Re: [Gimp-user] Neon effect on jpg ?'s

The tutorial assumes white text on a transparent layer, with a black layer background. You can do this by starting with your THEBOLT image and using color to alpha http://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-colortoalpha.html to make the black transparent. Then just follow steps 3,4, and 5. -Rob

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem script-fu gimp-text-layer-get-text

-direction ltr) (color (color-rgb 0.00 0.00 0.00)) (justify left) (box-mode dynamic) (box-unit pixels) I posted a grep example here: http://registry.gimp.org/node/25145#comment-11229 -Rob A On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Volker Lenhardt volker.lenha...@uni-due.de wrote: Am

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: scriipt-fu or python?

Hi John, I put python scripts in ~/.gimp-2.6/plug-ins/. After trying script-fu and python, I recommend python. The language is more similar to what you know and better documented, and a more useful language to know anyway. Best regards, Rob On 05/13/2011 06:08 AM, John Culleton wrote

[Gimp-user] How can you make files open in one instance of gimp?

images. I'm using Ubuntu Linux. Are there any ideas out there on how to get around this problem cleanly? I'd really like to make the same instance of gimp open the photos, but I'm not sure how to do that. Thanks, Rob -- Rob Frohne, Ph.D., P.E. E.F. Cross School of Engineering Walla Walla

Re: [Gimp-user] Can't read file header

I see no metadata (EXIF or IPTC) in the image provided. I did notice that XP flags it as blocked http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/53691-45-this-file-computer-blocked so that could be the issue? -Rob A On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Tőkés Ábel preobazsensz...@freemail.hu wrote: Dear Folks

Re: [Gimp-user] Image-defined Select Tool

to the original image, so I can then work on only the selected region? Thanks I think you want this- - Duplicate layer - Edge detect on duplicate - Make selection - Delete duplicate layer You will have the selection still active on the original image. -Rob

Re: [Gimp-user] how to apply a stepping curve

I still haven't thought up an easy solution. Chris If you export the curve to a file you can ee the syntax used, then create your own files that can be loaded into the curve tool. -Rob A ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU

Re: [Gimp-user] Rule of thirds or golden ratio tool (suggestion)

of thirds Guides are shown along the rule of thirds while creating the selection. Golden sections With this option, guides show up to mark the golden sections. -Rob A ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https

Re: [Gimp-user] Stacking images

Check out this page for a set of astronomy tools for gimp. Never used them, but I recalled seeing them http://hennigbuam.de/georg/gimp.html -Rob A ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman

Re: [Gimp-user] reverting to base state

Here's a little script I wrote: http://registry.gimp.org/node/14246 to do the save-as to a unique file. I just added a key-binding to call it. -Rob A ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman

[Gimp-user] How do I get the current image filename and directory name in script-fu?

which the images came from. Does anyone have any tips? Thanks, Rob -- Rob Frohne, Ph.D., P.E. E.F. Cross School of Engineering Walla Walla University 100 SW 4th Street College Place, WA 99324 (509) 527-2075 http://people.wallawalla.edu/~rob.frohne attachment

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

Not sure about GEGL previews, bu there is a new transform tool spec: http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Transformation_tool_specification To combine scale, shear and rotate into one tool. No mention of how previews are to be handled, however. -Rob A On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Jeremy Nell

Re: [Gimp-user] Can't access Script-Fu

mamboze wrote: These are Script-Fu Layer Effects Drop Shadow, ... Inner Shadow, ... Bevel and Emboss. I think these are from the Layer Effects script: http://registry.gimp.org/node/186 Did you install these appropriately? -Rob A ___ Gimp-user

[Gimp-user] Using Script-Fu, how can I get coordinates selected by a user on an image?

Hi All, I am trying to write a script-fu script to process white board photos. I want to select four coordinates to do a perspective-transformation and crop on. Is there a way to interactively let a user select points on a photo and get that information back into the script? Thanks, Rob

Re: [Gimp-user] Deleting multiple layers

Because it simply isn't scriptable. 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

Re: [Gimp-user] Is LZW included in GIMP?

and is perfectly acceptable to use. -Rob A ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] warp by points

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Re: [Gimp-user] Opens only in 72 dpi

to calculate the display size, so a 300px by 300px image that is 300dpi will be shown as 1 by 1 (or 72px by 72 px for a screen resolution of 72PPI) at 100% when the dot-for-dot is unchecked, and 4.16 by 4.16 inches (300px by 300px) on the same 72PPI screen. -Rob

Re: [Gimp-user] Why are my filters disabled

It is probably a greyscale tiff. Many filters only work on RGB. Try imagemodeRGB then you should be able to use the filters. -Rob A ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Script-Fu Illegal Function Error

Try getting rid of the double parenthesis around the gimp-image-get-active-vectors. -Rob A ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Wacom Tablet For Flower Photographer and Software Developer

the tablet is active on) so you need to check that. -Rob A ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] How are parasites represented in Script-Fu?

in as a list. First parameter is the parasite name and the third is the string value. Not sure what the seconf parameter is but I always use the number 1: (gimp-parasite-attach (list parasite-name 1 parasite value)) -Rob A -Rob A ___ Gimp-user mailing list

[Gimp-user] Fwd: script-fu: saving dialog choices

as duplicates) I beleive there is a proposed patch though. Instead of parasites consider using gimp_gimprc_set() and gimp_gimprc_query() which don't seem to have this issue. -Rob A ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https

Re: [Gimp-user] dependant scm files and script-fu load

Is there a way to refer to something like folder in which curent script resides or user GIMP configuration folder (e.g. on my machine Docs and Settings\UserName\.gimp-2.6)? gimp-directory gets you to there. Check out this page: http://www.ve3syb.ca/wiki/doku.php?id=software:sf:writing -Rob

Re: [Gimp-user] curving text (text to path?)

, but with your cad background (and for logo work in general) you may be better off using a vector based application like Inkscape. -Rob A ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

[Gimp-user] Unemboss plugin/operation

Hi all, sorry if this can be easily found, but I've googled for it without success. Is there an easy way to revert emboss effect? I mean, to get image resembling original as close as possible, as I understand it is lossy operation. Do you have an idea how to do that? Regards, Robert

[Gimp-user] 3D heightfield render plugin?

available for the current version of gimp? Am I having a hallucination? Thanks in advance- -Rob A ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Using channels to select pixels

the decomposed layer that gives the best match to the desired selection, then drag that layer into the channel panel of your original image. You can then load it as a selection, and further use quickmask mode to tweak it. -Rob A ___ Gimp-user mailing list

Re: [Gimp-user] Using channels to select pixels

What are you describing goes beyond my comprehension of gimp. If you have the time, I'd love it if you could break that down for me. Decomposition was simple enough once I'd figured it out. I think SG's solution is simplest to use. -Rob A ___ Gimp

[Gimp-user] 3d view?

Is there a plugin to preview/display bumpmaps in 3D? Ideally, it could be moved around (like the 3d preiew in the normalmap plugin) but renders it as a ocluding heightfield. I recall using something like that back in 2.4 but can not find it now. -Rob

Re: [Gimp-user] script-fu-round-corners

with the additional run-mode parameter in front. -Rob A ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Selecting area within area

and hold then move the mouse pointer up and down to dynamically adjust the threshold setting. -Rob A On 6/13/10, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Branko and Chris, layers it is then. I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't missing out on some fantastic technique made just

Re: [Gimp-user] Changing a dark colour

Can anybody help with this, thanks. Try creating a new layer filled with the colour you want and set its layer mode to Grain Merge. -Rob A ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Gimp-user] The best way to make a rounded corner box with a border

BTW- Inkscape can use gimp gradients (they are the same format). Are they? Maybe not the same format(?), but drag and drop a .ggr into the canvas and you can then use it in inkscape. -Rob A ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] A bunch of questions

Regarding backups I wrote a script http://registry.gimp.org/node/14246 that makes a backup xcf file with the same name and date plus time appended. If you bind it to a key (that is what I do) it is very quick to save a working copy every now and then. -Rob A On 5/20/10, Noel Stoutenburg mjol

Re: [Gimp-user] removing layer area

I have a script http://ffaat.pointclark.net/incoming/scripts/transbg.scm The combines select by colour and colour to alpha with a few parameters to simplify this process. -Rob A ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https

Re: [Gimp-user] New Image from Visible Layers?

Don't use Save as. If you just save a copy as png it will flatten the image and save what is visible exactly as you see it. -Rob A On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Sacryd for...@gimpusers.com wrote: I'm new to both GIMP and this forum. Please forgive me if this question has been asked - I

Re: [Gimp-user] A sequence of actions

be done as a plugin that would allow creation, saving and loading actions. -Rob A On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Tarun Samvedi tsam...@gmail.com wrote: Michael, Jay - Thanks for the response :) I'll be trying to implement the idea for GSoC, was just making sure there is no way of doing it which

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP plugin for faking a newspaper frontpage image

It could be done with a displacement map fairly easily, or possibly the curve bend tool. There is a GSoC project that may give a cage distort that would make such a thing trivial. -Rob A. On 3/28/10, Deniz Dogan deniz.a.m.do...@gmail.com wrote: Recently a friend of mine showed me a picture

[Gimp-user] ???

I just got GIMP for Mac and in installing it says no because I need X-11. What is that? ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

[Gimp-user] pure:dyne GNU/Linux leekpotato

deb http://debian.goto10.org/debian/ lenny main \ /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get install souprecipe -- pure:dyne is a GOTO10 project, developed by Rob Canning, Heather Corcoran, Antonios Galanopoulos, Karsten Gebbert, Claude Heiland-Allen, Chun Lee, Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk

[Gimp-user] compiled version of separate+

this is a common need of users. -- Rob ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

[Gimp-user] Create Colored Slate

I need to create a texture just like the gray slate that comes as a pattern in gimp. However, I need to create it in a few different colors. All of the tuts I've found online only show how to make a black/white or rainbow texture. Can anyone point me in to a tutorial that can show me how to

[Gimp-user] whats the best way to learn script-fu

Whats the best way to learn script-fu? Is there a good online tutorial? A book? Seems to be a ton of instruction material on the web and I was wondering if anyone can recomend something specific that they thought was the best way to get started with batch image processing with gimp.

[Gimp-user] Photo emulsion silkscreen screen printing color seperation for inks

but does not have help installed so even though my help is crippled I got ALL this help from the email list. Rob Chris Mohler wrote: This advice to not use DECOMPOSE and to use a plugin from blackfiveservices... Is the standard GIMP DECOMPOSE implementation so bad that it will not produce

[Gimp-user] what is the most simple bit map file format

I wanted to understand a graphics file format... any format that could be disected with a programming language...any programming language. What is the absolute simplest bit map file format we can save out a black and white image in GIMP? I think it might be PPM in my version 2.2.6 but there

[Gimp-user] wouldn't use DECOMPOSE

This advice to not use DECOMPOSE and to use a plugin from blackfiveservices... Is the standard GIMP DECOMPOSE implementation so bad that it will not produce images that are worthy of using for screen printing? I like bells and whistles as much as the next guy but I try to use the base

[Gimp-user] thanks and what format is best to start with when doing seperations

Thanks for the newsprint and color seperation instructions. I was certain these were possible but could not find detailed instructions. I have not tried anything yet but will get on it now an dhave some tests in this hour. I was very disappointed to get this first response: I don't think this

[Gimp-user] after DECOMPOSE to CMYK then what

I got as far as IMAGE MODE DECOMPOSE and that produces the desired black and white images in greyscale 4 layers and if I do a page up or down I get black,yellow_k,magenta_k,cyan_k on the image box at the bottom of the image BUT then what? I seem to be missing the one magic step that breaks

[Gimp-user] save 4 layers as 4 seperate mages ....I am stumped

task? I'm stumped. I can't find any way to isolate single layers and each layer is the individual seperated colors I desired to work with. Such a tease. So close but still no cigars. Asif Lodhi wrote: Hi Rob, On 11/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message: 4 Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 03:25:48 -0500

[Gimp-user] saves out visible great.. automation

Ok...very good.. the desired result. I didn't know that the SAVE AS would only save the visible PNG image and not the underlying bag of tricks. OK... so looks good...got the desired effect color seperation and also how to make newsprint shading. So how about automaticly doing this

[Gimp-user] how to break down a photo into printing colors and newsprint shading

name for this kind of shading where a black and white image can appear as shading by dot saturations and not actually by having shades of grey? I'm real new at this so any information woul dbe greatly appreciated. Rob ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user

RE: [Gimp-user] Color Printing

. Rob Ogle, MCSE Computer Server Solutions, inc http://www.css1.cc -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John R. Culleton Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 8:07 AM To: Øyvind Kolås Cc: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Gimp-user

[Gimp-user] Color Printing

I'm trying to get a wedding chapel to move away from Photoshop and start using the Gimp. They are almost on board except for a printing issue. If we print a photo from Photoshop to an Epson Stylus 2200 the photo looks great. But when we print from the Gimp, the colors are wrong. I don't know

Re: [Gimp-user] removing backgrounds

mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Rob Russell http://rr.latenightpc.com/wp/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman

Re: [Gimp-user] Tiling a picture

an image into an arbitrary number of pieces, specifying at the same time the size of those pieces? Thanx a lot! Vassilis. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Rob

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Gimp-user Digest - Open Save dialog

input is not allowed. So maybe the new dialog isn't so bad after all ... but how are users supposed to know they can type in a path? -- Rob Russell http://rr.latenightpc.com/wp/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https

Re: [Gimp-user] arrow heads on lines

And you can import some SVG (which Inkscape produces) back in to the gimp as a path. Not sure if the arrowheads will make it, but it's worth a try. Harish Narayanan wrote: David Herring wrote: I would like to be able to draw lines with arrow heads on the end of them, and for this

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Gimp-user Digest, Open Save dialog

tinfo/gimp-user -- Rob Russell http://rr.latenightpc.com/wp/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] dividing a page of images into individual images

On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 18:36, Roland Roberts wrote: rob == rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rob I'm trying to catalog my photos I've got a negative scanner rob which scans them in 12 twelve at a time (epson 2450 photo) is rob there a script I can run it through to get 12

[Gimp-user] dividing a page of images into individual images

hi, I'm trying to catalog my photos I've got a negative scanner which scans them in 12 twelve at a time (epson 2450 photo) is there a script I can run it through to get 12 individual images? -- rob ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http