11-21-2019, 05:05 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-21-2019, 07:57 PM by marigolden.)
(11-21-2019, 03:32 PM)Blighty Wrote:(11-21-2019, 03:07 PM)marigolden Wrote: The outside selection thing I couldn't get to work though, it would still color inside the selection.
Try using Select > Invert before stroking
Quote:Because of its blending inclination?
You have full control of the blending. In the Stroke Selection dialogue:
"Stroke Line" with Antialisaing off will not give any blending
"Stroke Line" with Antialisaing on will not give a small amount of blending
"Stroke with paint tool" will have a variable amount of blending, depending on the brush that is set. A soft brush will give more blending than a hard brush.
Here is another method of creating an outline. No need to stroke selection. Have a look at the layers in the xcf. Use the eye in the layers dialogue to look at the layers one at a time to see what each contains.
I did do select>invert but the stroke still went inside it
Not a big deal besides, as I'll make the circles bigger to roughly compensate.
That is a wonderful example!! I would do that but unfortunately I'm trying to match the look of the dots on the original image around it and they have the pixelated stroked look not the clean look.
Also, I did try your recommendation to turn the antialisaing off, an excellent option to know about...annoyingly however it was *too* harsh compared with the original dots>< They're in some kind of more thinly distributed blending than Gimp allows.
What I actually ended up doing was fuzzy selecting and then pressing shift to additionally select the inbetween colors around the original dot, copying it and pasting, so it was as identical to the original as possible. If it had been too big of a selection to feasibly do that (these were little cartoon snowflake dots) I would've probably just done a path and copy pasted. Despite my color fiddling it never turned out to be satisfactory after all because of the lack of exactness of antiliasing thickness.