ubuntu gimp

exup

not used this program much, but is there an easy way to expand the background area around an image?
It's easy on MS paint as you just drag the area larger and end up with the extra space in the seleceted background colour -
but no matter what I try with gimp, it just gives me the chequerboard section which I can't utilise.

Baldur

The manual should give you the information you need - http://docs.gimp.org/en/

prost

try google with kolourpaint or showphoto. They're much more user friendly. In kolourpaint you drag a box & it expands the picture. But it is for kde not gnome.

showphoto is part of the digikam software

Darksun

You can use Image>Canvas Size to resize and then Layer>Layer to Image Size to expand your drawing layer

exup

will have a go at this when I get back on the linux PC - thanks for the advice

Robin_T_Cox

Have you tried running MS Paint on your Linux box using Wine? (Wine is the Linux Windows emulator, which enables you to run many Windows programs on a Linux box).