alpha to selection and text

[rich2005]

Quote:...-Does the alpha to selection made it regular layer and not text permanently?..

No. But do not rely on recovering the original text layer, many thing can happen between-times.

The obvious is duplicate the text layer before filling with a gradient and losing the text property.

Another is text to path before filling with a gradient and losing the text property.

However, if it was a Gimp text layer, try selecting the text tool, click in the (was) text layer and you get a message like this.



Choose create new layer and you get this.