Creating Mac icons with GIMP When developing for iOS, the OS handles the masking of the image to give it a rounded rectangle look, but for the Mac icons this does not currently appear to happen. The icon asset set expects 16×16, 32×32, 64×64, 128×128, 256×256, 512×512 and ...
Introduction: Gimp filters There are so manyfiltersavailable withGimp— and no simple way to preview them all — that I forget what they all look like. To help with this problem, I created this page as a “Gimp filters cheat sheet” to help remind me of what all the filters look like....
I'll start with an image of my avatar. I've changed the background to red to help make the effect stand out. Let's get started. Open your image in GIMP and choose theRectangle Select Tool. In theTool Options Dialog, selectRounded Cornersand choose a radius for the corners. For this ...
# Shrink the rectangle and paint it with white gimp_selection_shrink($img,1); gimp_context_set_foreground($colorWhite); gimp_edit_fill($layer, FOREGROUND_FILL); # Add a drop-shadow of the current selection script_fu_drop_shadow($img,$layer,0,0,15,$colorBlack,80,0); # Merge visible...
Now pick the Rectangle Select tool, double-check that in the Tool Options dialog box, the mode is set to 'Replace the current selection' and create a rectangle around your text. For a nice touch, also check the 'Rounded corners' box under Tool Options. I'm using a radius of 11.6, ...