On Thursday 26 February 2004 03:28 pm, Michael J. Hammel wrote: > On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 14:00, John Culleton > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > A book cover consists of three panels, from left to > > right: the back cover, the spine and the front cover. I > > plan to lay these out on three separate images and knit > > them together. It is simple in Gimp to make each panel > > the exact dimensions needed. What is not so easy is to > > line them up exactly, left to right, with no overlap > > and no space in between. Vertical alignment is also > > critical. > > You don't actually have to split first then rejoin. You > can do it all as one big image and then, if necessary, > split it. I did that for my first GIMP book, The Artists > Guide to the GIMP. I've also done it for some CD covers. >
> > If you have the memory, however, doing all the work in a > single image is highly preferrable. I just think its far > easier to work that way. > Certainly this is a possible approach. But in the long run it is the same thing. You create an image that is the dimensions of the ultimate tiff file, including bleeds. But then you must subdivide this pretty precisely so that everything appears in the right place. In particular the alignment of the spine area is critical. It must be centered exactly, left to right. Whether it is three panels knitted together or one panel divided into three subareas the placements of objects are indeed critical. I have even considered laying out the dimensions precisely in TeX (eg., with Pstricks or Metapost) and importing that file as a layout template---then after everything was aligned exactly to the template eliminating the template layer and saving the rest. It would be easier to eyeball the template than some rule or other. And the template would be reusable. I will experiment with that approach. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
