Change color of edited text

[IndiePubber]

(01-13-2025, 09:41 AM)Ofnuts Wrote:

(01-13-2025, 07:54 AM)IndiePubber Wrote:

(10-15-2024, 12:42 PM)sallyanne Wrote: 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

I should have replied to this before, but I wanted to say the "Alpha to Selection" option worked. As I said, I likely knew this before, but I'd forgotten. Thanks!

It doesn't. Because on the edges of text, you have partially transparent pixels. Alpha-to-selection translates this to partial selection, so when you paint  you only get a partial color change. So if you have a red text and change to blue, you'll have purple tinge on the edges due to some remaining red.

The right solution is to alpha-lock the layer and paint over. No selection needed  or just a rough selection around the target letters, with some margin. Due to the alpha-lock, only the color will be replaced and the opacity will be kept.

Well, I don't know. Here it is enlarged to 247%, with the color of the drop shadow changed as desired. Yes, there's a bit of a border around it, but at regular size it's not noticeable. Actually, I think it helps it pop.
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