Re: [Gimp-user] Help again, same old story.

2009-05-04 Thread David Gowers
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 04 May 2009, David Gowers wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 03 May 2009, David Gowers wrote: BTW, the crop tool doc I pointed to is basically the same

Re: [Gimp-user] Help again, same old story.

2009-05-04 Thread Robert L Cochran
Cropping an image is a really simple operation. In her recent book Beginning GIMP From Novice to Professional Second Edition, Akkana Peck discusses how to do it on pp 35-38. I highly recommend you get the book, it is worth every penny. If you prefer to scale an image, look on pp 21. Bob On

[Gimp-user] Help again, same old story.

2009-05-03 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; Latest gimp-2.6 from fedora installed, and once again I am attempting to crop an image and cannot. Why is it so difficult to select a rectangular area of the image, like the whole top 1/3 or the whole bottom 1/3, and just plain crop it just as if I'd taken the paper cutters to the

Re: [Gimp-user] Help again, same old story.

2009-05-03 Thread Owen
On Sun, 03 May 2009 22:44:23 -0400 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings; Latest gimp-2.6 from fedora installed, and once again I am attempting to crop an image and cannot. Why is it so difficult to select a rectangular area of the image, like the whole top 1/3 or the whole

Re: [Gimp-user] Help again, same old story.

2009-05-03 Thread David Gowers
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings; This, most simple of a photo manipulation has been hidden behind portable menu mumbo jumbo for a decade now, is it not possible to fix it for almost main menu access, just by drawing a box around what you

Re: [Gimp-user] Help again, same old story.

2009-05-03 Thread Alec Burgess
Owen (rc...@pcug.org.au) wrote (in part) (on 2009-05-03 at 23:13): On Sun, 03 May 2009 22:44:23 -0400 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings; Latest gimp-2.6 from fedora installed, and once again I am attempting to crop an image and cannot. Why is it so difficult

Re: [Gimp-user] Help again, same old story.

2009-05-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 03 May 2009, David Gowers wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings; This, most simple of a photo manipulation has been hidden behind portable menu mumbo jumbo for a decade now, is it not possible to fix it for almost main menu

Re: [Gimp-user] Help again, same old story.

2009-05-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 03 May 2009, Alec Burgess wrote: Owen (rc...@pcug.org.au) wrote (in part) (on 2009-05-03 at 23:13): On Sun, 03 May 2009 22:44:23 -0400 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings; Latest gimp-2.6 from fedora installed, and once again I am attempting to

Re: [Gimp-user] Help again, same old story.

2009-05-03 Thread Olivier Lecarme
Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 03 May 2009, Alec Burgess wrote: Owen (rc...@pcug.org.au) wrote (in part) (on 2009-05-03 at 23:13): On Sun, 03 May 2009 22:44:23 -0400 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings; Latest gimp-2.6 from fedora

Re: [Gimp-user] Help again, same old story.

2009-05-03 Thread David Gowers
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 03 May 2009, David Gowers wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings; This, most simple of a photo manipulation has been hidden behind portable menu mumbo