gimp help

[Mark Eggers]

On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 11:45 +0900, Shawn wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've only used gimp a little bit but need to teach an autistic child to
> not run into the street and other things.
> 
> To do that, I need to take pictures and then super-impose a basic no
> sign (like you see for no-smoking) over it.
> 
> Any suggestions for how to do that.  I am going through the gimp help
> browser now but have basically no idea.  I _really_ appreciate it.
> 

Here's one way to do this.

1. Open picture in gimp
2. Add a new layer
3. Switch to that layer
4. Add your "no sign" or use canned bitmaps
5. Merge layers
6. Export to gif (jpg, png)
7. Print

That being said, gimp questions are probably pretty far off topic for
this list.

Here are some sources of information for gimp.

1. http://www.gimp.org - the place for gimp
2. http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/ - tutorials - lots of basic tutorials
3. http://gug.sunsite.dk - gimp user group - lots of information

HTH
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just my two cents . . . .