jaebaeli

is this plugin free of viruses/trojans/malware? i switched from GIMP to paint becuase the GIMP kept crashing when i'd try to edit and work with text, and i just kept being told that i should reduce the number of fonts i was using--I"M A PUBLISHER...so that's absurd. Fonts and text are my business. I got tired of dealing with having to REBUY Photoshop each time i switched computers, among other problems....then went to Elements....but Elements' BLACK interface made it almost impossible to work, as i couldn't see anything on the screen (and i BOUGHT that program) ...so i switched to GIMP, and then had to deal with their HORRIBLE customer service, and no solutions, plus the constant crashing and limits on text/fonts.. SIGH. very frustrated. This takes up more of my time than anything else i do--fighting with these graphic programs.

First, thank you all for your prompt replies. I tried the first suggestion from Maximillian. It didn't work, unfortunately. In reading the rest, I realize that maybe I ought to provide a few more details. As an Indie author and publisher, i do lots of book covers. This text i'm referring to is the back cover blurb text. So often it's a question of time constraints. I can't always type everything in. I cut and paste it quite a lot. In other programs (Elements, Photoshop, GIMP) any pasted text automatically lands in an editable box with no background. I simply don't have time to be cutting out background on text. I have too much of it to handle and my time has to be managed well or I'd never get anything done. So what i'm after is, as above, text I can paste in, and also edit, but that doesn't have a background, so the background picture on the cover shows behind it. Hopefully that will clarify what I'm trying to do. Thanks for any insights. ADDENDUM: I tried to download the editable text plugin from "Simon"someone, and there were browser hijacking bits in it. My malware program caught it, luckily. Same issue with downloading other standard plugins from paint site--an actual TROJAN in those. Hopefully the solution won't depend on downloading something that will damage my OS. UPDATE: It occurred to me that maybe the background was coming from the SOURCE of the text--in this case, i copied it from a OneNote file...so i tried pasting the text into Notetab (like Notetab), stripped any coding, just in case and tried to paste that but it wouldn't paste anything--like it never made it to the clipboard. So i pasted the text into Word and copied from there and pasted, and it actually did past WITHOUT A BACKGROUND, but then, the problem was, the text was black, and i needed it to be white to show up on the background...can't seem to figure that part out. So....still dealing with text editing issues, one way or another. (would supply image/screenshot, but doesn't seem to be a way to upload it from my computer. Don't have time to send it to one of my clouds or whatever and place link here...more things to suck away my productive time. but hopefully i've provided enough info).

I'm trying to paste in text to my image layer and it pastes with a white background. It needs to be transparent. Can someone please tell me how to do this? I've added a new layer for the text to paste into but can't figure out how to get background to be transparent so the other layer behind it will show through. Thanks for any help.