Metuchen High School: GIMP

4. Adding a Frame (using patterns)

3 points

This is an exercise intended to show you how adding a frame works. It is not an exercise that you are asked to do. The exercise you are asked to do is discussed below.

In this exercise we'll add a frame around an image.  The frame will come from a pattern.  As an example, we'll work with this image of a monument to Ramses II from ancient Egypt:

Activate the Patterns dialog box: Windows > Dockable Dialogs > Patterns.

To add a frame:

- Enlarge the canvas to make room for a frame

- Choose Image > Canvas Size and increase the canvas size to create space around the image.
- Click Center.  Choose Resize Layers > All Layers.  Click Resize.

- Select the Frame

- Choose the Rectangle Select Tool in the upper-left hand corner of the Toolbox.
- Select the image in the middle (in this case, the photo of Ramses II).
- Choose Select > Invert.  This switches the selection from the image to the frame.

- Fill the frame with a pattern

- Click on a pattern from the Patterns dialog.
- Click on the Bucket Fill tool in the Toolbox.
- In the Bucket Fill tool options, under Fill Type choose Pattern Fill.
- Click in the frame.

Here is the result:



 

Exercise
Find an image that you'd like to work with.  Follow the steps outlined above to add a frame and fill it with a pattern.
 

GIMP Links

Bucket Fill Tool: docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-bucket-fill.html


 

Videos

Putting a border around an image: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mVg7TjmOgE (has sound)