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,

Re: [Gimp-user] Drawing simple shapes.

2008-04-29 Thread Jason Cipriani
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 key

Re: [Gimp-user] Drawing simple shapes.

2008-04-29 Thread Rich
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Drawing simple shapes.

2008-04-29 Thread Michael J. Hammel
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Drawing simple shapes.

2008-04-29 Thread David Gowers
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 allows

Re: [Gimp-user] Drawing simple shapes.

2008-04-29 Thread David Gowers
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 drawing tool