GIMPin' ain't easy
I have to make a poster for a poster session at this conference at which I'm presenting. A couple of choices, then: Go to campus and use PhotoShop and/or PageMaker, or sit around the apartment and download and learn GIMP, which I'd been meaning to do anyway. Not the most intuitive program I've ever used. The main thing I need to know, which I haven't yet found in the documentation, is how to insert (or place) a smaller image into a larger image. Anyone know how?
Alas, it would have been faster to drive to campus.
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insert / place / paste?
How do you mean "insert" -- like something more complicated than selecting, copying, and pasting?
Mike
Tried that
I tried going to the folder where the image is located, selecting and copying it, and pasting it into my poster in GIMP, but it just pasted a blank layer, which showed up in the list of layers as "Floating Selection (Pasted Layer)."
What I want to do is like File --> Place in PhotoShop -- when you select "place," you can navigate to the folder where your image is located. Then you can select it, click place, and it plunks the smaller image in the middle of your larger image, and you can move it where you want it.
One thing that's confusing me is, I don't have an "Insert" option in the menubar. Just File, Edit, Select, View, Image, Layer, Tools, Dialogs, Filters, and Script-Fu.
Oh!!
I have to open the file up in GIMP that I want to place, do a select all, then paste it. Thanks, though! I wouldn't have figured it out without your comment, Mike.
worked for me
I just tried it myself; seemed to work fine. File > Open > image1.jpg; File > Open > image2.jpg; little square select box (top left of the toolbar), drag it around the area you want to insert from image1.jpg; Edit > Copy; go to image2.jpg and Edit > Paste. Does that do it?
Mike
Aha
You already got it, I see. No prob. :-)
Mike
gimp
go to:
http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/writing/help/graphics/gimp/
jonathan should have told you that!
Yellow Dog
gimpShop
I haven't had a chance to check this out myself, but a student pointed me to Gimpshop, a GIMP plugin that makes gimp work more like Photoshop. Seems like it might be helpful for you.