Re: [Gimp-user] [Windows] GIMP swallows the competition('s lib files.)
2010/9/26 Jernej Simončič jernej|s...@eternallybored.org: On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:59:50 -0400, SilversleevesX wrote: Okay, the better word might be variant or spin-off. I'm not sure what the e-mail was about, but the installer doesn't touch any files outside GIMP's installation directory. But perhaps PhotoGIMP's creators haven't taken care of making their own confuration directories and are using the original GIMP ones? Their problem, not GIMP's. Rolf -- http://meetthegimp.org - the (mostly) weekly video podcast about GIMP (http://gimp.org) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Language setting Windows 7 and GIMP 2.6
Hi, I got a mail from a German in Saudia Arabia. He runs Windows 7 with English as default language. He installed GIMP 2.6.9 and it comes up in Arabic which he can't read. He sent me a screen shot which shows the menus of his mail program in the back behind the Arabic GIMP. They are in German, but he says his system is running in English. Localisation Hell? I haven't used Windows since 98SE, so I have no idea how to help him. Any pointers? Rolf (http://meetthegimp.org) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How Lighten Shadow Details In a Selected Area?
Tom, there are several ways to lighten up shadows, which to choose is difficult to say without the image. If you send me the image (RAW and your tiff) I would love to give them a try in my video podcast at http://meetthegimp.org. Rolf On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Tom for...@gimpusers.com wrote: What went wrong with the below photo when I tried to increase the brightness on the the darkest portions of the below photo? And what is a good way to selectively lighten the dark shadow areas of a photo? What I did 1. Created a 16bit tiff from a Canon CR2 RAW 2. Opened the photo in GIMP. 3. Made a new layer 4. Selected a dark part with the color selection tool which selected all the darkest parts of the photo as can be seen below. 5. Opened Colors/Brightness-Contrast 6. Increased the Brightness which yielded the below disastrous results. The selected parts just turned solid gray. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tombrooklyn/4173460922/sizes/o/ -- Tom (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] meetthegimp.org needs help: Mirrors for the video archive
Hi, my server for the (mostly) weekly video podcast about GIMP (and other Open Source photography topics) at http://meetthegimp.org is coming to its limits. The problem is not getting out the current episode (4000 downloads in the week of publication) but the people who are downloading the whole archive of now 126 videos. This puts occasionally such a heavy load on the system that it gets unusable slow. A lot of Open Source is mirrored at Universities and other institutions. I would love to get a home for the old episodes there too and then spread the load with a round robin system. Any ideas how to achieve this? Rolf ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Workflow in Gimp
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Carusoswi for...@gimpusers.com wrote: Still working my way around this great program - still wondering if I am proceeding in the most logical manner. Example: I captured an image of my daughter sitting in the bow of our boat. Sky is cloudless, sun is on her left right coming in at probably 10:00 over her shoulder. Best exposure leaves her body a bit on the underexposed side, the sky a bit overexposed. In Gimp, I copy the background layer and set it to screen mode, then add a layer mask that hides this layer so I can paint the additional exposure onto her body. Next, I'd like to add another layer and follow similar steps that will allow me to darken the sky. My question: Is the proper procedure to merge the first copied layer to the background before adding the second (I've been doing this), or is there a way to add that second layer without it negating what I've already accomplished using the first layer copy? I keep all the layers, because I often have second thoughts about what I have done and then can change it. I propose a different approach to your problem. * add a transparent layer on top of your image. * set the layer mode to Soft Light * take a suitable brush and white as the foreground colour * paint on the parts you want to brighten up (dodge) * do the same with black for getting them darker (burn) * play with the opacity of the brush to control the effect You can always erase your changes with the eraser or paint them over in the opposite colour. In my mind, I view a layer stack where I might go back and tweak just the fourth of some twenty layers, but when I try that approach, I find that subsequent layers either obscure or alter the visible results obtained by previous layers. It depends on the layer modes and the layer mass. I always try to use layer modes that don't do damage. More advice needed and much appreciated. The docs about layer modes are good: http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-concepts-layer-modes.html And if you are into watching video tutorials, I can pimp my video podcast here: http://meetthegimp.org/episode-069-burn-and-dodge/ - fast forward to 14:20 to see the above described technique. (I prefer to read over watching video - but I like to make them. ;-) ) Rolf ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
