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

2006-01-12 Thread MatMan (sent by Nabble.com)
Just so you know, you're not the only one wondering about this.  I just stumbled accross this website while searching for an answer to the very same problem.  I'm trying to "cut out" a small circular image from a larger photo to use as an accent image on a website.  I actually need to do this many

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

2006-01-06 Thread Gert Blij
Thanks Harish, > -Original Message- > From: Harish Narayanan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thu 05 January 2006 04:56 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Cutout and paste (Newbie question) > > Gert Bli

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

2006-01-05 Thread Vytautas P.
This would work only for formats, that support transparency - gif, png. Others would replace transparency with white, or with background colour. On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:56:08 +0200, Harish Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gert Blij wrote: Basically what I said was that while the rectan

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

2006-01-05 Thread Harish Narayanan
Gert Blij wrote: >Basically what I said was that while the rectangular select works fine, all >the others don't. When I select with Oval, Hand draw or Intelligent >scissors, the cut from the Gimp looks perfect, but when I paste into >OpenOffice Writer it is always a rectangular picture the width a

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

2006-01-05 Thread Gert Blij
; Cc: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Cutout and paste (Newbie question) > > 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? >

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

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

[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