Re: [Gimp-user] Gimpshop (was: blue + yellow = green)

2006-02-28 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Selon Manish Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: For Gimpshop, it was all about forking from the get go. There was no discussion, no proposal in any of the several places to discuss GIMP development. No other possibilities were attempted. Put things in perspective - the guy wrote a patch. It's a

Re: [Gimp-user] blue + yellow = green

2006-02-28 Thread Rikard Johnels
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 06:17, Carol Spears wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 09:01:30PM -0800, Carol Spears wrote: gimp (the way it was made) is a much better way to learn image manipulation. one more time, if changing from photoshop to gimp is a problem and changing from gimp to

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimpshop

2006-02-28 Thread Michael Schumacher
Von: Robert Citek [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Feb 28, 2006, at 12:20 AM, Manish Singh wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 12:01:05AM -0600, Robert Citek wrote: Would you consider Gimpshop a successful fork? Considering Gimpshop can't even keep their own website online, I'd say no. Then why

[Gimp-user] photomosaic, photocomposition

2006-02-28 Thread Xavier Sala
Hi, Does anybody know if it possible (and if it is, how) to create an image from a given photo but at the same time the new photo image should be made from other pictures (around 100 pictures). That will create the effect that looking at the image from away you see the main photo, but

Re: [Gimp-user] photomosaic, photocomposition

2006-02-28 Thread Michael Schumacher
Von: Xavier Sala [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anybody know if it possible (and if it is, how) to create an image from a given photo but at the same time the new photo image should be made from other pictures (around 100 pictures). The first hit when googling for gimp photomosaic:

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimpshop (was: blue + yellow = green)

2006-02-28 Thread Dave Neary
Selon Michael Schumacher [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Von: Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] If it was put in bugzilla, the patch would have been refused, or we would have asked him to work on it. That's how things are handled in Bugzilla, so what is the problem? The guy scratched an itch. Why should

Re: [Gimp-user] blue + yellow = green

2006-02-28 Thread Bram Kuijper
Rikard Johnels wrote: On Tuesday 28 February 2006 06:17, Carol Spears wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 09:01:30PM -0800, Carol Spears wrote: gimp (the way it was made) is a much better way to learn image manipulation. one more time, if changing from photoshop to

Re: [Gimp-user] blue + yellow = green

2006-02-28 Thread Michael Schumacher
Von: Bram Kuijper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do I hear I don't care about Photoshop/Windows Users that want to transfer to GIMP?... then why was GIMP compiled for windows at all, just for a bunch people that were patient enough to learn it? FYI, it was compiled for windows because someone wanted

[Gimp-user] Wacom Tablett - copy map from paper (Linux/Ubuntu)

2006-02-28 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, i have a small wacom tablet and i want to copy a (fantasy) map from paper. The printed map has nearly the same size, like the wacom has. The problem, if i follow the lines on the printed map, i get out the gimp document. Actually the screen resolution is the same, like the wacom field. My

Re: [Gimp-user] blue + yellow = green

2006-02-28 Thread Tom Williams
Bram Kuijper wrote: Sure? Again, doesn't it say something about general usability of GIMP's GUI? A good GUI is characterized that it is 'understandable' by the great majority of users, inexperienced, experienced using other software platforms and experienced using GIMP. I work with GIMP daily

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimpshop

2006-02-28 Thread JC Dill
Michael Schumacher wrote: Von: Robert Citek [EMAIL PROTECTED] But enough trash talk about Gimpshop. Tell me how wonderful this forum is. What makes this forum shine? Well, I'd be more happy to answer this if you drop forum and use list instead. fo·rum Pronunciation (fôrm, fr-) n. pl.

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimpshop

2006-02-28 Thread JC Dill
Michael Schumacher wrote: JC Dill wrote: So when someone asks you to tell them how wonderful this forum is, you can assume they are inviting comparison with all other forums on the topic, not just other mailing lists. Well, this is a mailing list. Anyone who uses it via a different access

[Gimp-user] GIMP, OSS and things called forums

2006-02-28 Thread Carol Spears
while i am not interested in excluding GIMP from collections of software that people call *OSS, there is certainly a lot of confusion involving *OSS advocates when it comes to the expectations of them about what gimp developers and volunteers will do. here is one point. people coming here from

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimpshop

2006-02-28 Thread Geoffrey
JC Dill wrote: Michael Schumacher wrote: JC Dill wrote: So when someone asks you to tell them how wonderful this forum is, you can assume they are inviting comparison with all other forums on the topic, not just other mailing lists. Well, this is a mailing list. Anyone who uses it via a

Re: [Gimp-user] photomosaic, photocomposition

2006-02-28 Thread Robert Citek
On Feb 28, 2006, at 4:18 AM, Michael Schumacher wrote: Von: Xavier Sala [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anybody know if it possible (and if it is, how) to create an image from a given photo but at the same time the new photo image should be made from other pictures (around 100 pictures). The

[Gimp-user] How to High light a gif text image

2006-02-28 Thread ajmal sherif
Hi FolksI recently downloaded GIMP and I am new to it.Please advise how you would attempt this:I have a gif image of some text eg This is my Goldfish. I wish to now highlight it as follows:This is my GoldfishI think the first step would be to create a rectangle around the

[Gimp-user] Composing Images

2006-02-28 Thread scott s.
I have some raster images that I need to combine. Each raster is in tiff format grayscale. What I want to do is load each file into a channel to create a color image. The problem is, I can't figure out how to get an image, or layer, into a channel. I can load a single image, and convert it

Re: [Gimp-user] Wacom Tablett - copy map from paper (Linux/Ubuntu)

2006-02-28 Thread Don Koch
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:14:52 +0100 Denny Schierz wrote: hi, i have a small wacom tablet and i want to copy a (fantasy) map from paper. The printed map has nearly the same size, like the wacom has. ... My document has 1000 mm x 1000 mm. You have a 1m x 1m Wacom tablet? And you consider

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp scripting/automating howto

2006-02-28 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:21:15AM +0800, jed mallen wrote: Hello, Can anyone recommend a nice howto on automating batch jobs on gimp (ie: resizing, border, etc.)? i have put some stuff on my site. the old (gimp-2.0-2.2) stuff should be at http://carol.gimp.org/gimp2/resources/python/ and