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I have PSD file with layer text, I try to modify a layer text in Gimp but I can't find a way to select that text and change it to something else.
Thanks for your help!
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If you want to edit a text layer, you'll need to double-click the layer icon in the Layers panel. You can then change the text, resize the text box, or use the options in the Control panel to choose a different font or modify text size and color.
In the Tool Options panel, you'll see all the various typographic options that GIMP provides (or at least, most of them). Changing the font is actually quite easy: either click the name of the current font and begin typing the name of the font you want to use, or click the Aa thumbnail and select from a list.
Click on a layer in the layer dialog to select it. Then you can edit that layer by using the tools in the toolbar or right click on the layer's name and select what you want to change from the menu that pops up. For instance, you can change the name of the layer, or use "scale layer" option to change its size.
Text Along a Path Using a path, you can transform text into any shape you want. Draw a path of any shape using the Paths tool from the Tool box. Create a text box with your text using your desired font and color. Click the “Text Along Path” button at the bottom of the Text panel.
Sorry - GIMP stable does not import the text information for PSD files - which means all it "sees" is pixels.
A little bit over 10 years ago, Adobe completely closed the informations about the PSD file format, and the import/export for this format in GIMP stopped evolving. Some 2-3 years ago, the file format started being documented again - but GIMP is a developer-starved project, with few people working on it, everyone as volunteers. Last year, with the Google Summer of Code project, there was some development in the PSD plug-in, and there is some advances incorporated into the development version of GIMP.
Looking from 10000 meters, it looks like there is logic in place to open the text layers preserving the text information on the new code. I can't be sure because I have no PSD file to test it here.
If,as a workaround, you want to findout the typeface names inside the PSD files, in the past I made a simple Python script to print just that - then it is at least possible to recreate the same layer again inside GIMP: https://github.com/jsbueno/psd_print_resources
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