Hi, "miriam clinton (iriXx)" <iriXx@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > The Rect Select Options though is a feature that few designers need > in a menu - it would be better to use a custom Color swatch tool - > which is invaluable. I don't understand. Would you mind to elaborate on this? > The Colormap utterly baffles me. Sorry? > Erm.... how do you add a layer mask? I usually add a layer mask > simply by selecting Layer mask while i'm working with a layer - no > need to select it with the Move tool or the Selector tool. This one > baffles me Huh? Go to the Layers menu, choose "Add Layer Mask". Also available from the right-click menu in the Layers dialog. > I'm actually (sadly) testing the ;atest Winblows version (Win ME) - at > the moment there's not enough room on my laptop to run both GNU/Linux > and winblows - and I have to use Flash and Fireworks for my work. But > perhaps thats a good thing - there are a few bugs. I had a crash on my > first go... it had to do with TTF fonts, but I wasnt using the Font > tool, and all my fonts are ttf except those installed by Adobe > Illustrator - so it should have read them in correctly. The message > was **WARNING (recursed)**. Couldn't load font "MS Sans Serif 8" > falling back to "Sans 8" aborting... This is a known problem. GIMP isn't crashing, it just pops up a message dialog because of a bug in the GTK+ theme. This is explained in the FAQ at the place you downloaded GIMP for windows and it has been taken care of. The next version shouldn't have these popup windows. > Speaking of which - there's no option for CMYK color when starting a > new file, although you can up the resolution to print levels (300dpi > - 600dpi). CMYK is the only format used for print - which would be > the only case where you'd need 300dpi - so I don't understand why > this option is there, without CMYK color. GIMP doesn't have CMYK support except some rudimentary things like a color selector that allows you to select colors in CMYK notation. You can however very well design or edit material for print in RGB so it makes a lot of sense to work in RGB mode in high resolutions. What was your background again? > Default opening tool should be set to the 'move/select' tool - opening > with the selector tool can often cause dangerous mistakes, moving > sections when you dont want to! The default tool in 2.2 will be the paintbrush. > One feature I'd love to see is drag and drop from one image to > another. I use this frequently, rather than cutting and pasting > layers. You can drag and drop from the layers dialog, even between two layer dialogs. There's a lot to drag and drop in GIMP and also between GIMP and other applications. GIMP 2.2 will also improve clipboard support. Sven
