Re: [Gimp-user] How to create jpeg files compatible with a sony

2005-12-04 Thread William Skaggs
The jpeg files that GIMP creates are perfectly valid. I think the basic problem is that you are trying to use a camera as a storage device, which is not its intended purpose. There are some cameras that, when you take a picture, create a digital watermark that the camera can use to tell if the

[Gimp-user] Re: when even free advertising fails

2005-05-05 Thread William Skaggs
David Marrs wrote: As for layer effects, well perhaps you should ask the users what it is they get out of them. Who knows? You might learn something. I think most of the developers already understand the value of layer effects quite well. Let me try to summarize the current situation. There

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp contextual F1 help Crimson Editor in Windows

2005-02-18 Thread William Skaggs
Sven wrote: I can't remember if html files has been associated to crimson. May be, but now aren't associated. I haved tried tipical solution: unistall crimson, gimp, look for crimson association in the windows register. This is not at all about filetype association. GIMP help calls the

Re: [Gimp-user] Ghost Layer

2005-02-13 Thread William Skaggs
Cristian David wrote: I downloaded the Picture Eastern Hemisphere 2048 by 2048 pixels (7.1 MB TIFF) from http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/ . After this I tried to put another layer over the black part. But what ever I tried, the black part of the picture covers it.

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: missing pixels

2005-02-09 Thread William Skaggs
For people who would be interesting in learning a bit more about this topic, it might be worth taking a look at the related help docs, http://docs.gimp.org/en/ch02s04s04.html and http://docs.gimp.org/en/ch04s03s05.html Best, -- Bill __ __ __

Re: [Gimp-user] Best performance on 4000x2200 pixel images.

2005-01-28 Thread William Skaggs
Dana Silbera wrote: In any case, the specific problem I'm getting is while colour balancing of the final image, and each shift of the slider requires a bit over 20 seconds to complete the colour change over the image, which seems slower than it should be. It's just a little difficult to

Re: [Gimp-user] selection coordination

2004-12-23 Thread William Skaggs
Gert Cuykens wrote: is there somewhere a tool where you can type something like select from 101*102 to 356*456 Well, you can open a script-fu console and use the gimp-rect-select command (ugh). But no, there is no reasonable way to do it right now. Over the past few days I've coded up a

Re: [Gimp-user] CMYK and Postscript output.

2004-11-24 Thread William Skaggs
Sven wrote: I don't know who's feeding you your information but that person is highly misinformed since there are no vector layers. If you want postscript or even pdf files using vectors instead of bitmaps, you are looking at the wrong application. GIMP is an image manipulation program for

[Gimp-user] Re: GIMP fails to load JPEG

2004-11-21 Thread William Skaggs
I have been using GIMP for several years and just encountered a problem that I had never seen before. I just bought a Canon Digital Rebel (300D) and GIMP 2.0.0 is unable to open the JPEG files that it produces. Most likely you are using a Linux distro (such as SuSE 9.1) that has a buggy

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp Features Suggestion

2004-10-01 Thread William Skaggs
MLF wrote: In future versions of GIMP, I'd love to see a filter or series of filters, that would help the user (especially the beginner) to turn digital photos into 'hand-drawn' images. I realize that with some talent and experience, a good GIMP user can already do this, but I am just

[Gimp-user] Making a Tile

2004-10-01 Thread William Skaggs
Nick W wrote: Right, thanks. I've worked out how to offset (only need the x offset) but the clone tool has a cirle with a line through it? - looks like it wont work for some reason? If the clone tool cursor looks like that, it means you haven't set the source to clone from: it can't copy

Re: [Gimp-user] Adding text layers with Gimp 2.0

2004-09-27 Thread William Skaggs
JCA wrote: . . . Most of the times, when I type some text in the text window, I get nothing on the background, and not text layer is added. . . . This doesn't match any widely reported bug I know about. Of course if you type black text on a black background, you won't see the text, but

Re: [Gimp-user] keybinding for File-Open Location

2004-09-21 Thread William Skaggs
For what it's worth, Mozilla actually uses *Shift*-Ctrl-L for Open Location, by default. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu

[Gimp-user] Photoshop Brushes

2004-09-21 Thread William Skaggs
Calvin Spealman wrote: If any of you have or know of any documentation, perferably on the more recent versions of the format, it would be very much appriciated. You can still find the PhotoShop 6.0 SDK -- the last one that was publically distributed -- at

[Gimp-user] gimp in one window

2004-09-19 Thread William Skaggs
Yemu wrote: my question is: is it possible to have gimp in one window? like in other graphic programs - not to mention photoshop or photo-paint. i found something like regimp but this software is old now. You might take a look at http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=3892 which is a plug-in

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp in one window

2004-09-19 Thread William Skaggs
Matt wrote: which is a plug-in called Windows Gimp Deweirdifyer. It is rather deprecated by the GIMP developers because of the obnoxious name ... How about calling it the Windows Gimp Unifier (if the Deweirdifyer name is offensive and hinders its success.) No offense :-) I see that I may

Re: [Gimp-user] Tool Option Dialog detached from main dialog

2004-09-14 Thread William Skaggs
I would like to re-integrate the Tool Option dialog but I didn't succeeded. How can I do this ? See chapter 3.4 in the user manual (http://docs.gimp.org/en/). Actually chapter 2.3.4. We really need to come up with a better way of linking to things in the Help docs :-). Best, --

Re: [Gimp-user] dpi from 75 - 300 ??

2004-09-13 Thread William Skaggs
Geoffrey wrote: So here's a question which will demonstrate my ignorance. I've got some digital photos I took that, when opened with GIMP are identified as being 75dpi x72dpi. I need images that are 300 dpi, so is it possible to convert the 75dpi image to 300 dpi?? I selected to scale the

Re: [Gimp-user] binary: 55392K

2004-09-06 Thread William Skaggs
Sven Neumann wrote: Aewyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But: running gimp, I got messages: gimp-2.1:375: warning: can't find numbered character 160 uncountable. I have never ever seen this message with any application. No idea what could be causing this. It's a font problem, somewhere a font

Re: [Gimp-user] Histogram in only a selected region?

2004-09-03 Thread William Skaggs
Adam Stein writes: Many tools operate only on the selected region. It seems Histogram is one that doesn't and that it always operates on the entire image. Is there an easy way to have it operate only on a selected region? I don't think so. It shouldn't be very hard to implement, though,

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and image properties

2004-08-23 Thread William Skaggs
Item: The EXIF Browser plug-in is not distributed with GIMP. (It may be included in some packages, though.) It can be downloaded from the GIMP Plugin Registry, at http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=4153 Item: A digital camera image does not really have a true resolution. Assigning one of

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and image properties

2004-08-23 Thread William Skaggs
An update: Thanks to Michael Schumacher I have been able to add a Windows binary for the EXIF browser plug-in to the Registry: exif-browser-bin.zip from http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=4153 To install, just unzip it and place the unzipped version in the plugins subdirectory of your personal

Re: [Gimp-user] Line thisckness is eps files

2004-08-20 Thread William Skaggs
Niels van Bakel wrote: How do you increase the line thickness of an object in an eps file? I use the select tool to get the object I want to edit. I can use grow and than fill the enlarged object. Is there a better way to do this? The eps format is not really suitable for this sort of thing:

Re: [Gimp-user] getting rid of dust after scanning

2004-08-17 Thread William Skaggs
Adrian wrote: I am scanning in some photos at a very large size. 23x35 inches, 300 dpi. The final output will be a poster of that size. In spite of my best attempts there is always some dust someplace. I'm wondering if there is an easy way to cover this without having to touch up each

Re: [Gimp-user] Slow [Unsharp Mask] with particular settings

2004-08-15 Thread William Skaggs
Steve Crane wrote: I am adapting a workflow from a Photoshop action and there is one step that does haze removal with USM using radius 60, amount 0.30 and threshold 1, that is extremely slow. I just timed it on a 94.4MB 4048x3040 photograph and it took 3 minutes, 50 seconds. That sounds

Re: [Gimp-user] dreamy look

2004-08-11 Thread William Skaggs
Milos Prudek wrote: I am guessing only but I'd say the tutorial forgets to mention that the upper layer (the blurry one) needs to be set to Screen mode. I can get a result that comes very close by following the tutorial and changing the layer mode to Screen. What can I say? That's exactly

Re: [Gimp-user] EXIF-data not saved

2004-08-05 Thread William Skaggs
Oskar Eyb wrote: Hello, the checkbox Save EXIF data is activated, but after saving the file doesn't contain EXIF data any longer. GIMP 2.0.3 Win32 Yes, you are right that it does not work: this is one of the main reasons why Gimp 2.0.4 is going to be released very soon -- in the next few

Re: [Gimp-user] Invisible selection marching ant

2004-07-25 Thread William Skaggs
Napoleon Ahiable writes: I was trying to make a selection with a grey background colour setting of R=127, G=127, and B=127. Trouble is i can not see the outline of the shape whilst drawing an outline. It only appears after i release the left mouse button [ . . . ] What can be done about

[Gimp-user] Re: Cannot open jpeg from camera

2004-06-15 Thread William Skaggs
Matthew Marshall wrote: When I try to open jpeg images from my olympus stylus 400, a box pops up saying: Opening image file failed: Plug-In could not open image You didn't give enough information about your system for me to be sure, but I bet you are seeing the bug described by the

[Gimp-user] Re: how to change colors

2004-06-13 Thread William Skaggs
Rick Pasotto wrote: I have a fairly simple gif image that has various shades of brown. I'd like to have the same image but with various shades of grey instead. What would be the easiest way of doing this? Is there an algorithmic way of converting the brown range to a grey range? Given

[Gimp-user] Re: Looking for PhotoShop-tutorial -- making flames in GIMP?

2004-06-03 Thread William Skaggs
Baard Ove Kopperud wrote: A while back there was a question on this list wheter or not it would be breaking any copyright to translate a PhotoShop-tutorial about making a flame-effect to implement it under GIMP. Unfortunately, I just re-installed my system, so I'm not sure where the mails

[Gimp-user] Re: Color - transparency

2004-06-02 Thread William Skaggs
Egon Brinken wrote: How can I subtract one specific color from the picture layer, e.g. let the uniform colored background be replaced by transparency? The Color to Alpha filter does exactly what you want -- access it using the menu path Filters - Colors - Color to Alpha. Best, -- Bill

Re: [Gimp-user] gradient-blur

2004-05-14 Thread William Skaggs
Nem W Schlecht wrote: Any update on this, Bill? Thanks for the reminder. Okay, I have uploaded the code to the Gimp Plug-In Registry, at: http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=4169 You should have a working gimptool-2.0 in order to install it. Best, -- Bill __ __

[Gimp-user] Re: dynamic text glow, what happened to them?

2004-04-28 Thread William Skaggs
Dynamic text is no longer needed, because the things it did are now done by the regular text tool (and done a lot better, too!). I don't know about the glow filter, but there are indeed some filters that have not yet been ported from Gimp 1.2 to Gimp 2.0. Best, -- Bill __

Re: [Gimp-user] can't install GTK+ on Debian 3.0 r1

2004-04-22 Thread William Skaggs
Well, the right place to ask is [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- but a wild guess is that it might help to run ldconfig, if you haven't done so. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu

Re: [Gimp-user] gradient-blur

2004-03-24 Thread William Skaggs
For what it's worth, I went ahead and implemented a true variable blur filter, by modifying the blur plug-in code from 2.0. I'll put the code in the plug-in registry after a little bug-fixing, but anyway, I put together a comparison of what you get with variable blurring versus what you get with

Re: [Gimp-user] gradient-blur

2004-03-22 Thread William Skaggs
On 20 Mar 2004, Sven Neumann wrote: Combining a blurred picture with an unblurred picture using layer mask seems to work well for me. Of course it's not the same but it should look reasonably similar. On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Jakub Steiner wrote: Just create an appropriate selection for the blur

Re: [Gimp-user] gradient-blur

2004-03-20 Thread William Skaggs
Actually the reality is that Gimp, with the standard plug-ins, does not have the ability to do this, although there are ways to fake something that looks sort of like it. The easiest way to get it would be to modify the blur filter (found in randomize.c in the plug-ins directory) so that the