That’ll make life so much easier! Instead of doing text, alpha to selection, grow selection by 2, add new layer, color fill, move behind text layer, merge
My technique was to add a drop shadow like what I described here, which works great and takes only a few keystrokes, but this way seems much smarter.
EDIT: This new outline functionality does seem to be limited to just the text tool, so I will keep using this drop shadow technique when I need to outline some other arbitrary non-text layer. It is more nondestructive than the select/grow/stroke/merge technique, taking advantage of the fact that filters are nondestructive now.
I used to use drop shadow but often couldn’t get a good result depending on the background. So I’d just stick with white text and black outlines because I’m basic AF 🤣
That’ll make life so much easier! Instead of doing text, alpha to selection, grow selection by 2, add new layer, color fill, move behind text layer, merge
My technique was to add a drop shadow like what I described here, which works great and takes only a few keystrokes, but this way seems much smarter.
EDIT: This new outline functionality does seem to be limited to just the text tool, so I will keep using this drop shadow technique when I need to outline some other arbitrary non-text layer. It is more nondestructive than the select/grow/stroke/merge technique, taking advantage of the fact that filters are nondestructive now.
I used to use drop shadow but often couldn’t get a good result depending on the background. So I’d just stick with white text and black outlines because I’m basic AF 🤣
I always used a third party script for it, so for me it was 1click already.
What I’m saying is, if you’re annoyed by something, might be worth checking out add-ons to Gimp