[Gimp-user] working with scanned pics: how to individually "chop up" pics

2006-01-27 Thread Jeff C
Hello, I have used my scanner to scan 3 pics per scan. I didn't really care if the pics were vertically and horizontally squared/aligned, because I believe it's easy to edit it afterwards. Is there a way to quickly chop up the file into the 3 individual pics, and to get them squared up (verticall

Re: [Gimp-user] working with scanned pics: how to individually "chop up" pics

2006-01-28 Thread Jeff C
On 1/28/06, Wade Smart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 01282006 0802 GMT-6 > > Choose the square selection tool in the top left hand corner. Drag it > around the the first picture and then from the edit menu choose copy and > then paste to new. Yes, this is the rough idea. But: 1. What if the picture

[Gimp-user] working with scanned pics: how to individually "chop up" pics

2006-01-28 Thread Jeff C
>I'm unclear if you want to turn them into three individual images, or just >straighten them within the one image. Yes, I'd like to turn them into 3 individual images. Can't Fuzzy Select (Magic Wand icon; Select Contiguous Region), Select Region By Color, or Scissors (Select Shape From Image) do

[Gimp-user] Re: working with scanned pics: how to individually "chop up" pics

2006-01-28 Thread Jeff C
> >2. Doesn't this mean that your hand that's holding the mouse has to be > >super-precise in making a rectangular section to NOT include the white > >background space? >If your mouse control is not satisfactory, use what we had before >mice, the keyboard to change the +/- degrees of rotation. TH

[Gimp-user] working with scanned pics: how to individually "chop up" pics

2006-01-28 Thread Jeff C
> > Can't Fuzzy Select (Magic Wand icon; Select Contiguous Region), Select > > Region By Color, or Scissors (Select Shape From Image) do something > > better than the regular rectangular selection? > > crop -> rotate -> crop again > > > Because the Rectangular Section won't give an exact crop. How

Re: [Gimp-user] working with scanned pics: how to individually "chop up" pics

2006-01-28 Thread Jeff C
Carol wrote: > your belief will not make this to be the truth. rotating that image > will lose some of the quality of the original -- no matter what the > application you use! Ok. So does "lossless rotation" apply only to rotations of every 90 degrees, then? __