[PLUG] GIMP text editing help needed

[Daniel Ortiz]

Suggestion: Try duplicating the project then close any windows of the app.
Next, open the duplicated project and edit that.
That may not work.

On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 2:48 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Sep 2021, Ken Stephens wrote:
>
> > If the text is on the background layer, it probably is not text anymore.
> > It is just pixels. If you want to change its size you need the scale
> > operation. If you want to change its color use the fill command. Text is
> > usually input on its own layer and then later the image is flattened to
> > one layer which then loses all its smarts.
>
> Ken,
>
> I doubt the text is on a background layer. It was added to the background
> image and is selected in the layers box. I find no way to set it to the
> front; the only options I find for movement is 'merge down.'
>
> All layers are separate, not flattened.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>