Re: [Gimp-user] Select contiguous regions tool (Z) Problems

2004-01-16 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:30:39AM +0100, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Jeffrey Brent McBeth wrote: I have a layer with many disjoint shapes surrounded by transparency. To move the rectangles, I would select the tool (Z), make sure the threshold was at 255, and select transparent areas was off

Re: [Gimp-user] specify png background color?

2004-04-03 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 12:32:25AM -0800, Tom Williams wrote: Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I have a png logo with alpha channel, it looks good on every browser excepte IE, which rander the alpha channel to a single color. I wish to set the optional png background color to be #222, the

Re: [Gimp-user] Turning off dashed line around canvas.

2005-02-25 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:31:55PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Michael Schumacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] [02-25-05 19:19]: This is close to shooting yourself in the foot using Prolog, isn't it? :) Next you are going to tell everyone how old I really am grin Prolog can't be that old. I

Re: [Gimp-user] X an Y resolution

2005-03-22 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 11:17:51AM +1100, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 01:00 +0100, cedric wrote: When creating a new document, we have two fields. I've always used the same value but if they are 2 it is certainly because there is one. So does anybody know in what cases

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Default mode for file dialog

2005-03-24 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 01:11:16AM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: There used to be a spec proposing a DND enhancement called Direct Save or XDS. I have not been able to locate that again but this is something that the file manager handling the desktop would have to implement. If there is a widely

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving

2005-03-26 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 10:17:47PM -0500, Peter Jon White wrote: Hans Henrik Hansen wrote: This evening I installed GIMP 2.0 under SuSE 9.2/KDE3.3.0 I wanted to add some text layers to a .jpg-file - five layers altogether. When I attempted 'save as' GIMP crashed, and all my work was gone! :(

Re: [Gimp-user] Lossless JPEG Crop

2005-04-04 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
Your best bet for a lossless JPEG crop is to use ImageMagick or the JPEG utils rather than GIMP. IIRC, there has been talk about allowing GIMP to do the few lossless JPEG transforms that are possible, but I haven't seen patches or release notes to the effect. something like jpegtran -perfect

Re: [Gimp-user] Alpha Channel

2005-04-13 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 03:57:56PM +0100, David Marrs wrote: cedric wrote: I wonder why, when Opening or creating a document, there are only 3 color channel and then, when creatin a layer, the alpha is coming. What this stand for ? Cedric The bottom layer cannot be transparent, as

Re: [Gimp-user] Overlaying and scaling images

2005-06-01 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 11:38:23PM +0100, Dylan wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to overlay images of maps onto aerial protographs. Using the photo as a background, I need to scale and rotate the map image so that the two line up. Is this possible with the Gimp? What approach should I use?

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-12 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 06:04:59PM -0400, michael chang wrote: On 9/12/05, Diaa Sami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: actually I need to do this with 24-bit PNG's, is it possible? it it's not, do u know any other free tool that does this? AFAIK GIMP doesn't support 24-bit colour. Apparently it's

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-12 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 06:06:14AM +0300, Diaa Sami wrote: first, I want to thank you for your long and clear response. well, you're asking about what I'm trying to achieve. what I want is to have somekind of transparent color which is written in the PNG file. I don't want to have an alpha

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 05:30:21PM +0300, Diaa Sami wrote: that's exactly what I wanted, I looked into PNG docs, and I found out that there are two functions responsible for this, which are png_get_tRNS and png_set_tRNS. Yup. For just about any chunk, there is a get/set pair in the

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 04:26:39PM -0400, michael chang wrote: IE ignores tRNS when you aren't in palette mode, anytime you added some of that color to an image, it would turn transparent seperate from what you expect, etc. So logically, should we even be using tRNS in PNG anyway? IE is

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-14 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 08:00:01PM +0200, Michael Schumacher wrote: IMO it could be a reasonable default to set tRNS to the currently selected background color when saving with keep tranparent pixels' color unset. This would copy the behaviour for the bKGD chunk. Except that would make any

Re: [Gimp-user] Lanczos interpolation method

2005-10-10 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
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 ? Err, a quick summary (perhaps not simple) is that Cubic

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

2005-10-12 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 02:44:47PM +0200, Simon Budig wrote: Timo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 09:13 +0300, Timo wrote: I have PNG images which specify an offset (oFFs). When I try to open these as layers, Gimp ignores the offset and centers the image. Am I doing

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

2005-11-08 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
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 created

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

2005-11-24 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
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. Probably because you are saving it in a format that doesn't support transparency, like

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

2005-11-25 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 11:12:52PM -0600, Jeff Avveduti wrote: Ok, I know this is silly... but I am a baby in Gimp. Please bear with me...and thanks to everyone who has been answering my question. That was what I was doing so that fixes that issue. Now, the instructions given is using a

Re: [Gimp-user] Creating heightmap from a topographical chart

2005-11-27 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 01:00:56PM +0200, Vassilis Chryssos wrote: This is what I'm trying to achieve: I have a topographical chart (curves that depict the height of a territory) which I want to use as a heightmap for blender. Blender uses gradient grayscale images to raise the pixels of a

Re: [Gimp-user] mebbe easy - replace car color but preserve highlights

2005-12-16 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 04:59:39PM -0200, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris wrote: Try using layers-Colors-HSV , and changing the hue. If there are other greens in the image, have the car selected first. I've had more success with the HSV mentioned above as I have had to match exact colors. In

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Arrow

2006-06-28 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:29:02AM -0500, Ben Conley wrote: The pencil does draw very aliased lines (which I suppose is good sometimes, maybe.) but the tool next to it, the brush, does a very nice job. Select snip Way off topic, but in my art needs, I need non-anti-aliased (aliased) lines

Re: [Gimp-user] how to rotate ?

2006-06-29 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 03:48:48PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a little rectangle which I like to rotate / animate. The rotation should give a kind of 3D impression - the backward going part is shrinking and the forward comming is growing relative to the middle axis

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: GIMP can induce De Quervain's disease

2006-07-07 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 05:34:11PM +0200, Roel Schroeven wrote: There's one relatively simple change I can think of, that could reduce problems as the one experienced by Hector: instead of requiring the user to hold the mouse button pushed down during a drawing operation, it's possible to

Re: [Gimp-user] Some photograph morphing tricks

2006-07-31 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 11:34:10PM +0200, David Neary wrote: Hi, Tanveer Singh wrote: Great tutorial. But one hitch.In my case I want to make BW a small area. So I am guessing I need to interchange the layers. I.e color over BW. I would do this nice and simple. Make sure that you

Re: [Gimp-user] Best File Format For Scanned Images

2006-10-25 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 08:37:55PM -0400, Matthias Julius wrote: Alan Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just curious, is there a reason that PNG is a bad choice for this? Lossless compression seems like it'd be a great advantage and it isn't a fly by night file format. Does PNG support

Re: [Gimp-user] what is the most simple bit map file format

2006-11-08 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 05:16:02PM -0500, rob wrote: I wanted to understand a graphics file format... any format that could be disected with a programming language...any programming language. What is the absolute simplest bit map file format we can save out a black and white image in GIMP?

Re: [Gimp-user] scanning electron microscopy

2006-12-12 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 03:48:13PM +0100, Michael Schumacher wrote: Von: dorai iyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] is there any plugin that allows calibration/scaling of the image pixels to microns or nanaometers. Try the unit editor. http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-xtns-unit-editor.html There appears

Re: [Gimp-user] delete a file

2007-01-08 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 08:11:08PM -0600, Bill Lee wrote: I use the Save As feature an awful lot. Am I missing something? Bill Lee I don't believe you are. That is exactly the feature she wants. My personal favorite is Save a Copy, it allows me to make edits to a file, and save off

Re: [Gimp-user] problem saving as png

2007-01-22 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:38:48AM -0800, Anthony Ettinger wrote: Create an html page with background-color of #9c0; then do the same with the image in GIMP, and save as PNG. I'm seeing color variation. I've tried that exact experiment just now, and see no variation. Perhaps you are doing

Re: [Gimp-user] problem saving as png

2007-01-22 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:41:30AM -0800, Anthony Ettinger wrote: I made a test case: http://chovy.dyndns.org/gimp/test/green.html Looks like an IE6 bug. Firefox and Opera both show it as the same color. Jeff --

Re: [Gimp-user] problem saving as png

2007-01-23 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
As he has repeatedly stated, the problem is under FF/Linux. There are many things in which FF/Win FF/Max and FF/Linux are different. It looks like FF/Linux isn't up to date with Gamma correction for some reason Jeff --

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

2007-04-17 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:16:28PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 22:58 +0200, Axel Wernicke wrote: unfortunately it is not that easy, because not only have you to invert the colors, but to subtract the brown color from the film strip also. I'm not sure, but

Re: [Gimp-user] Does GIMP support GEOTIFF files?

2007-08-24 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 03:29:49PM -0400, Kevin Cozens wrote: Maverick Merritt wrote: Does the GIMP support GEOTIFF files? If not, are there any plans to do so? The answer to both questions is no. It is unlikely that the file format would be supported in GIMP unless there is a publically

Re: [Gimp-user] Bit-depth Processing

2007-10-02 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:58:47AM -0700, Greg wrote: --- Patrick Shanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then you need to abandon the jpeg format as it is lossey (google for it) and you need to shoot RAW. I know, but if you can retain your original bit-depth, the lossyness isn't as noticeable,

Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration

2008-03-17 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 03:09:47PM -0500, Chris Mohler wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:39 PM, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been copying some old colour transparencies using my digital camera and most of the images produced suffer from chromatic aberration somewhere within them.

Re: [Gimp-user] lossless cropping?

2009-02-02 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 01:37:24PM +0100, Claus Cyrny wrote: I have to admit that, after following this thread, I still have no idea what Zhang Wei Wu means by 'lossless 'cropping'. I understand' lossless compression', but cropping is by definition lossy (you remove part of the original

Re: [Gimp-user] Free textures

2009-02-02 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
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 archive. I'm not sure if

Re: [Gimp-user] Batch convert .xcf to .xcfgz

2009-02-04 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 07:28:06PM +0100, GSR - FR wrote: Hi, capn...@yahoo.com (2009-02-04 at 0902.16 -0800): I have a large amout of .xcf that I would like to batch convert to .xcfgz is there an application that can do this? Just run gzip *.xcf in a shell. Or look for a compression app

Re: [Gimp-user] pixels to dpi

2009-04-07 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:21:26PM +0100, norman wrote: Are you testing us here? You have given the dots per inch, dpi, resolution of the scanner and were just told that dots/pixels per inch measurements were the same. What is it that you want to know? There is no question of

Re: [Gimp-user] pixels to dpi

2009-04-07 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 03:37:57PM +0100, norman wrote: As for your original question. if you have 4800x9600 ppi, and you scan an inch square of material, you will end up with 4800x9600 pixels. Thus the question if you are having a laugh, as your question seemed trivial. I am really