[Gimp-user] Printing issue
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 a feature to auto-fit the image to the correct paper size. Image rotation (landscape/portrait) was never an issue. I find the printing interface in Gimp 2.6.2 to be a complete failure in terms of both interface and functionality. Here are links to some screenshots: https://joomla.lotspeich.org/~erik/gimp-print-fail.png https://joomla.lotspeich.org/~erik/gimp-image-properties.png I would like to know why the width and height do not correspond to any reasonable value. I set my paper size to 4x6 borderless on an HP OfficeJet 6110. Printing on this printer works perfectly in other programs; I'm using hplip and CUPS. Why is there no auto-resize like there is in Gimp 2.2? Why is the X and Y resolution pegged to 1133.948? Why won't it let me set this value? The preview does not correspond in any way to my paper size (see the huge border on the bottom!). I'm sorry to sound upset by this issue, but I'm completely shocked that a wonderful program like Gimp would have such a complete regression. I'm using the distro version of Gimp (OpenSUSE); I haven't tried to compile the latest version from source. I also tried Gimp for Windows on my wife's Windows Vista computer. Printing here is just as much of a failure. On Windows, it's actually worse since the page setup options that Gimp provides conflict with the printer driver's settings (e.g. paper size, rotation, etc.). I tried all permutations of portrait/landscape and could never find a way to print correctly. Any help or assistance would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Erik ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] changing red area to silver
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 envision. > > I tried converting it to back/white, but the red area is still too dark. > I then tried to play with brightness and contrast, but it looks ugly. > > Is there a way to select the red parts just based on the fact that they > are red? Then somehow get rid of chroma and brighten up just the > selected parts? (while preserving shadows, etc.) > > The goal here is to imagine how the bike will look like once it's > painted silver over the red parts. > > I'm not trying to get anyone do it for me, I'm trying to learn how to do > it myself. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. * use teh select by color tool (just beside the "magic wand" and pick "hue" as the key on the tool options dialog. * play with select/deselect changing the fuzzyness factor unitll you are colose to the orange/red parts boundaries * then do select -> grow selection -> and put soemthing like 5% of image width * select -> feather selection -> the same 5% of image width now, turn of the visualisation of the selection, while keeping it active : * togle 'view-> Selection boundary * 'colors->hue & saturation, drop saturation to -100 * colors -> curves: create a "s" shapped curve until you get the desired looks. then ok. js -><- ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] changing red area to silver
(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 the red area is still too dark. I then tried to play with brightness and contrast, but it looks ugly. Is there a way to select the red parts just based on the fact that they are red? Then somehow get rid of chroma and brighten up just the selected parts? (while preserving shadows, etc.) The goal here is to imagine how the bike will look like once it's painted silver over the red parts. I'm not trying to get anyone do it for me, I'm trying to learn how to do it myself. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GEGL crashes Gimp 2.6.6 on XP
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 into a temporary dir, just so that GEGL does not pick up load-buffer.dll when starting. On my tests on Vista SP2, removing this GEGL operation from the operations GEGL loads gets rid of this particular crash, and I suspect this will get rid of this particular crash on XP systems as well. If anyone is able to confirm that removing/moving load-buffer.dll fixes the above crash, please let me know and report what version of Windows you are using. Thanks, Martin ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] transparent backgrounds?
> 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 > transparent. > > > Would somebody please help me understand how to ask it to do that? > I find the 'Foreground Select Tool' can be useful in cases where there is a complex background. a. roughly mark out the face b. let it do it work c. press enter d. apply the quickmask e. clean up the selection -- Owen ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] transparent backgrounds?
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 of my thumbnails and rendering them transparent. Would somebody please help me understand how to ask it to do that? First, be sure you have an alpha channel. Other than that, it depends on the backgrounds. If they are complex, the scissors select tool, while cumbersome, can be helpful. -- Burnie ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] transparent backgrounds?
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 transparent. Would somebody please help me understand how to ask it to do that? -- Nels H. (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
