GIMP | Text Tool

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Intro: 00:00
Overview: 0:09
Creating Text/Text-boxes: 0:17

Main Tool Options
Changing Font: 1:14
Changing Size: 1:22
Antialiasing: 1:43
Hinting: 2:00
Changing Color: 2:24
Justify: 2:33
Spacing (indentation, line spacing, and kerning: 3:19
Box: 3:49
Language: 4:34

Text Box Tool Options: 4:56
Weight and Formatting: 5:26

Use Editor: 5:41
From Left to Right: 6:11
From Right to Left: 6:17
Vertical Orientations: 6:25

The text tool allows us to add text to our project...who would've thought? This tool has a couple different editors, all that introduce new effects. The pop out editor introduces typing direction and alignment, allowing you to type words
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[LazyCookPete]

This has been most helpful to me. It is surprising having used the text tool for years how many of its rich features I was blissfully ignorant of! Like all your videos this one is another triumph of clarity and brevity. Many thanks 👍 Shared.

[cerrudmanuel]

If you double-click on the box corner it turns dynamic

[jp.]

thank you for this tutorial, i really need this one 😊 and such a sweet voice too as always 😴 many thanks 🙏🏻

[Demosophist]

But how do you adjust the paragraph spacing without adjusting the line spacing for every line?