Hi, Chris Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does the GIMP have anything like Photoshop's polygon lasso tool? I've > found this tool extremely useful. It's like the GIMP's free select tool, > but it allows you to select an arbitrary polygonal selection area by > clicking out the points the way you would for a path. It's essentially > the freedom of the free select tool with the precision of the rect > select tool. Just use the path tool and set it to polygonal mode. You can convert the path to a selection after you closed it. > Also, does anyone know an easy way to make word balloons? In > Photoshop this could be easily be done by selecting an oval area > (ellipse select), union that with a triangular selection (polygon > select), then convert to path and stroke. That's pretty much how you'd be doing this in GIMP as well. I would however suggest to create this balloon as path and save it to disk. You can then reload the path whenever you need a balloon, scale and stretch it to the desired size and stroke it. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
