PhotoShop users know that it is very easy to add a text stroke just by right-clicking. However, GIMP 2 also has a way to circle text. It's not as obvious or as easy as right-clicking and choosing Stroke, but it's not difficult at all. Knowing how to do this can help you if needed, or you could even apply that knowledge to something else you are trying to do. Who knows!
Steps
Method 1 of 2: Using a selection by color and stroke width
Step 1. Open the GIMP file
Before making a selection by color and adding a stroke, open and prepare the file for work.
Step 2. On the Toolbar, select the "Type" tool
It's a button with a bold “A”. You can also click on the Toolbar and type “t”.
Step 3. Create a text layer
Do this by selecting and dragging the text input area into your GIMP file.
Step 4. Enter your text
Do this in the GIMP Text Editor window that appears.
Step 5. Select the text in the GIMP Text Editor window
Step 6. Using the Toolbar, set the required text parameters
Make the font and color the way you would like them to be.
Step 7. Correct
After adding an outline to the text, you cannot change the text itself.
Step 8. Select the “Color Selection Tool” from the Toolbar
It's a button with red, blue, and green boxes drawn on top of each other. You can also select Toolbar and press Shift + O.
Step 9. Click on the text
He should all stand out.
Step 10. Set the foreground color
From the Toolbar, simply select the color you would like the text borders to be.
Step 11. Set the width of the stroke
On the File menu, click on “Edit” and then on “Stroke Selection.” This will allow you to choose a thickness for the stroke (5px is a fairly standard thickness). Once you have chosen a thickness, click “Stroke.” Done!
Method 2 of 2: Increasing the selection
Step 1. Open the GIMP file
Before making a selection by color and adding a stroke, open and prepare the file for work.
Step 2. On the Toolbar, select the "Type" tool
It's a button with a bold “A”. You can also click on the Toolbar and type “t”.
Step 3. Create a text layer
Do this by selecting and dragging the text input area into your GIMP file.
Step 4. Enter your text
Do this in the GIMP Text Editor window that appears.
Step 5. Select the text in the GIMP Text Editor window
Step 6. Using the Toolbar, set the required text parameters
Make the font and color the way you would like them to be.
Step 7. Correct
After adding an outline to the text, you cannot change the text itself.
Step 8. Decide if the text suits you
After that, select "Layers" from the menu, move the cursor over the item "Text to Selection" and then in the menu that appears, click on "Text to Selection".
Step 9. In the menu, click "Selection" and then "Zoom in."
Step 10. Select the magnification value
You can do this in the dialog box. This corresponds to the thickness of the stroke, or the size in the stroke of the text. Five pixels is fine.
Step 11. Create a new transparent layer
To do this, just click on the "Layer" button in the menu.
Step 12. Place a new layer under the first layer
To do this, in the "Layers, Channels, Paths, Undo" window, click on the new layer and drag it under the previously created text layer.
Step 13. Set the background color
It can be any color you like. In the menu click on “Edit” and select “Fill with background color”.
Step 14. Finish doing the stroke of the text
In the Layers, Channels, Paths, Undo window, right-click on the text layer and select Merge with Previous. Your text will now be outlined.