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tpalermo30 · **Joined:** Feb 17, 2017 **Posts:** 2

Yes I am trying to align text in the middle of a picture. I'm so confused I use the alignment tool but it only moves the text very little. I will click the align middle of target and it moves down very little. I can see it move but it does not move to the middle of the picture at all. I don't know what's wrong. Does anyone have any thoughts?

Wallace · **Posted:** Fri Feb 17, 2017 6:23 pm **(#2)**

tpalermo30 wrote:

Yes I am trying to align text in the middle of a picture.
I'm so confused I use the alignment tool but it only moves the text very little.
I will click the align middle of target and it moves down very little.
I can see it move but it does not move to the middle of the picture at all. I don't know what's wrong.
Does anyone have any thoughts?

Auto-crop the text layer,
then try using the Alignment Tool again.

tpalermo30 · **Joined:** Feb 17, 2017 **Posts:** 2

Thank you so much. That worked. I'm new to Gimp, thank you again.

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

tpalermo30 wrote:

Thank you so much. That worked. I'm new to Gimp, thank you again.

The align tool works using the layer borders and doesn't consider the layer contents.

sallyanne · **Posted:** Sat Feb 18, 2017 4:56 am **(#5)**

Great you got your answer. Thanks for asking. I was confused by that tool too. What I normally do is have the text layer the size of the picture and use left, centre, right justify and then move it to where I need it.