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Re: converting to indexed and loss of quality
Thanks for everyone's replys. The solution works fine, although it's a shame you need to know your background for a transparent gif )-; I was wondering, is there a script-fu that would do this, i.e. add a layer fill with colour (parameter) merge visible layers select by colour (same parameter) remove selection If not, is that easy to do? Maybe I'll learn scripts. thanks Dave dave wrote: > > I've been using gimp for a short while now, and the one problem that > keeps > coming up is when I convert an RGB image to indexed, to save as a gif > with a transparent background. > > I (think I) understand the issues with converting RGB colour to > indexed, but what I don't understand is that I always seem to lose > quality too (I guess that's somehow also a colour problem?) > > Even if I do nice simple fonts, in black, on a transparent background, > I lose quality of the fonts on converting to indexed. I either lose > nice smooth edges, or pixels within narrow parts of small fonts, or > both. > > Why is this, and is there anything I can do about it? I need to do a > lot of simple colour fonts with transparent backgrounds, so this is a > real problem for me. > > many thanks > Dave
converting to indexed and loss of quality
I've been using gimp for a short while now, and the one problem that keeps coming up is when I convert an RGB image to indexed, to save as a gif with a transparent background. I (think I) understand the issues with converting RGB colour to indexed, but what I don't understand is that I always seem to lose quality too (I guess that's somehow also a colour problem?) Even if I do nice simple fonts, in black, on a transparent background, I lose quality of the fonts on converting to indexed. I either lose nice smooth edges, or pixels within narrow parts of small fonts, or both. Why is this, and is there anything I can do about it? I need to do a lot of simple colour fonts with transparent backgrounds, so this is a real problem for me. many thanks Dave
how to transform colors
I have a picture of a helicopter in green paint. I want to turn it into a picture of a helicopter in, say, pink paint. How do I do it? (Basically I want to preform a rotation in color-space like you can do with the OpenGL color-matrix extension) http://24.16.52.60/~dm/xcobra-green-w.tif(the real image) http://24.16.52.60/~dm/xcobra-green-w.jpg(since netscape & tif don't mix) PS: Though I just subscribed to this list, it may not take for a few hours, so you might want to CC me explicitly in any follow ups.
Re: how to edit tiffs without zuking up the alpha
Amy writes: > Is the file using cmyk color? The Gimp cannot open files saved with CMYK. tiffinfo says "Photometric Interpretation: RGB color". I guess we can trust that
Re: how to edit tiffs without zuking up the alpha
> I tried downloading the two files to play with them. The second file > 'after.tiff' is fine, but opening 'before.tiff' using the gimp gives > errors - about unknown data segments. This is probably because > Photoshop is using a newer(or non-standard) file format than the GIMP. > > The file itself was created using Photoshop version 5. I tried using > GIMP version 1.1.23 to open it, what version is Dave using? > > Dave Morse requested all repies are CC'd to him, his address is: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gimp version 1.1.22. If you really can't load it at all, try http://24.16.52.60/~dm/before.xcf This seems identical to what I get in memory after loading http://24.16.52.60/~dm/before.tif All my gnuish utilities complain slightly about before.tif: /net/home/dm/public_html/before.tif: Warning, incorrect count for field "MinSampleValue" (1, expecting 4); tag ignored. /net/home/dm/public_html/before.tif: Warning, incorrect count for field "MaxSampleValue" (1, expecting 4); tag ignored. But that's it, and the image looks fine. I have come to expect those warnings after years of seeing it. Hm, it is a good point that gimp-created-alphad-tiffs load with completely different channels, appearance, etc than these photoshop tiffs. Either Photoshop is screwing up the save, or Gimp is subtly screwing up the load, or Gimp is screwing up the save. How to tell which one is the case?
how to edit tiffs without zuking up the alpha
Hi, I've got tiffs created in Photoshop that I need to crop using Gimp. They have alpha. If I open the up in Gimp, use the crop tool, then resave, the next time I open them I discover that only the alpha-mask has been saved in place of the rgb data. before save: http://24.16.52.60/~dm/before.tif after save: http://24.16.52.60/~dm/after.tif Needless to say, this is not what I want. How do I do what I want? (Please CC me on replies, as I don't subscribe to gimp-user)
Batch script code rot
Attached is a function, script-fu-copyright, that is used to apply a copyright notice to the image in /tmp/temp.ppm and save the results over the original file. With gimp 1.0.0 the function was usable from a bash prompt as follows: gimp --no-interface --no-data -b '(script-fu-copyright 1 "\"Mumble\"" "\"SE\"")' '(gimp-quit 0)' Upon upgrading to gimp 1.0.4, the function still works if run interactively, but from the shell prompt I now get: batch command: experienced an execution error. gimp: tile ref count balance: 72 Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkmain.c: line 534 (gtk_main_quit): assertion `main_loops != NULL' failed. I banged my head trying to debug this for hours and never got anywhere. Help? Thanks, DWF (define (script-fu-copyright text placement) (let* ( (theImage (car (file-pnm-load 0 "/tmp/temp.ppm" "/tmp/temp.ppm"))) (theImageWidth (car (gimp-image-width theImage))) (theImageHeight (car (gimp-image-height theImage))) (points (if (< theImageWidth 300) 10 12)) (theTextExtents (gimp-text-get-extents text points POINTS "adobe" "helvetica" "bold" "r" "normal" "*")) ; 0.925 is the fudge factor (theTextWidth (* (car theTextExtents) 0.925)) (theTextHeight (cadr theTextExtents)) (placeX) (placeY) ) (gimp-palette-set-foreground '(255 255 255)) (if (= (strcmp placement "NW") 0) (begin (set! placeX 3) (set! placeY 3) )) (if (= (strcmp placement "NE") 0) (begin (set! placeX (- (- theImageWidth 3) theTextWidth)) (set! placeY 3) )) (if (= (strcmp placement "SW") 0) (begin (set! placeX 3) (set! placeY (- theImageHeight theTextHeight)) )) (if (= (strcmp placement "SE") 0) (begin (set! placeX (- (- theImageWidth 3) theTextWidth)) (set! placeY (- theImageHeight theTextHeight)) )) (gimp-text theImage -1 placeX placeY text 0 TRUE points POINTS "adobe" "helvetica" "bold" "r" "normal" "*") (gimp-image-flatten theImage) (file-pnm-save 1 theImage (car (gimp-image-active-drawable theImage)) "/tmp/temp.ppm" "/tmp/temp.ppm" 1) ) ) (script-fu-register "script-fu-copyright" ; function name "/Xtns/Script-Fu/Copyright" ; menu position "Adds copyright notice to an image." ; short description "David Flater" ; author "Copyright 1999 David Flater" ; copyright notice "August 1, 1999"; date created/modified ""; image types it can work on SF-VALUE "Text String" "\"(C) 1999 David Flater. http://www.flaterco.com/\"" SF-VALUE "Placement" "\"SE\"" )
GIMP won't recognize new xscanimage as plugin
Howdy folks, I've been just barely toying with the GIMP for over a year now and was quite proud a while back when I got my UMAX scanner working on my linux box with SANE 1.0.0. I got the GIMP recognizing xscanimage as a plugin and everything worked great. Well, I noticed that SANE 1.0.1 had better support for my scanner so I did the download, configure, compile thing and it was easier than I thought and had xscanimage up in no time. Did the symlink thing in ~/.gimp/plug-ins/ and no go. I recreated, copied, deleted ~/.gimp/pluginrc, everything I could think of and I just can't get the GIMP to recognize xscanimage as a plugin and put it in the xtns menu. I've read all the docs and I've done what I was supposed to but it just ain't workin' for me. if any of ya got any ideas, I'd love to hear them. thanks, Dave "Linux... It's the choice of a GNU generation" "My other computer is a Linux Box" "*Have* to reboot?!?" "Excuse me while I recompile my kernel"
