On 01/02/14 19:27, akovia wrote: > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014, at 08:46 PM, Gary Aitken wrote: >> On 01/02/14 17:48, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: >> This would be great, but... >> I must be missing something; running 2.8.10 on fbsd. >> When I click on the alignment buttons, nothing happens, and they don't >> change >> appearance on mouse-down or mouse-up. >> I can't quite tell from the glyphs, but they look like they may be greyed >> out; at >> least they are overall a lot lighter than most of the toolbox glyphs; >> they look about >> like the bucket-fill tool. The "Offset" text box is active and allows >> changes, >> and the reset options does its thing. >> No error messages that I can see. >> >> Any ideas what would cause them to be inactive? >> All other tools seem to work. > > Sounds to me like you haven't selected the object yet. > > Select the alignment tool or shortcut "q" > Activate the layer you want to align. > (Make sure this layer is cropped smaller than the image size) > You should have a hand cursor to select the object on the canvas. when > you do you should see 4 small squares outlining how big the object is > that you want to align. > Now select the alignment buttons in the toolbox. > > I hope this is all it is and this works for you. >
Thank you. Took me a while to figure out -- I had a mostly transparent layer on top and the selection goes by stacking order. An excellent solution to the problem; using the rulers to snap was also good. Thanks all for your help. Gary _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
