Re: [Gimp-user] Crisper screen shots

2005-03-02 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, squareyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: am making up a newbies help file for Ubuntu, but am not completely happy with the crispness of the screen shots I have taken with gimp. Screenshots show exactly what's on screen. If that's not crispy enough, I suggest you tweak your text rendering and

RE: [Gimp-user] Crisper screen shots

2005-03-02 Thread Kalle Ounapuu
I can see that fuzzyness you're talking about, and it seems strange that a direct screenshot would result in that... so it may have to do with your export. I looked at one of your PNG screenshots... opening it in Photoshop I was presented with a prompt about Pixel Aspect Ratio. The PNG's you've

RE: [Gimp-user] Crisper screen shots

2005-03-02 Thread Jeffrey McBeth
Quoting Kalle Ounapuu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So maybe it's the compression you're choosing for the PNG? All your PNG's are RGB... so that has lossy compression. Are you putting it down a little bit? Err, there isn't any compression in PNG that is lossy. At all. PNG is lossless in all modes. So

Re: [Gimp-user] Circular arcs in paths

2005-03-02 Thread Andreas Waechter
Can anyone tell me if there is a straightforward way to make a circular path? You could use the Elliptical Select Tool (hold Shift down to get a perfect circle). Then convert your selection to a path (Rightclick on Image - Select - To Path) Andreas

[Gimp-user] Re: Crisper screen shots

2005-03-02 Thread GSR - FR
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2005-03-02 at 2013.39 +1030): I have taken with gimp. Is there any way of improving them very much. May be too critical, but as it's my first work would like it to look more professional than I really am. http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/squareyes/ubuntu.html Are you

Re: [Gimp-user] Circular arcs in paths

2005-03-02 Thread Eric Seppanen
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 07:19:03PM +0100, Andreas Waechter wrote: Can anyone tell me if there is a straightforward way to make a circular path? You could use the Elliptical Select Tool (hold Shift down to get a perfect circle). Then convert your selection to a path (Rightclick on Image -

Re: [Gimp-user] Cpu usage and speed - test results

2005-03-02 Thread Steve Bibayoff
Hello, On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 09:45:23 -0700, Robin Laing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sven Neumann wrote: But GIMP is Free Software with the source code open to everyone. So the GIMP's development team could be as large as it's user base. You are correct but many of the users wouldn't know C++

Re: [Gimp-user] Crisper screen shots

2005-03-02 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Kalle Ounapuu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So maybe it's the compression you're choosing for the PNG? All your PNG's are RGB... so that has lossy compression. Are you putting it down a little bit? PNG doesn't do lossy compression. Whatever compression factory you choose, it's lossless.

Re: [Gimp-user] Circular arcs in paths

2005-03-02 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Eric Seppanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can anyone tell me if there is a straightforward way to make a circular path? Or alternatively, how can I can come as close as possible to a circular arc with the bezier path tool? Positioning the handles by eye doesn't seem very accurate or

Re: [Gimp-user] Circular arcs in paths

2005-03-02 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Eric Seppanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, but at smaller sizes this results in a bad lumpy circle. Presumably elliptical-select is drawing a pixellated circle, and then selection-to-path is approximating that pixellated shape with the path. It's a known problem of the selection to

Re: [Gimp-user] Circular arcs in paths

2005-03-02 Thread Pierre-Alexis
Yes, but at smaller sizes this results in a bad lumpy circle. Presumably elliptical-select is drawing a pixellated circle, and then selection-to-path is approximating that pixellated shape with the path. Another solution (maybe easyer) could be : 1. Create a big circular selection 2.

Re: [Gimp-user] Circular arcs in paths

2005-03-02 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 14:39, Eric Seppanen wrote: Hello, Can anyone tell me if there is a straightforward way to make a circular path? Or alternatively, how can I can come as close as possible to a circular arc with the bezier path tool? Positioning the handles by eye doesn't seem