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
