[Gimp-developer] stroking with gimp

2004-09-25 Thread Carol Spears
hi, i have been playing with many generations of TheGIMP this morning. i compared the gimp's ability to make nice strokes and i found the results to be interesting and revealing: http://carol.gimp.org/files/stroke.png can something be done to make stroking be at least as nice as it used to be?

Re: [Gimp-developer] stroking with gimp

2004-09-25 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i have been playing with many generations of TheGIMP this morning. i compared the gimp's ability to make nice strokes and i found the results to be interesting and revealing: http://carol.gimp.org/files/stroke.png Well, the image alone doesn't

Re: [Gimp-developer] stroking with gimp

2004-09-25 Thread Simon Budig
Carol Spears ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: i have been playing with many generations of TheGIMP this morning. i compared the gimp's ability to make nice strokes and i found the results to be interesting and revealing: http://carol.gimp.org/files/stroke.png Interesting. I always assumed that the

Re: [Gimp-developer] stroking with gimp

2004-09-25 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 05:48:13PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i have been playing with many generations of TheGIMP this morning. i compared the gimp's ability to make nice strokes and i found the results to be interesting and revealing:

Re: [Gimp-developer] stroking with gimp

2004-09-25 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Simon Budig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What would help the stroking would be an automatic conversion of the outline to a path and then stroking this. We cannot do this right now since the selection to path functionality is implemented as a plugin and the core must not depend on a plugin.

Re: [Gimp-developer] stroking with gimp

2004-09-25 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the upper circles were stroked with the default setting of the current stroke dialog. the lower circles were stroked with the fuzzy 7 pixel brush. the stroking with gimp-1.2 did not have a default stroke option like one finds in gimp2 so it is a

Re: [Gimp-developer] stroking with gimp

2004-09-25 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 06:21:42PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the upper circles were stroked with the default setting of the current stroke dialog. the lower circles were stroked with the fuzzy 7 pixel brush. the stroking with gimp-1.2 did

Re: [Gimp-developer] stroking with gimp

2004-09-25 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I cannot reproduce your brush-stroking result for gimp-2.0 then. Is that a recent version of gimp-2.0 that you've been using? Does it contain the fix for bug #147836? i am using gimp-2.0 from debian. is there a reason that it would be fixed

Re: [Gimp-developer] stroking with gimp

2004-09-25 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 08:35:32PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I cannot reproduce your brush-stroking result for gimp-2.0 then. Is that a recent version of gimp-2.0 that you've been using? Does it contain the fix for bug #147836? i am

Re: [Gimp-developer] stroking with gimp

2004-09-25 Thread Adam D. Moss
Sven Neumann wrote: My guess is that you used a different brush when creating the stroke with gimp-2.0. The top two look like they were stroked with a square brush, which when applied to a circle is a pretty precise recipe for what transpired... --Adam

Re: [Gimp-developer] stroking with gimp

2004-09-25 Thread Simon Budig
Adam D. Moss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Sven Neumann wrote: My guess is that you used a different brush when creating the stroke with gimp-2.0. The top two look like they were stroked with a square brush, which when applied to a circle is a pretty precise recipe for what transpired...

Re: [Gimp-developer] stroking with gimp

2004-09-25 Thread Simon Budig
Carol Spears ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: well, due to the many concerns about how i made these images, there is now a whole series of pngs/xcfs in this same directory, ending with: http://carol.gimp.org/files/stroke4.png where the same selection is used in all three gimp versions. the

Re: [Gimp-developer] stroking with gimp

2004-09-25 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Adam D. Moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The top two look like they were stroked with a square brush, which when applied to a circle is a pretty precise recipe for what transpired... The top two are the result of stroking the selection outline using libart. The strange outcome is because

Re: [Gimp-developer] stroking with gimp

2004-09-25 Thread Simon Budig
Carol Spears ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 09:26:12PM +0200, Simon Budig wrote: Actually I tried to explain to carol that the in some 2.0 version the brush used for stroking is not always the same that is selected in the brush dialog. Looking at stroke4.png does not

Re: [Gimp-developer] stroking with gimp

2004-09-25 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Simon Budig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually I tried to explain to carol that the in some 2.0 version the brush used for stroking is not always the same that is selected in the brush dialog. Looking at stroke4.png does not convince me that carol really used the brush the thought was