On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Alicia Kemp wrote: > Can I use GIMP to make EarthMandalas a la http://www.earthmandalas.com/
Calling it a mandala is a bit of exxageration :) Nevertheless, yes -- you can do that with GIMP Selecting the first sector from the photo is going to be difficult with GIMP. I'd recommend using Inkscape to draw the circle's sector with the Circle tool (Ctrl+Shift+drag to draw a perfect circle, then drag the right handle and input the exact angle you need in the top toolbar with the tool's settings). Copy the sector to clipboard, in GIMP go to the Paths dockable dialog, right-click for contextual menu and use "Paste a Path" command. Then select the newly pasted path, move it to desirable location and convert it to selection )bottom toolbar of the Paths dialog). Before rotating, move each new piece of the "mandala" so that its corner with the smallest radius is right on top of a likewise corner of the adjacent piece. Then when you rotate, there will be a handle in the center of the layer which is the rotation center. Move it to that very corner with the smallest radius. That way you will be able to make perfect alignment of pieces. That's beginning to sound like a complete tutorial mostly because the author pf the original tutorial at http://www.earthmandalas.com did a lousy job at explaining things. Otherwise you'd be able to repeat 80% of the actions as is. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list