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Drawing circles, boxes, and arrows in "The Gimp" freeware (onLinux)
Does anyone know where the "circle", "square", "ellipse" tool is on Gimp?
Likewise with the "arrow" tool? Any basic photo editor should have this capability; but I can't seem to find it on Linux "The Gimp" photo editing freeware, version 2.6.8. If "The Gimp" doesn't have these basic tools; can you suggest a Linux freeware program that does? |
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Drawing circles, boxes, and arrows in "The Gimp" freeware (onLinux)
jm wrote:
Does anyone know where the "circle", "square", "ellipse" tool is on Gimp? Likewise with the "arrow" tool? Any basic photo editor should have this capability; but I can't seem to find it on Linux "The Gimp" photo editing freeware, version 2.6.8. These? http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-tools-selection.html BugBear |
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Drawing circles, boxes, and arrows in "The Gimp" freeware (onLinux)
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:15:44 +0100, bugbear wrote:
http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-tools-selection.html Thanks Bugbear. Gimp is nothing like PC freeware. It's MUUUUUUCH more complex to do simple things! I just finished drawing ellipses and rectangles (circles and squares seem to elude me at the moment), with border fill and colors. It's very many steps to draw simple circle that Paint.NET would do in a single operation; but, I am able to do it now. Thanks. http://www.ehow.com/how_5356412_draw-circle-gimp.html Now I'm working on trying to figure out how to draw a curved arrow ... |
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Drawing circles, boxes, and arrows in "The Gimp" freeware (onLinux)
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:44:04 +0000, jm wrote:
Now I'm working on trying to figure out how to draw a curved arrow ... OK. Found out. There is no arrow tool in The Gimp. Luckily there is a plug in for arrows he http://registry.gimp.org/node/20269 |
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Drawing circles, boxes, and arrows in "The Gimp" freeware (onLinux)
jm wrote:
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:15:44 +0100, bugbear wrote: http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-tools-selection.html Thanks Bugbear. Gimp is nothing like PC freeware. It's MUUUUUUCH more complex to do simple things! I just finished drawing ellipses and rectangles (circles and squares seem to elude me at the moment), with border fill and colors. It's very many steps to draw simple circle that Paint.NET would do in a single operation; but, I am able to do it now. Thanks. http://www.ehow.com/how_5356412_draw-circle-gimp.html Now I'm working on trying to figure out how to draw a curved arrow ... Err. If you're trying to *draw*, use a vector package, not a raster one. Inkscape is my personal preferance for that. BugBear |
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Drawing circles, boxes, and arrows in "The Gimp" freeware (onLinux)
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 10:44:04 +0000 (UTC), jm wrote:
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:15:44 +0100, bugbear wrote: http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-tools-selection.html Thanks Bugbear. Gimp is nothing like PC freeware. It's MUUUUUUCH more complex to do simple things! I just finished drawing ellipses and rectangles (circles and squares seem to elude me at the moment), with border fill and colors. It's very many steps to draw simple circle that Paint.NET would do in a single operation; but, I am able to do it now. Thanks. http://www.ehow.com/how_5356412_draw-circle-gimp.html Now I'm working on trying to figure out how to draw a curved arrow ... And The Gimp is not helped by the out of date FAQ. the very first entry I get on Google when looking for "gimp draw circle" throws up the Gimp FAQ from 2002 which tells us to hold the control key to constrain an ellipse to a circle. ref: http://www.netads.com/~meo/gimp/faq-user.html#circle In fact, you have to select the ellipse button, click the mouse THEN press the SHIFT key, then drag the mouse ... to get a circle. It's amazing that people still go to the effort of learning the Gimp, when it's so hard to do simple, basic operations. -- http://www.thisreallyismyhost.99k.or...2485419738.php |
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Drawing circles, boxes, and arrows in "The Gimp" freeware (onLinux)
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:46:15 +0000, jm wrote:
Does anyone know where the "circle", "square", "ellipse" tool is on Gimp? Likewise with the "arrow" tool? Any basic photo editor should have this capability; but I can't seem to find it on Linux "The Gimp" photo editing freeware, version 2.6.8. If "The Gimp" doesn't have these basic tools; can you suggest a Linux freeware program that does? You haven't looked. Look at the top of the toolbox, there bare other ways of getting them but you can look for them yourself. -- Neil - reverse 'ra' and delete 'l'. |
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Drawing circles, boxes, and arrows in "The Gimp" freeware (onLinux)
pete wrote:
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 10:44:04 +0000 (UTC), jm wrote: On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:15:44 +0100, bugbear wrote: http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-tools-selection.html Thanks Bugbear. Gimp is nothing like PC freeware. It's MUUUUUUCH more complex to do simple things! I just finished drawing ellipses and rectangles (circles and squares seem to elude me at the moment), with border fill and colors. It's very many steps to draw simple circle that Paint.NET would do in a single operation; but, I am able to do it now. Thanks. http://www.ehow.com/how_5356412_draw-circle-gimp.html Now I'm working on trying to figure out how to draw a curved arrow ... And The Gimp is not helped by the out of date FAQ. the very first entry I get on Google when looking for "gimp draw circle" throws up the Gimp FAQ from 2002 which tells us to hold the control key to constrain an ellipse to a circle. ref: http://www.netads.com/~meo/gimp/faq-user.html#circle In fact, you have to select the ellipse button, click the mouse THEN press the SHIFT key, then drag the mouse ... to get a circle. It's amazing that people still go to the effort of learning the Gimp, when it's so hard to do simple, basic operations. It's not the fault of Gimp (or the people who write it) that you've chosen to use an out of date FAQ, dragged up from the site of a Christian Fundamentalist. BugBear |
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Drawing circles, boxes, and arrows in "The Gimp" freeware (onLinux)
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:46:15 +0000, jm wrote:
Does anyone know where the "circle", "square", "ellipse" tool is on Gimp? Likewise with the "arrow" tool? Any basic photo editor should have this capability; but I can't seem to find it on Linux "The Gimp" photo editing freeware, version 2.6.8. If "The Gimp" doesn't have these basic tools; can you suggest a Linux freeware program that does? Looking at your other post, you seem to have it sorted. ie discovered that the rectangle/elipse tool just makes a selection that you can then either 'stroke' or 'fill' Truthfully, boxes, cirlcles, arrows & shapes are best done on a vector editing app and apart from inkscape there is Xara Xtreame, old but still works, should be in the repo of whatever distro you are using. Back to gimp, for a (simple) curved arrow use the paths tool, then 'stroke' the path, something like this. http://www.imageno.com/utiotw5hi411pic.html -- rich |
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Drawing circles, boxes, and arrows in "The Gimp" freeware (onLinux)
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:10:36 +0100, bugbear wrote:
.. Err. If you're trying to *draw*, use a vector package, not a raster one. .. Inkscape is my personal preferance for that. Hi BugBear, I thank you for your patience. I didn't even realize there are "vector" vs "raster" editing packages ... I just want to annotate screenshots with text and circles and arrows. I did all that easily on PC freeware such as Paint.NET; so I "thought" it would be as simple on Linux. Maybe it is as simple on Linux ... just not with "The Gimp". I'll install the InkScape "vector graphics editor" and write back how it does with texting, circles, and arrows (sufficient to annotate a screenshot) ... because all I want to do is annotate screenshots (and I'm sure I can't be the only one to need these simple features). BTW, can you just give me a sentence or two as to why I'd want a "vector" versus a "raster" program? |
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