[Gimp-user] Save dialog: can I get some sort of history?
Hello, I use the Gimp to take files from one directory (raw photos), process them, and save them into another directory (photos for sending/publishing/printing/etc). Each time I save a photo, I have to navigate to the saving directory manually... Is it possible to somehow have the Save dialog store this directory iin some form of history, so I could easily select it? -- Yours, Mikhail Ramendik ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Tricks and tutorials
On Friday 06 May 2005 13.27, Rene Jensen wrote: Hmm. Due to selective demand, I've begun to assemble a few articles, tutorials and tips on how to use the aforementioned brushes, patterns etc. but also on various other subjects. Some of these things are old - the manual is clearly better - and some is hurled together in a few minutes. Well, anyway.. Articles: http://www.artcamilla.dk/vaultage/articles/index.html Resources: http://www.artcamilla.dk/vaultage/cornucopia/ Sincerely Rene Jensen ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user VERY nice tutorials! Easy to read and easy to follow. Not to mention the great collection of brushes and patterns made for us... Thank you Rene! -- /Rikard Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something. -R. Stallman --- Rikard Johnels email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mob : +46 763 19 76 25 PGP : 0x461CEE56 --- ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Layer Style python plugin
I'm surprised nobody has hacked on that before. After all, it's allthere: Parasites that gets saved with the image/layer, a python modulethat can update the editor-view live, a complete scripting language withgtk bindings. I spend a handful of hours trying to make a proof-of-concept. See whatyou think.. http://www.artcamilla.dk/vaultage/cornucopia/gimp-plugins/layer-style.py 1) Make a test image with a background and a transparent layer with saya filled small rectangle. 2) Python-fu / Alchemy / Layer Style 3) Drag the slider 4) Close the dialog 5) Save the image and close it 6) Reopen the image 7) Select either the original gizmo layer or the auto-generated stylelayer 8) Invoke Python-fu / Alchemy / Layer Style again and play with theslider. There's a HUGE TODO list on that script, but the necessary basics areproven available although IT IS SLOW! But there are room foroptimization, especially with a little help from the real pros who knowswhat is fast and what is slow. WARNING: Cheap tricks such as this will become obsolete once GEGL isready, I can image.. :) Enjoy Centipede P.S.:All my letters to this list seem to bounce.
[Gimp-user] Trouble with layers now resolved!
Hello again. OK, looks like that little problem with the text layers is now solved. Actually, I should have done flatten image to start with, as Gezim Hoxha said. That fixed the problem of the invisible text. Now I know how to get the text showing up exactly as I want. Two or three more drafts, and I should have a finished postcard. I may have other barriers along the way, though. Thanks for all your help. John Grimmett ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Re: when even free advertising fails
Hi, David Marrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In trying that just now, I (genuinely) couldn't get the lassoo to work. This is an example of the sort of problem I come across every time I try a new tool, or come back to one that I haven't used in a while. Because I've been using GIMP for a little while now, I'm getting used to the idea of holding down modifier keys. So it didn't take me long to figure out that I needed to hold down shift to make the selection. With a bit more playing, I finally figured out what the default lassoo action actually does. Maybe there's a good reason for having the primary action intersect and the secondary action add. Whatever it is, it's not to aid learning. It was you who set it up that way. The default action of all selection tools is of course to replace the existing selection. The currently active mode is always shown in the tool-options. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] when even free advertising fails
Hi, Kalle Ounapuu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The bug-tracker serves it's purpose, but you can't expect everyone to be reading it over before making any comment about GIMP. Maybe there are GIMP users who would love everyone to drop Photoshop (or whatever) and use GIMP. If so, they will have to deal with more of this. Not everyone can spend the time to search something out, or in fact they don't care, they would rather voice it out right away. Sure, no problem. Go ahead. Seriously, any kind of criticism should be allowed on this list and will be welcomed if it tries to be productive. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Re: when even free advertising fails
Sven Neumann wrote: Now what do you suggest? What kind of indication would you have expected? A message in the status bar makes sense to me. Off the top of my head, a marching-ants outline of an irregular shape (so as not to confuse with quick mask) with a red X struck through it and a tool tip that says selection not visible on mouse rollover. Better still, clicking the box would make selections visible, although a status bar is possibly not the best place to toggle options. Alternatively, rather than use the status bar, have a toolbar in the canvas window that includes this along with some other common and useful options. See my other reply for an example. I suggested a toolbar once before on this list and it's something I keep coming back to in my own mind as a possible way of solving a number of the niggles I'm having. It would be optional so that experienced users can switch it off if they feel they don't need it, and it should be customisable so that they can make better use of it. By default, it would simultaneously provide commonly needed tasks and important visual feedback as to the state of the canvas, brush etc. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.5 - Release Date: 04/05/2005 ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie having trouble with layers, text and otherwise
Thank you, everyone, for the great amount of info I've gotten on this layer problem. First, some apologies: Please understand that I'm totally new to GIMP, and I'm not a designer. I'm starting at zero. I'm doing this postcard for my wife to try to keep from paying a professional. But of course if I can learn how to use GIMP, I'll do a lot more with it. I did consult the help documentation at gimp.org, but that documentation is obviously a work in progress, and is incomplete as far as I can tell. That's why I went looking for this fine mailing list. Sometimes it's better to just go directly to the people with experience than to wade through dubious help documents. Now, to the point: Olivier, Michael, and Gezim all suggested resize Canvas instead of resize layer. You were all right that I had used resize layer. OK, so I have tried using resize canvas. That added some space at the bottom. Here's what I'm seeing now: My central image has white space on three sides as a result of previous layer resizing. The layer containing the central image has a yellow and black dotted line around it--that's the layer boundary. On the bottom, the image touches the layer boundary, and below this layer boundary there is a checkerboard pattern. That checkerboard is the result of the canvas resize you recommended. I suspect that the image might be extending into new canvas space, but I can't see it. Is that checkerboard pattern a background coloring that I should change, or is it the default look of an empty canvas space? Is the bottom of the image hiding somewhere in that checkerboard? Where to go from here... John John Grimmett and Loreta Medina wrote: Hello, everyone. I'm brand new to GIMP for Mac, so first a hearty hello! For my first project with GIMP, I'm trying to make a postcard for an art exhibition. I started by opening the central image that I want on the card, then I adjusted the size of the layer containing the image to 6.75 X 4.75 inches, the approximate dimension of most postcards, with a little extra at bottom for some text info. Now, here's where I'm having trouble: I want to place a text layer on the image, but with only part of the text on the image. The rest of the text should be dangling off the image, with a line of text in the extra white space under the image. So, I typed the text I wanted into the text tool window. The part of the text that lies on the image is visible, but the part that dangles off into the white space below is invisible. I can't see it. This seems to be a problem with the way the two layers--the one with the image and the one with the text--are interacting. It seems that after I enter a text layer, I can no longer see the entire image layer, including the extra white space at bottom. Likewise, it seems that whatever I put into the text layer dangling off the image itself, I cannot see. Any guidance? Please... I have a deadline for this project. Thank you. Regards John Grimmett ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Re: when even free advertising fails
Hi, David Marrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As an example, I thought I'd try toggling a selection. Bunks mentions in Ch.3 that it's easy to forget that you've toggled a selection so I thought I'd see if this is still the case: I opened an image and used the lasoo to make a quick selection. Hmm, that's odd... no marching ants. Let's try again, making sure the start and end points overlap... nope, still isn't working. Oh well, scrap that and use the elipse select. Use control-T to toggle its visibility. Is there any indication that visibility is switched off? No, which is why Bunks has scratched (his) head many times trying to figure out why...the GIMP no longer seemed to be working. There is an indication that it is switched off, but only an experienced user would look into the View menu and check the state of the toggle menu items. So you are right, this is a problem, similar to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132204 Now what do you suggest? What kind of indication would you have expected? Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Re: when even free advertising fails
David Marrs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [Troubles getting lasso selection to work] [...] I finally figured out what the default lassoo action actually does. Maybe there's a good reason for having the primary action intersect and the secondary action add. Whatever it is, it's not to aid learning. I figured it out relatively quickly, but unless a newbie cottoned on to the idea, he would probably remain lost. Just to clarify what happened here: The tool options can get stored to disk, I am not sure if it is enabled by default, I'd guess so. At some point you left the GIMP with the lasso tool in intersect mode and Gimp faithfully restored it on the next startup... There are Reset and Save buttons at the bottom of the tool options. You can use these to restore the default behaviour (Intersect definitely is not the default). Hope this helps. Simon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://simon.budig.de/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
