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?

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

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 ...

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

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

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.


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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.



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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

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


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rich

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?