[Gimp-user] Reading Nikon raw (NEF) files?
Hi all, Can The GIMP read the raw format from a Nikon D50 camera? I believe the format extension is .nef, but I can't try this out as I don't have the camera yet. I don't see this on the list of file types in the open dialog. Do I need a plugin (if so where do I find it) or am I out of luck? Thanks in advance, Simon __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Reading Nikon raw (NEF) files?
--- Patrick Shanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can The GIMP read the raw format from a Nikon D50 camera? ... ufraw is *very* good http://ufraw.sf.net Patrick ShanahanRegistered Linux User #207535 Awesome, many thanks! Cheers, Simon You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] text bending
--- Vytautas Povilaitis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to bend lines of text or just stripes in GIMP? I need to make text go around a circle. I'm a newbie with the GIMP, but you can do that in OpenOffice Draw which is more of a design and create type tool, while the GIMP seems to me to be more about retouching, curve correction, and the like. HTH Cheers, Simon You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] 2.4 schedule estimate?
Having written some software in the past, I know this is an unfair question, but I'm interested in the color management that's slated for 2.4. Can anyone point me at a time (rough waving damp fingers in the air) estimate for when that might be released? Alternatively and also, anyone using the 2.3 version (described as unstable) which is available? Is it reasonable to try to use that? Does the color management part of it work? And is the CM part likely to remain constant, or is it subject to total rewrite, rendering my learning and calibrations/profiling wasted? TIA Simon You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] 2.4 schedule estimate?
Apologies for mis-directing the post. I didn't think that through very well :( I'll sign up and lurk on the devel list to keep track of progress. And thanks for the advice, meanwhile I guess I'll try the development version on the strength of your remarks :) Merci beaucoup, Sante! Simon --- Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Simon, Selon Simon Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Having written some software in the past, I know this is an unfair question, but I'm interested in the color management that's slated for 2.4. Can anyone point me at a time (rough waving damp fingers in the air) estimate for when that might be released? gimp-developer is a more appropriate forum for the question (although I hope that everyone there is also here). I haven't been involved in GIMP development for a while now, so I can't really tell. Alternatively and also, anyone using the 2.3 version (described as unstable) which is available? Is it reasonable to try to use that? I would say yes. It's not feature frozen, but it's already quite usable. Does the color management part of it work? And is the CM part likely to remain constant, or is it subject to total rewrite, rendering my learning and calibrations/profiling wasted? It's pretty much finished, as far as I know. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary Lyon, France You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] text bending
--- Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a newbie with the GIMP, but you can do that in OpenOffice Draw which is more of a design and create type tool ... interesting. i would like to know if Vytautas Povilaitis had open office installed and i would also like to know what other graphics this office software can draw. it is nice to have volunteers from the other apps show up to point out their software here, we don't get near enough of it. OOo Draw has capabilities/approach broadly comparable to Adobe Illustrator, and as such might be considered complimentary (it's certainly not competitive!) with the GIMP. It does vector drawing, scalable stuff, layout, text, shapes, 3D, and that kind of thing. I used the two together, for example to create Christmas cards. GIMP took my photos, cleaned them up, removed background and trees growing out of heads, while the layout as a card, with pretty text curving round, borders, and stuff like that was done after importing the GIMP output into Draw. There are some really cool tricks, like taking a font, and turning it into a 3D shape with depth, rotating it to produce solids and other freakish things. I can't say I've found a use for them yet, but they're intriguing all the same :) See openoffice.org, getopenoffice.org (and probably a bunch of others I don't know about). Cheers, Simon You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Fill transparent?
Hi All, I'm really sorry this is probably a dumb/rtfm type question but I guess I don't know enough to know what to look for. I simply want to make a selection transparent. I can make the selection OK, but when I click the little red eraser thingy (for which the tooltip says Erase to background or transparency I can't make it make the selection transparent no matter what I try. Can anyone tell me what I should be doing please? Many thanks, Simon You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Fill transparent?
--- Olivier Ripoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon Roberts wrote: ... I simply want to make a selection transparent. ... Try Layer-Transparency-Add alpha channel. And then just cut your selection (ctrl-X). Oh, wow, that's easy. I guess I really just didn't know where to begin. Many thanks :) Simon You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] RAW support
--- Rhys Sage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it likely that the GIMP will ever support RAW images such as those from my XT? It already does, via plugins. There are several, I use ufraw, which works and integrates with GIMP just great. Cheers, Simon You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Help with batch printing please?
Hi All, I'd like to be able to have gimp print something from a command line, so I can use it in a batch job. Well, to back up a little, I guess what I want is to be able to print high quality graphics from a command-line but so far, the only thing I have that I'm aware of that does this on my Epson R200 printer is the GIMP. What I'm trying to do is create a script to do it, but the docs seem a little thin (maybe I'm missing something). Anyway, I found something about script-fu, and tried to work from that. What I have doesn't work, and I don't seem to be able to find useful error messages (the console, after it fails, doesn't say anything helpful). So, if anyone can suggest any or all of: 1) how do I debug this? 2) where can I find more information on scripting and 3) maybe tell me what is wrong with this, or what other command line utility I should use, I'd be very grateful. Here's the non-working script: (define (gimp-batch-print filename) (let* ((image (car (gimp-file-load RUN-NONINTERACTIVE filename filename))) (drawable (car (gimp-image-get-active-layer image (file_print_gimp RUN-NONINTERACTIVE image drawable EpsonR200 EpsonR200 raw 1 1440 x 720 DPI Highest Quality Photo Quality Inkjet Paper8 Standard 100.0 100.0 -1 -1 -1 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 0 2 100.0 100.0 Six Color Photo Adaptive Hybrid 0) (gimp-image-delete image))) Which I put in my scripts directory and tried to run with: gimp -b gimp-batch-print ~/color.gif TIA! Cheers, Simon You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] How to draw a line? :(
I'm feeling particularly useless today, I'm pretty much a total beginner with GIMP, but I can't believe this is as hard as I seem to be making it. I want to draw a straight line. I'm using Gimp 2.2.4 I try the paintbrush, I have a color selected, and I can draw a squiggly line. The help says that holding shift down will make all these tools constrained to straight lines, but mine doensn't draw anything. It looks like it's trying to do measuement or something. I try the path tool (which I can't claim to understand) and then try to stroke the path. I get polygons while I'm messing about, I can also get curves, but I don't seem to be able to get an actual line that stays on the page. What I _want_ is a straight line, constrained to horizontal or vertical, drawn with the caligraphic brush (so it has a chiselled end) and using the fade out option, so it disappears smoothly over a distance. Anyone want to tell me what's so obvious that I've missed it? Thanks in advance, Simon __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How to draw a line? :(
Gach, hit reply, instead of reply to all. Nutshell version: no, I'd not seen this, yes, so far as I can make out, I'm doing what the tutorial says, but no, I don't get any line. I get two crosshairs and a line joining the two as I move the mouse while holding shift (I can constrain the line to certain angles with control too) but when I release shift, the whole thing goes away. Foreground and background are both set to contrasting colors compared to the current image color. Any thoughts? TIA Simon --- Marco Wessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you read the actual straight line tutorial? It's here: http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Straight_Line/ It details exactly what to do, step-by-step. Marco On May 12, 2006, at 9:02 PM, Simon Roberts wrote: I'm feeling particularly useless today, I'm pretty much a total beginner with GIMP, but I can't believe this is as hard as I seem to be making it. I want to draw a straight line. I'm using Gimp 2.2.4 I try the paintbrush, I have a color selected, and I can draw a squiggly line. The help says that holding shift down will make all these tools constrained to straight lines, but mine doensn't draw anything. It looks like it's trying to do measuement or something. I try the path tool (which I can't claim to understand) and then try to stroke the path. I get polygons while I'm messing about, I can also get curves, but I don't seem to be able to get an actual line that stays on the page. What I _want_ is a straight line, constrained to horizontal or vertical, drawn with the caligraphic brush (so it has a chiselled end) and using the fade out option, so it disappears smoothly over a distance. Anyone want to tell me what's so obvious that I've missed it? Thanks in advance, Simon __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Solved Re: [Gimp-user] How to draw a line? :(
thanks, yes, It's behaving now. It takes a mouse click to indicate the starting point, and a shift-click to indicate the end. Holding shift in advance of the final click shows you where it will draw. Makes perfect sense now, but I was so expecting it to be a drag operation to draw the line (like it is when it's a freehand line) that I couldn't see the wood for the trees. Thanks all, especially Marco for such prompt and persistent help. Now I can just quietly put it behind me and slowly stop feeling really dumb! Cheers, Simon --- Bob Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you read the actual straight line tutorial? It's here: http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Straight_Line/ Simon Roberts wrote: Nutshell version: no, I'd not seen this, yes, so far as I can make out, I'm doing what the tutorial says, but no, I don't get any line. I get two crosshairs and a line joining the two as I move the mouse while holding shift (I can constrain the line to certain angles with control too) but when I release shift, the whole thing goes away. I'm using 2.3.8. I must admit I did not find that tutorial explicit enough, or perhaps the method has changed. I had to do this: 1. One left click and release of the mouse at the point you want the start of the line. 2. Hold shift down. Hold control down as well if you want constrained angles. 3. Move the mouse - a guide line will be drawn - without clicking, to where you want the end of the line. 4. Click and release the mouse button. The line will be drawn. 5. Release the shift key. -- Bob Long ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Probably simple, need to know right approach
Hi all, I'm trying to put a bunch of photographs together as a collage. As I do so, I want to be able to resize and reposition each one repeatedly until I'm happy with the overall layout. So far what I'm doing is pasting each image into a new layer, however, this isn't very satisfactory because the layers are all the full size of the image, so when I resize them, I can't really see what the effect will be on the image itself. Similarly, repositioning the layer is a rather hit and miss way of repositioning the image that it contains. What should I be doing? TIA Simon You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Probably simple, need to know right approach
--- VytautasP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon Roberts wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to put a bunch of photographs together as a collage. As I do so, I want to be able to resize and reposition each one repeatedly until I'm happy with the overall layout. So far what I'm doing is pasting each image into a new layer, however, this isn't very satisfactory because the layers are all the full size of the image, so when I resize them, I can't really see what the effect will be on the image itself. Similarly, repositioning the layer is a rather hit and miss way of repositioning the image that it contains. What should I be doing? TIA Simon ImageCanvas size Make it the size you like (or can). Do not be afraid to make it bigger - you'll have more freedom to move pics. After you're satisfied with the result ImageFit canvas to layers. Thanks for this, but I fear I wasn't clear (or maybe I'm just misunderstanding your reply). My canvas is big enough to allow me to move the layers around (it's 20x30 inches @300 dpi, something of a memory hog :) The problem is that when I move or resize the individual layers that contain the individual images, I don't get a realistic preview of where the image will be because the image is only a small fraction of the layer size. If I knew how to paste an image into a new layer, and have that layer become the size of the pasted image, that would be a help, but I'm wondering if I'm just plain approaching this all wrong. How should I use GIMP so that each image I paste in can be manipulated independently (resized, repositioned)--as if each were a separate object rather than being pixels in the same pool? Thanks again, Simon You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Probably simple, need to know right approach--SOLVED
--- Matthias Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to put a bunch of photographs together as a collage. As I do so, I want to be able to resize and reposition each one repeatedly until I'm happy with the overall layout. So far what I'm doing is pasting each image into a new layer, however, this isn't very satisfactory because the layers are all the full size of the image, so when I resize them, I can't really see what the effect will be on the image itself. Similarly, repositioning the layer is a rather hit and miss way of repositioning the image that it contains. In the Layer menu is an item Autocrop Layer (at least in The Gimp 2.2) that will resize the layer to the size of the pasted image. On the other hand when I paste an image and then right click the Floating Selection in the Layers dialog and click New Layer the new layer has just the size of the pasted image. GACH! How did I miss that! Many thanks, this is exactly what I needed. Cheers, Simon You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Colour management
Can I profile my monitor with this? If so, what are the supported profiling tools? I went to PS simply because I couldn't make head nor tail of the lcms stuff, but absolutely have to have a true monitor. Cheers, Simon - Original Message From: Alexander Rabtchevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 8:54:18 AM Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Colour management Yes, 2.4 has color management. Richard Oliver wrote: Does Gimp have any thing like the colour management system that Photoshop has , which I believe can be used to set the system to a standard setting to ensure that periferals such as monitors,cameras., printers etc are all operating on the same colour values. Regards,Richard ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- With respect Alexander Rabtchevich ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Question about involuntary resizing
Hi all, I created a headshot for a friend, but the website she's posted it on, which is essentially out of her control, does some automatic resizing. Actually, I'm not sure if the resizing occurs in the server, or on the client browser. Anyway, the original image has been offered at a variety of sizes, and every time it ends up looking granular and awful on the end user's browsers. The site admins don't know anything--they're just using a system that was written for them. I would provide a single small image resized to the final size, but I don't think that will work because a) I think the resizing is dynamic, and b) the user can click on the image to get a bigger (the unresized) image. I want the larger one to still exist and we'll lose that if we just go with a small image. Under these dreadfully sub-optimal conditions, what can I do, or what should I avoid doing, to try to ensure the resized image looks as good as it can? I should point out that other people's pictures all look better than my friend's. Not always great, to be sure, but clearly there's room to improve if I knew what to do. TIA, Simon __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration
- Original Message From: norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:52:22 AM Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration snip Unfortunately, ca is controlled in lense manufacture and design and has two solutions, software or better glass. Minimizing ca via technique would severly limit your scope, imo. I would expect most lenses these days to be made such that they do not cause CA. From what I have read, there is another factor to be taken into account, the chip responsible for recording the image. I gathered that small chips are quite prone to CA and the larger the chip the lower the CA and that it virtually disappears in the 1:1 (35 mm) format. The camera I am using is an upper end, point and press so perhaps I need a better camera with a larger chip. --- CA is indeed a function of the lens quality. You're also right that a smaller sensor makes CA more visible, that's just simple geometry. If the lens produces an abberation of any given size, then if the sensor is half the size, the apparent effect of the abberation is doubled. Unfortunately, only the best lenses have this effect almost entirely eliminated. You'll find some that are called Apochromatic or just Apo. They tend to be much more expensive than normal lenses (typically called achromatic). I have a perfectly respectable, but low-end, Nikon zoom lens designed originally for film use that generates what to me is an entirely unacceptable amount of CA at the long end of its zoom on my DX-format D-SLR. Software can certainly help with this, and that other product has this built in. Then again, you can buy a couple of really nice lenses for the price you'll pay for that product ; Meanwhile, you're more likely to have trouble because of poor focus, camera shake, and other more mundane issues, than you are from CA in general. I'd say just forget about it, and focus (sorry ;) on your artistic abilities. Let's face it, the lenses that most of the greats used were total junk compared to the most basic point and shoot now. See Ken Rockwell's comments on it's not the camera at http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/notcamera.htm Cheers, Simon You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. — Naguib Mahfouz Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration
- Original Message From: norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... CA is indeed a function of the lens quality. You're also right that a smaller sensor makes CA more visible, that's just simple geometry. If the lens produces an abberation of any given size, then if the sensor is half the size, the apparent effect of the abberation is doubled. Unfortunately, only the best lenses have this effect almost entirely eliminated. You'll find some that are called Apochromatic or just Apo. They tend to be much more expensive than normal lenses (typically called achromatic). I have a perfectly respectable, but low-end, Nikon zoom lens designed originally for film use that generates what to me is an entirely unacceptable amount of CA at the long end of its zoom on my DX-format D-SLR. I feel sure that you must be correct. I have never seen any noticeable fringing or CA effects with my ordinary photography it is only with this project I set myself of copying a lot of old colour transparencies. In the old days I used to often feel frustrated at not being able to do a great deal with colour slides such as I did in my darkroom with black and white film. Thus, I saw this as chance to catch up on history and at the same time, maybe, produce some interesting images digitally. It now looks as though I shall be frustrated yet again. Norman --- Are you copying the slides, or are you scanning them? If you're using a slide copying attachment and effectively rephotographing them onto your digital camera, then the CA of the copying equipment will be a factor. On the other hand, if you're scanning them, then CA isn't usually an issue, because scanning is a different mechanism entirely. If you're scanning and then seeing CA, I believe the CA must be in the original slide. Perhaps you just didn't notice before? We do tend to view digital images at much higher magnifications than we used to view silver halide images. (To be fair, that might not be true of slides though!) Cheers, Simon Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
