Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp Users - getting colors to match.

2009-11-18 Thread Martin Nordholts
D Dziedzic wrote: > Hi: > > Color management is device specific through ICC profiles. Hi Dziedzic I expressed myself a bit clumsy. What I tried to say is that the _concepts_ of color management is not GIMP specific. Before one learns how color management works in a particular program, one need

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP Crashing

2009-12-15 Thread Martin Nordholts
Flyer0101 wrote: > Hi, this is my first post, anyway everytime i open gimp it crashes or does not > respond i have even tried older versions of gimp my OS is Windows 7 64 - bit > and specs are 4GB RAM 2.9 Duel Core so i don't no why it isn't working. One common cause of this is that you have large

Re: [Gimp-user] Is this a bug? Setting image w/corrupted icc profile to sRGB; plugin dies

2009-12-18 Thread Martin Nordholts
Jay Smith wrote: > I was attempting to contribute and share and experience and information. > > I infer from your response that I have been instructed to think twice > before trying to get involved again. Hi, You seem like a nice guy with a healthy attitude, so it would be a shame if this would

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp copy/pasted layer has selection around it

2010-01-04 Thread Martin Nordholts
gordon13 wrote: > Aaah right! Thanks for that. Its really anoying, I dont know why we need > boundaries like that.. We don't, which is why we will make layer boundaries automatically managed when we migrate to GEGL. / Martin -- My GIMP Blog: http://www.chromecode.com/ "Best way to keep up w

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

2010-01-19 Thread Martin Nordholts
Michael J. Hammel wrote: > For example, they've > responded to requests for a single window mode from the Windows user > community by adding it to development for 2.8. We Linux users don't > need this so the developers are making this configurable. This is a common misconception. The single-windo

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

2010-01-20 Thread Martin Nordholts
Ken Warner wrote: > Well, I've experienced the same. When I close the tool window, GIMP > exits. Really a pisser This is fixed in git master and will be further polished for GIMP 2.8 / Martin -- My GIMP Blog: http://www.chromecode.com/ "Best way to keep up with GIMP from git" ___

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

2010-01-20 Thread Martin Nordholts
Ken Warner wrote: > Yeah, I hate that too. What's the point of having a floating window > if you can never bring it to the top of the stack? Edit -> Preferences -> Window Management, change the toolbox and dock hints to 'Normal window' / Martin -- My GIMP Blog: http://www.chromecode.com/

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

2010-01-20 Thread Martin Nordholts
Ken Warner wrote: > Thanks... Much better. Why didn't I think of that? Maybe because > I didn't think there was three different kinds of windows. Do we > really need three different kinds of windows? I'm just asking Since we removed the menu from the toolbox for GIMP 2.6, we don't. In git

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

2010-01-20 Thread Martin Nordholts
Programmer In Training wrote: > Then the old behavior from 2.4 should be made optional, or at least a > reasonable facsimile. Most people thinks having two different menubars in one application is insane. The small amount of people that thinks it is a good idea will have to maintain code for tha

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP vs Photoshop

2010-01-21 Thread Martin Nordholts
doug wrote: >> "Most people thinks having two different menubars in one application is >> insane. The small amount of people that thinks it is a good idea will >> have to maintain code for that themselves, sorry." >> > In a few months' time anybody wanting to look up XXX or YYY in the > archives i

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp crashes too much

2010-01-23 Thread Martin Nordholts
BGP wrote: > No other program on my machine locks up except gimp. > How can I fix this? Hi! By figuring out the step-by-step instructions on how to reproduce the problems and then file bug reports to bugs.gimp.org so the problems can be fixed Regards, Martin -- My GIMP Blog: http://www.chr

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp crashes too much

2010-01-23 Thread Martin Nordholts
BGP wrote: > Gimp "locks up" too often on my computer. It just stops working and the > screen turns gray and then the entire computer stops responding to > commands so I can only shut down by pushing the power button and rebooting. > > No other program on my machine locks up except gimp. > >

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp crashes too much

2010-01-23 Thread Martin Nordholts
BGP wrote: > 1G of ram is too small for a 4k file? No, so in that case, figure out a step-by-step instruction on how to reproduce the problem you are having. / Martin -- My GIMP Blog: http://www.chromecode.com/ "Best way to keep up with GIMP from git" __

Re: [Gimp-user] Cut out?

2010-01-23 Thread Martin Nordholts
BGP wrote: > I have an image that I want to cut a part out of to use as a separate > image. The shape of the area I want to cut out and use is irregular. > How can I cleanly cut out that part and copy it as a seperate image? Select the part you want to copy, then Edit -> Copy, then Edit -> Pas

Re: [Gimp-user] ?? Status of remembering Layers setting for Canvas Resizing -- in most recent version

2010-03-09 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 03/09/2010 11:15 PM, Jay Smith wrote: > It seems to me to be more useful to remember what the user does rather > than some setting that the user never uses. Hi, Absolutely. This isn't controversial. Now all that is missing is a patch. BR, Martin -- My GIMP Blog: http://www.chromecode.com/

Re: [Gimp-user] ?? Status of remembering Layers setting for Canvas Resizing -- in most recent version

2010-03-10 Thread Martin Nordholts
2010/3/10 yahvuu : > Hi, > > Jay Smith wrote: I believe that this setting should be remembered a) during the session of editing an image; b) during all sessions editing all images; and c) between sessions of shutting down and restarting Gimp. > >> It seems to me that there are quite

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp

2010-03-11 Thread Martin Nordholts
2010/3/11 : > When I try to save a picture I have worked on it always tells me I'm not > authorized to save it.  How do I become authorized so I can save my edited > photos? Can it be that you are running GIMP from a read-only device, and it defaults to save in a folder on the read-only device?

Re: [Gimp-user] Enlarge Canvas: Is there a way to do it by dragging? Could/Should there be?

2010-03-11 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 03/11/2010 04:57 PM, Jay Smith wrote: > It just occurred to me that it would be really handy to be able to > enlarge the _canvas_ by dragging. Hi This is the wrong forum, you should be on the gimp-developer mailing list. / Martin -- My GIMP Blog: http://www.chromecode.com/ "Multi-column

Re: [Gimp-user] How to switch menu language?

2010-03-20 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 03/20/2010 11:00 PM, BenXS wrote: > Ok, currently english is my main menu language of Gimp. > But occasionally other people use my computer and I want to switch to > another > language (e.g. german or russian). > > Where exactly (!) can I switch the menu language? > > I found no entry in prefere

Re: [Gimp-user] How to keep "toolbox" and "Layer, channel box" docked to the main window? Minimize-all-at-one?

2010-03-20 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 03/20/2010 11:06 PM, BenXS wrote: > > Currently when I move the main window of Gimp (under WinXP) then the two > small windows at the side "Toolbox" and "Layer,Channel..." stay at their > places on the desktop. > Is there a way to define them as "docked". In other words: Whenever the main > wind

Re: [Gimp-user] How to keep "toolbox" and "Layer, channel box" docked to the main window? Minimize-all-at-one?

2010-03-23 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 03/23/2010 12:58 PM, BenXS wrote: > > Ok, thank you. > > When will be v2.8 (=with single-window-mode) roughly released? Current estimate is Decemeber 2010 / Martin -- My GIMP Blog: http://www.chromecode.com/ "GIMP 2.8 development still under control"

Re: [Gimp-user] Open a file r/o

2010-03-24 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 03/24/2010 11:03 PM, Lennart Svensson wrote: > > > Sven Neumann wrote, On 2010-03-23 21:38: >> On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 14:19 +0100, Lennart Svensson wrote: >>> When you start gimp from the promptline you got the Application Options: >>> -a, --as-newOpen images as new >>> >>

Re: [Gimp-user] toolbox

2010-04-28 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 04/29/2010 12:05 AM, Thomas Hart wrote: > Using Windows 7 with Gimp 2.6.8 I can't hide the toolbox. If I click on > the x-box the entire app closes. I can't see anything in Preferences. ??? > Thomas J. Hart That's how GIMP 2.6 works. In GIMP 2.8 you will be able to close the toolbox. / Mar

Re: [Gimp-user] Fw: Re: toolbox

2010-04-28 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 04/29/2010 04:00 AM, Steve VanSlyck wrote: > Is there no way to dock these darn things onto the main drawing window? > (When I minimize an app I want the whole think gone, not just the > subwindow I'm working on. Not in 2.6, but in 2.8 there will be a single-window mode. / Martin ___

Re: [Gimp-user] HELP! FAST!

2010-05-23 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 05/23/2010 03:55 PM, Anna wrote: > Right after that I turned off my computer Just to make sure: Did you turn it off by cutting power, or did you turn it off in a "proper"/"nice" way? / Martin -- My GIMP Blog: http://www.chromecode.com/ "GIMP 2.8 development still under control" __

Re: [Gimp-user] Help recovering a bad .xcf file

2010-06-20 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 06/20/2010 06:45 PM, Sven Neumann wrote: > On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 03:29 +0200, Branko Vukelic wrote: >> Better way would be to do what most text editors do. Create a backup >> of the old file (remember those files that end with a tilde '~'?) >> before overwriting it with the new save. It should b

Re: [Gimp-user] Biggest Frustration

2010-06-21 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 06/21/2010 05:16 PM, Steve VanSlyck wrote: > My biggest frustration with GIMP is the complete lack of a general object > selection tool. Not having an "arrow" tool is counter intuitive to the > way we've been taught since the Faraday saw the first semiconductor claw > its way into visibility in

Re: [Gimp-user] How is 16 bit GIMP doing?

2010-06-21 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 06/21/2010 05:31 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Ken Warner wrote: >> Is it still being worked on? If so, is there any word >> on availability? > > "When it's ready" is the best you can get :) There is more to say. Right now the top priority is to get GIMP 2

Re: [Gimp-user] How is 16 bit GIMP doing?

2010-06-21 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 06/21/2010 08:00 PM, John Culleton wrote: > And what is the priority/schedule for CMYK? We know we need CMYK sooner or later, but higher bit depths and non-destructiveness is much more important. So first good support for the latter, then we can begin looking into proper support for the forme

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

2010-07-05 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 07/05/2010 12:23 PM, Claus Cyrny wrote: > 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 >

Re: [Gimp-user] Free select tool in 2.6

2010-07-19 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 07/19/2010 10:48 AM, Jeffery Small wrote: > > I recently upgraded from Gimp 2.4.3 to 2.6.8. The free select tool has > changed to allow polygon edges and this also now requires that the stop > point be extremely close to the start point in order to close the area when > dragging the cursor. Is

Re: [Gimp-user] Separate+ 0.5.8-beta1

2010-08-28 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 08/28/2010 11:28 AM, Yoshinori Yamakawa wrote: > Hi, > > Beta1 of Separate+ 0.5.8 is available. Hi Yamakawa-san What do you think about getting this plug-in into upstream GIMP for GIMP 2.8? Thanks in advance for your comment on this. Best wishes, Martin -- My GIMP Blog: http://www.chrome

Re: [Gimp-user] 16 bit Handling

2010-11-03 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 11/04/2010 02:53 AM, TomBrooklyn wrote: > When will GIMP be able to handle 16 bit (per channel) photo files? I'd guess a nightly build will have this capability in 1 - 2.5 years But no one knows, because we have not scheduled this work yet, we only know it is important and that we want it in

Re: [Gimp-user] Deleting multiple layers

2011-01-20 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 01/19/2011 12:10 PM, Ofnuts wrote: > On 01/19/2011 09:19 AM, Jeremy Nell wrote: >> No, you can't select multiple layers. I'm suggesting that there >> should be a way to do so (and delete them). > > The ability to select multiple layers opens a rather large can of worms. > What happens when you

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp's rendering speeds

2011-02-02 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 02/02/2011 02:32 PM, Jeremy Nell wrote: > Will the next release of Gimp be a bit quicker? I'm afraid not; the next release of GIMP, GIMP 2.8, will not be quicker in this regard. The release after that, GIMP 3.0, will focus on running on GTK 3.0 and bringing high bit depths into the picture.

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