Re: [Gimp-user] cartoon (card figure) from photo
Quoting Daniel Nogradi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I guess I know too little about the terminology here; how do I desaturate the image? http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-layer-desaturate.html And what do you mean by color removal? The top layer should have transparent background, shouldn't it? http://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-colortoalpha.html I guess what I'm asking is what did you exactly do when you got your example done? Other than edge detection (http://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-dog.html), some erasing of ugly parts of the top layer, and using the Selective Gaussian Blur (http://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-selective-blur.html), those parts of the GIMP User's Manual pretty well cover it. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] cartoon (card figure) from photo
I guess I know too little about the terminology here; how do I desaturate the image? http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-layer-desaturate.html And what do you mean by color removal? The top layer should have transparent background, shouldn't it? http://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-colortoalpha.html I guess what I'm asking is what did you exactly do when you got your example done? Other than edge detection (http://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-dog.html), some erasing of ugly parts of the top layer, and using the Selective Gaussian Blur (http://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-selective-blur.html), those parts of the GIMP User's Manual pretty well cover it. Thanks very much for the pointers. Daniel ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] swapping color
I inherited an image, a logo, in which I need to swap out one color, solid region, for another. Seems simple. I open in gimp, select the region using, have tried both 'Select regions by color' and 'Select contiguous regions', then apply any new color and I end up with a mix of the original and replacement color. After befuddling myself for an hour (including using other image editing software) I copied the image from .gif to both .jpg and .png format. As a .png or .jpg the color replacement works fine. See the 3 'raw' images at www.dottedi.biz/codesamples/images/shape.gif www.dottedi.biz/codesamples/images/shape.jpg www.dottedi.biz/codesamples/images/shape.png I don't really want to be using .jpg or .png images unless I have to. So the question, what is causing the replacement to fail and is there a way to make or convet the .gif accept the color swap? -Bob ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] swapping color
On 4/29/07, Bob Meetin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I inherited an image, a logo, in which I need to swap out one color, solid region, for another. Seems simple. [...] I don't really want to be using .jpg or .png images unless I have to. So the question, what is causing the replacement to fail and is there a way to make or convet the .gif accept the color swap? GIF is in 'indexed color' - that's why your color operations don't do what you expect. Convert to RGB, perform operation(s), then re-save as GIF (returning the image to indexed). Personally I'd use PNG, as GIF has almost outlived its usefulness. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] swapping color
On Sunday, April 29, 2007 8:48 am, Chris Mohler wrote: Personally I'd use PNG, as GIF has almost outlived its usefulness. Chris has a point, especially when your gifs don't use transparency. If you save your png as an indexed, rather than rgb, color image, or grayscale, if that is appropriate, you will achieve smaller file sizes than gif can. And if you run a png optimizer afterward, you will get better results, still. I created a test image 400x300 pixels and filled it with a gradient from upper left to lower right (white to black). Then saved it as a gif. It was 58.5 KB. After re-saving it as a grayscale png and optimizing it using optipng, it was 18.5 KB. -- 73, AC7ZZ http://counter.li.org/ Linux User #246504 ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] swapping color
On Sunday, April 29, 2007 9:42 am, Scott Bicknell wrote: I created a test image 400x300 pixels and filled it with a gradient from upper left to lower right (white to black). Then saved it as a gif. It was 58.5 KB. After re-saving it as a grayscale png and optimizing it using optipng, it was 18.5 KB. Doing the same with your example images resulted in a png that was 379 bytes, where your gif is 482 bytes and your jpg is 1,309 bytes. -- 73, AC7ZZ http://counter.li.org/ Linux User #246504 ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] batch script for record covers
I'm in the process of digitizing some hundreds record covers (either from old vinyl and/or from cd) by rigging my camera and flash on a tripod and shooting all the images one after the other. The tough task, though, is prepare them for my site: 1 - opening each image 2 - crop it as a square (thus eliminating the white background and just keeping the record cover) 3 - Resize the image to a certain size (say 400x400) 4 - slightly sharpen it 5 - save the image adding some prefix (say b_ just to tell it from the original) 6 - Resize the image to a middle size (say 200x200) 7 - slightly sharpen it 8 - save the image adding some prefix (say m_ just to tell it from the others) 9 - Resize the image to a small size (say 75x75) 10 - slightly sharpen it 11 - save the image adding some prefix (say s_ just to tell it from the others) I guess that such a job could most probably be performed over hundreds of images by running a single batch script at the command line. Am I wrong? Is Gimp the right tool at all, or other tools would better fit? Where could I start to build such a thing? Is there anything the like already made? Luigi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] swapping color
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:12:18 -0600 Bob Meetin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I inherited an image, a logo, in which I need to swap out one color, solid region, for another. Seems simple. I open in gimp, select the region using, have tried both 'Select regions by color' and 'Select contiguous regions', then apply any new color and I end up with a mix of the original and replacement color. After befuddling myself for an hour (including using other image editing software) I copied the image from .gif to both .jpg and .png format. As a .png or .jpg the color replacement works fine. See the 3 'raw' images at www.dottedi.biz/codesamples/images/shape.gif www.dottedi.biz/codesamples/images/shape.jpg www.dottedi.biz/codesamples/images/shape.png I don't really want to be using .jpg or .png images unless I have to. So the question, what is causing the replacement to fail and is there a way to make or convet the .gif accept the color swap? Open your image Save it as an xcf file Image-Mode-RGB Filters-Filters-Colours-Colour to Alpha Then create a new layer and do your filling as required Owen ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] batch script for record covers
On Sunday, April 29, 2007 2:35 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in the process of digitizing some hundreds record covers (either from old vinyl and/or from cd) by rigging my camera and flash on a tripod and shooting all the images one after the other. The tough task, though, is prepare them for my site:... ... I guess that such a job could most probably be performed over hundreds of images by running a single batch script at the command line. Am I wrong? No, you are right. Is Gimp the right tool at all, or other tools would better fit? Gimp is not the best tool for this. Where could I start to build such a thing? Is there anything the like already made? ImageMagick + bash/perl/etc. would be a better choice. If you are already using a *nix system, you probably already have it. If not, you can get it at http://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php and you can use it with cmd.exe if you must. -- 73, AC7ZZ http://counter.li.org/ Linux User #246504 ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Blood spatter.
For a detective fiction book front cover I want to create an irregular figure like a blood spatter. Is there a plugin I could use as a starting point? -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com _ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] batch script for record covers
Gimp is not the best tool for this. ImageMagick + bash/perl/etc. would be a better choice. If you are already using a *nix system, you probably already have it. Thank you Scott! Yes, I'm running Linux but have **no** experience with ImageMagick. I'll try and follow your hint. Luigi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] batch script for record covers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess that such a job could most probably be performed over hundreds of images by running a single batch script at the command line. Am I wrong? Is Gimp the right tool at all, or other tools would better fit? Yes, Gimp is a good tool for this, and no, you don't need to write a script - there is a Gimp plugin that lets you do it all using a graphical interface. Try David's Batch Processor at: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hodsond/dbp.html -- David Hodson -- this night wounds time ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] batch script for record covers
On Sunday, April 29, 2007 4:25 pm, David Hodson wrote: I guess that such a job could most probably be performed over hundreds of images by running a single batch script at the command line. Am I wrong? Is Gimp the right tool at all, or other tools would better fit? Yes, Gimp is a good tool for this, and no, you don't need to write a script - there is a Gimp plugin that lets you do it all using a graphical interface. Try David's Batch Processor at: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hodsond/dbp.html Have you considered adding this to the GIMP Plug-in repository? This seems like a very versatile and basic tool and should be made more generally available to GIMP users. -- 73, AC7ZZ http://counter.li.org/ Linux User #246504 ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] batch script for record covers
Scott Bicknell wrote: On Sunday, April 29, 2007 4:25 pm, David Hodson wrote: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hodsond/dbp.html Have you considered adding this to the GIMP Plug-in repository? Yes, I have tried many times. I have created an account there, but for some reason, I cannot log in, and it gives me no indication why not. -- David Hodson -- this night wounds time ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] batch script for record covers
Hi Luigi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I'm running Linux but have **no** experience with ImageMagick. I'll try and follow your hint. This web page might be useful for a quick start: http://hoernle1.de/m/imagick6/ Stephan. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] batch script for record covers
On Sunday, April 29, 2007 7:03 pm, David Hodson wrote: Have you considered adding this to the GIMP Plug-in repository? Yes, I have tried many times. I have created an account there, but for some reason, I cannot log in, and it gives me no indication why not. That's not good. I wonder if anyone else has had the same problem. I downloaded and installed your plugin. Nice addition to the GIMP's functionality. -- 73, AC7ZZ http://counter.li.org/ Linux User #246504 ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
