David Megginson wrote: > Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > > For the graphics *editors* (kpaint, kolourpaint, krita): no, not nearly. > > They are all still very basic. (On the other hand, any of these is a lot > > better than gimp for drawing simple things like rectangles and circles, > > which gimp just doesn't grok without external module voodoo.) > > Yeah, it's funny how hard it is to draw simple outlined shapes in the Gimp. > For a circle, for example, you have to start a new layer, create a > circular selection, fill it with your desired colour, shrink the selection > by n pixels (the width of the line), clear the selection, then paste the > layer down. Yipes! There's probably an easier way using boolean selection > operations, but even then ...
Much simpler : create a circular selection, go to Selection > Border, select the width and fill the resulting selection. > On the other hand, anything more sophisticated in the Gimp is laughably > simple -- for example, I once needed to remove a telephone from the top of a > piano in a high-resolution photo, and it took only a few minutes. Yes, Gimp is very powerfull -Fred _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
