[Gimp-user] Image Capture

[rich404]

>Do a search for Gimp + remove background or Gimp + extract foreground,
>the two are roughly the same, depending on the image.
>
>For a book with straight edges, use the free select tool clicking in
>the corners produces straight lines. as screenshot 1
>
>When complete, Invert the selection, Select -> Invert fill with white
>(or black) screenshot 2
>
>Then turn the selection off. Select -> none
>
>Any number (and better) ways

Ok just re-read your post and you do not want to invert a selection (why??)

Make the selection 

Copy it 

Paste it into a new canvas of suitable colour.

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[Gimp-user] Image Capture

[rich404]

>Hi. Is there a simple method (not using inversion, etc) by which I can
>create a floating image of a book. I know it can be done but for the
>life of me, I can't figure it out. I would be so grateful for some
>help.  I've attached an image. What I would like to be able to do is
>select the volume in the upper part of the image and have it be able
>to float on a black or white background. I should add that I know how
>to do the few things I need to know how to do on Gimp, but nothing
>beyond that. Thanks very much.

Do a search for Gimp + remove background or Gimp + extract foreground, the two
are roughly the same, depending on the image.

For a book with straight edges, use the free select tool clicking in the corners
produces straight lines. as screenshot 1

When complete, Invert the selection, Select -> Invert fill with white (or black)
screenshot 2

Then turn the selection off. Select -> none

Any number (and better) ways

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* http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/962/original/02-select.jpg

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[Gimp-user] Image Capture

[atticus]

>Personally, I have a hard time figuring out what "floating" here
>means.
>
>Alex

Hi Alex. Can't say I blame you there. I don't know the terms. I've attached
another image and a bit of additional text. I'm grateful!

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[Gimp-user] Image Capture

[rich404]

>Because when I use the fuzzy tool it invariably selects some of the
>book as well. I'm sorry to be dense, but none of the methods are
>working for me. Thank you for your kindness

Fuzzy select the background? Wrong tool to use for the type of image you posted.
You would use that with a plain colour background.

The example I gave just traces the book outline using the free select tool,
could not be simpler.

There are any number of ways to remove that background. From really basic  - 
just use the eraser tool (carefully) - to probably what I would use, a layer
mask and paint out the background.

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[Gimp-user] Image Capture

[atticus]

>Ok just re-read your post and you do not want to invert a selection
>(why??)
>
>Make the selection 
>
>Copy it 
>
>Paste it into a new canvas of suitable colour.
Because when I use the fuzzy tool it invariably selects some of the book as
well. I'm sorry to be dense, but none of the methods are working for me. Thank
you for your kindness

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[Gimp-user] Image Capture

[atticus]

>Hi. Is there a simple method (not using inversion, etc) by which I can
>create a floating image of a book. I know it can be done but for the
>life of me, I can't figure it out. I would be so grateful for some
>help.  I've attached an image. What I would like to be able to do is
>select the volume in the upper part of the image and have it be able
>to float on a black or white background. I should add that I know how
>to do the few things I need to know how to do on Gimp, but nothing
>beyond that. Thanks very much.
IN ADDITION TO MY FIRST IMAGE, I'VE ATTACHED AN IMAGE TAKEN IN WHICH SOMEONE WHO
KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE DOING HAS SUCCESSFULLY 'CUT' OR CARVED OUT JUST THE IMAGE
THEY WANTED, THEN SET IT ON A WHITE BACKGROUND. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP.

Attachments:
* http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/960/original/126575.jpg

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[Gimp-user] Quicker way to audition fonts?

[GerryPeters]

>A font viewer / manager is the best way.
>
>Just a reminder, it is possible to generate an image of all the
>installed fonts.
>
>Right click in the Fonts dialogue. Of course depending on the number
>of fonts installed, it might indeed be a very long image.

I love that, it's really helpful. I can have some time to study the fonts and
pick out the ones I like the best. Only problem is I can't figure out how to get
all the fonts to do this. My list is about 40 fonts. I have way more than that.

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Re: [Gimp-user] Quicker way to audition fonts?

[Kevin Cozens]

On 2018-06-29 12:38 PM, GerryPeters wrote:

A font viewer / manager is the best way.


There is also Font Manager and Fonty Python in Linux.


Just a reminder, it is possible to generate an image of all the
installed fonts.


IIRC, you can do that via a feature in Scribus.

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Re: [Gimp-user] Quicker way to audition fonts?

[Liam R E Quin]

On Fri, 2018-06-29 at 15:29 +0100, Greg Chapman via gimp-user-list
wrote:
> Hi Liam,
> 
> On 29/06/18 01:49, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> > On Thu, 2018-06-28 at 22:17 +0200, GerryPeters wrote:
> > > The Aa is
> > > really not enough
> > 
> > Windows->Dockable Dialogues->Fonts
> > or youcan get there with the aaa icon at the lower right of the
> > "Aa"
> > font list.
> 
> I don't think that solves the OP's problem. That still only shows an 
> upper and lower case A as a sample of any font.

No, it shows the full fontname and a sample - if you are seeing just
Aa, click on the icon at the lower right of that dialogue (in a right-
to-left locale it might be at lower left).


> I think he's looking for a tool that allows him to enter a phrase
> and 
> then display that in all available fonts - something like what's 
> available at:
> https://fonts.google.com/

Yes, use a font manager for that. Fontmatrix is the most featureful on
Linux probably (but has some extremely dubious features); there's also
a gtkfontmanager that's easier to use but does less.

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Re: [Gimp-user] Quicker way to audition fonts?

[Akkana Peck]

Liam R E Quin writes:
> Greg Chapman via gimp-user-list wrote:
> > I think he's looking for a tool that allows him to enter a phrase
> > and then display that in all available fonts
> 
> Yes, use a font manager for that. Fontmatrix is the most featureful on
> Linux probably (but has some extremely dubious features); there's also
> a gtkfontmanager that's easier to use but does less.

I used to need this a lot, and I found fontmatrix impenetrable and
couldn't find anything else that really did what I wanted, so I
wrote a little Python script, Fontasia, that also lets you group
your fonts into groups you choose, like script, monospace, computer etc.
http://shallowsky.com/software/fontasia/
https://github.com/akkana/scripts/blob/master/fontasia

While inside GIMP, I use Windows->Dockable Dialogues->Fonts
as has already been mentioned, and use the down-arrow in that
dialog to step through fonts. If I'm not sure, I'll use Duplicate
Layer, turn off one of the duplicate layers then continue stepping
through fonts with the later that's still visible, so I end up
with several text layers showing the same text in different fonts.

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Re: [Gimp-user] Image Capture

[Liam R E Quin]

On Fri, 2018-06-29 at 20:03 +0200, atticus wrote:
> Because when I use the fuzzy tool it invariably selects some of the
> book as well.

That's OK, it did when i reied too, and i went back and tidied it up by
subtracting from the selection with the freehand select tool.

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Re: [Gimp-user] Image Capture

[akovia via gimp-user-list]

If you want to get it as exacting as possible, I'd recommend using the path 
tool, then locking the alpha channel and cloning the edges. I did your book 
from the first image real quick and made a 4 min video. I can explain more if 
this is what you're after.

I didn't compress the video so hopefully the quality will be good enough to see 
everything.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mu2nm8v8ovbwn53/book-render.mkv?dl=1

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018, at 2:03 PM, atticus wrote:
> >Ok just re-read your post and you do not want to invert a selection
> >(why??)
> >
> >Make the selection 
> >
> >Copy it 
> >
> >Paste it into a new canvas of suitable colour.
> Because when I use the fuzzy tool it invariably selects some of the book as
> well. I'm sorry to be dense, but none of the methods are working for me. Thank
> you for your kindness
> 
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Re: [Gimp-user] Image Capture

[Liam R E Quin]

On Thu, 2018-06-28 at 23:34 +0200, atticus wrote:
> Hi. Is there a simple method (not using inversion, etc) by which I
> can create a
> floating image of a book.

I think what you are asking for is to make the background be plain
black (or plain white). For the image you have i'd select the red
regions with the Happy Stick / Fuzzzy Select Tool (use shift to keep
adding to a selection, clicking on different parts of the background).
When you've got most of it, you can use the freehand select tool (again
with shift), clicking on a point and then clicking again elsewhere to
make a straight line along the edge of th ebook.

When everything outside the book is selected, use select->grow
selection by 1 or 2 pixels, then feather the selection by 1.5 or maybe
even 2 or 3 pixels, to give a soft edge, and then use control-, or
control-. (control and comma at the same time) to fill the selection
with the foreground or background from the toolbox (or drag the colour
swatch onto the selection if you prefer).

You can use Undo if you make a mistake.

There are more complicated ways to do this with layers and layer masks,
but they are much harder when you're just starting out with gimp.  You
could also try and use the erasor, but i don't recommend that because f
you make a mistake early on and don't notice it, you're stuck.

Hope this helps.

slave ankh / Liam

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Re: [Gimp-user] Quicker way to audition fonts?

[Greg Chapman via gimp-user-list]

Hi Liam,

On 29/06/18 01:49, Liam R E Quin wrote:

On Thu, 2018-06-28 at 22:17 +0200, GerryPeters wrote:

The Aa is
really not enough

Windows->Dockable Dialogues->Fonts
or youcan get there with the aaa icon at the lower right of the "Aa"
font list.
I don't think that solves the OP's problem. That still only shows an 
upper and lower case A as a sample of any font.


I think he's looking for a tool that allows him to enter a phrase and 
then display that in all available fonts - something like what's 
available at:

https://fonts.google.com/

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[Gimp-user] Open PDFs, keep original clarity

[NAwlins_Contrarian]

>I have 12 PDFs of pictures of a map. I want to use GIMP or any other program to
stitch the pictures together.
>
>When I open the PDFs in GIMP, the pictures have bad enough clarity that I
cannot read the words in the pictures anymore. I need to be able to read the
words in the pictures so that the map is usable.
>
>I want to bring the PDFs into GIMP, or another program that I can use in Linux,
to stitch them together. I want the clarity of the pictures to be high quality
and file size is not an issue.
>
>How do I do this?

As long as the original PDFs have clear letters, you should be able to do it
with the right import settings. Take a look at the dialog box I've
screenshotted. You need to use large enough resolution numbers. You may also
want to check the Use Anti-aliasing checkbox.

Just note too that as a basic matter, GIMP cannot edit or concatenate what I'd
call a 'clean' or 'true' PDF. Such PDFs contain vector graphics (geometric
instructions on how to draw the graphics and text). To important these into
GIMP, it has to convert the vector graphics into raster graphics (basically
bitmaps). That conversion will cause at least a little quality loss unless done
at exactly the resolution needed for final use. But done properly, the loss
should be minimal.

There are other PDFs that are basically already wrappers for raster graphics.
Somewhat more quality loss is basically inevitable, but if done right, should be
minimal.

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[Gimp-user] Quicker way to audition fonts?

[GerryPeters]

>Windows->Dockable Dialogues->Fonts
>or youcan get there with the aaa icon at the lower right of the "Aa"
>font list.


Thank you, that solves the problem. I love that I can select the text and use
the arrow key to very quickly audition fonts. - great tip!

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[Gimp-user] Quicker way to audition fonts?

[GerryPeters]

>Windows->Dockable Dialogues->Fonts
>or youcan get there with the aaa icon at the lower right of the "Aa"
>font list.

I just tried a bunch of different fonts using the arrow key to quickly scroll.
When I do this the orange selection tint covers the text, yet I can still get a
pretty good impression.

But then I stumbled across something even better. After I did this and
deselected the text back to normal, I used undo and redo to look at the text in
it's original color, which is really cool and exactly what I was asking for in
this post - thanks

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[Gimp-user] Quicker way to audition fonts?

[rich404]

>Thank you, that solves the problem. I love that I can select the text
>and use the arrow key to very quickly audition fonts. - great tip!

A font viewer / manager is the best way.

Just a reminder, it is possible to generate an image of all the installed fonts.

Right click in the Fonts dialogue. Of course depending on the number of fonts
installed, it might indeed be a very long image.


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[Gimp-user] Open PDFs, keep original clarity

[813bruce]

Awesome! Thanks, guys

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[Gimp-user] Create icons from images

[Pickles via gimp-user-list]

 Other Gimp users constantly post vids about how to use images to create
desktop icons using GIMP. I eventually realised that I had to rename the
file to .ico myself and then, contrary to the instructions I had to EXPORT
the photo and not simply SAVE it, things began to look rosy, until I viewed
the end result (see attached image), my icon is a cat between the normal
Telephone and Gimp icons! Please explain where I'm going wrong?

P.S as instructed I saved the file in *32x32* pixels and renamed it as CAT
*.ico*
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Re: [Gimp-user] Create icons from images

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> On Jun 29, 2018, at 4:47 AM, Pickles via gimp-user-list 
>  wrote:
> 
> Other Gimp users constantly post vids about how to use images to create
> desktop icons using GIMP. I eventually realised that I had to rename the
> file to .ico myself and then, contrary to the instructions I had to EXPORT
> the photo and not simply SAVE it, things began to look rosy, until I viewed
> the end result (see attached image), my icon is a cat between the normal
> Telephone and Gimp icons! Please explain where I'm going wrong?
> 
> P.S as instructed I saved the file in *32x32* pixels and renamed it as CAT
> *.ico*
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Oops - looks like you hit “Send” before attaching the sample image or link. I 
do that way too often, too.


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[Gimp-user] Open PDFs, keep original clarity

[813bruce]

I have 12 PDFs of pictures of a map. I want to use GIMP or any other program to
stitch the pictures together.

When I open the PDFs in GIMP, the pictures have bad enough clarity that I cannot
read the words in the pictures anymore. I need to be able to read the words in
the pictures so that the map is usable.

I want to bring the PDFs into GIMP, or another program that I can use in Linux,
to stitch them together. I want the clarity of the pictures to be high quality
and file size is not an issue.

How do I do this?

Bruce

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Re: [Gimp-user] Image Capture

[Alexandre Prokoudine via gimp-user-list]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:34 AM, atticus wrote:
> Hi. Is there a simple method (not using inversion, etc) by which I can create 
> a
> floating image of a book. I know it can be done but for the life of me, I 
> can't
> figure it out. I would be so grateful for some help.  I've attached an image.
> What I would like to be able to do is select the volume in the upper part of 
> the
> image and have it be able to float on a black or white background. I should 
> add
> that I know how to do the few things I need to know how to do on Gimp, but
> nothing beyond that. Thanks very much.

Personally, I have a hard time figuring out what "floating" here means.

Alex
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