Re: [Gimp-user] Script-Fu vs GIMP UI

2009-09-15 Thread Ilya Zakharevich
On 2009-09-15, jolie S for...@gimpusers.com wrote: ??? Obviously, the same as when I click repeatedly along the path... Imagine select color with add to selection and small threshold... E.g., select colors close to any one in the path. You say you want to select a color close to any one in

Re: [Gimp-user] Image resolution bad detection (?)

2009-09-15 Thread Jaime Seuma
Thank you all for the responses, they have been useful to me. Sven Neumann wrote: Most likely your software embeds the resolution information into the Exif metadata and fails to update the resolution in the JFIF header. That's a minor problem as the resolution is really just some arbitrary

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling and resolution

2009-09-15 Thread Jaime Seuma
Thank you all for the tips and links, I think this is enough info to make me understand the whole thing, and to make me feel comfortable with it. Best regards Jaime David Gowers wrote: In GIMP (and Photoshop, and some other editing software) it will make it display differently. If your

Re: [Gimp-user] HOWTO: stroke a path with the current tool?

2009-09-15 Thread saulgoode
Quoting Ilya Zakharevich nospam-ab...@ilyaz.org: I want to stroke the path with the current tool, with all the parameters as selected in the tool options. I do not think I can do it with the PATHs right-mouse-click menu, can I? As has been stated, this is not possible. An alternative would

[Gimp-user] How to add transparency to half an image

2009-09-15 Thread Bernhard S.
Hi all, I'm new here. I'm trying to add a transparency to the bottom half of an image, make it lighter so I can emphasize the text on the image. I keep cropping the image and getting frustrated. You can use layer masks to achieve this effect. Right click the layer in the layer dialog add

[Gimp-user] Scaled image larger in file size than original

2009-09-15 Thread DJ
Hi Gimp-user, I took a screenshot of a region using KSnapshot, and saved it as a png. I know I can take a screenshot with Gimp, but KSnapshot sits in the tray and is always there. Sometimes I take a snapshot of a debug or error window when I can't grab the text, and use it temporarily while

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaled image larger in file size than original

2009-09-15 Thread Sven Neumann
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 15:16 -0500, DJ wrote: I opened the screenshot in Gimp and saved it as another name, but still a png. I then scaled the image by 80% to reduce the size, and saved the file as a png. KSnapshot png save: 70k Gimp png save: 68k Gimp scale png: 263k When I saved in

[Gimp-user] drop out background tutorial

2009-09-15 Thread Bob Meetin
Subject says it all. I have a large assortment of product pictures which I need to give uniform backgrounds, preferably white. Can someone point me to a tutorial that discusses how? You can see a representative sample image at: http://www.dottedi.biz/images/diagnostics/DSC_4355.JPG. They

Re: [Gimp-user] drop out background tutorial

2009-09-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Bob Meetin b...@dottedi.biz wrote: Subject says it all. I have a large assortment of product pictures which I need to give uniform backgrounds, preferably white. Can someone point me to a tutorial that discusses how? You can see a representative sample image

Re: [Gimp-user] drop out background tutorial

2009-09-15 Thread Bob Meetin
Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Bob Meetin b...@dottedi.biz wrote: Subject says it all. I have a large assortment of product pictures which I need to give uniform backgrounds, preferably white. Can someone point me to a tutorial that discusses how? You can see a

Re: [Gimp-user] drop out background tutorial

2009-09-15 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Bob Meetin b...@dottedi.biz wrote: I have seen this before but never used it for a project.  Okay now I played with it for a few minutes.  There must be some trick/finesse to getting it to zero in on the subject, really on the subject's edges.  By following the

Re: [Gimp-user] drop out background tutorial

2009-09-15 Thread David Gowers
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Bob Meetin b...@dottedi.biz wrote: Subject says it all.  I have a large assortment of product pictures which I need to give uniform backgrounds, preferably white.  Can someone point me to a tutorial that discusses how?  You can see a representative sample image