[Opensource] Penning a drawing

[victor rajewski]

And one _really_ cool feature that this version comes with is foreground
selection. Say you have a person in the foreground you want to select.
Choose the foreground select tool, where the first step is to very roughly
draw an outline around the person (very rough is good enough). Then the next
step is to scribble on some of the person (within the boundaries of the
actual person). Then, presto, it's done. So much nicer than mucking around
with the lasso.

vik

On 10/28/07, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  <http://www.flickr.com/photos/plakboek/1782201276/>
>  Gimp version 2.4 on Ubuntu Linux<http://www.flickr.com/photos/plakboek/1782201276/>
> <http://www.flickr.com/people/plakboek/>
> Here is a screenshot of the software GIMP, <http://www.gimp.org> version
> 2.4 This is a powerful graphics software package with many cool features
> including new icon theme, scalable brushes, revised selection tools, new
> color menu, full-screen editing, new crop tool, improved printing, red eye
> removal, perspective clone and lens distortion tools.
>
> Not only are there flavours of Gimp that run on just about any computer
> operating system, because the software is FLOSS it can be freely downloaded
> and used by my  students and colleagues. There is even a  variant called GIMP
> Portable <http://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/gimp_portable>that can run on a USB drive or another called
> Gimpshop <http://gimpshop.blogspot.com/2005/10/what-is-gimpshop.html> that
> changes the interface to something resembling Adobe Photoshop,
>
> Gimp has attracted some criticism (perhaps unfairly) because of its user
> interface. As Donna once pointed out to me, the right mouse button is your
> friend in the default Gimp interface and will bring up many of the functions
> needed or looked for.
>
> Once users get become familiar with the interface of one software package
> they are often reluctant to adapt or master the interface of another. When
> the general concepts of layers, filters and functions are so similar, it is
> sad to see them stuck on this learning curve. None of the major graphics
> software packages really work 'out of the box' without some external help
> with lessons or tutorials. In the context of a secondary school, arguments
> about 'industrial software standards' are phony and undignified.
>
> It all comes down to your personal taste, needs, funding and experience.
> As a lite user, it does exactly what I need from a software graphics package
> with the basic functions just a click away. :-)
>
> --
> Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
> http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au
>
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