Re: [Gimp-user] make a christmas ball and insert a picture
Ray wrote: Does anyone have an instructional on how to create a glass christmas ball and add a picture (that hopefully) would follow the contour of the ball? I'd have thought your best bet would be Filters Map Map object and map to sphere. HTH Andrew ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP 2.6.7 Design
Hi Jennifer, On 28 Nov 09 13:23 Jennifer Mohr sacrificed4ha...@aol.com said: 1] The main GIMP Tool page over laps every other page. You can not put it behind the other pages like you could before. Not to mention that it keeps getting in the way!!! You can always go to EDIT PREFERENCES WINDOW MANAGEMENT and change the window behaviour. The new default is Utility Window. Change it back to Normal Window. However, it is much better is to get used to the new type and use the TAB key to make the toolbox disappear. REcover the Toolbox with another TAB keystroke, while the Image window has focus. 2] There's no main menu (File, Tools, Edit, etc, etc) at the top of the GIMP Tool page. It's now on the Image window - far more sensible and conventional! I can't open files, start new files, Course you can! Use the conventional Open dialogue, accessed from the FILE menu on the new Main window or Image Window should you already have an image open, or simply drag and drop the file you wish to edit on to Wilber's Eyes, either on the Toolbox or the Main window. Couldn't be easier! open the layers or brush pages. I confess I've customised my GIMP so that these dialogues are now docked in the bottom half of the Toolbox - but it really is up to you how you customise the proram. Why not experiment a little to find a way to work that suits you best! I have to go to one of my already opened files to do this. Rubbish! Just customise the GIMP to the way you want it! Greg Chapman http://www.gregtutor.plus.com Helping new users of KompoZer and The GIMP ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Tip of the day
I read on the list the other day that there are some useful items in Tip of the day so I decided to activate things so that a new tip would appear each time GIMP was switched on. To my disappointment, the button to switch the tip on and off is no longer in the tip window. What do I need to do to get the tip to appear each time I activate GIMP, please. I am using GIMP 2.6.7 and Ubuntu 9.10. Norman ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Tip of the day
On 28 Nov 09 15:38 Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org said: To my disappointment, the button to switch the tip on and off is no longer in the tip window. What do I need to do to get the tip to appear each time I activate GIMP, please. I am using GIMP 2.6.7 and Ubuntu 9.10. You are not alone. The same massively retrograde step was taken in the Windows implementation too! Greg Chapman http://www.gregtutor.plus.com Helping new users of KompoZer and The GIMP ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Channel Mixer Problem?
Quoting Bill Y. for...@gimpusers.com: When I tick on Monochrome, Red shows at 100; Green and Blue are zero. I have a feeling this is not right and that I have somehow changed the default settings. I was practising with the excellent 'Hair' tutorial when I began to suspect that something had changed and I could no longer achieve the differentiation of Greys. I'm not sure what you expected to see but when you use the Channel Mixer in monochrome mode, the output is the result of taking the weighted average of the three channels The percentages set by the sliders specify the weight of each channel, so with Red=100, Green=0, and Blue=0 the result will be only the red channel of the image. If you were to change the weights to Red=21, Green=71, and Blue=8 then the result would be equivalent to what is produced by performing Colors-Decompose: Luminosity. Perhaps the functionality would be more intuitive if the initial default settings for the monochrome mixer where RGB=21,71,8 instead of RGB=100,0,0; but there is nothing wrong with the way the mixer functions (and the mixer retains the last values used within any session, so it is only a matter of their initial default values). ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP 2.6.7 Design
Jennifer Mohr wrote: After quite some time, I finally updated my GIMP from my beloved 2.4.7 to 2.6.7. Upon starting up the new GIMP I saw the new design that GIMP now had. I found that GIMP was much, much hard to use and made things much more frustrating. Oh, Jennifer, I'm sorry that this hit you like this. You are not alone. There was HUGE discussion on this list when it happened and many expressed exactly the same frustrations as you. You can fix the first just by hitting the tab key. That makes your toolbox and layers dialog disappear giving you uncluttered access to your image. It turns out, after you get used to it, that it's better this way. The toolbox gets in the way less because you make it disappear, but it's more convenient because when you hit TAB again it's right on top where you can get to it. Before people would lose their toolbox behind and have to hunt for it. For the second issue, i.e. the menu's left the toolbox, that is because working without the toolbox window makes it more convenient to have the menus on the image window. That's also the reason that if you close your last image you get the blank window (almost blank, Wilbur's still there and you can drag and drop an image onto him. I think you'll find, after your habits get trained that this is actually better/easier/more productive, but I'm with you. It was tremendously annoying for a few days, then I decided they were geniuses. Patrick ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Tip of the day
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 16:35 +, Greg Chapman wrote: On 28 Nov 09 15:38 Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org said: To my disappointment, the button to switch the tip on and off is no longer in the tip window. What do I need to do to get the tip to appear each time I activate GIMP, please. I am using GIMP 2.6.7 and Ubuntu 9.10. You are not alone. The same massively retrograde step was taken in the Windows implementation too! There is no such thing as a Windows implementation. The same code is used on all platforms. The Tips of the Day can only be read from the Help menu currently. There is no way to make it appear on startup. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Tip of the day
Hi Sven, On 28 Nov 09 20:59 Sven Neumann s...@gimp.org said: The Tips of the Day can only be read from the Help menu currently. There is no way to make it appear on startup. That, indeed is the complaint, along with: # There's no way to stop it appearing on start up (Having turned it on). # There's no close button, so that once open you need to use a title bar button. Put together, I'd say that completely breaks all the conventions for how a Tip of the Day should behave, not to mention, a user interface convention. No idea why that had to happen, but it's almost at the stage where I say it might have been better to take it out all together, or just placed all the tips, on a single conventional help page. However, I'm sure you've had the same thoughts yourself, and hopefully, with the next release, it will be back to the way it was before. Greg ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Tip of the day
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 21:15 +, Greg Chapman wrote: The Tips of the Day can only be read from the Help menu currently. There is no way to make it appear on startup. That, indeed is the complaint, along with: # There's no way to stop it appearing on start up (Having turned it on). Sorry, but how do you make it appear on start up? # There's no close button, so that once open you need to use a title bar button. Put together, I'd say that completely breaks all the conventions for how a Tip of the Day should behave, not to mention, a user interface convention. No idea why that had to happen, but it's almost at the stage where I say it might have been better to take it out all together, or just placed all the tips, on a single conventional help page. As you can see in the UI specifications for GIMP 2.6, the tips were supposed to be available prominently from the image window: http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/No_image_open_specification#inside_the_.E2.80.98no_image.E2.80.99_window Unfortunately no one got around to implement this detail of the specification. If it bothers you enough to speak up on this mailing-list, why don't you make a patch that we can use for GIMP 2.8? Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP 2.6.7 Design
On 11/28/09, Jennifer Mohr wrote: 2] There's no main menu (File, Tools, Edit, etc, etc) at the top of the GIMP Tool page. I can't open files, start new files, open the layers or brush pages. I have to go to one of my already opened files to do this. Its really annoying! Well, think about it from a different angle: before, when you closed the last image, all you had were just two thin floating dockers, so you had to drop a new image on just one of them and exactly in the right place. And on systems where windows of these dockers were utility windows, you would have a tough time looking for these dockers, because, believe or not, these windows were not listed in the windows pager. So now you have a whole window that solves exactly this issue. Besides, this window is just a first step to upcoming optional single-window mode. Alexandre ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
