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GIMP Tutorial: Wrap Text Around A Circle
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this is Nick with logos by Nick comm and
in today's tutorial I'll be
demonstrating how you can take text and
wrap it around a circle using so
let's go ahead and get started here in a
game the first thing I want to do is
create a new document so we'll go to
file new and I'm gonna size this
document at 1280 by 1280 pixels I'll
come down here to Advanced Options and
we just want to make sure where we have
background color set to where it says
filled with so just go ahead and choose
background color should be there by
default but if not go ahead and select
that then go ahead and click OK and
we're gonna have this new document here
now I'm just gonna zoom out a little bit
so I can see the entirety of the canvas
I'm gonna hold ctrl and roll down the
mouse-wheel a couple of times just so I
could zoom out and see that and what I
want to do now is add some guides to the
document so I'll go to view no I'm sorry
we'll go to image guides a new guide by
% and I want to choose vertical and 50%
and go ahead and click OK and it's gonna
put a vertical guide and halfway through
the page and it'll do the same thing
horizontally so go to image guides new
guide by percent and I'll choose
horizontal and again 50% go ahead and
click OK and you should now have two
guides horizontally and vertically going
halfway through the page dividing it
into fours like that and then finally I
just wanna come over here to where it
says view and make sure we have snap to
guides selected it should be set there
by default but just go ahead and check
that anyway just to make sure it's
rather important so once we've done that
what we can do is we can grab the
circles and ellipses tool or just the
ellipse tool rather ellipse select tool
click on that and bring the cursor over
to the intersecting area between the two
guides and then click and drag to
creates to start creating an ellipse and
then hold ctrl + shift so it makes a
perfectly symmetrical ellipse like that
and then release it somewhere about
halfway through the page right about
there is pretty good and once we've done
that I'm gonna go to select and I'm
going to choose two paths and that's
gonna create a path from the selection
and what we could do now is go to select
none and then we can come over here to
our layers menu and at the top of the
layers manual you'll see
three different boxes one that says
layers this one that says channels and
this one that says pads we want to go
ahead and click on that box that says
Tad's and it's going to show us the pads
that we have which is this one that we
just created I'm gonna click on the
eyeball icon over here to activate that
so we can now see that red circle that
is our circular path and we're gonna be
wrapping our text around that path so
let me click back on the layers a box to
get back to our layers and I'm gonna
grab the text tool now and I'm gonna
create two lines of text one line of
text is gonna wrap around the top
portion of the circle and the other line
of text is gonna wrap around the bottom
portion of the circles so we're gonna
create two separate lines of text we're
not gonna create it all on one line we
have to do it separately so to do that
we have the text tool go ahead and
choose your font over here you can click
on this I'm just using leap gothic I
already have the size set 107 you can
adjust the size to make it fit
accordingly I'm using 107 spacing you
may have to adjust the spacing a bit as
well I'm keeping mine at 5 go ahead and
write some text here for the sake of
this tutorial I'm using the words wrap
your text and again you could double
click it to select everything and then
you could change the size over here you
can change the spacing and so on and
once you've done that that's for the top
I'm gonna come down here and create some
more text the bottom line is gonna be
around a circle now let me just grab the
move tool and bring that out of the way
I'm gonna bring this oops wrong thing
I'm gonna grab the text and just move
this out of the way it doesn't matter
where it is I just would rather be away
from that circle it makes life easier so
once we've done that I'm gonna take the
bottom line which is around a circle
which is this layer up here and I'm
gonna right click that and I'm gonna go
to text a long path and if you notice
it's gonna create a path going along the
bottom or the inside of the circle like
that and once we've done that I can turn
off the visibility of that text layer
because we don't need that anymore and
I'm gonna create a new layer with this
button that says create a new layer and
edits the image we're gonna use
transparency go ahead and click OK and
what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna come back
over to this pads man
and you're gonna notice there's gonna be
a new path created from that text and
I'm gonna right-click that layer and go
to path to selection and I'm gonna fill
it in with the color that we have
selected as our foreground color so if
you'd like to use a color other than
black go ahead and open up your color
menu here and change your color now
otherwise just I'm just gonna use black
like for this so we'll go to edit fill
with foreground color then we'll go to
select none and then I'm gonna go ahead
and delete that path now because we
don't need that anymore I'm gonna click
the button that says delete this path
and I'll come back over to the layers
menu and what I want to do now is just
rotate it around so it's at the bottom
of the circle so I'm gonna grab the
rotate tool I'm gonna grab the text I'm
just going to rotate that around until s
at the bottom of the circle like that go
ahead and click enter press Enter to
finalize that and then I just want to
adjust the layer so that it's back to
the size of the canvas so I'm gonna go
to layer and layer to image size and
that portion of the text is now finished
so what we can do now is we come back
over to our layers dialog we're gonna
take this text and we're gonna do the
same thing but the problem is let me
show you here if I apply this if I right
click this and go to text along path
it's gonna apply it to the inside of the
circle as well which doesn't make sense
because we can't put it at the top of
the circle we need to reverse the
direction of the path so that the text
is going along the outside of the circle
so to do that let me first undo that to
do that what we want to do is we're
gonna come over here to the flip tool
and where it says transform make sure
you choose path right here we're gonna
choose path and then bring your cursor
over to that red circle and go ahead and
click it now when you click it nothing's
gonna happen on your screen but what
happened internally is that it reversed
the direction of the path so what I'm
gonna do now is close out of that tool
make sure you select layer again just so
that it doesn't default back to path
next time you try to use that tool and
you're wondering why it doesn't work
so all right know what I'm gonna do now
is I'm gonna where it says wrap your
text I'm gonna right-click that layer
and go to text along path again and now
it's putting it along the outside of the
circle and what we could do is now is
just repeat the steps that we did for
this one we can create a new layer
click okay turn off the visibility of
that other text layer come over here
back to the pads tool I mean to the pads
menu right click on that layer and go to
path to selection now we can go ahead
and delete that layer or that path
rather and go to edit fill with
foreground color and then select none
and then finally we come back over here
to our layers menu we'll go to the
rotate tool and then just go ahead and
click on that text to rotate it around
so that it's at the top of the circle
like that and go again press Enter and
then go to layer layer to image size and
then we can actually go back to that
pads menu and we could just turn off the
visibility of that or you can delete it
if you want either way we're finished
with it and that's how you could wrap
text around a circle using get now if
you notice here there's no actual circle
here if you want to add a circle back
what you could do is you can go to the
background layer right click on it and
go to add alpha Channel and then press
Delete on your keyboard to get rid of
that background there so now it's
transparency now it's a checkerboard you
can export this as a PNG graphic and
import it into some other graphic that
you're working with or you could just
add a circle to it now you can click on
the ellipse select tool bring the cursor
over to the intersecting area of the
guides click and drag then hold ctrl and
shift make your circle a little bit
bigger than your text and then go to
edit I'm gonna fill with background
color because if I fill it with the
foreground color we're not gonna see the
black text up against the black
background so I'll click fill with
background color and there you go we can
go to select none and there you have it
we have a circle with some text wrapped
around it using so if you have any
questions let me know and as always
thanks for watching
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