Re: [Gimp-user] Is this compatible?

2006-10-08 Thread Jozef Legeny
On 10/7/06, Saul Goode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Foster wrote: TIFF is another good option, however the Wikipedia entry for PNG says it uses a type of lossless compression. Have I missed something here? I am very curious to know the answer as I have started to save my completed

Re: [Gimp-user] Animation

2006-10-09 Thread Jozef Legeny
however there is a problem with GIF images, because even if they suport transparency they don't have an alpha channel (opacity) they only have one 100% transparent color. You can still do the fading effect; however you'll have to work with fixex background color. (I mean if the background of your

Re: [Gimp-user] IM plus GIMP (or: layered PSDs)

2006-10-16 Thread Jozef Legeny
On 10/14/06, Chris Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I recently attempted to open a PSD file with GIMP and several other gui programs with no luck. Then I converted it to PNG with ImageMagick, which produced two files (haven't opened it in PS yet - I assume the two files correspond to

Re: [Gimp-user] New error with 2.3.11 and 2.3.10

2006-10-28 Thread Jozef Legeny
I used the 2.3.11 version without problems maybe you should try building the 2.3.12 version (current developement release) with prefix (i'm using /opt/gimp-2.3) also don't forget to create the script which lauches gimp -- #!/bin/sh PATH=/opt/gimp-2.3/bin:$PATH export PATH

Re: [Gimp-user]

2006-11-06 Thread Jozef Legeny
3. Is there a way to open more then one picture on the same screen? Because I want to put a few pictures together and then save it as one new picture. you can also drag and drop images into the gimp if you drop it on your toolbox it will open it as a new image and when you drop it on an

Re: [Gimp-user] newbie selection question

2006-11-16 Thread Jozef Legeny
you might try holding down the shift button when using the lasso (instead of clicking on the add to selection button) -- LEGENY Jozef ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU

Re: [Gimp-user] generate png images with transparent pixel that filled with correct color on viewers do not support transparency

2006-12-14 Thread Jozef Legeny
On 12/14/06, David Gowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/14/06, 韡武 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The email subject says it all, though it's very long. I am used to creating png images with transparent pixels/area that I can safely (safe = even work with the worst browser that people call IE)

Re: [Gimp-user] Help with fonts

2006-12-17 Thread Jozef Legeny
how did you install the font ? i'm using gimp 2.3.13 on Linux and it works perfectly (just copied the font files to my /home/myfolder/.gimp-2.3/fonts/. Try looking better because though the font name is evanescent in Gimp it is under Typeface (C) Draftlight/Aerin ... --

Re: [Gimp-user] Color selectors, which one do you use?

2006-12-17 Thread Jozef Legeny
On 12/5/06, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, time for another little poll. GIMP has an interface for pluggable color selector modules. Over the time we have collected quite a few of them. In the 2.3 tree we have the following modules and builtin color selectors: Default color

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp vs. Photoshop

2006-12-19 Thread Jozef Legeny
On 12/19/06, Toby Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anthony Ettinger wrote: Anyway, instead of flaming, how about some suggestions: Gimpressive Gimpression Out of all the many suggested (re)names, these two are the only two I've ever seen and liked. Maybe because many GNU and GNOME

Re: [Gimp-user] saving colors with color picker

2006-12-26 Thread Jozef Legeny
On 12/9/06, Anthony Ettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't figure out how to do this when I click the color picker tool, it just sets fg and bg. How do I save it so I can change color, and then re-use again later? -- Anthony Ettinger phone: 408-656-2473 resume:

Re: [Gimp-user] This must be possible

2007-01-23 Thread Jozef Legeny
On 1/23/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to create some backgrounds for webpagesand they must have that flattened look. That's the only way I can describe it. They look like the contrast has been reduced and the page brightened overall. Considering all the

Re: [Gimp-user] Starting Gimp-2.3

2007-03-04 Thread Jozef Legeny
normally you should use the startup script listed on gimp.org site for launching #!/bin/sh PATH=/opt/gimp-2.3/bin:$PATH export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gimp-2.3/lib export LD_LIBRARY_PATH /opt/gimp-2.3/bin/gimp-2.3 $@ (provided you installed to /opt so you'd have to change that) --

Re: [Gimp-user] Oh man, i am very sad, that GIMP very often crash

2007-06-14 Thread Jozef Legeny
I'm using 2.3.18 (and i was using the development version since 2.3.9 ) and the only time gimp crashed was when i had 256MB ram and tried to manipulate huge (a 80MB xcf file is quite huge) images. However this isn't as much a gimp problem as hadware one. Also consider that the 2.3 series are in

Re: [Gimp-user] Question about saving jpeg images

2007-07-24 Thread Jozef Legeny
gimp uses 85% quality as a default one for a jpeg image, it might be that your camera is using a 100% quality by default, try changing this setting (use the Save As option). the DPI is just a way of telling other application how big (in dimensions, not the filesize) the image really should be

Re: [Gimp-user] Rounding those corners

2007-07-31 Thread Jozef Legeny
what about creating a selection with rounded corners and then just add parts you don't want to be rounded into it ? or create the selection from a path where you can control every aspect of it or combine both : create a rectangular selection and cut from selection using paths or you can use

Re: [Gimp-user] possibe to use few api calls in my application from GIMP?

2007-08-07 Thread Jozef Legeny
on a side note : you could try to use the GEGL library instead; which is developed by the gimp team and will be the base for the GIMP 3 On 8/7/07, David Hodson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Purusothaman A wrote: Just I want use some of image processing functionalities of GIMP in my application.

Re: [Gimp-user] I need to know how much was cropped with autocrop

2007-08-08 Thread Jozef Legeny
maybe creating a layer = copy of the image size-way; make it invisible (that should avoid autocropping it) and then compare it's size and position with the cropped image. On 8/1/07, David Feinzeig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing a plugin that, among other things, autocrops an image. But,

Re: [Gimp-user] wacom: line quality

2007-08-21 Thread Jozef Legeny
the way these two tools work is too different, for the adaptation to be possible to quote Sven : The paintbrush stamps the brush repeatedly on the canvase to create a brush stroke. The ink tool however calculates the outline of the brush stroke based on geometry and movement of the brush tip.

Re: [Gimp-user] Changes in select and fill tools in 2.4, and a few new problems

2007-11-26 Thread Jozef Legeny
The alt+shift+drag and ctrl-alt-drag doesn't work for me (gimp 2.4.2 on linux). I didn't find any way to change the mouse shortcuts but maybe I have just not searched enough, if anybody could point me to a right direction I'd be grateful. cheers On 11/26/07, David Gowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [Gimp-user] Use of Move tool

2008-03-16 Thread Jozef Legeny
To move a layer : select it, then select the move tool and shift-click and drag that layer. (shift will always move the selected layer whereas a plain click and drag will move the layer directly under the cursor) you don't need to use the selection tool On 3/16/08, Jogchum Reitsma [EMAIL

Re: [Gimp-user] Use of Move tool

2008-03-16 Thread Jozef Legeny
The selection tool can work as you want it to too. You select a region and then commit the selection by pressing the enter key. Then when you shift-alt-click and drag the selection it will copy it's contents and move them around. Control-alt-click and drag will cut the selection and move it (I

[Gimp-user] Tablet + Xinerama

2008-09-30 Thread Jozef Legeny
Hello I have problems setting up a Wacom tablet on a xinerama dualscreen. The issue is that even if I lock the tablet on a single screen with the command xsetwacom set stylus Screen_No 0 any graphic application (gimp, inkscape and krita for example) still moves the cursor as if it were moving

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.6.1 Bug??

2008-10-22 Thread Jozef Legeny
Hi This is the intended behaviour In GIMP 2.6 the menu was moved into the image window, and that is why it stays open even if you close all the images. On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Stuart Culp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using ver 2.4.5. I downloaded and installed ver 2.6.1.

Re: [Gimp-user] How to drag a simple drawing

2009-07-29 Thread Jozef Legeny
Hello To move the selection you have to accept it first, this is done by pressing the enter key once your selection is done. After that you have two choices. To move the selection (or more precisely it's contents) hold alt+control and drag the selection. To copy the selection use alt+shift. Note

Re: [Gimp-user] Image resolution bad detection (?)

2009-09-14 Thread Jozef Legeny
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Jaime Seuma jaims.se...@gmail.com wrote: I had never noticed that! Thing is that every time I scale down an image, the Gimp sets 72 dpi as default for resolution. maybe the gimp selects the default dpi as set in edit-preferences-default image All of my