[Gimp-user] Re: Newbie having trouble with layers, text and otherwise

2005-05-06 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Olivier Ripoll wrote: You said you adjusted the size of the layer containing the image to 6.75 x 4.75 inches, did you adjusted using Layer boundary size... (in the Layer menu or right-clicking on the layer in the Layers, Channels... window) or by Canvas Size... (in the Image menu) ? I suspect

[Gimp-user] Re: when even free advertising fails

2005-05-06 Thread Olivier Ripoll
David Marrs wrote: Since you bring it up, I was thinking just earlier today how frustrated I get when something suddenly stops working and I need to stop what I'm doing and look through the manual to find out what's wrong. The manual, btw, is always close at hand. I was wondering if it's'

[Gimp-user] Re: Disadvantage of GIMP when compared to Photoshop

2005-05-04 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Gezim Hoxha wrote: On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 00:41 -0400, j Mak wrote: Handling layers in Gimp is as easy as in Photoshop. You can group them I wasn't aware of this grouping ability. Can you please tell me how I would group a bunch of layers? Thanks, -Gezim I think he means you can group them with

[Gimp-user] Re: Yet another collection of brushes and patterns..

2005-05-02 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Rene Jensen wrote: Howdy folks, and thanks for a great program. I don't know where you keep you link section for external resources, but if you want to add my brushes and patterns, feel free to do so. All is free and homemade so no strings attached. I use most of it for game graphics, and it works

[Gimp-user] Re: 16 bit in Gimp

2005-05-02 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Ronald Arvidsson wrote: Hi, Sorry if this has been discussed before but I have the need to do it. Are there any plans to make Gimp 16 bit compatible so that 16 bit images (e.g. photos) are not transformed to 8 bit. I know there have been plans but have not seen anything. What would be necessary

[Gimp-user] Re: anti-aliasing

2005-04-27 Thread Olivier Ripoll
JASON JESSO wrote: I have an image that looks ok in gimp, but when I import it in a PDF document I get a staircase effect. How do I smooth the edges in gimp? Hi, When you say you import it into a pdf document, could you detail the process ? In particular, what intermediary file format do you use

[Gimp-user] Re: Feature Request: Open toolbox on right click.

2005-04-15 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In a nutshell, yes. That feature is not yet available in the windows port (or at least it wasn't last time I checked). That feature is implemented in the Win32 port of GDK so it is supposed to work. Actually, the main reason for

[Gimp-user] Re: Feature Request: Open toolbox on right click.

2005-04-14 Thread Olivier Ripoll
David Marrs wrote: Olivier Ripoll wrote: You can specify inthe preferences that the toolbox must be on top. This way, you always have it available... Try as I might, I cannot find this option! Preferences-Window Management-Hint for the toolbox-keep above Not everyone is using the menubar

[Gimp-user] Re: Image substraction available?

2005-04-13 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Peter Nabbefeld wrote: Hello, is it possible to substract one image from another? Probably setting all identical pixels to transparent? Kind regards Peter Nabbefeld There is a difference mode very useful for that. I am not sure it will give you a transparent pixel for 0, I think it is giving a

[Gimp-user] Re: Feature Request: Open toolbox on right click.

2005-04-13 Thread Olivier Ripoll
David Marrs wrote: I posted this to the c.g.a.gimp group initially but was told that this might be a better place for it. I wanted to discuss it before submitting it as a feature requeset to bugzilla. That way other users of the GIMP can bring their ideas to it (like, whether or not they like

[Gimp-user] Re: changing the size of selections in GIMP

2005-04-12 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Gabor Istvan wrote: Dear list members: I've already asked this but haven't got any response. How can I change a selection's (eg rectangle) size without reselecting again? Thanks, IG You can increase or shrink the selection by a given amount of pixels with Select-Grow and Select-Shrink

[Gimp-user] Re: ANNOUNCE: GNU Image Manipulation Program version 2.2.6

2005-04-11 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Sven Neumann wrote: The GIMP developers are proud to announce the release of version 2.2.6 of the GNU Image Manpulation Program. This is a bug-fix release in the stable GIMP 2.2 series. For a detailed list of problems fixed in the 2.2 tree, please have a look at:

[Gimp-user] Re: GimpShop

2005-04-06 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Olivier Ripoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think this is just a question of time/resources. The possibility to change the gimp menus is quite new (since version 2.2). It took much time to restructure the old code in order to have this possibility. IIRC, glade introduced

[Gimp-user] Re: GimpShop

2005-04-05 Thread Olivier Ripoll
disclaimer : I am just a gimp user, so every technical assertion below is probably wrong ;). Please take with a grain of salt. Jonathan D Gibbons wrote: I was actally not suggesting that the primary developers should take up their time making the Gimp look shiny; just that it be made possible /

[Gimp-user] Re: GimpShop

2005-04-04 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Alan Horkan wrote: On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Pierre-Alexis wrote: Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 19:28:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Pierre-Alexis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tom Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] GimpShop Maybe GimpShop should become an option in the

[Gimp-user] Re: Suggestions...

2005-03-22 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Pierre-Alexis wrote: Hello, I don't want to annoy everybody with my (sometimes poor) ideas. So... where should I go in order to send suggestions to The Gimp developers ? And where should I go in order to verify these ideas haven't already been proposed ? Pulp Hello, You can search the archives

[Gimp-user] Re: lots of things missing from gimp 2.2.2

2005-03-22 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Micheal LeVine wrote: Hello, Yesterday I struggled to install gimp 2.2.2 on my Redhat system, and finally got over the hurdles, thanks to help from several people on this mail reflector. Have you tried to find a rpm via rpmfind.net ? or via google ? There are some fedora packages of recent gimp

[Gimp-user] Re: missing pixels

2005-02-09 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Geoffrey wrote: Dana Sibera wrote: It's a problem, but not so much a bug as a limitation of the 'crawling ants' view that shows a selection. Pixels aren't just 'selected' or 'not selected' in that image, there are some pixels which are 10% selected, 20, 50, 80, 100% selected, and so on. The

[Gimp-user] Re: photo stitching in the gimp

2005-02-04 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Skunk Worx wrote: Thanks everyone for your information. I should have provided you with more details on what I am doing. I have hugin running however it does not appear to be the optimal tool for this task. I have a book, printed in 1945 or so, and it is of a very odd size, large, with a lot

[Gimp-user] Re: photo stitching in the gimp

2005-02-03 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Skunk Worx wrote: hello, i have heard algorithms exist such that a panoramic scene can be photographed as several pics and the software will automagically determine the locations, edges, etc. of the photos and splice them into a single image. is there such a plugin for the gimp ? thanks, john

[Gimp-user] Re: 2.2 splash screen competition

2004-12-01 Thread olivier ripoll
David Neary wrote: Hi all, Hi Dave, My message is slightly off-topic, but somehow not completely. On the wiki page, I have seen you ask the following question about the vitruvian (for those who do not know, the vitruvian man is a drawing of Leonardo Da Vinci): Is the Vitruvian man in the public

[Gimp-user] Re: ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.2-pre2

2004-11-25 Thread olivier ripoll
olivier ripoll wrote: PS: I will try (this evening I hope) with the binary Gimp 2.0.3 that came with Mandrake 10.1. Follow up: The binary of gimp 2.0.3 has the same bug. So only gimp 1.2 was having this right on my computer. Regards, Olivier. PS: I'll open a bug

[Gimp-user] Re: ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.2-pre2

2004-11-24 Thread olivier ripoll
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, [...] - Improvements and fixes to the migration of user settings. [...] Sven Hi Sven, I finally found time to compile the pre2, and I checked the migration process. It works now fine with this very tiny exception: I used the small theme in gimp 2.0. On the first startup

[Gimp-user] Re: ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.2-pre2

2004-11-24 Thread olivier ripoll
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, olivier ripoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I finally found time to compile the pre2, and I checked the migration process. It works now fine with this very tiny exception: I used the small theme in gimp 2.0. On the first startup of gimp 2.2, the one directly following

[Gimp-user] Re: Not using PNG transparency

2004-11-09 Thread olivier ripoll
Karine Proot wrote: Michael Schumacher wrote: If you don't mind using special CSS for IE: http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/pngbehavior/pngbehavior.html HTH, Michael Thanks for the ressource, however I am a bit reluctant about adding so much code when all I wanted first was to display an image. I will

[Gimp-user] Re: renaming the gimp

2004-11-08 Thread olivier ripoll
Kevin Myers wrote: Please give my regards to the French, and speaking of Liberty, you might want to recall who liberated France from German occupation, not once, but twice. Also perhaps mention the fact that the USA also protected all of Europe from the Soviet Union for half a century, at great

[Gimp-user] Re: renaming the gimp

2004-11-08 Thread olivier ripoll
Gezim Hoxha wrote: Hi all, I find the name GIMP not very attractive and I think if we want to market the GIMP we need to do something about this name (i.e. change it). I have friends ask me What program is that? and the when they hear GIMP it doesn't sound good, and it's hard to remember. So what

[Gimp-user] Re: ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.2-pre1 (the Halloween Release)

2004-11-04 Thread olivier ripoll
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, By the way, this preference was not migrated from my 2.0 profile when I first launched gimp 2.2. I don't see why it shouldn't have been migrated. Migration here basically means copying the user directory over. Unless we made incompatible changes to the gimprc format (which

[Gimp-user] Re: ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.2-pre1 (the Halloween Release)

2004-11-04 Thread olivier ripoll
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, olivier ripoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Suspecting that my old gimprc could have been corrupted for some reason, I have done the following steps: You certainly did this from a console window and watched for any output that might help to isolate the problem, didn't you

[Gimp-user] Re: ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.2-pre1 (the Halloween Release)

2004-11-04 Thread olivier ripoll
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, olivier ripoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Suspecting that my old gimprc could have been corrupted for some reason, I have done the following steps: You certainly did this from a console window and watched for any output that might help to isolate the problem, didn't you

[Gimp-user] Re: ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.2-pre1 (the Halloween Release)

2004-11-03 Thread olivier ripoll
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, we are glad to announce the availability of the first pre-release for GIMP 2.2. More than half a year after GIMP 2.0 saw the light of day, we are now close to finish work on it's successor, GIMP 2.2. You can download a first pre-release from ftp.gimp.org and it's mirrors:

[Gimp-user] Re: ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.2-pre1 (the Halloween Release)

2004-11-03 Thread olivier ripoll
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, olivier ripoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had not noticed this before, but when I compare gimp 2.0 and 2.2 preferences, it seems I can't find anymore the following two options: enable tearoff menus checkbox and open recent menu size. They used to be in the interface

[Gimp-user] Re: Transparent Gif

2004-10-24 Thread olivier ripoll
Pau Cabot wrote: I use Gimp 2.0 and i do not have the options pnelson says in his step 2. instead of: right-click Layers Add alpha channel it is right-click Layer Transparency Add alpha channel Could someone help me? Thanks, Pau. Regards, Olivier.

[Gimp-user] Re: My new Howto on batch color correction using script-fu

2004-10-21 Thread olivier ripoll
Owen wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:58:46 +0200 Like others with Mozilla and Konquerer on a Mdk10/KDE machine, I only got the source, however when I removed the first line That is good news. There are now 3 persons reporting the problem :) !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN

[Gimp-user] Re: My new Howto on batch color correction using script-fu

2004-10-20 Thread olivier ripoll
Patrick Shanahan wrote: * olivier ripoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-18-04 03:40]: might be a problem ... Not here on Firefox 1.0PR with Windows XP. ^^^ I have two reasons to think XP might not be the problem: 1- I have received an email from a person called

[Gimp-user] Re: My new Howto on batch color correction using script-fu

2004-10-20 Thread olivier ripoll
Patrick Shanahan wrote: * olivier ripoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-20-04 03:40]: 1- I have received an email from a person called John Shawger for whom the page works with XP + Firefox 1.0PR 2- It works with IE on windows XP So I think Firefox is right not to interpret the frame content

[Gimp-user] Re: My new Howto on batch color correction using script-fu

2004-10-18 Thread olivier ripoll
Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Malcolm Tredinnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-17-04 22:35]: ... Your webserver is serving up this document as text/plain (rather than text/html), so it is hard to read at the moment (i.e. littered with HTML tags). You may wish to fix that. :-) Hum, looks fine in Firefox

[Gimp-user] Re: Text tool problem

2004-10-14 Thread olivier ripoll
Balas Mark wrote: Hi! What versions of freetype and fontconfig are you using? How could I find this out? (Sorry for being so amateur, but I switched to Linux only three months ago.) Go to the mandrake control center, package category, and launch the remove package tool. There you can search for

[Gimp-user] Re: help needed with GIMP 2.2

2004-10-11 Thread olivier ripoll
So here is another bug candidate (i.e. I do not know if it qualifies as a bug, and it could be on my machine only). It is again a minor one anyway, so could be postponed for 2.4 (3.0?): When using the render plugins (any render plugin), try the following: start with a blank image. apply a

[Gimp-user] Re: help needed with GIMP 2.2

2004-10-08 Thread olivier ripoll
Disclaimer: I apologise if this message appears in double, I sent one earlier this morning, but since I do not see it in the newsgroup or the mailing-list archive, I suspect I did something wrong with my newgroup client, so I resend it. (I am passing by gmane.org newgroup interface). (end of

[Gimp-user] Re: Advice on Best Tool for Job

2004-09-24 Thread olivier ripoll
Nick Wilson wrote: * and then olivier ripoll declared Right, I actually got on really well with using a layer mask! - However, now i am down to the very fine details im not sure i have the right brush. You mentioned 'feathered' but i dont see that in the tool options? Im using a 3px fuzzy

[Gimp-user] automatic resize of open versus save dialogs: bug?

2004-09-23 Thread olivier ripoll
I am wondering if it is worth opening a bug for this minor UI bug: I have noticed that with 2.1.5 open file dialog (and at least also 2.1.4), the window is resized when the arrow-folding-widget (*) for file type (or is it for advanced options, I do not remember) is clicked/unfolded. This resize

[Gimp-user] Re: Text tool

2004-09-23 Thread olivier ripoll
Michael Wagner wrote: The button should have a total height of 16 pixels and so I start with an empty image of that height. Every time I use the text tool the resulting text looks really ugly. I already have a running web page where the navigation bar is created of text links (only using the A

[Gimp-user] Re: Text tool

2004-09-23 Thread olivier ripoll
--- Michael Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hallo again, I send this mail back to the list (maybe my reply-to is not correct... you replied directly to me, not to the list). or Michael Wagner wrote: The button should have a total height of 16 pixels and so I start with an empty image

[Gimp-user] Re: Advice on Best Tool for Job

2004-09-23 Thread olivier ripoll
Nick Wilson wrote: * and then olivier ripoll declared I think the following tutorial corresponds more or less to what you want to achieve. http://www.gimpguru.org/Tutorials/ReplaceForeground/ The problem of loosing pixels you had with you dog and with your sister would be easily avoided

[Gimp-user] Re: Advice on Best Tool for Job

2004-09-23 Thread olivier ripoll
Nick Wilson wrote: * and then olivier ripoll declared Right, do you think that photo is now rubbish? do i need to start over from the beggining? No, but you will not obtain a final good result with only the eraser or the magic wand selection tool. At some point you need a tool where you can

[Gimp-user] Re: Selection Help Please

2004-09-22 Thread olivier ripoll
Nick Wilson wrote: Hi all, I was hoping someone might point me in the direction of a tutorial (or just tell me what tools to use) for the following: I need to take a snapshot of someone and then select them out. IE to ditch the sofa in the background etc and just have a nice shot of the subject

[Gimp-user] Re: Wide controls in the toolbars

2004-09-22 Thread olivier ripoll
Alexander Rabtchevich wrote: Are there any plans of fixing the bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124134 in 2.2? Are you sure you have the right bug number? This bug has been closed as fixed nearly a year ago. Regards, Olivier. ___ Gimp-user

[Gimp-user] Re: Photo stitch

2003-03-31 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Alf C Stockton wrote: Is there any way to stitch photos together using the gimp ? Maybe, apart from the pano tools sugested by others, you can be also interested in these plugins that I have not tested yet: http://www.acc.umu.se/~janlert/phfluuh/ Regards, Olivier.

[Gimp-user] Re: [Q] source for GIMP ports

2003-03-25 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Daniel Carrera wrote: Hello, I have a couple of questions: 1) Does anyone know the difference between GIMP for Windows and WinGimp? They seem to be two totally unrelated projects: http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/ http://www.wingimp.org/ From the FAQ of wingimp site: WinGIMP is the

[Gimp-user] Re: LaTeX command in GIMP

2003-03-18 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Adriano Fagiolini wrote: Hi, My name's Adriano. I'm really desperate. I need to do a picture containing some text formatted as in LaTeX. I mean that I need to write a letter with the sign of a vector as you do in physics. Is there any program that can help me? Is it possible to do it in GIMP?

[Gimp-user] Re: Save as GIF

2003-03-10 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Ncus wrote: OK..maybe someone else in the previous post already asking about this. where i can find utilities for saving to GIF. Thanks.. Gimp can save as gif. Just either do 1) Image-mode-indexed then File-Save as and chose GIF in the available formats or 2) File-Save as and chose by

[Gimp-user] Re: smooth outline to scripture

2003-02-24 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Hago Ziegler wrote: Hi Oliver and Ulf, these more conventional methods, using different ways of blurring, I had tried already. The best I could achieve was: http://www.hagoschaos.de/gi27/line.html - image 3, and the initial B then becomes like image 4. Perfect! It is gray, not black! Just

[Gimp-user] Re: smooth outline to scripture

2003-02-24 Thread Olivier Ripoll
David Millet wrote: Hago, About the best technique I've found for doing something like that is: 1. use the select contiguous regions tool to select all the black 2. click the quickmask button in the lower left hand corner 3. use filtersblurblur to blur the whole thing (aka smooth it,

[Gimp-user] Re: smooth outline to scripture

2003-02-24 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Hago Ziegler wrote: Hi, things are getting better. See: http://www.hagoschaos.de/gi27/line.html image no.5 I got it with the GUG-tutorial. The only thing I don't like at this technique is, that original angels get rounded. What I don't really understand, is what the quickmask is doing.

[Gimp-user] Re: Question about replacing a color

2003-02-10 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Judy Wilson wrote: Gimp wizards! Is there a way to replace all pixels of a certain color with another color? Thank you! Judy Wilson Select- by Color (set threshold to 0) click on a pixel of the colour to change then just drag and drop the new colour on the image. Sincerely, Olivier.

[Gimp-user] Re: Dialogs always on top

2003-01-22 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Andres Montiel wrote: Is it possible to have the Dialogs always on top? I scrounged through the Preferences but could not find such an option. Is it possible? - Andres Montiel This is a window manager setting. On E for instance, right click onto the title bar and then you can access most of

[Gimp-user] Re: Dialogs always on top

2003-01-22 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Andres Montiel wrote: Thanks for the info. I shall look for a HOWTO for Gnome. :) Well, this will depend on which WM you are using in Gnome. Gnome 2.0 was using Sawfish as default, but some distribution (RedHat and Mandrake for instance) replaced it by Metacity which is the new default (gnome

[Gimp-user] Re: Examples of edge detection filters

2003-01-14 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Tom Williams wrote: Hi! Someone posted a link to a site that had examples of various edge detection filters being used on a Coke can. I can' seem to find this link when searching through the mailing list archives. If someone out there has a link to this site, would you please post the URL

[Gimp-user] Re: transparent GIF colour

2003-01-08 Thread Olivier Ripoll
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to make one colour of an indexed image transparent. Can you do this in GIMP? select-by color, then cut (ctrl-x) or clear (ctrl-k) longer explanation: I've taken a photo of a face with a digital camera and have indexed that image, as a GIF (to save space for

[Gimp-user] Re: moving selection 1 pixel

2002-11-19 Thread Olivier Ripoll
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, How can I move selections 1 pixel? According to the documentation, the default shortcut should be ALT+arrow key, but it doesn't work with my system (gimp 1.2.3 on Mandrake 9.0). Also, ALT+leftmousebutton moves the whole image, instead of the selection path,

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