[Gimp-user] Crop mystery? I'm gonna sound like an idiot
Crop--like tool #1 you learn to use. I have used it TODAY just fine, making the image I was cropping smaller. But suddenly, when I cropped I got the cropped area and a transparent area surrounding it. This was a one layer image. Nothing fancy--just took some screen shots and wanted to trim them. And now I've got my trimmed image surrounded by a huge transparent area, and I cannot figure out: 1) What changed 2) How to get rid of that transparent area I have never used the Resize button before, but it seems to act just as the Crop button does. Tried it on pngs, jpgs and xcfs...all the same. I am mystified. What did I change? How do I un-change it? Using 2.2.13 (happily, until today) on Linux. Thanks- Jim Clark___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] A question that has never been asked....
And if you can bear one more comment. Gimp is a noun that is virtually gone from the American English language in this sense. There are lots of disparaging words that the language police are trying to remove from usage, but this one died a natural death long ago. Much like those Southwest airline attendants who got sued for saying eeny-meenie-miney-mo, you gotta be on the lookout for offense to be bothered by this. It was a pretty mild term to begin with, most often used as an adjective, and usually about oneself, e.g., Can't play ball today, got a gimpy leg. Give it up folksif you want to clean up language, there are more better targets to hunt. Thanks- Jim Clark___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] What tool could do this?
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... You get the idea. I like this format, perspective, and shading, but want to customize it. I know that whoever made this image did not draw it but used some tool to create it. Anyone know how this can be done using GIMP, or on some other Linux drawing tool? Thanks- Jim Clark___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Calibrating monitors in Ubuntu
http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints1A.html Is the most useful page I've read on calibration...(Pretty sure I got this from this list a couple of years ago.) Jim Clark___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Green on Green
Well, for what it is worth, and I don't suppose that is much, on a pretty nifty Sun monitor using FF on Linux, I cannot see the box until I mouseover. The colors are precisely the same. Whatever the problem is, it isn't GImp's. Thanks- Jim Clark SDS: K0QA Lenexa, Kansas 913/599-8845 T/L 337-8845___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] CD Labels
Just whacking away at this injured horse again. I have been burning music CDs since 1996, putting sticky labels on since about 98. I have burned and stickied hundreds of CDs. While the life span of home-burned CDs (and I use the expensive ones designed for studio use) is not as good as pre-packaged ones, I have many CDs with labels from 1998 that still play perfectly. And a few that don't play, but that trouble is confined to one track, which leads me to believe it is not the label causing the difficulty. Thanks- Jim Clark___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] paste problem
Not sure if this is the way you'd like to do this, but if I create a new layer after the cut, and paste into this new layer, the selection remains where it was and is not centered. This new layer could be combined with another layer if it needs to be connected to something else, but this works fine for me, and the centering works when I want to do things that way. Thanks- Jim Clark
[Gimp-user] PS and GIMP
Let me, as one who has never used Photoshop and am at best a very limited user of the GIMP offer one item unmentioned so far. I am helping a friend build a web site. We needed to make three small graphics. On his Windows box we went to gimp.org, downloaded and installed, and in about 5 minutes had our graphics. Though I use GIMP on Linux, the interface was close enough that I could fire it up and go. We didn't trek to a store, pay $500 and then have a tool he would never use again that doubled the cost of his PC. That goes without saying, you might say? Oh yeah, ask Gary which tool he prefers! And I am not opposed to paying for software, and would gladly purchase the GIMP if available (in fact, I still have my CD I bought 6 years ago.) Thanks- Jim Clark
[Gimp-user] png compression
H... I have a couple of pngs that I have scaled to make smaller but still visible thumbnails. Image 1 (install1.png) was 799 X 598, I scaled it to 300 X 225. install10.png was 765 X 538, scaled to 450 X 317. Here's an ls: 10725 Apr 14 13:54 install10.png 24020 Apr 14 15:01 install10_tn.png 35217 Apr 14 13:54 install1.png 32378 Apr 14 15:01 install1_tn.png install1.png was reduced significantly and yet the file size reduction is less than 10% (hardly worth the bother to make a smaller version) and install10.png, reduced in size by a much smaller proportion, was reduced a useful (and much greater) amount. These were png screenshots sent to me from a Win box...I cropped them to the useful area and saved them as pngs using the default settings. Then for the thumbnails I just scaled the image and saved again. Is there something I should be doing to get a smaller file size? I have only recently started using pngs as my users are all MS/IE folks and have not really thought about file compression much. But this seems weird to me. I realize what I don't know about file compression (or pngs, or GIMP, or most other things discussed on this list) could fill a few books, but same source same process same tools yielded very different results. Why? Thanks- Jim Clark
RE: [Gimp-user] png compression
Things get odder and odder. I need to put 10 screen shots on a web page and was hoping to shave 100K from the final page. So I took one of my images and indexed it. Before index: 27004 After index:30705. It got larger? I downloaded and installed a png crusher and ran it against both files: 27004 after crush became: 19419 or a 28% reduction 30705 did not change--all the crushed versions were larger. So now I have 4 images which all look about the same, ranging in size from 19419 to 30705. Quite a hit or miss process. One would think indexing and crushing would yield the smallest image, but it did not. Thanks again- Jim Clark
Re: [Gimp-user] png compression
I no-dithered and I crushed and I reduced my 10 images from 165084 to 113479 without using any thumbnails. 50K isn't 100K, but it is a significant reduction, and with no visible loss of image quality. Worked well--thanks for the pointers. Jim Clark
[Gimp-user] Windows screenshots
I am taking a bunch of screenshots that were made by someone else and putting them on an internal web site. They are dreadful--the jpg save took the sold gray background around the black text and altered it into a mishmash of grays, whites and black pixels about 8 pixels wide. I'm trying to just color over this mess very lightly--can't fix every pixel but at least I can reduce the eye strain of reading this. But what would really be nice would be to just re-type the text. That would take about 1/10th the time and remove all the bad pixels. However, I do not know what font those Windows dialogs use. Does anyone? Trial and error have not been too fruitful yet. Here's an 8X screenshot of the screenshot: http://www.llywelyn.net/images/reboot.png Thanks- Jim Clark
[Gimp-user] Boring old artistic question--no philosophy
I would like to make an arch like the one seen in the logo on the top of the page at http://www.rma.usda.giv/ The arch is symmetrical but not a piece of an arc. And it has one color on the outside and another on the inside. I'd appreciate any assistance anyone has to offer. I like this shape.I want to use it. I am no artist--possibly I could just freehand it, but I'm not good enough. And the fill blend is nicely done. Thanks- Jim Clark
Re: [Gimp-user] Re: sub part 2
Well, I bumbled into an answer that didn't require learning a new piece of software...though I thank you for your suggestions and will look at Blender. However, I just made a long rectangle in the color I wanted, did a map object - sphere , and got precisely what I wanted, a beautiful, shiny and highlighted submarine shape. Couldn't be easier...will need to experiment with the right size rectangle to get what I want, but otherwise, zap, boom, p-p-p-pow and I'm done. Thanks- Jim Clark
[Gimp-user] Build a submarine in your spare time
I want to create what I can only describe as a submarine shape. I want a cylinder that is rounded on the ends and looks 3D. Just a left to right view, no angles no perspective. Boy, I sure don't know how to do this. Can anyone point? Thanks- Jim Clark
[Gimp-user] sub part 2
I realized I did not make the most important issue clear. I want it 3D in both directions...not just top to bottom (which even I can do) but also tapering towards the tips. So it really looks as if it is rounded at the ends as well as fat in the middle. Sorry for the lack of clarity. Thanks again, Jim Clark
[Gimp-user] Alpha to Logo problem
I am having trouble getting this to work as I think it shouldWhen a use a text layer and process it with these tools, any drop shadows or blurs on the far right edge are chopped off. It takes the text layer, makes that the width of the manipulated image, and anything that might be to the right of that is gone. So the blurs looks great until we get to the chopped right edge. Any suggestions--or am I doing something wrong? Thanks- Jim Clark
Re: [Gimp-user] Alpha to Logo problem
I tried that before sending my original message, but it did not work. I posted some screenshots and more explanation at: http://www.llywelyn.net/gimp/gimp.html Thanks- Jim Clark I am having trouble getting this to work as I think it shouldWhen a use a text layer and process it with these tools, any drop shadows or blurs on the far right edge are chopped off. It takes the text layer, makes that the width of the manipulated image, and anything that might be to the right of that is gone. So the blurs looks great until we get to the chopped right edge. Any suggestions--or am I doing something wrong? Try the Layer to Image Size function in the layers and channels menu. (Right click on the Layers and Channels Dialog to get the menu). This will expand the text layer to make room for the drop shadow.
[Gimp-user] Save Dialog
If I'm in the wrong place, please point. I don't know where to turn. I am aware the problem is not exclusive to GIMP, but it's driving me nuts, and it may be something simple. I sure hope so. Using 2.2 on Fedora Core 3. When I do a save as in any application, once I type a character or 2, the auto-complete function fills in some name I don't want related to something in the same directory, and puts my cursor back at the beginning of the name, so I end up typing over the name and get something stupid. I cannot imagine where I could configure the save dialog for auto-complete to be turned off, but boy do I want to do it.This way i type, stop, move the cursor and continue. How convenient! Been poking around on the web but do not know how to word this to limit my results to what I want...not even sure it's called auto-complete in the save dialog. Thanks- Jim Clark IBM Global Services, Service Delivery Center - West Lenexa, Kansas 913/599-8845
[Gimp-user] Well I finally upgraded
and wanted to say Thank You to the large group of amazing folks who have created such a wonderful tool. I know you know it's good, but it seems important to let you know. Among the most useful improvements are the highlight while setting the crop (great idea! smile every time I use it) and font changing in the image as you change it in the dialog. Much easier to experiment now. No requests, no Yeah, it's nice...but I wish... Love it. Thanks- Jim Clark
[Gimp-user] Re: Text Tool
I have used a font called Ergoe for 12 pt text buttons, and it worked great. I cannot tell you from where I installed it, but any time I need small text it is the one I choose as it is clear and legible. Here is a web site I did many years ago, much has changed but the mouseover on the left is still the same buttons I made in '99 with (I think) 12 pt Ergoe. http://www.rma.usda.gov/ Thanks- Jim Clark And for the fellow with the missing pixels in his (very attractive) sister's image: It may not be the best way, but a simple way to fix that is to leave a duplicate of the original beneath it and just erase around the edge in a manner to make sure nothing shows through. All the erased pixels will have their original source behind them.
[Gimp-user] Old question
I asked this once before and got a great answer. But I no longer have the message that told me how to do this, and a search of the mail list archives yields errors and no answers. I want to make an equilateral septagon. There was some way to measure angles, but I cannot find it and cannot remember. Can someone point please? Thanks- Jim Clark
[Gimp-user] Still running 1.2.5, but having sudden troubles
My formerly reliable RH 9 machine has suddenly developed several performance problems, GIMP having among the worst. 1) When I click on the Crop too, sometimes it crashes with this error: LibGimp-WARNING **: script-fu: wire_read: unexpected EOF Most times it works just fine. 2) However, these messages come up regularly while working, heaps and mounds of them: Gimp-CRITICAL **: file gimpdrawable.c: line 249 (gimp_drawable_gimage): assertion `GIMP_IS_DRAWABLE (drawable)' failed. Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkObject' Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtksignal.c: line 919 (gtk_signal_disconnect): assertion `object != NULL' failed. Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkentry.c: line 440 (gtk_entry_set_text): assertion `text != NULL' failed. 3) And then when I close GIMP, I get: Gimp-WARNING **: swap file not empty: /home/jimc/.gimp-1.2/gimpswap.5159 5439488 - 5505024 Is there something simple I can do with my current Gimp to repair what used to work just fine? Thanks-- Jim Clark ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Font Wackiness
I tried yesterday to explain this problem, but since I got no reply, and usually this list is very helpful, I will assume it was the incoherency of the description. I have made some visual aids and placed them at: http://www.llywelyn.net/docs/misc/font.html I am sure my vocabulary is deficient in some key words, but I hope the images will make it very clear why I am baffled by this behavior. Thanks- Jim Clark ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Fonts #3 last time!
Thanks for the previous messages. Fonts that showed up in my font list but showed not available were in a fonts.dir file in the directory but not actually in the directory. I removed the offending lines from the fonts.dir file, and all is well (in that area.) It was telling me the truth--the selected font was not available! However.I have gotten my font list to the level I want. But some fonts display an extra character (an @) at the front of the list (when displayed in Dynamic Text.) So instead of the list looking like: ABCDEFGHI... It says: @ABCDEFH Which makes every letter one off. Want an A? Type a B. Want a U? Type a V! That sure doesn't help the touch typist. This is only true for some fonts; others display accurately. It is not true for all the fonts in a directory, some within the directory work fine, some do not. But they all used to work fine. This is pretty mysterious. Any ideas? Jim Clark ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Fonts #2
In addition, I have many fonts that display in my selector that when I click on them say The Selected font is not available. Then why are they listed there? How do I get rid of them...and I have done an xset fp rehash. Thanks again. Jim Clark ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Image size
http://www.d-contest.com/sum_02/week_04/flower0375xats.jpg This is a beautiful photo--and only 640 X 480. But it is 250K jpg. I loaded it up in GIMP, and did a save, but instead of doing the default jpg settings, if I uncheck optimize, and change the subsampling to 4:2:2 I can get the image size up. And if I look carefully I can see the differences. But what exactly does optimize do? And subsampling? Grokking the GIMP does not list these in the index. I know you know. The quality of the original is lovely (if the image is rather large). I wonder how much tradeoff I get with the jpg and if there are better choices for those jpg options than the defaults. Jim Clark ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Interesting illusion
Thought you might enjoy this--very amusing! The illusion is a checkerboard with a white and black square being the same color because of a shadow. http://www.sunbelt-software.com/stu/fooled.jpg ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Fattening up?
Someone sent some really amusing images of movie stars and what they would look like 100 pounds heavier. The images were really well done. They had before and after shots, so you could see the same image with a skinny and hefty star. The pictures were amazing. As one who has labored over things like this, I was astonished. I assume this was some Photoshop tool (Enlarge? Supersize?), but wonder if anyone knows how this might be done in GIMP? Everything about the images is the same--these were not fatties grafted in as they had the same clothes. Some distortion tool was used to select just the one person and make them bigger. I am not interested in fattening people up so much as seeing how to manipulate one person exclusively, without the labor of fuzzy select, which is tedious and sometimes quite challenging against a varied background. Ideas? if anyone is intereted in seeing a sample image, e-mail me and I'll send one on. Jim Clark ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Perennially confusing font problems
Hate to ask it, as it has been discussed many times and there are many web pages on it, but I can't get it to work. RedHat 7.2 using GIMP 1.2.3 I have some additional fonts I'm trying to install. I have added the path to this directory to my /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config file by just adding the directory with a comma to the list. The directory has been the recipient of a type1inst action and the fonts.dir and fonts.scale files are there. They are woned by root with 444 permissions, which seem to be the perms on other directories. I did a xset fp rehash. I still do not have the fonts I tried to install. While on the topic of fonts, there seem to be many redundancies and many more not too worthwhile. Other than today's action, I have the standard RH install. Are there any of these directories I can comment out to reduce the clutter? -- Thanks-- Jim Clark ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Re: Re
You wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 04:03:17PM -0600, Jim Clark wrote: Hate to ask it, as it has been discussed many times and there are many web pages on it, but I can't get it to work. RedHat 7.2 using GIMP 1.2.3 I have some additional fonts I'm trying to install. I have added the path to this directory to my /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config file by just adding the directory with a comma to the list. The directory has been the recipient of a type1inst action and the fonts.dir and fonts.scale files are there. They are woned by root with 444 permissions, which seem to be the perms on other directories. I did a xset fp rehash. I still do not have the fonts I tried to install. Did you restart the font server? On Redhat 7.1, you can do this by running: # /etc/init.d/xfs restart While on the topic of fonts, there seem to be many redundancies and many more not too worthwhile. Other than today's action, I have the standard RH install. Are there any of these directories I can comment out to reduce the clutter? I don't see any reason why you couldn't. Regards, Ben -- Ben Logan: ben at wblogan dot net OpenPGP Key KeyID: A1ADD1F0 ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Install on Solaris 8
Downloaded successfully, compiled successfully, and working fine. Except cannot open a png. Search, found the pnglib for Solaris. Downloaded and added the png library, went in properly to /usr/local/lib. But GIMP still cannot open a png. Can anyone offer a why not? -- Thanks-- Jim Clark ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Looking for an image
Hey GIMPers-- A friend of mine is looking for an image of Tux that is a pure side view (like the ones in mug shots). I have looked and not been successful; I wonder if anyone knows where I can find such an image. I'm planning to use it to make the logo for his web page: http://www.nickelkid.com/. We're going to take Tux and replace the Jefferson image in a US nickel with his. But finding that side view is proving quite challenging. -- Thanks-- Jim Clark ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Changing text color
Hey all-- Thanks for the suggestions, solved my problem quickly and easily. Some worked better than others, though I am sure it was my ignorance that did it. But I would love to see somewhere a little more explanation of the screen mode on the bucket fill. I'm looking at p 126 of The Artist's Guide to the Gimp and all it says is screen brings out highlights. What did I do when I followed your directions? Made someone very happy and saved me a lot of time in the process. Appreciate it. Jim Clark ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Changing text color
Hi-- I do not fully (or even unfully) understand alpha layers, but I bet there's an answer in there somewhere for this. I have a white background with black text. I do not have the exact same font, but I want to change the text to blue. If I select by color and remove the white and paint with blue, it loses all the dithering and makes nice big splotchy letters. Can this be done so the leeters look as they did when black execpt blue? Thanks- Jim Clark ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Gradient to transparent
Hi-- It may be in there, but I do not know the vocabulary. I want to do a gradient with a color on one end and transparent on the other. All the possible things I see do not do what I want. Anyone help? -- Thanks-- Jim Clark ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Transparent gradient
It sure was there--thanks to all who responded. -- Thanks-- Jim Clark ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
