Re: [Gimp-user] Windows XP - Service Pack?

2011-01-31 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:24:37 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: Though giving M$ access is the definition of compromised as far as I am concerned. What kind of access, and what do you mean by phone home? If you're that paranoid about Windows Update, you can always prevent the service from running (and

Re: [Gimp-user] Windows XP - Service Pack?

2011-01-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday, January 31, 2011 12:19:44 pm Jernej Simončič did opine: On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:24:37 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: Though giving M$ access is the definition of compromised as far as I am concerned. What kind of access, and what do you mean by phone home? If you're that paranoid

Re: [Gimp-user] Windows XP - Service Pack?

2011-01-31 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:39:06 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Oh oh, he's been drinking the koolaid. What we FOSS people are objecting to is the WGA that gets installed with SP2 I believe it was, and this thing does phone home on every reboot to check if its a legally purchased and registered

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp remembering settings

2011-01-31 Thread Sven Neumann
On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 14:53 +0200, Jeremy Nell wrote: I've got the appropriate boxes checked, yet, for some reason, Gimp seems to remember some of my settings inconsistently. For example, my save dialogues don't remember how I saved files the last time Gimp was running. Specifically,

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp remembering settings

2011-01-31 Thread Jeremy Nell
I second this. In fact, I was about to send an almost identical mail. On 31/01/2011 20:26, Sven Neumann wrote: On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 14:53 +0200, Jeremy Nell wrote: I've got the appropriate boxes checked, yet, for some reason, Gimp seems to remember some of my settings inconsistently. For

Re: [Gimp-user] Windows XP - Service Pack?

2011-01-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday, January 31, 2011 01:55:20 pm Jernej Simončič did opine: On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:39:06 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Oh oh, he's been drinking the koolaid. What we FOSS people are objecting to is the WGA that gets installed with SP2 I believe it was, and this thing does phone home

Re: [Gimp-user] Windows XP - Service Pack?

2011-01-31 Thread Frank Gore
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: a rant Considering Gimp runs on so many systems, it's amazing how rarely these MS vs OSS flamewars occur on this mailing list. But that's all this is, a flamewar that has become completely unrelated to Gimp. Please

Re: [Gimp-user] Windows XP - Service Pack? (Gimp related)

2011-01-31 Thread jack white
Whether it's recommended to have a SP or not, fact is some people do not, and until Gimp actually requires something that a SP installs, I don't see why it couldn't continue to allow installs on non-SP Windows, they way it did up until a recent version change. FYI, I have a PC with WinXP that

[Gimp-user] Substitute for Hue/Saturation adjustment layer

2011-01-31 Thread Patrick Horgan
I'm reading The DC Comics Guide to DIGITALLY DRAWING Comics by Freddie E Williams II. In it he talks about a workflow where he does a rough sketch, puts an adjustment layer over it with Hue: 200 Saturation: 60 Lightness+75, that makes the underlying rough sketch look like a non-photo blue

[Gimp-user] First time user

2011-01-31 Thread ErnieD
Hi, I am a first time user. The first problem that I encountered was after I outlined an image in order to remove the background around it, i could not disconnect from the outline tool (scissors). How do I do the disconnect? Thanks, Ernie -- ErnieD (via gimpusers.com)

Re: [Gimp-user] First time user

2011-01-31 Thread Patrick Horgan
On 01/31/2011 07:56 PM, ErnieD wrote: Hi, I am a first time user. The first problem that I encountered was after I outlined an image in order to remove the background around it, i could not disconnect from the outline tool (scissors). How do I do the disconnect? Thanks, Ernie