Re: [Gimp-user] Feathered selections

2007-11-24 Thread Helen
Thanks!! Wow, this sure is easy when you know how to do it :-) Thanks, Helen On Nov 24, 2007 11:24 PM, Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See the last point, or > > 1. Open up a (k)console or terminal > 2. At the prompt, change directory to the gimp brush directory > # cd .gimp-2.2/brushes > 3.

Re: [Gimp-user] Feathered selections

2007-11-24 Thread Owen
See the last point, or 1. Open up a (k)console or terminal 2. At the prompt, change directory to the gimp brush directory # cd .gimp-2.2/brushes 3. Do a listing to make sure you are there # ls 4. Then unzip the file. # unzip iceytina_paint_oilpastelsGIMP.zip Type unzip ice and it should

Re: [Gimp-user] Feathered selections

2007-11-24 Thread Helen
Thanks Elwin and Owen. I'm almost there. I downloaded, and *finally* found the file. It had gone into /tmp. And then I found the hidden files containing the brushes. Using Konqueror, I moved the zip file over to the /home/helen/.gimp-2.2/brushes directory. Then I clicked on the zip:/home/helen

Re: [Gimp-user] Feathered selections

2007-11-24 Thread Elwin Estle
I know there is another reply to this...but, since you might not know where your brushes directory is. You will have a hidden directory in your homve folder for gimp (whatever file manager you are using, Konqueror or Nautilus, should have an option to "show hidden files"). In this hidden folder

Re: [Gimp-user] Feathered selections

2007-11-24 Thread Owen
> Links to the brushes are here: >> > >> > Watercolor Paint: >> > http://iceytina.deviantart.com/art/GIMP-PaintBrushes-Watercolors-31117244 > > > Can someone explain how to get these brushes? How to install them into > Gimp 2.2.10, on SuSE 10, Linux? 1. Click on the download item (iceytina_p

Re: [Gimp-user] Feathered selections

2007-11-24 Thread Helen
Links to the brushes are here: > > > > Watercolor Paint: > > http://iceytina.deviantart.com/art/GIMP-PaintBrushes-Watercolors-31117244 Can someone explain how to get these brushes? How to install them into Gimp 2.2.10, on SuSE 10, Linux? Thanks, Helen __

Re: [Gimp-user] Feathered selections

2007-11-14 Thread Tim Jedlicka
On 11/14/07, Leon Brooks GIMP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > then drop that on her. She likes painting & doing similar > artwork, so I suspect that QM mode will appeal to her > instincts. > In that case you might want to point her towards the attached brush "repository" as well. I reposted the not

Re: [Gimp-user] Feathered selections

2007-11-14 Thread Leon Brooks GIMP
On Thursday 15 November 2007 04:29:00 Akkana Peck wrote: > But there's a solution for your friend in the meantime: the > Quickmask. Click on that inconspicuous little square down > at the bottom left of the image window, in the corner > between the scrollbar and the ruler. That switches to > Quickm

Re: [Gimp-user] Feathered selections

2007-11-14 Thread Akkana Peck
Leon Brooks GIMP writes: > So I started wondering: is it feasible to do something like > make the selection's borders gently more fuzzy or > translucent when a selection is feathered? I'm assuming you're talking about the "marching ants" when you say selection borders, and it's an interesting sugg

[Gimp-user] Feathered selections

2007-11-14 Thread Leon Brooks GIMP
I walked a lady through GIMP on Windows 2000 today, & she was delighted with it. A feature that she particularly liked was being able to select things (wand, oval, block, whatever) then feather the selection so whatever you did had no sharp edges. She also liked being able to select with the wand