Re: [Gimp-user] editing brushes

2005-09-23 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 11:47:38AM -0700, allison Havens wrote: > I'm having a hard time figuring out how to enlarge the > size of my brushes. They are all too small for working > on larger images. Thanks > Dialogs-->Brushes select one of the non-fuzzy brushes and use the buttons on that dialog t

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie needs direction wrt replacing text with grass

2005-09-26 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 01:32:00PM -0400, Jim Lynch wrote: > No, not MJ. I have a nice picture I'd like to print and frame but it has the > stupid date/time string in yellow in the corner. I have subsequenly turned > off the date stamp so that won't happen again. Fortunately, maybe, the stamp > is

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.3.4 problems

2005-09-27 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 06:30:52PM +0200, Stephan Hegel wrote: > > Within the terminal a few message like this pop up: > > (gimp:23382): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_window_set_back_pixmap(): pixmap must > have a colormap > > Any idea what went wrong here ? > > gtk+ is 2.8.3 > this might be the problem

Re: [Gimp-user] old picture

2005-10-02 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 08:37:37PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am a new user to gimp and have a question regarding an old picture. > It is an old picture of my great-grandfather. The quality of the picture is > not > so good and his face is not so clear. Is there any way to make this pi

Re: [Gimp-user] Help needed for highlights

2005-10-04 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 07:48:34PM -0400, michael chang wrote: > On 10/3/05, Gmail User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am trying to remove/soften the highlights in the picture, where the > > highlights were created by reflection of the flash on a person's sweaty > > forehead. Any ideas on how to

Re: [Gimp-user] glow around a text

2005-10-04 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 11:02:09AM -0400, Roger D Vargas wrote: > Im trying to make some buttons for a web site. The buttons could be text > or an small image plus text. I havent found a way to draw something like > a glow around the image and text for highlighted buttons, can somebody > give me

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.3.x on Debian

2005-10-05 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 09:50:36PM -0500, Eric P wrote: > I can't remember if I asked this before or not, but does anybody make > any 2.3.x packages for deb? > > I used to compile my own these past few years on Suse w/checkinstall to > stay up on development progress, but since switching to Debian

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.3.x on Debian

2005-10-05 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 10:42:55AM +0200, Michael Schumacher wrote: > > Von: Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 09:50:36PM -0500, Eric P wrote: > > > > I can't remember if I asked this before or not, but does anybody make > >

Re: [Gimp-user] Handling multi page tiff docs gracefully

2005-10-06 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 03:42:35PM -0700, Kenneth Kron wrote: > When I open a multi page tiff document in Gimp 2.0 get all of the images > stacked as a single page document and I can't figure out how to creat new > pages so I can look at the individual pages. > > Since I do most of my faxing elect

Re: [Gimp-user] Lanczos interpolation method

2005-10-10 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 01:38:43AM +0200, cedric GEMY wrote: > Testing 2.3, i can there is new interpolation method called Lanczos. It > is described as being better than cubic. Does anyboy know simply :) how > it works with the picture ? > i found this on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik

Re: [Gimp-user] Lanczos interpolation method

2005-10-10 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 01:38:43AM +0200, cedric GEMY wrote: > Testing 2.3, i can there is new interpolation method called Lanczos. It > is described as being better than cubic. Does anyboy know simply :) how > it works with the picture ? > what is more (or less) in my testing of cubic vs linea

Re: [Gimp-user] ufraw-0.4-2.i386.rpm

2005-10-13 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 11:24:39PM +0100, Orlando Figueiredo wrote: > Can you be a little more specific how can I check the cvs version. You > know I am kind newbie to Linux and Gimp was one of the reasons to > change. > there are fairly good instructions about how to use cvs to get a checkout on

Re: [Gimp-user] Adjusting gray level curve: 3 input levels -> 3 output levels?

2005-10-15 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 09:40:26PM +0200, Felix E. Klee wrote: > At Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:48:59 +0200, > Felix E. Klee wrote: > > I want to bend an grayscale image's gray level curve so that three > > input levels are turned into three output levels. For all six levels > > I have the precise values,

Re: [Gimp-user] line-art script

2005-10-16 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 03:32:54PM -0600, mickeydog wrote: > I'm looking for a line-art script-fu for Gimp 2.3. > At GUG, http://gug.sunsite.dk/scripts.php, > there is script for older versions. > It does not work with 2.x > Is there one out there? > Thanks! > there is a new line-art script-fu upd

Re: [Gimp-user] Opening PNG images with offset as layers

2005-10-20 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 09:58:44AM +0300, Timo wrote: > > It has been very peaceful and quiet here lately (at least in this > thread)... > well, be sure to join the lively discussion of grammer checkers for texttool on another thread (or is it spelled grammar?) > What should I do next? Shoul

Re: [Gimp-user] lighten background

2005-10-24 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 09:04:15PM -0500, Eric P wrote: > > I agree with everything here except I'd use a mask instead of a > selection. A selection can be a bit too fleeting for a something as > tedious as your task. > it is really an advantage that the people who used gimp-1.0 have over newer

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp Screencapture Question

2005-10-26 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 01:45:45PM -0400, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: > Hi there -- > > I am running GIMP 2.2 and am trying to capture a section of rather than the > entire screen. I go to File/Acquire and select Single Window in the Grab > utility. A cross hairs appears and I select a portion of th

Re: [Gimp-user] How to write a "simple" macro [newbie]

2005-10-27 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:46:52AM +0200, Mauro Condarelli wrote: > Hi, > While I'm a reasonably seasoned programmer my experiece with graphics is in > the negative range, so, please, do not shot me on sight :) :) > > I have a clear idea of What I need to do, but I'm unable to do it even > manua

Re: [Gimp-user] How to write a "simple" macro [newbie]

2005-10-27 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 08:43:44AM -0700, Carol Spears wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:46:52AM +0200, Mauro Condarelli wrote: > > > I want to automatise as much as possible the process. Doing it completely > > manually is impossibly long (for me). > it will be much easi

Re: [Gimp-user] Setting Up Defaults

2005-10-27 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 03:50:46PM -0400, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: > Hi there -- > > I want to reconfigure the following defaults when running the Acquire utility > within Gimp: > 1. screencapture a window without 'decorations' > 2. default file save location

Re: [Gimp-user] How to write a "simple" macro [newbie]

2005-10-28 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 07:34:11PM +0200, Mauro Condarelli wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:46:52AM +0200, Mauro Condarelli wrote: > I had a look to the script-fu docs and I sincerely have some > problems orienting in there. > First the good news: I have little problems with scheme, after >

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem with patterns

2005-11-01 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 08:06:26AM -0500, Jim Lynch wrote: > > When I'm in the pattern screen, and click on a pattern, there is a short > description of the pattern displayed, but I can't find any way to see that > description when I'm editing a pattern in gimp. Is it possible my converted > jpeg

Re: [Gimp-user] Animation of text for home video editing

2005-11-01 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:51:14AM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > I'm looking for a tool to make some animations. I'm editing some home > videos and I want to add a title screen animation and a scrolling text > at the end. But let's concentrate on the first. > > I have been looking at gap and as f

Re: [Gimp-user] Font Problem,

2005-11-01 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 01:07:11PM -0500, Michael Luich wrote: > I have a user who keeps getting : > font '-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal-*-*-540-72-72-P-*-ISO10646-1' not > found. > > I can recreate it by trying to use the text tool to insert Helvetica bold. > > RHEL 3 > Everyhting seems to be d

Re: [Gimp-user] Can't get this image sharp with GIMP. Any suggestions?

2005-11-01 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:36:27PM +0100, qeldroma wrote: > > i've got a bad digital camera and want to work over the results. Bad in this > case means, that i've got good resolution and good results concerning the > light, but a bad sharpness. > > My idea is, that if i've got a good resolution

Re: [Gimp-user] Can't get this image sharp with GIMP. Any suggestions?

2005-11-01 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:36:27PM +0100, qeldroma wrote: > > Of course, i could do it in Windows using the well known utilities, but i > WANT > since i do not use Windows and as a linux user, i do not have enough time to discover all of the excellent and well known software available to me, mu

Re: [Gimp-user] Can't get this image sharp with GIMP. Any suggestions?

2005-11-02 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:36:39AM +0100, qeldroma wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 2. November 2005 01:56 schrieben Sie: > > i am sure your willingness to answer will be just as keen as your > > willingness to ask for help here. > Of course ;) > > I have asked a designer someone from a marketing corporate a

[Gimp-user] the expanding gimp web

2005-11-02 Thread Carol Spears
hello, there are a few new gimp.org web sites lately. i have been playing with the software available from planet.org and the results have been almost instant. http://paths.gimp.org is a collection of news from the world of free art software. i have subscribed to any news page i could find from

[Gimp-user] tenth anniversery splash contest

2005-11-02 Thread Carol Spears
hello, currently the plan is to have a splash contest for gimps tenth anniversary which, as federico and mitch pointed out should be on November 21 this year http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development.apps/msg/b5a9a98ef1e9fd4d i am not certain of the beginning and end date. i am al

Re: [Gimp-user] Using FRAMES... How?

2005-11-03 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:30:02PM -0800, Ernesto Orozco Coulson wrote: > I have been looking for but I could not find the way > to work with FRAMES (like Macromedia Fireworks). > > Where is the "frames" window? > > Could anyone please give me explanation about? > it is better to give the detai

[Gimp-user] Re: [Gimp-developer] the expanding gimp web

2005-11-04 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 09:28:05PM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: > Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > there are a few new gimp.org web sites lately. i have been playing with > > the software available from planet.org and the results have been almost > > ins

[Gimp-user] Re: [Gimp-developer] the expanding gimp web

2005-11-05 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 04:33:08PM +, michael chang wrote: > On 11/4/05, Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > i considered what sort of collections of blogs i would find useful. i > > also considered what could happen if only a small fraction of the gimp

Re: [Gimp-user] Using FRAMES... How?

2005-11-07 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 08:03:47AM -0800, Ernesto Orozco Coulson wrote: > Excuse me, but no flash plugin is needed, in that kind > of applications, you export three elements: Images, > JavaScript, and a HTML Table. You do not need a Flash > Plugin to have it in your browser. > this is part of the

Re: [Gimp-user] Transparent Logos...

2005-11-08 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 08:52:24PM -0600, Jeff Avveduti wrote: > I have tried searching for this but I am not finding quite the answer I > hunger for. > It is best to show you... > www.avveduti.com/ebay/logo.jpg > > There is what I am wanting. To make a nice transparent logo in gimp. > That was cr

Re: [Gimp-user] Transparent Logos...

2005-11-13 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 09:46:31AM -0600, Jeff Avveduti wrote: > > I could do that but that is just not efficient. If I have 30 photographs > to add the logo to, I don't want to add in all of those steps every > time. I tried saving it as a brush and it stinks. It does not show all > of the logo.

Re: [Gimp-user] one more thing...

2005-11-17 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 12:22:13AM +0800, Joey Cagle wrote: > I forgot to mention that we're having perl problems in GIMP in grafpup > Linux as well, but you may have gathered that from me mentioning > perl-o-tine and if you went to the thread on the Grafpup board that I > linked to. > if yo

Re: [Gimp-user] one more thing...

2005-11-18 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:17:06AM +0800, Joey Cagle wrote: > OK, well on the Python end, which I'm not involved in, it's just going to > be too big for the distro. > > Nathan is also trying to compile GIMP-PERL, but he thinks that may also be > too big. He just needs help reducing the size I

Re: [Gimp-user] one more thing...

2005-11-18 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 02:08:32PM +0800, Joey Cagle wrote: > Hey everyone, for Puppy Linux/Grafpup, there are some things you want to > know. > > Puppy Linux does not ask for a log in. For information on why it does not > ask for root, check out the FAQ at http://www.puppylinux.org . > > GI

[Gimp-user] GIMP 10th Birthday Splash Contest

2005-11-21 Thread Carol Spears
Hi, we did it. a 10th Anniversary GIMP Splash Contest has officially begun on the day of the anniversary/birthday. the first thing to mention that the word Anniversary appears all over the contest pages and in the GIMP News. the word Birthday is equally appropriate and should be used if it fits

Re: [Gimp-user] run script located in an arbitrary directory

2005-11-21 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 12:44:38PM -0800, Robert Kleemann wrote: > Is it possible to have gimp run a script that located in an arbitrary > directory? It seems that gimp wants to run scripts from > ~/.gimp-n.n/[plug-ins|scripts]/ > File-->Preferences there is an expander twisty for folders. fro

Re: [Gimp-user] Decrease many image sizes

2005-11-22 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 11:39:00AM -0300, Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha wrote: > Hi list, > > This is my first post and I need now to reduce some pictures from > 1024x768 pixels to 800x600 pixels of 108 images. > > Could somone tell me how to do it in the command line ? > > I am using linux versi

Re: [Gimp-user] Space Between Letters

2005-11-23 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 12:46:45PM -0600, Wade Smart wrote: > 11232005 1246 GMT-5 > > I want to put some extra space between letters of some words without > actually putting in a 'space' from the space bar. How does one do that? > get the freetype plug-in. http://freetype.gimp.org carol __

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp not respecting locale

2005-11-24 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 10:19:22AM +0100, MIlos Prudek wrote: > > Yes, this show english interface. > > When I run env LC_ALL=cs_CZ gimp, gimp should shoiw Czech interface, > shouldn't > it? But it does not. > > Curiously, gimp compiled from sources did not show this problem. Only gimp > RPM

Re: [Gimp-user] Transparent Logos...

2005-11-24 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 03:37:34PM -0600, Jeff Avveduti wrote: > Yes but the background is white? Why is it so hard to save a transparent > logo? It was transparent... but when saving it, the background is white. > two things. on this list we remove the portions that do not pretain to the exchang

Re: [Gimp-user] Transparent Logos...

2005-11-24 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 02:26:18PM -0800, Carol Spears wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 03:37:34PM -0600, Jeff Avveduti wrote: > > Yes but the background is white? Why is it so hard to save a transparent > > logo? It was transparent... but when saving it, the background is white. &g

Re: [Gimp-user] Editing .psd files

2005-11-25 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 03:37:12AM -0800, Demetrius Jones wrote: > I was wondering if there is a way to edit files that were created in Adobe > Photoshop. I can open a .psd file in the Gimp but I cannot seem to be able > to manipulate the image layers. Any help would be appreciated. I current

Re: [Gimp-user] template for sawtooth border wanted

2005-11-26 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 05:26:47PM +0100, Axel Wernicke wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm one of the members of the gimp documentation team and want to ask > you for a favour. To reduce the size of all the screenshots to the > clipping that is of relevance I'm in need of a template that I can > easi

Re: [Gimp-user] run script located in an arbitrary directory

2005-11-26 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 11:52:09AM -0800, Robert Kleemann wrote: > > (plug-in-path "/home/robert/custom-plug-ins:/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins") > > The directories will probably change when the gimp version changes but > since the scripts will likely have to be changed as well it's not a big > de

Re: [Gimp-user] template for sawtooth border wanted

2005-11-26 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 10:57:52PM +0100, Axel Wernicke wrote: > Hi Carol, > > >> > >> > >>Any gfx wizards out there that want to support the GIMP manual?? > >>Thats you chance! > >> > > > >i have successfully used the distress selection script-fu to make the > >edges of screenshots look like torn

Re: [Gimp-user] template for sawtooth border wanted

2005-11-26 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 11:58:05PM +0100, Axel Wernicke wrote: > > Am 26.11.2005 um 23:48 schrieb Eric P: > > > >Here's a ripped paper effect I did once. > >http://web.archive.org/web/20040402184426/http://bobkerbearings.com/ > > the image http://web.archive.org/web/20040426044754/ > bobkerbeari

Re: [Gimp-user] template for sawtooth border wanted

2005-11-26 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 12:26:20AM +0100, Axel Wernicke wrote: > > yeah, I like it! May I ask for another one? The aim of cutting > screenshots apart is to save space. So I'd prefer the "height of the > tooth" around 20px (yours where around 40px) and the width of the > whole thing should be

Re: [Gimp-user] template for sawtooth border wanted

2005-11-27 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 09:26:36AM +0100, Axel Wernicke wrote: > > Am 27.11.2005 um 01:15 schrieb Carol Spears: > > >On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 12:26:20AM +0100, Axel Wernicke wrote: > >> > >i made one black and white layer that should be able to be used as the >

Re: [Gimp-user] Font weight

2005-11-29 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 07:43:36PM +, Joao Cruz Morais wrote: > Hi, > > Im trying to type some text and bold it but can't seem to accomplish > this with the last version of Gimp. Am I missing something or this is > just not possible? > gimp will only use what the font delivers. you will need

Re: [Gimp-user] How to create jpeg files compatible with a sony camera?

2005-12-03 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 09:44:39AM +0100, Yannick Patois wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > When I hack a picture taken with my sony-dsc-s80 camera with the gimp, > if I export in jpg, I cant read its format any more (the camera display > "file error" instead of

Re: [Gimp-user] using a mask to help blend exposures

2005-12-06 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 08:08:13PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I also tried Carol's "removing background" tutorial: > > http://carol.gimp.org/gimp2/basics/backgroundremoval/ > > But it does not describe the "Add the decomposed image as a mask" portion. > > Can some explain it or point t

Re: [Gimp-user] "Add Glow" and "Center Layer"

2005-12-06 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 02:24:54PM -0600, Myke C. Subs wrote: > mickeydog wrote: > >is this the answer: > > > > > http://www.forumsforyou.com/p/comp.graphics.apps.gimp/Where_Is__Add_Glow__and__Center_Layer__in_Gimp_2.x__1954.html > > That is a thead I created elsewhere on the same subject before I

Re: [Gimp-user] "Add Glow" and "Center Layer"

2005-12-06 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 03:39:11PM -0600, Myke C. Subs wrote: > Carol Spears wrote: > > > >it is easy to build gimp-perl. get the tarball and open it. > > > >type "perl Makefile.PL" > >soon after type "make" > >when that is completed

Re: [Gimp-user] "Add Glow" and "Center Layer"

2005-12-06 Thread Carol Spears
it is should be easy to install gimp-perl. there are a lot of different ways to do it and a lot of different explanations of how other people personally do this with their own system. i learned this in 1998 and it still works without a lot of explanation from others. 1) make sure you have libgim

Re: [Gimp-user] using a mask to help blend exposures

2005-12-06 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 02:21:18PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I ended up with two images based on my mask, one with all black in > overexposed areas, one with all black in underexposed areas. > adding a mask should only give you transparency or not transparent > I copied one to a new la

Re: [Gimp-user] "Add Glow" and "Center Layer"

2005-12-06 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:56:57PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-06-05 17:52]: > > > > 5) look at /etc/ldconfig and make sure that "/usr/local/lib/" is in the > > list of paths there, if it isn't, add it. > &g

Re: [Gimp-user] using a mask to help blend exposures

2005-12-06 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 03:22:41PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 02:48:57PM -0800, Carol Spears wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 02:21:18PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > I ended up with two images based on my

Re: [Gimp-user] "Add Glow" and "Center Layer"

2005-12-06 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 02:15:10PM +1100, Owen Cook wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Carol Spears wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:56:57PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > > * Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-06-05 17:52]: > > > > > >

Re: [Gimp-user] using a mask to help blend exposures

2005-12-07 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:05:52PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Here's an image showing the two images I started with (using the Canon raw > image, I created the two images on the left with different exposures), and > the mask I created using the threshold: > > http://www.aracnet.com/~patm

Re: [Gimp-user] using a mask to help blend exposures

2005-12-07 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 10:27:04AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:14:28AM -0800, Carol Spears wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:05:52PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > the xcf would have told me almost everything that i needed -- but i d

Re: [Gimp-user] "Add Glow" and "Center Layer"

2005-12-07 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 01:22:51PM -0600, Myke C. Subs wrote: > Carol Spears wrote: > >it is should be easy to install gimp-perl. > > Most everything's easy once you know what to do and how to do it. > > Learning what to do and how to do it is the hard part. > >

Re: [Gimp-user] "Add Glow" and "Center Layer"

2005-12-07 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 04:07:41PM -0600, Myke C. Subs wrote: > Carol Spears wrote: > > >thank you for sticking with it. > > I *require* "Add Glow" in the work that I do with The GIMP. I have no > choice but to stick with it. :) > > >try editing this

Re: [Gimp-user] "Add Glow" and "Center Layer"

2005-12-07 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 08:05:04PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Myke C. Subs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-07-05 19:07]: > > >Q. Where is the gimp-2.0.pc file? > > >A. most likely in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig > > > > Nope. It's in /opt/gnome/lib/pkgconfig > > You, at least, have one. I have a SU

Re: [Gimp-user] using a mask to help blend exposures

2005-12-07 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 05:38:02PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 12:06:27PM -0800, Carol Spears wrote: > > > > > what is stopping you from working with only one image? > > That is what I've been trying to figure out! > xcf is the

Re: [Gimp-user] "Add Glow" and "Center Layer"

2005-12-07 Thread Carol Spears
this email was great. you are competent and know what you are doing. however, you are also not the person with the problem here nice read though carol ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/m

Re: [Gimp-user] Question about scaling digital photos for prints

2005-12-08 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 07:50:15AM -0800, Tom Williams wrote: > A friend of mine took a bunch of photos using her Vivitar 3.2MP digital > camera with the camera set at 640x480 resolution. She wanted 4x6 prints > of those and printed a bunch that came out looking all pixelated and > basically li

Re: [Gimp-user] "Add Glow" and "Center Layer"

2005-12-08 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 08:13:57AM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-08-05 02:56]: > > however, you are also not the person with the problem here > > But I too have the problem with gimp-perl and SUSE, and am *very* interested.

Re: [Gimp-user] "Add Glow" and "Center Layer"

2005-12-08 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 07:27:41PM +0100, Michael Schumacher wrote: > Carol Spears wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 08:13:57AM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > >> * Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-08-05 02:56]: > >>> however, you are also not the person

Re: [Gimp-user] "Add Glow" and "Center Layer"

2005-12-08 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 10:32:01PM -0500, BandiPat wrote: > On Thursday 08 December 2005 14:54, Carol Spears wrote: > [...] > > i did not suggest reporting a bug -- i have no idea how they work. i > > suggested contacting them. > > > > it builds fine on debian. it b

Re: [Gimp-user] "Add Glow" and "Center Layer"

2005-12-09 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 04:16:03PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-08-05 23:29]: > > i have been alive for several decades and have other experiences that > > make me question the title "professional" in things and when desc

Re: [Gimp-user] "Add Glow" and "Center Layer"

2005-12-09 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 05:22:10PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > You keep referring to 'rehiring .. linux staff'. I beleive what I > read indicated that it was not the linux staff (SUSE) that was let go, > but other divisions. > it is rumor on my part. i "heard" that the cuts were much gre

Re: [Gimp-user] How do on add a python plug-in?

2005-12-21 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 09:55:57PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > I'm trying to add the plug-in found here: > > http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2005/10/19/make-3d-dvd-covers-with-linux-and-the-gimp > > But when I do as it says I don't get a menu with DVD Cover under > Python-FU. > > What else must

Re: [Gimp-user] Problems Editing a Scanned Image

2005-12-22 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:25:57PM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: > I need some help getting a scanned image into an OpenOffice document without > the black speckled background. This is what I did: > > 1. Used XSANE 0.97 to scan the signature form my HP G95 printer/scanner. > 2. Saved as tiff file.

Re: [Gimp-user] Patterns

2005-12-28 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 04:12:15PM -0200, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris wrote: > I was looking at the patterns that come with the GIMP. > > They might have been nice for 320x240 web images that everyone edited > a few years ago. > > But in a world of 7 MP cameras, all patterns that come with the

Re: [Gimp-user] Patterns

2005-12-28 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 08:17:31AM +1100, Owen wrote: > Carol Spears wrote: > > > it would be interesting to find out what resolutions and what catagories > > of patterns the users of gimp would find useful. > > > I don't have 7MP camera, but I assume if you wan

Re: [Gimp-user] size of file

2006-01-04 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 06:36:01PM -0500, Helen wrote: > Is there a reasonably easy way to tell the size of > a photograph? I have a photo on screen, and the > bar at the bottom of the image says the photo is > 37.7 MB. I was pretty sure that could not be true, > so i listed it in Konqueror and K

Re: [Gimp-user] [OT] Gimp: On the surface

2006-01-07 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 12:48:35AM +0100, Julian Oliver wrote: > > excuse the triviality of the subject matter. it's been niggling so i bring it > up. > > i teach with the Gimp as part of broader university and masterclass > coursework > to design students. sometimes it features in FOSS game-d

Re: [Gimp-user] [OT] Gimp: On the surface

2006-01-08 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 01:57:29PM +0100, Julian Oliver wrote: > > thanks carol, for your verbose response. > > yes of course the splash can be changed, but when software's being evaluated > i guess uni's like to take what is offered, on the surface. > > i for instance run gimp with --no-spl

Re: [Gimp-user] Setting Desired Tool To Be Active When Starting GIMP

2006-01-13 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 05:03:09AM -0600, User1001 wrote: > How can I configure GIMP to start up with a specific TOOL active? I > would like to establish "select rectangular region" as my default ACTIVE > tool upon GIMP startup, but even if I have that selected, close out and > reopen GIMP, it a

Re: [Gimp-user] Crop tool in 2.3.6

2006-01-15 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 03:10:59PM -0600, Eric P wrote: > The crop tool and dialog in 2.3.6 have some really excellent > improvements over the old one. Great work dev! > > I have one question: is it still possible to do a 'crop from > selection' like in Gimp < 2.3? I seem to be missing that opti

Re: [Gimp-user] 'File Exists' in 2.3.6

2006-01-15 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 03:19:56PM -0600, Eric P wrote: > Maybe this deserves a bug report, but something I've noticed in > 2.3.6 is that it always alerts me that a 'A File Named ... Already > Exists' upon saving any file regardless whether is truly exists or not. > > Can anyone else confirm this?

Re: [Gimp-user] psd to xcf files *with* layers ...

2006-01-16 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 01:19:03AM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Is this at all possible? > > My wife has been using Photoshop, and I'm trying to get her to convert to > Gimp instead (so that I can work on the same files under Unix) ... the > biggest problem is she loses her layers, or, at

Re: [Gimp-user] psd to xcf files *with* layers ...

2006-01-16 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:06:56AM +0200, Vytautas Povilaitis wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:07:18 +0200, Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 01:19:03AM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >> > >>My wife has been using Photoshop, and

Re: [Gimp-user] psd to xcf files *with* layers ...

2006-01-16 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 07:38:19PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Carol Spears wrote: > > >On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:06:56AM +0200, Vytautas Povilaitis wrote: > >>On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:07:18 +0200, Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > &g

Re: [Gimp-user] text bending

2006-01-18 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 07:06:21AM -0800, Simon Roberts wrote: > > --- Vytautas Povilaitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there a way to bend lines of text or just stripes in GIMP? I need > > to > > make text go around a circle. > > I'm a newbie with the GIMP, but you can do that in OpenO

Re: [Gimp-user] text bending

2006-01-18 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:55:28PM +0200, Vytautas Povilaitis wrote: > Is there a way to bend lines of text or just stripes in GIMP? I need to > make text go around a circle. > /Xtns/Script-fu/Logos/Text Circle for gimp-2.2 /Xtns/Logos/Text Circle for gimp-2.3 also, gimp-2.3 has a text to path

Re: [Gimp-user] Color Picker popup dialog.

2006-01-18 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:26:19PM -0500, Ben Foote wrote: > > This one simple annoyance keeps me from using GIMP fulltime because > I'm constantly selecting colors from one image to use in another, and > every single time, the color picker popup comes up and steals focus. > Now, just the fact tha

Re: [Gimp-user] python, plugins and interfaces

2006-01-23 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 09:08:58PM +0100, PAEDER Vincent wrote: > hello everybody, > is it possible to open the plugin interface with a python command? My goal > would be to run gimp in batch mode from the command line (from another python > script actually) and still be able to configure the plu

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP is Great

2006-01-24 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 09:19:47PM +0200, Joe Schaffner wrote: > > I know Microsoft Paint pretty well, so you can imagine my surprise > when I opened up gimp. > > It looks like a paint program but it's not. I discovered I can draw > ellipses and rectangles by "selecting" a path then "stroking" th

Re: [Gimp-user] Uninstaller?

2006-01-24 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:22:36PM -0600, Bell wrote: > I am straight up a novice, I don't like the fact that now that I have The > Gimp installed, it took over any and all image folders, and will only open > them in Gimp. I do not want my windows folders, or other program folders to > be "ra

Re: [Gimp-user] python, plugins and interfaces

2006-01-26 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 02:59:57PM +0100, Vincent Paeder wrote: > Thanks for your answer. I did have a look, but I'm not sure we mean the > same thing. Anyway, I got a second problem which may be more > compromising than the absence of user interface. That is, my tool stores > pictures as gdk pixbu

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: GIMP is Great

2006-01-26 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 09:39:26PM +0200, Joe Schaffner wrote: > > > What exactly is a layer? > > A drawing is made up of layers. Why? Each layer has attributes which > are combined to produce a total visual effect. This means you can add > and subtract layers, join them, etc. > > Some of these

Re: [Gimp-user] Smoothing Brush Strokes

2006-01-26 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 05:56:56PM -0600, Matthew Whitlock wrote: > When I do a quick mark with any brush (be it a pen, pencil, > airbrush, paint brush, etc.) the line becomes facetted. I know > in photoshop that this happens too, but there is a check box > that applies a smoothing to the line. Is

Re: [Gimp-user] working with scanned pics: how to individually "chop up" pics

2006-01-28 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 11:23:04AM +0900, Jeff C wrote: > Carol wrote: > > your belief will not make this to be the truth. rotating that image > > will lose some of the quality of the original -- no matter what the > > application you use! > > Ok. So does "lossless rotation" apply only to rotatio

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: GIMP is Great

2006-02-01 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:27:13PM +0200, Joe Schaffner wrote: > My First GIF: http://www.geocities.com/klairbab/alpha.gif > i think you will find that the lines of the elipse are smoother if you flatten the image first and then save. i am curious, when you made the image, did you see an "Export

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: GIMP is Great

2006-02-01 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:13:08PM +0200, Joe Schaffner wrote: > Fun with email. > some times email is fun. > Just curious, are you a Gimp user, a graphical designer, a programmer, > do you work for gimp.org, or all of the above? > loyal hobbiest? i actually do not want to define myself. it fe

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