[Gimp-developer] Request for Change 0 Free Select Behavior

2007-07-30 Thread Guillermo Espertino
David Gowers wrote: Yes, I'm aware of that. I mean to perform boolean operations on the paths tehmselves. Well I think that GIMP should avoid doing that, and instead expect you to do it with inkscape; transfer of paths between the two programs is very simple and inkscape's just plain

Re: [Gimp-developer] Request for Change 0 Free Select Behavior

2007-07-30 Thread David Gowers
On 7/31/07, Guillermo Espertino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Gowers wrote: Yes, I'm aware of that. I mean to perform boolean operations on the paths tehmselves. Well I think that GIMP should avoid doing that, and instead expect you to do it with inkscape; transfer of paths between

Re: [Gimp-developer] Request for Change 0 Free Select Behavior

2007-07-29 Thread David Gowers
On 7/30/07, Stephen Kiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David, I found a gimp-2.3.18-i586-setup.exe and installed it (after a system backup). I wanted to check the functions you mentioned without having to set up a build from source code. Anyway, the way the freehand select is working in

Re: [Gimp-developer] Request for Change 0 Free Select Behavior

2007-07-27 Thread David Gowers
On 7/27/07, Stephen Kiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David, Thanks for the reply. I am using the Windows version of 2.2.17. In this version the issue that I am having an issue with can be reproduced in any image by selecting the freehand select tool, draw a circle in the image creating a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Request for Change 0 Free Select Behavior

2007-07-26 Thread David Gowers
On 7/26/07, Guillermo Espertino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen: The Bezier tool is better suited to the tasks you're describing. Using freehand tool as a precision tool (i.e. for background extraction) is a bad idea. Freehand tool is intended to make coarse selections or tweaks in

Re: [Gimp-developer] Request for Change 0 Free Select Behavior

2007-07-26 Thread Stephen Kiel
: Guillermo Espertino [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 12:26:20 PM Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Request for Change 0 Free Select Behavior Stephen: The Bezier tool is better suited to the tasks you're describing. Using freehand tool

Re: [Gimp-developer] Request for Change 0 Free Select Behavior

2007-07-26 Thread David Gowers
On 7/27/07, Stephen Kiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guillermo, Thanks for taking the time to reply to my request. It appears that you and I have a fundamentally different point of view on how to best select regions in an image. Let me throw out a couple of observations before I address some

Re: [Gimp-developer] Request for Change 0 Free Select Behavior

2007-07-26 Thread David Gowers
On 7/26/07, Guillermo Espertino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Gowers wrote: You can already do that. Right-click in the Paths dialog, all the standard operations (replace, add, subtract, intersect) are available. Unless you mean boolean operations that modify the paths themselves, rather

Re: [Gimp-developer] Request for Change 0 Free Select Behavior

2007-07-26 Thread Stephen Kiel
on this? Thanks Stephen - Original Message From: David Gowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stephen Kiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Guillermo Espertino [EMAIL PROTECTED]; gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 5:37:29 PM Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Request for Change 0 Free

Re: [Gimp-developer] Request for Change 0 Free Select Behavior

2007-07-26 Thread Guillermo Espertino
David Gowers wrote: You can already do that. Right-click in the Paths dialog, all the standard operations (replace, add, subtract, intersect) are available. Unless you mean boolean operations that modify the paths themselves, rather than the selection. GIMP doesn't have that. Yes, I'm aware

Re: [Gimp-developer] Request for Change 0 Free Select Behavior

2007-07-25 Thread Guillermo Espertino
Stephen: The Bezier tool is better suited to the tasks you're describing. Using freehand tool as a precision tool (i.e. for background extraction) is a bad idea. Freehand tool is intended to make coarse selections or tweaks in selections that don't need too much precision. I'd reccomend you

[Gimp-developer] Request for Change 0 Free Select Behavior

2007-07-24 Thread Stephen Kiel
Hi, I was referred to this forum for my request for a change in Gimp's behavior while using the Free Select tool. Ref Bugzilla Bug 456277. Performing selections on a complex shape is one of the most labor intensive and time consuming tasks in Gimp (probably in any other editor as well).