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Does anyone use GIMP photo editor?
tomstickland
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I've been using this for a while and find it infuriatingly hard to use.
Tonight I'm importing aerial photos and lining them up.
I thought that I should add a new layer, paste the image in, then crop the selection, then move it. Then merge the layers down.
I've done about 10 images so far but haven't disovered a repeatable way.
When I paste an image in it puts it on a "floating layer". I want it to make that a normal layer. Sometimes it does if I create a new layer. Sometimes it doesn't.
So then I tried pasting the new image in and then making a new layer. That put the new pasting on a new layer, but set its boundaries at the size of that image, not the entire canvas.
The whole application seems pernickity and non intuitive.
Tonight I'm importing aerial photos and lining them up.
I thought that I should add a new layer, paste the image in, then crop the selection, then move it. Then merge the layers down.
I've done about 10 images so far but haven't disovered a repeatable way.
When I paste an image in it puts it on a "floating layer". I want it to make that a normal layer. Sometimes it does if I create a new layer. Sometimes it doesn't.
So then I tried pasting the new image in and then making a new layer. That put the new pasting on a new layer, but set its boundaries at the size of that image, not the entire canvas.
The whole application seems pernickity and non intuitive.
Happy chappy
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I believe Windows Live Photo Gallery has a tool for creating panoramic photos.0
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I've worked it out.
GIMP doesn't always work properly, so I just close it and reopen it.
The technique I used was:
New layer
Paste in new image
Click on the "floating layer" and make that into a new layer.
Delete the unused layer.
Trim the image.
Move it.
Merge the layers down.
The move it doesn't always work.Happy chappy0 -
Hi
Try this, super powerful and it stitches and balances the colours of images for you. Download from here http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html it is free0 -
I recommend PAINT.NET aswell. I like it better than the GIMP.. the free ones are ok, but Photoshop does rule0
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You can make GIMP look and feel closer to Photoshop with the Gimpshop hack.save-a-lot wrote: »I recommend PAINT.NET aswell. I like it better than the GIMP.. the free ones are ok, but Photoshop does rule"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain0 -
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