Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)
zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: Nope. I also have a second computer runs Ubuntu 8.04 (I didn't upgrade to 8.10 yet), that every time the system tell me to upgrade I would do it (last time was in last week). But it still uses Gimp 2.5.4 (sh?? an unstable version?). My standard Ubuntu 8.10 with all updates is running GIMP 2.4.5 (repeat: 2.4.5, not 2.5.4). -- Bob Long ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Fading to transparency tutorial?
Hi there everyone, Quite a while ago, I used a tutorial on GUG for fading an image to transparency, which I wanted to use as the top of a web page background. For clarification, you can look here at the image: http://personal.schwim.net/images/share/snowflake_background.jpg I'm trying to do the same thing now, but with grass to green. The problem I'm having is that I can't remember how I did it and GUG went the way of the spam farm :) I remember it was two layers, one with transforming black to transparent at the midline, using gaussian(I think) blur to soften the line of transormation and then overlaying, but I can't remember the details enough to reproduce it. Does someone know of an alternate location for the tutorial that I need or maybe more detailed instructions leading to the same end? Thanks a bunch for any light you can shed. thanks, json -- json ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Bob Long b...@oblong.com.au wrote: zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: Nope. I also have a second computer runs Ubuntu 8.04 (I didn't upgrade to 8.10 yet), that every time the system tell me to upgrade I would do it (last time was in last week). But it still uses Gimp 2.5.4 (sh?? an unstable version?). My standard Ubuntu 8.10 with all updates is running GIMP 2.4.5 (repeat: 2.4.5, not 2.5.4). Well, we're getting pretty off-topic here, but maybe you meant 8.04? $ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 8.10 $ aptitude show gimp Package: gimp State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 2.6.1-1ubuntu3 IIRC, 8.04 ships with the 2.4 series of GIMP, but as Sven mentioned, Ubuntu would do well to backport the 2.6 series to their LTS version... Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:37 AM, zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: Sven Neumann schrieb: Hi, On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 13:10 +, Chris Mohler wrote: GIMP 2.6 is out for five months already. There is really no good reason why your distribution does not offer it yet. Perhaps time to switch to a more reasonable Linux distribution? Yes, but even Ubuntu is still shipping 2.6.1 with their latest stable version (8.10) and shipping 2.4.x with the long-term-support version (8.04). They have 2.6.3 in intrepid-backports, so a user of the latest stable version should have that at least. 2.6.3 is already much more recent than 2.6.1 and has lots of bug-fixes. But yeah, Ubuntu should do their users a favor and provide more recent bug-fix releases. Nope. I also have a second computer runs Ubuntu 8.04 (I didn't upgrade to 8.10 yet), that every time the system tell me to upgrade I would do it (last time was in last week). But it still uses Gimp 2.5.4 (sh?? an unstable version?). If Ubuntu has 2.6 without a system-upgrade, I'd be glad to try. I don't want to fight the hassle of system-upgrade in recent months. Usually a system-upgrade means I need to get used to something a bit different, I prefer trying that in less heavy-working days When I was running Ubuntu 8.04, I compiled GIMP 2.6 and installed into /opt - this seemed the easiest solution for me. however, you may be able to get .deb files from getdeb, as outlined here: http://angpilipinogimp.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/install-gimp-26-on-ubuntu-804-hardy-heron/ Or, you could browse their repo and download them manually and install with dpkg... Some months ago, I upgraded to 8.10 - but I understand your hesitation: the upgrade worked pretty well, but a few things needed to be reconfigured. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Fading to transparency tutorial?
json wrote:
Hi there everyone,
Quite a while ago, I used a tutorial on GUG for fading an image to
transparency, which I wanted to use as the top of a web page background. For
clarification, you can look here at the image:
http://personal.schwim.net/images/share/snowflake_background.jpg
I'm trying to do the same thing now, but with grass to green. The problem
I'm having is that I can't remember how I did it and GUG went the way of the
spam farm :)
I remember it was two layers, one with transforming black to transparent at
the midline, using gaussian(I think) blur to soften the line of transormation
and then overlaying, but I can't remember the details enough to reproduce it.
Does someone know of an alternate location for the tutorial that I need or
maybe more detailed instructions leading to the same end?
Those are basically two layers: On the bottom layer there's the blue (in
your case,
green) gradient, the snowflakes are on a transparent second layer. To
achieve the
transitional effect, apply a black-to-white gradient as a layer mask to
the snowflakes
layer ('Layers Add Layer Mask', with the default setting; then apply
the black-to-white
gradient to this layer, and as a third step, 'Apply Layer Mask'.
Finally, merge the two
layers with 'Flatten Image' or CTRL+M (Merge Visible Layers). That's
basically it.
HTH,
Claus
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Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)
Chris Mohler wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Bob Long b...@oblong.com.au wrote: [..] My standard Ubuntu 8.10 with all updates is running GIMP 2.4.5 (repeat: 2.4.5, not 2.5.4). Well, we're getting pretty off-topic here, but maybe you meant 8.04? $ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 8.10 $ aptitude show gimp Package: gimp State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 2.6.1-1ubuntu3 Oops - you are right! I looked at the wrong machine, which still has 8.04. My 8.10 machine has 2.6.1-1ubuntu3. -- Bob Long ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] extract text in a rectangle from a jpg file
How to extract (get or copy) text in a rectangle from a jpg file? i.e. the jpg file has a rectangle which has some text (character strings). How to get those text to a text file? __ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now at http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
