(04-20-2021, 06:13 PM)rickk Wrote: Perhaps I'm taking things too literal, but the docs I read describe the program as a command-line graphics program, invoking visions of having to enter an instruction accompanied by scads of parameters and cartesian coordinates at a command prompt to draw a line
DRAW -Line -Yellow -Bold -Curved (between) 0,0 and 8,47 -Gradient -Left
Sorry, that's just the mental impression it gave me.
Somehow, it is. But once you have the right combo, you can reuse it very easily. You can even reuse it for something a tad bigger or smaller, or even slightly different. That's the whole difference between a terminal and a GUI.
(04-20-2021, 06:13 PM)rickk Wrote: Which wouldn't all be bad, in fact sometimes when I'm trying to create a selection exactly 250 pixels wide, centered over an image portion that is 231 pixels wide, I often wish that I could specify the anchor points for the selection with numeric coordinates rather than play "bouncy-bouncy" with my cursor
You can, check the tool options in the Rectangle and Ellipse selector (or the Crop tool). These fields even allow moderately complex arithmetic (for instance you can enter the 300/2 instead of 150).
So for instance if you want a 100px wide selection centered in your 500px image: the X position can be entered as (500-100)/2 or as 500/2-100/2 and you don't need to compute that by hand first and try to click at the right spot.