On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 20:03 -0600, kwhiskers wrote: > Just last night I tried once again to make a nice desktop wallpaper > uing Gimp. Once again, I couldn't get the damn thing to do what I > wanted. I wanted a very simple picture with two oval holes cut out and > two other images inserted behind. I must have tried for half the > evening, to no avail. In Corel Photopaint I had it done in about an > hour. I am not a graphic artist and barely know how to use these > programs, but I know the basics to get what I need done, more or less. > So, I guess I'm stuck with PhotoPaint for a while... That's why I > bought vmware. Talk about a costly dependence LOL ---- I guess I don't understand - I have been using GIMP 2.2 the last couple of days and it was awesome. The interface is extremely similar to Photoshop so perhaps that is your problem - you are used to Corel Photopaint and it mimics Adobe Photoshop ---- > > It seems a lot of the office junk that gets sent around at work is in > Powerpoint format: cuddly kittens and cute puppies with endearing > quotes underneath. Still, it bugs me that I can't view them using > Linux apps (sometimes I want to steal a picture from one of the > plates, or something). And that's just it: I would like to not use M$ > apps, since I already have alternate tools, but they just don't always > work when I need them. ---- Most of them open for me - you might want to install Microsoft's True Type fonts for compatibility Craig
