[Gimp-user] Smoothing out the image edges?

[Elwin Estle]

Try converting the selection to a path and stroking the path.  Or better yet, see if you can start with a path from the very beginning.  The stroke on paths seems to be a bit smoother than the one on selections.


--- On Sun, 12/28/08, Ajay Gautam <ajay610 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Ajay Gautam <ajay610 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Gimp-user] Smoothing out the image edges?
> To: gimp-user at lists.xcf.berkeley.edu
> Date: Sunday, December 28, 2008, 8:04 PM
> I followed the tutorial at:
> http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Borders_On_Selections/
> 
> and created:
> http://ajaygautam.com/star.png
> 
> The image is very rough. I would like to either create a
> smoother
> image, or smooth this one out.
> 
> I tried finding information on google, but perhaps I
> wasn't searching
> for the right thing.
> 
> Any help / pointer(s) in the right direction would be very
> much appreciated.
> 
> PS: I am VERY new to graphic design, methods and
> terminology. Pointers
> to documentation discussing basic concepts and related
> terminology of
> computer graphic design would be VERY much appreciated too.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Ajay
> 
> 
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