Scroll Saw Portraits using GIMP - L4

[papawolf]

this is what i am stuck with!!! Thanks
PaPaWolf

[Travis]

Hrmmmm...I don't see any desktop or tools. It's missing your standard Windows task bar. Is this how your screen looks? Are you using Windows?

Give this a try. Download and install Sizer. This program will allow you to resize your window quickly and easily. You can find the program here. Once you have it installed, follow these steps.

1- In your tool tray, you should find the sizer icon (looks like a + with arrows on each end).

2 - Right click the icon in the tool tray and select Configure Sizer.

3 - Select 640x480 then choose the Move To: Center from the pulldown. Then click OK.

config.jpg

4 - On your windows Taskbar RIGHT click the window to pull up a dialog box. Select Resize/reposition, then choose 640x480.

resize.jpg

This should snap your window into a smaller size and center it on your screen. Let me know if this dosn't work for you. I'll see what else I can figure out.

[Lakelad]

Travis, I don't know if you are still checking this page but I have been proceeding through the lessons and have come upon a problem. I have not had a problem with the Shatner image, it is loaded and I am proceeding to the next lesson. However, when I try to load my other image when I go thru the new image process and click o.k. the image in my layers box goes from the image I am trying to work with to a white background and then that is what I get when I transfer it to the area just prepared for the 8 x 10 picture. Can you help me?

Thanks, Gary

[Travis]

Yup. I keep checking the lessons for questions. So feel free to ask in the lesson you're having trouble with.

So if I understand you right, you've created a blank 8x10" file. Then you drag your new image into the 8x10 page and it disappears?

Take a look at your original image. In the blue bar at the top of the image, does it say RGB?

[Lakelad]

Travis it does have RGB. I have noticed since I sent the post in my layers dialogue box the Shatner image, as well as my personal pic I'm trying to work with, is the second one and listed as Background. Above that and the first in the box is a Floating Selection (Pasted Layer). I notice in your demo just the pic you are working with is in the layers box to start with. Any thoughts?
Gary

[Travis]

Ahhh...When you drag or paste a picture into your new document, you'll notice the layer is called "Floating Selection (Pasted Layer)" Select that layer and click the New Layer button at the bottom of your Layers Palette. This will turn your layer into a workable layer. Make sure your picture layer is above the background so you can see it.

Let me know if this doesn't do the trick for ya.

[Lakelad]

Travis I don't know what is happening now. First of all when I go through the process and resize the picture to 8X10 and 150000 pixels and then do the white background the picture I am working with disappears from the layers window and is replaced by background which is just white, I'm sure because that is what I selected. Don't know where my image is going. In addition while the image is still in the layers box, it is labeled as background, not original. In addition suddenly my window where comes up originally, the one where we load the picture has moved so the right hand side of it is completely off my screen and I can't figure out how to get it back on the screen. My computer illiteracy may be my undoing in this effort.
Gary

[Travis]

If you're setting up your document to be 8X10 and 150000px, you're making a HUGE document and your small picture is probably so small, you can't see it. It should be 8x10" with 150px. I think that might be the problem. Give that a try and let me know.

[Lakelad]

Travis my mistake I was making it 150, it just reads 150.000 in the pop up window. Have tried rebooting and still can't get my screens onto the screen where I can see them entirely. Feel free to punt if you like and I'll move on, seem to be taking up a lot of time with this.
Gary

[Lakelad]

Travis finally solved the getting the screens to where I can read them problem, again my computer illiteracy at work made an easy thing complicated. If I could just get the pics to load in the created 8x10 document I think I'd be in business.
Gary