How to Make a Selection Into a Path in GIMP. When you create images and objects in GIMP, one of your more powerful options is the Paths tool. However, while this tool is great for a number of ...

How to Work With Texts & Paths in GIMP. The free graphics editor GIMP has a Text Tool with Paths capabilities, meaning you can insert text along a curved line which you assign it to have. You can ...

Once you've selected a photo and opened it in GIMP, duplicate the layer (Layer>Duplicate layer). We need to remove the color from this duplicate shot, and do that, navigate to Colors>Desaturate.

G5 users will be happy to note that the application has been accelerated for that system. Gimp 2.0 now features vector paths, editable paths and text and more.

Now click on Select>To Path, then Select>None. Duplicate the layer again, then go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and input 10 for both the horizontal and vertical values.