Did you read the actual straight line tutorial? It's here:
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Straight_Line/
It details exactly what to do, step-by-step.
Marco
On May 12, 2006, at 9:02 PM, Simon Roberts wrote:
I'm feeling particularly useless today, I'm pretty much a total
beginner with GIMP,
Gach, hit reply, instead of reply to all.
Nutshell version: no, I'd not seen this, yes, so far as I can make out,
I'm doing what the tutorial says, but no, I don't get any line.
I get two crosshairs and a line joining the two as I move the mouse
while holding shift (I can constrain the line to
Simon Roberts wrote:
Gach, hit reply, instead of reply to all.
Nutshell version: no, I'd not seen this, yes, so far as I can make out,
I'm doing what the tutorial says, but no, I don't get any line.
I get two crosshairs and a line joining the two as I move the mouse
while holding shift (I can
Did you read the actual straight line tutorial? It's here:
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Straight_Line/
Simon Roberts wrote:
Nutshell version: no, I'd not seen this, yes, so far as I can make out,
I'm doing what the tutorial says, but no, I don't get any line.
I get two crosshairs and a
Did you press the left mouse button before releasing the shift-key,
as the tutorial specifies
aside from the fact that I feel like I'm learning to use stardard car
shifting...3 or 4 actions to coodinate ;^).;if you hold the shift
button down TOO long you get the slow curser dog pony show,
thanks, yes, It's behaving now.
It takes a mouse click to indicate the starting point, and a
shift-click to indicate the end. Holding shift in advance of the final
click shows you where it will draw. Makes perfect sense now, but I was
so expecting it to be a drag operation to draw the line (like
