[Gimp-user] GIMP book ideas and authors invited.
Hi All I am writing to you for Packt Publishing, Publishers of computer related books. We are planning to extend our catalogue of books based on Open Source graphics softwares and currently inviting book ideas and authors interested in writing these books. The details about the opportunity can be read at : http://authors.packtpub.com/content/open-source-graphics-fanatics-write-packt If you fancy writing a GIMP based book, please write to us at aut...@packtpub.com with your book idea, some information about your experience with GIMP and any past writing experience you may have. You are invited to contact us even if you don't have a book idea and are simply interested in writing a GIMP book. Packt runs an Open Source Royalty Scheme so by writing for Packt you will inadvertently be giving back to the Open Source Community. Thanks Kshipra Singh Author Relationship Manager Packt Publishing www.PacktPub.com Skype: kshiprasingh15 Twitter: http://twitter.com/kshipras Interested in becoming an author? Visit http://authors.packtpub.com for all the information you need about writing for Packt. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] restoring faded transparencies
I was scanning a lot of colour transparencies, some taken up to 40 years ago, and found that in some cases the colours had deteriorated badly. After a lot of experimenting I have developed an automatic way of improving the digital scans using gimp. I have put a technical article, the gimp plug-in, and a collection of the good and bad results at www.lionhouse.plus.com/photosoftware/restore. I would be interested in hearing from anyone who has worked on this problem and if you try the plug-in let me know how it works for your pictures. I am in the fortunate position of having a professionally made print, some 20 years old, from a transparency (Kodachrome) some 40 years old, one of very many! My first attempt with my new slide scanner was on this same slide, and hence I am able to see the colour changes over those past years. I would like to try your restore.py plug-in, and have copied the restore.py file to the script directory. However, here I am stuck, as I have to admit that I don't understand your instructions in step 3! Could you be so kind as put step 3 in a more elementary form! Many thanks, Alanp -- Alanp (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Connecticut Film Festival Interactive
I am a volunteer with the Connecticut Film Festival, Interactive and New Media component. Our festival, in its 6th year, this being the 2nd year of the Interactive and New Media component, is looking for presenters for workshops and panels. The festival is May 4-9, with the Interactive component on May 7,8,9, Friday to Sunday, in Danbury CT, located about 60 miles from New York City. Our theme this year is Connections Multiplied. We have a strong focus on free and open source software for creative professionals. I think GIMP would be an excellent fit because of its use in film, illustration, and design. We already have presenters lined up for Blender and Celtx, and representatives from the FSF and EFF. We want this festival to be a way for developers and users of these tools to connect with each other, as well as educate the larger public about their existence, usefulness, and importance. If anyone with extensive user, development, and/or training/presentation experience with GIMP is interested in being a presenter please contact me at joea...@gmail.com to discuss further. We can provide hotel accommodations, and have limited funds to reimburse travel, so we would prefer someone based in the north east USA if you need travel reimbursement. I would also like to extend an invitation to our conference to all the members of this list. Please feel free to pass on this message to anyone whom might be interested. Our web site is http://ctfilmfest.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] restoring faded transparencies
I am in the fortunate position of having a professionally made print, some 20 years old, from a transparency (Kodachrome) some 40 years old, one of very many! My first attempt with my new slide scanner was on this same slide, and hence I am able to see the colour changes over those past years. I have spent many hours experimenting with the restoration of old colour slides but have never had an old print from the slide as a comparison and I would be very interested to learn of any results you may get. Just a note of caution, how can you be sure that the colours of the print have not changed over the years? Norman A very fair question! The answer is simply that the colours in the print are far more natural than those in my newly digitised slide. For example, in the print the sky contains grey, rainy looking clouds below a pale, whitish background of higher cloud. The digitised slide makes the grey clouds more blue, and the background cloud layer has splashes of yellow! A comparable change is in the mountain peak below the clouds - formerly a steely grey colour, it is now quite bluish. The view in this picture is one with which I was very familiar, and I am certainly more comfortable with a grey mountain than a bluish one! Are you using the restore.py plug-in? If so, can you enlighten me as to the mechanics of adding this to my version of GIMP? Alan -- Alan (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Cut/copy through multiple layers
Quoting Brian for...@gimpusers.com: I'm working on an image that has many layers, including one for outlines, fill colors, shading, etc. I want to cut and paste a particular portion of the image to another part of the image because I don't like the current placement. However, the only way I can figure out to do this is by cutting and pasting the same selection on each layer and lining up all the parts. Is there any way to cut through the image, so to speak, so that all visible layers below the selection are cut at once, and then when I paste the selection somewhere else in the image, each part is pasted into its respective layer (i.e., the outline is pasted onto the outline layer, shading onto the shading layer, etc.)? Or is there any type of script available that might help me achieve this? I wrote a script a few years back which added a Float Linked Layers command that floated the selection on each linked layer, producing a new layer above each of the linked layers. This set of floated layers are all linked (the original layers are unlinked) so that you can move them all at the same time. Once the linked layers have been repositioned, a second script called Merge Down Linked Layers will merge each of the floated layers back onto its original layer. I believe the script will still work with newer version of GIMP (it was written for v2.4) but you might want to put elsewhere in the menus. http://flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com/GIMP/Scripts/deep-float.scm Wow, that does EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thank you so much! Do you know if there's an easy way to modify the script so that it could create a copy of the selection rather than cutting it? Then I could have one script for copying and one for cutting. Thanks again; this was a huge help! -- Brian (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
