Change color of edited text

[IndiePubber]

Hi, I used to participate as needed in the old GIMPUsers forum, but I see it's archived now.

Five or six years ago I used some iteration of 2.8 (I think) to produce the cover for my first indie-pubbed novel. I think it came out fairly well.

   

I'm a slow writer and editor. Only now am I preparing the cover for the second-in-series. I'm basing it on the first one, but it's been so long I've forgotten how I did it and I'm having to relearn as I go. It's coming back to me, but I can't recall how I produced the yellow-ochre quasi-drop shadows you see with the title.

I know I copied the edited black title text onto a new layer, moved it where I wanted it, and recolored it, but I'm stuck on how to change the black to the yellow-ochre.

Here's where I've gotten to, and I beg pardon because the image is posting as a link, and not as an image:


  Strong as Death title.bmp (Size: 183.9 KB / Downloads: 51)

I've tried the Fill tool, but it only recolors the rectangular background of the layer. I imagine the right method has to do with masks and so on, but I can't recall the knack of it. Could some kind person lead me through it again?

[sallyanne]

if you want to change your text colour and still want to use the bucket fill, 'alpha to select' the text layer first so only the text is selected. It looks like your first word and shadow in the second have just had the opacity lowered. 

Another couple of ways to change your text colour is to have the text selected then change the colour of the text by following this.     

Another way to do shadows is, you can use gimp's 'drop shadow' instead of doing two layers of text in the final word (DEATH).It is under Filters, Light and Shadow