Sharninder Singh-662 wrote:
hey .. this sounds neat .. but this would give me a filled rectangle .. rite ? i want a non-filled one.
Sort of, steps 1 & 2 do a filled rectangle of 1 colour, steps 3 & 4 remove the centre of the filled rectangle (including whatever else is drawn in that area, of that layer), leaving only a border of the width specified at step 3. The inside will be left the background colour - which could be a particular colour or transparent. If you want to avoid deleting other things already drawn inside the area of the rectangle, you will need to do this in a separate layer, or a separate canvas and cut and paste it.
Barney
Unfortunately no. I think I learned the following from "grokking the gimp" but I'm not certain. 1. select a rectangular (or other shaped) area. 2. fill with a colour. 3. shrink selection area by required number of pixels. (right click-> selection-> shrink) 4. cut/delete selection. This obviously can be used for a selection of any shape. HTH, Barney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contactlistmaster@lists.debian.org