Re: [Gimp-user] can't enter text or use tools like smudge blur
jim j. wrote: > .. It's powerful and potentially useful tool, but without > effective, timely, interactive help, it's not going to be very useful except > for expert programmers with lots of time on their hands. Well, I know this is an inherently wrong statement, because I am not an expert programmer, I don't have a lot of time on my hands, and I use GIMP quite successfully for image manipulation, both manipulating photographs, and in other drawing tasks. > Without [a good search engine help tool and live support] or > a really active user community, it's not very useful. Well, I'll concede that the help tool in Windows GIMP is not functioning as it is apparently intended to work, and I'll concede further that the on-line documentation is out of date, but the documentation is there, even if you have to search a bit for it. Further, as far as a "really active user community", there is one, and it works pretty well. I saw your request for help, but due to insufficient information from you on exactly what the problem was, I had to take care of other issues first. GIMP is a sufficiently complex tool, that a request for help needs to contain some level of detail. If I were to ask for help for an issue you such as you raised, at minimum I'd provide the platform (Windows, MAC, or Linux] and version or distribution, the version of GIMP you are using, a link to an image which is giving me problems, and step by step what I'm doing, and what I expect to see happen, but is not. My vision is not what it used to be, and it's a bit hard to see your monitor from my workstation. ns ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] can't enter text or use tools like smudge blur
Finally figured out answer. Sadly, this might be a deal breaker for using GIMP. Too bad. It's powerful and potentially useful tool, but without effective, timely, interactive help, it's not going to be very useful except for expert programmers with lots of time on their hands. It really would be worth charging a fair amount to charge for GIMP to provide a good search engine help tool and live support. It still would be lots less than Photoshop. Without it or a really active user community, it's not very useful. My problem was simply that the initial pix I downloaded to work on were reduced resolution so tools were compatible in size. When I tried to get serious about editing a full res image 10x the reduced size, the tools were too tiny to see. When I resized them appropriately, all was well. Sure wasted a lot of time figuring it out. No help at all from GIMP or anybody else. A pity. >I downloaded gimp the other day and was able to play with it right away. >Overlaying text, smudging, airbrushing images. A great tool--or so I thought. >Opened it today and could no longer use tools I was using before. Icons show >up like the smudge tool, but no circle that actually smudges the3 image. Text >box shows up but no text shows up in the box outline image. Looked up "stuck" >in the users manual and locked the layer I was working on per instructions (I >think). Uninstalled/reinstalled Gimp. No change. Please help >ASAP. Really don't want to have to buy Photoshop. Thanks > > -- jim j. (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] can't enter text or use tools like smudge blur
I downloaded gimp the other day and was able to play with it right away. Overlaying text, smudging, airbrushing images. A great tool--or so I thought. Opened it today and could no longer use tools I was using before. Icons show up like the smudge tool, but no circle that actually smudges the3 image. Text box shows up but no text shows up in the box outline image. Looked up "stuck" in the users manual and locked the layer I was working on per instructions (I think). Uninstalled/reinstalled Gimp. No change. Please help ASAP. Really don't want to have to buy Photoshop. Thanks -- jim j. (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
