Re: [Gimp-developer] couple possible TODO items
Hi, On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:12:28PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: - Biased color reduction This is a feature I saw in photoshop. When reducing the colors of an image, it will try to preserve colors within the active selection more than it tries to preserve those outside of it. For example, if you want to keep skin tones in an image, but want to otherwise reduce the overall number of colors, you would select a few representative areas of skin before doing the reduction. Personally, I can't count the number of times I've converted an image to Indexed only to find the black had gone suddenly slightly off-black, or another solid color that I really needed at a particular value had suddenly shifted slightly. I'd love to be able to select those colors before conversion to hint to the Indexed conversion, "these exact values are important to me." Talked to Adam about that issue on #gimp lately and he seems to be biased towards changing the conversion-algorithm to be intelligent enough to do the right thing without user interaction. I doubt that this is possible. An algorithm simply cannot guess that those three black pixels are more important to me than those two thousand gray ones. We need to be able to flag some colors sticky - e.g. for logo / Corporate Identity work where colors are fixed and must not be changed. It would have another advantage, especially for web work: I could fix the important colors and reduce further (to reduce file size) while this might not be possible if the algorithm chooses all colors itself. Though, I don't have an idea of how the GUI allowing sticky colors could look like. :-( Just my two (Euro)cents, Tino. -- * LINUX - Where do you want to be tomorrow? * http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/ ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
[Gimp-developer] Re: couple possible TODO items
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-03-29 at .26 -0700): Ugh, speaking of error, all so-called "letter" paper isn't necessarily the same size. I've had two "letter" papers vary in size by almost half a centimeter! Oooh well, another reason to use DIN papers, metric systems and such. If countries have problems with papers, how can the put things on Mars? /me ducks and runs ;P GSR ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: couple possible TODO items
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-03-29 at .26 -0700): Ugh, speaking of error, all so-called "letter" paper isn't necessarily the same size. I've had two "letter" papers vary in size by almost half a centimeter! Oooh well, another reason to use DIN papers, metric systems and such. If countries have problems with papers, how can the put things on Mars? /me ducks and runs ;P My guess is it's mostly cheap companies skimping out. But the error is on both sides of the "correct" standard, so I dunno. Paper marketed specifically for printers does seem to be more standardized, but I've still seen a noticable (maybe 1/16") difference between sheets. That's nothing for a printer, but it's enough to get your resolution subtily wrong. :( Rockwalrus ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
[Gimp-developer] Re: Re: couple possible TODO items
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-03-29 at 2339.14 +0200): On 29 Mar 2001, at 15:32, Carol Spears wrote: "Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" wrote: [credit cards, photos, blank sheets of paper in A4 and letter format, cds] What is wrong with rulers? Nothing, but I guess the idea was to make things nicer. A protector (to avoid scratches in the monitor) and a caliber (right word?) are fine for me. :] Just in case somebody was wondering if the feature was completly missing, the current Gimp 1.2 has such system under Preferences / Monitor / Calibrate. It just looks too Spartan. GSR ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Re: couple possible TODO items
On 29 Mar 2001, at 23:47, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-03-29 at 2339.14 +0200): On 29 Mar 2001, at 15:32, Carol Spears wrote: "Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" wrote: [credit cards, photos, blank sheets of paper in A4 and letter format, cds] What is wrong with rulers? Nothing, but I guess the idea was to make things nicer. A protector (to avoid scratches in the monitor) and a caliber (right word?) are fine for me. :] I am asking, because it would seem to me that somebody who cares enough for their pixels to be perfect will not mind going out to buy a ruler. And of course, once you've got the ruler, you can make your own standard size paper. -- branko collin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Re: couple possible TODO items
Hi, Also, it is nice to unpack a new gimp and be able to just reach out to your desk (maybe) and get it configured and working right then. A lazy LUser like me would like that. The gimp is LUser friendly. what kind of desks are that where there is no ruler, but credit cards, photos, film, CDs etc.? I guess we will run into a lot of trouble trying to find a suitable item that is available on everyone's desk and is guaranteed to have the exact same size no matter where you live. If you ask me, people should spend the money they save by using Gimp to buy a ruler. Actually I do not think that anyone who cares about her images having the exact screen resolution does not own a ruler. Salut, Sven ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
