Re: [Gimp-user] Correcting grainy resolution?
On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:24:59 +0100 pfaoro for...@gimpusers.com wrote: Is there a (simple) way to blow up a snapshot originally take with a slow, cheap, disposable camera without having the result so grainy that it isn't usable? You can't increase dot density in a bitmap file. Facing that problem I would import the bitmap file into Inkscape and then convert it to a vector file. Then I would blow up the vector file. You will lose some detail but at least it won't be grainy. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: Create Book Covers with Scribus available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___ 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] Help browser defaults to wrong program.
When I seek to access the help manual online instead of any of my web browsers I get Quanta, which these days is an IDE for web or other development. Only Gimp makes this mistake. Inkscape does not. I don't care if I get Firefox or Seamonkey or Konqueror. I just want to get a real web browser. Slackware 14.0 which comes with a recent version of Gimp (2.8.2) -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: Create Book Covers with Scribus available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
[Gimp-user] Still no CMYK!
I note that on the roadmap CMYK is still a low priority. After all those years of asking I have given up on Gimp for most tasks. I publish books. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: Create Book Covers with Scribus available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Error.
On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 22:26:25 +0100 Sleepingbeautiie for...@gimpusers.com wrote: All right, so. I've had GIMP ever since the latest version came out, and it hasn't been up to this very day that it's given me an error when loading, ad it's never happened before. Ever. It's some crud that tells me Runtime/C++ Error and that it needs to terminate. So... what the heck do I do? Am I not going to be able to use GIMP anymore? .__. I kinda think the reason for the error has to do something with GTK2 :/ Thoughts? What platform? -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: Create Book Covers with Scribus available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
[Gimp-user] Gimp on Win 8
Anyone using Gimp on Windows 8? Any difficulties? -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: Create Book Covers with Scribus available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] opening CMYK psd
On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:10:47 +0100 Tofi for...@gimpusers.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:35 PM, john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: If working with photographs, you should be converting to device specific CMYK as late as possible in the process and keep things in more device independent color spaces like RGB for as long as possible. Similar to how you should not be saving intermediate copies to very lossy JPG. / If working in advertising company, where most media are printed, photographs have to fit in CMYK color range. RGB files are only source images. Some works needs extra colors like CMYK+1, CMYK+2. Problem is that Adobe divided it's suits pack's into web and printing design, and GIMP is now pointing into photography, not into all professionals needs. I would like to say my boss that there is open source software that can be run into production process, with great abilities, but since it can not make such simple thing like multichannel or even CMYK editing I can not do it. I use Gimp all the time to provide material for the final book cover or interior. But the final assembly is done in Scribus. Scribus with a good ICC profile will convert the RGB components to CMYK automatically. The developmental version of Scribus, 1.5.0, will also convert to the PDF X/1-a:2001 format required by LSI and other printers. For years I have been asking the Gimp developers to make the CMYK color model an option but apparently that is not a priority with them. Apparently it would be a huge undertaking. So other programs have to be used subsequently, such as Scribus, ImageMagick or even a drawing program called Krita. I note also that the Open Source tradition follows the Unix method of several programs used in a string, rather than one mega-program that does everything. So Gimp can do all the sophisticated editing and something else can convert to CMYK. Ultimately the output PDF can be viewed in Acrobat Reader. If color shifts are not acceptable Gimp can be used to increase saturation etc. Then the conversion/production cycle can be run again. Photoshop does CMYK internally. Photoshop costs money. Gimp needs an external program to produce the final file in CMYK. Both Gimp and the external programs are free. Make your choices based on cost/effectiveness. In my business I use nothing but Open Source software, including TeX, Gimp, Scribus and ImageMagick. -- John Culleton Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html Create Book Covers with Scribus http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
