Re: [Gimp-user] Making a .gif file transparent

2008-11-13 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 08:49 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: You can do all this in three steps: 1. Open the GIF image 2. Convert to RGB colors (Image-Mode-RGB) 3. Copy the image (Ctrl+C) (no need to select it beforehand) Actually, you can also skip step 2 as pasted content is automatically

Re: [Gimp-user] Modifying text color

2008-11-13 Thread saulgoode
Quoting community help [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm new to GIMP. I created a simple text. Now i want to change the color of the text. How can I do that? Just drag a color from any color swatch and drop it on the text layer's thumbnail preview in the Layers Dialog. Swatches are the little

Re: [Gimp-user] dealing with Nikon NEF RAW files?

2008-11-13 Thread peter kostov
Andrew wrote: peter kostov wrote: Hi! Is there anyone here, who has a Nikon DSLR and is shooting in RAW? If yes - how do you deal with your .NEF images? On a CD that came with my camera there was a program called 'Picture Project'. Until recently I used it under Wine and was pretty

Re: [Gimp-user] dealing with Nikon NEF RAW files?

2008-11-13 Thread Michael Schumacher
Von: peter kostov [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have tried Rawstudio, but it gave me bad results, al least with NEF files. I din't knew about Rawtherapee, I will try it. But as I see it is based on DCraw for reading the input file. As far as I know DCraw and Ufraw are very similar, so this

Re: [Gimp-user] Is there a lightweight Window Manager that properly supports utility windows?

2008-11-13 Thread Hood Family
Thanks, I might try that, although I suspect I'll have trouble getting the family to accept a tiling WM. Xfwm seems to handle them properly too, so if I don't find something else I may end up using it. David Gowers wrote: Hi! On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Hood Family [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Gimp-user] dealing with Nikon NEF RAW files?

2008-11-13 Thread peter kostov
Michael Schumacher wrote: Von: peter kostov [EMAIL PROTECTED] A promising approach would be to get in contact with the authors of these programs and tell them about your problems, then the might be able to help you with better settings or you might be able to help them to improve their

Re: [Gimp-user] Intro 2.6.2 question

2008-11-13 Thread Martin Nordholts
Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Gimp user; subscriber to the GIMP newsgroup (comp.graphics.apps.gimp), whose ISP is dropping USENET support, hence subscribing here. Using GIMP 2.6.2 on WIN XP, I find behavior that I didn't find before. If I have an image, a toolbox, and the layers dialog open at

Re: [Gimp-user] Easily copying selections to a file?

2008-11-13 Thread David Herman
On Thursday 13 November 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip-- The script has been tested with GIMP 2.6.2 and I suspect it should work with GIMP 2.4 (I doubt it will work with earlier GIMPs). The script can be downloaded from

Re: [Gimp-user] Help file issues

2008-11-13 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 17:53 -0600, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: OK. Windows XP platform. GIMP 2.6.2 is installed, and help file (2.2.4) is installed. But when I start GIMP, and try to access local help, I get a message in the preferences warning me that the user manual is not installed