Image question for Qwenty
peregrine
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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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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.
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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?
ease of use i suppose...
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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.
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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".
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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?
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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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?
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@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.
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