If you want to make changes to an existing text layer, in the layer dialog, make the layer containing the text you want to change the active layer, and then click on any bit of the text i

Re: [Gimp-user] Changing a Text Layer

2011-05-11 Thread John Culleton
On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 02:18:25 pm Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > Rhino wrote: > > What am I doing wrong? How do I access the layers that I created before > > the current layer? > > If you want to make changes to an existing text layer, in the layer > dialog, make the layer containing the text you

Re: [Gimp-user] Changing a Text Layer

2011-05-11 Thread Chris Mohler
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:12 PM, John Culleton wrote: > In the layer window when you  click on a layer the whole layer bar gets a blue > background and that is the active layer. Yes - click on a layer in the layers dialog (Windows->Dockable Dialogs->Layers or press CTRL-L) to make that layer the

Re: [Gimp-user] Changing a Text Layer

2011-05-11 Thread Ofnuts
On 05/11/2011 08:18 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > Rhino wrote: > >> What am I doing wrong? How do I access the layers that I created before >> the current layer? > If you want to make changes to an existing text layer, in the layer > dialog, make the layer containing the text you want to change th

Re: [Gimp-user] Changing a Text Layer

2011-05-11 Thread Akkana Peck
Noel Stoutenburg writes: > If you want to make changes to an existing text layer, in the layer > dialog, make the layer containing the text you want to change the active > layer, and then click on any bit of the text in the layer. [ ... ] > [ ... ] As long as each text element is an > individual