Re: [Gimp-user] new tutorials and previews

2004-11-02 Thread Gezim Hoxha
Thanks for taking the time to do this Carol, I really appreciate it :) --- Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i heard that gimp-2.2pre would be out and threw together some new tutorials to show off a few of the new things. http://carol.gimp.org/gimp/2.1/ a preview of only a few

Re: [Gimp-user] new tutorials and previews

2004-11-02 Thread Przemyslaw Gawronski
Thanks for taking the time to do this Carol, I really appreciate it :) Same here !!! Thanks !!! Przemek -- TANREN DOJO - Klub Aikido (Warszawa - Ursynow) http://www.tanren.pl/ info: tel.: 0-506-61-31-47 (pon. - pt. 9 - 15) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOK (Natolinski Osrodek Kultury) ul.

[Gimp-user] text tool crash (bug 154144 ?)

2004-11-02 Thread Andrew
Mandrake 10 Community I was using the gimp2_0-2.0.4-1mdk.i586.rpm that came with the above distro without any problems. I then upgraded to gimp-2.0.5 (tar.bz2). Now the text tool causes Gimp to crash after either one or two keystrokes. If it crashes after the second, the first letter I type

Re: [Gimp-user] new tutorials and previews

2004-11-02 Thread Alan Horkan
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Carol Spears wrote: Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 16:55:22 -0800 From: Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: GIMPUser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Gimp-user] new tutorials and previews hi, i heard that gimp-2.2pre would be out and threw together some new tutorials to show off a

Re: [Gimp-user] flat image bg color change

2004-11-02 Thread Tom
Thanks Carol, Mark and Malcolm. I've been experimenting with all the suggested methods and getting various results. As far as making it trasnparent (how, when, why), I could use some advice. :) On Tuesday 02 November 2004 02:31, you wrote: hello, On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 01:54:19AM -0500,

Re: [Gimp-user] new tutorials and previews

2004-11-02 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 01:46:09PM +, Alan Horkan wrote: On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Carol Spears wrote: also, you can drop your own splash screen image in now: http://carol.gimp.org/gimp/2.1/splash I thought you could already set your own custom splash screen by replacing the existing

Re: [Gimp-user] flat image bg color change

2004-11-02 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:01:48PM -0500, Tom wrote: I've been experimenting with all the suggested methods and getting various results. As far as making it trasnparent (how, when, why), I could use some advice. :) the transparency is like an extra color that you can add called alpha.

Re: [Gimp-user] new tutorials and previews

2004-11-02 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I thought you could already set your own custom splash screen by replacing the existing splash screen graphic? What is different about how it is done now? With former versions you had to have superuser priviledges in order to replace the systemwide

[Gimp-user] how to set border to 0 when printing from gimp?

2004-11-02 Thread Nagy Gabor
Hi! I try to use gimp to print a picture that I want to match the original size. The full size A4 page is 210x297mm. According to the CUPS testpage, which prints the bounding box about 4 mm from the edge, the page size is 201.5x288.4mm, the border is 4.2mm I create a new picture, set the dpi

Re: [Gimp-user] how to set border to 0 when printing from gimp?

2004-11-02 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Nagy Gabor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The result is that it will be printed at 318.5 dpi, with top and bottom borders at 1.27 cm. That's about three times more border than the size CUPS has used. And the problem is that I cannot set it to be lower. I can write smaller numbers in the

[Gimp-user] Re: flat image bg color change

2004-11-02 Thread GSR - FR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2004-11-02 at 0154.19 -0500): Thanks Eric. Here it is. Ok, I used select by colour, clicking first at the top area, then clicking with shift key more times and a bit lower until it selected all but the bottle and some of the white reflection in front. sides selected

[Gimp-user] what are palettes?

2004-11-02 Thread Gezim Hoxha
Hi gimpers, I was trying to modify my windows XP boot screen. Doing a tutorial it said that Microsoft decided to remove the pallet from the logo to another location.So now when you open up ... the .bmps are just black images. So I had to use photoshop for this, but that's fine. My question is

Re: [Gimp-user] Applying Filter ?

2004-11-02 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 12:22:02AM -0500, Richard wrote: Just started using Gimp about a week ago, and I must say, its nice. Now, have a question: if I shot in BW (via digital camera), wouldn't that give me a better image, to work with in Gimp, instead of converting it to Grey Scale? i

[Gimp-user] Crop with ratio

2004-11-02 Thread Scott Ainslie
Is there any way that I can set the crop tool to crop to a given ratio? eg: Most prints are all the same ratio (width x height), is there a way that I can set the crop tool to 3x4 and the when I drag the box on an image it will alway be in the ratio of 3x4. ie: Whatever I crop will always print

[Gimp-user] Print passport photo template

2004-11-02 Thread Scott Ainslie
An ordinary jumbo print at my local photo lab costs just $0.40 but 4 passport photos, all on 1 jumbo print costs about $4.00. Is the any template that I could simply put an image into and it would create an image that when printed as a jumbo print would have 4 passport photos on it? All I would