Re: [SLE] How do i create a circle in GIMP?
"Charles philip Chan" <cpchan@sympatico.ca> 07/24/05 11:10 pm >>>
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Borders_On_Selections/
You may also want to take a look at all the tutorials:
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/
Charles
Thanks Charles for the direct links, and I will spend time reading them. I suppose my only frustration here is that I needed to do something that I consider very simple and I feel I shouldn't have had to read the manual, although I did so for about 20 minutes before giving up. My thinking here is if I have to read a manual for more than 20 minutes to find out how to create a circle of any size and colour I need, without knowing where in the manual to look, then I'm going to ask someone else instead. I'm not lazy, I'm just impatient. SteveC
Stephen, On Sunday 24 July 2005 15:56, Stephen Carter wrote:
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I suppose my only frustration here is that I needed to do something that I consider very simple and I feel I shouldn't have had to read the manual, although I did so for about 20 minutes before giving up.
That would be a reasonable expectation for a program designed to be simple and easy-to-use. The Gimp is a very complicated, sophisticated, full-function raster image manipulation program. It's not reasonable to expect it to have a quick learning curve.
My thinking here is if I have to read a manual for more than 20 minutes to find out how to create a circle of any size and colour I need, without knowing where in the manual to look, then I'm going to ask someone else instead. I'm not lazy, I'm just impatient.
I'd suggest you've chosen the wrong tool.
SteveC
Randall Schulz
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 16:23:21 -0700 Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> wrote:
That would be a reasonable expectation for a program designed to be simple and easy-to-use. The Gimp is a very complicated, sophisticated, full-function raster image manipulation program. It's not reasonable to expect it to have a quick learning curve.
Hmmmnn. I'm not sure I agree with that. If he's come from the Windows environment and had experience with equivalent programs there, he might well expect a quick learning curve, especially where something like drawing a circle is concerned. - Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
On 25 Jul 2005, rkimber@ntlworld.com wrote:
Hmmmnn. I'm not sure I agree with that. If he's come from the Windows environment and had experience with equivalent programs there, he might well expect a quick learning curve, especially where something like drawing a circle is concerned.
The equivalent product in Windows is photoshop and the method of drawing a circle is the same as in the Gimp. Charles -- "Open Standards, Open Documents, and Open Source" -- Scott Bradner (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 06:06:58 -0400 "Charles philip Chan" <cpchan@sympatico.ca> wrote:
On 25 Jul 2005, rkimber@ntlworld.com wrote:
Hmmmnn. I'm not sure I agree with that. If he's come from the Windows environment and had experience with equivalent programs there, he might well expect a quick learning curve, especially where something like drawing a circle is concerned.
The equivalent product in Windows is photoshop and the method of drawing a circle is the same as in the Gimp.
The question was not so much the method as how obvious it was. My experience has been with PSP and it is sufficiently intuitive that I don't remember ever needing to use a manual or consult help, or ask a question in a list. The Gimp is good and I use it a lot, but the occasional need for certain graphics facilities is one of the two reasons why I still keep a copy of Windows on my machine (the other being the need for certain audio and video facilities). - Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
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