It’s also very user-friendly and a great tool in your graphic designer’s toolkit! Check out my guide of GIMP vs. Inkscape is also free and open-source just like GIMP, so you don’t need to worry about paying for new software. By comparison, Inkscape has much better text handling and allows you to type along a path while still leaving the text editable in case you need to revise it in the future. If you’re creating a lot of curved text, GIMP will quickly become a source of frustration thanks to its limited text options. Let’s look forwards to GIMP 3! A Better Option for Curved Text In my experience, this can get frustrating fairly quickly, but perhaps you’ve got more patience than I do 😉Īll of this automatic path creation makes me wonder why GIMP doesn’t have support for vector shapes or more effective path and text handling overall, but I suppose that’s partly the legacy of previous versions that relied upon now-outdated technology. If you want to change the content of your curved text, you’ll have to go back to the very beginning of the process and do it all over again. At this point, your text won’t be editable anymore, but you can apply any other edits or transforms just the way you would with any normal pixel layer.

(How to curve text in Paint 3D tested with version 6.Click the Fill button, and GIMP will use the curved text path as a stencil for filling with your chosen foreground color. Use the selection’s tools to move or change your text as you like.Draw the outline around the letters that make up your curved text.

To move, twist, scale and rotate curved text in Paint 3D: How to Curve Text in Paint 3D: FAQ Can I select and move the entire curved text? Optional: Remove the curve along which you aligned your text.Three dimensions: For 3D text, click outside the text editor before positioning the letter. Use the orientation and move controls to position the letter.Click to enter the first letter of your text.

Important: Choose the formatting now changing it later will prove difficult. Keyboard shortcut: Press T to select the Text tool. Easier curve selection: Click Make 3D in the Paint 3D sidebar to turn the curve into a 3D object this makes it easier to select just the curve later (if you want to delete it, for example).

Use the 3-, 4- or 5-point curve to set up the curve along which you want to orient the text.Ĭomplicated shapes: You can combine more than one curve element, of course.

Paint 3D keyboard shortcut: Press 2 for 2D shapes.

To align text along a curve in Paint 3D for Windows 10/11:

3d paint curved text