Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp latest version

2009-01-16 Thread Owen Cook
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 01:44:30PM +0530, Nicholas I wrote: > Hi, > > I am using ubuntu os, how do i upgrade my gimp to the new version 2.6. > > I tried using the apt-get install gimp by referring the documentation, but > did not work, it still gets the older version. > > any help ? Which v

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp or inkscape?

2007-04-05 Thread Owen Cook
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 08:13:39PM -0600, Alex Feldman wrote: > Hi, > > I have limited experience with Gimp, almost all of it with photographs, > and essentially none with Inkscape. I want to make some simple maps of > trails in the area, and mark them with mileages and a few comments. My > p

Re: [Gimp-user] Sketch effect

2007-01-28 Thread Owen Cook
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 06:04:27PM -0700, John Meyer wrote: > I'm trying to do the Sketch Effect > (http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Sketch_Effect/) and I'm guessing that > this hasn't been updated in a while, cause I can't find the Desaturate > option in my version of Gimp (2.2.13). Anybody have any

Re: [Gimp-user] torn edge

2006-03-17 Thread Owen Cook
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, matt1027 wrote: > Does anyone have any tips or tutorials for making an edge that looks like > torn paper, ragged and semi-transparent? you can try playing with Filters->Distorts->Waves See http://www.pcug.org.au/~rcook/images/torn_edge.png for a 5 second example Owen _

Re: [Gimp-user] 'File Exists' in 2.3.6

2006-01-15 Thread Owen Cook
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Eric P wrote: > Maybe this deserves a bug report, but something I've noticed in > 2.3.6 is that it always alerts me that a 'A File Named ... Already > Exists' upon saving any file regardless whether is truly exists or not. > > Can anyone else confirm this? Just create a new

Re: [Gimp-user] CMYK support

2006-01-13 Thread Owen Cook
You might want to try putting 'gimp cmyk' into Google and have a read -- Owen On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Carlos Muncharaz wrote: > Hi, I have just added to the mail list and here I bring some questions: > What about Gimp support for CMYK color mode? Have you discuss about it? > Will Gimp handle C

Re: [Gimp-user] [OT] Gimp: On the surface

2006-01-07 Thread Owen Cook
On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Julian Oliver wrote: > > excuse the triviality of the subject matter. it's been niggling so i bring it > up. > > i teach with the Gimp as part of broader university and masterclass > coursework > to design students. sometimes it features in FOSS game-development courses i

Re: [Gimp-user] Work on a pasted image in The Gimp

2006-01-06 Thread Owen Cook
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Gert Blij wrote: > I want to cut out part of a screen shot and paste the cutout into another > application. > > 1 - I do the Shift - PrintScreen > 2 - In The Gimp I do File | New and paste. Now the screen shot is in The > Gimp > > But none of the Selection Tools can be activ

Re: [Gimp-user] RE: Gimp-user Digest, Vol 40, Issue 4

2006-01-04 Thread Owen Cook
-- On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Gert Blij wrote: > Thanks Andrew, > > I got that working for a rectangular copy and paste, but when I use the > elipse select, the free select or the intelligent scissors, it cuts as per > the created outline, but when I paste (into OpenOffice Writer) it pastes it > as re

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: gimp-python source wanted

2005-12-29 Thread Owen Cook
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Tristan Miller wrote: > > Hm... one does not get that impressed by Googling for "gimp-python" and > reading the first site that comes up > , which purports to be the > official distribution site. > > I'll try downloading the whole GIM

Re: [Gimp-user] "Add Glow" and "Center Layer"

2005-12-06 Thread Owen Cook
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Carol Spears wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:56:57PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > * Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-06-05 17:52]: > > > > > > 5) look at /etc/ldconfig and make sure that "/usr/local/lib/" is in the > > > list of paths there, if it isn't, add it.

Re: [Gimp-user] Duotones in Gimp?

2005-12-04 Thread Owen Cook
Try http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=6749 -- Owen On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, net kat wrote: > Does the Gimp enable one to create duotones? I searched and search > and found nothing.. > is it called a different name? I know that duotones are an old-school > photography technique and one that di

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp

2005-12-04 Thread Owen Cook
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, thegame2119 andrade wrote: > Hi, I am a new user of the Gimp program and have a question about it. > Hopefully I am asking in the right thing. Anyway, I have used the free > trials of a number of image programs and one tool I really like is the clone > brush, yet I can't se

Re: [Gimp-user] configure error?

2005-06-26 Thread Owen Cook
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, McAfee wrote: > I recently cleaned up my system and in so doing may have jinxed it :-( > > When I ran 'configure' for GIMP 2.2.6. I received the following error: > > ... > checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config > checking for GLIB - version >= 2.4.

Re: [Gimp-user] blue dot

2005-05-30 Thread Owen Cook
On Tue, 31 May 2005, Richard Nagle wrote: > Well, loaded gimp 2.26 all is well, > started working with a few images, notice... > that one has a blue dot high in the dark sky. > try de-speckle, tuff to get out. > > Anyone? Tried the 'Clone' tool? Owen ___

Re: [Gimp-user] removing lines from scanned image

2005-05-30 Thread Owen Cook
On Mon, 30 May 2005, Helen wrote: > I had hoped someone would respond to Laszio's Q of about 5 days ago, > because I have a similar Q. > In order to sign my printed photographs, I scanned my signature onto a > lined sheet of white paper. Adding this to a photo shows the white > paper background

Re: Comic Book retro style dots [Re: [Gimp-user] Camera to Comic Book]

2005-05-29 Thread Owen Cook
On Sun, 29 May 2005, Asif Lodhi wrote: > > Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 16:44:59 +0100 (BST) > > From: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu > > Subject: Comic Book retro style dots [Re: [Gimp-user] Camera to Comic Book] > > > > The more detail you provide in your qu

Re: [Gimp-user] megapixel ?

2005-05-29 Thread Owen Cook
On Sun, 29 May 2005, Richard Nagle wrote: > is there a way in Gimp, to add or double megapixels? > Genunie Fractals, does this (added plug-in ) for photoshop. > so, you could take a 2.x megapixel photo and add to it, > other words, so printing a 11x14 looks good. Image->Image->Scale Image->and

Re: [Gimp-user] Very few of my posts show on the list...

2005-05-25 Thread Owen Cook
On Wed, 25 May 2005, Rikard Johnels wrote: > On Wednesday 25 May 2005 01.41, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > * Rikard Johnels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-24-05 18:37]: > > > I know. And thats what i do. (both originator and list) > > > > BUT, list mail, unless specifically requested, should be replied to

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.2.6 on Fedora Core 3

2005-04-19 Thread Owen Cook
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Barton Bosch wrote: > > I've been meaning to take another shot at learning how to compile > the gimp from source for a while now. I'm running FC2 which has > rpms available for almost all of the requirements and optional > packages. Unfortunately the atk rpm is version 1

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.2.6 on Fedora Core 3 (Re: Gimp-user Digest, Vol 31, Issue 22)

2005-04-17 Thread Owen Cook
-- On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Asif Lodhi wrote: > Thanks for the help, Owen. I did exactly as you advised and 2.2.6 is running > on my system now. However, I am afraid I might get into run-time errors. If > this is not the case then why are there so many precautionary > dependency-related instructi

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.2.6 on Fedora Core 3

2005-04-16 Thread Owen Cook
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Asif Lodhi wrote: > > I have managed to get Fedora Core 3 installed on my computer through nightly > downloads in around 26 days. But the Gimp version is 2.04. I can't find > binaries on RedHat's website (Even if I found and downloaded a 2.2.6 binary, > would I still be a

Re: [Gimp-user] fail to configure gimp-2.2.0

2005-03-21 Thread Owen Cook
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Micheal LeVine wrote: > > I have tried setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH to /usr/local/lib/pkg-config as > well as to /usr/lib/pkg-config > > The errors I get in the 2 cases when I run configure are different. In > one case it tells me my GLIB is too old and it quits. In the seco

Re: [Gimp-user] All singing Gimp

2005-02-24 Thread Owen Cook
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Simon Budig wrote: > Owen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > checking for ALSA CFLAGS... > [...] > > Are we to get sounds associated with actions? > > No, Alsa gets used optionally for the midi controller module. So if you > have MIDI equipment you can connect it to the GIMP a

Re: [Gimp-user] sub part 2

2005-01-28 Thread Owen Cook
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Matthew H. Plough wrote: > Sorry for replying to my own message, but I did a quick test. Here's > the result of my Blender operations: > > http://www.princeton.edu/~mplough/tmp/submarine.jpg Well my contribution is from the Gimp, using a blend FG->Bg (white/black) and the

Re: [Gimp-user] Pre-press considerations (CMYK)

2005-01-27 Thread Owen Cook
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, vassilis wrote: > Being keen in using open software for my work, I ended up with GIMP as far as > it concerns DIP. Not without problems, though! I understand that GIMP is not > press-oriented, thus there is little to not at all consideration on working > with the CMYK mode

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help installing the help files

2004-12-21 Thread Owen Cook
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Jozsef Mak wrote: > > > On my system there is no /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig directory; only > /usr/lib/pkgconfig; but as I said, there is no gimp-2.0.pc file in that > directory. Are you on Windows? Owen ___ Gimp-user mailing

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help installing the help files

2004-12-21 Thread Owen Cook
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Jozsef Mak wrote: > On my system the the path is /usr/lib/pkgconfig; but in the pkgconfig > directory there is no > gimp-2.0.pc file anywhere. Well what is in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ? If it is there, add that to your PKG_CONFIG path Owen __

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help installing the help files

2004-12-21 Thread Owen Cook
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Jozsef Mak wrote: > I tried to install the help package on my system and i got the following > message after running configure. > > checking for gimp-2.0... Package gimp-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config > search path. > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `g

Re: [Gimp-user] difference between brightness and saturation

2004-12-11 Thread Owen Cook
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Gert Cuykens wrote: > who do i ask if they would like to change the word lightness into > brightness from the gimp gui? You don't to ask anyone, being an open source project, you can do it your self I found these files that had "Lightness" which you could try changing to "

Re: [Gimp-user] Where to put help?

2004-12-11 Thread Owen Cook
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, John Culleton wrote: > On Saturday 11 December 2004 06:11, Sven Neumann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > John Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have downloaded the latest help file. Befor I untar it, where is > > > it supposed to go? Or more particularly, where is it suppose

Re: [Gimp-user] Drawing geometric forms

2004-11-29 Thread Owen Cook
-- On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Gilles Pelletier wrote: > How do we draw lines, circles, squares, rectangles (geometric forms)in gimp. > As you can see by my question, I am new to Gimp. > Possibly a good starting point is http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/ Owen

Re: [Gimp-user] replacing white background with alpha background

2004-11-22 Thread Owen Cook
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Gert Cuykens wrote: > how can you tell gimp to fill all white with transparent alpha ? Try Filters->Colors->Colour to Alpha Owen ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-

Re: [Gimp-user] Version ?

2004-11-18 Thread Owen Cook
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Sven Neumann wrote: > > Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The underlying library changed between 1.2 and the 2.0 series > > The underlying library? What would that be? Ah, Just a simpletons understanding that 1.2 used gtk 1.2 and this last one uses gtk 2.2 If my

Re: [Gimp-user] renaming the gimp

2004-11-07 Thread Owen Cook
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Gezim Hoxha wrote: > > P.S: I know GIMP is an acronym, but [almost] no one > calls it GNU Image Manipulation Program either. Corrupt the acronym ..the "Great Image Manipulation Program" and if you didn't do an install-strip, you might want to call it the "Bloody Large Ima

Re: [Gimp-user] Layers names

2004-11-07 Thread Owen Cook
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, GĂ©rald wrote: > > Is there's a way to retreive the layers names/ attributes in an xcf file > whitout loading it ? I don't think so. If you plan in advance and call all your layers Big_Layer Small_layer Green_Layer etc then you can extract the names from the file with t

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.1.4 filepicker

2004-09-18 Thread Owen Cook
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tried to build 2.1.4 and kind of succeeded, but it couldn't open files. I > could barely start it, actually. THere was dozens of error messages during > startup from the local dir about "libgimpwidgets-2.0-104" couldn't be located. You do not giv

Re: [Gimp-user] How do i move a selection by x number of pixels

2004-07-24 Thread Owen Cook
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Kevin Myers wrote: > > > How do i move a selection by x number of pixels in any directions? > > > > Press the cursor keys x times?! > > > Umm, that doesn't work real well if you need to move the selection by a > reasonably large number of pixels, say 100 for example... Sh

Re: [Gimp-user] Mandrake install

2004-06-30 Thread Owen Cook
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, squareyes wrote: > have installed Gimp2 on Mandrake 10 (at last), > it has listed itself in the Sound section of Multimedia on KDE. Any ideas why? > Runs very well, very nice to use, thanks. How did you install it? From an RPM? Then guess the menuitem was described that way

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem with GIMP or KDE?

2004-06-23 Thread Owen Cook
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Steve Crane wrote: > > I'm having a little problem with GIMP 2.0.0 running on KDE. I know > there is a later version of GIMP but I think that this may just be a > case of GIMP and KDE not interacting well and there may be a setting > (probably in KDE) that will correct it. >

Re: [Gimp-user] Print multiple photos

2004-06-23 Thread Owen Cook
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Gary Montalbine wrote: > I have been searching for a way to print 4 photos at the same time > on a sheet of photo paper using gimp and gimp print. I find that if > I print them one at a time the mechanical part of the printer > scratches the photos already printed. > > Is

Re: [Gimp-user] Help needed making a gradient in Gimp 2.0.1

2004-06-19 Thread Owen Cook
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, matt-nc wrote: > At 08:07 PM 6/19/04 -0700, you wrote: > >Ok, I'm trying to make a gradient that looks exactly like this: > > > > http://www.bay-online-media.com/tom/gradient.jpg You don't want to copy it? According to my Gimp, it is a 20x684 @ 72dpi RGB image with a star

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp2.0pre

2004-01-09 Thread Owen Cook
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Thomas Spuhler wrote: > Has anybody been able to install it on Mandrake 9.2 > I'll get into a dependency hell when trying to make an rpm. > The main problem is to get freetype 2 that will install w/o dependency > problems Yes, I have Gimp2.0pre on Mdk 9.2 Have you installed