[ale] Preferred Paint program

[David Corbin]

On Sunday 03 August 2003 07:42, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 07:13, David Corbin wrote:
> > I tried the Ctrl  while drawing to constrain it.  I'm sure that a book
> > would help me, but what I'd rather have is a simpler, more intuitive
> > tool. GIMP is very powerful, but not always obvious in it's use.  One of
> > the things I do like about PSP, is that a layer can be "objects" like
> > dia, etc. and they can be mixed with bitmap layers.
>
> That is how the Gimp treats things as well. My wife started tinkering
> with it a few weeks back as she wanted to change the color of a graphic
> she had to match something else on the page. She has now mastered the
> art of create new layer, add stuff to it, manipulate layer to position
> stuff, save. She made an animated gif as was vary pleased with herself.
>

GIMP supports layers, but I've never seen anything in the app or the web that 
indicates it supports "objects".   the moment I draw something (line, text, 
etc), it's now pixels.  Please, please, please, prove me wrong.

> With "Groking the Gimp" available online, as well as the site "the
> graphics muse" (sorry, I don't have the URL) who uses the Gimp and Linux
> for everything, a bit of a learning curve and you'll have surpassed PSP.
> Be sure to check out the add-on plugins. There are many that do some
> amazing things. There are some drawing aids that help make the Gimp more
> of an image creation tool as well.
>
> There's always xfig (which I _still_ use to create diagrams for my
> classes).
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