Thanks, antialiasing was the problem. Appreciate the explanation.

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Daniel Hornung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> On Tuesday 25 March 2008, dorai iyer wrote:
> > I selected a 1 pixel thick brush to stroke the drawn path onto an image.
> > When I stroked the path, the color of the stroke appears semi
> transparent.
> > Is there a way to make it appear completely solid.
> > Thanks
>
> You could turn off antialiasing (extension of the stroke dialog under
> "line
> style") or use the pencil as "paint tool" there with a 1 pixel brush,
> these
> two methods look equivalent to me.  You might have noticed that you have
> full
> color pixels where the path goes straight across a pixel, but less when
> the
> pixel is only touchedm this is due to the antialiasing that's on by
> default.
>
> This will give a fully colored, 1-pixel line:
>  -------------------------
>  | x-|---|---|---|---|-x |
>  -------------------------
>
> This will give a 50% colored, 2-pixel line:
>  -------------------------
>  |   |   |   |   |   |   |
>  --x-------------------x--
>  |   |   |   |   |   |   |
>  -------------------------
>
>
> I hope this helped a bit to understand the problem.
>
> Greetings, Daniel
>
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