Re: [Gimp-user] Re: GIMP is Great

2006-02-01 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:27:13PM +0200, Joe Schaffner wrote: My First GIF: http://www.geocities.com/klairbab/alpha.gif i think you will find that the lines of the elipse are smoother if you flatten the image first and then save. i am curious, when you made the image, did you see an Export

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: GIMP is Great

2006-02-01 Thread Joe Schaffner
I discovered Open Office Draw today... A dream come true. The program is layed out for drawing lines/arrows, squares and circles. No paths or layers to deal with. Perfect for me. I did this drawing in about 30 minutes: http://www.geocities.com/klairbab/beta.gif Everything came out the right

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: GIMP is Great

2006-02-01 Thread Joe Schaffner
Fun with email. Hi Carol, nice to hear from you again. Just curious, are you a Gimp user, a graphical designer, a programmer, do you work for gimp.org, or all of the above? Joe PS How would I go about creating an mspaint user interface for the gimp? i would start by seeing if you

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: GIMP is Great

2006-02-01 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:13:08PM +0200, Joe Schaffner wrote: Fun with email. some times email is fun. Just curious, are you a Gimp user, a graphical designer, a programmer, do you work for gimp.org, or all of the above? loyal hobbiest? i actually do not want to define myself. it feels

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: GIMP is Great

2006-01-31 Thread Joe Schaffner
My First GIF: http://www.geocities.com/klairbab/alpha.gif (It's part of http://www.geocities.com/klairbab/verbcomb.html but I can't pass you the #doorbell portion of the url, because Yahoo! is mangling the anchor) Hey, Gimp really is great! Thanks. Joe PS Do I move the whole layer? It

[Gimp-user] Re: GIMP is Great

2006-01-26 Thread Joe Schaffner
I won't be able to get to gimp until the weekend, but I thought I'd answer my own questions, based only on two days experience. Let's see how close I come. What exactly is a layer? A drawing is made up of layers. Why? Each layer has attributes which are combined to produce a total visual

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: GIMP is Great

2006-01-26 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 09:39:26PM +0200, Joe Schaffner wrote: What exactly is a layer? A drawing is made up of layers. Why? Each layer has attributes which are combined to produce a total visual effect. This means you can add and subtract layers, join them, etc. Some of these

[Gimp-user] Re: GIMP is Great

2006-01-24 Thread Roel Schroeven
Joe Schaffner schreef: I have friends who use AutoCad and are always talking about scalable, vector graphics. AutoCad also uses layers, but I've forgotten exactly what the were. AutoCad is a CAD program and uses vector graphics; MS Paint and GIMP are bitmap graphics programs. If you what you