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 inf
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 t
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
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 additio
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 d
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
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 m
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 dis
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:53 PM, David Gowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There is not a popular graphics program in
> > existence that requires these steps to draw primitive shapes such as
> > boxes. It's no more complex than that. "A" solution is to add a
> > simple, basic primitive dra
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Jason Cipriani
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry for sending you this twice, Michael. Missed the "reply all"
> button the first time through.
>
> One thing I do want to add to what's below is, just to clear it up:
> I'm not pressing for a generic "solution" that
Sorry for sending you this twice, Michael. Missed the "reply all"
button the first time through.
One thing I do want to add to what's below is, just to clear it up:
I'm not pressing for a generic "solution" that allows anybody to
implement any custom tools in the tool palette that they may want. M
"Michael J. Hammel" wrote
>"My problem with this is that while drawing borders may be a very common
>task for you, there are many users for which it is never (or nearly
>never) used. So adding a button for this task to the Toolbox falls into
>my definition of feature creep. At what point do you
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 17:11 -0400, Jason Cipriani wrote:
> An alternative approach to having a new tool is to just add something
> to the menu like "draw border around selection", which just automates
> the current select + fill + shrink + (cut or fill) process.
Adding a menu item is just a matte
Am Dienstag, den 29.04.2008, 17:11 -0400 schrieb Jason Cipriani:
> An alternative approach to having a new tool is to just add something
> to the menu like "draw border around selection", which just automates
> the current select + fill + shrink + (cut or fill) process.
That's already there, hav
> FWIW, my GFXShapes plugin will do vector shapes without paths, but you
> can save the shapes as presets (re: files). Presets are not saved as
> part of the image file, however. GFXShapes was written for 2.2 because
> I really disliked the interface to GFig at the time. I think a plugin
>
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 14:24 -0400, Jason Cipriani wrote:
> AFAICT there's no vector-graphics layers so both choices end up with
> rasterized shapes).
Paths are vector oriented objects in the GIMP. They aren't associated
with specific layers so the path is not included directly in compositing
(cur
Nathan Lane wrote:
You're right that there aren't vector graphics layers, per se.
However there are path layers, which can be treated like vector
although they themselves don't have fill or stroke colors or patterns
- if you change a path and you want to change the stroke or whatever,
you h
You're right that there aren't vector graphics layers, per se. However
there are path layers, which can be treated like vector although they
themselves don't have fill or stroke colors or patterns - if you change a
path and you want to change the stroke or whatever, you have to do it
manually.
On
Jason Cipriani wrote:
> Hypothetically speaking, if somebody were to sit down and try to work
> on this in the far, far future, it seems like there would only be two
> choices, both of them fairly straightforward (I'm new to gimp but
> AFAICT there's no vector-graphics layers so both choices end up
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Martin Nordholts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There are a couple of reaons, some of them partly overlap:
[snip]
> * It is a big UI task to define exactly how drawing tools should work
> and how they should interact with existing tools and workflows in a good
> w
Jason Cipriani wrote:
> I have a second question. If "how do I draw a box?" is a "frequently
> asked question", why isn't there a "draw a box" button on the tool
> palette in GIMP? Is there some historical reason?
>
Hello
There are a couple of reaons, some of them partly overlap:
* It is pos
I need to draw a circle and a box, outlined in black, preferably
without erasing the background underneath the shape. How do I do this?
Thanks,
Jason
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Jason Cipriani
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I need to draw a circle and a box, outlined in black, preferably
> without erasing the background underneath the shape. How do I do this?
I found the answer in the FAQ:
Use the elliptical select tool, hold down CTRL ke
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