draw a circle on a photo??

[Matt Price]

On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 20:56 +0100, James Tappin wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:35:59 -0700
> Matt Price <matt.price at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> 
> MP> hi folks,
> MP> 
> MP> so, all i want to do is draw a circle, or ellipse, or polygon, or
> MP> whatever, on a jpeg image to highlight a feature.  i'm using f-spot
> MP> to manage my photos, and either in f-spot or an external program,
> MP> i'd like to be able to just quickly add such simple markings to the
> MP> image.  can this be done?  i literally just spent an hour trying to
> MP> achieve it with the GIMP.  also tried with openoffice draw, and my
> MP> modifications weren't saved.  what the heck?  surely there's some
> MP> simple way to do this?
> 
> Circle, ellipse and rectangle are quite easy in GIMP.
> 
> 1: Use the relevant select tool to select the region to be outlined
> 2: Edit->Stroke selection.
> 
thank you -- this is what i wanted.  sorry, i guess i was usingweb
tutorials from another era -- i was filling the ellipse, then using
'shrink' which didn't seem to do what i'd intended.  anyway, this works
great.  thanks very much.

matt


> And you're done
> Irregular regions can be handled similarly with the loop selection tool.
> 
> Regular polygons are a litte harder, but Gfig (Filters->Render->Gfig)
> should do the job there.
> 
> James
> 
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