[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Send Gimp-user mailing list submissions to > gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Gimp-user digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Q: How to apply transparent gradient to image? (D. R. Evans) > 2. Re: Q: How to apply transparent gradient to image? (Rolf Steinort) > 3. Re: Q: How to apply transparent gradient to image? (Akkana Peck) > 4. How to open image in existing gimp instance (Tanveer Singh) > 5. Re: How to open image in existing gimp instance (Michael Beckwith) > 6. Re: How to open image in existing gimp instance (Tanveer Singh) > 7. Re: How to open image in existing gimp instance (Sven Neumann) > 8. Re: How to open image in existing gimp instance (Tanveer Singh) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:33:33 -0600 > From: "D. R. Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Gimp-user] Q: How to apply transparent gradient to image? > To: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > I have a simple PNG image, and I'd like to change the top half so that at > the very top the image is completely transparent, with the opacity > increasing linearly so that halfway down the image (and all the way to the > bottom) the image has 100% opacity. > > I've messed with layers and gradients until I want to scream -- I can't > find the trick that allows me to do this. (It seems like it should be dead > easy.) > > Could someone please point me toward something that describes how to do this? > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:57:52 +0100 > From: Rolf Steinort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Q: How to apply transparent gradient to > image? > To: "D. R. Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain > > On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 15:33 -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > >> I have a simple PNG image, and I'd like to change the top half so that at >> the very top the image is completely transparent, with the opacity >> increasing linearly so that halfway down the image (and all the way to the >> bottom) the image has 100% opacity. >> >> I've messed with layers and gradients until I want to scream -- I can't >> find the trick that allows me to do this. (It seems like it should be dead >> easy.) >> >> Could someone please point me toward something that describes how to do this? >> >> >> > > - If your base layer name is printed in BOLD in the layer dialogue, > right click on it and "add an alpha channel". > > - again right click on the layer and add an layer mask, filled with > white. > > - take the gradient tool with a gradient from black to white. > > - apply the gradient to the layer mask (just paint into the image if the > frame around the layer mask is white) Start where you want to have 100% > opacity and end where you want 0%. > > Rolf > > > http://meetthegimp.org - weekly video podcast about GIMP and photography > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:54:57 -0700 > From: Akkana Peck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Q: How to apply transparent gradient to > image? > To: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > D. R. Evans writes: > >> I have a simple PNG image, and I'd like to change the top half so that at >> the very top the image is completely transparent, with the opacity >> increasing linearly so that halfway down the image (and all the way to the >> bottom) the image has 100% opacity. >> >> I've messed with layers and gradients until I want to scream -- I can't >> find the trick that allows me to do this. (It seems like it should be dead >> easy.) >> >> Could someone please point me toward something that describes how to do this? >> > > - Make a layer mask (Layer->Mask->Add Layer Mask..., or you can use > the context menu in the Layers dialog). Let it default to White > (full opacity). > > - Click on the gradient (blend) tool in the Toolbox. > Make sure your fg/bg colors are Black and White (the defaults) > and that the gradient is FG to BG (the default). > > - In the image window, hold the Ctrl key down, then mouse down anywhere > along the very top of the image, and drag straight down (the Ctrl > key will make it easy to stay exactly vertical) to the middle of > the image, then release the mouse button. > > You're basically done (it should be transparent just as you > described), but you'll probably want one more step: > > - In the Layers dialog, click on the tiny preview that shows your > image, to make sure that it and not the layer mask next to it is > active. You want the image preview to be outlined in white, and > the mask preview to be outlined in black, not vice versa. > (This saves you from getting "You are about to save a layer mask" > errors when you save.) > > If you save it as anything but .xcf, you'll probably get warnings > about how layer masks aren't preserved, but don't worry about those. > If you don't want to see them you can Flatten before you save. > > ...Akkana > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:51:52 +0530 > From: "Tanveer Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Gimp-user] How to open image in existing gimp instance > To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi, > I am using GIMP 2.4 on windows XP. > My workflow is like this > I open up the file browser, right click on image, and open with gimp. > then I edit save and close the image window, leaving gimp running > then I do the same for the next image(right click->open with gimp) > the problem is that it starts a new instance of gimp. I don't want > that. I want the same instance of gimp. How to do that? > Is there a gimp option on the command line which allows you to open > the image in currently running gimp? > regards > Tanveer > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:39:47 -0500 > From: Michael Beckwith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] How to open image in existing gimp instance > To: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Try dragging the image onto the tool area in gimp. > > Tanveer Singh wrote: > >> Hi, >> I am using GIMP 2.4 on windows XP. >> My workflow is like this >> I open up the file browser, right click on image, and open with gimp. >> then I edit save and close the image window, leaving gimp running >> then I do the same for the next image(right click->open with gimp) >> the problem is that it starts a new instance of gimp. I don't want >> that. I want the same instance of gimp. How to do that? >> Is there a gimp option on the command line which allows you to open >> the image in currently running gimp? >> regards >> Tanveer >> _______________________________________________ >> Gimp-user mailing list >> Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU >> https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user >> >> >> > > > Try using Gimp-win-remote. I had a similar problem and this works for me. It can be downloaded from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win-remote
You will need to alter the registry as follows: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\GNU\gimp-win-remote] @="gimp-2.4.exe" (as described in the Readme file.) Good luck! Peter Taylor _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
