Submodule 12.3: Text in Gimp

These videos will show how to create an e-book cover, step by step.

The first step is to create the base template with the correct dimensions.

An e-book has dimensions 576 X 864 px or 6X9 inches. The resolution is 300 pixels per inch.

The next step is to insert the background image and correct its dimensions.

We will open the image as Layer.

Next, we will add guides. We need these to adjust our text correctly. 

The title that we are gonna give to the e-book is "Roads of Chocolate". The author is "John Smith".

In this video we will start entering our title, starting with the word "Chocolate".

We will adjust the size and color of our text.

We will continue with the remaining words of the title.

We will duplicate the text layer to create a new layer and change its text. 

We use different font-family.

We repeat the same process to write the author's name.

In this last step, we make some changes. We improve the position of our title and change the contrast of author's name so it will be more clearly visible.

You can find the file of the video at: courseGimp>xcfFiles>image110.xcf

In the end, we chose "Flatten Image". Our e-book cover is ready!