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In this movie I'm going to clean up the image and then add a logo. Now, first of all I'm going to edit the text here for the GIMP is a very powerful free and open source image editing suite. So I'm just going to double click on the Preview here and it automatically gives me my Text Tool and opens up the Text Editor. Now, I just need to make a minor change to this so I will change this sentence, which is but with this video course from VTC you will from new to experienced very quickly. So I need to change this to you will go from new to experienced very quickly. OK? So that's a quick edit there. I'll just click Close and there we go. Now, I also need to delete my text layer for the Copyleft information, the original text layer, because I'm not using it. So I'll go ahead and select that and delete it and I'll go ahead and save this. I'll go File, Save As and I'll just change the file extension there to ADD XCF and click Save. OK? So that's cleaned up our layers, saved our document. Now what we want to do is we want to add in a logo. Now, there's a couple different ways that you can add in logos into GIMP. You can end up using your Filters Menu to apply a lot of different effects to your text. So you can have some nice little text effects in here such as Drop Shadows. And if you come down here to this Alpha to Logo it's going to allow you to take any text layer and turn it into a pretty cool little logo really quickly. Of course, this is going to be using a script more or less to perform multiple operations and as you can see, you have a large number of different options. However, keep in mind that some of these scripts are actually going to be cropping your entire picture. So if you're going to create logos using this method, make sure you're starting with a new document before you actually create it. Otherwise you're going to lose your backgrounds and various other things. Now, of course, it will be undoable but it's kind of annoyance. So for our purposes we're going to go to the File Menu and go to the Create Submenu and from there you can take a look at Logos. Now, in here you'll see essentially all the logos that were available from our filters. However, this is going to be creating a new document for us automatically. So for ours, I'm going to go to the Glossy and of course you'll need to spend a little bit of time experimenting with each one of these to see which one is going to suit you best and over time you'll get a good idea as to what to grab immediately. So I'm going to grab Glossy and I'm going to be presented with a Script-Fu Dialog Box and remember, if you are expecting a dialog to pop up and you don't see it, check your running programs and see if it's down there. So mine was so here it is. So it's asking me what do I want it to say? I'm just going to change the text here to GIMP 2.6 and we can change the font size in pixels. We can also change what font we're going to be using. I'm going to go ahead and leave it as the default but if you click on that it will present you with your Font Selection Dialog. You're also going to have a choice of what gradient to use for the text as well as the outline and options to reverse both of those. I'm going to take the defaults again because the result is going to be more or less pleasant. We can select what the outline size would be as well as what the background color to use by default will be. I'm going to go ahead and leave this to white. Whenever we take the resultant logo over, we are not going to be bringing the background color with it so it doesn't really matter her. Below that you have an option to use patterns instead of gradients so if you want to use patterns you can. You can also set up a pattern overlay that would be over top of the gradient. The default Bump Map Settings is going to make it so that if there are Bump Map Settings with a pattern, it will automatically be applied to your logo. And of course bump maps are ways that you can simulate depth without actually having depth information there. Also Shadow, what Shadow Options do we want and this is going to create something of a drop shadow for us and we can set the X and Y Offsets so it would be over to the left and down. I'm going to go ahead and take all of my default options other than the text up here and I'm going to click OK. So GIMP goes to work and it creates my logo for me. And it's that simple. Now, to get this logo over to my document, I'm going to need to flatten my document and actually I'll go ahead and delete my background here and then I'm going to right click and I'll do Merge Visible Layers and this Merge Visible Layers is going to ask me what should it do with layers that are potentially outside of the image boundary. Now, for this it's not really going to matter all that much so I'm just going to take the default and click Merge. Now, with that layer I'm going to click and drag it from the Layer Dialog and drop it on my ad. So there it goes and it does center it for me and now I'll find that layer in the Layer Dialog and I'll rename that Logo. I'll grab my Move Tool and move GIMP 2.6 over here to the side. With the logo over to the side I now want to align the top of the logo to the top of the text here so I'll grab my Align Tool. I'll first click on this text on the right-hand side. I'll then hold down the Shift Key to select both items and the make sure it's relative to the first item and I want to align the top. And there we go. We did a small alignment and it is aligning it to the top of the layer here so if I want to get it a little bit closer to my intended, I can select that layer and go to Layer, Auto Crop Layer. Now if I click on Top, there we go. So that's how we can add in logos pretty quickly inside of GIMP.