On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 03:36:18PM +0930, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to this list. > I'll start off by saying that I've used adobe and macromedia products > extensively. > you are forgiven for this.
the best thing to understand from the beginning is that many of the things that gimp does, adobe and macromedia products will do the same things for you, they just keep many of the intermediate steps invisible from you. the other thing that should be understood is that gimp works primarily with pixels; there is slowly being added some vector type functionality... the word "slowly" is the operative word there. gimp is very much more functional, especially on pixels than photoshop5 was. probably more than photoshop6 which had to steal functionality from illustrator to be better than gimp. and, all this information i share with you now is based on rumor and inuendo on my part. now is your chance to forgive me. > I'm trying to draw a flowchart in Gimp. > The first problem I have is that there is no rectangle 'draw' tool. > So I used the selection tool, then set the line to solid, however in order to > move the rectangle I have to select the area around it and move that. That > can't > be the way :-( > the nicest way to draw shapes with gimp (right now) is to use the selection tools (shift will constrain them to be circles or squares) and with the Paths dialog, convert the selection to a path and then stroke the path. > Secondly I'd like to create a rectangle and put text in there and group the > two > objects or layers. > Is there a way to do this? > in the layers dialog, you can lock layers together. > I'm pretty sure these are basic questions and I tried searching the archives, > however the search tool didn't work, > the making shapes question was answered very recently in a much more concise way than i did here. following some of or all of the tutorials found on http://www.gimp.org will probably be the best approach to take when first becoming friendly with gimp. > your help would be welcome :-) > feel free to ask questions. it will be easier to answer them if you describe what you want to do in terms of a process instead of describing them in terms of other software applications. and no, we do not have layer effects yet. welcome, carol _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
