On Jan 30, 2008 10:35 AM, Senectus . wrote:

I'm a very occasional user of the GIMP and various other tools, one thing that I miss terribly in GIMP is the ability to pick and use a "shape"
In PSP you can, in a menu system pick open a menu with a large assortment of shapes such as arrows, speech bubbles etc and plonk them on an image then rotate and resize to suit your purposes.

Is anyone aware of a plugin or something for the GIMP that allows the same thing?
I know that if I spent an hour or so dicking around I might be able to simulate the same function but what I'm after is speed and clean simplicity...

Rather than a plugin, you could just make your shapes with paths and store them in a separate .xcf file, then just drag whichever one you want from that .xcf into the one you are working on. From there, the transform tools work on Paths, so you can rotate, scale, etc. to get things however you want them to be.

--- "Senectus ." wrote:

I'm a very occasional user of the GIMP and various other tools, one thing that I miss terribly in GIMP is the ability to pick and use a "shape"
In PSP you can, in a menu system pick open a menu with a large assortment of shapes such as arrows, speech bubbles etc and plonk them on an image then rotate and resize to suit your purposes.

Is anyone aware of a plugin or something for the GIMP that allows the same thing?
I know that if I spent an hour or so dicking around I might be able to simulate the same function but what I'm after is speed and clean simplicity...