draw a circle on a photo??

[James Tappin]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:35:59 -0700
Matt Price <matt.price at utoronto.ca> wrote:

MP> hi folks,
MP> 
MP> so, all i want to do is draw a circle, or ellipse, or polygon, or
MP> whatever, on a jpeg image to highlight a feature.  i'm using f-spot
MP> to manage my photos, and either in f-spot or an external program,
MP> i'd like to be able to just quickly add such simple markings to the
MP> image.  can this be done?  i literally just spent an hour trying to
MP> achieve it with the GIMP.  also tried with openoffice draw, and my
MP> modifications weren't saved.  what the heck?  surely there's some
MP> simple way to do this?

Circle, ellipse and rectangle are quite easy in GIMP.

1: Use the relevant select tool to select the region to be outlined
2: Edit->Stroke selection.

And you're done
Irregular regions can be handled similarly with the loop selection tool.

Regular polygons are a litte harder, but Gfig (Filters->Render->Gfig)
should do the job there.

James

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