2005/9/13, Chris Spencer:

Does the GIMP have anything like Photoshop's polygon lasso tool? I've found this tool extremely useful. It's like the GIMP's free select tool, but it allows you to select an arbitrary polygonal selection area by clicking out the points the way you would for a path. It's essentially the freedom of the free select tool with the precision of the rect select tool.

I see your point. You can easily use paths to do that (click at the points you want and ctrl-click at the first one to close the path. Then turn the path into a selection). Nevertheless, I agree that a polygon selection tool would be nice...

Hi,

Chris Spencer writes:

Does the GIMP have anything like Photoshop's polygon lasso tool? I've found this tool extremely useful. It's like the GIMP's free select tool, but it allows you to select an arbitrary polygonal selection area by clicking out the points the way you would for a path. It's essentially the freedom of the free select tool with the precision of the rect select tool.

Just use the path tool and set it to polygonal mode. You can convert the path to a selection after you closed it.

Also, does anyone know an easy way to make word balloons? In Photoshop this could be easily be done by selecting an oval area (ellipse select), union that with a triangular selection (polygon select), then convert to path and stroke.

That's pretty much how you'd be doing this in GIMP as well. I would however suggest to create this balloon as path and save it to disk. You can then reload the path whenever you need a balloon, scale and stretch it to the desired size and stroke it.

Sven

Hi,

Steve Stavropoulos writes:

I see your point. You can easily use paths to do that (click at the points you want and ctrl-click at the first one to close the path. Then turn the path into a selection). Nevertheless, I agree that a polygon selection tool would be nice...

And probably one of the easiest tool one could possibly add. So if someone wants to get his/her hands dirty in GIMP code, this is a good chance...

Sven

Hi,

Chris Spencer writes:

Thanks. However, can you perform boolean operations on paths? I see add, subtract, and intersect functions for selections, but only a "merge" option for visible paths, which just places all nodes on the same layer.

Booleam operations on paths are not trivial. Inkscape seems to have some code for this that we might want to borrow.

Sven

On 9/13/05, Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

Chris Spencer writes:

Also, does anyone know an easy way to make word balloons? In Photoshop this could be easily be done by selecting an oval area (ellipse select), union that with a triangular selection (polygon select), then convert to path and stroke.

That's pretty much how you'd be doing this in GIMP as well. I would however suggest to create this balloon as path and save it to disk. You can then reload the path whenever you need a balloon, scale and stretch it to the desired size and stroke it.

I dunno about photoshop, but in GIMP, you can stroke selections as well as paths.

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 12:03:30AM -0400, percy tiglao wrote:

On 9/13/05, Sven Neumann wrote:

Chris Spencer writes:

Also, does anyone know an easy way to make word balloons? In Photoshop this could be easily be done by selecting an oval area (ellipse select), union that with a triangular selection (polygon select), then convert to path and stroke.

That's pretty much how you'd be doing this in GIMP as well. I would however suggest to create this balloon as path and save it to disk. You can then reload the path whenever you need a balloon, scale and stretch it to the desired size and stroke it.

I dunno about photoshop, but in GIMP, you can stroke selections as well as paths.

if you add the path via a script, gimp resizes it perfectly for you. i have a script that is adding svg to two different sizes of image, changing to a selection and filling with a gradient or a color. it should be just as easy with "word balloons".

carol