Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Livre sur Gimp (aka publishing GIMP books)

2005-09-13 Thread Roman Joost
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 06:03:49PM -0400, michael chang wrote: On 9/12/05, Juhana Sadeharju [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Michael J. Hammel [EMAIL PROTECTED] FWIW, I'm working on another GIMP book, tentatively titled The Artist's Guide to GIMP Effects. It's essentially a followup to my

Re: [Gimp-user] Polygon Selection Tool?

2005-09-13 Thread Steve Stavropoulos
2005/9/13, Chris Spencer: Does the GIMP have anything like Photoshop's polygon lasso tool? I've found this tool extremely useful. It's like the GIMP's free select tool, but it allows you to select an arbitrary polygonal selection area by clicking out the points the way you would for a path.

Re: [Gimp-user] brush editor

2005-09-13 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Helen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I created a brush with my signature, but somehow, it is huge. I'd like to make is smaller. A read in a tutorial that only a parametric brush can be made smaller, but I find nothing on how to turn this into a parametric brush. Can I get

Re: [Gimp-user] Polygon Selection Tool?

2005-09-13 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Chris Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does the GIMP have anything like Photoshop's polygon lasso tool? I've found this tool extremely useful. It's like the GIMP's free select tool, but it allows you to select an arbitrary polygonal selection area by clicking out the points the way you

[Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread Diaa Sami
Jeffrey Brent McBeth wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 06:06:14AM +0300, Diaa Sami wrote: first, I want to thank you for your long and clear response. well, you're asking about what I'm trying to achieve. what I want is to have somekind of transparent color which is written in the PNG file. I

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 05:30:21PM +0300, Diaa Sami wrote: that's exactly what I wanted, I looked into PNG docs, and I found out that there are two functions responsible for this, which are png_get_tRNS and png_set_tRNS. Yup. For just about any chunk, there is a get/set pair in the

Re: [Gimp-user] Polygon Selection Tool?

2005-09-13 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Steve Stavropoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see your point. You can easily use paths to do that (click at the points you want and ctrl-click at the first one to close the path. Then turn the path into a selection). Nevertheless, I agree that a polygon selection tool would be nice...

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread michael chang
On 9/13/05, Jeffrey Brent McBeth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 05:30:21PM +0300, Diaa Sami wrote: that's exactly what I wanted, I looked into PNG docs, and I found out that there are two functions responsible for this, which are png_get_tRNS and png_set_tRNS. Yup.

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 04:26:39PM -0400, michael chang wrote: IE ignores tRNS when you aren't in palette mode, anytime you added some of that color to an image, it would turn transparent seperate from what you expect, etc. So logically, should we even be using tRNS in PNG anyway? IE is

RE: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread Chris Kinata [kcom]
| Sent: 20050913 Sep Tue 13:55 | To: michael chang | Cc: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu | Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency | | | On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 04:26:39PM -0400, michael chang wrote: | IE ignores tRNS when you aren't in palette

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread michael chang
On 9/13/05, Patrick Shanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * michael chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] [09-13-05 15:33]: So logically, should we even be using tRNS in PNG anyway? IE is one of the most commonly used browsers, AFAIK... Why would you cripple a *good* program because a *bad* program,

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 02:23:14PM -0700, Chris Kinata [kcom] wrote: Hi all... I was frustrated about IE PNG support (still am), but did some research, and found several ways to fix this in IE, depending on what you want. we were discussing this on the irc some. it is all very confusing

RE: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread Chris Kinata [kcom]
absolutely do not know where the line should be drawn, but really want to achieve certain effects anyway. Hence the pain 8). Regards, Chris | www.kinata.net web design and hosting | -Original Message- | From: Carol Spears [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: 20050913 Sep

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 03:41:58PM -0700, Chris Kinata [kcom] wrote: With respect, could you clarify what the issue is on the page you've referenced? I'm looking at http://carol.gimp.org/blog.html in both IE6 and Firefox, and the major differences I see are some spacing variations and

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 03:04:52PM -0700, Carol Spears wrote: personally, i thank everyone who has been involved in giving me a lifestyle in which i do not need to worry about broken propietary software when i make pages. the mess you see on my web site is all my own making for my own

RE: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread Chris Kinata [kcom]
web design and hosting | -Original Message- | From: Carol Spears [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: 20050913 Sep Tue 16:02 | To: Chris Kinata [kcom] | Cc: GIMPUser | Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency | | | On Tue

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread Carol Spears
one more time: On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 04:02:13PM -0700, Carol Spears wrote: i fully admit that i am unable to use the gimp image map plug-in to its fullest, however even with my limited skills, it would be easy to get a screenshot of the page being rendered correctly and send all IE viewers

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread michael chang
On 9/13/05, Chris Kinata [kcom] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By absent image are we talking about the img frame.png in the passages div class=pattern img src=frame.png alt=frame/img /div but can't find a correct path for frame.png. I think we call

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 08:00:48PM -0400, michael chang wrote: On 9/13/05, Chris Kinata [kcom] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By absent image are we talking about the img frame.png in the passages div class=pattern img src=frame.png alt=frame/img

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Polygon Selection Tool?

2005-09-13 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Chris Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks. However, can you perform boolean operations on paths? I see add, subtract, and intersect functions for selections, but only a merge option for visible paths, which just places all nodes on the same layer. Booleam operations on paths are not

Re: [Gimp-user] Polygon Selection Tool?

2005-09-13 Thread percy tiglao
On 9/13/05, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Chris Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, does anyone know an easy way to make word balloons? In Photoshop this could be easily be done by selecting an oval area (ellipse select), union that with a triangular selection (polygon

Re: [Gimp-user] Polygon Selection Tool?

2005-09-13 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 12:03:30AM -0400, percy tiglao wrote: On 9/13/05, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, does anyone know an easy way to make word balloons? In Photoshop this could be easily be done by selecting an oval area