On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:41:48 +0000, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> Open the GIMP, and there doesn't seem to be much there. There's, like, a
> million ways to select an image region, but once you selected it, all
> you can do to it is clone it or apply a filter to it. Big deal.

Kinda makes my point, though - the difference between "I don't know how" 
and "it's clearly impossible to" (applied when you really mean the first 
sentence, even if you don't know it).

> Now surely there's more to it than that (who the hell would bother
> developing such a big piece of software just to apply an emboss
> effect?), but it's not very apparent from the UI. It appears you have to
> somehow combine the features in highly non-obvious ways to make it do
> anything interesting.

= tons of flexibility once you learn how to use it.  :-)

Jim

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