122 CHAPTER (Web design) 4 DRAWING Tip It s easy
122 CHAPTER 4 DRAWING Tip It s easy to draw straight lines with any of the line-drawing tools. Click once where you want one end of the line to be (GIMP draws a circle there). Then move (with the mouse button up you re not dragging) to where you want the other end of the line, hold down the Shift key (GIMP will show a thin line between the mouse position back to the last place that you clicked), choose your end point, and when you re happy with the line, click the mouse button. Notice the mouse cursor in Figure 4-3. In addition to the normal arrow and the pencil icon telling you which drawing tool is selected, there s a circle around the arrow s point. This shows the size of the current brush. Okay, a pencil normally has a point, not a brush. But this is a Super GIMP Pencil (see the sidebar GIMP Brush Icon Display Options for more information). GIMP BRUSH ICON DISPLAY OPTIONS You can stop GIMP from showing brush size in the cursor by turning off Show brush outline under Preferences . Image Windows. But this feature is very useful: most people, except on extremely slow machines, will want this enabled. Show paint tool cursor, in the same Preferences screen, will turn off the pencil and arrow icons and show only the brush outline. Alternately you can turn off Show brush outline, turn on Show paint tool cursor, and change the cursor mode: from Tool Icon to either Tool icon with crosshair or Crosshair only. This gives you a similar but perhaps more precise result. Your call! You can also choose Black and White instead of Fancy for Cursor Rendering, which may help performance slightly on very slow machines. Brushes Changing the brush gives you control over the width and shape of the line you draw with any of GIMP s drawing tools. There are two ways of changing the brush. You can click on the brush icon in Tool Options, which drops down a menu (Figure 4-4). Or you can click on the brush icon in the Toolbox, to the right of the color swatches, which pops up the Brushes dialog (Figure 4-5).
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