[Opensource] Penning a drawing

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Thanks for the tipoff. This picture is my first attempt at using the
foreground tool that you mentioned comes with Gimp version 2.4
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/plakboek/1786051671/>
<http://www.flickr.com/people/plakboek/>


This old orange carrot was just sitting on a school desk that you can see in
a previous post and the image was isolated from the background using this
tool.  Very easy to do, very cool (and crunchy too). I cannot wait to show
this off to my students.

Thanks for the tip Victor :-)

Regards Roland

On 28/10/2007, victor rajewski <askvictor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
> > "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
> > change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
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