How to Create an Logo in Gimp Created By: Dontarious Williams

Step 1: You are going to open Gimp. When Gimp is open you are going to click file, then new.

Step 2: Go to layers and click gradients. Then go to the Background/Foreground tool and pick a color for your foreground and then pick a color for the background.

Step 3: Use the Blend tool to draw horizontal line, to do a gradient background fill.

Step 4: You go to the Add Text Tool (a new layer will Form). You got to move to the middle and change the color to black. Then, you will need to type your text.

Step 5: You got to create a new layer(transparency) and call it Text Border. You are going to move it below the text layer.

Step 6: Click the text layer and right click. Go to alpha to selection. You will see the marching auto around your text.

Step 7: To make the border a little larger to be seen go to select then grow and increase by 2 pixels.

Step 8: Select the text border layer go to the bucket fill tool and make your foreground color white. Click on your bucket fill tool and then click on your text.

Step 9: If you look it the layer dialog box you will see the text border button shows white filled text. Go to select tab and click none to preview results. Select the text border layer. Go to filters tab and click on light and shadow and click drop shadow. Deselect the box that allows resizing and click ok. Select top layer and create a new layer and called border. Change foreground all the way to the left black, go to bucket fill and select all black.

Step 10: Go to select and click all. Then go to select and click shrink (by 20 pixels and click ok)press delete you can see the text through now.

Step 11: Go to file and save as an xcf file so it can be edited, then got to file export choose file type png to use on websites, etc.