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Image question for Qwenty

peregrineperegrine MVP
edited May 2012 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8

Thanks understand the transform now. @qwenty. sorry to hijack your discussion. One more question - what and how did you do in Gimp to produce the blue rings around the username box and the about box in the image at the top of the discussion. I know you must know an easy way.

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/20103/swapping-about-columns-of-profile-in-a-theme-how#Item_8

I've always found gimp exceedingly difficult to use.

I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

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  • qwentyqwenty New
    edited May 2012 Answer ✓

    peregrine said:
    you did the image with gimp? if not what package did you use?

    Oops! you're asking for that colorful lines?

    Ok, they're drawn by "KolourPaint", which is a weak pkg! equivalent with "Paint" in Windows XP. I use it for fast work! But you can use "Pinta", too.

    peregrine said:
    what and how did you do in Gimp to produce the blue rings around the username box and the about box in the image at the top of the discussion. I know you must know an easy way.

    I'm a general Gimp user as much as I'm a normal computer user! Sometimes, I use stupidly ways!

    However, I took gimp at that picture for changing its perspective. For rings -> kolourpaint: I drew an ellipse around the box and cleaned un-useful lines! But I'm sure a professional user of gimp can do it so easy.

    422
    Use photoshop ...

    PhotoShop for a home-work? It's really expensive and worse: its source isn't free. you don't have any control on it.

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  • Use photoshop its a doddle.

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  • thx 422. but was just curious the step qwenty used to draw it.

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

  • qwentyqwenty New
    edited May 2012 Answer ✓

    peregrine said:
    you did the image with gimp? if not what package did you use?

    Oops! you're asking for that colorful lines?

    Ok, they're drawn by "KolourPaint", which is a weak pkg! equivalent with "Paint" in Windows XP. I use it for fast work! But you can use "Pinta", too.

    peregrine said:
    what and how did you do in Gimp to produce the blue rings around the username box and the about box in the image at the top of the discussion. I know you must know an easy way.

    I'm a general Gimp user as much as I'm a normal computer user! Sometimes, I use stupidly ways!

    However, I took gimp at that picture for changing its perspective. For rings -> kolourpaint: I drew an ellipse around the box and cleaned un-useful lines! But I'm sure a professional user of gimp can do it so easy.

    422
    Use photoshop ...

    PhotoShop for a home-work? It's really expensive and worse: its source isn't free. you don't have any control on it.

  • thx. @qwenty Your graphics work intrigued me. Yesterday, I installed pinta, gnu paint, kolourpaint, and nathive image editor. Played around with Gimp some more, some day I will master it.

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

  • Lol at qwenty not everything in life is free.

    When you get something for free you get what you pay for

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  • peregrine said:
    thx. @qwenty Your graphics work intrigued me. Yesterday, I installed pinta, gnu paint, kolourpaint, and nathive image editor. Played around with Gimp some more, some day I will master it.

    i never found GIMP to be all that intuitive... decent array of functions but not particularly efficient from a tool perspective. I tend to agree with 422, if im doing somewhat complicated raster editing im reaching for Photoshop -you can get elements for next to nothing if you don't want to spring for the big box.

    Even with photoshop on my box, i;ll still reach for ms paint if all im doing is a quick doodle.. you can add all of the graphic elements in that other picture with only a minimal knowledge of ms paint.. use transparent paste mode.

    but the truth in advertising is this: Microsoft PowerPoint will do the best/ fastest doodle job to can image. and i your a student you can get it for next to nothing. Check out the 2010 version.

    here is an example of a doodle done in powerpoint that took roughly 2 minutes.

  • qwentyqwenty New
    edited May 2012

    422 said:

    When you get something for free you get what you pay for

    NOT right in all cases! Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch,... are gratis and ~free(free as freedom) OSes, but they're really safer and more flexible than non-free Mac or Microkill Windows which you should pay $$$$s for them each year! Why should I pay for exclusive windows which force me to buy an antivirus, too!? and worse, they're developing monopoly! When I use gnu, I'm supporting developers of gnu projects, but when I use windows, I'm supporting proprietors of Microkill (->microsift) Inc! NOT developers of windows. banning you from knowledge is a rascal act, which windows, adobe, apple (etc) like that!

    Why should I pay for damn close source photoshop, when there is a gratis powerful equivalent for it (gimp)? new gimp (2.8 version) is equipped with a wealth of new features. why should I sell my liberty to buy the photoshop?

  • qwenty said:
    why should I sell my liberty to buy the photoshop?

    ease of use i suppose...

  • 422422 MVP
    edited May 2012

    pmsl.

    I see a challenge afoot. So essentially, the only GOOD stuff is free ?

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  • i think i'll go to sleep now. i don't want to miss anything exciting.

  • I appreciate all the responses. My question got answered. I was just curious if anybody used gimp (that although with many features, seemed exceedingly laborious to do anything) and qwenty has shown that gimp works for her with a little help from some other software. Likewise the merits and ease of photoshop has also been shown. Since I do most of my things on linux based machine, I was looking for a linux solution and I've realized that part of my problem was learning to use gimp effectively. But with the addition of a few other linux based packages, I think I got it.

    Didn't intend to start a "tempest in a teapot".

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

  • hbf said:

    ease of use i suppose...

    ease of use against of freedom! odd idea?! Ok, It's your lifestyle;

    Would you like to live in a prison, a special one, completely comfortable?

    422 said:
    the only GOOD stuff is free? What a crock of shit

    I'm speaking about free as freedom NOT gratis; but why not a gratis one when it can be compatible to expensive ones?

  • Gimp comes nowhere near to photoshop, its a ridiculous comparison.

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  • hbfhbf MVP
    edited May 2012

    qwenty said:

    hbf said:

    ease of use i suppose...

    ease of use against of freedom! odd idea?! Ok, It's your lifestyle;

    Would you like to live in a prison, a special one, completely comfortable?

    422 said:
    the only GOOD stuff is free? What a crock of shit

    I'm speaking about free as freedom NOT gratis; but why not a gratis one when it can be compatible to expensive ones?

    how comfortable is said prison? are the meals good? do i get free internet?

    try buying a house 2 years before the market crashes, you'll know what a comfortable prison really is.

    I say this in jest... as i should have gone to sleep when i said i would. But really.. gimp vs photoshop.... that's like comparing a tonka toy with the latest version of the grave digger. of course the grave digger costs a lot more, but can your tonka toy actually crush cars?

  • qwentyqwenty New
    edited May 2012

    peregrine said:

    >

    I've always found gimp exceedingly difficult to use.

    >

    I installed pinta, gnu paint, kolourpaint, and nathive image editor.

    @peregrine, Check this script: http://registry.gimp.org/node/59 (January 3, 2008)

    and there is probably better & newer scripts!

  • thanks for the follow-up, will check out.

    I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.

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