Ogodei-Khan said:
Bumping this thread because i just got it (new computer, figure i should do a real image editing program this time around), and i'm having some newb problems: how do i expand the canvas size so that it will let me do a text manip? I open the image, expand the canvas size, create a new white layer, that layer automatically overlays the old image and when i "merge down" the original image is gone, except in gimp's memory seemingly.
Or should i create the canvas and background layer of my choice first, and then the key image becomes a foreground layer?
Background layer first is probably the simplest way to do it, yeah. There's other, more fiddly ways, but basically when you merge down you go to the size and dimensions of the bottom layer.