music CD project
Hello everyone, Has anyone out there used gimp for a professional (or semi-professional) project that involved mass printing? I am new to this list but I have been messing about with gimp for about a year now. As a hobby project, I am working on a music CD cover art and lyrics booklet. I am hoping that someone out there can give me some advice on how to get gimp digital work out to a print shop. (I am afraid that I am a total novice about printing :-]) (If anyone is interested, a low-res version of my work is located at: http://tt-132-6.tuliptree.indiana.edu/jon/chilean/ But the page is only accessible after 4pm EST because I have that computer turned off during the daytime hours.) Thanks, Jon __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: music CD project
Hello everyone, Has anyone out there used gimp for a professional (or semi-professional) project that involved mass printing? ive got a CD cover lined up later thing month/early next month... I am new to this list but I have been messing about with gimp for about a year now. As a hobby project, I am working on a music CD cover art and lyrics booklet. I am hoping that someone out there can give me some advice on how to get gimp digital work out to a print shop. (I am afraid that I am a total novice about printing :-]) the easiest way is with a CD labler like the cd stomper (they are cheap at places like frys electronics) that covers the lable and the cardboard that goes into the cd case (aka j card). for the little book, your best bet is probably kinkos unless you kow of a good print shop that wont charge much, in which case your very lucky. this kind of thing is actually better done in page layout with vectors than completly with something like the gimp. if nothing else, it makes fonts easier to work with. of course this brings back the question of sutable page layout software for linux...
Re: Text selection when editing logos
Gerald, Thanks, I didn't think of this. This didn't quite work (i.e.setting the threshold to 255). It selected allof the text, but the "marching ants" were offset from the text by a smallmargin. When I filled the selection with a gradient, it left a shadow behind in theoriginal color. regards, Andrew - Original Message - From: Gerald Brosseau To: Gimp User Group Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 8:09 AM Subject: Re: Text selection when editing logos Andrew J Fortune wrote: Hi all, I have been experimenting with editing a logo created by a Script-FU. I am not talking here about tweaking the source code, rather I am talking about actually editing the layers using the standard Gimp tools. Once I have created the logo, say that I wish to replace a gradient on the text with a pattern. What I did was to render all layers invisible except the topmost layer, and make that layer the active one. So, what I see is a text block filled with a gradient and a transparent background. The problem came when I tried to select the text. Firstly, I tried Select-All, and it selected the entire layer. Secondly, I tried using the fuzzy select tool and clicking inside one of the letters - it "sort of" worked, but the problem was that it didn't select some of the edges. I played around with the threshold option, and it didn't seem to make any difference. So the real issue for me is how can I select text that is sitting on a transparent background ? Thanks in advance for your help. regards,Andrew J FortuneAlpha to Selection in the Layer menu -- Gérald Brosseau La Photo Du Jour http://www.contact.net/gb/ --- Site nord américain http://www.chez.com/laphotodujour --- Site européen
perl_fu_Gimp_Charts
HI!! I use Perl to script I get this warning at the end of each execution WARNING: perl_fu_Gimp_Charts returned something that is not an image: "1" Can anyone help me with it I m using version 1.1.4 Chet
Re: correcting lighting of photos
Have you tried playing with 'levels'?
Re: correcting lighting of photos
Try adjusting curves! -- Jon Winters http://www.obscurasite.com/ "Everybody loves the GIMP!" http://www.gimp.org/
Re: correcting lighting of photos
James Smaby wrote: Have you tried playing with 'levels'? And especially when it is set to 'shadows' Alex Harford Author of "GIMP Essential Reference" http://www.dowco.com/~alexh
Re: music CD project
Thank you for the responses. Maybe I need to clarify a bit. If I wasn't clear before, my intention is to hire someone else to do the actual printing and assembly. I am speaking of a printer as a person who works in a mass printing shop rather than a machine which is connected to my computer. Here is my response to Christian (thank you) and I also have a few more questions further below. Christian Grothoff wrote: Sounds *very* familiar. I've been involved in a project for a pair of CDs and most of the cover-art was made with the gimp... Cool! Well, I ended up printing the covers on an Tektronik Phaser 390 or something like that. The main problem was: though all the "good" printers can read postscript and though gimp can produce postscript, the colors the printer will use will look quite different from what you've seen on your screen. The first step to take is to get a PPD-File *for your printer*. The producer should offer one. Tell gimp to use it (under Preferences in the print-dialog). The resulting ps-file should be pretty good already. I am not quite sure I understand here. I am trying to output my work as a Postscript file ... (OK, that makes sense) ... in order to print a nice copy from my *own* printer so that I can ... (pick one) ... a) See that the colors look good in print before I send out my work digitally. b) Print all of the covers myself from my own printer. c) Make a camera-ready copy to send to the printers. d) None of the above. (Please disregard if this is a result of the confusion over the word "printer" that I mentioned above.) I printed it once at a Kinko's (a popular US copy center franchise) on a color printer there, but I don't think I can trust it as a gage for how it would really look from a high-quality printer. About ppd files, I found a few ppd files on my system associated with gnuStep, but I have never dealt with them before. Ppd files are something I will have to learn about. AND I can't find the print-dialog. I go to File Preferences and see tabs which read Display, Interface, Environment, and Directories, but none of them seem to have printer setting information in them. (Is my gimp installation incomplete?) I don't mean to be a pain, I just don't understand. The next step to improve the quality would probably be to calibrate your monitor, read the GUM for details about that. Good point!! My copy from Kinko's was a little dark. I wonder if my monitor might have had something to do with it. Oh, please post a summary on the replies what worked best in your case on gimp-user --- I think there're quite a few people looking for tips in this area --- including me :-) I sure will. ... Reading some of brochures online regarding printing, I was thinking that either I might have to put it in a special format (will PhotoShop's psd format work for me?), or I would have to do something like 4-color separation onto film (who would do that for me?). Actually, at one time I had a filter in Gimp which could do color separation, but then after I upgraded gimp one time, I lost it somehow. I think it might have been part of some unstable add-ons. It would be nice if I could get it back. Anyone else seen it? (Maybe this would be useful for me. ?? ) I have never sent off anything to be mass printed before and of course printers know nothing about gimp. (When they ask, "Is your work on Windows or Mac?" My answer, "Well, actually, Linux. Have you ever heard of Gimp?" ... Doesn't get much of a response.) I hope that I am not off in a completely wrong direction. I really want to get this right and when I do (I hope with all of your help) it sounds like we might all benefit from my experiences here. Jon __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: Where is this tutorial / How did I do this?
Hi! About 6 months ago I read a tutorial that showed how to create steely, 3d-like text. I created a few samples then - but now I can't find the tutorial nor remember how I created them. Generally this is done by using the lighting plug-in (1.0.x users goto http://registry.gimp.org :-)). You create 2 images: One is RGB and filled with the color of your text (e.g. grey), the other greyscale, filled with black and contains your text (white), blurred. Now Image-"Light effects"-"Lighting effects". Check "use bumpmap" and select the second image as bumpmap. Now play with different values... Hope it helps. CU, Michael ---=[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]=--- ---=[ http://technoid.xodox.com ]=---
