[Gimp-user] Adobe Illustrator output.

2007-05-03 Thread John R. Culleton
Gimp (and other programs) can use Adobe Illustrator output with one small change. Just rename the file from foo.ai to foo.pdf. It is actually pdf 1.4 in format. I have used this trick on two different projects. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at

[Gimp-user] Covering up

2007-05-03 Thread David Holland
I am a novice gimp user. I want to change some photos so a swimming costume is more decent. Is there any information anywhere on how to do this ? First

Re: [Gimp-user] Covering up

2007-05-03 Thread John Meyer
David Holland wrote: I am a novice gimp user. I want to change some photos so a swimming costume is more decent. Is there any information anywhere on how to do this ? You're going to provide a little bit more information. I'll lay off the loaded words and ask: How much more of the person

[Gimp-user] going digital

2007-05-03 Thread Andrew
Hello, I'm thinking of moving into the 21st century and getting a bottom-end digital reflex, preferably Pentax for the sake of nostalgia. Can anyone advise me from a technical point of view as to what I need in order to be able to get pictures into GIMP for editing? I use Slackware 11. TIA,

Re: [Gimp-user] going digital

2007-05-03 Thread Kristian Rink
Andrew; [Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] @ Thu, 03 May 2007 15:54:17 +0200] I'm thinking of moving into the 21st century and getting a bottom-end digital reflex, preferably Pentax for the sake of nostalgia. Can anyone advise me from a technical point of view as to what I need in order to be able

Re: [Gimp-user] going digital

2007-05-03 Thread Fabrizio Lippolis
Andrew ha scritto: I'm thinking of moving into the 21st century and getting a bottom-end digital reflex, preferably Pentax for the sake of nostalgia. Can anyone advise me from a technical point of view as to what I need in order to be able to get pictures into GIMP for editing? I use

Re: [Gimp-user] going digital

2007-05-03 Thread Alexander Rabtchevich
You will need several things at least. 1. A program to copy your images from the camera into PC, especially if the device is not seen as USB drive. Maybe gphoto will be of help. http://gphoto.org/ 2. I would recommend you shooting in RAW. In order to import your photos directly in GIMP or

Re: [Gimp-user] Covering up

2007-05-03 Thread David Holland
The bikini was slightly damaged so instead of all the breasts being covered it shows about 70%. However the person in question wants to a) keep the picture and b) show it to other people. John Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Holland wrote: I am a novice gimp user. I want to change

Re: [Gimp-user] RAW format from digital camera.

2007-05-03 Thread Robin Laing
david wrote: On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 20:03 -0400, John R. Culleton wrote: My digital camera will take pictures and store them in jpg mode but also in RAW mode. RAW mode takes up more room. I hve a couple of questions. 1. Will Gimp handle this RAW mode? If so what suffix should I use on the

Re: [Gimp-user] Covering up

2007-05-03 Thread Chris Mohler
On 5/3/07, David Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bikini was slightly damaged so instead of all the breasts being covered it shows about 70%. However the person in question wants to a) keep the picture and b) show it to other people. Well, if there's a sizeable portion of the bikini