---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: hadi motamedi <motamed...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:12:44 +0430 Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] image foreground/background To: Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knu...@gmail.com>
On 8/28/11, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knu...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/8/28 hadi motamedi <motamed...@gmail.com>: >> On 8/28/11, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 12:56 PM, hadi motamedi wrote: >>> >>>>> Are you talking about objects in a photo? You cannot magically swap >>>>> objects in foreground and background. You can select an object in the >>>>> foreground though, there is a tool for that: >>>>> >>>>> http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-foreground-select.html >>>>> >>>> Thank you very much for your reply. I really mean 'Foreground select >>>> tool' . I am using GIMP 2.2 on my centos 5.6 . Do I need any upgrade >>>> as it seems that this tool is missing on my machine? >>> >>> Foreground select tool was introduced in unstable GIMP 2.3.3 and ended >>> up in stable 2.4. It was first implemented as a plug-in, but I can't >>> seem to find its source code and even so I'm not sure it would work in >>> v2.2. I'd suggest going for 2.4 or even 2.6 if possible. >>> >>> Alexandre Prokoudine >>> http://libregraphicsworld.org >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gimp-user mailing list >>> Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU >>> https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user >>> >> Sorry. It seems that the only solution is to upgrade to centos 6 . > > Can't you use one of the many rpms out there, for example those for Fedora? > http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=gimp > > Or why just not upgrade to CentOS 6? > > > Kind regards > > Johnny Rosenberg > ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ > Thank you for your help. I upgraded to centos 6.0 and now I have the new features of GIMP. I need to replace the foreground image of my image with the foreground of another image. Can you please let me know how it can be done in gimp? _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
