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* How to do animated text on GIMP! *

NOTE: YOU MUST YOU GIMP
How To Do Animated Text On Gimp
( IMG Below )

1. First Open a new Document. 200 x 200 Filled With transparently
2. Click the text tool twice to get the box change the settings to Size 8 Font DO NOT CLOSE THE BOX YET : 04b03 YOU MUST YOU THAT FONT AND SIZE
3. Hit the enter button and Enter Your Text
4. Put a space before and after your text
5. Pull back up your text and push path to text.
6. Close Text tool box.
7. Go to Select > Path to text ( Or Shirt + V ) Your Text should look like Below

8. Select > Grow You should get a box like below enter 1 and push okay.
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9. Go to View > Zoom > 8/1 800%
10. Get out your Cropping tool ( Shift + C ) and crop around like dotted line like below

11. Fill in the space between the lines and the text with an outline color. Ill choose black. REMEBER TO FILL IN THE MIDDLES OF O AND A AND OTHER STUFF LIKE THAT INSTEAD OF LEAVING THE TRASPARENT/( NOTE: It can not be the same colors of you base text color or color you r going to animate it with )
12. Go to Layer > Merge Down until you can’t anymore.
13. Get out the pencil Circle O1
14. Fill in the first letter of your word with any color but your outline color. Ill choose pink.
15. Go to Layer > Duplicate Layer
16. Repeat step 14 and 15 with all the letters. ( You can change colors )
17. After finishing all the letters repeat 15 one more time.
18. Go to File > save as
19. A Box should pop up like below Enter a name then click select file type Scroll down to gif image click it once and push save

20. Another Box should pop up like below set it as Save As animation and click export.

21. Again another box should pop up like below. Set the speed ( It will change how fast the animation goes ) { I set mine to 100 } and click save.

THEN YOUR DONE!

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