Re: [Gimp-user] unsharp mask and jpg with quality setting change
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 09:11:25PM -0700, Barton Bosch wrote: Yup, just trying to make the document a little lighter weight. The basic purpse of the doc is as a series of reference charts and tables that will be hyperlinked -- eliminating the need to repeatedly refer to the paper book that the scans were taken from. Nothing especially exciting, but I am learning about different practices for high quality image manipulation in The GIMP. you might consider using indexed png's for this. jpgs are definately best for photographs but indexed pngs are very light weight and do not look that bad. to index an image Image --Mode --Indexed. this reduces the colors from billions of colors to 256 colors and is a very good way to handle many simpler images. carol ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] PS's Elliptical Selection
Hi All Just wanted to present a not-so-good result of Photoshop's equivalent (Select/Modify/Contract) of the Gimp's Selection/Shrink. Here is the scenarioa: When I use the elliptical selection marquee in Gimp to draw a full circle, use blend tool to fill the circle with a black-to-white diagonally-drawn linear gradient, shrink the selection using Select/Shrink by some pixels (say 8 or 10), fill the circle with a white-to-black diagonally-drawn gradient (to create a psuedo-button like appearance), it comes out neat in Gimp. The same operation using Photoshop 7 and CS8 using Select/Modify/Contract and PS's elliptical selection tool does not yield the desired effect (that Gimp does perfectly well) and results in corners ( or pointed bumps - I'm not so good at English!) on the filled circular selection's circumference. Try it yourself and you'll see. I do not want to start a PS-VS-Gimp debate - just wanted to give you people a reference to let other people compare Gimp's strengths. Best regards Asif ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Text effects in GIMP 2.0
Hi, David McClamrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In GIMP 1.2 (or even 1.0, with which I started), it was easy to produce a beveled text effect: just insert text, leave it selected, and apply a starburst (spherical), foreground-to-background gradient. Only the text itself was selected, not the box around it. GIMP 1.2 used to create text as a floating selection. A lot of users found this very inconvenient since they prefer text to reside on a dedicated layer. The GIMP 2.0 text tool creates a text layer. This has the advantage that the text stays editable (unless you apply an effect to it) and that you don't need to deal with floating selections which are considered annoying to work with. In GIMP 2.0 (on Mandrakelinux 10.0, from RPM package gimp2_0-2.0.0-2mdk), I'm not finding it obvious how to do the same thing. The selection includes not only the text itself but the surrounding box, and the gradient likewise covers the entire box, which I don't want. You can call Alpha to Selection to create a selection from the text. Are there some settings I can change to make GIMP 2.0 (otherwise a definite improvement over 1.2) work more like GIMP 1.2 in these respects? No, you can't. We could consider to add an option to have the text tool create a floating selection but I am not yet convinced that this would be useful enough to warrant the coding effort and the extra check button in the text tool options. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Re: building gimp-2.0.5 on Solaris 8
Hi - I'm trying to build gimp-2.0.5 on Solaris 8 with gtk+-2.4.10 and I'm encountering problem with the gfig plugin not compiling. The compile error is enclosed. Also, I noticed gfig-stock.c is including #include images/gfig-stock-pixbufs.h which is an empty file. Any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Ken make[4]: Entering directory `/domus1/gimp/src/gimp-2.0.5/plug-ins/gfig' source='gfig-stock.c' object='gfig-stock.o' libtool=no \ depfile='.deps/gfig-stock.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/gfig-stock.TPo' \ depmode=gcc /bin/bash ../../depcomp \ /usr/devtools/bin/gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../.. -DXTHREADS -I/usr/gnome/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/gnome/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/gnome/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/gnome/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/gnome/include -I/usr/gnome/include/freetype2 -I/usr/gnome/include/ glib-2.0 -I/usr/gnome/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/gimp/include -I/usr/gnome/include -I/usr/gimp/include -DGDK_MULTIHEAD_SAFE -DGTK_ MULTIHEAD_SAFE -g -O2 -Wall -c `test -f 'gfig-stock.c' || echo './'`gfig-stock.c gfig-stock.c: In function `gfig_stock_init': gfig-stock.c:93: `stock_bezier' undeclared (first use in this function) gfig-stock.c:93: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once gfig-stock.c:93: for each function it appears in.) gfig-stock.c:94: `stock_circle' undeclared (first use in this function) gfig-stock.c:95: `stock_copy_object' undeclared (first use in this function) gfig-stock.c:96: `stock_curve' undeclared (first use in this function) gfig-stock.c:97: `stock_delete_object' undeclared (first use in this function) gfig-stock.c:98: `stock_ellipse' undeclared (first use in this function) gfig-stock.c:99: `stock_line' undeclared (first use in this function) gfig-stock.c:100: `stock_move_object' undeclared (first use in this function) gfig-stock.c:101: `stock_move_point' undeclared (first use in this function) gfig-stock.c:102: `stock_polygon' undeclared (first use in this function) gfig-stock.c:103: `stock_spiral' undeclared (first use in this function) gfig-stock.c:104: `stock_star' undeclared (first use in this function) gfig-stock.c:106: `stock_logo' undeclared (first use in this function) make[4]: *** [gfig-stock.o] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/domus1/gimp/src/gimp-2.0.5/plug-ins/gfig' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/domus1/gimp/src/gimp-2.0.5/plug-ins/gfig' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/domus1/gimp/src/gimp-2.0.5/plug-ins' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/domus1/gimp/src/gimp-2.0.5' make: *** [all] Error 2 -- It is a capital mistake, Sherlock Holmes told Watson, to theorize before one has data. One begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. -- It is a capital mistake, Sherlock Holmes told Watson, to theorize before one has data. One begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
