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 2.3.18 is great, it was > just what I was looking for. The advise about using the channels for the > boolean operations on multiple selections worked out great as well, I didn't > realize they had that capability. I had never thought of channels beyond the > Red, Blue, Green decomposition of the image & didn't have occasion to think > of using them.
I'm glad I could help. > > I tried the foreground select and found it pretty interesting. It looks like > it wil be a real time saver. I did have a couple of observations which might > be old news since this is one version back from 2.3.19, but here goes just in > case: > > 1) There wasn't an obvious want to tell the tool you were done refining and > ready to make the selection. It took a while to notice the message at the > bottom of the window to hit enter. Seems like putting in a button would save > some new user fumbling, but after they discover that "Enter" is the shortcut, > they will probably not use the button any more. Don't know what to recommend > for this. Yes, I noticed this too. An additional difficulty is that the statusbar is not guaranteed to be visible, so putting a button next to the status display would not guarantee the user sees it. I don't have any idea what to do here either. > > 2) The foreground select tool seemed to act differently depending on the > image size (pixels) and the zoom level. Might be the version, might be the > installation I picked up. With an image that is 2304 x 3072 which comes up > with a default 25% zoom on my screen, the preview display covers the entire > image after selecting a region to work on. Taking it up to 100% zoom > displays it they way you would expect. Yes, this bug is known and fixed, release 2.3.19 includes this fix. _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
