[Gimp-user] transparent backgrounds?

2009-07-23 Thread Nels H.
I would like to fill an image with faces copied from other photos. I am stumped with how to make the background of the copied faces transparent, so I don't have a bunch of little squares and ellipses. I am sure Gimp is capable of selecting the backgrounds of my thumbnails and rendering them

Re: [Gimp-user] transparent backgrounds?

2009-07-23 Thread bgw
On 07/23/2009 10:33 AM, Nels H. wrote: I would like to fill an image with faces copied from other photos. I am stumped with how to make the background of the copied faces transparent, so I don't have a bunch of little squares and ellipses. I am sure Gimp is capable of selecting the backgrounds

Re: [Gimp-user] transparent backgrounds?

2009-07-23 Thread Owen
I would like to fill an image with faces copied from other photos. I am stumped with how to make the background of the copied faces transparent, so I don't have a bunch of little squares and ellipses. I am sure Gimp is capable of selecting the backgrounds of my thumbnails and rendering

[Gimp-user] changing red area to silver

2009-07-23 Thread Florin Andrei
(I'm a newbie.) I'm trying to modify this image: http://imgur.com/5kHey It's a 2009 Kawasaki ZX-10R. The orange-red areas need to become silver, approximately the color of aluminum. Look at the exhaust pipe - that's pretty close to what I envision. I tried converting it to back/white, but

Re: [Gimp-user] changing red area to silver

2009-07-23 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
On Thursday 23 July 2009, Florin Andrei wrote: (I'm a newbie.) I'm trying to modify this image: http://imgur.com/5kHey It's a 2009 Kawasaki ZX-10R. The orange-red areas need to become silver, approximately the color of aluminum. Look at the exhaust pipe - that's pretty close to what I

Re: [Gimp-user] GEGL crashes Gimp 2.6.6 on XP

2009-07-23 Thread Martin Nordholts
With some help from Jernej I have now been able too look into this problem. It would be of great help if people with crashes when doing: 1. Start GIMP 2. Create new default image 3. Tools - GEGL Operation... could try to move C:\Program Files (x86)\GIMP-2.0\lib\gegl-0.0\load-buffer.dll

[Gimp-user] Printing issue

2009-07-23 Thread Erik Lotspeich
Hi, I have OpenSUSE 11.1 and Gimp 2.6.2. I am having a serious problem with printing that I cannot figure out. For background, I've used Gimp since 1997 and I'm no novice to Gimp, Linux, or Unix. That being said, I found the printing in Gimp 2.2 to be near perfect. It worked perfectly and had