Re: [Gimp-user] Tips for digitising/tracing image with GIMP?

2012-07-02 Thread avamk
Sounds like using a vector based graphics application would be better. I will bring this question to the Inkscape folks. Thank you for your replies! -- View this message in context: http://gimp.1065349.n5.nabble.com/Tips-for-digitising-tracing-image-with-GIMP-tp33261p34174.html Sent from the

[Gimp-user] Tips for digitising/tracing image with GIMP?

2012-06-25 Thread avamk
Hello, I am considering using GIMP 2.8 on my system with Mac OS X 10.6.8 to do the following: (1) Digitise a photograph by tracing over parts of it with lines. The photo could be, say, the roots of a tree. The lines would be colour coded depending on the state of what they are over. I.e. roots

Re: [Gimp-user] Tips for digitising/tracing image with GIMP?

2012-06-25 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 14:53 -0700, avamk wrote: Do you think GIMP is suitable for this kind of image analyses? Or should I use a vector based program like Inkscape? In GIMP you will need a data structure to track the traced lines, rather than having a plugin just draw them on the canvas.

Re: [Gimp-user] Tips for digitising/tracing image with GIMP?

2012-06-25 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Liam R E Quin l...@holoweb.net wrote: Do you think GIMP is suitable for this kind of image analyses? Or should I use a vector based program like Inkscape? [...]But you might alo be able to do the tracing to paths in gimp and then iterate over the paths using