[Gimp-user] newbie trouble needs to fit canvas

2012-06-25 Thread Madhatter
thanks for all the replies... i think i will make the background transparent that seems to fit what i want to do. but thanks all off you for your input regards Morten -- Madhatter (via gimpusers.com) ___ gimp-user-list mailing list

[Gimp-user] newbie trouble needs to fit canvas

2012-06-25 Thread Madhatter
just figured out a problem with changing the color to transparent... it is a pencil drawing so the image (which is a parrot so not rectangular) is the same color as the background. i think i will change the color off the parrot slightly and then make background transparrent regards Morten --

[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