The Align and Distribute tool is useful to align the image layers with various image objects. When this tool is selected, the mouse pointer turns to a small hand. By clicking on an element of a layer in the image, you choose the layer which will be moved (with Shift + click, you can choose several layers to be aligned); this focused layer has small squares in corners and is called source. Then buttons in the dialog become active (they remain active during all the GIMP session): they allow you to select the target, i.e other layer, selection, path, the source will be aligned with.
Инструмент можно вызвать следующими способами:
From the main menu:
→ → .By clicking the tool icon in the Toolbox.
By pressing the Q keyboard shortcut.
Можно выбрать несколько слоёв, удерживая нажатой клавишу Shift при щелчках по слоям.
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Иногда легче выделить много слоёв эластичным выделением: щелкните где-нибудь вне воображаемой области, охватывающей нужные вам слои, и обведите ее прямоугольной рамкой, а затем отпустите клавишу мыши. Каждый слой внутри нарисованной рамки окажется выделенным. Заметьте, что теперь нет первого объекта, по которому можно выровнять выделенные слои. |
Normally, tool options are displayed in a window attached under the Toolbox as soon as you activate a tool. If they are not, you can access them from the main menu through
→ → which opens the option window of the selected tool.In this drop-down list, you select the target, the image object the layer will be aligned with.
Изображение: в качестве цели используется изображение.
Выделение: в качестве цели используется выделение.
Picked reference object: The selected object (layer, path, guide) on the canvas.
Эти кнопки становятся активными при выбранной цели.
: to align left edge of source with left edge of target.
: to align center of source on the vertical middle line of target.
: to align right edge of source with right edge of target.
: to align top edge of source with top edge of target.
: to align center of source on the horizontal middle line of target.
: to align bottom edge of source with bottom edge of target.
These options are used when you have several targets and want to arrange them. Here, layers selected with Shift + Click are called «targets». But they are actually sources. «Relative to» options are active to set the target. These transformations are usually relative to «Image».
These options work as Align options, but you can distribute sources evenly.
: to distribute sources evenly horizontally.
: to distribute centers of sources with center of the target horizontally.
: to distribute sources evenly vertically.
: to distribute centers of sources with center of target.