Re: [Gimp-user] Copy the alpha channel from an image to another

2007-02-12 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi, Germain Le Chapelain wrote: Hi, I feel like my question might be very stupid : I would like to know who to copy the alpha channel of an image to another image. Simpy select the alpha channel with 'select all' ([CTRL]+A) and copy it into the clipboard. Then go to the second image

[Gimp-user] 16-bit support/color management

2007-02-12 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi, after reading through a number of old posts to the devel-list, I subscribed to this list again (after some time of absence), because I'm not a programmer/developer, but a user. With the advent of new bitmap editors like CinePaint (ok, basically not for stills, but for 35mm film), Krita or

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP throwing away TIFF tags

2007-02-13 Thread Claus Cyrny
scott s. wrote: Paul Surgeon wrote: Ok so let's throw the tags away. Is there anyway to get GIMP to use libgeotiff instead of libtiff? libgeotiff is built on top of libtiff. I have to touch up hundreds of aerial photos and it's a PITA to have to save and then reapply the projection

Re: [Gimp-user] Pan Tool keyboard shortcut

2007-02-27 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi Dave, Dave M G wrote: Sven, Thank you, sort of, for responding. Did you see a Pan tool somewhere in the toolbox or in the Tools menu? No, you didn't. you can pan by clicking on the middle mouse button (MMB) and then moving the cursor, which changes to a hand, around the image. HTH,

Re: [Gimp-user] removing the background from a scanned text

2007-03-08 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi Ed, Ed wrote: Hello all, My knowledge of Gimp and image editing borderlines /dev/null so bare with me please! Is there a way to make the background transparent so that only the hand written text remain after I have scanned a document... or do I need a tablet? The document is scanned

Re: [Gimp-user] removing the background from a scanned text

2007-03-08 Thread Claus Cyrny
P.S.: To keep the transparency, you should finally save the text either as TIFF, PNG, or XCF. JPEG doesn't support transparency. Claus ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU

[Gimp-user] Realistic textures

2007-03-08 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi all, as a good alternative to the commonly used 'tiling' textures, there's a great plug-in http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/resynthesizer for the Gimp, written by Paul Harrison http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/. This creates so-called 'near-regular' textures. For more on this, please see Texture

Re: [Gimp-user] more than 8 bit/channel

2007-03-12 Thread Claus Cyrny
Marco Ciampa wrote: so the answer is no for now and perhaps yes for the next version (2.6? 3.0?) GIMP version. That's why people are switching to other apps like Krita or CinePaint. Claus -- Home Page: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ (Photographs) Blog: http://grafomatic.twoday.net (in German)

[Gimp-user] IPTC standard

2007-04-05 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi all, is there some way in which the Gimp supports the ITPC standard for copyright information, author, etc. in JPEGs? TIA, Claus -- Home Page- http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/[in English] graf-o-matic - http://grafomatic.twoday.net/ [in German] :: django|log

[Gimp-user] KPT for the Gimp?

2007-04-16 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi, does anyone know if there is a Script-Fu available somewhere which emulates Kai's Power Tools (KPT)? I once had KPT v 3 under Corel PHOTO-PAINT, and it had some really nice fx. What I'm particularly looking for is the KPT tool which has a sort of magnifying glass as an interface, which

Re: [Gimp-user] Photos negatives scanned into the gimp

2007-04-18 Thread Claus Cyrny
Owen wrote: Or do I need to code a plugin, and if so, what exactly is the operation to be done (in terms of RGB) ? Image-Layers-Colors-Invert ? Actually it's not that easy, because the film contains a mask (yellow red), which has to be filtered out. Claus -- Home Page

Re: [Gimp-user] How to spot fix a large area that is too light

2007-05-23 Thread Claus Cyrny
DJ wrote: Hi, My latest problem. I have a very nice black and white photo of a couple. The only problem is the man's right arm and part of his chest are too light. I tried using the cloning and smudge tool, but it looked like he was wearing a dead raccoon. Not the look I was going for

Re: [Gimp-user] Changing hair colour

2007-06-01 Thread Claus Cyrny
Victor Domingos wrote: What is, in your oppinion, the best method to make dark hair look like blond hair? Given that you have masked out the hair well enough, I would suggest that you try a combination of 'Tools Color Tools Levels...' (to lighten the hair in the first place), and then

[Gimp-user] Gimp 2.6.1 and 2.6.3 crash

2008-12-06 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi, I just upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10, but Gimp 2.6.1 included there closes abruptly when I open Colors Color Balance I removed 2.6.1 and got a .deb package of 2.6.3 (with libgimp and gimp-data), but here's exactly the same behavior. Does anyone know how to fix this? Is this a known issue?

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.6.1 and 2.6.3 crash

2008-12-06 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi Chris, Chris Mohler wrote: On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Claus Cyrny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10, but Gimp 2.6.1 included there closes abruptly when I open Colors Color Balance I removed 2.6.1 and got a .deb package of 2.6.3 (with libgimp and gimp

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.6.1 and 2.6.3 crash

2008-12-06 Thread Claus Cyrny
Chris Mohler wrote: On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Claus Cyrny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Chris, Chris Mohler wrote: On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Claus Cyrny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10, but Gimp 2.6.1 included there closes abruptly when I open Colors

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.6.1 and 2.6.3 crash

2008-12-06 Thread Claus Cyrny
On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:47:28 +0100, Claus Cyrny wrote: I just ran Gimp from a terminal, and I am getting (script-fu:5142): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: gimp_wire_read(): error Illegal instruction after it closes. What CPU do you have? I have an old AMD K6 II /350 MHz. Claus

Re: [Gimp-user] Billboards

2008-12-09 Thread Claus Cyrny
Johan Vromans wrote: Nathan Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't really see what you're trying to do -- If you download that billboard image, then take another image you want to put in that white space on the billboard, then that is completely trivial. Can you explain more please? What

Re: [Gimp-user] How to update GIMP in Ubuntu?

2008-12-15 Thread Claus Cyrny
many additional libraries to update, not just 'gimp-data' and 'libgimp'. I only kept my /home partition from Ubuntu 8.04 and did a complete new install of Ubuntu 8.10. HTH, Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie :: Web: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny

Re: [Gimp-user] How to update GIMP in Ubuntu?

2008-12-17 Thread Claus Cyrny
that both gegl and babl were missing, although according to Synaptic, they are both installed. TIA, Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie :: Web: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] How to update GIMP in Ubuntu?

2008-12-18 Thread Claus Cyrny
David Gowers wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Claus Cyrny claus.cy...@web.de wrote: Hi Akkana, Akkana Peck wrote: I'm building GIMP 2.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 and it's really no big deal. You don't need the whole gtk+ chain -- the ones installed on 8.04 are fine. You do need babl and gegl

Re: [Gimp-user] How to update GIMP in Ubuntu? (P.S.)

2008-12-18 Thread Claus Cyrny
Claus Cyrny wrote: Meanwhile I performed an upgrade to 2.6 via Synaptic (including 'gimp-data' and 'libgimp') and selected 'libbabl-dev' in addition I selected gegl as well. Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie :: Web: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny

[Gimp-user] Gimp User Group web site

2008-12-19 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi all, has the GUG web site at http://gug.sunsite.dk/ been discontinued, or is it just temporarily off the web? Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie :: Web: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] drop shadow

2009-01-02 Thread Claus Cyrny
, Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie :: Web: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Live update of selected regions

2009-01-07 Thread Claus Cyrny
- selection). Then you could, say, feather the selection, or whatever. This way, you wouldn't have to select the same area again. That's what comes to my mind instantly. HTH, -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie :: Web: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp latest version

2009-01-16 Thread Claus Cyrny
/aclocal I tried this myself, but found it very difficult. IMHO, the easiest way would be to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10. Then you have all the latest libraries installed. HTH, Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie :: Web: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny

Re: [Gimp-user] Resizing a larger image to smaller image causes distortion

2009-01-22 Thread Claus Cyrny
/Saturation Lightness', until you have the original blue again. HTH, Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie :: Web: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. :: Fotos: http://photo.net/photodb/slideshow?folder_id=714471 ::. ___ Gimp-user mailing list

Re: [Gimp-user] What is the best white balance script/plugin?

2009-01-24 Thread Claus Cyrny
and say go. Why don't you just use Gimp's 'Colors Levels'? There's exactly the kind of color picker you would like to have. You can select both black white point, you have the option 'auto', you can apply 'Levels' to one specific channel, etc. Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik

[Gimp-user] Gimp 2.6.1 on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-01-24 Thread Claus Cyrny
, Photoshop. I especially become aware of this when using curves to get a chromium effect, or applying 'Lighting Effects', where I am frequently getting 'stripes' instead of smooth gradients. I don't know, though, how much this has been improved upon in Gimp 2.6. TIA, Claus -- Claus Cyrny

Re: [Gimp-user] Attach Gimp file in to Blender

2009-01-24 Thread Claus Cyrny
?). It's actually French! ;-) Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie :: Web: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. :: Fotos: http://photo.net/photodb/slideshow?folder_id=714471 ::. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.6.1 on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-01-25 Thread Claus Cyrny
the source from the FTP site (the link is included on the Download page at gimp.org). TIA, Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie :: Web: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. :: Fotos: http://photo.net/photodb/slideshow?folder_id=714471

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.6.1 on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-01-25 Thread Claus Cyrny
Olivier Lecarme wrote: Claus Cyrny claus.cy...@web.de wrote: libpoppler IS there, as are librsvg, libexif, and libgnomeui-2.0 (I didn't check the rest). Does anyone know what's the matter here? I downloaded the source from the FTP site (the link is included on the Download page at gimp.org

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.6.1 on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-01-26 Thread Claus Cyrny
Claus Cyrny wrote: Olivier Lecarme wrote: Claus Cyrny claus.cy...@web.de wrote: libpoppler IS there, as are librsvg, libexif, and libgnomeui-2.0 (I didn't check the rest). Does anyone know what's the matter here? I downloaded the source from the FTP site (the link is included

Re: [Gimp-user] facing difficulty in irunning gimp

2009-01-26 Thread Claus Cyrny
to a) uninstall the present libgimp (via Synaptic), b) get the appropriate libgimp for 2.4.5 (as a .deb file) http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12511801/libgimp2.0-doc_2.4.5-1ubuntu2_all.deb and c) install it via 'sudo dpkg install package' or 'sudo gdebi package'. HTH, Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign

Re: [Gimp-user] About Pointillism / Pointillist Effect

2009-01-28 Thread Claus Cyrny
(reduced color bleeding)'. You may not get all the subtle details included in your example (this 'copperplate engraving' effect), but at least that's a start. Maybe there is some plug-in for the Gimp available. HTH, Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie :: Web: http://home.arcor.de

Re: [Gimp-user] About Pointillism / Pointillist Effect (correction)

2009-01-28 Thread Claus Cyrny
Claus Cyrny wrote: 3. Increase the contrast as much as possible, without losing the details you would like to keep. Here I made a mistake. The more shades of grey you have in the original image, the better the dithering (- more details). Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik

Re: [Gimp-user] About Pointillism / Pointillist Effect

2009-01-28 Thread Claus Cyrny
is much subtler. My guess is that this was achieved by using a plug-in (Photoshop?). I couldn't find anything similar (at least during a quick search) on the Gimp plug-ins site, at http://registry.gimp.org/. Maybe someone else can find anything. Greetings, Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik

[Gimp-user] ICC profiles

2009-01-28 Thread Claus Cyrny
can obtain/download those profiles? (Regarding the monitor profile I posted in the Fujitsu Siemens user forum, so maybe I'll be getting an answer there. At the moment, the most important profile is the one for the camera.) TIA, Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie :: Web: http

Re: [Gimp-user] Bubble effect

2009-01-30 Thread Claus Cyrny
of the dots, random distribution, density, ... You can also choose a background pattern, or set the background to a solid color. HTH, Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie :: Web: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. :: Fotos: http://photo.net/photodb/slideshow?folder_id=714471

[Gimp-user] Calibrating one's system

2009-01-31 Thread Claus Cyrny
printing, docs on the proper use of PDF, etc. - http://lprof.sourceforge.net/ (calibration software for Linux) - http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=enpage=moncal (LProf HOWTO at the Scribus site) Cheers, Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie :: Web: http://home.arcor.de

Re: [Gimp-user] Unable to replicate Golden Text effect, explained in Gimp tutorials.

2009-01-31 Thread Claus Cyrny
. If you're still stuck, feel free to ask me again. Greetings, Claus -- .:: Claus Cyrny - Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie ::. :: Website: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ :: :: Fotos: http://photo.net/photodb/slideshow?folder_id=714471 :: :: MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/claus_01 :: :: Qype: http

Re: [Gimp-user] select region inside a rectangle

2009-02-02 Thread Claus Cyrny
). One way to accomplish this would be, to use the magic wand with the default setting. This implies that the background has just one color: otherwise, you would have to increase the threshold. HTH, Claus -- .:: Claus Cyrny - Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie ::. :: Website: http://home.arcor.de

[Gimp-user] Free textures

2009-02-02 Thread Claus Cyrny
contains both preview images (120x120, as JPEG's), as well as the textures themselves as .xcf files (400x400). Hope you like them, Claus -- .:: Claus Cyrny - Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie ::. :: Website: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ :: :: Fotos: http://photo.net/photodb/slideshow?folder_id

Re: [Gimp-user] Free textures

2009-02-02 Thread Claus Cyrny
Michael Schumacher wrote: Von: Claus Cyrny claus.cy...@web.de zip archive: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/downloads/textures.zip Could you check if this file is a valid zip file? Sorry, the file got corrupted somehow. I'm using Ubuntu's archive manager, and it seems that there's a problem

Re: [Gimp-user] lossless cropping?

2009-02-02 Thread Claus Cyrny
Cyrny - Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie ::. :: Website: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ :: :: Fotos: http://photo.net/photodb/slideshow?folder_id=714471 :: :: MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/claus_01 :: :: Qype: http://www.qype.com/place/189992-Claus-Cyrny-Stuttgart :: :: Xing: http://www.xing.com

Re: [Gimp-user] Free textures

2009-02-02 Thread Claus Cyrny
Jeffrey Brent McBeth wrote: On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 01:29:18PM +0100, Claus Cyrny wrote: Could you check if this file is a valid zip file? Sorry, the file got corrupted somehow. I'm using Ubuntu's archive manager, and it seems that there's a problem with zip files. I now created a tar.gz

Re: [Gimp-user] lossless cropping?

2009-02-03 Thread Claus Cyrny
) on Linux can be used to do lossless cropping? For Linux, there's of course the command line based ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/). You can do really amazing stuff with it (see at http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/). Greetings, Claus -- .:: Claus Cyrny - Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie

[Gimp-user] Free textures (2)

2009-02-03 Thread Claus Cyrny
://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/de/ The new archive can be found at http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/downloads/textures_02.zip Claus -- .:: Claus Cyrny - Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie ::. :: Website: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. :: Fotos: http://photo.net/photodb/slideshow?folder_id=714471

Re: [Gimp-user] Free textures

2009-02-03 Thread Claus Cyrny
.pat (after opening them in the Gimp), they should be available as Gimp textures (you would have to restart the Gimp first). Under Windows (I'm not familiar with MacOS), there should be a directory with the same name (most likely [Drive]:\Program Files\gimp-[version]\patterns. Claus -- .:: Claus

Re: [Gimp-user] zip archive with textures

2009-02-04 Thread Claus Cyrny
. -- .:: Claus Cyrny - Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie ::. :: Website: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. :: Fotos: http://photo.net/photodb/slideshow?folder_id=714471 ::. :: MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/claus_01 ::. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Changing the default values

2009-02-16 Thread Claus Cyrny
Claus Cyrny wrote: Hi, where can I change the Gimp's default values for filters, etc.? I am using Gimp 2.4.7. under Ubuntu 8.10. After looking through all of the Gimp's directories, such as /usr/share/gimp, /etc/gimp, or $HOME/.gimp-2.4, I wonder if this is possible at all without modifying

Re: [Gimp-user] How to remove alpha channel?

2009-02-16 Thread Claus Cyrny
-- .:: Claus Cyrny - Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie ::. :: Website: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. :: Fotos: http://photo.net/photodb/slideshow?folder_id=714471 ::. :: MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/claus_01 ::. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user

[Gimp-user] Script-Fu

2009-02-17 Thread Claus Cyrny
'Gaussian Blur' (value: 2) on the mask - Make a selection from the mask - Delete the mask - Select the V layer with the selection - Perform 'Unsharp Mask' (value depends upon the image) - Compose the image back to RGB TIA, Claus -- .:: Claus Cyrny - Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie ::. :: Website

Re: [Gimp-user] Script-Fu

2009-02-18 Thread Claus Cyrny
-in-compose' (the code I had functioned fine, it just might be a little confusing). thanks a lot for the code you attached, and many thanks to the others who responded! Greetings, Claus -- .:: Claus Cyrny - Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie ::. :: Website: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny

Re: [Gimp-user] How to do this?

2009-02-19 Thread Claus Cyrny
the photograph on the bottom layer. When you're finished drawing, all you have to do is, to delete the photograph, make the second layer fully opaque again, select the drawing you made [CTRL + A] and export the drawing as a PNG [CTRL SHIFT + E]. HTH, Claus -- .:: Claus Cyrny - Webdesign | Grafik

Re: [Gimp-user] HTML ??

2009-02-28 Thread Claus Cyrny
messages in plain text? In Thunderbird, this is possible (but you seem to be using some AOL client). Claus -- .:: Claus Cyrny - Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie ::. :: Website: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. :: Photo.net: http://photo.net/photodb/slideshow?folder_id=714471 ::. :: Saatchi Online

Re: [Gimp-user] Fading to transparency tutorial?

2009-03-02 Thread Claus Cyrny
to this layer, and as a third step, 'Apply Layer Mask'. Finally, merge the two layers with 'Flatten Image' or CTRL+M (Merge Visible Layers). That's basically it. HTH, Claus -- .:: Claus Cyrny - Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie ::. :: Website: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. :: Photo.net: http

[Gimp-user] 16-bit/CMYK roadmap?

2009-04-04 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi, after following the thread on printing out of the Gimp, I wonder when 16-bit/CMYK is supposed to be implemented in the Gimp? TIA, Claus -- .:: Claus Cyrny - Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie ::. :: Website: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. :: Photo.net: http://photo.net/photodb/slideshow

Re: [Gimp-user] Batch tool suggestions?

2009-04-10 Thread Claus Cyrny
one gets when using this technique are visibly better than a mere 'Unsharp Mask'. Greetings, Claus -- .:: Claus Cyrny - Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie ::. :: Website: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. :: Blog: http://grafomatic30.twoday.net/ ::. :: Photo.net: http://photo.net/photodb/slideshow

Re: [Gimp-user] Batch tool suggestions? (corr.)

2009-04-10 Thread Claus Cyrny
Claus Cyrny wrote: 4.) Perform 'Find Edges (Sobel)' on the mask Value: 0.25 5.) Perform a 'Gaussian Blur' (value: 0.35 ... 0.50) on the mask This should actually read '0.2'. ('0.35 ... 0.50' are the values I use for the final 'Unsharp Mask'.) Claus -- .:: Claus Cyrny - Webdesign

Re: [Gimp-user] Layered TIFF?

2009-04-16 Thread Claus Cyrny
using ImageMagick, but Gimp complained about an unknown compression type in layers. You may want to try this TIFF specific mailing list: http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/tiff Maybe you can get a hint there on how to go about converting your images. HTH, Claus -- .:: Claus Cyrny

Re: [Gimp-user] Looks like another Gimp book will be out in November: GIMP Bible by Jason van Gumster, Wiley Press

2009-05-20 Thread Claus Cyrny
DJ wrote: Hi Gimp-users, Looks like another GIMP book will be out in November. GIMP Bible by Jason van Gumster, Publisher: Wiley http://www.amazon.com/GIMP-Bible-Jason-van-Gumster/dp/0470523972 I'm actually a bit skeptical due to the book's subtitle (The book you need to succeed). IMHO,

Re: [Gimp-user] JPG file size increases with saving

2010-01-18 Thread Claus Cyrny
Philip Rhoades wrote: Cristi, On 2010-01-16 06:55, Cristian Secară wrote: On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:56:40 +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote: - When saving as JPG with 85% quality am I losing information? Yes, but still with the same 85% quality you may obtain different results by

[Gimp-user] New GUG site available

2010-01-18 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi again, since I am able to post to the list again, here's a post of mine that came back initially. After the old GUG (Gimp User Group) website had been shut down, a new site is up again at http://gug.criticalhit.dk/ So far, there are the old tutorials and a few posts available. It seems to

Re: [Gimp-user] JPG file size increases with saving

2010-01-19 Thread Claus Cyrny
yahvuu wrote: Norman Silverstone wrote: Here is a table that provides an approximate mapping between Photoshop quality levels and GIMP (actually IJG JPEG library) quality levels: Adobe Photoshop quality 12 = GIMP quality 98, subsampling 1x1 Sure; subsampling takes groups of 4 x 4

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: GIMP vs Photoshop

2010-01-20 Thread Claus Cyrny
Programmer In Training wrote: On 1/20/2010 7:04 AM, David Gowers wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Programmer In Training snip So the next update will see the ability to revert back to the old behavior? That will be nice. (: What version are you using? GIT HEAD

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: GIMP vs Photoshop

2010-01-20 Thread Claus Cyrny
Programmer In Training wrote: On 1/20/2010 12:08 PM, Martin Nordholts wrote: snip But I think we need to keep the setting we have. Some people prefer it the way you do, they want their image windows to hide docks, while others don't want the docks to be hidden. / Martin Then the

Re: [Gimp-user] Complaint

2010-01-22 Thread Claus Cyrny
Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:41 AM, BGP bigsk...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sure you folks are all experts at GIMP but I've found it to be a very hard to learn how to use. But how many hundreds of hours did it take you to learn how to use it? It depends what you mean by

Re: [Gimp-user] Plugins

2010-01-22 Thread Claus Cyrny
BGP wrote: I've noticed there are a lot of plugins that are available for GIMP. Say for example you find a gradient plugin. Where do you install it? ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU

Re: [Gimp-user] Create web page?

2010-01-26 Thread Claus Cyrny
Programmer In Training wrote: On 1/26/2010 10:56 AM, Deniz Dogan wrote: 2010/1/26 Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us: I use a plain text editor. If you're going to be doing any sort of even half-serious web design, I highly recommend several methods of learning HTML: Read

Re: [Gimp-user] Create web page?

2010-01-26 Thread Claus Cyrny
Programmer In Training wrote: On 1/26/2010 10:56 AM, Deniz Dogan wrote: 2010/1/26 Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us: I use a plain text editor. I also write all of the code myself, but I would at least recommend a text editor which had syntax highlighting. Under Linux,

Re: [Gimp-user] Create web page?

2010-01-26 Thread Claus Cyrny
bigsk...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/26/2010 11:56 AM, Deniz Dogan wrote: 2010/1/26 Programmer In Trainingp...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us: I use a plain text editor. If you're going to be doing any sort of even half-serious web design, I highly recommend several methods of learning HTML: Read

Re: [Gimp-user] Create web page?

2010-01-26 Thread Claus Cyrny
Claus Cyrny wrote: bigsk...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/26/2010 11:56 AM, Deniz Dogan wrote: 2010/1/26 Programmer In Trainingp...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us: I use a plain text editor. If you're going to be doing any sort of even half-serious web design, I highly recommend several methods

Re: [Gimp-user] Create web page?

2010-01-27 Thread Claus Cyrny
of a decent website, even if it is simple. Adfter taking a brief glance, at least I fail to understand this. Claus Nathan On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Claus Cyrny claus.cy...@web.de mailto:claus.cy...@web.de wrote: bigsk...@gmail.com mailto:bigsk...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/26

Re: [Gimp-user] Create web page? (correction)

2010-01-27 Thread Claus Cyrny
Deniz Dogan wrote: 2010/1/27 Nathan Lane nathamberl...@gmail.com: http://www.W3Schools.com has the most up-to-date tutorials on HTML and CSS, which are the two technologies you need to learn to achieve the creation of a decent website, even if it is simple. Nathan My At least I fail

[Gimp-user] PSD as CMYK: Web Coated (SWOP) V2

2010-04-09 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi, I need to provide a business card as PSD/ CMYK: Web Coated (SWOP) V2. How do I go about there in Gimp 2.6.7 (Ubuntu 9.10)? I designed the card initially in Inkscape will import it into Gimp as a PNG. This is actually the first time I am using a color profile, so any tips would be

Re: [Gimp-user] Command line, PDF resizing cropping

2010-05-07 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi Craig, On 05/07/2010 05:13 PM, Craig Fairhurst wrote: Hi Could anybody tell me if it would be possible to perform actions such as PDF resizing and cropping on the command line with GIMP. I would use ImageMagick for this. This is really an outstanding set of tools one can access via the

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate increases PNG size x10 !

2010-06-24 Thread Claus Cyrny
Chris Mohler wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Leon Brooks leon-g...@cyberknights.com.au wrote: If the image is text or something else essentially monochrome Or image-mode, bitmap, 1-bit palette should drastically reduce the file size. I suspect that the 'line art' setting in

[Gimp-user] 16-bit - why the long delay?

2010-07-05 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi all, after this has first been announced, I think, in 2002 (!), I wonder why 16-bit/channel has still not been implemented. Two years ago (or something like this) I read that 16-bit would be available in 2.6, but now someone stated that it would probably take a few more years (!). IMHO,

[Gimp-user] Stripes in print (Gimp 2.6.7)

2010-12-08 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi, after editing a photograph of a girl I downloaded for free from Stockvault, I printed it out at a local drugstore (on one of those Kodak stations), but unfortunately the print contained a pattern of fine stripes. The woman in the drugstore told be that this must be due to to file. To test

Re: [Gimp-user] Stripes in print (Gimp 2.6.7)

2010-12-08 Thread Claus Cyrny
A. den Oudsten wrote: Op 08-12-10 15:04, Claus Cyrny schreef: Hi, after editing a photograph of a girl I downloaded for free from Stockvault, I printed it out at a local drugstore (on one of those Kodak stations), but unfortunately the print contained a pattern of fine stripes. The woman