Re: [Gimp-user] Command line scripting to perform auto level and resize?
Hi, roger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to know if there is a way, method to do the following (in order): 1) colors levels auto level 2) resize to 800x600 I'm performing this task on a batch of photos prior to publishing to my website. Should I stick with gimp (2.0) or would Imagemagick convert -level provide an optional method? You can write yourself a simple script in Script-Fu, Perl or Python and call that from the command-line as explained in http://adrian.gimp.org/batch/batch.html. This tutorial is rather old but still valid in most points. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Fonts and The Gimp
Hi, Peter L. Berghold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I hope I'm not asking a FAQ here... I loaded some True Type fonts on my (linux) machine and I can get X11 to see them, but when I try and select them from the font dialog in Gimp I see the message Font Not Available What am I missing? http://gimp.org/unix/fonts.html Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Locking a Layer
Hi, Asif Lodhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am currently exploring GIMP (and graphics) and want to know if there is a way to lock lower layers in a layer stack to make accidentally moving a layer impossible. No, that feature is not yet available. See also http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61019 Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Fonts and The Gimp
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 04:40, Sven Neumann wrote: http://gimp.org/unix/fonts.html Thank-you kindly I guess I'd better go through the pain of upgrading my IBM issued laptop so I can run gimp-2.x. -- Peter L. Berghold[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dog event enthusiast, brewer of Belgian (style) Ales. Happiness is having your contented dog at your side and a Belgian Ale in your glass. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Gimp-user] diagonal erase
Hi, Neil Watson wrote: How would I go about creating a diagonal brush stroke, that erases to the background, through a coloured box? I tried using the path tool to create the diagonal line but, I can't seem to get a stroke to appear. If all you want is a diagonal brush stroke, select the appropriate brush, and the eraser tool, click the start point, and constrain your brush stroke to a diagonal (actually, it constrains to 15° angles) by holding Control. You already know that you can draw a straight line with any of the paint tools by clicking the start point, holding down shift and clicking the end point. The Control key just constrains the operation while you're doing this. Alternatively, if you really want to stroke, you can always select the eraser tool, then stroke with that (see the Stroke with paintbrush section at the bottom of the stroke dialog). Cheers, Dave. -- David Neary, Lyon, France E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CV: http://dneary.free.fr/CV/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] rotating and making 'polar array'
Back in my autocad days, I used a tool called 'array'. Using the polar option I could rotate an object around a centre point making copies. Is there a way to do this using the Gimp? -- Neil Watson | Gentoo Linux Network Administrator | Uptime 14:46:54 up 1:45, 4 users, load average: 0.17, 0.14, 0.11 http://watson-wilson.ca | 2.6.5 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2000+ x 2 ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Windows compilation of RawPhoto 0.7
Hi everyone -- I have compiled Pawe T. Jochym's RawPhoto 0.7 ( http://ptj.rozeta.com.pl/Soft/RawPhoto ) for Windows, and need people to test it. The plugin works perfectly on my computer, but I don't know if this will be the case elsewhere. The plugin acts as a GIMP 2.0 front end for dcraw (Windows binary at http://www.insflug.org/raw/ ), which processes RAW digital camera images. Would anyone be willing to test this plugin on Windows and give me feedback as to how well it works? My compilation is located at http://www.princeton.edu/~mplough/tmp/rawphoto-windows-0.7.zip . I also have a sample image (of a Coast Guard cutter shot from a cruise in Alaska) at http://www.princeton.edu/~mplough/tmp/CRW_0092.CRW . Thank you, Matthew Plough ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] xsane/xscanimage doe not work in gimp2-2.0.1
I cannot access my epson perfection 2400 scanner from gimp2 SuSE 9.0 gimp2-2.0.1-100.SuSE.ulb.1 sane-1.0.13-0.pm.3 xsane-0.95-0.pm.0 /opt/gnome/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/xsane - /usr/X11R6/bin/xsane* process starts: /opt/gnome/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/xscanimage -gimp 12 10 -run 0 but no interface window appears /opt/gnome/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/xscanimage - /usr/X11R6/bin/xscanimage* process starts: /opt/gnome/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/xsane -gimp 10 8 -run 0 but no interface window appears Both xsane and xscanimage will start directly w/o gimp2 and function as expected. What have I done/not done that does not allow me to access my scanner from within the gimp2? tks, -- Patrick ShanahanRegistered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org@ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] GIMP Vs. Photoshop
Hi All I always read posts regarding GIMP vs. Photoshop. As far as I have explored PS, there are lots of great quick-and-easy filters available and lots of tutorials to match on the Internet - however, many filters are missing the parameteric touch that GIMP does have - you get the same result out of a PS filter and if you want the result to be different, you start looking for another filter. In PS, it seems that for everything, there is a filter while GIMP gives you the basic building blocks that help you achieve the results through application of a combination of those building blocks. I am reading Carey Bunks' excellent book Grokking the Gimp and recommend it to all new GIMP users as well as PS users because many fine aspects of computer graphics have been covered in sufficient depth here. Particularly, the section on Color Spaces (or models) such as RGB, CMYK, HSV and Blending Modes is really excellent and I haven't yet seen that kind of quality PS stuff elsewhere. Yes, lots of good tutorials illustrating lots of 3rd party built-in filters and good techniques but no technical tutorial about blending modes, color theory and the like illustrating why a particular mode or a color model functions in a particular way, for example. In fact, this gives you great insight into the color theory and helps you a great deal in developing solid effects or filters. Further, a couple of days ago, I happened to use PS (7) and I couldn't find a Selection/Shrink command/function in PS though a Selection/Grow was there (may be there is a key combination for shrink - I don't know!). The point is: GIMP's menu structure and placement of functions is very intuitive and easy plus, though, it doesn't offer lots of quick-and-easy filters, it does give you a feel of being in the know of what exactly you are doing (if you have gone through good references such as GIMP's online reference and Carey Bunks' book) and helps you produce the results through application of various available facilities - filters, curves, modes, etc - you can automate and create your own plugins if you can. In addition, though minor things like key assignments seem to have changed from previous versions, core functionality has been greatly improved and somehow one can make do through user lists, online references and other resources. In my humble opinion, references to PS functionality or filters can serve as new functional specifications that voluntary developers might implement in future releases (if they do find that kind of time, of course). Further, such references can serve as marketing tools for GIMP if the same results/effects can be achieved in GIMP in a different fashion using a combination of GIMP facilities that educate the PS user a lot about computer graphics. In addition, there is enough material available on the Internet that very clearly positions the GIMP amongst other re-touching tools - GIMP has its own niche. I hope this long post is not considered as spam. My apologies in advance! Best regards Asif __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Netpbm bugs
I was getting invalid options with gimp-2* and trying to run a perl-fu
script via command line.
ie
--no-splash-image, and --enable-stack-trace options not available.
(They're gone in gimp-2*!) ... might be wise to remove this (see below
diff)
--- /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/i686-linux/Gimp/Net.pm.orig
2004-08-29 20:22:35.927069848 -0400
+++ /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/i686-linux/Gimp/Net.pm
2004-08-29 20:23:31.739585056 -0400
@@ -176,8 +176,6 @@
{ # block to suppress warning with broken perls (e.g. 5.004)
exec $Gimp::Config{GIMP},
--no-splash,
- --no-splash-image,
- --enable-stack-trace, never,
--console-messages,
@args,
-b,
--
Roger
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Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP Vs. Photoshop
Asif Lodhi wrote: Hi All I always read posts regarding GIMP vs. Photoshop. Wow! Interesting comments! How do you feel about comments comparing GIMP and PhotoShop like this: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/30/217225tid=92tid=152tid=8 Peace... Tom ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Dang protocol error (1) at ... Net.pm line 66. error!
I'm trying to run a perl script(s) from the command line (on a single
laptop here) and keep getting the following with media-gfx/gimp-2.0.4!
All scripts in the gimp manual also complain!!
X is running! (w/ nvidia drivers ;-)
~/PHOTO_SYNC/work $ ./test.perl -v
pict0006.jpg
trying to start gimp with options
INIT: gimp_load_config
Parsing '/etc/gimp/2.0/gimprc'
Parsing '/home/roger/.gimp-2.0/gimprc'
gimp_composite: use=yes, verbose=no
Processor instruction sets: +mmx +sse -sse2 -3dnow -altivec -vis
INIT: gimp_initialize
INIT: gimp_real_initialize
INIT: gimp_restore
INIT: gimp_real_restore
Initializing plug-in: '/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/mrw'
Starting extension: 'extension_script_fu'
GIMP: extension_perl_server not available: unable to start the perl
server
EXIT: gimp_exit
EXIT: gimp_real_exit
EXIT: batch_exit_after_callback
test.perl: protocol error (1) at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/i686-linux/Gimp/Net.pm line 66. (ERROR)
trying to start gimp with options
INIT: gimp_load_config
Parsing '/etc/gimp/2.0/gimprc'
Parsing '/home/roger/.gimp-2.0/gimprc'
gimp_composite: use=yes, verbose=no
Processor instruction sets: +mmx +sse -sse2 -3dnow -altivec -vis
INIT: gimp_initialize
INIT: gimp_real_initialize
INIT: gimp_restore
INIT: gimp_real_restore
Initializing plug-in: '/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/mrw'
Starting extension: 'extension_script_fu'
GIMP: extension_perl_server not available: unable to start the perl
server
EXIT: gimp_exit
EXIT: gimp_real_exit
EXIT: batch_exit_after_callback
protocol error (1) at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/i686-linux/Gimp/Net.pm line 66.
Just for kicks, here's the script:
# Copyright (C) 2002 Laurent HOUDARD
#use strict; -- I unset this option as gimp-levels-auto refused to
work with it!
use Gimp;
use Gimp::Fu;
#Gimp::set_trace (TRACE_ALL);
Gimp::init;
my ($input, $output);
foreach $input (@ARGV)
{
print processing $input...\n;
my $img = Gimp-file_jpeg_load ($input, $input);
my $drw = $img-get_active_layer ();
# Plugin details here!
#$drw-plug_in_dimage_color (1, # gamma and tone correction
# 0); # default tone correction curve
$drw-gimp-levels-auto
($output = $input) =~ s/(.*)\.jpg/$1_dc_fixed\.jpg/;
print writing $output\n;
$drw-file_jpeg_save ($output, $output,
0.75, # quality
0.0, # smoothing
1,# optimize
0,# progressive
, # comment
0,# subsampling
1,# baseline
0,# restart
0); # DCT
}
--
Roger
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[Gimp-user] Command line python-fu scripts?
Ok. done with the searching google. :-/ Does anybody have the syntax of a python-fu script which runs from the command line? (From reading some articles, this is possible.) -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP Vs. Photoshop
:) You have to weigh in a number of factors - cost/benefit ratio, availability on a number of platforms, number of free plug-ins/filters, labor of love regarding creating one's own pattern/effect vs. getting one churned out of a filter, etc :) Though I am not fighting tool wars here ;), I would certainly like to present my humble replies to the honorary views presented by the poster on Slashdot. First off, one has to use a tool sufficiently enough before presenting conclusions as to its standard/non-standard GUI, non-/intuitive interface, etc. I think Gimp's interface is not very much different from PS - very intuitive, on the contrary. Besides, you can't afford developing different GUIs for different platforms to cater to the needs of a few users. According to the GIMP stuff/books I have read so far, Gimp is not very good with large files. However, if you do want to work with large files, you, probably, should go for CinePaint (filmGimp) as it does have support for higher bit-depth images and movie-grade re-touching capabilities (I am going to use it). Gimp tools/filters are the core building blocks in the right hands - you have to play with and understand various parameters of various tools - no one-touch results here - albeit good customized effects after wielding some tool parameters. It also matters whether you drive satisfactions out of understanding and learning about those parameters. Such posters should visit GUG, GimpGuru, etc. to learn how to use various filters/tools to yield the desired effect. I think, text quality is very much dependent on the font quality and Gimp is simply not the tool for drawing lines and shapes - though you can draw lines/shapes using Path/GFig/Selections, etc. One should use a vector tool for high-quality line art. As to the support aspect, I have continuously been witnessing (and receiving, of course) the free support on this user list - coming from so many Gimp users. May be questions related to very rare scenarios are not answered here or the persons volunteering don't find enough time for those support queries because of the magnitude of efforts involved in experimenting, testing, etc. CinePaint is popular for its high-end features - it is just a good guess but may be it has full 16-bit (or higher) channel support - I don't know, anyway! I think Gimp's Crop, Rotate and other transformation tools are very good and am very comfortable with all of what is available. I, frankly, haven't used any of PS. It also matters what media you are targeting - online/web or print? Use PS if CMYK support is required! Not available in Gimp presently. Frankly speaking, both Gimp and PS have their own niches and merits/de-merits and a good computer artist would use both of them for their particular features. I, for one, am more inclined towards using Gimp as the core tool as trying out combinations of different parameters, filters, plug-ins to create my own effects gives me work satisfaction and enhances my understanding of the color model/mode/filter usage - labor of love :). I _think_ I have answered most, if not all, of the points mentioned in the post you referred me to - in the interest of helping people understand Gimp better. I think new users must go through Grokking the Gimp - and the online manual - no matter how much they refrain from reading books cover to cover. I close here now. No tool wars :) Best regards Asif --- Tom Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Asif Lodhi wrote: Hi All I always read posts regarding GIMP vs. Photoshop. Wow! Interesting comments! How do you feel about comments comparing GIMP and PhotoShop like this: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/30/217225tid=92tid=152tid=8 Peace... Tom ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP Vs. Photoshop
Asif Lodhi wrote: Though I am not fighting tool wars here ;), I would certainly like to present my humble replies to the honorary views presented by the poster on Slashdot. Thanks for the commentary! :) Peace... Tom ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP Vs. Photoshop
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 16:46:09 -0700 (PDT), Asif Lodhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I always read posts regarding GIMP vs. Photoshop. Just a couple of comments here, from slightly on the other side. First of all, I'm a linux user and linux lover and have been a gimp user since the pre-1.0 days, heck, from back when you had to either have motif or mootif (free version) because GTK didn't exist yet. Anyway, I used to say that the gimp was just as good as photoshop and had everything it had, and laughed at the users who didn't even have an 'undo' command (back in the ps5 or 6 days when the history dialoge was just a sparkle in some Adobe developers eyes). Well, lately I've found I'm wrong. I recently got into digital photography and because at the time I didn't know that dcraw existed to read my Pentax RAW files, started using photoshop to do importing and manipulation of the images. Later on I borrowed a color spyder to match up my monitor colors to image colors so that I knew that what I saw on my screen was as close as possible to the right colors. I also purchased photoshop CS for photographers (an excellent book btw). Anyway, the point of this is that as I went along I started to learn more about photoshop, which I didn't really know much about before, compared to the gimp. Because I was actually *using* it, instead of jumping in and out I began learning some of the locations of tools, shortcut keys, etc, and found that they were superior to the GIMP in many ways. Sorry, but it's true. I was disturbed by this as well actually :) It's of course MHO, but let me justify it and bring this all back around. Like Asif and others said, the gimp provides building blocks, which is great, but what PS does, among other things, is refine the tools to make the VERY user friendly and helpful. Just a couple of examples, both pretty easy to do in the GIMP, but just haven't been done yet. - crop tool greys out cropped areas, giving you a bit of a better idea of what the finished image would look like - a shortcut for 'fit in view', meaning I can hit ctrl-0 and have my image resized so it fits fully on the screen, instead of hitting '-' and '+' until it fit as well as it could - the zoom key has a shortcut (this is missing in the latest version of gimp 2.1.x that I have) - LAB color, which allows some nifty stuff with luminesence layers to allow some cool black and white conversion stuff - effects and manipulation layers, which means that you can adjust colors, layers, levels, and just about everything in a layer, so that the original image is untouched. - no auto thumbnailing of images - the filter menu structure is better (IMHO) than the GIMPs in some ways. IE: no separate menus for script-fu, perl-fu, python-fu, and filters; unsharp mask is in filter-sharpen which makes more sense than filter-enhance That's just a few. Of course the GIMP is a mostly volunteer effort, and a lot of the PS features have limited appeal to people outside printing press users (CMYK type stuff). However, my point is that while the gimp is awsome, it can definately learn from PS (as you noted). Actually, I have yet to find one perfect image tool. Even Microsoft's picture it has a feature that I have yet to find as easy to use as the 'straighten picture' function. You click on one point (on the horizon say) and then draw a line that is a straight line on the image. The program then automatically rotates and crops the image to those specifications. Of course you can do this using the transform tool in corrective mode, and crop by hand, but it's making the boring jobs non-existant to the user which makes a tool powerful. Not sure why I got off on a long rant, but I just wanted to give some perspective from the other side. BTW, this too is not a flame, honest! alan ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
