Re: [Gimp-developer] Scanning coins

2016-01-17 Thread Chris Moller
Having done a fair amount of preparation of coin images (my wife is a kinda high-volume eBay seller), let me recommend using a camera on a copy stand instead of a scanner for acquiring the original image. To start with, scanners generally have a light source co-located with the imaging sensor,

[Gimp-developer] Scanning coins

2016-01-17 Thread billgoldbeach
Greetings, I have heard Gimp is great for scanning images of coins to be sold internet. Can you tell me to set up Gimp to do this?Regard,William. Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE Tablet ___ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address:

Re: [Gimp-developer] "Diagonal neighbors" option for fuzzy-select and paint-bucket tools

2016-01-17 Thread Ell
On 17/01/2016 14:46, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > BTW, do you want to be acknowledged as Ell in the list of > contributors, or would you like full first/second names to be used? Just Ell is fine, thanks :) -- Ell ___ gimp-developer-list mailing list

Re: [Gimp-developer] Scanning coins

2016-01-17 Thread Ofnuts
On 13/01/16 18:11, billgoldbe...@frontier.com wrote: Greetings, I have heard Gimp is great for scanning images of coins to be sold internet. Can you tell me to set up Gimp to do this?Regard,William. Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE Tablet Gimp has no built-in scanning capabilities. Even if

Re: [Gimp-developer] Scanning coins

2016-01-17 Thread Partha Bagchi
Well, you can acquire an image from a scanner if you have twain plugin built. :) On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Ofnuts wrote: > On 13/01/16 18:11, billgoldbe...@frontier.com wrote: >> >> >> >> Greetings, I have heard Gimp is great for scanning images of coins to >> be sold

Re: [Gimp-developer] Scanning coins

2016-01-17 Thread Jay Smith
On 01/13/2016 12:11 PM, billgoldbe...@frontier.com wrote: Greetings, I have heard Gimp is great for scanning images of coins to be sold internet. Can you tell me to set up Gimp to do this?Regard,William. Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE Tablet Disclaimer: I am a stamp guy, not a coin guy,