[Gimp-user] Use of Move tool

2008-03-16 Thread Jogchum Reitsma
I feel kinda stupid to have to ask this question, because it seems so very basic... But I can't figure it out myself (and didn't find it in the documentation or mail archive), so I hope to get help here. I've got a drawing consisting of a photo, a color-filled ellips, and two lines of text.

Re: [Gimp-user] Use of Move tool

2008-03-16 Thread Jozef Legeny
To move a layer : select it, then select the move tool and shift-click and drag that layer. (shift will always move the selected layer whereas a plain click and drag will move the layer directly under the cursor) you don't need to use the selection tool On 3/16/08, Jogchum Reitsma [EMAIL

Re: [Gimp-user] Use of Move tool

2008-03-16 Thread Jogchum Reitsma
Jogchum Reitsma schreef: I feel kinda stupid to have to ask this question, because it seems so very basic... But I can't figure it out myself (and didn't find it in the documentation or mail archive), so I hope to get help here. I've got a drawing consisting of a photo, a color-filled

Re: [Gimp-user] Use of Move tool

2008-03-16 Thread Jozef Legeny
The selection tool can work as you want it to too. You select a region and then commit the selection by pressing the enter key. Then when you shift-alt-click and drag the selection it will copy it's contents and move them around. Control-alt-click and drag will cut the selection and move it (I

Re: [Gimp-user] Use of Move tool

2008-03-16 Thread John Coppens
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:17:44 +0100 Jogchum Reitsma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I want to move one of the two lines of text. So I select that layer, make an ellips-selection around the line of text (which is the sole object on that layer; running ants are around the line of text), choose

[Gimp-user] Automatize picture preprocessing...

2008-03-16 Thread Durumdara
Hi! I wanna automatize the photo picture preprocessing. I wanna call the auto color converters from python, if possible, without open the gimp, and open the files. For example I wanna make auto white, auto level, auto color on all pictures, and make 3 images from the original to check what

Re: [Gimp-user] Automatize picture preprocessing...

2008-03-16 Thread David Hodson
Durumdara wrote: I wanna automatize the photo picture preprocessing. [...] I tried DBP (DPB?) but it isn't works for me in Windows XP. DBP (David's Batch Processor). Do you mean it was broken? Or it just didn't do what you wanted? -- David Hodson -- this night wounds time