Yes saulgoode.
Very nice.
It's the same way rich2005 did it.
I have bookmarked this page so next time I'll need it I use that.
Gerard.

When it says click path, how do I know which path to click? and what is the difference between the two?

The transform tools do not let you click on a particular path in the image window -- they always affect the currently active path. If you want to Flip a particular path, you must first make that path active by highlighting it in the Paths Dialog, then clicking anywhere in the image window.

This isn't made entirely clear in the video but here is what is happening starting at about 1:42

1:42 - Click on the path named "Selection" (the circular path) in the Paths Dialog to make it the active path.
1:46 - Click on the Flip Tool icon in the Toolbox to make it the active tool.
1:48 - Click on the "Path" icon for the Affect option in the Flip Tool's Options dialog.
1:50 - Click in the image window to perform the flip
(1:55 - Click on the Text Tool icon in the Toolbox to make it the active tool.)

thanks Saul. I did this but I don't know how I got there. I will go over and over it until it sinks in.

Here is the link to the script Pan to Bow if anyone needs it.
http://registry.gimp.org/node/20869

Thanks Rod, I already have it and it will be cool for panoramic pics, but I don't know what else. There is only one option in it.

You need to create the text for the top set to 180.
Then flip the bottom text horizontally, then vertically and set to 180.then rotate it to fit the circle.

All paths have an "interior" and an "exterior". For example, when we created our circular path (from the elliptical selection), the resulting path proceeds in a clockwise direction.


If you were to walk along the path following the arrows, the "interior" of the path would be toward your right, while the "exterior" of the path would be toward your left. Using this terminology, even a path which is straight line has an "interior" (to the right as you proceed from the start of the path to its end) and an "exterior" (to the left). The Text Along Path command will always place the text so that the bottom of the text is toward the "interior" of the path.

When you flip the above circular path, the direction of the path is reversed.


Now if your were to walk along the path following the arrows, you will note that the outside of the circle is to your right, while the inside is to your left. Because of our adopted definitions, the "interior" of this flipped path is the region outside the circle, while the path's "exterior" is actually the region within the circle. As we would expect, the Text Along Path operation orients the text so that the bottom of the text is toward the outside of the circle (i.e., its "interior").

Thanks Saul, I will practice it again and again till I get it right. I guess it was those two path icons that were confusing me. I didn't know what the difference was.

Log in to this address were there is a printout of the instruction for text in a circle.

http://www.users.on.net/~pvscc/Gimp/tutorial.html

Also see the last listing 'Little Planet', it has a small example on placing text on a circle.

I owe you an apology* for misconstruing what you were asking (despite your wonderfully annotated screenshot).

The left "path icon" controls what the Flip Tool tool affects. The tool can affect either the layer (most common), the selection, or the active path. This option is described more fully on this page of the Users Manual.

The right "path icon" is really just the label for the Path Dialog's tab in the dock, and clicking on it merely raises the tab to the top. If your Paths Dialog was in a separate dock, it would not be necessary to raise it for access. Docks and tabs are covered in more detail on this page of the GIMP Users Manual.


* I'd rather owe it to you than cheat you out of it.

Very good Saul, thank you.

I think I have finally come to grips with the circle-to-path dilemma. Now, I want to put a nice 1 pixels stroke around the text. I went alpha to selection > select to path > select NONE. In path tab, > path to selection, clicked the paint along path in path tab > chose 1 pixel. It came out very pixelated and a mess. Is there another way of doing this? screen shots below.

When you stroke a path, you generally do not want to have any sort of selection.

dam, I will try that thanks

edit: went back to before I made a selection and stroked it and still a mess. It still shows the green around the text where I made the text along path

green ragged edges below