(01-08-2020, 04:52 PM)Blighty Wrote: 1.Thank you for your kindness. I hate to be stupid, but are you saying that step three will erase the temporary grid?
View > Show Grid
2.
Image > Configure Grid
3.
View > Snap to Grid
A word of caution:
Bitmap editors (Gimp included) work in pixels. Whole pixels only, not fractions of a pixel.
If your setup is in inches small rounding errors can occur as things are converted to the nearest whole pixel.
The dpi you have specified is used to do the conversion.
I only need it there to position some shapes, then to go away.
The word of caution is welcome, but not understood. I think in things I understand and know.
I understand and know inches. I do not understand pixels.
Are you saying after I spend hours drawing shapes onto my background, it's going to print out all messed up
because I used an inches ruler instead of a pixels ruler?
(01-08-2020, 05:16 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-concepts-i...uides.html
Thank you to you, and all who are helping.
Before trying GIMP I was using a supposedly free program NCH DrawPad.
Something I noticed was that it was literally impossible to use the mouse to get a shape
in the right position within a grid.
In my original post, I have a link that shows the game board I am trying to create.
If anyone can suggest the best way to create it, please tell me.
Drawpad turned out to be a lie. It is not free. You get halfway through a project
and suddenly it pops up saying that to continue, you have to pay.
I would call that:
Bait and Switch
Fraud
Extortion
Criminal
I am Grateful for GIMP.....but I have to admit, it's DAUNTING.
For example, the steps needed to be taken to draw a ring and fill it with color......so many steps mean
so many ways things could go wrong.
Is there a version of GIMP for normal people?
By that I mean, none of this is even remotely intuitive.
To me, everything should be in one place, and everything should be Alphabetical.
I don't know software. I know the alphabet. That is in muscle memory.
I know what a ring looks like.
Why not a box with a ring in it. I click on the box and then my mouse will put a ring on the screen that I can
drag into the size I need. Simple.