[Gimp-user] Selection Help Please

2004-09-22 Thread Nick Wilson
Hi all, I was hoping someone might point me in the direction of a tutorial (or just tell me what tools to use) for the following: I need to take a snapshot of someone and then select them out. IE to ditch the sofa in the background etc and just have a nice shot of the subject with a transparent

Re: [Gimp-user] Selection Help Please

2004-09-22 Thread Nick Wilson
* and then Carol Spears declared I need to take a snapshot of someone and then select them out. IE to ditch the sofa in the background etc and just have a nice shot of the subject with a transparent bg suitable for use on a webpage. I know that isnt easily done, hence the email.

[Gimp-user] Re: Selection Help Please

2004-09-22 Thread olivier ripoll
Nick Wilson wrote: Hi all, I was hoping someone might point me in the direction of a tutorial (or just tell me what tools to use) for the following: I need to take a snapshot of someone and then select them out. IE to ditch the sofa in the background etc and just have a nice shot of the subject

[Gimp-user] A light/shadow effects ?

2004-09-22 Thread tram
Hello. First, I read the gimp user list since some weeks and i have learn lots of things with it ! So i have a question about an effect, that we can found in the famous photo of che guevara (an exemple : http://www.fischerhemden-schachtschneider.de/flaggen/che_guevara.gif ) This pics is

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Selection Help Please

2004-09-22 Thread Nick Wilson
* and then Nick Wilson declared Thanks ever so much, that's great. It doesnt look all that difficult if you have a little patience, i guess it also helps to select roughly around the subject on a varied background so you have less pixels to choose by color Well, im no expert yet but

[Gimp-user] Che guevara question

2004-09-22 Thread David Neary
Hi, I deleted the mail with eth Che Guevara question too hastily, so here's a reply as a new thread. The problem with doing a threshold on a photo is that you typically get lots of graininess around the threshold borders. If you do a small blur, say 2 or 3 pixels radius, it makes the threshold

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Selection Help Please

2004-09-22 Thread Nick Wilson
* and then Bob Long declared On Wednesday, September 22, 2004 6:59 PM [GMT+1=CET], Nick Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, im no expert yet but i reckon this aint a bad attempt ;-) http://www.stylesheet.org/sam.png She was on the grass, many different shades... any idea of the

[Gimp-user] Re: Photoshop Brushes

2004-09-22 Thread Calvin Spealman
William Skaggs wrote: You can still find the PhotoShop 6.0 SDK -- the last one that was publically distributed -- at http://www.fine-view.com/jp/lab/doc/ps6ffspecsv2.pdf I would be surprised if the brush file specs have changed all that much since then. Then be surprised, because I've

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Selection Help Please

2004-09-22 Thread matt-nc
She was on the grass, many different shades... any idea of the best way to replace the pixels i accidently took off of her chin? Zoom in to highest magnification, use the clone tool to select shades from the nearby facial area and reconstruct it by hand. Might not be the best way but you can do

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Recording?

2004-09-22 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Calvin Spealman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael Wagner wrote: Is it possible to record actions to use them later on different images? Something like Script-Fu only without programming? Windows 3.x had something like this that worked for any Win32 application. it was actually very

[Gimp-user] Wide controls in the toolbars

2004-09-22 Thread Alexander Rabtchevich
Are there any plans of fixing the bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124134 in 2.2? -- With respect Alexander Rabtchevich ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

[Gimp-user] Re: Wide controls in the toolbars

2004-09-22 Thread olivier ripoll
Alexander Rabtchevich wrote: Are there any plans of fixing the bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124134 in 2.2? Are you sure you have the right bug number? This bug has been closed as fixed nearly a year ago. Regards, Olivier. ___ Gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Wide controls in the toolbars

2004-09-22 Thread David Neary
Hi, Alexander Rabtchevich wrote: Are there any plans of fixing the bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124134 in 2.2? Given that the bug is marked as FIXED? I doubt it. It won't show up in any of the bugzilla queries which people generally sue to generate such lists. If you feel

Re: [Gimp-user] Wide controls in the toolbars

2004-09-22 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Alexander Rabtchevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are there any plans of fixing the bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124134 in 2.2? No. The bug is resolved and there's a comment explaining why. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list

Re: [Gimp-user] keybinding for File-Open Location [was: Gimp 2.1.4 filepicker]

2004-09-22 Thread Alan Horkan
Apologies for the late reply, I hope these comments are still relevant. The gimp already makes some alterations to the the File Chooser, how about altering it further to include a Location text entry box by default again and avoid the issue of the clashing Ctrl+L keybinding entirely? I believe

Re: [Gimp-user] keybinding for File-Open Location [was: Gimp 2.1.4 filepicker]

2004-09-22 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The gimp already makes some alterations to the the File Chooser, how about altering it further to include a Location text entry box by default again and avoid the issue of the clashing Ctrl+L keybinding entirely? No. I believe Inkscape has