Re: [Gimp-user] Levels hardly ever work

2011-03-07 Thread Jeremy Nell
/2011 08:50 AM, Jeremy Nell wrote: Ubuntu 10.10, GIMP 2.6, image mode is SRGB. That's about it, really. I import a photo, for example, and sometimes the Levels work and sometimes they don't. Curves work, so I use them instead

Re: [Gimp-user] Levels hardly ever work

2011-03-07 Thread Jeremy Nell
. On 07/03/2011 10:04, Frank Gore wrote: On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Jeremy Nell jeremyn...@gmail.com wrote: a bunch of things Way to not answer any questions, send replies to the list that were never meant to be seen here, hype up your skills on some

[Gimp-user] Levels hardly ever work

2011-03-06 Thread Jeremy Nell
Unless I'm doing something wrong, Colour Levels only work half the time. In fact, right now, I have a photo open and Levels do absolutely nothing. And this happens regularly, but I've not figured out the pattern as to when they work and don't work.

Re: [Gimp-user] Levels hardly ever work

2011-03-06 Thread Jeremy Nell
: Jeremy Nell jeremyn...@gmail.com wrote: Unless I'm doing something wrong, Colour Levels only work half the time. In fact, right now, I have a photo open and Levels do absolutely nothing. And this happens regularly, but I've not figured out the pattern as to when they work

Re: [Gimp-user] Speeding up GIMP

2011-03-02 Thread Jeremy Nell
I've tested working with outlines both on and off, and there really isn't much of a difference (other than not knowing my brush size), and I'm using an i7 quad core. GIMP is great and I'm getting used to it (after moving from Windows to Ubuntu and

Re: [Gimp-user] Speeding up GIMP

2011-03-02 Thread Jeremy Nell
, 2011 at 03:23:51PM +0200, Jeremy Nell wrote: Simple comparison: An A4 page, 300DPI, open in both applications.nbsp; Grab a paint brush and and increase its size considerably.nbsp; Paint across the canvas and watch how much GIMP lags; the rendering

Re: [Gimp-user] Speeding up GIMP

2011-03-02 Thread Jeremy Nell
Not very fast at all. Use a brush with a soft edge (hardness set quite low) and colour in parts of an A4 canvas. Standard colouring in motion (using a stylus), which GIMP handles poorly. On 02/03/2011 19:07, Stefan Maerz wrote: This

[Gimp-user] Speeding up GIMP

2011-03-01 Thread Jeremy Nell
What ways or tips will help speed up GIMP and maximise performance? Obviously, loads of RAM is a start, I guess. And a decent graphics card (for rendering), yes? What other tips or tricks does anyone have? ___ Gimp-user mailing list

[Gimp-user] Layer versus selection

2011-02-28 Thread Jeremy Nell
If I make a selection (using, say, the Select Tool) and I want to flip it, for example, vertically, then wouldn't it be logical that I simply click on Layer Transform etc and it does what I want with the current selection? Currently, I have to make the selection float before being able to

[Gimp-user] tif vs TIF

2011-02-17 Thread Jeremy Nell
Is there a difference between tif and TIF (and even tiff)? I just saved the same file as both tif and TIF and thought that, if they were the same format, GIMP would correct the case and see them as the same file, but this didn't happen (it didn't overwrite the file). Why is this, and what is

Re: [Gimp-user] tif vs TIF

2011-02-17 Thread Jeremy Nell
Differing names because of lowercase and uppercase variation? Ultimately, it doesn't matter, then? On 17/02/2011 19:13, Chris Mohler wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Jeremy Nell jeremyn...@gmail.com wrote

[Gimp-user] Export formats

2011-02-16 Thread Jeremy Nell
Is there a way to remove some of the save as file formats from the list (when saving a file as...)? After numerous years in my field, there are a number of file formats I have - and probably never will - need to save my files as. If I could remove some of them, then it would speed up my

Re: [Gimp-user] Export formats

2011-02-16 Thread Jeremy Nell
it automatically? El 16/02/11 17:13, Jeremy Nell escribi: Is there a way to remove some of the "save as" file formats from the list (when saving a file as...)? After numerous years in my field, there are a number of file formats I have - and prob

Re: [Gimp-user] Export formats

2011-02-16 Thread Jeremy Nell
17:23, Jeremy Nell escribió: Because I usually save as the GIMP format until the end, at which point I save to flattened TIFF and JPG formats too. On 16/02/2011 18:19, Mikel Garai wrote: Why don't you just add the file extension to the filename so gimp detects it automatically

[Gimp-user] Hitting Enter instead of pressing save

2011-02-16 Thread Jeremy Nell
When I click on Image Scale Image, the window pops up with fields in which I type in the pixel (or whatever) dimensions. Once I've typed it in, I move my mouse pointer to save or cancel to apply or cancel the changes. Isn't there, perhaps, a way to simply apply those changes by simply

[Gimp-user] reverting to base state

2011-02-04 Thread Jeremy Nell
1. I create an artwork and save it as a Gimp file. 2. I later open it and make changes to it, saving along the way. 3. I then realise that I want to revert to the original state when I opened it. 4. Gimp seems to evert only to the last saved state, rather than the state when I opened it. Is

Re: [Gimp-user] reverting to base state

2011-02-04 Thread Jeremy Nell
be a standard feature. On 04/02/2011 16:47, Jernej Simončič wrote: On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:41:44 +0200, Jeremy Nell wrote: Is there a way to revert to the original instance? If you didn't do more edits than the undo system can handle, you can use that, but otherwise no. Revert just means discard

Re: [Gimp-user] reverting to base state

2011-02-04 Thread Jeremy Nell
Now we're talking. How possible is it for someone to create a script / plugin that solves this problem? (Sadly, I know nothing about coding.) On 04/02/2011 17:26, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer wrote: Jeremy Nelljeremyn...@gmail.com writes: That's unfortunate. Sometimes, it is handy to be able

Re: [Gimp-user] reverting to base state

2011-02-04 Thread Jeremy Nell
Fair enough, but that's laborious. Why not simply have a history state that, with one click, reverts everything to how it was when you opened it? On 04/02/2011 17:41, phanisvara das wrote: On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:00:00 +0530, Jeremy Nelljeremyn...@gmail.com wrote: How possible is it for

Re: [Gimp-user] reverting to base state

2011-02-04 Thread Jeremy Nell
That reverts to the last saved instance; not the original instance. On 04/02/2011 23:39, Owen wrote: 1. I create an artwork and save it as a Gimp file. 2. I later open it and make changes to it, saving along the way. 3. I then realise that I want to revert to the original state when I

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp's rendering speeds

2011-02-03 Thread Jeremy Nell
I currently have 6 gigs of DDR3 RAM in my PC. I increased Gimp's tile-cache size to 3 gigs, and left number of processors at 8 (as well as everything else). On 04/02/2011 00:28, Sven Neumann wrote: On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 15:32 +0200, Jeremy Nell wrote: Speaking of which, I am using an i7

[Gimp-user] Gimp's rendering speeds

2011-02-02 Thread Jeremy Nell
I've asked this before, with no answers. My aim, as a happy Gimp user, is not to slate the software, but to improve it. I am not a developer, but rather a digital artist who uses Gimp extensively. Working on large canvases, I see that Gimp slows down, where rendering is concerned. For

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp's rendering speeds

2011-02-02 Thread Jeremy Nell
wrote: On 02/02/2011 02:32 PM, Jeremy Nell wrote: Will the next release of Gimp be a bit quicker? I'm afraid not; the next release of GIMP, GIMP 2.8, will not be quicker in this regard. The release after that, GIMP 3.0, will focus on running on GTK 3.0 and bringing high bit depths into the picture

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

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling / rotating images and focus

2011-01-28 Thread Jeremy Nell
How does one go about requesting this as a feature enhancement? To include this in Gimp would vastly improve usability in this regard, as well as making logical (and practical) sense. On 26/01/2011 12:14, Jeremy Nell wrote: Except that the opacity slider makes it tougher to see the preview

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling / rotating images and focus

2011-01-28 Thread Jeremy Nell
will spend his/her time by writing a temporary solution. Abel On 1/28/2011 9:58 AM, Jeremy Nell wrote: How does one go about requesting this as a feature enhancement? To include this in Gimp would vastly improve usability in this regard, as well as making logical (and practical) sense

[Gimp-user] Font control

2011-01-28 Thread Jeremy Nell
I apologise for any ignorance, but it the new Gimp release going to include better font management? For example, if I type something and rotate it, Gimp automatically rasterises it. It would be great if this didn't happen. What, if any, updates to Gimp's font management will be coming?

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling / rotating images and focus

2011-01-26 Thread Jeremy Nell
, Jeremy Nell wrote: Thanks. That does help, but not completely, because the more you lessen the opacity, the less of the preview you can see. It still appears on top of all the layers, rather than in the layer where it was originally positioned (in this case, at the bottom). On 21/01/2011 12:20

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling / rotating images and focus

2011-01-26 Thread Jeremy Nell
like opacity, etc. Peter On 01/26/2011 10:22 AM, Jeremy Nell wrote: The more I work in Gimp, the more I realise that this is something that needs to be looked at by the developers, as it is not very intuitive. Again, I've found how the focus of the image being rotated / scaled interferes

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling / rotating images and focus

2011-01-26 Thread Jeremy Nell
in the stack should remain in its place, rather than suddenly appear at the top of every layer when being rotated / scaled. Surely, this is a reasonable request? On 26/01/2011 12:06, Ofnuts wrote: On 01/26/2011 09:22 AM, Jeremy Nell wrote: The more I work in Gimp, the more I realise

[Gimp-user] Gimp remembering settings

2011-01-23 Thread Jeremy Nell
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, saving as TIFF. I always select LZW compression, yet almost

[Gimp-user] Question about the rendering engine

2011-01-21 Thread Jeremy Nell
I'm not a developer, so please don't slate me. I'm merely querying. I have six gigs of DDR3 RAM, an i7, and have allocated Gimp three gigs of RAM. My understand is that Gimp should run pretty smoothly. And it does. Except for when my file sizes increase. Let's say I'm working on an A3

[Gimp-user] Scaling / rotating images and focus

2011-01-21 Thread Jeremy Nell
1. I have an illustration with a few layers (lines and colours). 2. I drag and drop, let's say, an image of a TV onto the illustration. 3. I move the TV's layer down to below all the layers, so that it's at the bottom and appears partly behind, say, a cabinet. 4. I want to scale and rotate it

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling / rotating images and focus

2011-01-21 Thread Jeremy Nell
wrote: The rotate tool have an opacity slider for the preview in the tool options dialog. El 21/01/11 11:16, Jeremy Nell escribió: 1. I have an illustration with a few layers (lines and colours). 2. I drag and drop, let's say, an image of a TV onto the illustration. 3. I move the TV's layer

[Gimp-user] Colour picker

2011-01-20 Thread Jeremy Nell
What is the reason for the colour picker not being able to pick colours on layers outside of the currently active layer? Is there a script / plugin that one could install to enable the picker to act more globally? ___ Gimp-user mailing list

Re: [Gimp-user] Colour picker

2011-01-20 Thread Jeremy Nell
I AM blind. Gimp DOES support colour picking across multiple layers. Sorry about that. On 20/01/2011 17:22, Jeremy Nell wrote: Where is that? I must be going blind... On 20/01/2011 17:15, Szabolcs Hideg wrote: Enable sample merged in the tool settings window

Re: [Gimp-user] Deleting multiple layers

2011-01-19 Thread Jeremy Nell
No, you can't select multiple layers. I'm suggesting that there should be a way to do so (and delete them). On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 09:16 +0100, Ofnuts wrote: On 01/19/2011 07:03 AM, Jeremy Nell wrote: If I select multiple layers (by, say, ctrl-clicking), I should have the option to drag

Re: [Gimp-user] Deleting multiple layers

2011-01-19 Thread Jeremy Nell
? On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 12:10 +0100, Ofnuts wrote: On 01/19/2011 09:19 AM, Jeremy Nell wrote: No, you can't select multiple layers. I'm suggesting that there should be a way to do so (and delete them). The ability to select multiple layers opens a rather large can of worms. What

Re: [Gimp-user] Deleting multiple layers

2011-01-19 Thread Jeremy Nell
. There is no way to multiselect so there is no way to delete multi selected layers. One could use/abuse other layer toggles by having a script delete all: Linked or not linked layers, Visible or non visible layers, Trans locked or not translocked layers. -Rob A On 1/19/11, Jeremy Nell

Re: [Gimp-user] Deleting multiple layers

2011-01-19 Thread Jeremy Nell
this idea, officially? On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 14:02 +0100, Tőkés Ábel wrote: The source code of Gimp is available, you are free to do this whenever you want. On 1/19/2011 1:36 PM, Jeremy Nell wrote: So, are you saying that it isn't possible in Gimp? If so, then Photoshop wins this round

[Gimp-user] Wacom zoom strip and buttons

2011-01-19 Thread Jeremy Nell
Been working on Gimp for over a month (after working on Photoshop for a decade) and can say that Gimp is very underrated. Adobe can learn a lot from Gimp. Like picking up the Wacom tablet with ease. One thing, however, that I find very confusing is how to map the Wacom buttons and zoom-strip to

Re: [Gimp-user] Deleting multiple layers

2011-01-19 Thread Jeremy Nell
. On 1/19/2011 1:36 PM, Jeremy Nell wrote: So, are you saying that it isn't possible in Gimp? If so, then Photoshop wins this round (sadly) because such a feature because is useful and makes working a bit more streamlined and intuitive. On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 07:27 -0500

[Gimp-user] Merge linked layers

2011-01-18 Thread Jeremy Nell
Is there a way to merge linked layers in Gimp? ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Merge linked layers

2011-01-18 Thread Jeremy Nell
in the non-visible layer becoming visible (but only after another layer has been clicked on). I'm not sure whether or not this is a good or bad thing; I'm undecided... On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 13:31 -0500, saulgo...@flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com wrote: Quoting Jeremy Nell jeremyn...@gmail.com

[Gimp-user] Deleting multiple layers

2011-01-18 Thread Jeremy Nell
If I select multiple layers (by, say, ctrl-clicking), I should have the option to drag all of them into the bin. Unless I've missed it somewhere, is there is a script enabling the deletion of multiple layers? ___ Gimp-user mailing list

[Gimp-user] Scaling images

2011-01-17 Thread Jeremy Nell
I am new to Gimp (converted from Photoshop because I migrated to Ubuntu). Gimp is great and I'm enjoying its speed and power. But I am struggling with a few things, some of which I'll mail to this list and hopefully get some feedback. When scaling an image, Gimp keeps the original image