Re: [Gimp-user] Re: GIMP is Great

2006-02-01 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:13:08PM +0200, Joe Schaffner wrote: > Fun with email. > some times email is fun. > Just curious, are you a Gimp user, a graphical designer, a programmer, > do you work for gimp.org, or all of the above? > loyal hobbiest? i actually do not want to define myself. it fe

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: GIMP is Great

2006-02-01 Thread Joe Schaffner
Fun with email. Hi Carol, nice to hear from you again. Just curious, are you a Gimp user, a graphical designer, a programmer, do you work for gimp.org, or all of the above? Joe PS > > > > How would I go about creating an mspaint user interface for the gimp? > > > > > > > i would start by seei

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: GIMP is Great

2006-02-01 Thread Joe Schaffner
I discovered Open Office Draw today... A dream come true. The program is layed out for drawing lines/arrows, squares and circles. No paths or layers to deal with. Perfect for me. I did this drawing in about 30 minutes: http://www.geocities.com/klairbab/beta.gif Everything came out the right size

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: GIMP is Great

2006-02-01 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:27:13PM +0200, Joe Schaffner wrote: > My First GIF: http://www.geocities.com/klairbab/alpha.gif > i think you will find that the lines of the elipse are smoother if you flatten the image first and then save. i am curious, when you made the image, did you see an "Export

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: GIMP is Great

2006-01-31 Thread Joe Schaffner
My First GIF: http://www.geocities.com/klairbab/alpha.gif (It's part of http://www.geocities.com/klairbab/verbcomb.html but I can't pass you the #doorbell portion of the url, because Yahoo! is mangling the anchor) Hey, Gimp really is great! Thanks. Joe PS > > > Do I move the whole layer? > >

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: GIMP is Great

2006-01-26 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 09:39:26PM +0200, Joe Schaffner wrote: > > > What exactly is a layer? > > A drawing is made up of layers. Why? Each layer has attributes which > are combined to produce a total visual effect. This means you can add > and subtract layers, join them, etc. > > Some of these

[Gimp-user] Re: GIMP is Great

2006-01-26 Thread Joe Schaffner
I won't be able to get to gimp until the weekend, but I thought I'd answer my own questions, based only on two days experience. Let's see how close I come. > What exactly is a layer? A drawing is made up of layers. Why? Each layer has attributes which are combined to produce a total visual effect

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: GIMP is Great

2006-01-25 Thread Joe Schaffner
Thanks All. I think I'll stick with Gimp. The scaleable graphics are not necessary. I'm just diagramming sentences. But the svg xml looks great! What will they think of next? Gimp looks like alot of fun. Joe http://modern-greek-verbs.tripod.com/ http://www.geocities.com/klairbab/ On 1/25/06, R

[Gimp-user] Re: GIMP is Great

2006-01-24 Thread Roel Schroeven
Joe Schaffner schreef: I have friends who use AutoCad and are always talking about scalable, vector graphics. AutoCad also uses layers, but I've forgotten exactly what the were. AutoCad is a CAD program and uses vector graphics; MS Paint and GIMP are bitmap graphics programs. If you what you w