[muglo] Re: Greetings Cards

>From: Paul Thomas <paul_thomas@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: MUGLO List <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [muglo] Greetings Cards
>Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:17:25 -0400
>
>I am considering making some Christmas Cards - I know it's early
>but......
>
>I have a number of pertinent questions which someone may be able to
>answer:
>
>1.  Is there special paper/card to use with an inkjet printer?  If
>paper, what is the max weight can one use?
>
>2.  Is there any special facility for making cards available in
>standard programs, AW, etc. without buying special programs or free
>downloads?
>
>3.  I seem to remember in the old days one could get a 'snap' lassoo
>feature in some paint programs to select the outline of an object such
>as a photo head, etc. in which you could roughly outline the object and
>then the lassoo would snap to the shape  Is this possible in any
>standard program without investing in a more expensive program such as
>Photoshop which I am sure has such a feature?  Perhaps PhotoStudio has
>it?

GraphicConverter has some features that might offer what you seek but it 
doesn't have the magnetic lasso (you might be able to use the 'magic wand').

The GIMP might offer what you're looking for: 
<http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/> 
<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22990>.

Download Gimp.app and make sure that X11 is installed on your computer (X11 
is included on the OS X 10.4 installation DVD and is available as a 
stand-alone download from Apple for 10.3 
(http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/x11formacosx.html)).

An alternate app, GIMPShop (, has the menus set up to be more PhotoShop-like 
(same/similar short cuts and menu names) than GIMP normally is.

The GIMP has a 'scissors tool' that works like a magnetic lasso 
(http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-iscissors.html).

Eric.


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