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The Gimp is BIG now

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The Gimp is BIG now JamesGreen 09 Mar 21:04
  The Gimp is BIG now Robert Leibl 09 Mar 21:14
   The Gimp is BIG now JamesGreen 09 Mar 23:38
  Flipping an image (was: The Gimp is BIG now) Robert Leibl 09 Mar 21:15
  The Gimp is BIG now David Gowers 09 Mar 21:48
JamesGreen
2010-03-09 21:04:32 UTC (almost 15 years ago)
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The Gimp is BIG now

I used Gimp back when it first came out and I use to know my way around it pretty well. Not anymore! I just got Gimp 2.6.8 and OMG...it has like 100x the feature set of the original! I'm lost and can't make it work. :(

So, I thought that if I explain what I need to do maybe some of you could point me in the right direction.

I'm trying to create an icon for my guild in an MMO. The icon must be exactly 20x20 pixels and no more than 57k bytes total. Easy enough. I want to use the head of an digital image I found, cut it out, create a mirror of it, then rotate it 45 degrees (so that I can get the largest image of the head as possible), and then paste it onto a 200x200 pink (255 R/0 G/ 255B) canvas. I will then reduce the image down to 20x20 and import it into the game. The pink layer will be transparent in the final in-game product.

I think I can figure out how to rotate the 2nd, head, layer without disturbing the pink layer...But I'm having problems with creating the mirror image. Where is the mirror function in the menus? Is there a mirror function in Gimp?

I hope you can help me...Thanks a bunch, guys!

Robert Leibl
2010-03-09 21:14:16 UTC (almost 15 years ago)

The Gimp is BIG now

JamesGreen wrote:
[...]

I think I can figure out how to rotate the 2nd, head, layer without disturbing the pink layer...But I'm having problems with creating the mirror image. Where is the mirror function in the menus? Is there a mirror function in Gimp?

Hi James

To mirror an image or layer use (among other things) [Image] -> [Transform] -> [Flip Horizontaly] or
[Layer] -> [Transform] -> [Flip Horizontaly] respectively.

cheers
robert

Robert Leibl
2010-03-09 21:15:36 UTC (almost 15 years ago)

Flipping an image (was: The Gimp is BIG now)

JamesGreen wrote:
[...]

I think I can figure out how to rotate the 2nd, head, layer without disturbing the pink layer...But I'm having problems with creating the mirror image. Where is the mirror function in the menus? Is there a mirror function in Gimp?

Hi James

To mirror an image or layer use (among other things) [Image] -> [Transform] -> [Flip Horizontaly] or
[Layer] -> [Transform] -> [Flip Horizontaly] respectively.

cheers
robert

David Gowers
2010-03-09 21:48:56 UTC (almost 15 years ago)

The Gimp is BIG now

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:34 AM, JamesGreen wrote:

I used Gimp back when it first came out and I use to know my way around it pretty well. Not anymore! I just got Gimp 2.6.8 and OMG...it has like 100x the feature set of the original! I'm lost and can't make it work. :(

So, I thought that if I explain what I need to do maybe some of you could point me in the right direction.

I'm trying to create an icon for my guild in an MMO. The icon must be exactly 20x20 pixels and no more than 57k bytes total. Easy enough. I want to use the head of an digital image I found, cut it out, create a mirror of it, then rotate it 45 degrees (so that I can get the largest image of the head as possible), and then paste it onto a 200x200 pink (255 R/0 G/ 255B) canvas. I will then reduce the image down to 20x20 and import it into the game. The pink layer will be transparent in the final in-game product.

I think I can figure out how to rotate the 2nd, head, layer without disturbing the pink layer...But I'm having problems with creating the mirror image. Where is the mirror function in the menus? Is there a mirror function in Gimp?

You probably want one of the two 'flip' items in Image->Transform menu. Or if you want to just mirror a single layer, Layer->Transform menu

JamesGreen
2010-03-09 23:38:49 UTC (almost 15 years ago)
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The Gimp is BIG now

JamesGreen wrote:
[...]

I think I can figure out how to rotate the 2nd, head, layer without disturbing the pink layer...But I'm having problems with creating the

mirror

image. Where is the mirror function in the menus? Is there a mirror

function

in Gimp?

Hi James

To mirror an image or layer use (among other things) [Image] -> [Transform] -> [Flip Horizontaly] or
[Layer] -> [Transform] -> [Flip Horizontaly] respectively.

cheers
robert

Thanks, robert!