hop, let me know. I can even throw in
the occasional interview of "important person X" if you think that would
be interesting - you supply the name of "X". :-)
I'll do my best to answer as much as I can.
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wants to work on these just drop me an email and I'll set you up an
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cause they were not available in binary format
for end users. But alas, few people paid for that so I dropped support
for those other plugins. Way too much work for one guy. Now I just
maintain the ones I wrote.
Hope you find them useful. I need to get GIMP Perl working eventually
to make sure
inst the gimppreview widgets - these look and
perform fine in all the stock plugins. It's just that the gimppreview
widgets provide far more than I really need.
This is all just one design perspective, of course. I'm open to
suggestions on making these plugins better.
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Source Download: http://www.ximba.org/gfxmuse/download.html
PS: I still haven't ported the perl scripts. I haven't gotten around to
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which version you need.
http://www.ximba.org/gfxmuse/download.html
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ing* and find the
equivalent set of basic filters and tools in GIMP that will do the same
thing.
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When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual
who perceives a solution and is willing to take c
election and shift key to draw square selection through
centers of circles that merges with existing circular selections.
The combined square selections (you will need to make two of these) with the 4
circular selections creates a rounded corner selection.
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eting directly with the GUM and have a better chance on
recouping costs (plus paying a few salaries along the way) even when the
text is also freely downloadable.
>From my point of view, I try to avoid talking about GIMP as the end
topic and rather talk about doing real work with GIMP as j
you need the beta version (which should work
just fine) - 3.0.0B2.
I'm not sure what the problem is, but grab the new versions and try
again. If it dstill doesn't work then email me and I'll see if I can
help you get it compiled.
Gotta run - I'm late for a meeting at work.
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Or you can try "Graphics File Formats, Reference and Guide", Brown and
Shepherd (Manning Plublications), which is the one I started with though
I'm not sure if it's still in print:
http://www.manning.com/
There are lots of hammers. Some are good for some projects.
Others are good for other projects. None are good for all projects. As
an author, he should know that and write accordingly. In this case, it
looks like he's more interested in publicly bashing one tool (which
would be an opini
audience you're aiming for (otherwise, why would you even
> need to expand beyond this).
Excellent point.
When my book's website goes live it will have a forum for discussions
and I'll accept submitted content (if it's well writt
sted in dicussing the book or issues related to the
GIMP, I set up a web site for the book:
http://www.graphics-muse.org/artistsguide/
The book should just about be ready for shipping from retailers. I was
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nvert that into a selection in the new
image.
It's also recommended that you name the channel before saving the image
to an XCF file. Just makes it easier to identify the shape when you use
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age, especially if you try to use gradients or lots of anti-aliased
text over multicolor backgrounds. Try to keep the Grub image simple - a
solid colored background with text and maybe a simple cartoonish logo
(cartoonish in order to keep the color count down).
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e text is applied. In your case, the wave layer from this
example would be the wrinkle layer for your project. Adjust it
accordingly to increase contrast to give the wrinkles more distinct
edges.
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> > This is accomplished by adding wrinkles to the skin. To do this, you
> > create your skin layer first. Then add a layer on top of that and
ght edge of the
image, it hasn't as the image extends to the right beyond the visible
canvas border. So it's not a boundary edge problem.
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hat I expect. Sometimes it gets larger. Sometimes (as in my
example) it gets smaller. What deteremines the cloned object's size?
>From the example I've created I can't deteremine what the expected
results should be given the movement of
his
some more tonight and see if I can catch on. If not, I'll post some
more specific questions.
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values for the Y offset
will move the shadow up.
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case, a file-type specific exif viewer
plugin could be written that uses (as the bugzilla entry points out) the
newer exiv2 library.
Or just get Akkana's latest version of the old JPEG exif plugin back
into the registry. :-)
(See http://registry-archive.fargonauten.de/plugin?id=415
pixels to inches. Now you can see how wide your image is
going to be when it's 1080 pixels across.
Clear as mud? Try it a few times. It's not that hard to grasp once you
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en then, you're likely to
have a less than ideal print image. Scaling up is not a good thing with
raster images.
For what it's worth, I tend to make all my screen shots for books and
magazines set to 250DPI, which produces a slightly larger print
't have the minimize
options, depending on how your window manager handles the hints.
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think is a document formatting structure (looks kind of like javadoc).
I just know about the function because I use cscope on the source code
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fect, with a colour
> chooser interface. Is that possible?
Select the white background, then invert the selection and apply the hue
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e one: File->Keyboard Shortcuts (from the Toolbox menus).
Find your item, click on it and then type the keyboard shortcut. For
example, change View->Show Layer Boundary to use Ctrl-? (re:
Ctrl-Shift-/) you just find View->Show Layer Boundary in the Configure
K
om thoughts. I'm not a developer of
the GIMP. Just a fan.
> Modularity is great, but text ranks on the order of a
> paintbrush tool in importance IMHO.
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integrated into GIMP,
which is happening now. I'm not sure if implementing layer effects is
actually planned or not, however.
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2.2 because
I really disliked the interface to GFig at the time. I think a plugin
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widely used here.
All that said, the closest thing to something that specifically "adjusts
lighting" in GIMP are the features you'll find in the Color Balance
dialog.
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but
photographers don't get a "redeye removal" tool? Which leads back to the
technical problem of implementing a general case solution.)
In summary: implementing "a" solution is much easier than implementing
the "right" solution
ly good icons
developed with the GIMP.
Just because there isn't a "one button click box" feature doesn't mean
GIMP can't, or shouldn't, be used for this kind of work. In fact
because it provides lower level access to processes like creati
a directory specified in your brush directories
(File->Preferences->Folders->Brushes).
In the Brushes dialog, click on the Refresh button to update the list of
brushes to include your new brush.
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ag a guide back into the rulers the guide is removed from the
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) for Linux Format magazine at the moment for
issue 112 (not sure when that comes out). Linux Format is a UK magazine
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e in the Layers dialog. Then you can edit
that page.
When you save, save it as a multi-layered PNG. Then use ImageMagick's
"convert" tool to convert it to a multi-layered TIFF:
convert file.png file.tiff
That should do it (I think), though I can't vouch for the quality of the
ll see what could be done. :-)
That should have been mng, not png. I didn't check my notes before
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area of the original.
Note that the original is also cropped.
You're problems are probably that you're not using the crop tool
correctly or not using the crop tool at all (using a selection or
similar instead and cutting out the stuff you don't want in a layer that
does not
16 bit
channels are to be included in the next release (though I don't believe
they are), but one of the purposes of integrating GEGL was to allow for
higher color depths. So it should be in either the next release or one
of the releases soon after that.
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through the existing layers. You can't see, for example, your desktop
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Animated GIFs play fine in web browsers. PNGs (non-animated) with
transparency work well in modern browsers but suck in older versions of
MSIE. That's the browsers fault, not PNGs fault.
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ect which has had the object
> displaced, shows some of the gray squares each time the image steps to this
> displaced image frame.
Yeah. As far as I know, that's how it works.
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sing this brush.
You'll have to play with the size of the brush. You may need to make
multiple versions at different sizes to get the right effect.
I'm not positive this will be exactly what you want, but it's the
correct basic process for creating a brush that you need to perform
arency->Add Alpha Channel)
Add a layer mask (Layers->Mask->Add Layer Mask)
Open grayscale image - copy into layer mask you just created (Edit->Copy
in grayscale image, Edit Paste with Layer Mask active in the RGB image)
Optionally, apply the layer mask (Layer->Mask->Apply Layer Ma
sier to script in this way.
That said, you'll get excellent results using the GIMP's plugin API.
You'll end up writing a file browser of some kind to select files,
specify the input CSV file and then have the plugin open, edit and save
the files all without a
s a new image on a tranparent layer
> insert a white layer underneath
>
> Then experiment with various tomato selection, selection shrinks etc,
> and then blur to make the edges soft
A blur might work. A feathered selection is likely to give a better
result over an arbitrary back
tension, such as
"MyFile.jpg". GIMP will save the image in the format specified by the
filename extension. There shouldn't be any converting required, unless
you need an indexed image (re: GIF), in which case you do
"Image->Mode->Indexed" before you save the
it? I've tried the one
from the download site for 2.2 but it doesn't compile. Or is this the
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>
> http://flickr.com/photos/22414...@n07/3214860244
Try GIMPressionist. It does similar things and should be available in
the stock GIMP 2.6 distribution.
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time, but I now trust my spam software to keep out the riff-raff). Feel
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use. I don't think the videos are worth it without some audio to
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m the Toolbox.
3. The style of the stroke in the Stroke Selection dialog.
4. The foreground color from the Toolbox. The foreground color will be
used for the color of the outline when you stroke the selection.
This may sound like a lot of work but it's really pretty easy once you
tr
test release.
In the end, however, the features are still there that were there all
the way back to version 2.0, plus quite a bit more. It can take some
time finding your way around, though.
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colors instead of just one particular blue?
1. Desaturate the selected area.
2. Use the Bucket Fill tool with the blend mode set to Overlay or
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are plans to change this functionality. I'm hoping not.
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e no idea.
GIMP does not have built in scanner support. It utilizes whatever
scanner support is available from your operating system.
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On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 03:18 +, minim...@wi.rr.com wrote:
> Does anyone know where I can get the script for the text-circle in 2.4, that
> works with 2.6?
File->Create->Logos->Text Cirle
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Inkscape expert -
I hardly ever use it).
I have an article on this subject (integrating GIMP with other desktop
tools) coming out in either April or May in Linux Format (UK magazine,
available in the US sometime after publication in Europe), assuming I
have their publication timetable corre
sguide)
Thanks for the kind words. Glad you liked the book.
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hack the code, which (of course) would break compatibility with the
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log and set the Mode for you tablet
to "Window". Change this to "Screen" and this shouldn't happen.
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er trying to
> get his homework done, I was 81 years old last birthday.
I hope I'm still learning new things when I'm 81 (I'm on the high side
of the 40's). :-)
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On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 00:18 +0930, Michaela Baulderstone wrote:
> I'm 36 with a post grad degree & I can't figure out how to get an image to
> specific size
Image->Scale, unless I misunderstand your need here.
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spherize or
zigzag.
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og, which means you wouldn't be able to set this
in an rc file. I could be wrong, however.
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king to choose complimentary (re:
matching) colors I use two web sites:
http://colormixers.com/mixers/cmr/
http://www.easyrgb.com/
I found these while working on some CSS issues, but they would work as
cut/paste into the color choose in GIMP.
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That's the basic technique.
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t play games
and don't really need it anywhere else.
Sorry I can't be more helpful. I just don't remember what I did that
cleared the problem.
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PL) is more importantly attached to the
program itself and how it can be redistributed. The license is designed
to make sure everyone has free access to the actual source code if they
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the tank.
> >Also, I would like to know how to copy the exact alpha channel from one
> image
> >to another image, without the original alpha channel being changed.
If you use a layer mask you can make a selection of the mask, add a new
mask to the other image and then copy in th
e of the final images for those tutorials in
my LXF gallery (http://www.graphics-muse.org/wp/?page_id=126). The
magazine is printed in the UK so US readers will be about a month behind
on the newsstand. I can't post the tutorials on my web site (except for
some very old and outdated ones), h
> Also, I'm using .tga files. Maybe RLE compression has something to do with
> this, but I always have it unchecked.
No idea. It's possible, but that would probably be a game issue, not a
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h a single layer in it. You can then
add a new layer that is black, drag it below the current layer in the
Layers dialog and then flatten the image.
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t; as the "canvas window" in my articles
and books. I believe the term "image" is highly overused and a
potential source of confusion too.
All you have to do is convince everyone to say the same thing every time
the reference something. Good luck. :-)
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albeit a fortunate one.
I'd give you a link to bugzilla but the developer.gimp.org site doesn't
seem to be responding for me right now. Might be a problem on my end.
Anyway, check developer.gimp.org to find the link to bugzilla.
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discussion group specific to those tools.
To answer your specific question: no, you don't want to use GIMP to
remove the color profiles from your thousands of images. It's the wrong
tool to do that.
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seem less spunky works in their favor (well, mostly).
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re there and lots of big project files to try.
Is there any info on what types of operations make use of this? If
there are no docs on it, is there somewhere in the source I can scan for
hints?
Thanks Sven.
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ar by these. Its up to you
to decide if the quality of the results warrant the price. The only way
to know - for you - is to compare both the commercial apps and the open
source alternatives for what you're trying
en there is nothing to ask - you simply get an
automatic conversion to sRGB.
But again, that's just a wild guess. I've never dug into that part of
the code to know what's really going on. Hopefully Sven or one of the
developers will correct me here.
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efore conversion to sRGB for working.
Again, this just a guess. I'm talking enough to convince myself but we
really need someone with more color management experience explaining it.
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the color space should be, even with the original files.
Ah. See? I told you we needed someone who understood it better. :-)
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in batch mode so you'd need to
clarify what your interpretation of batch processing should be.
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> In the following tutorial the guy refers to a Plasma Plugin.
> http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/The_Basics/
> Where the heck do I find that?
Filters->Render->Clouds->Plasma
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, but its an easy process for me since I have
multiple monitors on which to do this.
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look right, probably. If you use boxes instead of
people you can draw those manually in GIMP with paths too. Similar
process as creating the platforms.
That's basically it. It may be a bit harder than I'm describing but
probably not much. Again, depends on
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