Re: [Gimp-user] gimp or inkscape?
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 08:13:39PM -0600, Alex Feldman wrote: Hi, I have limited experience with Gimp, almost all of it with photographs, and essentially none with Inkscape. I want to make some simple maps of trails in the area, and mark them with mileages and a few comments. My plan was to download the photographs of the area from Google Earth, put a layer over it, and trace out the trails. Then I can stretch or shrink the image and add the decorations and commentary. My question is, which is the best tool for this? Or is there a better way to do it than what I am describing? Thanks for the help. I think you need to work backwards from what is your intended use. Web, paper print? So what size are the photographs from Google earth? What I have done is simply scanned a road map/atlas at a fairly high resolution, added layers of routes and comments then resized to suit. Resizing up doesn't always work real well. Inkscape is good for making route profiles, you can stretch in both directions to give make the route look easy or hard :-) Owen ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Input devices--
On Thursday 05 April 2007 17:08, Richard Oliver wrote: I am a new but very enthuastic user of GIMP but find it difficult to do very fine detail with the use of my Optical Mouse. I have read somewhere of a pen or stylis as input devices and wondered if these are available as alternatives to the mouse. (I have tried increasing the magnification and using small brushes which does help.) I am using Win XP Home Ed. Usb 2.0 etc Thank you for a most interesting mailing list. Richard You can try the the Wacom tablets. They are well supported on most platforms and work nicely in GIMP. The cheaper models like the Graphire won't break the bank (normally around the $100 mark) and will definitely work a lot better than the typical computer mouse. Even my old Graphire 1 has 256 levels of pressure sensitivity which is an extremely useful feature. i.e. The harder you press the more ink comes out of the selected tool. Try do that with a standard mouse ... Paul ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] gimp or inkscape?
Hi, Alex Feldman a écrit : Hi, I have limited experience with Gimp, almost all of it with photographs, and essentially none with Inkscape. I want to make some simple maps of trails in the area, and mark them with mileages and a few comments. My plan was to download the photographs of the area from Google Earth, put a layer over it, and trace out the trails. Then I can stretch or shrink the image and add the decorations and commentary. My question is, which is the best tool for this? Or is there a better way to do it than what I am describing? Thanks for the help. For that I use both. In the first Gimp is better make specific selections on the map (rivers...) and transform it in path. For the roads I prefer make paths manually over the map, stroke these paths on specific layers with correct line width and convert these strokes in paths. Remove initial paths drawn and you can export all paths in svg file smaller and more easy to resize than xcf file. After it is more easy to modify it this inkscape. But perhaps there is best ways to make this work. Luc. begin:vcard fn:Luc Novales n:Novales;Luc email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel;work:05-62-25-95-29 tel;fax:05-62-25-95-99 version:2.1 end:vcard ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] is it possible to create a fade transition .gif iwth GIMP
Subject says it all, mostly. I'd like to know if it is possible to create a fade-in, fade-out transitional effect with a single .gif image using GIMP? Preferaby where the image one fade out intersects with the image two fade in? -Bob ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] is it possible to create a fade transition .gif iwth GIMP
Hi, Am 06.04.2007 um 19:21 schrieb Bob Meetin: Subject says it all, mostly. I'd like to know if it is possible to create a fade-in, fade-out transitional effect with a single .gif image using GIMP? Preferaby where the image one fade out intersects with the image two fade in? -Bob You can save layered images to gif as animated gif. By doing so, each layer is used as one frame of the animation. You might wand to have a look to the manual at page http:// docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-dialogs-structure.html and http://docs.gimp.org/ en/gimp-images-out.html#id2557519 greetings, lexA ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user --- Live is like a chocolate box, you never know what you wanna get... GPG Signatur auf http://wernicke-online.net/Impressum/ prüfen ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] gimp or inkscape?
Alex Feldman writes: I have limited experience with Gimp, almost all of it with photographs, and essentially none with Inkscape. I want to make some simple maps of trails in the area, and mark them with mileages and a few comments. My plan was to download the photographs of the area from Google Earth, put a layer over it, and trace out the trails. Then I can stretch or shrink the image and add the decorations and commentary. My question is, which is the best tool for this? Or is there a better way to do it than what I am describing? Thanks for the help. Since you're starting with a bitmapped image anyway (a satellite photo), GIMP is fine. Any problems you get from rescaling the trails will also be problems when rescaling the image, so you wouldn't get any advantage from using Inkscape. I've used GIMP to make map overlays: for instance, a topographic map layer, a trail map (converted from the park's online PDF), and a geologic map layer (converted from a USGS PDF). Then I can adjust the transparencies and colors of all the layers depending on which combination I want to print out for a specific project. It's a lot of work getting everything scaled just right (it would be so much easier if this info was all available in open GIS formats that worked in free mapping software ... maybe some day!) but the results can be very useful. -- ...Akkana Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional: http://gimpbook.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
