Hello. After read some GIMP tutorials and practised a little bit, I feel like that I can make an image like in this example:
gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/I/users/weiwu/trans_sample.jpeg Looks really simple, I can do this image in OpenOffice Draw in 3 mintues: open the photo, create a shape of rounded square, put it above the photo, adjust opacity, put text above the rounded square. Now this is what I did in GIMP, spending me 4 hours: 1) try very very hard to make a rounded square path using path tool. The path handle seems never be in the right position to make a good looking round corner; 2) fill the path with gray color (white background), now call it layer "mask"; 3) insert the photo in another layer, create a mask on this photo layer, copy the whole content of layer "mask" into the photo layer's mask; 4) create a background that is completely white; 5) hide layer "mask"; 6) now put a text layer on top of everything and it's done. This is not only too complicated, but not easy to adjust. e.g. if I wish to make the opacity of the rounded square a bit more transparent, in OpenOffice I need to specify higher opacity value (one step). In GIMP I need to: 1) show layer "mask"; 2) fill the rounded square with ligher gray; 3) copy this layer and past to the photo layer's mask; I think I must have done something very wrong, to mess up this simple process so complicated. Is my way wrong? Is there a better way? Do I simply have wrong concept of masks? -- Zhang Weiwu Real Softservice International business: http://www.realss.com International sales: 0086 10 84606011 Inland business: http://www.realss.cn Inland sales call: 0086 592 2099987 Sent from Pine: http://www.washington.edu/pine/ _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
