Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp latest version

2009-01-16 Thread Owen Cook
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 01:44:30PM +0530, Nicholas I wrote: Hi, I am using ubuntu os, how do i upgrade my gimp to the new version 2.6. I tried using the apt-get install gimp by referring the documentation, but did not work, it still gets the older version. any help ? Which version

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp or inkscape?

2007-04-06 Thread Owen Cook
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 08:13:39PM -0600, Alex Feldman wrote: Hi, I have limited experience with Gimp, almost all of it with photographs, and essentially none with Inkscape. I want to make some simple maps of trails in the area, and mark them with mileages and a few comments. My plan

Re: [Gimp-user] Sketch effect

2007-01-28 Thread Owen Cook
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 06:04:27PM -0700, John Meyer wrote: I'm trying to do the Sketch Effect (http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Sketch_Effect/) and I'm guessing that this hasn't been updated in a while, cause I can't find the Desaturate option in my version of Gimp (2.2.13). Anybody have any

Re: [Gimp-user] torn edge

2006-03-17 Thread Owen Cook
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, matt1027 wrote: Does anyone have any tips or tutorials for making an edge that looks like torn paper, ragged and semi-transparent? you can try playing with Filters-Distorts-Waves See http://www.pcug.org.au/~rcook/images/torn_edge.png for a 5 second example Owen

Re: [Gimp-user] 'File Exists' in 2.3.6

2006-01-15 Thread Owen Cook
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Eric P wrote: Maybe this deserves a bug report, but something I've noticed in 2.3.6 is that it always alerts me that a 'A File Named ... Already Exists' upon saving any file regardless whether is truly exists or not. Can anyone else confirm this? Just create a new

Re: [Gimp-user] CMYK support

2006-01-13 Thread Owen Cook
You might want to try putting 'gimp cmyk' into Google and have a read -- Owen On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Carlos Muncharaz wrote: Hi, I have just added to the mail list and here I bring some questions: What about Gimp support for CMYK color mode? Have you discuss about it? Will Gimp handle

Re: [Gimp-user] [OT] Gimp: On the surface

2006-01-07 Thread Owen Cook
On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Julian Oliver wrote: excuse the triviality of the subject matter. it's been niggling so i bring it up. i teach with the Gimp as part of broader university and masterclass coursework to design students. sometimes it features in FOSS game-development courses i

Re: [Gimp-user] Work on a pasted image in The Gimp

2006-01-06 Thread Owen Cook
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Gert Blij wrote: I want to cut out part of a screen shot and paste the cutout into another application. 1 - I do the Shift - PrintScreen 2 - In The Gimp I do File | New and paste. Now the screen shot is in The Gimp But none of the Selection Tools can be activated.

Re: [Gimp-user] RE: Gimp-user Digest, Vol 40, Issue 4

2006-01-04 Thread Owen Cook
-- On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Gert Blij wrote: Thanks Andrew, I got that working for a rectangular copy and paste, but when I use the elipse select, the free select or the intelligent scissors, it cuts as per the created outline, but when I paste (into OpenOffice Writer) it pastes it as

Re: [Gimp-user] Add Glow and Center Layer

2005-12-06 Thread Owen Cook
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Carol Spears wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:56:57PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] [12-06-05 17:52]: 5) look at /etc/ldconfig and make sure that /usr/local/lib/ is in the list of paths there, if it isn't, add it. there

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp

2005-12-04 Thread Owen Cook
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, thegame2119 andrade wrote: Hi, I am a new user of the Gimp program and have a question about it. Hopefully I am asking in the right thing. Anyway, I have used the free trials of a number of image programs and one tool I really like is the clone brush, yet I can't seem

Re: [Gimp-user] Duotones in Gimp?

2005-12-04 Thread Owen Cook
Try http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=6749 -- Owen On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, net kat wrote: Does the Gimp enable one to create duotones? I searched and search and found nothing.. is it called a different name? I know that duotones are an old-school photography technique and one that did

Re: [Gimp-user] removing lines from scanned image

2005-05-30 Thread Owen Cook
On Mon, 30 May 2005, Helen wrote: I had hoped someone would respond to Laszio's Q of about 5 days ago, because I have a similar Q. In order to sign my printed photographs, I scanned my signature onto a lined sheet of white paper. Adding this to a photo shows the white paper background as

Re: [Gimp-user] blue dot

2005-05-30 Thread Owen Cook
On Tue, 31 May 2005, Richard Nagle wrote: Well, loaded gimp 2.26 all is well, started working with a few images, notice... that one has a blue dot high in the dark sky. try de-speckle, tuff to get out. Anyone? Tried the 'Clone' tool? Owen

Re: Comic Book retro style dots [Re: [Gimp-user] Camera to Comic Book]

2005-05-29 Thread Owen Cook
On Sun, 29 May 2005, Asif Lodhi wrote: Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 16:44:59 +0100 (BST) From: Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: Comic Book retro style dots [Re: [Gimp-user] Camera to Comic Book] The more detail you provide in your question the

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.2.6 on Fedora Core 3

2005-04-19 Thread Owen Cook
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Barton Bosch wrote: I've been meaning to take another shot at learning how to compile the gimp from source for a while now. I'm running FC2 which has rpms available for almost all of the requirements and optional packages. Unfortunately the atk rpm is version 1.6.0

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.2.6 on Fedora Core 3 (Re: Gimp-user Digest, Vol 31, Issue 22)

2005-04-17 Thread Owen Cook
-- On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Asif Lodhi wrote: Thanks for the help, Owen. I did exactly as you advised and 2.2.6 is running on my system now. However, I am afraid I might get into run-time errors. If this is not the case then why are there so many precautionary dependency-related instructions

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.2.6 on Fedora Core 3

2005-04-16 Thread Owen Cook
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Asif Lodhi wrote: I have managed to get Fedora Core 3 installed on my computer through nightly downloads in around 26 days. But the Gimp version is 2.04. I can't find binaries on RedHat's website (Even if I found and downloaded a 2.2.6 binary, would I still be able

Re: [Gimp-user] fail to configure gimp-2.2.0

2005-03-21 Thread Owen Cook
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Micheal LeVine wrote: I have tried setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH to /usr/local/lib/pkg-config as well as to /usr/lib/pkg-config The errors I get in the 2 cases when I run configure are different. In one case it tells me my GLIB is too old and it quits. In the second

Re: [Gimp-user] All singing Gimp

2005-02-24 Thread Owen Cook
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Simon Budig wrote: Owen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: checking for ALSA CFLAGS... [...] Are we to get sounds associated with actions? No, Alsa gets used optionally for the midi controller module. So if you have MIDI equipment you can connect it to the GIMP and

Re: [Gimp-user] sub part 2

2005-01-28 Thread Owen Cook
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Matthew H. Plough wrote: Sorry for replying to my own message, but I did a quick test. Here's the result of my Blender operations: http://www.princeton.edu/~mplough/tmp/submarine.jpg Well my contribution is from the Gimp, using a blend FG-Bg (white/black) and the

Re: [Gimp-user] Pre-press considerations (CMYK)

2005-01-27 Thread Owen Cook
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, vassilis wrote: Being keen in using open software for my work, I ended up with GIMP as far as it concerns DIP. Not without problems, though! I understand that GIMP is not press-oriented, thus there is little to not at all consideration on working with the CMYK model.

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help installing the help files

2004-12-21 Thread Owen Cook
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Jozsef Mak wrote: On my system there is no /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig directory; only /usr/lib/pkgconfig; but as I said, there is no gimp-2.0.pc file in that directory. Are you on Windows? Owen ___ Gimp-user mailing list

Re: [Gimp-user] Where to put help?

2004-12-11 Thread Owen Cook
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, John Culleton wrote: On Saturday 11 December 2004 06:11, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have downloaded the latest help file. Befor I untar it, where is it supposed to go? Or more particularly, where is it supposed to be

Re: [Gimp-user] difference between brightness and saturation

2004-12-11 Thread Owen Cook
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Gert Cuykens wrote: who do i ask if they would like to change the word lightness into brightness from the gimp gui? You don't to ask anyone, being an open source project, you can do it your self I found these files that had Lightness which you could try changing to

Re: [Gimp-user] Drawing geometric forms

2004-11-29 Thread Owen Cook
-- On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Gilles Pelletier wrote: How do we draw lines, circles, squares, rectangles (geometric forms)in gimp. As you can see by my question, I am new to Gimp. Possibly a good starting point is http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/ Owen

Re: [Gimp-user] replacing white background with alpha background

2004-11-22 Thread Owen Cook
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Gert Cuykens wrote: how can you tell gimp to fill all white with transparent alpha ? Try Filters-Colors-Colour to Alpha Owen ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Gimp-user] Version ?

2004-11-18 Thread Owen Cook
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Sven Neumann wrote: Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The underlying library changed between 1.2 and the 2.0 series The underlying library? What would that be? Ah, Just a simpletons understanding that 1.2 used gtk 1.2 and this last one uses gtk 2.2 If my

Re: [Gimp-user] Layers names

2004-11-07 Thread Owen Cook
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, GĂ©rald wrote: Is there's a way to retreive the layers names/ attributes in an xcf file whitout loading it ? I don't think so. If you plan in advance and call all your layers Big_Layer Small_layer Green_Layer etc then you can extract the names from the file with the

Re: [Gimp-user] renaming the gimp

2004-11-07 Thread Owen Cook
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Gezim Hoxha wrote: P.S: I know GIMP is an acronym, but [almost] no one calls it GNU Image Manipulation Program either. Corrupt the acronym ..the Great Image Manipulation Program and if you didn't do an install-strip, you might want to call it the Bloody Large Image

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.1.4 filepicker

2004-09-18 Thread Owen Cook
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to build 2.1.4 and kind of succeeded, but it couldn't open files. I could barely start it, actually. THere was dozens of error messages during startup from the local dir about libgimpwidgets-2.0-104 couldn't be located. You do not give

Re: [Gimp-user] How do i move a selection by x number of pixels

2004-07-24 Thread Owen Cook
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Kevin Myers wrote: How do i move a selection by x number of pixels in any directions? Press the cursor keys x times?! Umm, that doesn't work real well if you need to move the selection by a reasonably large number of pixels, say 100 for example... Shift +

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem with GIMP or KDE?

2004-06-23 Thread Owen Cook
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Steve Crane wrote: I'm having a little problem with GIMP 2.0.0 running on KDE. I know there is a later version of GIMP but I think that this may just be a case of GIMP and KDE not interacting well and there may be a setting (probably in KDE) that will correct it. I

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp2.0pre

2004-01-09 Thread Owen Cook
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Thomas Spuhler wrote: Has anybody been able to install it on Mandrake 9.2 I'll get into a dependency hell when trying to make an rpm. The main problem is to get freetype 2 that will install w/o dependency problems Yes, I have Gimp2.0pre on Mdk 9.2 Have you installed