How do i create a circle in GIMP?
Sounds basic, doesn't it? I need to know how to create both a filled and outlined circle and square, with different border thickness' like you can do easily with mspaint. I know it's a great program but this function which I'd consider basic, which I can't find, is driving me nuts! SteveC
On Sunday 24 July 2005 03:24 pm, Stephen Carter wrote:
Sounds basic, doesn't it?
I need to know how to create both a filled and outlined circle and square, with different border thickness' like you can do easily with mspaint.
I know it's a great program but this function which I'd consider basic, which I can't find, is driving me nuts!
SteveC ==========
For simple objects such as this, you might find something like Kolour Paint more to your needs and liking. Also, if you are going to use it in print, you might take a look at Inkscape to create structured (SVG) objects that can be resized easily without losing the clarity of the picture. Kolour Paint is a bitmapped paint program, but with far fewer features than the Gimp, but still very capable. regards, Lee -- --- KMail v1.8 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! ...Calvin & Hobbes
Stephen Carter wrote:
Sounds basic, doesn't it?
I need to know how to create both a filled and outlined circle and square, with different border thickness' like you can do easily with mspaint.
I know it's a great program but this function which I'd consider basic, which I can't find, is driving me nuts!
SteveC
For a circle: select a circle (selection tool and press shift to create circle, not ellipse). To fill: first change foreground color to desired color, then use the filling tool inside the circle. To outline: Edit>stroke selection. This gives an outline in the current foreground color. The square is left as an exercise to the reader. Tip 1: Google "grokking the gimp" and spend a couple of hours reading that. These hours will be paid back with interest. Tip 2: there is a gimp mailing list. Regards, -- Jos van Kan www.josvankan.tk
On 24 Jul 2005, stephen@retnet.co.uk wrote:
I need to know how to create both a filled and outlined circle and square, with different border thickness' like you can do easily with mspaint.
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 -- "If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system." (By Linus Torvalds)
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 20:24 +0100, Stephen Carter wrote:
Sounds basic, doesn't it?
I need to know how to create both a filled and outlined circle and square, with different border thickness' like you can do easily with mspaint.
I know it's a great program but this function which I'd consider basic, which I can't find, is driving me nuts!
SteveC
I use xfig. Also openoffice has a draw program that provides your objective. -- Arun Khan <knura at yahoo dot com> Linux is a wigwam: No Windows, No Gates, Apache inside.
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