On Sunday 21 November 2004 18:31, Thadeu Penna wrote: > Em Sex, 2004-11-19 �s 17:27 -0200, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris escreveu: > > Hi. > > > > There is an easy way to draw circles and basic shapes. It just is > > not aparent by trial and error - the "tips of the day" could > > point you there. > > > > Just create a circular selection (by holding shift after you > > start a selection wirth the eliptical selection tool), and them > > go to "edit->stroke selection" > > Try to create a circular selection, fill it with the foreground > color and to shrink the selection by a few pixels: you always get > better (less aliased) results than to stroke it . Why is not this > procedure the default to draw circular/eliptical shapes in GIMP ?
Hi. There is a long standing bug (and hard to resolve :-( ) about stroking the selection. One can get far better results by converting selection to path, and stroking the resulting path. It is an easier procedure than the one you describe. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
