[Gimp-user] Cutout and paste (Newbie question)

2006-01-04 Thread Gert Blij
Hi, I am (very) new to The Gimp and not a graphic designer. I just want to use some basic stuff and I am getting into it quite nicely. However, for the life of me I can't find something that I reckon is very basic. I want to cut out part of an image (rectangular, round or oval, polygon, etc) and

Re: [Gimp-user] Cutout and paste (Newbie question)

2006-01-04 Thread Andrew
Gert Blij wrote: Hi, I am (very) new to The Gimp and not a graphic designer. I just want to use some basic stuff and I am getting into it quite nicely. However, for the life of me I can't find something that I reckon is very basic. I want to cut out part of an image (rectangular, round or ova

Re: [Gimp-user] Help with creating banner

2006-01-04 Thread Vytautas P.
What way you want to strech it? Is it bigger than you need? Is it smaller? Is just one side of image bigger/smaller than needed? Is it some shape? On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 05:14:47 +0200, AJ *** <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm attempting to create a 468x60 banner for a website I'm designing. I'm at

Re: [Gimp-user] Cutout and paste (Newbie question)

2006-01-04 Thread Harish Narayanan
Gert Blij wrote: >I want to cut out part of an image (rectangular, round or oval, polygon, >etc) and copy and paste it to somewhere else. How do I do that? > > The instructions Andrew provided will work nicely within the same image window or multiple images within the GIMP. Unfortunately, if you

[Gimp-user] old GIMP screenshots wanted

2006-01-04 Thread Axel Wernicke
Hi all, a week ago I translated a chapter of the GIMP manual that is dealing with the GIMP history. Given the fact that this is about ten years of open source and contribution involving lots of lots of people I was curious if there aren't a couple of screenshots from the early stages of G

Re: [Gimp-user] old GIMP screenshots wanted

2006-01-04 Thread Vytautas P.
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[Gimp-user] size of file

2006-01-04 Thread Helen
Is there a reasonably easy way to tell the size of a photograph?  I have a photo on screen, and the bar at the bottom of the image says the photo is 37.7 MB.  I was pretty sure that could not be true, so i listed it in Konqueror and Konqueror says the file is 2.7 MB, which is closer to what I expec

Re: [Gimp-user] size of file

2006-01-04 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 09:36 pm, Helen wrote: > Is there a reasonably easy way to tell the size of > a photograph? I have a photo on screen, and the > bar at the bottom of the image says the photo is > 37.7 MB. I was pretty sure that could not be true, > so i listed it in Konqueror and Konq

Re: [Gimp-user] size of file

2006-01-04 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 06:36:01PM -0500, Helen wrote: > Is there a reasonably easy way to tell the size of > a photograph? I have a photo on screen, and the > bar at the bottom of the image says the photo is > 37.7 MB. I was pretty sure that could not be true, > so i listed it in Konqueror and K

[Gimp-user] RE: Gimp-user Digest, Vol 40, Issue 4

2006-01-04 Thread Gert Blij
Thanks Andrew, I got that working for a rectangular copy and paste, but when I use the elipse select, the free select or the intelligent scissors, it cuts as per the created outline, but when I paste (into OpenOffice Writer) it pastes it as rectangular picture. Is there any way that I can paste i

Re: [Gimp-user] RE: Gimp-user Digest, Vol 40, Issue 4

2006-01-04 Thread Owen Cook
-- On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Gert Blij wrote: > Thanks Andrew, > > I got that working for a rectangular copy and paste, but when I use the > elipse select, the free select or the intelligent scissors, it cuts as per > the created outline, but when I paste (into OpenOffice Writer) it pastes it > as re