[Gimp-user] Smoothing inked lines?

2010-07-14 Thread Marc Carson
I've been scanning inks into GIMP, then moving them over to Inkscape for tracing to make the lines smoother. Is there a way to do this in GIMP alone? I don't mean vector tracing, just getting rid of the smaller abnormalities or fuzziness around my inked lines. I already scan at 600 dpi. Here's an

Re: [Gimp-user] Smoothing inked lines?

2010-07-14 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Marc Carson wrote: I've been scanning inks into GIMP, then moving them over to Inkscape for tracing to make the lines smoother. Is there a way to do this in GIMP alone? I don't mean vector tracing, just getting rid of the smaller abnormalities or fuzziness around my inked lines. I already scan

Re: [Gimp-user] Smoothing inked lines?

2010-07-14 Thread mac9416
This is something I've struggled with as well. I'm not sure if I've ever found a good solution, but Selective Gaussian blur comes to mind. It's in Filters Blur Selective Gaussian Blur. Just tinker with the settings and see what happens. Is there somewhere we can see one of the scans you're

Re: [Gimp-user] Smoothing inked lines?

2010-07-14 Thread mac9416
OK, try this: apply a Gaussian Blur to the image (I used it at 7 or 8 pixels) to smooth those lines up, and then apply a Unsharp Mask to sharpen it again. You should end up with fairly smooth lines. You can, of course, tinker with the settings of both filters to fine-tune the result. On Wed, Jul

[Gimp-user] gimp 2.6.10 for Windows tool keep flickering

2010-07-14 Thread Dirk K.
On 13.07.2010 19:29, Dirk K. wrote: There's an updated 2.6.10 installer at http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html and there have been reports that this fixes the problem. Thank you for your help Michael. Unfortunately neither the 32 installation file nor the new 32/64 instalation did help

Re: [Gimp-user] Smoothing inked lines?

2010-07-14 Thread GSR - FR
Hi, m...@marccarson.com (2010-07-14 at 1409.01 -0700): Is there somewhere we can see one of the scans you're working with? Sure. Here's an original panel straight from the scanner: http://friendlyskies.net/projects/comics/originalpanel.png I tried unsharp mask and selective gaussian blur, but

Re: [Gimp-user] Smoothing inked lines?

2010-07-14 Thread David Gowers
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Marc Carson m...@marccarson.com wrote: I've been scanning inks into GIMP, then moving them over to Inkscape for tracing to make the lines smoother. Is there a way to do this in GIMP alone? I don't mean vector tracing, just getting rid of the smaller