Re: [Gimp-user] Rotation witout cropping.
Hi John, do you rotate the layer or the image? Cheers, Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Rotation witout cropping.
On Sunday, June 26, 2011 01:26:53 John Culleton wrote: On Saturday, June 25, 2011 06:50:04 pm Daniel Hornung wrote: Hi John, do you rotate the layer or the image? Cheers, Daniel The image, using the tool on the left hand tool palette. How do I rotate both simultaneously? As Stefan wrote, use ImageTransform... from GIMP's menu. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] scaling image in centimeters
On Tuesday 02 November 2010 23:13:48 Lorenzo Bettini wrote: and also the grid, when set to cm, (using 100% zoom) uses something that's smaller than a centimeter... what am I doing wrong? The other have said already WHY it may display other lengths than you may have expected, here's the solution: In the Preferences window, select Display and press the Calibrate... button there to calibrate GIMP for your display. This dialog used to show up on the very first GIMP start in earlier times, I don't know about the current version though. HTH, Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] scaling image in centimeters
On Wednesday 03 November 2010 17:37:59 Daniel Hornung wrote: In the Preferences window, select Display and press the Calibrate... button there to calibrate GIMP for your display. This dialog used to show up on the very first GIMP start in earlier times, I don't know about the current version though. I forgot to mention that one should also uncheck the Dot for dot option in the view menu. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Increasing pixel size
On Sunday 25 July 2010 03:49:47 Byram wrote: I have an old 7 mp image that I'm trying to increase to around 10MP. I've read it's best to increase by 10%, then unsharpen, and repeat process until you get to the desired result. I unsharpened with radius at 5, threshold 15, and amount .5. I don't remember such a recommendation, but a radius of 5 seems rather large to me because the scaling effects should be on the order of 1-2 pixels only, right? When I finished the process. I viewed the image at 100% and it was terrible. Any recommendations regarding the process or the unsharpened mask settings? First another question: How satisfied are you with the upscaling result in one single step (you can try out several scaling algorithms, of course)? If you think it's ok, it may not be necessary to do more complicated procedures. And how plausible does the 10MP image have to be on the pixel scale? Finally, if you have the CPU power and necessary memory available, you could also try out the Smart Enlarge script from the resynthesizer plugin package. But be sure to try it out on a small region first, it would be a shame if you waited for hours for a result that doesn't look like you want it :) Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Separate+ 0.5.7
On Friday 30 April 2010 17:42:45 Yoshinori Yamakawa wrote: Separate+ 0.5.7 is released. This version contains the dithering support and some minor improvements for UI. Cool! For all Gentoo users, there's a fresh ebuild here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24837 Thank you for the great work! Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Open a file r/o
On Wednesday 24 March 2010 23:03:26 Lennart Svensson wrote: This button should inhibit the possibility to save the file during editing and destroy the original file. Same as the command line option -a. I don't know the exact current state of the save/export menu discussion, but wasn't the plan that Save should always save as xcf? This would mean that only xcf files could be overwritten accidentally. And they should be either versioned anyway, or they are not irreproducible, at least not as much as a camera shot, for example. Overwriting a real photo cannot be undone without taking that photo again, but rearranging layers in a composition is usually much easier. So maybe your problem will be solved anyway with the next GIMP version :) 2¢ from someone who doesn't spend very much time with GIMP anymore at the moment (unfortunately), Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: Need help: correcting exposures in time-lapse imagesets
Forwarding the answer to the list: Bugzilla from daniel.horn...@gmx.de wrote: I think that all this kind of stuff might be a lot easier with a program dedicated to image analysis. ImageJ/Fiji would be one example, it has lots of plugins for almost any analysis need. While GIMP is a wonderful tool for editing images and being artistically creative, it was never meant for image analysis. This doesn't mean what you want can't be done, it's just not what GIMP was made for originally. Just my thoughts, Daniel Hi Daniel, Ha! I discovered ImageJ yesterday, and have written my first batch processing macro, so great minds think alike, yes? Also decided to include a standard reference card in each picture to aid in equalizing levels among images. Best regards, Kinata signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Need help: correcting exposures in time-lapse imagesets
Hi Kinata, On Tuesday 09 February 2010 09:49:16 kinata wrote: In a related issue posted elsewhere in this forum, I'm wanting to isolate the dye part of the image: -- convert the RGB triple for the dye color (approximately a cyan) to HSB (HSV?) colorspace, -- rotate it to (say) green, and then -- extract the green layer of the image. This last is probably off-topic...just being conversational. I think that all this kind of stuff might be a lot easier with a program dedicated to image analysis. ImageJ/Fiji would be one example, it has lots of plugins for almost any analysis need. While GIMP is a wonderful tool for editing images and being artistically creative, it was never meant for image analysis. This doesn't mean what you want can't be done, it's just not what GIMP was made for originally. Just my thoughts, Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] What tool could do this?
On Thursday 28 January 2010 18:44:30 Jim Clark wrote: http://www.ciscohouston.com/interconnect.jpg I captured this image, and I would like to produce something like it. The connected platforms, except with boxes rather than humanoid shapes on them. And 10 platforms, not 6...and maybe hexagons... Hi Jim, I'd use a 3d modeler/renderer, like Blender. I haven't used it myself, but it should be able to import shapes in many popular 2d vector formats, so creating the people in Inkscape first should work. Cheers, Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Text looks rough
On Tuesday 26 January 2010 15:35:45 RSA wrote: When I make a web banner that is only text it looks great in GIMP and in my web page maker. When I put it up on the web the text looks rough like someone cut it out with a jig saw. I use the banner in JPG format or GIF format and the results are the same. Does this really also happen when you have a file that's never been saved to gif, i.e. has never been downgraded to 256 colors? Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: Completely off every imaginable topic;)
On Monday 18 January 2010 20:40:49 Dotan Cohen wrote: ... What a nice little flamewar :) Too bad that it's on a most-of-the-time-serious mailing list, where it might frighten some new, innocent people. *gets some popcorn* Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Thumbnail Images are Larger then Originals
On Wednesday 06 January 2010 21:42:12 Programmer In Training wrote: I need to read up on the GIMP documentation regarding PNG quality settings. Mine are apparently too high. Hello, png is lossless, so what you set is the compression factor, which doesn't affect the quality/size ratio but speed/size. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] gimp in science
On Friday 27 November 2009, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: Hi, Is anybody using here GIMP in science or medicine? If yes, how? What tools, plug-ins and scripts do you use? Not a real answer to the question, but as soon as (semi-)automatic image analysis, registering or measuring areas, distances, etc. are concerned, I'd recommend ImageJ (or Fiji) instead. I use GIMP only for artistic purposes, which can include preparing scientific images for publication, of course, adding notes, montaging images together, etc. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Help needed with text
On Sunday 04 October 2009, Tom C. wrote: I am just starting to use GIMP. I am having trouble getting the effect I want. I have 2 photos one over the other. I want to put text over the upper layer and have the lower layer show through. If I put a mask over the upper layer and draw on it with black it does just what I want. Problem is I want to use text not draw on it. Every way I try to add text I get a new layer, I seem to get text on the mask for the upper layer. thanks in advance for any help with this. Short hint: Text to selection, change to mask, fill with black(or white, whatever you want) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Help needed with text
On Sunday 04 October 2009, Tom C. wrote: then I select the mask and fill with black. I tried FG and BG. If the mask is white before, that layer should've been completely opaque, so filling the selection with black (simply dragdrop from the color patch onto the image) should make the layer below shine through. Of course, if the upper layer doesn't have a mask yet, simply choosing from selection (inverted) when creating the mask would've been the most straightforward way. Cheers, Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] adjusting a horizon
On Monday 28 September 2009, Jude T. wrote: I know I have seen, in the Gimp Manual, a way of adjusting a photo that's been taken on a bit of a slant - for instance a photo of a window. I have a photo where my horizon is on a slant. Can anyone remind me where in the Gimp manual it tells me how to adjust this? many thanks for any help! Jude For all those tools mentioned in the other posts, check out the Corrective mode, preferrably with the transformation preview set to only Grid. With that, it's just fun to correct skewed photographs. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] adjusting a horizon
Hello Phani, check out the Corrective mode please excuse my ignorance, but where do i find this mode? http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tools-transform.html#gimp-tool-transform - Tool Options - Direction You find this setting (and all other tool related options) in the tool options dialog, which is a dock that is usually just below the tool dialog itself. If you can't find it, I suggest the chapters on docks dialogs in the GIMP help pages. I hope you enjoy it, Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Change black to dark something in image, when printer is out of black ?
On Wednesday 02 September 2009, Greg Edwards wrote: Hi, The scenario - have an inkjet printer which regularly runs out of black ink, but still has plenty of colour ink. I would like to change black to dark blue or whatever, so I can print eg. a concert ticket with a black barcode, which will still scan fine at the venue entrance. On SGI in Days of Olde, this would be repcol ticket.rgb 0 0 0 0 0 20 10 or similar, ie. replace all pixels within 10 units (out of 255) of black with dark blue. Good old Paul Haeberli and his gfx tools. Appreciate assistance in doing this in Gimp - 2.6.7 on Mac with Snow Leopard (10.6). Or indeed a command line tool of any kind, I need this little trick quite a bit. ATdhvaannkcse ! Greg E Wouldn't it be the easiest way to set the printer to use CMY only instead of CMYK? Many printer drivers can do this. A dark blue would still consist of a lot of black since GIMP only knows about RGB and only when printing this is converted to a more printer-native representation. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Installing 2.6.7 in Ubuntu
Hello Caruso, On Sunday 30 August 2009, Carusoswi wrote: Ok, sorry. I'm running Ubuntu 9.04. I downloaded the three packages and used the package installer to extract and install two of the three, but received this error when attempting to install the application package: Error: Dependency not satisfiable Libgimp 2.0 (=2.6.7) Sounds like a bug with Ubuntu's package management, maybe you should report a bug against it at launchpad? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/+filebug Or did you not try to install it via the package manager? (synaptic, apt, etc) Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How to move image when selecting?
On Monday 17 August 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: When I am selecting an area with the freehand select tool, how can I move the image shown? Hello Dotan, try pressing the space bar. Then the mouse should move (or more specifically pan) your view of the image when no mouse button is pressed. I think that this is what you want :) But maybe the navigator in the bottom right corner of the image window works better for you. Just try them out. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Magic-lasso tool?
On Monday 17 August 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: I have last used an image editing program several years ago, I think it was photoshop. It had a magic-lasso tool that would snap to areas of different colour GIMP has magic scissors instead of lassos :) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Modify text on a jpg file with gimp 2.6.4
Hello! On Monday 15 June 2009, powah wrote: I want to modify text on a jpg file ... I had read that I should select the text layer. What does it mean? That means that there is no text layer. jpg files don't know about text, just about pixels. If you saved the image yourself as jpg, you should have received a small warning box saying you'll lose all layer information in that format. If someone else gave you the jpg, complain to them :) If you want to keep all (or nearly all) information about your layers, modes, masks, selection and text, you should save the image as xcf, that's GIMP's own format. I hope this isn't too bad news for you... Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Modify text on a jpg file with gimp 2.6.4
On Monday 15 June 2009, powah wrote: The jpg file is exported from a visio file embedded in a ms word document. Instead of using the jpg file format, what else should I use to keep the text information? You could try to export to either svg (better) or pdf (not quite as good) and open the result in Inkscape (another free program). I sometimes have good results with that. If you need to open it in GIMP, there's not much you can do, I'm afraid. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Don't feed the troll (Was: not to knock gimp...I love it, BUT I have never has decent prints from it)
Based on the amount of actual information given and the number of answers so far: \|||/ (o o) ,~~~ooO~~(_)~, | Please | | don't feed the | | TROLL! | '~~ooO~~~' |__|__| || || ooO Ooo signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] logos
On Saturday 28 March 2009, Kantamba wrote: What happened to the logos command that used to be under the old file menu? that command where you could enter text and see it in various logo renditions. It's still there. Under File Create ... Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP 2.6.4 on Vista, Invisible Files
On Thursday 26 March 2009, Googoo wrote: I ended up finding them. They were in USER_DIR\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\GIMP-2.0\bin. That was a new experience for me. Sounds very similar to this bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574018 Daniel PS: Please don't separate what you write from what other mailed before by double --, many email clients will ignore everything below since they think it's just someone's signature. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Using Gimp with Vista 64bit
Hello Karen, I don't know from my own experience if it'll work, but at least there's a specific package for x64 Windows here: http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html If you notice any problems that should not occur, please feel free to report them at http://bugzilla.gimp.org Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] sharpening a black and white graphic
On Wednesday 25 March 2009, CJ wrote: I have an image of two musical staves with the bass and treble cleft symbols that is pixilated. This image will be made into a rubber stamp and needs to look professional. I don't know what your image looks like, but if you need a high resolution image, sometimes it's easiest to recreate those parts with vector graphics. Many fonts have clef symbols that could be used for this purpose. You might even want to use a vector graphics application like inkscape for rubber stamps, but that depends on your specific problem, of course. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] sharpening a black and white graphic
On Wednesday 25 March 2009, Curt Tresenriter wrote: Thanks for the reply Pete. I did find an image but not both bass and treble clefts with the musical staves which is what I need. I've uploaded andimage to imagebin http://imagebin.org/42844 Rosegarden should be able to give you this exact image as pdf, I think. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] stiching image
Redirecting to gimp-user On Tuesday 24 March 2009, you wrote: i highly recommend the suggestion of hugin. if you are running linux of some type, you can go command line and skip the gui. hugin works well for the stitching and other things as well. example.tif is 4 shots stitched together in hugin on full auto. scaled to 20% for filesize. i couldn't spot the seams between the photos. please excuse the mess. i recently dove back into hugin and was taking test shots. hth, g On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Daniel Hornung daniel.horn...@gmx.de wrote: On Sunday 22 March 2009, ivo wrote: I need some guidance to achieve the following: I have nice landscape picture with a horizontal horizon which I want to manipulate to have the sides match in color and shape. In this case the sides almost match in color and shape... After the facts I would like to have the image folded into a cylinder where the sides would match, but that is the next step :) Try out Hugin, that's a different program, but highly specialized on stitching and blending panorama pictures. http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ Daniel ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] stiching image
On Sunday 22 March 2009, ivo wrote: I need some guidance to achieve the following: I have nice landscape picture with a horizontal horizon which I want to manipulate to have the sides match in color and shape. In this case the sides almost match in color and shape... After the facts I would like to have the image folded into a cylinder where the sides would match, but that is the next step :) Try out Hugin, that's a different program, but highly specialized on stitching and blending panorama pictures. http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Auto shutdown
On Friday 20 March 2009, Agnes Goh wrote: Hi, Recently I have been encountering a problem which does not exist before. Whenever I tried to the scale image, and tried to copy paste, the program will auto shut down. An error message - A problem caused the program to stop working correctly was shown. I would appreciate if you can advise urgently as I got a project deadline to meet. Thank you. Regards Agnes Hello Agnes, which version of GIMP? The latest stable is 2.6.6. And which operating system? Where/How did you get GIMP? Without these basic informations, there's not much anyone can do to help you. You might also want to check on the bug tracker at bugzilla.gimp.org if other people have experienced the same problem. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] A new layer enforced for each text object?
On Thursday 19 March 2009, Avraham Makeler wrote: Hi all, I read something in the documentation that says that each text (box?) is automatically placed in a new layer. And that's also what seems to happen in practice. Doesn't sound so great to me. I like being able to have multiple objects in a single layer. So I can show/hide a whole lot of things at once. Also, if you have 50 objects in a pic, do you get 50 layers...???!!! Hi Avi, each object that has its own boundaries and that can be moved, transformed, manipulated individually, _is_ indeed an individual layer. This can indeed be cumbersome if you have lots of layers, but the situation will probably improve once layer groups etc. are available at some point in the future. If you feel you don't need to edit or move several layer individually any more, you can merge them into one single layer, either by merging down[1] or by merging all visible[2] layers. Note that text layers lose their special text layer property when merged with other (even text) layers. Daniel [1] http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-layer-merge-down.html [2] http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-image-merge-layers.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] problem getting the thing to work
Just a guess: Did you install GTK+ manually? That shouldn't be necessary any more with GIMP 2.6.x, but old GTK+ installations might mix badly with the one provided with the GIMP installer. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Change Language in Gimp
On Monday 16 March 2009, Karl F. wrote: Thanks for helping, but i dont find, the( lang en ) In Edit - Adjustments- Enviroment I try to type ( Lang ) and/or ( en ) but nothing happen As Martin said, please read the linked documentation. That's not a setting in the preferences but how you can call GIMP from the command line on unix like systems. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How do I do this?
On Friday 13 March 2009, Henry Meeuwsen wrote: I was just wondering if there was a way I could unlock the Toolbox and the Docks from always being on top of the menu box, because I usually draw on the whole screen, and having the toolbox in my way is a hinderance. If anybody knows anything about this please tell me what I can do. Additionally to what Norman wrote already, you can set the docks' properties in the Preferences[1]. Daniel [1] http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-pimping.html#gimp-prefs-window-management signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] tips on enhancing text written in pencil
On Thursday 05 March 2009, James wrote: Ideally, I'd like all the yellowed paper that forms the background of these images to turn as close to white as possible, while all the pencil text should be as close to black as possible. Can anyone point me to things I can try under gimp that will help me accomplish these aims? If you have to work with many pages, my first idea would be to do an automatic white balance correction (Colors Auto White Balance). With a little luck, it'll pick the yellow as white and the pencil as black. If that doesn't work out as you expect, do it manually with the levels tool[1], and make use of the three eye droppers (mainly the white one) in the All channels section. Getting to know the levels tool (or curves too for even more control) will help you with photos and scans anyway. Greetings, Daniel [1] http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-levels.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] extract text in a rectangle from a jpg file
On Wednesday 04 March 2009, powah wrote: My image is 640 x 512 pixels X Y resolution are both 300 pixels/in. How to improve the image so that the OCR programs will recognize the text better? I try the Scale Image menu with different values of pixels X Y resolutions (e.g. 1920 x 1536 pixels X Y resolution are both 1200 pixels/in) but does not seem to improve the result. In most cases there's not much you can do, since scaling the image up doesn't increase the amount of available information. The best programs to improve such images do nothing more but good (sometimes surprisingly good) guesses. Maybe greycstoration[1] could improve the situation a bit? And the OCR program might work better with increased contrasts, so playing around with the levels (or curves) tool could also help. Daniel [1] http://cimg.sourceforge.net/greycstoration/index.shtml signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ 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 Sunday 01 March 2009, zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: saulgo...@flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com schrieb: Hi. Thanks a lot. I'll re-try both plugins you recommended after once day my operating system (gentoo) bring me to 2.6.x. I can manually make an upgrade to 2.6.x by changing some configuration files, but I prefer to wait because gimp's dependencies might change the system (gtk upgrade to 2.18). I'm not in hurry. The number of required changes is actually quite small, iirc. And 2.6 and its dependencies compile and work flawlessly for many people (including myself). Sometimes gentoo stable feels like debian sta(b)le. ;-) Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ 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 t o do clone on a layer )
On Friday 27 February 2009, zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: I wrote a trivial text 'find and replace' script for GIMP 2.6: http://registry.gimp.org/node/12212 sounds interesting! Does it work on 2.4.6? In the real world people like me are afraid of the cutting edge and use the latest stable... The latest stable is 2.6.5. Cutting edge versions (more or less snapshots from svn), if they exist, have odd minor version numbers, e.g. 2.7* at the moment. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ 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 Wednesday 25 February 2009, zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: Hello. Is there a feature in gimp that behave like inkscape, where a text layer (in Inkscape an object or a group of object) can have some clone text layers. No, (linked) clones are not available in GIMP (yet?), maybe in one or two years. I need this feature because I have an illustration where a word appeared multiple times. I need to change this word from time to time. But I have about 12 layers with the same word, doing the same text change to 12 layers from time to time look stupid. In Inkscape it would be easier. If you work a lot with texts and if changing the text is the last step in your workflow, maybe those steps are easier in Inkscape anyway? Or you could try and write a script that changes the text of all text layers in the same way, I think that should be possible at least in theory. Sorry if I couldn't help you more, Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] using levels on layer
On Monday 23 February 2009, Helen wrote: I haven't found a way to use the levels tool on one layer only. Is it possible to do this, to adjust the color of a layer rather than the image? Hello Helen, (nearly) all tools work just on the current layer, as does the levels tool. Maybe you merged your layers together and have only one layer left? Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: using levels on layer
---BeginMessage--- No, I checked again -- I have background, background duplicate, and a top layer. On the top layer, I used the crop tool on that layer only, which leaves a lot of background showing around edges. I'd like to run levels just on bkgrd (or bkground duplicate). Maybe there a tool properties setting that I've missed. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Daniel Hornung daniel.horn...@gmx.dewrote: On Monday 23 February 2009, Helen wrote: I haven't found a way to use the levels tool on one layer only. Is it possible to do this, to adjust the color of a layer rather than the image? Hello Helen, (nearly) all tools work just on the current layer, as does the levels tool. Maybe you merged your layers together and have only one layer left? Daniel ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Helen Etters using Linux, SuSE11 ---End Message--- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How to do this?
On Thursday 19 February 2009, vicky aur wrote: Hi all, How do I make a photograph to look like this? http://customize.org/wallpapers/52351 This is my first post. If i have missed some guidelines, please redirect me to proper channel. Thanks, Vicky Was that made from a photograph? I'd say, use Inkscape (yes, that's a completely different, but still free, program) and trace the outlines either automatically or by hand, and then refine it by hand. That image was clearly done with a vector graphics application. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] No script/pattern files in my iMac Leopard ?
On Monday 09 February 2009, OnyX wrote: Hello, I try to download bling Text script-fu from this site http://gimpscripts.com/?p=15 into my iMac Leopard. Somthing wrong happen. Gimp is OFF and inside my mac Home - Library - App Support - Gimp - there is no script or pattern folder to drag the pattern over to. Tried one of the locations given in GIMP's Preferences Folders Scripts for your script (bling-text.scm)? Also please read the README included there. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Free textures
On Tuesday 03 February 2009, Adrian Dusa wrote: Sorry to be ignorant, but how does one include these files in Gimp's textures? Adrian You can see which folders are relevant for your system in the preferences: http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-pimping.html#gimp-prefs-folders-data Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Gimp latest version
On Saturday 31 January 2009, John Culleton wrote: If the Gimp source distro contained a compatible version of gegl and babl then compiling from source would be a lot easier. Now my only other choice is to install Ubuntu or whatever on another partition and see if they have an updated binary Gimp available. That is a lot of work and a lot of time also. The latest stable versions should do, 0.0.22 for both babl and gegl. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] gimp and ubuntu compatible tablet
On Saturday 31 January 2009, Michael J. Hammel wrote: The HyperPen 12000U is still available from Aiptek: http://www.aiptek.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PRODProduct_Code=R-HP1 2UCategory_Code=T1Store_Code=AS Aiptek tablets are also often sold under other names. The cheap tablets you get at discounters or on ebay are mostly just rebranded Aipteks. My experiences with one (two years ago now) were really mixed. If it works, fine, but there are chances that it will misbehave in one way or another. Plus, I don't think there's an active developer for the aiptek driver at the moment. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Question: How to....
On Wednesday 28 January 2009, rlt46...@aol.com wrote: I have Gimp 2.6. It says I need to install the additional help package. Where do I find the download? Rebecca Usually at the same place you found GIMP itself, which usually depends on your operating system. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Resizing a larger image to smaller image causesdistortion
On Thursday 22 January 2009, Ajay Gautam wrote: Now that you know the desired end result, what would the best way to go about creating the it, if I were to recreate it from start? Thanks Ajay If you can recreate it (or will anyway), do it in a resizable format, like svg with a program like Inkscape. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp latest version
On Friday 16 January 2009, Cristian Secară wrote: And then when GIMP goes to 2.7+ will have to upgrade also the OS to Ubuntu 8.20+/whatever ? First of all, there will be no stable GIMP 2.7, since odd minor version numbers are reserved for development releases. Second, all complaints about some version of GIMP not being available on some operating system or distribution should go to the maintainers of that distribution, since the only official product released by the GIMP developers is the source code. It's totally up to the distributions to provide binaries, in whichever version they see fit. I hope this helped to answer some questions. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] One tomato from five
On Friday 16 January 2009, Philip Rhoades wrote: People, I want to select only the middle tomato and then treat the edges of the single tomato so that the edges are soft like edges of the existing tomatoes on the left and right. I have tried cropping down to one tomato and then various attempts at fixing the edges using smudging and burning etc but the result never looks right - how would the image gurus do it? Thanks, Phil. you could use one of the selection tools. Or ask google for gimp select object. That gave me the very nice result here: http://www.ephotozine.com/article/How-to-selectively-colour-an-object-in-Gimp Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] From Clipboard as Layer
On Friday 09 January 2009, daviodan wrote: It is possible to exist in future versions of the GIMP option: File-Create-From Clipboard as Layer? Sometimes it is necessary using more screenshots. I don't know if I understood you correctly, but does Edit Paste As New Layer do waht you want? It's there since GIMP 2.6, iirc. Greetings, Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Animation VCR-style buttons for GIMP
On Monday 05 January 2009, Robert Slater wrote: I am trying to create some teaching aids using GIMP animation. I have a few GIMP animations working so far. All of the animations run in a loop without stopping. I would like the user to be able to control the frames using VCR-style buttons (PLAY, PAUSE, REWIND, STEP-by-STEP) within my animated script. Something similar to Filters-Animation- Playback would be great. Is there something I can add to my animations that would support the VCR-style buttons? I haven't worked very much with GAP (Gimp Animation Plugin), it might provide it, but I doubt that GIMP is suited well as a general viweing application. Try some other movie viewer that can also play the format of your choice. Also, I would like to post these GIMP animations on a web page. Is there anyway to allow the user to see the animation without being able to download the file? Right now, the user can right-click on the link and download the GIF file to their computer. Can I stop this from happening? Hardly. Somehow the data has to reach the other user's computer to be displayed there. And in that moment you lose control over what's done with your data. The only thing you can do is make it a bit harder for the determined and a lot less user friendly for the casual visitor of that web page. Yours, Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Fonts
On Monday 05 January 2009, Tagg wrote: How can I add more fonts to gimp? Simply put them into one of the font folders shown in GIMP's preferences or add folders there if there are fonts in a different place already. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Help files not accessibile
On Saturday 20 December 2008, Florio wrote: I'd prefer to have direct access to the user manual rather than using the online one. Can someone please explain how to get the help file working? Hello! The documentation/ help usually has to be installed separately. You should be able find it at the same places from you got GIMP. I hope this helps, Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] normalmap and resynthesizer plug-ins and gimp 2.6
On Tuesday 16 December 2008, peter kostov wrote: Hm, thanks David, but it isn't so easy, because the package uses pkg-config too. Try setting your PKG_CONFIG_PATH before configuring the plugins. Greetings, Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Color dialog
On Sunday 07 December 2008, Lap1994 wrote: Sorry if I made myself unclear. I'm speaking about the color dialog. Its on windowsdockable dialogscolors or dialogscolors depending which version you use. There you right click and the color is choosen. You left click and the color is choose. But having two mouse buttons and two colors(foreground and background) its pretty useless selecting the same color no matters what button you use(you can use even the mid button) Sorry, you're probably correct, that might be useful indeed. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] unknown software exception
On Thursday 27 November 2008, Rinke H. wrote: I just installed gimp 2.6 on my windows 2000 machine, but the program is inherently instable and is not able to run longer than 5 seconds before it crashes and disappears. Most of the time it already crashes at startup; if not it crashes as soon as you click a button or menu item. The error message is always something like unknow software exception at blah blah blah 2.4 has the same behaviour, only 2.0 runs without problems. On my other machine, also windows 2000, gimp 2.6 runs without problems. Anyone an idea what I can do about it? Is there some error log in the gimp, which I can check on dll's causing the problem? Hi! If you still have 2.0 or 2.2 there, you probably installed gtk+ separately, which could be in a pretty old version by now. Could you try completely uninstalling the old GIMP and the old GTK+ libraries before installing the current version of GIMP? Also other people might be able to help further if that error message mentions more details about where exactly the error occurs. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] rulers
On Wednesday 26 November 2008, Paul G. wrote: I can't for the life of me figure out what this is for and have looked everywhere to find out. What is this for? This is called a sample point ;) It's not used for very much at the moment, but it could be useful if you want to keep a look at a point's current color http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-sample-point-dialog.html Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp andTurboPrint
On Sunday 23 November 2008, norman wrote: I use TurboPrint 2.x to print from Gimp 2.6.2 on my desktop computer running Ubuntu 8.04. I would like to print from a remote laptop computer running Ubuntu 8.10 using a wireless connection and still be able to use TurboPrint. Has anyone any experience of this or any idea on how to achieve it, please? Norman Hello! What is that turboprint and how does it work? If it just makes printers available via cups, there should be no problem. If it works with Ubuntu 8.04 but not with 8.10, that would be an Ubuntu problem and the Ubuntu people should work on it. Printing through a network (as you seem to want to do) works as well or bad with GIMP as with any other application, wireless or by cable. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Replacing colors
On Sunday 23 November 2008, Avraham Makeler wrote: My first task is to replacing colors in an image - like Find-Replace. First, how do you do a straightforward 'Replace Colors' op? Second: my specific need is to convert a gray gradient to a similar one in a shade of red/pink. Hello! The documentation http://docs.gimp.org/ is your friend: http://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-exchange.html http://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-gradmap.html Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] apply gradients to the canvas/area , err msg: Blend does not operate on indexed layers
On Sunday 23 November 2008, Avraham Makeler wrote: and I have tried using the Blend Tool, but it tells me Blend does not operate on indexed layers. Hi! As http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-blend.html clearly says, the blend too is the correct one. It even tells you why it doesn't work in your case: Your image is in indexed mode: http://docs.gimp.org/en/glossary.html#glossary-indexedcolors Simply convert it to rgb: http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-image-convert-rgb.html Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp Startup Problems
On Saturday 22 November 2008, Skyler wrote: I'm running windows vista 32 bit and GIMP 2.6.2. The vast majority of the time that I try running GIMP, it doesn't start. There are no windows or anything, but it is listed in the process list in task manager. Is there anyway to fix this? Did you get that version of GIMP from the offical place, i.e. gimp-win.sourceforge.net? Do you use any fancy additional display drivers, e.g. for addional virtual desktops? Just two ideas from my old windows times... Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Another question.
On Monday 17 November 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a database of script-fu programs I can look at 1.) to help learn the language, and 2.) that will allow me to automate certain stages of the placement of the 2 watermarks since each watermark will have to be placed in a different location on each photo in order to not interfere with the object of the photoin my case each photo will have a plane as the focal point. registry.gimp.org is the place to generally look for scripts. There will be scripts in all languages, also in script-fu/tiny-fu, so as to give you many examples. I don't know much more about scripting, but maybe also http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Batch/ might be helpful Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Moving Selections
A task that I find myself frequently performing is cropping images. In the old GIMP I used to drag out a selection box, and then use one of the control keys (CTRL/ SHIFT/ ALT, can't remember which sadly) to move it around until it looked right. One link to rule them all http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-using-selections.html But why don't you use the crop tool if you want to crop an image or a layer? Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Searching GIMP user manual
On Tuesday 21 October 2008, First Last wrote: Ok, let me explain the situation I had today that prompted the posting. I have some photos that have some pretty bad vignetting and I was hoping GIMP could take care of it for me. So I was expecting I could open the Help or the user manual and just search for vignetting and that would take me right to the spot in the manual that would explain it. Since the manual is a manual and not a selection of tutorials, you'll find mainly documentation about GIMP's functions there, not about how to use them for some effect or another. So even a search function doesn't replace a broader search across other web sites. Luckily for you, there's an official tutorial that might do what you want, although it's not in the manual: http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Quickmask/ I hope this link helps, Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] rectangular selection
On Monday 20 October 2008, David Gowers wrote: I use version 2.2.17 and what do you mean by choose something else? I am needing a rectangle with curved edges. Thanks Upgrade to 2.4, ... Upgrade to 2.6 ... Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Searching GIMP user manual
On Sunday 19 October 2008, Sven Neumann wrote: I am a new user to GIMP, but haven't for the life of me been able to find a way to search the GIMP user manual or help. I am interested to learn why you need to search the user manual at all. We might want to add such a feature, but that requires us to understand under what circumstances a user would want to perform a search in the user manual and what he/she would be searching for. Hi, often information about one topic is scattered around the manual, which probably can ahrdly be avoided. As an example, selections are covered in articles about their tool preference dialogs, the Select menu, the quickmask, a general introduction (gimp-painting.html), gimp-using-selections.html (the most asked for on irc) and several others (convert to/from selections). The articles are well linked between each other, but that's a tedious way of finding the relevant piece of information. Probably it's not a real search that's needed but a link to the index, so here it is (to the original poster): http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-help-index.html Another way to search the manual is to use you favourite search engine, google for example works with search terms like this: site:docs.gimp.org/en/ SEARCH TERM Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Changing events
On Sunday 19 October 2008, Johan Vromans wrote: Hi, I have a couple of databases where I entered the date that people were christened instead of date of birth, the latter being unknown. However, The Narrative Web Report seems to use the event Baptism instead of Christening. Is there an easy way to change Christening to Baptism for all entries in the database? I tried to export GRAMPS XML, issue a search/replace on the text and then re-import the XML. This seems to work but can I be sure no information gets lost this way? -- Johan Hi, you're probably writing to the wrong mailing list? Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.6.0
On Saturday 04 October 2008, Johan Vromans wrote: I don't think F9 is the only distro suffering... The bottomline appears to be that the Gimp really depends on these very new versions of babl and gegl. Very new is relative, they are from June. And without GIMP, would any distribution ever add those libs? Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Calibrating monitor and a bit of more information
On Saturday 28 June 2008, David G. wrote: I've an Acer 19 /widescreen AL1916W, yet I don't feel like it's really calibrate and I really can't tell. What's the best practices for this? Also, I would someone to introduce me more in depth to ICC profiles and how do they help when creating graphics and so on. The people over at scribus [1] have some nice and extensive information [2] with more links about color calibration. Daniel [1] http://www.scribus.net [2] http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=enpage=cms signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] strange workaround for slow GIMP start (WinXP) (resent)
On Thursday 26 June 2008, Cristian Secară wrote: After a system reinstall (HDD change) on my HP nc8230 notebook, GIMP was starting painfully slow, almost bloking itself at Fonts-something startup splash screen. This was something new for me, as in the previous WinXP system install GIMP started almost immediately. Searching a bit I noticed that this happens to be a common issue on many Windows systems, where some have mentioned something about GTK+. This pointed me to the question - what was different in my previous system install related to GTK+ ? Answer - two more GTK+ applications (except for Sylpheed, which does not matter for the subject), Pidgin and GPA. So I installed Pidgin (2.4.2), et voilà, GIMP now starts immediately ! So who knows, maybe this info can be of some help for others too ... (and perhaps for GIMP developers too :) Cristi Have you tried starting GIMP twice without Pidgin installed? It could simply be that the very first start time takes very long for GIMP because it registers/ cashes all the available fonts and then only has to check for changes on the second and all subsequent starts. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Opacity
On Friday 16 May 2008, Lap1994 wrote: Hello. I want to draw a image with a 50% opacity border. When I change the opacity of the pencil and use it, the selected color and the color where I use the pencil, combine itself. I do not want it, I want draw a pixel with exact 50% of alpha and the color selected. Like a bitmap with a alpha channel. Do not want: black pixel + %50 opacity, white color = silver Want: black pixel + %50 opacity, white color = 50% opacity white pixel Hello! How about a lyer mask made of white (for the opaque parts) and 50% grey (for the 50% transparent parts)? Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] EXIF
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Kim Cascone wrote: When you take an image with a digital camera, the camera itself leaves a data file which automatically identifies itself. This file is called an EXIF and usually has information like the make of the camera, the ISO setting, the date and time, the pixel setting, etc. This needs to be removed. The easiest way to remove this is to open photoshop and save it for web. http://www.instructables.com/id/S0LK8JJFE6F2AEJ/ how does one save an image in GIMP without the EXIF data from a digital camera? In the 'save as' dialog (or Save a Copy), uncheck the exif checkbox. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] transparency
Convert the image to RGB mode if it's not already. However, the set Colour to Alpha setting remained greyed out of action. What have I missed, please? Norman Are you in RGB mode? You can check it in Image-Mode. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] black white
On Saturday 12 April 2008, norman wrote: I have looked but this does not answer my specific question, unfortunately. I cannot believe my question was so obscure that no one has been able to answer it yet. Perhaps it is too simple and I am missing the point somewhere. Norman Yes, maybe you should rephrase it, I'd thought that you wanted to know methods to have more control than with one of the straightforward methods: - Image-Mode-Grayscale (the whole image will be grayscale, you'd have to change back to RGB mode to edit with colours again) - Colors-Desaturate, which has three predefined modes since GIMP 2.4 If that's not what you want, maybe you should ask again in a different way ;-) Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] black white
On Saturday 12 April 2008, norman wrote: Yes, maybe you should rephrase it, I'd thought that you wanted to know methods to have more control than with one of the straightforward methods: - Image-Mode-Grayscale (the whole image will be grayscale, you'd have to change back to RGB mode to edit with colours again) - Colors-Desaturate, which has three predefined modes since GIMP 2.4 If that's not what you want, maybe you should ask again in a different way ;-) Right, I could explain but, as it is said, a picture is worth a thousand words. I was looking at the following and would like to be able to do what is described, using GIMP:- http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/tutorial_pages/elements_2/PSE2_BW.html There are 2 things I am puzzled about they are:- how do I create an H/S Adjustment Layer and why is the background copy in bw whereas the layer labelled background is in colour as is Background copy 2. Norman There are no such things as adjustment layers in GIMP, but in one of the future versions, much more powerful tools will be available to allow non-destructive editing. You can do pretty much of what's done there though in different ways as mentioned on the page that Tim gave. As to why the BG copy 2 layer in your page is bw, I best quote that page itself: the top layer (Background copy) shows where we did a simple 'remove colour' and have de-selected the 'eye' so as to hide this layer. The coloured seem to be effectively desaturated with one of the adjustment layers. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] black white
On Friday 11 April 2008, norman wrote: I am trying to gather information on how to convert from colour to black white. In my searches I came across the following which is in photoshop:- http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/tutorial_pages/elements_2/PSE2_BW.html Could some kind person please explain to me how I do this in GIMP so that I can add it to my list of things to try. Norman Hello Norman, http://www.gimpguru.org/Tutorials/ has a lot of thing to add to your list. But in the end it's up to you to try them out and find for each image the method that works best. Have fun! Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] stroking path with 1 pixel width brush is semiopaque
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, dorai iyer wrote: I selected a 1 pixel thick brush to stroke the drawn path onto an image. When I stroked the path, the color of the stroke appears semi transparent. Is there a way to make it appear completely solid. Thanks You could turn off antialiasing (extension of the stroke dialog under line style) or use the pencil as paint tool there with a 1 pixel brush, these two methods look equivalent to me. You might have noticed that you have full color pixels where the path goes straight across a pixel, but less when the pixel is only touchedm this is due to the antialiasing that's on by default. This will give a fully colored, 1-pixel line: - | x-|---|---|---|---|-x | - This will give a 50% colored, 2-pixel line: - | | | | | | | --x---x-- | | | | | | | - I hope this helped a bit to understand the problem. Greetings, Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] 300 dpi screen capture
On Friday 22 February 2008, ChadDavis wrote: I'm trying to take some screen captures that will be used in a book. How do I set the resolution / dpi of the screen capture device? I tried setting the defulat new image parameters, but it doesn't seem to be used by the screen capture device. When doing screen captures, you don't actually get any ppi at all, you just get the plain pixels. The resolution you attach to the image is quite arbitrary. When using it in a book, you might want to scale the image by an integer scale with next neighbour interpolation though. IMHO pixelized screenshots look better than blurred ones on paper. But maybe one of the actual book writers on this list may tell you more. *hint* Greetings, Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] cannot install gimp 2.4.4
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Khoem Sokhem wrote: Hello all, I cannot install via yast -i gimp or zypper in gimp in my openSUSE 10.3. I tried both command in my konsole but does not work. any idea? Thanks, Sokhem What exactly does not work? What's suse's current version your installation sources? I'm sorry, but that kind of error description will not help anyone who didn't experience exactly the same problem. Greetings, Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] explenation for layer mode needed
On Saturday 02 February 2008, Axel Wernicke wrote: Hi list, there are two layer modes that I don't understand: Grain extract and Grain merge is there an example of the usage somewhere on the net? There is, possibly even on your hard drive: http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-concepts-layer-modes.html Greetings, Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Alt Key
On Friday 21 December 2007, Jeffery Small wrote: I think if you hold shift before beginning to drag the mouse, then it should also lock the aspect ratio. I'd guess this is to make the crop tool's use consistent with the rectangle/ ellipse selection tools, where pressing modifier keys _before_ switches the normal/add/subtract/intersect mode, so pressing it afterwards was still free. And, btw, there's nothing lost if you can press shift as late as you want, but you win the ability to decide on the final shape until you let go of your mouse button. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Alt Key
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Robert Smits wrote: Windows key? What is this mythical key? It is certainly not evident on any of my keyboards. It's the one with the flying (i.e. moving) window. But I'm afraid some malicous company grabbed it as their trade mark without even implementing the moving of windows properly or understanding the concepts of modern window managers. Since penguins can't fly (but slide, at least downhill), there are some keyboards with those cute little creatures on instead. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Alt Key
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Scott wrote: Actually, moving a selection in Gimp 2.4 is easier than it was in 2.2. Simply left click within the selected region and drag... no modifier keys needed and no need to grab the edge of the selection when doing so. I just did this in 2.4.1 in KDE 3.5.8 on Kubuntu 7.10. The new selection tool features are much easier to use if you haven't already been trained to use the old methods from previous releases. Are we talking about the same thing? This thread's issue is (or so it seems to me) about moving the _content_ of a selection, as described in http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-using-selections.html#gimp-using-selections-moving Yes, to simply move the border, you can also use the move tool in selection mode, without needing any modifer key. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Alt Key
On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Thomas Worthington wrote: Is there any way to restore the Alt key to its old usage in 2.4? I can't drag selections anymore because it requires Alt and mouse at the same time, which is a problem on Linux. It's a problem in some (most?) window managers, not with Linux itself. Personally, my preferred option is to change the WM's behaviour to move windows with the windows key + mouse instead of Alt + mouse. How do I tell Gimp to use another shift-type key for that action? I'm not sure if this is possible at all, especially not if from within GIMP. If someone else knows an answer, please go on. Yours, Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] gimp says cannot open image
On Sunday 16 December 2007, Helen wrote: Does anyone have any ideas about what happened, or how I might recover. (Actually, I just realized this is not, strictly speaking a Gimp question -- it's just that I use Gimp. I apologize if this is off-subject.) So can other programs open those images? Helen, using Gimp 2.2.10 That version is quite outdated, current is 2.4.2 (latest 2.2.x was 2.2.17, IIRC) Hope this helps, Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Using shift with selection tools
On Tuesday 16 October 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote: I see that some modifier keys perform two different functions when used in conjunction with the select tools. Shift with the ellipse selector, for instance, forces circles if held while dragging. If it is held while releasing the mouse button, then it is used for adding to the selection (as opposed to replacing the selection). This dualty of shift's behaviour is troublesome. For instance, if I want to add to the current selection, but I do not want to force a perfect circle, how can I do that? As you said, the moment when you press the modifier key is important. For effecting the shape, have it pressed while dragging the shape, esp. in the moment you let go of the mouse button. If you simply want to change the selection mode (such as add, subtract or intersect), make sure the modifier key is pressed while you _push the mouse button down_, you can let go of the key once the mouse button is down. I hope this helps, Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Image resizing based upon image content
On Thursday 04 October 2007, Konstantin Svist wrote: Kevin Cozens wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: There is an amazing video describing an image resizing algorithm that removes (or adds) pixels based upon their importance to the subjecto of the photo. Can this be implemented in The Gimp? http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/ and the video for it is here http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/en:examples Only problem now: It's located in the layers menu, which should be changed to filters-something signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
