[Gimp-user] Convert PS USM settings to Gimp
Hi Can anybody convert the following Photoshop USM settings to Gimp? I want to use them in David's Batch Processor. Amount: 85% Radius: 1 Threshold: 4 Thanks -- Autoart (via gimpusers.com) ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] How can I create huge billboard sized files in super high dpi?
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:44:39 -0400 Tara Gover taraje...@mail.com wrote: Just today, I installed the latest GIMP, and it doesn't seem to be letting me create even a 58x72 inch image in 1440 dpi. Is there an add on or a way that I can create huge tiff files in GIMP?.or do I have to shell out the cash and get Creative Suite? 58 x (88 x 3 x 12) = 183744 square inches, at 1440 dpi would mean something like 183000 * 1440 * 1440 * 3 = 1143034675200 bytes. That's 1143 GB - entirely unpractical. I don't think even super hi res for posters really means 1440 dpi (unless the image is scaled). Anyway - I suspect you will want to look at vector images instead of bitmaps. (or panelling) John ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] How can I create huge billboard sized files in super high dpi?
Well, I got it to work, at least theoretically. I think it's in the same way that you would create a large image in Photoshop, but to test it I opened an image that I already had that was 72 d[i and about 35 inches wide, an old pic of my cat. With ImageScale Image I bumped up the resolution, then with ImageCanvas Size I bumped up the size, in this case to 58X72 inches. The thing is to play with the chain link icons in these boxes, if you try to change the resolution then all it will do is inverse the size if you don't unlink them. (Of course, I'd like to hear from any of the experts on this list. I'm just a graphics hack. By the way, have you ever made an image this large before? Even at 58X72 at 1400 dpi with color that's going to be a monstrous file. My machine went for minutes and hadn't finished resizing it so I exited. Of course on this Mac I only have one gig of ram at present, but I don't know if any computer could handle an 80 yard file, Photoshop or Gimp. You'd better have a lot of cpu, ram, and extra hd space, swap file space. Do you have any links or examples of fabric you've created? I've always been interested in that. Waiting for real the advice... Dan On 4/24/12, Tara Gover taraje...@mail.com wrote: Hi guys, I am printing super high res images onto fabric. My print guy has instructed me to create my images in 1440 dpi and my fabric is 58 inches wide and about 80 yards long. I need to create ONE image so they can just print it continuously along the whoe piece of fabric. So I need to create a REALLY BIG image. They have recommended Adobe Creative Suite, but of course I want to do it with GIMP. Just today, I installed the latest GIMP, and it doesn't seem to be letting me create even a 58x72 inch image in 1440 dpi. Is there an add on or a way that I can create huge tiff files in GIMP?.or do I have to shell out the cash and get Creative Suite? Thanks! Tara ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] How can I create huge billboard sized files in super high dpi?
On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 21:44 -0400, Tara Gover wrote: Hi guys, I am printing super high res images onto fabric. My print guy has instructed me to create my images in 1440 dpi and my fabric is 58 inches wide and about 80 yards long. I need to create ONE image so they can just print it continuously along the whoe piece of fabric. So I need to create a REALLY BIG image. They have recommended Adobe Creative Suite, but of course I want to do it with GIMP. Just today, I installed the latest GIMP, and it doesn't seem to be letting me create even a 58x72 inch image in 1440 dpi. Is there an add on or a way that I can create huge tiff files in GIMP?.or do I have to shell out the cash and get Creative Suite? 1440 dpi would mean you print many many lines of pixels on each single thread of the fabric. You misunderstood the printer. Ask again what resolution they can actually print, and use that. --mitch ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] How can I create huge billboard sized files in super high dpi?
On 24 April 2012 22:44, Tara Gover taraje...@mail.com wrote: Hi guys, I am printing super high res images onto fabric. My print guy has instructed me to create my images in 1440 dpi and my fabric is 58 inches wide and about 80 yards long. I need to create ONE image so they can just print it continuously along the whoe piece of fabric. So I need to create a REALLY BIG image. They have recommended Adobe Creative Suite, but of course I want to do it with GIMP. Just today, I installed the latest GIMP, and it doesn't seem to be letting me create even a 58x72 inch image in 1440 dpi. Is there an add on or a way that I can create huge tiff files in GIMP?.or do I have to shell out the cash and get Creative Suite? There is not much sense in an image with these dimensions and this resolution. 1440 dpi would be even suitable for film negative (a 1 by 1 inch image to be scaled up for apreciation). Since you managed to scale a image up to those dimensions in your system, and suppose you can save the image with those dimensions with the tiff plug-in, you can safelly create your artwork using 90dpi (or even less) . . when you are done, flatten the image, scale it up to the desired resolution, as you said you managed to do, and export it to tiff. At 90dpi you should be using 58 * 72 * (90 ** 2) * 4 /(1024 ** 2) = 129 MB per layer, which is feasible. js - Thanks! Tara ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] How can I create huge billboard sized files in super high dpi?
On 25 April 2012 14:18, John Coppens j...@jcoppens.com wrote: 58 x (88 x 3 x 12) = 183744 square inches, at 1440 dpi would mean something like 183000 * 1440 * 1440 * 3 = 1143034675200 bytes. That's Where did you get the 12 multiplying in there? ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] How can I create huge billboard sized files in super high dpi?
The thing is, in what format does the company ask for you to contribute your work in? I know Photoshop used to have the ability to export to vectors even a long time ago, and certainly Illustrator I am assuming is still a part of Adobe CS, but if you can use vectors you can start or work with a bitmap or photo etc, and edit in gimp, however you begin the images, then convert to vector. I did a search for Exporting from Gimp to vectors and it came up with some pretty interesting stuff, especially the svg stuff. http://registry.gimp.org/node/15375 Dan On 4/25/12, Daniel Smith opened...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I got it to work, at least theoretically. I think it's in the same way that you would create a large image in Photoshop, but to test it I opened an image that I already had that was 72 d[i and about 35 inches wide, an old pic of my cat. With ImageScale Image I bumped up the resolution, then with ImageCanvas Size I bumped up the size, in this case to 58X72 inches. The thing is to play with the chain link icons in these boxes, if you try to change the resolution then all it will do is inverse the size if you don't unlink them. (Of course, I'd like to hear from any of the experts on this list. I'm just a graphics hack. By the way, have you ever made an image this large before? Even at 58X72 at 1400 dpi with color that's going to be a monstrous file. My machine went for minutes and hadn't finished resizing it so I exited. Of course on this Mac I only have one gig of ram at present, but I don't know if any computer could handle an 80 yard file, Photoshop or Gimp. You'd better have a lot of cpu, ram, and extra hd space, swap file space. Do you have any links or examples of fabric you've created? I've always been interested in that. Waiting for real the advice... Dan On 4/24/12, Tara Gover taraje...@mail.com wrote: Hi guys, I am printing super high res images onto fabric. My print guy has instructed me to create my images in 1440 dpi and my fabric is 58 inches wide and about 80 yards long. I need to create ONE image so they can just print it continuously along the whoe piece of fabric. So I need to create a REALLY BIG image. They have recommended Adobe Creative Suite, but of course I want to do it with GIMP. Just today, I installed the latest GIMP, and it doesn't seem to be letting me create even a 58x72 inch image in 1440 dpi. Is there an add on or a way that I can create huge tiff files in GIMP?.or do I have to shell out the cash and get Creative Suite? Thanks! Tara ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] How can I create huge billboard sized files in super high dpi?
So, the 144 would be basically twice the web resolutio of 72 to make for better resampling on resize, or no relation? Dan On 4/25/12, Liam R E Quin l...@holoweb.net wrote: On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 21:44 -0400, Tara Gover wrote: Hi guys, I am printing super high res images onto fabric. My print guy has instructed me to create my images in 1440 dpi I think he meant 144 dpi, which is a common resolution used for colour images in print. If the thread count of the fabric is 200 or higher (e.g. a high-end sheet or a silk shirt) it'd plausibly take twice the thread count or more, but I'd say try a sample at 144dpi. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] How can I create huge billboard sized files in super high dpi?
On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 16:25 -0500, Daniel Smith wrote: So, the 144 would be basically twice the web resolutio of 72 to make for better resampling on resize, or no relation? Well, if by Web you mean World Wide Web, no, no relation; there are 72 points to the inch in printing, and a lot of printing setups in practice are optimised to work best with multiples of 72dpi when making a half-tone screen for each colour - the ink is either on or not-on at each location ad the RIP in the printer (or a separate box in your case, probably) turns each pixel in the image into a rough circle of lots of device dots, fewer dots for less colour. Slightly longer answer - The hardware device might be 1440 device dots per inch, but at 144dpi that gives a 10x10 square of little dots for each pixel, so only 100 colour levels are possible. That's likely to be enough for printing on fabric, though. At 72 or 75 lines per inch (ppi, or dpi from the image perspective) on a 1440dpi printer you get 19 or 20 dots on a side, so around 400 levels, and although that's more than 8-bit colour can represent, it gives the RIP more felxibility in the shape of the clumps of dots. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] How can I create huge billboard sized files in super high dpi?
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Liam R E Quin l...@holoweb.net wrote: I am printing super high res images onto fabric. My print guy has instructed me to create my images in 1440 dpi I think he meant 144 dpi, which is a common resolution used for colour images in print. If the thread count of the fabric is 200 or higher (e.g. a high-end sheet or a silk shirt) it'd plausibly take twice the thread count or more, but I'd say try a sample at 144dpi. And if the final product is to be viewed at some great distance (eg, a billboard) then 144 DPI may be higher than required. We did a 30ft/9m long banner some time ago that worked out fine at 75 DPI - we could likely have gone lower, since it was so far off the ground. But yeah - I doubt you could tell the difference between _any_ fabric printed at 200 DPI and anything higher, even up close. Chris ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
