If you’d like to re-size the box for some reason, you can now click and drag in any of the green areas shown below: Resize handles to modify text box boundary. This is what you should see on your canvas after clicking and dragging from the top-left to the bottom-right to define your text box: You don’t have to worry about being exact at this point, because you can adjust the boundaries of the box after the fact. You can click on the canvas where you’d like the top-left corner of your box to be, and drag the mouse down to the bottom right corner. We can now draw a box on our canvas (image) to hold the text. With the foreground color set, we can now use the Bucket Fill Tool to fill in our image: We want to set the color to black RGB(0, 0, 0): The “Change Foreground Color” dialog allows you to now set the foreground color. Click on the foreground color in the Color area to bring up the “Change Foreground Color” dialog (if your foreground color is already black you don’t have to do this step, but it can’t hurt to learn): The first step to doing so is to make sure that the Foreground Color is appropriately set. The first thing we are going to do is fill our new image with black. Chances are it will be a pure white image at this point (it may be a different color depending on how your GIMP is setup to handle new images - if it is, don’t worry). You’ll be presented with the new image on your canvas. When you’re ready, hit “ OK” to create the new image. You can make this new image any dimensions you want, but for this tutorial I am going to specify a Width of 256 px, and a Height of 128 px. This will open the “Create a New Image” dialog, with options for you to specify:
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