GIMP image slicing (was Re: [oclug]for the mac / linux fans)

[Raymond Wood]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 09:20:22PM -0500, gabriel imagined:
> you all make good points and i thank you for the pointers of
> the "gaps" i mentioned (ie. that middle button "hand" tool is
> pretty neat"), but i still can't find one thing: image
> slicing.  cropping isn't slicing and translating your entire
> image into one indexed image just to get one part of it to
> save as a gif isn't useful.

Apparently this is possible with GIMP (though I'd wager not
quite as slick as with Photoshop :)

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o Click on the '4-arrow' 'Move' icon in the main GIMP toolbox;
o Move the cursor over the image (a '4-arrow' icon appears
  alongside the cursor);
o Move to the edge of the image, hovering the cursor over the
  'ruler', until the '4-arrow' icon disappears;
o click/hold the mouse and drag from the border (alternately
  coloured yellow and grey dashes) into the centre of the image
  -- a guideline follows the cursor -- drop the guideline where
  you will;
o Create a few more guidelines until satisfied;
o Now, right-click and follow this path: Image -> Transforms ->
  Guillotine.
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This will slice one large image into several smaller ones,
following the guidelines you have set.

See also Brad's recent post questioning the rationales of 'image
slicing'.

Cheers,
Raymond
-- 
"You deserve to be able to cooperate openly and freely with other
people who use software.  You deserve free software."
 -Richard M. Stallman, Free Software Foundation, http://www.fsf.org
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