[Gimp-user] Turn black background into white -- with fuzzy edges

2007-11-26 Thread Lea Wiemann
Hi, I'd like to turn a black background into white, or transparency (in which case it should look cut if displayed on a white background). My practical use case is photos of objects with black backgrounds that I'd like to improve for Wikipedia. The problem is that the boundary between

[Gimp-user] Changes in select and fill tools in 2.4, and a few new problems

2007-11-26 Thread Shin Diggar
In GIMP 2.2, If I use a selection tool (such as rectangle, elipse, freehand, etc) then once the selection is made and I release the mouse button, I can click and drag the contents of that selected area. However this behaviour has changed in 2.4 and trying to drag the selection now just moves

Re: [Gimp-user] Turn black background into white -- with fuzzy edges

2007-11-26 Thread Owen
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:59:23 -0500 Lea Wiemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'd like to turn a black background into white, or transparency (in which case it should look cut if displayed on a white background). My practical use case is photos of objects with black backgrounds that I'd

Re: [Gimp-user] Turn black background into white -- with fuzzy edges

2007-11-26 Thread David Gowers
Hi Lea, On Nov 26, 2007 7:29 PM, Lea Wiemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'd like to turn a black background into white, or transparency (in which case it should look cut if displayed on a white background). My practical use case is photos of objects with black backgrounds that I'd like

Re: [Gimp-user] Changes in select and fill tools in 2.4, and a few new problems

2007-11-26 Thread David Gowers
On Nov 26, 2007 7:48 PM, Shin Diggar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In GIMP 2.2, If I use a selection tool (such as rectangle, elipse, freehand, etc) then once the selection is made and I release the mouse button, I can click and drag the contents of that selected area. However this behaviour has

Re: [Gimp-user] Turn black background into white -- with fuzzy edges

2007-11-26 Thread Dave 77459
On Nov 26, 2007 3:57 AM, Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:59:23 -0500 Lea Wiemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas on this one? If you are using 2.4, Colours-Colour to alpha or in 2.2 Filters-Colours-Colour to alpha After that, make a new layer and fill with

Re: [Gimp-user] Turn black background into white -- with fuzzy edges

2007-11-26 Thread Pere Pujal i Carabantes
El dl 26 de 11 del 2007 a les 03:59 -0500, en/na Lea Wiemann va escriure: Hi, I'd like to turn a black background into white, or transparency (in which case it should look cut if displayed on a white background). My practical use case is photos of objects with black backgrounds that I'd

Re: [Gimp-user] Changes in select and fill tools in 2.4, and a few new problems

2007-11-26 Thread Jozef Legeny
The alt+shift+drag and ctrl-alt-drag doesn't work for me (gimp 2.4.2 on linux). I didn't find any way to change the mouse shortcuts but maybe I have just not searched enough, if anybody could point me to a right direction I'd be grateful. cheers On 11/26/07, David Gowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [Gimp-user] Changes in select and fill tools in 2.4, and a few new problems

2007-11-26 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 21:41 +1030, David Gowers wrote: Ctrl-Alt-Drag to cut the selection and drag it. Alt-Shift-Drag to copy the selection and drag it. The rectangle select and ellipse select tools are not cooperative with these, though. They are. After you committed the selection by

[Gimp-user] tool affect all layers?

2007-11-26 Thread Helen
In attempting to make photos look as though they are on the pages of a book, I have an image with ten layers. I'd now like to use the curve/bend tool to make the book sink in the middle (spine). Must I flatten the image in order for the tool to affect all ten layers? Thanks, Helen, using Giimp

Re: [Gimp-user] tool affect all layers?

2007-11-26 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 15:04 -0500, Helen wrote: In attempting to make photos look as though they are on the pages of a book, I have an image with ten layers. I'd now like to use the curve/bend tool to make the book sink in the middle (spine). Must I flatten the image in order for the

Re: [Gimp-user] tool affect all layers?

2007-11-26 Thread Helen
Thanks Sven -- this seems unreasonable, though, to have to install a plug-in for animation in order to use a tool on all layers. I could not figure any way, so I flattened and saved under a new name and ran the curve/bend on the new file. I wonder if other Gimp users find this to be a

Re: [Gimp-user] Changes in select and fill tools in 2.4, and a few new problems

2007-11-26 Thread David Gowers
On Nov 27, 2007 6:31 AM, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 21:41 +1030, David Gowers wrote: Ctrl-Alt-Drag to cut the selection and drag it. Alt-Shift-Drag to copy the selection and drag it. The rectangle select and ellipse select tools are not cooperative

Re: [Gimp-user] Changes in select and fill tools in 2.4, and a few new problems

2007-11-26 Thread Michael Schumacher
David Gowers wrote: They are. After you committed the selection by pressing Enter. They are not. I specifically tried that before my first reply, and it made no difference. I had to switch to a different selection tool before they would work. Works fine for me. What is different on your

Re: [Gimp-user] tool affect all layers?

2007-11-26 Thread David Gowers
Hi Helen, On Nov 27, 2007 6:34 AM, Helen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In attempting to make photos look as though they are on the pages of a book, I have an image with ten layers. I'd now like to use the curve/bend tool to make the book sink in the middle (spine). Must I flatten the image in

Re: [Gimp-user] Changes in select and fill tools in 2.4, and a few new problems

2007-11-26 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 09:33 +1030, David Gowers wrote: They are. After you committed the selection by pressing Enter. They are not. I specifically tried that before my first reply, and it made no difference. I had to switch to a different selection tool before they would work.

Re: [Gimp-user] tool affect all layers?

2007-11-26 Thread Elwin Estle
I think I have only had to do something like this once. But yes GAP does have a nice add-on that puts in an menu entry for filter all layers. There are other things that GAP comes in handy for. You can use it to make image pipe brushes that would otherwise be a lot of work to do in regular

Re: [Gimp-user] Changes in select and fill tools in 2.4, and a few new problems

2007-11-26 Thread David Gowers
Hi Sven, On Nov 27, 2007 9:40 AM, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 09:33 +1030, David Gowers wrote: They are. After you committed the selection by pressing Enter. They are not. I specifically tried that before my first reply, and it made no difference. I

Re: [Gimp-user] Turn black background into white -- with fuzzy edges

2007-11-26 Thread Lea Wiemann
David Gowers wrote: On Nov 26, 2007 7:29 PM, Lea Wiemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to turn a black background into white [...] The problem is that the boundary between background and object is usually fuzzy. 1. Use magic wand to select background 2. Convert the selection to a path,