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

2011-08-23 Thread Rob Antonishen
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 A On

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

2011-08-09 Thread Rob Antonishen
You can access it using sed/grep or some such tool. Opening the xcf file in a text editor, even after an autocrop, the text information remains in the following format: (text test text) (font Sans) (font-size 18.00) (font-size-unit pixels) (hinting yes) (antialias yes) (language en-us)

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

2011-04-08 Thread Rob Antonishen
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

2011-03-30 Thread Rob Antonishen
Hi, ... My question is, how do I apply this selected region to the original image? That is, having filtered the original image so I have only the regions I would like to work with, and then having selected all of that region from the filtered image, how do I then apply that selection region

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

2011-03-21 Thread Rob Antonishen
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)

2011-03-04 Thread Rob Antonishen
hello I'd suggest a tool for photographic composition that has as options the rule of thirds or the golden ratio. So you can do photo composition on the fly and crop the image based on it. Both the rectangle selection tool and the group tool support these guides: Guides With this menu

Re: [Gimp-user] Stacking images

2011-02-16 Thread Rob Antonishen
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

Re: [Gimp-user] reverting to base state

2011-02-04 Thread Rob Antonishen
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

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

2011-01-28 Thread Rob Antonishen
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

2011-01-28 Thread Rob Antonishen
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Deleting multiple layers

2011-01-19 Thread Rob Antonishen
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?

2011-01-11 Thread Rob Antonishen
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Piotr for...@gimpusers.com wrote: What, please is «LZW»? Why do people always think other know exactly what their  3-letter-words mean? -- Piotr (via gimpusers.com) Lempel–Ziv–Welch Compression. Commonly refereed to as LZW. This is the common use term

Re: [Gimp-user] warp by points

2010-12-27 Thread Rob Antonishen
Have you looked at Hugin? I know it is used for similar things: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vertical_Aerial_Photographs http://www.mail-archive.com/hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com/msg11990.html and a more generic tutorial for hugin: http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/Mosaic-mode/en.shtml

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

2010-11-25 Thread Rob Antonishen
The DPI is just an indication... the only place where it really matters is in the New image dialog where instad of entering a dimension in pixels you can enter a size in inches/centimers and a DPI. Otherwise the only thing that really counts is the size in pixels. It does make a very big

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

2010-11-20 Thread Rob Antonishen
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

2010-10-28 Thread Rob Antonishen
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

2010-10-12 Thread Rob Antonishen
The dual monitor setup is also an issue for some tablets. If you map the area of both screens to the tablet area you will either have a different aspect ratio (bad for drawing) or only use a portion of the tablet. Some of the higher end tablets allow for screen toggling (i.e. toggle the screen

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

2010-10-03 Thread Rob Antonishen
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Gino D wrote: Hi Currently, what type of data should be used to enter a parasite as a parameter within those Script-fu procedures that handle such an object? By chance, can you give me any examples? AFAIK, only strings are supported and are passed in as a

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

2010-09-10 Thread Rob Antonishen
Generally: do all the gimp-*-parasite-attach methods suffer from same bug, so should be reapplied til they work? Yep. use the https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572865 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624555 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624567 (last 2 marked

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

2010-09-10 Thread Rob Antonishen
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?)

2010-09-10 Thread Rob Antonishen
Hi folks; Im a new user here so be gentle.  A little background: I work for a small engineering firm that designs racing transmission parts. Im comfortable using CAD and other engineering software, but this 20min project has taken up half my day. Not to chase away a gimp user, but with

[Gimp-user] 3D heightfield render plugin?

2010-08-16 Thread Rob Antonishen
A few gimp versions ago I thought there was a 3D rendered view of your image as a heightfield. This was a second 'view and it would update as you worked on the main image with the normal tools. The only think you could change was the camera position. Does anyone remember this? Is it still

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

2010-07-28 Thread Rob Antonishen
Step 24 is interesting. Water spray is seperated from a background colour, using a manipulation of channels. I can't seem to figure out how to the same thing in gimp. Any idea how I can do it? There may be an easier way, but what I will do is decompose the layer to a new image. Identify

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

2010-07-28 Thread Rob Antonishen
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-user] 3d view?

2010-07-05 Thread Rob Antonishen
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 A

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

2010-06-15 Thread Rob Antonishen
Hi List, I thought I might tie off this thread by indicating that I now have a working script.  It appears the definition for script-fu-round-corners in script-fu console is in error in that the run-mode variable indicated is not reflected in the definition of the script.  I removed the

Re: [Gimp-user] Selecting area within area

2010-06-13 Thread Rob Antonishen
Use boolean operations. Make your first selection with (for example) the rectangle selection. Then in the magic wand select options check out the four top icons and pick the one with the intersect tooltip. My computer isn't handy to check, sorry. Also when using the magic wand select click and

Re: [Gimp-user] Changing a dark colour

2010-06-08 Thread Rob Antonishen
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

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

2010-06-02 Thread Rob Antonishen
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

Re: [Gimp-user] A bunch of questions

2010-05-22 Thread Rob Antonishen
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

Re: [Gimp-user] removing layer area

2010-05-10 Thread Rob Antonishen
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

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

2010-04-04 Thread Rob Antonishen
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

2010-03-30 Thread Rob Antonishen
Currently the blocks of steps that can be performed are all contained in the pdb. There are two different ways to get the same result (a set of actions that can be repeated in a single call) 1) tap into the history buffer somehow to record then playback history from a different point in history.

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

2010-03-28 Thread Rob Antonishen
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