Re: [Gimp-user] Adding a text box
You don't say why you want to do this. Is it for a website, or for an illustrated book? In either case, I would suggest looking at alternative ways of associating the image and the text. If it is for a webpage, then you should be able to put the text in a sidebar or caption. Same for a book. It depends on the capability of your editor. GIMP is for editing images and while it can do text, that is not its primary purpose and it may be the wrong tool for the job. Cliff On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 9:16 AM Stan Pioro via gimp-user-list < gimp-user-list@gnome.org> wrote: > Hi Folks, > I am wondering if it is possible to attach a text box to the outside of a > photo, for photos that don't have room to place a text box inside the > confines of the picture. > > Thanks, > > Stan > ___ > gimp-user-list mailing list > List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list > -- My Amazon author page : https://amazon.com/author/cliffpratt My Facebook author page : https://www.facebook.com/cliffprattauthor My Search on Kobo : https://www.kobo.com/search?query=Cliff+Pratt ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Adding a text box
As Tom said: Do you mean for a caption or something? Have you tried extending the canvas size, of your photo, and adding a text layer in the newly created space? Do this: • Image > Canvas Size • Add some inches to the height (be sure to UNLINK the two measurements) • Resize layers > NONE • Fill with > White (your choice) • DO NOT check "Fill with" • Resize Type text on the white bar at the bottom. Saludas, Rick S. -Original Message- From: Stan Pioro via gimp-user-list Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 7:01 AM To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org Subject: [Gimp-user] Adding a text box Hi Folks, I am wondering if it is possible to attach a text box to the outside of a photo, for photos that don't have room to place a text box inside the confines of the picture. Thanks, Stan ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Adding a text box
On 2/10/21 4:01 AM, Stan Pioro via gimp-user-list wrote: Hi Folks, I am wondering if it is possible to attach a text box to the outside of a photo, for photos that don't have room to place a text box inside the confines of the picture. Thanks, Stan ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list Do you mean for a caption or something? Have you tried extending the canvas size, of your photo, and adding a text layer in the newly created space? Peace... Tom ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] To the GIMP team - in need of an old version
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 11:46:33PM +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine via gimp-user-list wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 11:16 PM Jacques Le Fèvre via gimp-user-list wrote: > > Dear Jacques, I can def weigh in on some of your points but I'm of no > help regarding 2.4 builds. Sorry about that. > Just commenting on one of the original points - > > > - Saving pictures: With GIMP 2.10, this can be done only to .xcf, which > > is recognised by no other software, so that such images cannot be used > > on the web or included in documents. In addition, this flavour of .xcf > > is not recognised by earlier versions of GIMP. You have to export the > > final result of editing to other formats, and this does not always work > > properly to TIFF files. > My memory says that the change from 'Save As' (for non-xcf) to 'Export' happened in 2.6 or 2.8. So coming from a very early 2.4 build this will be one of many things which has changed. Getting accustomed to the changes sometimes takes some effort. For me, I finish the editing in gimp, and then export to jpg or png without problems. If I then decide that the edit was not correct, I have to go back and fix it in gimp. It sounds as if you are already doing that, the changed terminology encourages you to think about what you are doing (work on the image, or save a version of the image in a publishable format). > Please elaborate on the TIFF issue. > I remember coming across tiff files which caused messages on stderr (don't recall what I was doing, or what had created them). TIFF has been described as 'thousands of incompatible file formats'. ĸen -- Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error code "418 I'm a teapot". The resulting entity body MAY be short and stout. -- rfc 2324 (1st April 1998) ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] To the GIMP team - in need of an old version
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 11:16 PM Jacques Le Fèvre via gimp-user-list wrote: Dear Jacques, I can def weigh in on some of your points but I'm of no help regarding 2.4 builds. Sorry about that. > - The freehand selection tool: I need it very much to correct defects on > scanned slides. See attached example. > > Closing the selected area on GIMP 2.4 takes only a release of the mouse > button. On GIMP 2.10, you need reaching the very pixel you started from, Nope, you can release the mouse button and press Enter. > - The text tool: On GIMP 2.4, you can directly and continuously adjust > the font size so that it fits to the background. On GIMP 2.10, you have > to adjust the size of the layer. Nope, you only need to select the text and adjust the font size in the on-canvas toolbar. > I have produced this picture: > http://merleblanc-brest.org/images/planmax.jpg > on the laptop with GIMP 2.4. Because of the drawbacks, both with the > freehand selection tool and the text tool, it would have been > unpractical to perform the task with GIMP 2.10. Neither v2.4 nor v2.10 are practical choices for this sort of thing, the reason being, both versions rasterize a text layer once you rotate it. Inkscape would be a vastly better tool for this. The text tool definitely needs revisiting but it simply doesn't have the problem you are describing. > - Saving pictures: With GIMP 2.10, this can be done only to .xcf, which > is recognised by no other software, so that such images cannot be used > on the web or included in documents. In addition, this flavour of .xcf > is not recognised by earlier versions of GIMP. You have to export the > final result of editing to other formats, and this does not always work > properly to TIFF files. Please elaborate on the TIFF issue. > file (TIFF from my scanners). In addition, the colour space in GIMP 2.4 > is the same as on my scanners, which is not the case in GIMP 2.10. I'm guessing you are referring to sRGB there. I can't see how GIMP 2.10 is not capable of handling it properly. Please elaborate. > - CTRL-F: In GIMP 2.4, it repeats the last filter, in GIMP 2.10 it > repeats the last tool with the same settings, There is no such thing as "repeating the last tool" in GIMP. Please clarify. Alex ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
[Gimp-user] Adding a text box
Hi Folks, I am wondering if it is possible to attach a text box to the outside of a photo, for photos that don't have room to place a text box inside the confines of the picture. Thanks, Stan ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
[Gimp-user] To the GIMP team - in need of an old version
It often happens that newer versions of software don't work as well as previous ones. GIMP is unfotunately no exception. I have two versions: GIMP 2.4.0-rc3, installed on an old laptop running under Ubuntu 7.10, and GIMP 2.10.14 installed on a desktop running under LinuxMint 19 Cinnamon 32 bits. I chosed the latter because, after my problem with GIMP is solved, I plan to install the same sytem on the laptop as on the desktop, and I am not sure that the laptop processor can accommodate a 64 bit system. There are some tasks that are much easier or much quicker to perform with GIMP 2.4 than with GIMP 2.10. For some serious image editing, I still therefore need using the old version, and this prevents me from updating the system on the laptop. Which would also be a need, because its old version of Firefox, for instance, cannot access some sites, so that I cannot use the laptop on travel. Its only use at the moment is image editing with GIMP 2.4 when the latter is more efficient than GIMP 2.10. What works better on the old GIMP version: - The freehand selection tool: I need it very much to correct defects on scanned slides. See attached example. Closing the selected area on GIMP 2.4 takes only a release of the mouse button. On GIMP 2.10, you need reaching the very pixel you started from, and failing to do this puts you in trouble, difficult to escape from. Using many times the tool for fully correcting one picture requires much more time, and implies more potential errors, on GIMP 2.10 than on GIMP 2.4. It is not better when you need closing the selected area with a straight line. On GIMP 2.4 you still need only releasing the mouse button. On GIMP 2.10, it takes two of three clicks. On GIMP 2.4, when you have performed some task (e.g. brightness or contrast editing) on a freehand selected area, you just need clicking elsewhere for being able to freehand select another area. On GIMP 2.10, it does not work. The only solution I have found is switching to another selection tool (square), clicking somewhere to close the freehand selected area, then revert to the free-hand selection tool. - The text tool: On GIMP 2.4, you can directly and continuously adjust the font size so that it fits to the background. On GIMP 2.10, you have to adjust the size of the layer. In practice, you make it too large for beginning, try a reduction, find that it is not convenient, revert to the larger size, try another reduction, and so on. As a result, what takes about 5 seconds with GIMP 2.4 may take up to 3 minutes with GIMP 2.10. I have produced this picture: http://merleblanc-brest.org/images/planmax.jpg on the laptop with GIMP 2.4. Because of the drawbacks, both with the freehand selection tool and the text tool, it would have been unpractical to perform the task with GIMP 2.10. - Saving pictures: With GIMP 2.10, this can be done only to .xcf, which is recognised by no other software, so that such images cannot be used on the web or included in documents. In addition, this flavour of .xcf is not recognised by earlier versions of GIMP. You have to export the final result of editing to other formats, and this does not always work properly to TIFF files. With GIMP 2.4, on the other hand, you can directly save pictures to other formats, including the one of the input file (TIFF from my scanners). In addition, the colour space in GIMP 2.4 is the same as on my scanners, which is not the case in GIMP 2.10. - CTRL-F: In GIMP 2.4, it repeats the last filter, in GIMP 2.10 it repeats the last tool with the same settings, which is rarely appropriate. This also slows down the kind of image editing I use to perform. On the other hand, GIMP 2.10 has some useful features lacking in GIMP 2.4, such as the abilty to edit separately highlights and shadows. I would therefore like to install both versions on the same system. I am reluctant to try newer versions of GIMP, because these are provided through flatpak. And an unsatisfactory piece of software from that source cannot be uninstalled otherwise than reformatting the hard disk and reinstalling everything else. This is what I plan to do if I have to rely only on GIMP 2.4 and get rid of GIMP 2.10. I have recovered from the GIMP site the source code for GIMP-2.4.0, GIMP-2.4.3 and GIMP-2.4.7, but I failed to compile any of them, while I have successfully compiled other software (e.g. scanner drivers) from TAR archives. This may be because GIMP archives are tar.bz2 rather than tar.gz, or because some pieces of software are lacking in the TAR archives. CONCLUSION. I would therefore be happy with: - A .deb file that would enable me to easily install GIMP 2.4 on LinuxMint 19. Or at least a TAR archive I could compile - Clear and complete instructions for also installing GIMP 2.10 (or a more recent version) on the same system, if this is possible (otherwise than importing it from flatpak). If not, my choice is using only
