[Gimp-user] The Gimp is BIG now
I used Gimp back when it first came out and I use to know my way around it pretty well. Not anymore! I just got Gimp 2.6.8 and OMG...it has like 100x the feature set of the original! I'm lost and can't make it work. :( So, I thought that if I explain what I need to do maybe some of you could point me in the right direction. I'm trying to create an icon for my guild in an MMO. The icon must be exactly 20x20 pixels and no more than 57k bytes total. Easy enough. I want to use the head of an digital image I found, cut it out, create a mirror of it, then rotate it 45 degrees (so that I can get the largest image of the head as possible), and then paste it onto a 200x200 pink (255 R/0 G/ 255B) canvas. I will then reduce the image down to 20x20 and import it into the game. The pink layer will be transparent in the final in-game product. I think I can figure out how to rotate the 2nd, head, layer without disturbing the pink layer...But I'm having problems with creating the mirror image. Where is the mirror function in the menus? Is there a mirror function in Gimp? I hope you can help me...Thanks a bunch, guys! -- JamesGreen (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] The Gimp is BIG now
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:34 AM, JamesGreen for...@gimpusers.com wrote: I used Gimp back when it first came out and I use to know my way around it pretty well. Not anymore! I just got Gimp 2.6.8 and OMG...it has like 100x the feature set of the original! I'm lost and can't make it work. :( So, I thought that if I explain what I need to do maybe some of you could point me in the right direction. I'm trying to create an icon for my guild in an MMO. The icon must be exactly 20x20 pixels and no more than 57k bytes total. Easy enough. I want to use the head of an digital image I found, cut it out, create a mirror of it, then rotate it 45 degrees (so that I can get the largest image of the head as possible), and then paste it onto a 200x200 pink (255 R/0 G/ 255B) canvas. I will then reduce the image down to 20x20 and import it into the game. The pink layer will be transparent in the final in-game product. I think I can figure out how to rotate the 2nd, head, layer without disturbing the pink layer...But I'm having problems with creating the mirror image. Where is the mirror function in the menus? Is there a mirror function in Gimp? You probably want one of the two 'flip' items in Image-Transform menu. Or if you want to just mirror a single layer, Layer-Transform menu ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] The Gimp is BIG now
JamesGreen wrote: [...] I think I can figure out how to rotate the 2nd, head, layer without disturbing the pink layer...But I'm having problems with creating the mirror image. Where is the mirror function in the menus? Is there a mirror function in Gimp? Hi James To mirror an image or layer use (among other things) [Image] - [Transform] - [Flip Horizontaly] or [Layer] - [Transform] - [Flip Horizontaly] respectively. cheers robert Thanks, robert! -- JamesGreen (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
