How to Use Krita?!?!? PLEASE EXPLAIN & HELP

[stuff at trackingsolutions.ca]

Try reading this:

http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/index.html

I know this is not quite the answer you are looking for but you cannot expect 
to become good with a graphic manipulation program on Sunday night before 
something is due.

On Sunday 24 June 2007 2:22 pm, tim covell wrote:
> Please help.  I have an asinine school project to do which requires
> fancy graphics.  Here's what I want to figure out to do on Krita
> (or gimp for that matter).  These programs seem to full of bells
> and whistles, but I cannot figure out how to use them.  Here's
> what I want to do.
>
> Put images a, b, c, & d on top of another image in the image of
> a graph.
>
> 	Background is a Velocity v. Time graph
>
> 	At each of the (v,t) points on my graph I want to place
> 	funny clip-arts having to deal with Physics (cannon firing,
> 	guy falling out of plane, etc.)
>
> So, stupid me, I put the big graph on layer 1.  Then I put
> the other pictures on layers 2, 3, 5, etc.  But, HOW IN THE
> WORLD do you move the pictures (layers,2-4)into the right place
> because when you import a picture into a new layer, that layer
> is only as big as that picture, not the whole BIG picture.
> Truly, this should be incredibly simple to do.  I can't even
> figure out how to move the image.  Surely it should be as
> simple as selecting it and then clicking on the selection and
> moving it, right?? Both Gimp and Krita seem make it so incredibly
> cryptic, nay impossible, that I'm about ready to shoot my computer!
> My project is due on Monday (tomorrow).
>
> Sorry to be angry, but it's this total lack of usability which
> makes it hard for me to laud Linux v. Microsoft.  Actually,
> my dad thinks that he might be able to figure out how to do
> this on Amipro under Windows 95 (go figure, an ancient program!).
> Still, it would be nice to know how to do something as simple as
> this because this is the whole point of having GUIs right??
> (Perhaps, if it can be done, you could put THIS in the manual?)
> It's called a "desktop" because you're supposed to be able to move
> things around on it and place things on top of other things.  Surely
> any real image manipulation program will be able to do this.
> Alas, all I can get Gimp and Krita to do is make silly gradients
> and such.  Hey, I could do that with "Display/Image Magick".
>
> Sorry to be acerbic, but this school project is moronic and
> if I don't get it done this week I'll fail this class and
> lose thousands of dollars in my university investment.
>
> TIA!!!