[CALUG] I did a pictorial tutorial on adding text to GIMP

[Bonnie Dalzell]

A picture is worth a lot of words but it takes longer to make one:

Here is the tutorial.

http://www.batw.net/GimpPicTutorial4Text/index.shtml

but my "take screen shot thing" (it use to be alt + the "print screen" button" 
is not working the same way it did under Ubuntu Linux so I used my digital 
camera to take the pictures for the tutorial and then they had to be cropped, 
resized and rotated etc. So I used ShowFoto - a relative of DigiKam. Which is a 
very nice image manipulation program that I find much easier to use than GIMP. 
So after spending a couple of hours on this project suddenly I thought - "maybe 
ShowFoto lets you add text to pictures.

IT DOES. And more easily than DigiKam.

At least look at the Tutorial since I made it to answer the initial question 
about adding text to pictures using GIMP.

If anyone knows how to get alt + print screen to take the screen shot using the 
window the mouse is currently in - let me know. I have Ubuntu
Maverick and since I upgraded to it several things do not work the same.

grrrrrr

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