I've made a simple animated gif and what I wanted to do was have a word
appear as the last frame. But the text box remains blank, though the text is
black and the gif is red. Is there a way I can add text? What am I doing
wrong? Or what do I need to do?
A wild guess:
The image is in indexed
Hi,
I set Use dynamic keyboard shortcuts, so I can assign
shortcuts on the fly by moving the mouse pointer onto a
menu item and type whatever shortcut I want.
This works wonderfully in almost all cases.
For a very long time I always assigned some keys for the
zoom levels:
1 for 1:1, 2 for
Hi,
thanks for your fast answer, Sven!
I set Use dynamic keyboard shortcuts, so I can assign
shortcuts on the fly by moving the mouse pointer onto a
menu item and type whatever shortcut I want.
That's not really supported any longer. If there are problems with it,
we are not going to
D.Jones (aka) Capnhud wrote:
Error while executing script-fu-quick-sketch2:
Error: eval: unbound variable: script-fu-quick-sketch2
here is a 2 at the end
(define (script-fu-quick-sketch theImage
here is NO 2 at the end
(script-fu-register script-fu-quick-sketch2
here is a 2 at the end
I am using windows and want to grab a window, I use the following method:
1. ALT + printscreen (copy);
2. use GIMP for a new file;
3. Crtl + v to paste.
Now in step 2 I have to specify the image size, but I have no idea how big
the image is. Every time I have to adjust the image a
Carey's book suggests that the Bezier path selection is the most
powerful and best of the selection tools. Is that still the case, or
does gimp-2 have a better one?
I'd say that the best selection tool mostly depends on
what you want to select.
If you need to select rectangles, the bezier
Katie wrote:
Im new to useing the program and I need help. Everytime I
try to resize a image it doesn't work. When I try to make
a picture bigger instead of making the picture bigger it
just gives me gray checkers in the new part. What should
I do? And when I try to make a picture smaller it
Sabrina Fair wrote:
For about six months I've been having a problem with the
Start Up. It's fine until it gets to Fonts then all of
the sudden it freezes up and usually causes my computer
to freeze up too. I have gone through all of my fonts and
none of them are giving me any trouble in Word or
mickeydog wrote:
I have an image that is 2 colors, black and white.
I want to change all the white pixel to transparent.
How do I do this?
Add an alpha channel to the image (if not possible, change
image mode from indexed to RGB first)
Select by Color (selecting white)
Ctrl-K to clear the
Ben Conley wrote:
Since GIMP doesn't seem to have a clone
took, I had to use PhotoDeluxe (which I really don't want to do). So I
was wondering, is there a way to emulate a clone tool in GIMP?
You could use the clone tool for that ;-)
In the tool box, click on the little stamp icon ...
hey guys, i was workin on some pictures that took me about 2 hours to make
and then gimp crashed, does it store backup or temp files anywhere i might
be able to find/restore them?
You worked for two hours without saving?
That's very daring - independent of the software used ...
As far as I
I have this image that Im laying atop another image. They are both gifs.
Im using the eraser tool to erase at 47% the image to make it
transparent but, above 50% its 100% and below 50% its 0% transparent.
Gif only allows full transparency or full opacity.
If you want to have any other values
What I want to know is, is how do I get Gimp 2.2.7 to alter an image's
dimensions like that?
Activate the chain symbol in the layers dialog for all
layers (only necessary if there is more than one layer) - if
you don't chain them, only the active layer will be scaled.
Then use the Scale
I'm a Gimp newbie and I'm trying to create my company 'black text' logo on a
transparent background and save it as a jpg to be used on my web site.
Transparency and jpg are (AFAIK) a contradiction - jpg
doesn't support transparency.
I'm doing fine with the whole process except the
michael chang wrote:
Do you know what the word macro means? A macro is a
script or list of
instructions/settings (for e.g. a camera, software
application, etc.)
Do _you_ know what the word macro usually means (esp. when
in camera context)?
Usually it refers to lens settings for
please continue to steal
[...]
leave it alone in the name of netiquette!
Ah, I understand:
Netiquette means that you are allowed to imply that someone
is a thief but that you are not allowed to talk about mail
list behaviour.
Thanks for making that clear to me.
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Andreas Waechter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [06-25-05 00:58]:
No, Thunderbird should not reply to the list with the
current settings of the list.
Your *mail* client is *not* being blamed.
if you had read the lines on which I answered, namely
Not sure what is going
nuno alexandre wrote:
Oh and BTW,
Can you _please_ reply only to the list and not to me personally,
unless requested ?
Unfortunately (IMO) this list is set up so that a Reply
goes NOT to the list but to the original sender of the message.
I don't know why this list is set up in this way -
Andreas,
Not sure what is going on in your Thunderbird, maybe a setting or
something, but reply should send it right back to the mail list.
No, Thunderbird should not reply to the list with the
current settings of the list.
There is no Reply-To header, thus a Reply has to go to
the
Excuse me for maybe being stupid, but how on earth do i select a circular
section from exact centre of an image?
I have the centre marked by two intersecting rulers.
Start selecting your circle from there.
But i cant get the circular selection to grow from that intersection.
_After_ you
How come most of my posts and replies to posts doesn't end up here on the
list?
When replying, make sure you reply to the list.
Default when replying is that the mail goes to the person
who sent the mail, NOT to the list.
Andreas
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I want to change the all-black background of an image into a transparency, or
make black transparent, so when printed - the background color, black, is not
printed. What is the easiest, or most effective, way to do this with
Gimp-2.2?
Add an alpha channel (Layer - Transparency - Add Alpha
Kalle Ounapuu wrote:
When I create a new transparent layer I can't seem to paint on it with the Paintbrush.
Check the setting for Keep transparency (the small check
box in the layer dialog next to the Mode dropdown).
If it is set to keep transparency, you can't paint on
transparent areas.
cu
a difference, both xcf and png
are lossless formats, so the pixels should be identical.
When
I saved to *.png, it was pretty much the same size as before (even a little
bigger).
Hm. Strange.
Did you have any settings on the scanner different?
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is there a way to move an anchor point of a path?
Yes, there is.
But I have not yet found a way to _move_ an anchor point.
Switch back to design mode and anchor points can be dragged
easily.
Sorry to have bothered you ...
Andreas
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Gabor Istvan wrote:
I've already asked this but haven't got any response.
How can I change a selection's (eg rectangle) size without
reselecting again?
The scale tool (as well as move, rotate, shear, change
perspective and flip tools) can be applied to a selection as
well as to a layer.
Can anyone tell me if there is a straightforward way to make a circular
path?
You could use the Elliptical Select Tool (hold Shift down
to get a perfect circle).
Then convert your selection to a path (Rightclick on Image -
Select - To Path)
Andreas
When manually dragging an edge, is there a way to constrain it on an axis?
In Photoshop you hold shift and your cursor motion will be restricted to the
initial axis you start moving your mouse on.
A short test reveals:
pressing ctrl limits the movement to left-right,
pressing alt limits the
have a look at test-sphere.scm as found in the source tree. It has
comments that explain all the Script-Fu parameters.
Thanks, Alan suggested that too, so I searched for that
script, downloaded it and looked at it.
Andreas
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Kalle Ounapuu wrote:
Is there a way to turn off the yellow dashed line around the canvas?
It seems to always be there... to me it seems distracting, and perhaps it might
be confused as an active selection.
It shows the border of the active layer. If your layer is
the same size as the canvas and
If your copy of the gimp includes the sphere test (test-sphere.scm) You
should read through it first. To the user the script may be ugly but to
the programmer it provides invaluable comments and clear examples that
help you get started with Script-Fu.
I did not find that script on my machine. I
Why are attachments allowed on this list?
Does that make any sense?
If no attachments were allowed, there would be much less
danger of viruses through this list.
Andreas
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Hi,
is there a chance in Gimp 2.2.3 to have the advanced options
of the JPG options dialog (when saving as a .jpg) already
opened?
(i.e. have it as it was in previous versions?)
Same for the browse for other folders after File - Save as.
I've looked through all the preferences but couldn't find
manpage, also available online:
Thanks. Also to Yosh.
Not a very obvious place to look for it ...
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Not a very obvious place to look for it ...
can you share an example of an obvious place?
THE obvious place for that information would be where that
information is needed.
On the same page of the Preferences dialog.
As I answered on Alan Horkans question already (which went
to him only because
Clicking Help in the Preferences dialog where you set the title
brings you to the page of the manual which also describes the
format codes.
Appendix C. Eeek! a help is missing
is no description of the format codes ...
(I just downloaded and installed the help package again from
Jernej's page to
Hello,
in Gimp, you can change the title of image windows (in File
- Preferences - Interface - Image Windows - Title Status).
But I could not find any help about the meaning of the
letters which are used in combination with %.
I could only derive a few from the given examples:
%% is a percent
still look for a solution to get a default brush different
from the one in the default gimp config (I want Circle(1)
but always get Circle(11))
Andreas
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Hello and a (somewhat belated) happy new year!
In some old Gimp version (1.3?) I managed to set the default
brush size (the one set when Gimp starts) by editing some rc
file.
But I can't remember exactly how I did it.
I couldn't find the place in Gimp 2.2.
I found a way to save tool options for
Specifically, I need to convert a newspaper that was scanned
as a grayscale image to a black and white monochrome 1 bit image. I
need a tool that's as intelligent as a scanner in making the
background white.
Right-Click - Tools - Color Tools - Threshold
cu, Andreas
I want to extract all pixels of a specific colour (to be more precise
look a certain colour). I am finding that there is some variation in
the colour. so if I try select by color. I only get a subset of the
pixels.
Is there a way of selecting all pixels close to the colour I want (where
I'd be interested in working on a new plugin registry if the old one is
not going to be resurrected (or it if will remain unmaintained even if
it comes back up).
it now says (in German) that there was a hardware crash,
hopefully everything will be online again in a few days (it
says Tuesday but
Accidentally sent this (by Reply instead of Reply All) to Sven
instead of the list ... (not very clever settings IMHO). Sorry Sven if
you get it more than once.
Sven Neumann wrote:
It
is thus not possible to install this development version into the
same prefix with GIMP 2.0.
What does
Felix E. Klee wrote:
I find extremely tedious to switch between foreground and background
colors by hitting x.
Thanks for mentioning this - I didn't know the x switches
fore/background colors.
What I use very often is control key plus left mouse click - it selects
the color at the mouse
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