Re: [Gimp-user] Drawing simple shapes.

2008-04-30 Thread Ben Walker
David Gowers wrote: I want to make myself clear, I would support the idea of shape drawing tools (box, ellipse, polygon), providing they have the following functionality: 1. Drawing mode+opacity, since it is a paint tool. 2. Choosing between FG,BG,Pattern, and No fill 3. Enabling or

Re: [Gimp-user] Drawing simple shapes.

2008-04-30 Thread David Gowers
Hi Ben, On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Ben Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: functionally across broad boundaries. The GIMP is not a type of program. Definitely. Furthermore, you should be cautious in saying what the GIMP isn't. How can you say it is not a drawing program when much of

Re: [Gimp-user] Drawing simple shapes.

2008-04-30 Thread Jason Cipriani
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 a couple of people wrote: Edit - Stroke Selection This looks like it does exactly what I want, and that makes me happy. I haven't tried it yet, as I haven't had a chance to mess with GIMP in a few days. Thanks for telling me about that, though. I'm reading what you are all

Re: [Gimp-user] Drawing simple shapes.

2008-04-30 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 09:43 -0400, Jason Cipriani wrote: I'm reading what you are all saying and I do firmly believe that an obvious method of drawing primitives would be a reasonable and beneficial addition to GIMP. Have you tried the GFig plug-in yet? It provides an easy method to

Re: [Gimp-user] Drawing simple shapes.

2008-04-30 Thread Jason Cipriani
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 09:43 -0400, Jason Cipriani wrote: I'm reading what you are all saying and I do firmly believe that an obvious method of drawing primitives would be a reasonable and beneficial addition to

Re: [Gimp-user] Drawing simple shapes.

2008-04-30 Thread Jason Cipriani
I have one other question, now: On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:43 AM, David Gowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because it is not a drawing program. MSPaint is a drawing program. Painter is a drawing program. Krita is a drawing program. Photoshop is not a drawing program though it allows drawing,

Re: [Gimp-user] Drawing simple shapes.

2008-04-30 Thread David Gowers
Hi Jason, On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Jason Cipriani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 09:43 -0400, Jason Cipriani wrote: I'm reading what you are all saying and I do firmly believe that an

Re: [Gimp-user] Drawing simple shapes.

2008-04-30 Thread Michael J. Hammel
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 09:55 -0400, Jason Cipriani wrote: Would you recommend using Krita for image creation? Despite the fact that image authoring is a point listed in the very first sentence on gimp.org's main page, and that painting *is* the first bullet point category on the GIMP info page,

[Gimp-user] (no subject)

2008-04-30 Thread Alchemie foto\grafiche
Drawing SW may be a confusing word it may evoke natural media emulation but is generally used to indicate vectorial SW And for drawing, filling editing shapes a vectorial sw may be the best...best know commercial SW is Adobe Illustrator, Open Source alternative is INkscape (also for windows)

Re: [Gimp-user] (no subject)

2008-04-30 Thread Jason Cipriani
Thanks, Core Painter is a pretty amazing program, mostly I'm looking for an easy-to-use drawing application on Linux that lets me just do really simple stuff. I'm going to try all the plugins that people have been suggesting tonight, they sound like they fill in GIMP's missing gaps, then give

[Gimp-user] Miniaturize effect in GIMP

2008-04-30 Thread Eric P
This miniaturize effect is a pretty cool yet super simple effect. This how-to was initially only for Photoshop. But I've updated the page (it's a wiki) to include GIMP verbage. http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Miniaturize_a_Scene The steps are pretty much 1 to 1 w/the GIMP. But what they call