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Subject:
Center an object to the center of the image.
Date:Fri, 9 Oct 2009 11:57:19 +0100
Helll NG, I'm new to gimp2 and I don't know how to center an object to the center of the image as shown at: http://www.failure.bravehost.com/gimp/aligntool/ Hope you know what I mean and that sombody can help me. The circle in scrrenshot #1 should appear to the real center of the image like in screenshot #2 btw: the align toold doesn't work as I thought and I don't understand that tool. Please give me a simple step by step solution to center that circle to the center of the image. Thank you. Thomas
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Subject:
Re: Center an object to the center of the image.
Date:Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:55:15 +0100
Hello Ofnuts,
> a) You can only move layers, so the movable objects should be in their
> own layer
>
> b) These layers should be cropped to the object itself, without margins
> in most cases.
>
> Then, once you have the circle in a layer cropped around it:
>
> 1) Do a selection on the whole image ("Select/All")
>
> 2) Select the align tool, and pick "align relative to selection"
>
> 3) Click on the circle, and this should light up the alignment buttons
>
> 4) Click on the "center vertically" and "center horizontally" buttons in
> any order
Great - That's it.
But for me as a new user that are not very intuitive steps.
Anyway it's working and now it makes sense - thank you.
Thomas
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Subject:
Re: Center an object to the center of the image.
Date:Fri, 9 Oct 2009 18:03:33 +0100
Thomas Steinbach wrote:
> Hello Ofnuts,
>
>> a) You can only move layers, so the movable objects should be in their
>> own layer
>>
>> b) These layers should be cropped to the object itself, without margins
>> in most cases.
>>
>> Then, once you have the circle in a layer cropped around it:
>>
>> 1) Do a selection on the whole image ("Select/All")
>>
>> 2) Select the align tool, and pick "align relative to selection"
>>
>> 3) Click on the circle, and this should light up the alignment buttons
>>
>> 4) Click on the "center vertically" and "center horizontally" buttons in
>> any order
>
> Great - That's it.
> But for me as a new user that are not very intuitive steps.
> Anyway it's working and now it makes sense - thank you.
I'm not a new Gimp user, but believe it or not, that's the first time I
use the alignment tool. Maybe I have the same mindset as the Gimp
designers :-)
--
Bertrand