Re: [Gimp-user] How do I merge pictures?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 May 2004 04:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I don't know what to ask for in the help file so bear with me please. I'm new. I have 6 files in which I have cut out an image. I would like to merge all 6 of these files into one file or picture. I might also like to add a background, but the background can wait. I don't have a clue how to get all 6 pictures into one. When I have the 6 files in one file, I will need to be able to move them around to get the final picture. Then I need to save this final picture. Could you direct me as to how to do this? I'm lost. I haven't updated to version 2 yet. ( I've been afraid to do this, is version 2 really stable? ) And these files are tiff if that matters, and I have windows 98. you can use the 2.x versions they are nice and stable and the 2.x series of gimp has a very advanced interface navigation! you should create a new image with the desired size (of the biggest image of your six images) next you would open all the images (because gimp can open serveral images at once) then use the marker tool select retangular regions an select one of your images and press CTRL+C. now go back to your primary image and press CTRL+V there. Create a new layer, select it and do it again for all the other images. new layer - select it - copy image in ... you may need transparency tough http://gimp.org/tutorials/Changing_Background_Color_1/ joachim Thanks Sandy - -- Keine Software-Patente in Europa Wir protestieren gegen Software-Patente in Europa. Die EU-Kommission und der Ministerrat bemühen sich im Verborgenen um unbegrenzte Patentierbarkeit von Software, wie von internationalen Großkonzernen und Patentanwälten gefordert. Sie ignorieren dabei die demokratische Entscheidung des Europa-Parlamentes vom 24. September 2003, welche die Unterstützung von mehr als 300.000 Bürgern, 2.000.000 Kleinen mittelständischen Firmen und Dutzenden von Ökonomen und Wissenschaftlern genießt. Darüber hinaus können Sie uns unterstützen, indem Sie den Aufruf zum Handeln II des FFII e.V. unterzeichnen. http://www.ffii.org/ffii-cgi/aktiv?f=euparll=de Vielen Dank, Joachim Schiele -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAnfPYyzk1c1T5Os4RAkq+AJ44S1kvHtDRSOe/uWt1uDUPayko6wCfQQwV t+rQuXvWM4VD7ZVAZb+HzFc= =x8J1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Gimp and web site design.
I found the comments below from a friend of mine on another list provaocative. She is not a Gimp user. I wonder how many of her cautions are universal and how many just dependent on the program used to create the graphics? -quote begins--- I visit lots of authors' sites and see many that are gorgeous. The thing that always tips me off as to whether they're professionally done or not is the graphics. I cannot stand jagged edges around images, banners, etc. Even the most inexperienced designer can clean that up and do it properly at low resolution, so, I guess it's not so much that it's a sign of being an amateur - to me anyway - that it's a sign of not caringlack of pride in the work. Even if a person simply cannot create clean edges (one of the most common mistakes is using tansparent on a layer - transparent doesn't work..you need to use the background colour as the background colour on the image around any curved lines. Also that delete background rarely gives a clean lift - that all needs to be erased one pixel at a time.) they can go with text only, or visit one of the 1000s of sites that offer free web tools, or avoid curved edges (in most cases jaggies are only an issue around curved edges). Round buttons only look nice if they're done properly. Square (with no transparency and no background) and text buttons work just as well and will give a more polished look. I'm not a web designer by any means, so maybe those on the group who are can offer more insight into this. ---end quote BTW I have permission to quote the above from the author. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and web site design.
John Culleton wrote: I found the comments below from a friend of mine on another list provaocative. She is not a Gimp user. I wonder how many of her cautions are universal and how many just dependent on the program used to create the graphics? -quote begins--- I visit lots of authors' sites and see many that are gorgeous. The thing that always tips me off as to whether they're professionally done or not is the graphics. I cannot stand jagged edges around images, banners, etc. Even the most inexperienced designer can clean that up and do it properly at low resolution, so, I guess it's not so much that it's a sign of being an amateur - to me anyway - that it's a sign of not caringlack of pride in the work. Well, if someone cannot stand jaggies at edges, this is a mere subjective impression. However, many people think like this, so it might be a good idea to create smooth edges if you don't want jaggies intentionally. Even if a person simply cannot create clean edges (one of the most common mistakes is using tansparent on a layer - transparent doesn't work..you need to use the background colour as the background colour on the image around any curved lines. Also that delete background rarely gives a clean lift - that all needs to be erased one pixel at a time.) they can go with text only, or visit one of the 1000s of sites that offer free web tools, or avoid curved edges (in most cases jaggies are only an issue around curved edges). Round buttons only look nice if they're done properly. Square (with no transparency and no background) and text buttons work just as well and will give a more polished look. The term transparency here is ambiguous - from the text, it seems like your friend talks about the kind of transparency used in e.g. GIF - either full or no transparency. When using a full alpha channel, things are different. I'm not a web designer by any means, so maybe those on the group who are can offer more insight into this. ---end quote BTW I have permission to quote the above from the author. All the cautions do not really depend on the program used to create the images - unless you decide to use a paint program only capable of 16 colors ;) I don't think any real image editing software can't do the things your firend describes. They do however strongly depend on the program used to view the graphics. When talking about the web, this means web browsers. HTH, Michael -- The GIMP http://www.gimp.org| IRC: irc://irc.gimp.org/gimp Sodipodi http://sodipodi.sf.net | IRC: irc://irc.gimp.org/sodipodi ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How do I merge pictures?
Hi, On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 11:03, Joachim Schiele wrote: you should create a new image with the desired size (of the biggest image of your six images) next you would open all the images (because gimp can open serveral images at once) then use the marker tool select retangular regions an select one of your images and press CTRL+C. now go back to your primary image and press CTRL+V there. Create a new layer, select it and do it again for all the other images. new layer - select it - copy image in ... or just drag-and-drop the layers of the images on to another image. ./Brix -- Henrik Brix Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Re: Gimp and web site design.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2004-05-09 at 0739.12 -1000): I found the comments below from a friend of mine on another list provaocative. She is not a Gimp user. I wonder how many of her cautions are universal and how many just dependent on the program used to create the graphics? [...] All apps I know can do it, of course people just have to know what is going on. Also, it would be a lot simpler if some web browsers did it right to begin with and transparency worked in them as it should. GSR ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and web site design.
Hi John, John Culleton wrote: I wonder how many of her cautions are universal and how many just dependent on the program used to create the graphics? Her comments on web graphics are, IMHO, universal, as opposed to limited to one program or another. Even if a person simply cannot create clean edges (one of the most common mistakes is using tansparent on a layer - transparent doesn't work..you need to use the background colour as the background colour on the image around any curved lines. Also that delete background rarely gives a clean lift - that all needs to be erased one pixel at a time.) they can go with text only, or visit one of the 1000s of sites that offer free web tools, or avoid curved edges (in most cases jaggies are only an issue around curved edges). This is a fair comment. Transparency (in GIF, and as supported by IE in indexed PNGs) is limited to one palette entry which is completely transparent, and the rest completely opaque. Usually, smooth rounded edges are obtained by antialiasing the curve, going in grades from opaque to transparent over a number of pixels. Since you can't antialias to transparent in gif, round edges usually look crap. However, if you have a background that isn't transparent, then you can antialias from white to green, say, just fine, and have some of that smoothness kept across an indexing operation. However, PNG supports indexing much more advanced than that - essentially, an indexed palette entry in png has an alpha component, so with indexed png you can antialias to transparent. However, this isn't supported in IE for Windows. You can also use 32 bit PNG which is funny supported on both IE and Mozilla, but is a much larger file size. Cheers, Dave. -- David Neary, Lyon, France E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Automated picture sender
One of my custommers want a box that when someone enter an email address take a picture of this person and send this picture to the email address entered with a different background. These backgrounds will be previously added in the box. This will be something like big box in airports... Someone can help me? Gilles Lévesque, RHCE MAG Datacom 373, Témiscouata Rivière-du-Loup, Québec G5R 2Y9 Tel : (418) 867-8656 Fax : (418) 867-3870 ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Re: Gimp and web site design.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2004-05-09 at 1806.45 +0200): However, PNG supports indexing much more advanced than that - essentially, an indexed palette entry in png has an alpha component, so with indexed png you can antialias to transparent. However, this isn't supported in IE for Windows. You can also use 32 bit PNG which is funny supported on both IE and Mozilla, but is a much larger file size. GIMP does not support indexed RGBA (palette items are four channels, so all can have some level of transparency, vs typical GIF's one colour is transp only) and dunno which tool does it. But there typical problem is that IE does not support 32 bit PNG as it should, that is, without tricks (some pretty complex). For simplest trick see: http://www.phoenity.com/newtedge/png_degradability/ GSR ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] How do I get version 2?
I am not having any luck downloading version 2.0.1, here is what I've tried: I went to www.gimp.org clicked on gimp for windows. clicked on downloads, was sent to ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.0/ there got a tree I didn't understand. Then I went back to www.gimp.org and clicked ftp.gimp.org and got a page with a set of folders that I don't understand So then I went back to www.gimp.org and clicked on mirrors. Got a whole list of sites, and tried 4 of them which hung up the browser (Explorer) had to use control/alt/delete to get out of it, so I then gave up. I know most of you will say not to use windows, but how do I do it with windows, as that is what I have? Thanks Sandy
re: [Gimp-user] How do I get version 2?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/stable.html http://gimp.org/windows/ try the download section for windows next time ;-) http://www.gashalot.com/files/gimp-win32/gtk+-2.2.4-20040124-setup.zip http://www.gashalot.com/files/gimp-win32/gimp-2.0.1-i586-setup-1.zip you should consider the gimp help files, too: http://www.gashalot.com/files/gimp-win32/gimp-help-2-0.2-setup.zip go and take some time (a few hours) and get together with the help files from above trough some tutorials. that is what i did first ;-) and never forget: gimp is as good as photoshop, at least for the purpose you'll need it i assume ;-) http://gimp.org/tutorials/ good luck - -- Keine Software-Patente in Europa Wir protestieren gegen Software-Patente in Europa. Die EU-Kommission und der Ministerrat bemühen sich im Verborgenen um unbegrenzte Patentierbarkeit von Software, wie von internationalen Großkonzernen und Patentanwälten gefordert. Sie ignorieren dabei die demokratische Entscheidung des Europa-Parlamentes vom 24. September 2003, welche die Unterstützung von mehr als 300.000 Bürgern, 2.000.000 Kleinen mittelständischen Firmen und Dutzenden von Ökonomen und Wissenschaftlern genießt. Darüber hinaus können Sie uns unterstützen, indem Sie den Aufruf zum Handeln II des FFII e.V. unterzeichnen. http://www.ffii.org/ffii-cgi/aktiv?f=euparll=de Vielen Dank, Joachim Schiele -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAnow9yzk1c1T5Os4RAnHrAJ9RudE7qmq7hBDCZMa+Yse1EQWpuACfZRzj /DABoG+coy201oblyJe1lB8= =r+48 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
RE: [Gimp-user] Making an image with a white background transparent?
Hi Harish, That worked awesome! The transparency looks much better than what one of my coworkers pumped out in Macromedia Fireworks .. I have one problem though, alluded to in the tutorial you mentioned. There's a graphic in the logo I'm working on that was some white in it, which got removed by the Color To Alpha procedure. The tutorial mentions painting underneath the image to replace the white that should be part of the graphic, but doesn't go into how to do this? Thanks again for the advice, Mark -Original Message- From: Harish Narayanan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 4:07 PM To: dreadnought Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Making an image with a white background transparent? dreadnought wrote: Is there a resource geared for newbies on how to do this? Sure, here you go: http://gimp.org/tutorials/Changing_Background_Color_1/ (And you obviously wouldn't need to do step 5 on that tutorial.) Harish | http://wahgnube.org ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
RE: [Gimp-user] Making an image with a white background transparent?
Quick update .. I'm trying to use the bucket fill for the area I need to replace the white in. The bucket fill works perfect in the sense that it fills the correct area, but it fills it in red! Both my foreground and background colors are set to white. I don't understand where the red is coming from. I've tried this a bunch of times - no matter what my foreground and background colors are set to, when I click the bucket fill in the area, it gets filled in red. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dreadnought Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 12:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Gimp-user] Making an image with a white background transparent? Hi Harish, That worked awesome! The transparency looks much better than what one of my coworkers pumped out in Macromedia Fireworks .. I have one problem though, alluded to in the tutorial you mentioned. There's a graphic in the logo I'm working on that was some white in it, which got removed by the Color To Alpha procedure. The tutorial mentions painting underneath the image to replace the white that should be part of the graphic, but doesn't go into how to do this? Thanks again for the advice, Mark -Original Message- From: Harish Narayanan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 4:07 PM To: dreadnought Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Making an image with a white background transparent? dreadnought wrote: Is there a resource geared for newbies on how to do this? Sure, here you go: http://gimp.org/tutorials/Changing_Background_Color_1/ (And you obviously wouldn't need to do step 5 on that tutorial.) Harish | http://wahgnube.org ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Making an image with a white background transparent?
On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 12:57:59PM -0700, dreadnought wrote: The tutorial mentions painting underneath the image to replace the white that should be part of the graphic, but doesn't go into how to do this? You can either select the region you don't want included, invert it, and then apply colour to alpha (thus excluding the white parts of the graphic), or you can create a new layer under the layer with your graphic and paint white into that. Marco ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
RE: [Gimp-user] Making an image with a white background transparent?
Hi Marco, Selecting, inverting, then Color To Alpha worked perfectly .. Thanks for your help. I didn't realize how powerful the Gimp was! Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marco Wessel Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 1:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Making an image with a white background transparent? On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 12:57:59PM -0700, dreadnought wrote: The tutorial mentions painting underneath the image to replace the white that should be part of the graphic, but doesn't go into how to do this? You can either select the region you don't want included, invert it, and then apply colour to alpha (thus excluding the white parts of the graphic), or you can create a new layer under the layer with your graphic and paint white into that. Marco ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
