@heartyfisher: Thanks for the tutorials, I also was looking for similar stuff.

In my new workplace I started to work under a Linux environment, and I'm having the pleasure to meet with these free tools. I guess soon I will be moving also to Gimp, Hugin, RawTherapee, IFRaw and a lot of additional tools related to digital photography.. due that I'm still looking for a solution on how to copy custom WB settings done on my D70s camera for IR into shots that had a bad custom settings. Adobe tools fail to copy the custom settings as the camera stored due that they are out-of-limits.

try this http://www.gimphelp.org/tutorials/basic_text_tool.shtml

and if thats not what you want there are dozens here

http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Gimp/Text-Effects/1

Good luck !

I am trying to put some text in my gimp image. I need a specific size of font and a specific alignment.

How do I change the font size?

How do I make the text center aligned?