[Gimp-user] Selection problems

[lost_shinigami <forums gimpusers com>]

> On 10/13/2012 10:55 AM, lost_shinigami wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I am a new user and this is my second day using GIMP. I am doing this 
> > (http://newbiedm.com/2008/11/22/newbiedm-tutorial-counters-tokens-or-pogs/) tutorial using GIMP in stead 
> > of photoshop.
> >
> > The first day went slow because I usually don't use editing software like GIMP, but today I encountered 
> > some difficulties I can't seem to solve.
> >
> > My problem:
> >
> > After I created a curved path, I make a text and let it follow the curved path I just created. This goes 
> > well, but I want my text filled. To do this I try to select my text using the 'path to selection' option I 
> > get after right clicking the text-path in the toolbox. After I did this I get an outline of the text, but 
> > it isn't a moving kind of selection (with Moving I mean the moving outlines). The outline of the selection 
> > is static. Since I have the static outlines, i am unable to fill the text using the bucket feature (it 
> > gives a circle with a line through it).
> >
> > I succeeded in filling the text-paths of two other images so I am wondering what I am doing wrong. I 
> > watched multiple tutorial video's on the making of a curved text and I am doing everything just fine. The 
> > only difference is that they have a moving outline and my outline is static. What could be the cause of 
> > this? If more information is needed, I'll gladly give it. I am using GIMP 2.8.2

> Check your Layers. I think that what is happening is this;

> - you create the curve path somewhere in the image
> - you create the text anywhere, possibly far from the curve (because you 
> don't want it in the way)
> - your invoke "text to path" so you get a text path where your put the 
> guide curve
> - your invoke "path so selection" to create a selection from that path
> - but your active layer is still the "Text" layer you created with the 
> text tool, far form the curve, and therefore outside of the selection, 
> and this is why the dotted selection outline is static. In other words 
> there is no pixel in your active layer which is also inside the 
> selection so nothing can happen.
> - the fix: create a new layer to receive the fill, or select your actual 
> target layer.


Thanks! It worked like a charm!

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