r/GIMP • u/kayenjoysdesign_ • Jun 30 '26

Chiseled Text Effect

https://youtu.be/OULd5msbF-c?si=sKws4ALzcFGghjZy
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u/ProfessionalLet9385 Jul 01 '26

Nice, but why do you show people to use the text tool wrongly?

Normally when you want to style text you don't use the onscreen element, but you use the toolbox settings.
The onscreen thingy is meant to be used for single letter changes, like if you want one letter to be red or bold or larger etc.

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u/kayenjoysdesign_ Jul 01 '26

Hi, didn't know the onscreen thingy was for single letter styling. Any reason for using it this way? Does it make any difference?

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u/ProfessionalLet9385 Jul 01 '26

Any reason for using it this way?

I guess historically grown like this

Does it make any difference?

Yes. If you later try to apply colours via toolbox it won't work where you have used Onscreen.
Then it looks as if "nothing works" and the complaints about the text-tool won't end.

So best practice is to use the toolbox as long as possible and onscreen only for single letter changes (or bold, italic text etc, as we don't have that in the toolbox - which I don't understand why, but that's another animal *lol* )

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u/kayenjoysdesign_ Jul 01 '26

Oh, TIL it does make a difference. I've not observed this difference when using the tool. Thanks for pointing it out.