[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 in

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. You'

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 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 the gimp-get