Outline Border around extremities of Text

[denzjos]

(10-19-2024, 02:58 PM)rich2005 Wrote: Well, FWIW my two Euros in the hat.

Working on a duplicate text layer
Generate a "envelope" using the GEGL drop shadow.
Select outside the envelope
Stoke the selection in a new layer.



A bit fiddly, probably better done in a layer group.
That example as an animation. 50 seconds  https://i.imgur.com/gRfCgmi.mp4

This was an out of the box solution, well done Rich