Center an object to the center of the image.

[Thomas Steinbach]

Helll NG,

I'm new to gimp2 and I don't know how to center an
object to the center of the image as shown at:

http://www.failure.bravehost.com/gimp/aligntool/

Hope you know what I mean and that sombody can
help me. The circle in scrrenshot #1 should appear
to the real center of the image like in screenshot #2

btw: the align toold doesn't work as I thought and
I don't understand that tool. Please give me a simple
step by step solution to center that circle to the center
of the image. Thank you.

Thomas

[Ofnuts]

My understanding:

a) You can only move layers, so the movable objects should be in their
own layer

b) These layers should be cropped to the object itself, without margins
in most cases.

Then, once you have the circle in a layer cropped around it:

1) Do a selection on the whole image ("Select/All")

2) Select the align tool, and pick "align relative to selection"

3) Click on the circle, and this should light up the alignment buttons

4) Click on the "center vertically" and "center horizontally" buttons in
any order

--
Bertrand

[Thomas Steinbach]

Hello Ofnuts,

> a) You can only move layers, so the movable objects should be in their
> own layer
>
> b) These layers should be cropped to the object itself, without margins
> in most cases.
>
> Then, once you have the circle in a layer cropped around it:
>
> 1) Do a selection on the whole image ("Select/All")
>
> 2) Select the align tool, and pick "align relative to selection"
>
> 3) Click on the circle, and this should light up the alignment buttons
>
> 4) Click on the "center vertically" and "center horizontally" buttons in
> any order

Great - That's it.
But for me as a new user that are not very intuitive steps.
Anyway it's working and now it makes sense - thank you.

Thomas

[Ofnuts]

I'm not a new Gimp user, but believe it or not, that's the first time I
use the alignment tool. Maybe I have the same mindset as the Gimp
designers :-)

--
Bertrand