#Scribus snap to grid series
#Scribus snap to grid windows

His front facing primary image was just as bad, or worse. His six chosen images were dull and dark, and his text could only be read under studio lighting. The card that they produced was appallingly bad. The Carpenter is clearly skilled at his job, but he has little knowledge about digital issues. I didn't have to think about anything other than the ideal crop.Įvery image dropped into place perfectly, and displayed as planned. and choose any of the Excel provided dimensions, and enter the exact dimensions that best matched my choice. I could now use 'rectangle select', and drag the box to an ideal size and position. It only took a few minutes to set up, and it worked wonderfully. The Gimp window was shrunk slightly and positioned to the right of Excel.

#Scribus snap to grid windows

On the windows desktop, the Excel window was shrunk to just show the two columns, and placed on the left of the desktop. I multiplied each dimension by a series: 1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3. This was primarily just so that, while my mind was fully focussed on the image, I could decide the exact final view.

#Scribus snap to grid series

Therefore cropping was essential, and I wanted to do this in series with the 'mod work' required on each image. The final display on the card would be probably at the limit of effective viewing. The range of images (that I could choose from) had been taken with different cameras. I have an East Yorkshire accent, merged with a Hull accentĭifferent sized source images cropped to proportion It opened up methodologies that I never knew existed. Thank you very much for that 3 part tutorial Rich! A reminder to Save your work as a Gimp. Editing those layer masks for individual layers. Gimp provides for layer groups - use the option. Need rounded corners, an old trick using gaussian blur and the threshold tool. Use Gimp to render a grid to exact sizes <<< Use Gimp for the arithmetic Cropping a layer to an exact size <<< Use Gimp for the arithmetic Various ways of adding a guide at a specific point Set up border guides from a selection <<< Use Gimp for the arithmetic.

Always best to start off with correct settings. Set up a canvas and check the printing size. Everything basic Gimp, no extra scripts/plug-ins.ġ. Some short videos on making a template, not a tutorial, just some simple procedures to use. Quote.I think that it highlights the need to set up your base image for good divisibilityĭid you know that several of the gimp dialogues can perform simple arithmetic. In this case, to maintain ratio, 1050 would drop to 1020, and divisibility wouldn't matter, as there is plenty of play with the text. the images are currently 333.Ĭhanging them to 336 provides divisibillity: The grid could then be any of those sizes, which would make alignment very easy. I'm thinking that would be a good base size to go for. However, playing around with numbers 1440 is a great size, as it is divisible by: Not great, but it is the width that counts in this case. It is clear that the ideal will be to have the grid of images divisible as per the base image.Ī bit of arithmetic first, makes the job that much easier. It's particularly visible the smaller the borders become.

The eye can see the most minute discrepancy in borders. Getting this right makes such a difference. I think that it highlights the need to set up your base image for good divisibilityĪnyway. studying the grid settings was very worthwhile. Is this possible, or is there a correct way of dealing with this problem? Ideally, I'd like to set up a grid of maybe slightly rounded frames, and just swap in and out the images. However, I'm learning as I go, and from past experience, I've learned that there are sometimes better ways of doing a job. I think that I need to experiment with snap to grid. So I would then have images with rounded corners I could first round the corners using the Decor filter change xcf file and paste as a new layer. How I've done it now is scale an image to required size. 6 shows bigger images.Ĭan I set up a layer or a layer per image, in a grid of frames, so that i can then swap in different photos, just to see how they work with each other? The image size is almost there (to have equal borders).ġ2 shows more skills. The borders need tweaking as do the letter spacing. I'm happy with the text and artisan logo concept. Quote: A couple of highly skilled lads have asked me to sort their postcard out. Aligning multiple radius image frames to swap in different images?