Map editing help please

LuvinLunch

Hi,
I'm useless with images so this may be a stupid question but.....

I have a map. It's in jpg/png format. I need to add irregular shapes around buildings to it and colour in the shapes.

Could anyone recommend how I do that. Paint is excruciatingly slow.

All help much appreciated

Luvin Lunch

Johnboy1951

What do you mean by "irregular shapes"?

Do you want a different shape on each building?

If a single shape would do ... such as a circle then I would use GIMP or other graphics program and add a layer with circles on each building.

LuvinLunch

Thanks for the reply.

The irregular shapes are shapes on a map of a campus. So i need to colour in the gap between two buildings and around monuments and into nooks and crannies. So I need to mark out a multi sided unprecitably shaped object on the map and colour it in. I'll have a look at GIMP.

LL

Johnboy1951

LuvinLunch wrote: »

Thanks for the reply.

The irregular shapes are shapes on a map of a campus. So i need to colour in the gap between two buildings and around monuments and into nooks and crannies. So I need to mark out a multi sided unprecitably shaped object on the map and colour it in. I'll have a look at GIMP.

LL

Any good graphics editor you are familiar with should suffice.

It sounds like you will have to do each piece manually which will be time-consuming, depending on number of individual 'colourings' you have to do.

Be sure to work on a copy only and preserve the original to allow for errors and deletion of attempts.

LuvinLunch

Thanks for the reply again.

My question is, what is a good graphics editor?

mordeith

LuvinLunch wrote: »

Thanks for the reply again.

My question is, what is a good graphics editor?

Photoshop, Gimp, anything that allows you to work with layers (saves having to start all over again if you make a bags of something).

Gimp is free so start with that.

me_irl

mordeith wrote: »

Photoshop, Gimp, anything that allows you to work with layers (saves having to start all over again if you make a bags of something).

Gimp is free so start with that.

I would also recommend GIMP (no seriously, that's what it's called), but it might be 'overkill' for this...

But for something like this, Paint.net should suffice.

https://www.getpaint.net/

Johnboy1951

If Gimp is too much for what you need you could use Krita which has long been one of my favourites ...

https://krita.org/en/item/krita-available-from-the-windows-store/

http://filehippo.com/download_krita/

http://www.filehorse.com/download-krita-64/


******* I have never downloaded from any of those sites so cannot give an opinion on what you get. *******

me_irl

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

If Gimp is too much for what you need you could use Krita which has long been one of my favourites ...

https://krita.org/en/item/krita-available-from-the-windows-store/

http://filehippo.com/download_krita/

I've used Krita, Pinta, even Greenshot might work (a screenshot / annotating tool).

Pretty much every highly rated program on the AlternativeTo site (here)

But sure you're spoiled for choice when it comes to image editing. Just pick the one that will do the job!

Ursus Horribilis

Gimp is awful for newbies. Paint.net is more user friendly. I know someone who made up some of those floor plan/fire exit route signs using paint.net. He used layers - something well worth learning a little about to save you heartache.

mordeith

In fairness Gimp isn't the most user friendly. I couldn't remember Paint.Net but I've used it before and it's decent

LuvinLunch

Thanks a million for replies. I just used paint in the end but I'll check out GIMP. Can't believe microsoft is getting rid of paint. It's a grand little photo editor I think.
LL

me_irl

LuvinLunch wrote: »

Thanks a million for replies. I just used paint in the end but I'll check out GIMP. Can't believe microsoft is getting rid of paint. It's a grand little photo editor I think.
LL

They're not.

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/07/24/ms-paint-stay/#v7SfEy0Swm4S3gO4.97

LuvinLunch

Thanks a million for the replies again. I'll definitely try paint.net.

Great news paint is being kept

LL