Dear Eric, On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 07:49:36AM -0600, Eric Westfall wrote:
Thanks for the information, though I regret the answer. As I had Gimp recommended to me to use to create covers for the ebooks I write, I was simply hoping to have a manual available that I could easily read and search. I am not a developer of any sort, and have no idea what a "git clone" is or what dependencies are. I'll see if I can find online tutorials somewhere that explain (hopefully) how to do the only four things I am really interested in: (1) being able to resize an image where I control both height and width [right now the scale feature seems to allow me to change one or the other and then Gimp keeps the original proportions];
Something like this:
http://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-tutorial-quickie-scale.html
(2) adding text [title/author];
this (unfortunately only part of the reference, but perhaps still
helpful):
http://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-image-text-management.html
(3) > superimposing either parts of several photographs onto a blank background, or parts of one photo on top of another,
You want to work with layers:
http://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-image-combining.html
and (4) winding up with a jpeg file [required for ebook publishing via Amazon, etc.].
and this:
http://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-images-out.html
My partner of 30 years died unexpectedly just under 20 years ago, but he lived by the principle that if you don't ask, you don't get. So if you can point me in the direction of solutions to any of the above issues, that would be greatly appreciated. If not, thanks for taking the time to explain the user manual situation.
Hope that will help, even if it helps to get started. Kind Regards, -- Roman Joost www: http://www.romanofski.de email: roman bromeco de
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