Re: [Gimp-developer] proposal for better status bar messages (long)

2006-06-23 Thread Gerald Friedland
Hi David! > As far as I know, foreground and background are still objectively different from the computer's point of view and our point of view; they have different characteristics. A background tends to > be less detailed than a foreground; also, the definition of background is further muddied

Re: [Gimp-developer] proposal for better status bar messages (long)

2006-06-23 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 03:27:19PM +0200, Gerald Friedland wrote: > > I do not quite understand your problems. I am an aloof developer who > has serious problems to understand user's problems. Please help me > out, maybe I am misunderstanding something? So please do not get me > wrong here. > he

Re: [Gimp-developer] proposal for better status bar messages (long)

2006-06-23 Thread David Gowers
.. I replied to the wrong address again; argh.On 6/24/06, David Gowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/23/06, Gerald Friedland < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I do not quite understand your problems.  I am an aloof developer whohas serious problems to understand user's problems. Please help me out, may

Re: [Gimp-developer] proposal for better status bar messages (long)

2006-06-23 Thread Gerald Friedland
> I guessed from what Sven said, inverting the image colors first might help, and I was right. > I made my second try by: > > * Inverting the image > * Selecting the entire image in the initial 'lasso' pass. > * Disabling 'Contiguous' > * Setting L,a,b sensitivity to 0,707,555 respectively. (a,b w

Re: [Gimp-developer] proposal for better status bar messages (long)

2006-06-23 Thread David Gowers
... AARRGH. Accidentally sent this to Sven instead of the list! Sorry Sven.On 6/23/06, David Gowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The tool only does foreground extraction (hence its name). There's no toggle that would turn it into a background extraction tool. Makes sense, actually -- the characteri