Re: [Gimp-user] Make Gimp like corel photo
On 09/12/2009 11:39 PM, Charles C. wrote: Hi I've been using Corel Photo for some time, but I'm trying to get used to Gimp. I can't stand the interface, but I don't like photoshop UI either. 1) In corel photo, layers are like objects, I can easily make rectangle and new layer will have size of this rectangle. GIMP layers are like objects also, it seems to me. -- Select rectangle; C-c; C-v; Bucket fill-foreground- whole selection I can make stroke with brush and this stroke will be my layer. So if you do 200 brush strokes you have 200 layers? In Gimp if I want to make new layer with brush strokes I need to adjust size of layer before I do the stroke. Then I can paint and my layer is too big. Of course I can use wizard selection(U hotkey) to select stroke but it's not so comfortable. I just dont need transparent area in my layer(I need just my brush stroke, layer borders=brush stroke borders, nothing more). 2) Is there any way to see the mask of eraser, using soft-edged eraser without mask (I just see hard-edged circle selection) is little confusing for me. 3) Is there any mod, option, to do grab, rotate, scale with mouse clicking(like in Corel Photo-2 clicks to rotate) etc. I know it could be done with keyboard shortcuts, but mouse shortcuts works much better for me. 4) Is it possible to make layer previews bigger and adjust them to show...(it's hard to explain for me) actual objects in these layers(not whole, transparent area with object). I've seen this option in photoshop tutorial I think. Could you advise me other free program with UI similar to Corel Photo? Thanks in advance for the answers ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] HOWTO: stroke a path with the current tool?
Gah... This is what I get for sending emails prior to drinking coffee. I just now noticed that you posted this: (What I see are only choices of Paint tools. What I want is Select tools, like color select and/or magic wand.) Obviously my answer isn't gonna cut it then. Sorry about that. -Jason Jason van Gumster ja...@handturkeystudios.com wrote: Ilya Zakharevich nospam-ab...@ilyaz.org wrote: I want to stroke the path with the current tool, with all the parameters as selected in the tool options. I do not think I can do it with the PATHs right-mouse-click menu, can I? You can. If you choose Stroke Path from the Paths right-click menu, the bottom of the dialog has a radio button that says Stroke with a Paint Tool. Click that radio button and select the paint tool you want to use from the dropdown. It will use your last set of tool options for that tool. Alternatively, while the dialog is still up, you can switch to that tool and quickly tweak the tool settings there prior to clicking the Stroke button. Is that what you were looking for? -Jason ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Make Gimp like corel photo
GIMP layers are like objects also, it seems to me. -- Select rectangle; C-c; C-v; Bucket fill-foreground- whole selection Thank you, but it will work only for selections(so it wont work with brush strokes I think) rectangle was just an example. So if you do 200 brush strokes you have 200 layers? Yes, I _can_ have 200 layers(but I dont have to). I just can make new layer, then brush stroke and layer borders will be resized to brush stroke. I can do a few more strokes in same layer and layer border will cover only strokes borders. In gimp, as far as I know, I need to declare size of layer before I do stroke. New Photo-Paint layer is just empty, I can draw crazy things, select my layer and make mask of these crazy paintings. I think I cant do that in Gimp. Do many strokes with many curves, circles etc in one layer. Then try to make mask from these strokes, fill them all with gradient. In corel its something like that: object border-layer border-selection border-mask(could be, dont have to). So I can make selection from layer borders and voila! Maybe I'm missing something but I can't find a way to do it in Gimp. I don't know, maybe its not common feature, anyway I find it very useful, I dont expect to get free, professional program, I am just asking :) -- wiorys (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Make Gimp like corel photo
On Sunday 13 September 2009 18:55:46 wiorys wrote: Yes, I _can_ have 200 layers(but I dont have to). I just can make new layer, then brush stroke and layer borders will be resized to brush stroke. I can do a few more strokes in same layer and layer border will cover only strokes borders. In gimp, as far as I know, I need to declare size of layer before I do stroke. You can always make your layer the size of the image (the default value), what is the problem with that ? New Photo-Paint layer is just empty, I can draw crazy things, select my layer and make mask of these crazy paintings. I think I cant do that in Gimp. What do you mean exactly by mask ? In GIMP masks are used to make portions of a layer transparent without modifying the pixels on the layer itself. Do many strokes with many curves, circles etc in one layer. Then try to make mask from these strokes, fill them all with gradient. In corel its something like that: object border-layer border-selection border-mask(could be, dont have to). So I can make selection from layer borders and voila! Maybe I'm missing something but I can't find a way to do it in Gimp. If you want to make a selection from your layer contents (provided that you have begun with a transparent layer) you can use layer-transparency-alpha to selection I don't know, maybe its not common feature, anyway I find it very useful, I dont expect to get free, professional program, I am just asking :) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Make Gimp like corel photo
What do you mean exactly by mask ? In GIMP masks are used to make portions of a layer transparent without modifying the pixels on the layer itself. I could be wrong( I can't remember exactly), but selection=~mask in Photo Paint http://akvis.com/en/graphic-tips/selection-tools-photo-paint.php If you want to make a selection from your layer contents (provided that you have begun with a transparent layer) you can use layer-transparency-alpha to selection Thank you! I was thinking about that. Anyway, there is web-based freeware software called SUMO paint 2.0 and it has more similar layers (than Gimp) to Photo Paint and free transform tool(1 tool only-scale,rotate by mouse). -- wiorys (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] cutting objects out of gif
I would like to know if it is possible to take an ordinary gif pic like a cartoon and cut the cartoon figure out of it? Then I could place it on a transparent layer. If so can someone tell me how? Thanks, Scott -- Scott (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] cutting objects out of gif
Toggle Quick Mask Shift + Q It is in the lower left hand corner of the image window (Linux + Gimp 2.6). On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Scott for...@gimpusers.com wrote: I would like to know if it is possible to take an ordinary gif pic like a cartoon and cut the cartoon figure out of it? Then I could place it on a transparent layer. If so can someone tell me how? Thanks, Scott -- Scott (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- b h a a l u u at g m a i l dot c o m Gnu/Linux IS user-friendly. It's NOT ignorant-friendly or idiot-friendly. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Script-Fu vs GIMP UI
On 2009-09-13, Sven Neumann s...@gimp.org wrote: I want to stroke the path with the current tool, with all the parameters as selected in the tool options. I do not think I can do it with the PATHs right-mouse-click menu, can I? (What I see are only choices of Paint tools. What I want is Select tools, like color select and/or magic wand.) You can't do that. Is it a defect, or an intentional decision? An alternative would be to use Script-Fu API to walk along a path; but I would need to invoke the current tool at the specified point from Script-Fu, and I can't guess how to find this with the Script-Fu procedure browser... I am afraid there is no way to do this for tools like 'color select' or 'magic wand'. Tools are a user interface thing and the PDB explicitly doesn't give access to the user interface parts of GIMP. This sentence does not make any sense to me. To make sense, one should have a PRIOR definition of the user interface parts of GIMP. E.g., from what you write, It looks like foreground color is not in the user interface parts of GIMP. So. is there such a definition? Is it defined as any setting outside those related to save/restore-state Script-Fu API, or is there anything else accessible from Script-Fu? Thanks, Ilya ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Script-Fu vs GIMP UI
What kind of outcome are you expecting to get when stroking a path with a selection tool? I can't think of why you want to do this? Maybe someone can help you if we know what it is that you are trying to accomplish. -- jolie (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] cutting objects out of gif
Hi Scott, You need to make a selection of the cartoon figure. Check the gimp manual on how to do this, there are too many ways to explain all here. Then go to select float. Then create a new layer. Make the background layer invisible or delete the background layer if you no longer need it. link to the manual http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/ Hope this helps. Toggle Quick Mask Shift + Q It is in the lower left hand corner of the image window (Linux + Gimp 2.6). On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Scott for...@gimpusers.com wrote: I would like to know if it is possible to take an ordinary gif pic like a cartoon and cut the cartoon figure out of it? Then I could place it on a transparent layer. If so can someone tell me how? Thanks, Scott -- Scott (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- jolie (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
