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http://www.andrewjamessutherland.com/LayersPanel.jpg That's a pic of the layers panel with the opacity bar. Got to go to work now, I'll check back later to see how you've got on.

Have you got a layers window open? If not, in the picture window go to the dialogues menu and select layers. The slider bar is below the mode setting in the window that opens.

Open the picture: Tools > Text That opens the text dialogue where you can set font size, colour etc. Click on the picture to open the text editor and type the text you want. Click close in the text editor. Select the text layer in the layers panel and reduce the opacity with the...

Hiya. I started using GIMP before buying cs4. How comfortable are you using it? Do you want to do something other than creating a text layer, reducing the opacity and merging the layers? that seems to be the simplest thing to do to me. :-)