On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:51:55 -0700 Tim Wescott <[email protected]> dijo:
>I've been using GIMP, gradually getting better at retouching photos >with it and such, but I am nowhere near being able to do the sort of >things I see as example GIMP work. > >What's your best recommendation for a good book or online reference for >thoroughly learning GIMP? I don't know how good it is, but I have a copy of Beginning Gimp: From Novice to Professional by Akkana Peck, published by Apress (ISBN 1-59059-587-4). I got it for free a couple of years ago at Oscon. I have referred to it only a couple of times because I use the Gimp only a few times a year - most of my stuff is vector based. Since I am not using it, you are more than welcome to it. Better it get used than sit on my shelf gathering dust. >My understanding is that GIMP is a pixel-based program, and that things >like Corel Draw are vector based. I have CAD programs (LibreCad is >pretty good), and those are, indeed, vector based, but they're for >making mechanical drawings -- not for making pretty logos and decals >and whatnot. You are correct. The Gimp is a raster image editor. Illustrator, CorelDRAW and Inkscape are examples of vector graphics editors. Havin said that, all three vector editors that I mentioned can import a raster image, although they cannot edit it. This is handy if you want to place text or other vector objects on top of a photograph, for example. Some versions of Illustrator will run in Wine. Ditto for CorelDRAW. And a long time ago Corel Corporation specifically sold a version of CorelDRAW for Linux, also made to run under Wine. Somewhere around the house I have a copy. But it's not only old, it was (as I recall) buggy beyond belief. And these days Inkscape is better anyway. >So -- is there a good "make it pretty" sort of vector-based graphics >program that's freely available? Inkscape is what you want. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
