This will create a new path from your circle selection area. Then, click on the “Selection to Path” icon (denoted by the blue arrow in the photo above). To do this, click on your Paths dialogue tab (denoted by the red arrow in the photo above). Now that you’ve drawn your circle, you’ll need to convert it to a path so that you can draw your text around the circle. You should now have a nice, centered circle selection area. You should be able to drag that until it snaps to the horizontal and vertical center guides. There is a little crosshair in the middle of your selection area that tells you where the center of your selection area is. You can also reposition your circle by clicking inside the selection area and dragging it around (you must have your Ellipse Select tool still enabled while doing this). The final size of my circle is 650 px by 650 pixels, which I can manually set in the Size fields under the Tool Options for the ellipse select tool (denoted by the blue arrow in the photo above). This indicates the boundary of your circle selection. You should now see “marching ants” going around the border of the circle area. Once I am satisfied with the size of my ellipse, I’ll release my mouse.
If I hold the shift key as well, the ellipse will be drawn with a fixed aspect ratio of 1:1 – or in other words it will be drawn as a perfect circle. If I hold the ctrl key, the ellipse shape will draw from the center. I will click and drag with this tool to begin drawing an ellipse. Next, I will add a circle to my composition by clicking on the Ellipse Select Tool (denoted by the red arrow in the photo above). Repeat this step, changing the Direction to Vertical. Click OK to create a horizontally centered guide. To do this, go to Image>Guides>New Guide (By Percent).Ĭhoose Horizontal from the Direction dropdown first, and set the Position (in %) value to 50. You’ll want to easily be able to locate the center of your composition, and the best way to do that is to set horizontal and vertical center guides.
To do this, go to File>New.Ĭhoose your document size (I recommend create a square document to make this tutorial go a lot more smoothly – I went with 1080 by 1080), and click OK. You’ll first need to create a new composition within GIMP so you can write your text.
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