Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp Help

[Marco Ciampa <ciampix posteo net>]

On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 08:31:02PM -0400, Stella via gimp-user-list wrote:
> Hello,
> I have the free version of Gimp. 

There are no commercial versions that I know of...

> I have Windows 10. I have placed a
> photo in Gimp. I would now like to add words. I am doing an obituary. I
> printed the “Adding text to with Gimp”. I selected the Text tool. I then
> clicked where I want the Text to appear. I then started to add my text
> within the box. There was suppose to be a text editor that pops up but
> this does happen for me. What am I doing wrong. Please if someone could
> tell me STEP BY STEP how to get text next to the picture I have within
> Gimp?

Did you read the docs? They usually are very exaustive:

https://docs.gimp.org/2.10/en/gimp-image-text-management.html

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Saluton,
Marco Ciampa