Re: [Gimp-user] How to rotate part of an image without getting white triangles at the corners ?
Whilst yo are processing may I suggest that you save as .xcf and only save to .jpg when you have finished. Norman ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Masking for Contrast Control - Can this be done in Gimp?
Can any experienced Gimp users tell me how the process described in Ron Bigelow's article can be reproduced in Gimp most efficiently? http://www.ronbigelow.com/articles/contrast/contrast.htm http://www.ronbigelow.com/articles/contrast/contrast.htm Looks like a quite handy process to optimise some photos. I think I sort of could reproduce it with layers but I couldn't figure out if it is possible to follow these instructions with channels. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Masking-for-Contrast-Control---Can-this-be-done-in-Gimp--tp22696979p22696979.html Sent from the Gimp User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Masking for Contrast Control - Can this be done in Gimp?
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[Gimp-user] not to knock gimp...I love it, BUT I have never has decent prints from it
I always do them in Photoshop on my windows laptop. Am I the only one with this problem?/ I have a bet going that I'm not ;^). I say linux is weak in the printing area it's about the only good thing windows does. Hmm, if I had photoshop I wouldn't be using gimp! I've got what sound (to me) like more serious printing problems. I've been working with photos for a long time and with gimp for around a year, but only on the computer and the web, never needed to print them. But now I need to print. I am running XP and gimp, the printer is an Epson Artisan 800, chosen because it's supposed to print really well. I can't get it to size the pix correctly. In gimp I use print size to set the picture size to what I want it to be (say 8x10). When I look at print preview it's fine. But it always prints at 100% of the photo size, so if I let it print the photo (total size, though not print size, roughly 32x40) it would take six pages. I've tried all the obvious sizing options, both in print size and in the print command, but it always comes out full size. I can't scale it, since that would just eliminate all the detail. It will print the size I want if I use Paint (the software that comes from microsoft) to print instead of gimp. So it seems to be a problem with gimp talking to the printer. Printing from Paint (after adjusting the photo to my liking in gimp), I'm having troubles with the colors. Irrespective of which paper I'm actually printing on (I'm using either ordinary printer paper for test prints or glossy photo paper), if I tell it I'm using white matte paper it all comes out more pink and gray shaded than the photo, and if I tell it I'm using glossy paper it comes out much more blue. All of the pictures also come out much darker than they appear on the screen. So for one of the photos (which is a distant view of hills, water, and snow, so it's a rather blue-and-white picture) I lightened the whole thing, so that the printed version isn't too dark. But I still have the pink vs. blue color problems. Are these color problems (aside from the sizing problems) normal? Do they all seem dark simply because I've only ever seen them backlit before? That shouldn't explain the blue vs. pinkish problem, though (not outrageously pink, but definitely not the color that's on the screen). Would the colors be different printing from gimp vs. printing from paint? I read the other comments in this thread and thought I must need gutenprint (I'm new to this, okay?) - but that appears to be only for macs or linux. All advice will be appreciated! Joy H. Printing is one of Gimp's weak spots. However, if you save your prints as jpg or tif, any other ap that allows you to print photos should allow you to open those prints, and, if that application is working properly with your printer, should allow you to print what you see on your screen in that application - assuming your monitor is not extremely out of calibration (or your printer). If you edit a photo totally in Paint, does your printer render it true to what you see on the screen? If so, then, the same should be true for photos that you edit in GIMP and open in Paint for printing purposes. Make certain that you don't have Paint or your printer's dialog set to make any auto adjustments to your photos. . . . and, to the previous poster who stated that he/she would not be using GIMP if he/she had Photoshop, some of actually prefer working in GIMP to working in Photoshop. I am one of those. If I don't have to work in 16-bit, then, I prefer working in GIMP. Since I cannot print from GIMP for reasons similar to those expressed in this post, I open those photos in Photoshop or in Sony's Image Data Converter (that assuredly warns me that it is limited in the adjustments it can make to tiff files (just what I want when I'm ready to print)) and size them/print them from there. Photoshop tends to make unwanted adjustments to those files so that colors are more muted with less punch than what how they appear on screen, so, even for printing, I am tending to use Photoshop less and IDC more. Caruso -- Carusoswi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How to rotate part of an image without getting white triangles at the corners ?
Hello, On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Andrew a...@arrakis.es wrote: Jay Smith wrote: What am I missing? Maybe a step by step. I've just tried it again and it works with a minimum of mousing (I'm using gimp 2.6.4). 1. Add alpha channel to initial layer. 2. Add new black layer and move it underneath. (After this step make sure you change the active layer to the top one). 3. Draw a rectangle around the crooked stamp. 4. Rotate. 5. Anchor rotated selection. Thanks, I forgot this (Repeat 3-5 as necessary. I haven't tried with more than one 'stamp' but I don't think it makes much difference) 6. Flatten image. This step isn't needed, unless you are saving the same file with several different names/versions and want to avoid being prompted. David ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Masking for Contrast Control - Can this be done in Gimp?
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:32 PM, paperaussie paperaus...@gmx.net wrote: Can any experienced Gimp users tell me how the process described in Ron Bigelow's article can be reproduced in Gimp most efficiently? http://www.ronbigelow.com/articles/contrast/contrast.htm http://www.ronbigelow.com/articles/contrast/contrast.htm Looks like a quite handy process to optimise some photos. I think I sort of could reproduce it with layers but I couldn't figure out if it is possible to follow these instructions with channels. The procedure in GIMP is virtually identical. I'll paste the most relevant part here, adjusted for GIMP: --- A selection of the entire image is created by choosing Select/All. The image is now copied by choosing Edit/Copy. A new channel is created by clicking on the Create new channel icon at the bottom of the Channels dockable (see Figure 5). The channel should be renamed the Contrast channel. The image is now pasted into the Contrast channel by selecting that channel and choosing Edit/Paste, going to the Layers dockable and clicking the Anchor icon. Next, it is necessary to invert the black and white image by choosing Colors/Invert. --- ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Masking for Contrast Control - Can this be done in Gimp?
Francesco Scaglioni f...@mossdog.net wrote: How about something like : duplicate layer desaturate invert slight blur adjust opacity merge Placing the top layer in divide mode is also very useful. Also try Overlay or Soft light. All this is much simpler than the method suggested by the original site, which seems an overkill. -- Olivier Lecarme ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Masking for Contrast Control - Can this be done in Gimp?
Quoting paperaussie paperaus...@gmx.net: Can any experienced Gimp users tell me how the process described in Ron Bigelow's article can be reproduced in Gimp most efficiently? http://www.ronbigelow.com/articles/contrast/contrast.htm The following link is to a short screen capture of how that might be done in GIMP I use a similar technique quite often when adjusting highlights and shadows. There is no sound but the video should be easy to follow (I apologize for the jumpy pointer; my optical mouse died and I had to use a trackball). http://flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com/GIMP/Temp/masking.ogv (OGG Theora 2.7Mb) 1. Drag your original layer over to the Channels Dialog and drop it, creating a new channel. 2. Hide the channel by clicking on its eyeball icon. 3. Return to the Layers Dialog. 4. Duplicate your original layer and increase its gamma using the Levels filter. 5. Add a layermask to the duplicate layer, initializing it to the inverted channel produced by Step 1. 6. Add a bit of Gaussian blur to the layermask (optional). 7. Adjust the opacity of the duplicate layer to obtain desired result. Step 4 is not necessary if you already have an overexposed version of the original layer (created from a HDR RAW file), as was the case in the tutorial you linked to. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Masking for Contrast Control - Can this be done in Gimp?
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Olivier Lecarme o...@olecarme.homelinux.net Placing the top layer in divide mode is also very useful. Also try Overlay or Soft light. All this is much simpler than the method suggested by the original site, which seems an overkill. Agreed. If I was doing this, I would not use channels at all, and I'd hardly use layers. I would: 1. Edit-Copy the image 2. Enter QMask mode 3. Edit-Paste, and Anchor 4. Colors-Invert 5. Leave QMask mode 6. Edit-Copy 7. Edit-Paste 8. Convert the floating layer to a normal layer 9. Adjust the new layer 10. Merge or flatten when done. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] not to knock gimp...I love it, BUT I have never has decent prints from it
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:39:17AM +0200, Carusoswi wrote: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 06:46:59PM -0400, Gracia M. Littauer wrote: I always do them in Photoshop on my windows laptop. Am I the only one with this problem?/ I have a bet going that I'm not ;^). I say linux is weak in the printing area it's about the only good thing windows does. You haven't used Linux recently (or ever), did you? Modern Linux uses CUPS printing sistem (that stands for Common Unix Printing System) that is the very same system Apple OSX uses nowadays, but the Linux counterpart is even richer of drivers and supports... Never say one thing before having tested it thoroughly. I use Gimp in both Windows XP and Linux (Ubuntu 8.10). Since I have yet to find a cups driver for my Canon i960, I purchased TurboPrint, and, thankfully, it allows full function of my printer under Ubuntu. So actually you state that Linux has better print support that anything else :-) In XP, however, Gimp will not print photos forme, refusing to retain the page layout instructions I specify (4.6 results in a 4 x 6 image on letter sized paper). probably is really a stupid hint but please, be kind: have you tried to insert the image to print into an OpenOffice page? I found it the easiest way to handle the print page layout... bye -- Marco Ciampa ++ | Linux User #78271 | | FSFE fellow #364 | ++ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] How to cause Image... Canvas Size... Layers... to _always_ be All Layers instead of None ?
Using Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux. For the vast majority of my work, every time I enlarge the canvas (which I have to do a _lot_ ), I want _all_ the Layers to enlarge as well. However, the dialog box Image... Canvas Size... Layers... _always_ seems to default to None instead of All Layers. While I have a difficult time understanding why None is a better default setting than All Layers, I suppose that there are some very good reasons that are beyond my grasp. However, certainly there must be a way to change this default for a particular Gimp installation or at the very least, for a particular user session of running Gimp. Am I missing something? Does this require a plug-in? Is there one that will do it? Is there a plug-in that will allow the user control over _all_ the defaults? (The model that comes to mind is the firefox/thunderbird about:config setting methods.) Jay ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How to rotate part of an image without getting white triangles at the corners ?
Hi David, If convenient, please advise me of the bug number on this so that I can track it. Thank you very much. Related to the bug, I hope you also noted the problem that there is no Preferences option of using black as the default for newly created images. You said... BTW, floating before rotating is NOT how I would do this. Please share your reasons why you would not do that. It seems perfectly logical now that I know it is possible, and it seems to be _exactly_ the method/result I wanted without all the other mucking around. (All the other mucking around [alpha channel, add layer, etc.] may seem simple to Gimpers, but please do it 10,000 times and then tell me how you feel about it -- We have so far scanned edited over 50,000 such images in Photoshop and have more than double that number yet to go.) I _really_ appreciate your mention of Select...Float -- that is exactly the needed answer IMHO. Jay On 04/01/2009 12:07 AM, David Gowers wrote: Hi Jay, snip I can confirm this -- except that I always get black, rather than always getting white. I've just filed a bug report for it. In the meantime, you should be able to work around this by floating the area (select-Float) before rotating. No complex procedures are required, nor any particular redundancy. This should be pretty easy to fix -- pretty high chances of seeing it in the next 2.6.x release. BTW, floating before rotating is NOT how I would do this. Instead, I would snip Hope this helps! David ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How to cause Image... Canvas Size... Layers... to _always_ be All Layers instead of None ?
Quoting Jay Smith j...@jaysmith.com: Using Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux. For the vast majority of my work, every time I enlarge the canvas (which I have to do a _lot_ ), I want _all_ the Layers to enlarge as well. However, the dialog box Image... Canvas Size... Layers... _always_ seems to default to None instead of All Layers. The Image/Canvas size... command will only change the size of your work surface (the paper size, if you will) but not change the size of the graphics ON the canvas. In order enlarge or shrink the image fully -- that is change the size of the pictures on the paper, not just the size of the paper -- you should use the Image-Scale Image command. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How to cause Image... Canvas Size... Layers... to _always_ be All Layers instead of None ?
I have just discovered an additional -- but exactly the same basic subject -- problem with this dialog box: The 'link' symbol at the top, between the two pixel sizes, reverts every single time to linked status. It seems that it has to be unlinked every time if you wish to change only one of the dimensions of the canvas. Again, is there a way to get Gimp to remember this setting (either permanently or per-session)? I would have assumed that there is an rc file(s) somewhere that contains every conceivable dialog box setting/value. Jay On 04/01/2009 12:27 PM, Jay Smith wrote: Using Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux. For the vast majority of my work, every time I enlarge the canvas (which I have to do a _lot_ ), I want _all_ the Layers to enlarge as well. However, the dialog box Image... Canvas Size... Layers... _always_ seems to default to None instead of All Layers. While I have a difficult time understanding why None is a better default setting than All Layers, I suppose that there are some very good reasons that are beyond my grasp. However, certainly there must be a way to change this default for a particular Gimp installation or at the very least, for a particular user session of running Gimp. Am I missing something? Does this require a plug-in? Is there one that will do it? Is there a plug-in that will allow the user control over _all_ the defaults? (The model that comes to mind is the firefox/thunderbird about:config setting methods.) Jay ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] not to knock gimp...I love it, BUT I have never has decent prints from it
On Wednesday 01 April 2009, Marco Ciampa wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:39:17AM +0200, Carusoswi wrote: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 06:46:59PM -0400, Gracia M. Littauer wrote: I always do them in Photo shop on my windows laptop. Am I the only one with this problem?/ I have a bet going that I'm not ;^). I say linux is weak in the printing area it's about the only good thing windows does. You haven't used Linux recently (or ever), did you? Modern Linux uses CUPS printing system (that stands for Common Unix Printing System) that is the very same system Apple OSX uses nowadays, but the Linux counterpart is even richer of drivers and supports... Never say one thing before having tested it thoroughly. I use Gimp in both Windows XP and Linux (Ubuntu 8.10). Since I have yet to find a cups driver for my Canon i960, I purchased TurboPrint, and, thankfully, it allows full function of my printer under Ubuntu. So actually you state that Linux has better print support that anything else :-) Which is nice I guess, but it sure points out that the OP has become used to the poor performance and limited options of gimp normal printing regime. The last time I tried turboprint, admittedly 3 or 4 years ago, its color performance left much to be desired, an artifact of it soaking the paper clear through probably. The kindest I could be to turboprint would be to call it fugly. Gimp-print was an improvement, but not until gutenprint was up to 5.02 could I make a print on good color paper that I could actually feel comfortable selling to the public. And I have done exactly so several times since then. If the right gutenprint plugin is installed, you will have 2 print options in the menu, print and print with gutenprint. Using Epson printers also helps although I do not know if the equ of my old 4 color C82 can be had today. I also have a 6 color C88, but it tears up paper with poor handling and has from out of the box. At about 1 out of two pages printed. And that one good page, fed back to do double sided, is so badly damaged it can't make a 2nd pass. This C82 has wrinkled 2 or 3 sheets max, in close to 80 reams of good quality paper I've fed it. To me that is phenomenal all by itself. In XP, however, Gimp will not print photos forme, refusing to retain the page layout instructions I specify (4.6 results in a 4 x 6 image on letter sized paper). probably is really a stupid hint but please, be kind: have you tried to insert the image to print into an OpenOffice page? I found it the easiest way to handle the print page layout... I have done that too because of the ability to resize that OOo gives us comes in very handy. And its color reproduction is equally flawless. All this on linux of course. :) bye -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Of course, some people consider hidden bugs to _be_ fixed. I don't believe in that particular philosophy myself. - Linus Torvalds on linux-kernel ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] File Creation Permission Problem ONLY for TIF files: Creating as 644 (rw-r--r--) when should be 664 (rw-rw-r--)
Using Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux. TIFF ONLY This problem seems *only* to be happening when creating/saving TIFF (.tif) files. If the filetype is something else, then the problem is not happening. On two different workstations, being run by two different login users, creating files in various different directories, Gimp is creating the files with permissions that are incorrectly too restrictive: Gimp is making as 644: -rw-r--r-- 1 jay jsa 1919194 2009-03-31 12:10 tmp.tif When it should be making as 664: -rw-rw-r-- 1 jay jsa 1919194 2009-03-31 12:10 tmp.tif ONLY Gimp is doing this. Creating files in the exact same manner and saving them to test.png or test.jpg results in _correct_ permissions. It only is a problem with .tif files (so far in my testing). a) The directories that the files are being created in have perms of 6775: drwsrwsr-x 3 jay jsa 4096 2007-05-28 15:57 testdir Files created in a directory with those perms are _supposed_ to be created as 664 which is rw-rw-r--. b) When any other program, such as vi or touch, makes a file in the very same directory, it is making the perms correctly. c) I have double checked the user's umask which is correctly 0002 which would result in file creation as 664. d) We have never had this problem with any other program (when the directory perms are correct, which they are in this case). e) An associate on a completely different, but virtually identically configured Ubuntu linux system (all same versions). has been able to replicate the exact same problem. ??? 1) Is this a (known?) bug? 2) Is this configurable somewhere in Gimp? I can't find it if it is. 3) Is this configurable somehow in the .gimp* rc files and/or from the command line? Jay ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How to rotate part of an image without getting white triangles at the corners ?
Hi Jay, On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Jay Smith j...@jaysmith.com wrote: Hi David, If convenient, please advise me of the bug number on this so that I can track it. Thank you very much. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577575 Related to the bug, I hope you also noted the problem that there is no Preferences option of using black as the default for newly created images. You said... BTW, floating before rotating is NOT how I would do this. Please share your reasons why you would not do that. Because it's far far far far far far slower and more laborious than the method I went on to describe. There is no comparison. (All the other mucking around [alpha channel, add layer, etc.] may seem simple to Gimpers, but please do it 10,000 times and then tell me how you feel about it -- We have so far scanned edited over 50,000 such images in Photoshop and have more than double that number yet to go.) 50,000 images? or 50,000 stamps? The procedure I described would only need to be done once for each image, not for each stamp-rotation. It is far more streamlined, if you typically rotate several stamps out of every single image that you open. David ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Masking for Contrast Control - Can this be done in Gimp?
Saul: You said 1. Drag your original layer over to the Channels Dialog and drop it, creating a new channel. In your video, when you drag the image from the layer dock up to the channels dock your cursor has a '+' sign inside the _ |+ ... when I do it I have no plus sign and when the channels dock opens and I drop the dragged item just disappears without raising a new channel. I'm using 2.6.6 on Windows XP. I tried modifier keys Shift and Ctrl and Shift+Ctrl just in case but can't get the '+' sign to appear in the cursor and more importantly can't get the auto-creation of a new channel. Is this a bug or is there something I'm missing? saulgo...@flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com wrote: Quoting paperaussie paperaus...@gmx.net: Can any experienced Gimp users tell me how the process described in Ron Bigelow's article can be reproduced in Gimp most efficiently? http://www.ronbigelow.com/articles/contrast/contrast.htm The following link is to a short screen capture of how that might be done in GIMP I use a similar technique quite often when adjusting highlights and shadows. There is no sound but the video should be easy to follow (I apologize for the jumpy pointer; my optical mouse died and I had to use a trackball). http://flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com/GIMP/Temp/masking.ogv (OGG Theora 2.7Mb) 1. Drag your original layer over to the Channels Dialog and drop it, creating a new channel. 2. Hide the channel by clicking on its eyeball icon. 3. Return to the Layers Dialog. 4. Duplicate your original layer and increase its gamma using the Levels filter. 5. Add a layermask to the duplicate layer, initializing it to the inverted channel produced by Step 1. 6. Add a bit of Gaussian blur to the layermask (optional). 7. Adjust the opacity of the duplicate layer to obtain desired result. Step 4 is not necessary if you already have an overexposed version of the original layer (created from a HDR RAW file), as was the case in the tutorial you linked to. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Regards ... Alec (bura...@gmail WinLiveMess - alec.m.burg...@skype) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Reporting back: The Artist's Guide to GIMP effects
I mentioned some time ago that I was reading The Artist's Guide to GIMP Effects, by michael j. hammel, and that over time I'd report on what I thought about it. Ok, here's what I think about it--WOW! I still have a long way to go to absorb everything in here, but in a few weeks I've gone from someone who's messed around with Gimp for a few years but still felt lost, to someone who knows the principles behind using it as a tool. Many of the questions people ask here seem obvious after reading and working with it for awhile. He does a great job of teaching you the basic principles that let you solve problems. You start thinking about what you want, instead of looking at what Gimp can do. If you need to combine pictures, fix problems, do commercial graphics, web work, original art--this book is for you. I'm astonished. I'll report back some more after spending a few more weeks with it. It doesn't cover 2.6, but it hasn't been an issue using it with 2.6. If you want to be a GIMP master, check it out! Patrick ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
