Re: [Gimp-user] batch script for record covers

2007-04-29 Thread Scott Bicknell
On Sunday, April 29, 2007 7:03 pm, David Hodson wrote: > > Have you considered adding this to the GIMP Plug-in repository? > > Yes, I have tried many times. I have created an account there, but > for some reason, I cannot log in, and it gives me no indication why > not. That's not good. I wonder

Re: [Gimp-user] batch script for record covers

2007-04-29 Thread Stephan Hegel
Hi Luigi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes, I'm running Linux but have **no** experience with ImageMagick. > I'll try and follow your hint. This web page might be useful for a quick start: http://hoernle1.de/m/imagick6/ Stephan. ___ Gimp-user mail

Re: [Gimp-user] batch script for record covers

2007-04-29 Thread David Hodson
Scott Bicknell wrote: > On Sunday, April 29, 2007 4:25 pm, David Hodson wrote: >>http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hodsond/dbp.html > Have you considered adding this to the GIMP Plug-in repository? Yes, I have tried many times. I have created an account there, but for some reason, I cannot log in,

Re: [Gimp-user] batch script for record covers

2007-04-29 Thread Scott Bicknell
On Sunday, April 29, 2007 4:25 pm, David Hodson wrote: > > I guess that such a job could most probably be performed over > > hundreds of images by running a single batch script at the command > > line. > > > > Am I wrong? > > Is Gimp the right tool at all, or other tools would better fit? >

Re: [Gimp-user] batch script for record covers

2007-04-29 Thread David Hodson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I guess that such a job could most probably be performed over hundreds > of images by running a single batch script at the command line. > > Am I wrong? > Is Gimp the right tool at all, or other tools would better fit? Yes, Gimp is a good tool for this, and no, you

Re: [Gimp-user] batch script for record covers

2007-04-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Gimp is not the best tool for this. > ImageMagick + bash/perl/etc. would be a better choice. > If you are already using a *nix system, > you probably already have it. Thank you Scott! Yes, I'm running Linux but have **no** experience with ImageMagick. I'll try and follow your hint. Luigi

[Gimp-user] Blood spatter.

2007-04-29 Thread John R. Culleton
For a detective fiction book front cover I want to create an irregular figure like a blood spatter. Is there a plugin I could use as a starting point? -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com

Re: [Gimp-user] batch script for record covers

2007-04-29 Thread Scott Bicknell
On Sunday, April 29, 2007 2:35 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm in the process of digitizing some hundreds record covers (either > from old vinyl and/or from cd) by rigging my camera and flash on a > tripod and shooting all the images one after the other. > The tough task, though, is prepare the

Re: [Gimp-user] swapping color

2007-04-29 Thread Owen
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:12:18 -0600 Bob Meetin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I inherited an image, a logo, in which I need to swap out one color, > solid region, for another. Seems simple. > > I open in gimp, select the region using, have tried both 'Select regions > by color' and 'Select conti

[Gimp-user] batch script for record covers

2007-04-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm in the process of digitizing some hundreds record covers (either from old vinyl and/or from cd) by rigging my camera and flash on a tripod and shooting all the images one after the other. The tough task, though, is prepare them for my site: 1 - opening each image 2 - crop it as a square (thus e

Re: [Gimp-user] swapping color

2007-04-29 Thread Scott Bicknell
On Sunday, April 29, 2007 9:42 am, Scott Bicknell wrote: > I created a test image 400x300 pixels and filled it with a gradient > from upper left to lower right (white to black). Then saved it as a > gif. It was 58.5 KB. After re-saving it as a grayscale png and > optimizing it using optipng, it wa

Re: [Gimp-user] swapping color

2007-04-29 Thread Scott Bicknell
On Sunday, April 29, 2007 8:48 am, Chris Mohler wrote: > Personally I'd use PNG, as GIF has almost outlived its usefulness. Chris has a point, especially when your gifs don't use transparency. If you save your png as an indexed, rather than rgb, color image, or grayscale, if that is appropriate

Re: [Gimp-user] swapping color

2007-04-29 Thread Chris Mohler
On 4/29/07, Bob Meetin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I inherited an image, a logo, in which I need to swap out one color, > solid region, for another. Seems simple. [...] > I don't really want to be using .jpg or .png images unless I have to. > So the question, what is causing the replacement to fa

[Gimp-user] swapping color

2007-04-29 Thread Bob Meetin
I inherited an image, a logo, in which I need to swap out one color, solid region, for another. Seems simple. I open in gimp, select the region using, have tried both 'Select regions by color' and 'Select contiguous regions', then apply any new color and I end up with a mix of the original an

Re: [Gimp-user] cartoon (card figure) from photo

2007-04-29 Thread Daniel Nogradi
> > I guess I know too little about the terminology here; how do I > > desaturate the image? > > http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-layer-desaturate.html > > > And what do you mean by color removal? The top > > layer should have transparent background, shouldn't it? > > http://docs.gimp.org/

Re: [Gimp-user] cartoon (card figure) from photo

2007-04-29 Thread saulgoode
Quoting Daniel Nogradi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I guess I know too little about the terminology here; how do I > desaturate the image? http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-layer-desaturate.html > And what do you mean by color removal? The top > layer should have transparent background, should