On 05/13/2015 08:48 PM, Steve Lett wrote:

Hi everyone!

[...]

In chapter 3 it starts out telling you how to fill in the lines with colour etc. But I think they should have started at the beginning with drawing the lines. What do you think? Thats a hell of a price to pay for a book and not find the basics in it, hey?

Am I mistaken?

Maybe yes and no? I have seen the Book Of GIMP and it looked like advanced material only. Obviously a chapter on "bare bones basics" would not have been out of place...

Try here though:

The online GIMP manual has a Common Tasks section that does include drawing straight lines:

http://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-tutorial-quickies.html

An introduction to image file formats and their uses might also be useful. Note that the GIMP "saves" files to its own native XCF format, and "exports" images to numerous other formats for purposes like web display, printing, etc.

http://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-images-out.html#gimp-using-fileformats-export-dialog

This tutorial on basic photo enhancement is one of the best, now its only home is the Wayback Machine:

http://web.archive.org/web/20100714014911/http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/gimp_tutorial

After working through these materials, the Book Of GIMP may prove a lot more useful.

:o)

Steve

The archive.org address I gave for the Matt McIrvin tutorial does not include the pictures, ouch. This one does:

http://web.archive.org/web/20101126043833/http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/gimp_tutorial/

There is a straight line tutorial on the tutorials section of the website ( http://www.gimp.org/tutorials):

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Straight_Line/

GIMP Quickies _has_ been updated on the tutorial section as well ( http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/GIMP_Quickies/).

A basic photo enhancement tutorial is in the pipeline when I find some time. :)

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 8:20 PM Steve Kinney wrote:

On 05/13/2015 08:48 PM, Steve Lett wrote:

Hi everyone!

[...]

In chapter 3 it starts out telling you how to fill in the lines with

colour

etc. But I think they should have started at the beginning with drawing

the

lines. What do you think? Thats a hell of a price to pay for a book and

not

find the basics in it, hey?

Am I mistaken?

Maybe yes and no? I have seen the Book Of GIMP and it looked like advanced material only. Obviously a chapter on "bare bones basics" would not have been out of place...

Try here though:

The online GIMP manual has a Common Tasks section that does include drawing straight lines:

http://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-tutorial-quickies.html

An introduction to image file formats and their uses might also be useful. Note that the GIMP "saves" files to its own native XCF format, and "exports" images to numerous other formats for purposes like web display, printing, etc.

http://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-images-out.html#gimp-using-fileformats-export-dialog

This tutorial on basic photo enhancement is one of the best, now its only home is the Wayback Machine:

http://web.archive.org/web/20100714014911/http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/gimp_tutorial

After working through these materials, the Book Of GIMP may prove a lot more useful.

:o)

Steve

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2015-05-14 2:48 GMT+02:00 Steve Lett :

Hi everyone!

I'm a brand new user of Gimp and I am not off to a good start.

I purchased the Book of GIMP by Olivier Lecarme recently. When I tried to find how to draw lines I could not find it anywhere in the book. You would think that in a book about how to make graphics it would be reasonable to expect a clear and detailed description of how to draw lines of various types? Yes?

In chapter 3 it starts out telling you how to fill in the lines with colour etc. But I think they should have started at the beginning with drawing the lines. What do you think? Thats a hell of a price to pay for a book and not find the basics in it, hey?

Am I mistaken?

​We can discuss for some time about what should be present in the basics. Since GIMP is the GNU Image Processing Program, image processing is probably more basic than image drawing. Anyway, probably you did not search for a long time, since on page 87, Figure 3.125 is named "Drawing a straight line". A subsection of the same title begins on page 85.

Olivier Lecarme

Sorry to make a second answer to this message: do you really think that $49.95 ($32.93 on Amazon) is such a "hell of a price" for a book of 674 pages in full color, who gave work to two authors for three years? When you filled the tank of your car the last time, how much did you pay?

2015-05-14 2:48 GMT+02:00 Steve Lett :

Hi everyone!

I'm a brand new user of Gimp and I am not off to a good start.

I purchased the Book of GIMP by Olivier Lecarme recently. When I tried to find how to draw lines I could not find it anywhere in the book. You would think that in a book about how to make graphics it would be reasonable to expect a clear and detailed description of how to draw lines of various types? Yes?

In chapter 3 it starts out telling you how to fill in the lines with colour etc. But I think they should have started at the beginning with drawing the lines. What do you think? Thats a hell of a price to pay for a book and not find the basics in it, hey?

Am I mistaken?

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Olivier Lecarme

On 14 May 2015 at 02:52, Olivier wrote:

We can discuss for some time about what should be present in the basics. Since GIMP is the GNU Image Processing Program, image processing is probably more basic than image drawing.

Nah...that actually would be "GIPP"- a fearsome darkside arch-rival coordinated by Wilbur, the Dark Coyote.
Here we deal with the GNU Image MANIPULATION Software, and Wilber the GIMP is the one featured in our splashes.

Anyway, probably you did not search for a long time, since on page 87, Figure 3.125 is named "Drawing a straight line". A subsection of the same title begins on page 85.

-- Olivier Lecarme

You're perfectly right about the meaning of the name, and I'm sorry for my absentmindedness. Which does not change the fact that image drawing is not the most fundamental usage of GIMP, and that the author of the initial message did not look seriously in the book.

2015-05-14 15:15 GMT+02:00 Joao S. O. Bueno :

On 14 May 2015 at 02:52, Olivier wrote:

We can discuss for some time about what should be present in the basics. Since GIMP is the GNU Image Processing Program, image processing is probably more basic than image drawing.

Nah...that actually would be "GIPP"- a fearsome darkside arch-rival coordinated
by Wilbur, the Dark Coyote.
Here we deal with the GNU Image MANIPULATION Software, and Wilber the GIMP is the one featured in our splashes.

Anyway, probably you did not search for a long time, since on page 87, Figure 3.125 is named "Drawing a straight line". A subsection of the same title begins on page 85.

-- Olivier Lecarme

Olivier Lecarme