A screenshot of my GIMP while opened
I just came here and found your post about the "eye". I have always known what the eye looked like, I just did not know where to find it. So today I spent hours on Google Images with a search for GIMP's eye icon, hoping it would show me exactly where to find it. But every time I saw anything about it, it was shown in a drop down menu with an eye next to photos. I just wanted to know how you got to this so I could see all the layers listed--and be able to switch back and forth between the layers. So finally, I thought, maybe my Gimp doesn't show the eye listed on my screen, so I learned how to "snip" in Vista to make a screen-shot of my desktop--but first I opened my GIMP with my T-shirt lady in it (and with the 4th layer showing), and I snipped this photo of my GIMP open screen. Then I uploaded the image to Image Shack so I could post the photo here. Been so long since I did this, I only hope I posted the photo correctly in this thread. I wanted to post a better pic than the one I am going to post, but for some reason Image Shack would not let me upload any other shots of my snipped photos. I will ask 2 question after I post this photo about the picture that you posted.
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/3280/gimpsceen.gif
Now for my question about your photo of the eye. Is the way you get to the eye is by going through Layers, Channels, Paths, etc as I saw at the top of your screen? Because if that is the only way you can access it then that is why I have not been able to find it. If it is listed on the screen itself, can you look at my screen shot and tell me exactly where you see it? Also, once I get to the step where the layers are listed, is this when and how you rename them? As you can see by my screen-shot of my lady in the white T-shirt, it would be very hard to make a good photo of her to go onto a public library picture, so my thought was once I got through with editing her photo, it would be a kindness to her to add something in front of her, from waist down, (once I put her on the tree) like a book cart or something. She is not a paid employee of our library, but a volunteer, (and a very nice person), so I guess they can't really say anything to her about dressing professionally for her job. She does have shorts under that T-shirt, you just can't see it in the photo. I have a large photo of a "library tree of books" and I am layering the different employees all through out the tree and then the library is going to print it out and frame it to put on display at the library for all to see. That is one reason I am trying to be so careful with what I am doing with these photos. I am doing this for the library for free, just because I think so much of everyone there--this is not a paid assignment.
Thanks,
Finally Finished All of the Project!
I finally not only finished the lady in the white T-shirt but also finished the whole project once I got through with the T-shirt. I had to use 3 different editing programs to do it, but after much experimenting around with all of the different programs, I think she will like what I did with her T-Shirt--looks almost like a short dress now. I think my 2 problems with making this project, is that it was a big project and I had never used GIMP before trying such a big project--and since I have never used Photo-shop either, everything was very unfamiliar to me. And the second thing is I think I got over saturated from reading so many articles on how to use GIMP and watching dozens of videos about GIMP--it was just too much to take in all at once--I was too overloaded with information and then could not remember half of what I saw and read. I am posting the complete project here so that you can see how it finally all turned out. But just remember when you look at it, this was my first real project using GIMP and I know it is not perfect. I just did my best and hopefully I will learn by all my mistakes when I was completing this project. Here it is:
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/1...friendsmys.jpg
Sorry I some how messed up copying & pasting the code here, but at least you can see it.
Thank you both, General Winters and Jawdeeboy for all your help and your patience with me.
Your Friend,