Hello

 - non-rectangle-bound guides:
      Guides that can be enabled to have any angle, which means that they do       not have to be restricted to be 0 degrees or 90 degrees (being parallel       to the window).

      This feature can be helpful, e.g. when correcting pictures, or for drawing parallels       that do not fit the 0/90/180/270/360 degree orientation.

      It would be good, to enable/disable this behaviour via toggle box, so that normal behaviour       will be available and guides can be restricted to classical window-parallel behaviour.

I think we have seen this request already several times and I definitely agree it could be useful. Your request made me take a look at the code (app/display/gimpdisplayshell-draw.c, app/core/gimpimage-guides.c, /app/core/gimpguide.c) and it actually seems possible. I'll add it to my to-try list for when I have some more time.

 - boundary guides, instead of middle.guides:    Guides, where the outer boundary of a drawing tool snaps to the guide (instead the middle of the    drawing tool snapping to the guide).

   This would be helpful for drawing in general, and correcting pictures: the color will    not pass this line of the guide, which means, you can be sure no color enters a certain region.

This does not seem trivial to code - in fact with how I remember the paint core works, this is going to be one very hard hack... Also, I think that if the purpose is just to stay inside of the lines you can use a selection (create it using the guides and freeform selection) and stroke it on a new layer with a mask which is exactly the selection - I do this all the time. Stroking a selection is usually faster than me painting it by hand, and it's probably more accurate.

 - Adding Multiple Guides
   (there is a Script for this on www.meetthegimp.org, but native would be nice)

   This feature is good for some repetitive tasks, where a lot of Guides will be needed,    something like a guide-grid.

Can you give a direct link to the script? I definitely agree this sounds useful - it's worth checking if we can simply include this script with GIMP (or at least if you give us a link to it, we'll be able to write something similar with extra features if needed).

~LightningIsMyName

On 08/01/2010 05:42 PM, LightningIsMyName wrote:

Hello

- non-rectangle-bound guides:

I think we have seen this request already several times and I definitely agree it could be useful.

FYI, here's a bug report with a non-finished patch: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344109

/ Martin

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 5:19 AM, wrote:

http://forum.meetthegimp.org/index.php/topic,735.0.html

There are Links to some versions of that script. Pick the last one. ;)

There is also a grid of guides script here: http://registry.gimp.org/node/12003

Chris