On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 07:19:03PM +0100, Andreas Waechter wrote: > >Can anyone tell me if there is a straightforward way to make a circular > >path? > > You could use the "Elliptical Select" Tool (hold Shift down > to get a perfect circle). > Then convert your selection to a path (Rightclick on Image - > Select - To Path)
Yes, but at smaller sizes this results in a bad lumpy circle. Presumably elliptical-select is drawing a pixellated circle, and then selection-to-path is approximating that pixellated shape with the path. The results aren't even symmetric! Try it with a diameter under 50 pixels, and then stroke the path with a 1-pixel line, and then look closely-- you can see that it's oddly shaped and asymmetric left-to-right. To me this demonstrates a need for one of two things: 1. A way to add elliptic arcs to paths 2. A simple way to constrain the bezier curves to very precise approximations of circular arcs (and/or elliptic arcs). _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
