[Gimp-user] Crop tool - highlight intensity

2011-08-05 Thread Chris Mohler
Hi list, Is there any trick to increase the intensity of the highlight option of the crop tool? Thanks, Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] emboss filter.

2011-07-29 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:40 PM, John Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: The emboss filter works fine but it converts text to silver/gray. I would rather have a yellow/gold shade. Is there a way, short of rewriting the C code, to achieve this effect? Can you follow the Emboss with

Re: [Gimp-user] emboss filter.

2011-07-29 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: Or use hue rotation filter? Colors-Map-Rotate Color does work if you hop over to the 'Gray Options' tab. I wouldn't have thought to look there ;) Chris ___

Re: [Gimp-user] Merge linked

2011-07-28 Thread Chris Mohler
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Fred J fokju...@gmail.com wrote: I installed the Merge Linked script (found here: http://chiselapp.com/user/saulgoode/repository/script-fu/wiki?name=sg-merge-linked) and it works great until you link layers that are invisible. The invisible layers suddenly

Re: [Gimp-user] Enhancement for Gimp menus

2011-07-26 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Jeffery Small j...@cjsa.com wrote: For example, I might be switching between Century Gothic and Century Gothic Bold fonts. If the bold font is currently selected and I access the menu, the current font is at the top of the list and I always have to scroll back

Re: [Gimp-user] can i use gimp 2 for commercial works?

2011-07-15 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Salim for...@gimpusers.com wrote: i am a web designer. For example, i will make new designs with gimp and after i will sell them. Do coders of gimp let us for selling designs that are made on gimp? You are free to do whatever you want with what you create in

Re: [Gimp-user] Suggestions for GIMP layout

2011-07-15 Thread Chris Mohler
From someone who's been following the development of GIMP a bit: On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Harald Pfeiffer comme...@maxim-x.com wrote: 1) [...]So my first recommendation is that GIMP's SAVE IMAGE     window be restructured to cause the folder tree under the PLACES     heading, to

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP

2011-07-05 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:49 AM, John Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: The user can click on the help facility and view the Gimp Manual in an html viewer. Other than that there is no operational connection to the internet. That's not entirely true: the user can select 'File-Open Location'

Re: [Gimp-user] Changing a Text Layer

2011-05-11 Thread Chris Mohler
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:12 PM, John Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: In the layer window when you  click on a layer the whole layer bar gets a blue background and that is the active layer. Yes - click on a layer in the layers dialog (Windows-Dockable Dialogs-Layers or press CTRL-L) to

Re: [Gimp-user] New user for windows platform

2011-05-02 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 3:25 AM, 王炎 wym...@163.com wrote: I am new to GIMP. I am learning Comic Designing. What can GIMP help me with my work. I am confused. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=gimp+comicsl=1 ;) Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list

Re: [Gimp-user] how to apply a stepping curve

2011-03-21 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:09 PM, rich for...@gimpusers.com wrote: I think you will have to fake it. Draw the curve and keep it as a path.   Assuming you want (say) the x-axis to have equal increments, set up the grid, enable snap-to-grid, and paint constraining the line with shift for

Re: [Gimp-user] how to apply a stepping curve

2011-03-17 Thread Chris Mohler
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Křištof Želechovski giecr...@stegny.2a.pl wrote: Thank you.  This means it is unsupported (for the end user).  Could you be so kind and reopen my bug, or at least place a comment to that effect? Can you provide an example of the type of curve you wish to apply?

Re: [Gimp-user] how to apply a stepping curve

2011-03-16 Thread Chris Mohler
2011/3/16 Krzysztof Żelechowski giecr...@stegny.2a.pl: When I create a curve to apply to an image, GIMP gives me only two choices: a freehand curve and a smooth curve.  I need to apply a stepping curve (piecewise flat) and I am out of luck because there is no such option. Please help. There's

Re: [Gimp-user] tif vs TIF

2011-02-17 Thread Chris Mohler
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Jeremy Nell jeremyn...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a difference between tif and TIF (and even tiff)? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_Image_File_Format I just saved the same file as both tif and TIF and thought that, if they were the same format, GIMP would

Re: [Gimp-user] tif vs TIF

2011-02-17 Thread Chris Mohler
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Patrick Shanahan ptilopt...@gmail.com wrote: You must be using windows which is not case sensitive but linux where gimp originated is.  picture.tif \= Picture.TIF \= Picture.tif And linux discerns file type by an internal file flag rather than the extension so

Re: [Gimp-user] locked up file selection screen

2011-02-08 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Frank McCormick bea...@videotron.ca wrote: I am running GIMP 2.6.10 under Ubuntu Maverick...and lately have been having an intermittent problem with the file selector. It pops up seemingly locked-up so I can't change directories or disks, matter of fact can't

Re: [Gimp-user] opening binary flat files

2011-02-01 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:54 PM, mintakax for...@gimpusers.com wrote: they are images of satellite imagery that are just binary flat files. Can you upload an example image somewhere, or is there a link? Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list

Re: [Gimp-user] Windows XP - Service Pack?

2011-01-30 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:54 PM, jack white jbw9...@hotmail.com wrote: Thank you, but that's not installing it with no SP's installed though (as the question was). I'm not sure why you would want to skip the service packs - I use an XP VM for legacy apps and testing, but the first thing I did

Re: [Gimp-user] Tick marks

2011-01-24 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Dan Aldrich daldr...@earthlink.net wrote: I recently needed to make a blank sheet w/ 1/4 tick marks around the edge of a paper, it was for one of my daughter's geometry assignments. I thought it might be possible to do that with the grid plug-in. Anyone think

Re: [Gimp-user] LZW Compression - Image rendition advice

2011-01-22 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Ralph Zerbonia ra...@universecentral.com wrote: My question is whether or not anyone knows of any image disadvantages, is there anything about LZW that would allow a loss of any visual fidelity? LZW is indeed lossless. I just did a quick test[0] to be sure

Re: [Gimp-user] LZW Compression - Image rendition advice

2011-01-22 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Jay Smith j...@jaysmith.com wrote: a) For images under (for example) 50 MB in size, and on systems that are modern, fast, and with lots of memory, is there an approximate rule of thumb regarding how much longer opening and saving operations will take? I've

Re: [Gimp-user] newbie: script for comverting eps line drawings to gif

2011-01-20 Thread Chris Mohler
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Ray Tayek rta...@ca.rr.com wrote: oh, it's python (didn't know that gimp ate python). i will try some python. don't see any python-fu under filters though. are the conversion options documented anywhere? Are you on Windows? You'll need to install python

Re: [Gimp-user] A simple for loop while using Colorize

2011-01-07 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Atrus atr...@gmail.com wrote: What would be the best approach to accomplishing this? Try this plug-in I threw together: http://registry.gimp.org/node/24963 Screen capture of resulting files: http://registry.gimp.org/files/Screenshot-test-File_Browser.png HTH,

Re: [Gimp-user] warp by points

2010-12-27 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Peter Keller keller...@gmail.com wrote: What I'd like to be able to do is something like georeferencing images in a GIS.  That is, having a base image I refer to, create a series of points on the base and another image of a different scale that correspond to

Re: [Gimp-user] removing timestamps from a photo

2010-12-19 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Mag Gam magaw...@gmail.com wrote: I have taken several hundred photos with my Nikon D3100. I've enabled the date time stamp therefore I see a bright yellow time stamp on the lower right corner. I would like to remove this time stamps. I was wondering what is

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimpusers.com - Webmaster(?)

2010-11-26 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Holmen for...@gimpusers.com wrote: I'm having problem with my account on gimpusers.com. I requested an email change but the given link gave a 404 Error so I can't change my emailadress. Now when I'm trying to find some emailadress to

Re: [Gimp-user] Square Pic in a Rectangular Hole

2010-11-24 Thread Chris Mohler
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Julian Bryson jules...@gmail.com wrote: I am new to GIMP and to this list, so please forgive me if I'm posting a question that has been asked a million times.  I can't seem to find a searchable archive for the list (if there is one, feel free to point me

Re: [Gimp-user] Layer masks: how do you memorize which color means opaque?

2010-10-11 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Patrick Horgan phorg...@yahoo.com wrote: i'm curious how other people regard layer masks. In particular, which memory aids exist to remember when to use black and when to use white. I think of it like illumination. Cool. I think of it as a window or

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp.tutorials.net

2010-10-05 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:47 PM, gerard82 for...@gimpusers.com wrote: When you go to Gimpusers.com you click useful links. Gimpusers.com is not part of the GIMP project - it is a third party site. See here for who you should be talking to: http://gimpusers.com/site/imprint (it's mildly

Re: [Gimp-user] how do I find the pathname of a selected font?

2010-10-01 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:13 AM, bobdobbs for...@gimpusers.com wrote: It looks like the name of the font that gimp displays in the font text settings pane doesn't corrospond to the filename of the actual font, so the solution isn't as simple as navigating to my main font directory and grepping

Re: [Gimp-user] how do I find the pathname of a selected font?

2010-10-01 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Chris Mohler cr33...@gmail.com wrote: Another possibility would be to modify this script to output the filename and the font name on the same line After rereading that script, I saw it was quite easy to modify so it only lists the font name and file name

Re: [Gimp-user] Drawing a notice board

2010-09-26 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Paulo J. Matos pocma...@gmail.com wrote: I guess the harder part seems to be doing the cork part realistically. Any tips? Maybe check a texture site for a tileable image? A quick search turned up this:

Re: [Gimp-user] Combine two images

2010-08-22 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Jim Hall volunteer@gmail.com wrote: What I need to do is stitch two or more images together to make a larger one. These are more like drawings than photos. Best analogy is: take 2 or 3 screenshots of an area of a city with google maps (map, not satellite

Re: [Gimp-user] [SPAM] - Re: Square selection fill round ????? - Email found in subject

2010-08-03 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Ma, John (CS - CIS) john...@saskatoon.ca wrote: Can anybody tell me how to unsubscribe from this list? Follow the links at the bottom of each and every message. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list

Re: [Gimp-user] What do you use for lettering?

2010-07-04 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Greg A. for...@gimpusers.com wrote: I don't understand what that means? How do I get these new fonts into the operating system? I'm using XP, and sadly am not a computer guru. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=install+fonts+windows+xp ;) Chris

Re: [Gimp-user] Overlaying One Photo Over Another

2010-06-30 Thread Chris Mohler
In overlay image: select-all, edit-copy. In background image: edit-paste as new layer. You now have an image with two layers. Delete/fade/edit/whatever you need to on the top layer. HTH, Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list

Re: [Gimp-user] Overlaying One Photo Over Another

2010-06-30 Thread Chris Mohler
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Greg A. for...@gimpusers.com wrote: I use the fuzzy select tool to highlight only the person in the picture, then do select all, edit, copy. OK - so what you want to do here is fuzzy select, then copy. Skip the select all, or you will have to repeat the fuzzy

Re: [Gimp-user] Overlaying One Photo Over Another

2010-06-30 Thread Chris Mohler
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Greg A. for...@gimpusers.com wrote: It maybe seems like the overlay is HUGE compared to the background but I can't seem to be able to resize. That's my guess too. Try Image-Scale image on the singer's pic and scale it down to roughly the same size as the

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate increases PNG size x10 !

2010-06-24 Thread Chris Mohler
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au wrote: Confirmation of what is going on from the gurus would be appreciated! It was as I guessed - the scans are in grayscale mode but the contents are essentially a 1-bit image. Open a scan, do image-mode-bitmap, choose 1-bit

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate increases PNG size x10 !

2010-06-23 Thread Chris Mohler
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Leon Brooks leon-g...@cyberknights.com.au wrote: If the image is text or something else essentially monochrome Or image-mode, bitmap, 1-bit palette should drastically reduce the file size. I suspect that the 'line art' setting in xsane is producing a grayscale

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

2010-06-18 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Jade for...@gimpusers.com wrote: Also, if I had previous saves, I'd be fine... I saved the same file over and over and now it's empty. It's about 70 Kb and I think that's too small. I think something like this has happened to all of as at some point. It's a

Re: [Gimp-user] how to create something like harvey balls

2010-06-15 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Bob Meetin b...@dottedi.biz wrote: I gave it a try last night using the measure tool to mark up approximate angles then the path tool to actually create the slices.  They look fair, will certainly need to be redone befor golive, but it seems like there should

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate selection without content?

2010-04-18 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 1:51 PM, rich for...@gimpusers.com wrote: Is there no way to do this? I want to use an elliptical selection, but at an angle. Looks like the rotate tool does not work on an empty selection. You need to check the 'Selection' button next to 'Transform' in the Rotate Tool's

Re: [Gimp-user] PSD as CMYK: Web Coated (SWOP) V2

2010-04-09 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Chris Mohler cr33...@gmail.com wrote: if I find anything out, I'll post back. All I really discovered is that if you place the coatedSWOP profile into /usr/share/color/icc it becomes available to Scribus Also, I neglected to mention that you should change

Re: [Gimp-user] looking for binary software to install

2010-04-06 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Ma, John (CS - CIS) john...@saskatoon.ca wrote: I am just looking for your binary software to download so that I can install it to my computer with the OS Windows XP (even old version is fine to me). Viewed your web site, but it’s hard to find any binary

Re: [Gimp-user] [SPAM] - Re: looking for binary software to install - Email found in subject

2010-04-06 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Ma, John (CS - CIS) john...@saskatoon.ca wrote: Thanks Chris.  I installed the software successfully with the link you sent to me.  I am wondering if there is a feature to resize the image object and the background in this software? Hi John, I'm not sure what

Re: [Gimp-user] [SPAM] - Re: looking for binary software to install - Email found in subject

2010-04-06 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Ma, John (CS - CIS) john...@saskatoon.ca wrote: Hi Chris, By looking at your documentation, I found how to resize an image as below, but still looking for the feature hot to resize the background (the underneath layer). If you know how, please let me know.

Re: [Gimp-user] A question that has never been asked....

2010-04-01 Thread Chris Mohler
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:08 PM, f...@gingerbreadday.com wrote: Who was the clever soul that came up with the name GIMP? Not this again :( This has been discussed to death already. Here are the definitions I found... Then you did not try very hard: http://www.google.com/search?q=define:gimp

Re: [Gimp-user] A question that has never been asked....

2010-04-01 Thread Chris Mohler
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: I wonder what the authors of less and lame feel about their choice of name. I'm sure the authors of less feel pretty lame, since there is a 'more' tool (which, IMO, is not as useful as less). less is more

Re: [Gimp-user] Get the shadows in these clothes

2010-03-27 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 7:51 AM, SuperGimp for...@gimpusers.com wrote: The t-shirt is gonna be used in a 3D-game in Norway and it's very important that these shadows are in my new t-shirt. But i don't know how to remove the orange and white so I'm just getting the shadows and then copy/paste

Re: [Gimp-user] fuzzy around text

2010-03-23 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:48 AM, bennettjon for...@gimpusers.com wrote: I think you are right...but it affects all of us as Gimp users, as we are creating images in Gimp that we ultimately want to use in PDF docs. A shot in the dark - have you tried using OpenOffice instead of Word? Create a

Re: [Gimp-user] change of color

2010-02-22 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:30 PM, nwn for...@gimpusers.com wrote: Hi everybody, I'm truly newbie with gimp and I'm trying to figure out how I could change the collors of an black-white image with different shades of grey. I'd like to transform those shades of grey into shades of magenta. Pretty

Re: [Gimp-user] How to enhance low resolution graphic for larger modified image ???

2010-01-26 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Jay Smith j...@jaysmith.com wrote: On 01/26/2010 02:49 PM, helices wrote: I have a simple JPG (108x170 pixels) that I want to use in a larger, higher resolution image that I'm creating.  It is a fairly simple black and white drawing -- actually, a light bulb

Re: [Gimp-user] python script for rectangle selection

2010-01-02 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Fab for...@gimpusers.com wrote: Hi to both, thanks for your help and thanks for the script! I tried the attached python script by using execfile(script.py) from the python-fu console. Unfortunately gimp (2.6.7 on ubuntu) crashed. Do you have a hint, what I am

Re: [Gimp-user] make a christmas ball and insert a picture

2009-11-27 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Ray for...@gimpusers.com wrote: Does anyone have an instructional on how to create a glass christmas ball and add a picture (that hopefully) would follow the contour of the ball? Play with curve bend to get an image onto the ball:

Re: [Gimp-user] How do I create this effect?

2009-10-26 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:35 PM, bob for...@gimpusers.com wrote: I'm also wondering - is there a way to save the selections? Usually I save my selections by saving them to a path. Of course, I recognise that paths are solid, so they won't save the gradations in alpha values. So, is there a

Re: [Gimp-user] Need new printer

2009-10-23 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: I've always been fond of Epsons, so which of the current models on the shelf can do good photo quality work at a reasonable cost for expendables?  By reasonable, that is in comparison to the about $80 USD for a full

Re: [Gimp-user] How do I copy a color to the foreground ?

2009-10-06 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:04 PM, petropolis for...@gimpusers.com wrote: How do I copy a color in my image to the foreground so I can draw with it? I want to use the brush to cover over a bunch of my image. Thanks. http://manual.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-color-picker.html HTH, Chris

Re: [Gimp-user] How do I copy a color to the foreground ?

2009-10-06 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:30 PM, petropolis for...@gimpusers.com wrote: I couldn't figure that tool out. It seems to just highlight a bunch of my background. It seems to simply do a selection based on the color which is not what I want. I want the color copied to a clipboard and then I want to

Re: [Gimp-user] hi

2009-09-30 Thread Chris Mohler
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:04 PM, TREY Mcatt deerslayer...@yahoo.com wrote: I would like to stop receiveing the gimp e-mail's. Thanks ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU

Re: [Gimp-user] Feature: PSD Layer effect

2009-09-21 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Tobias Jakobs tobias.jak...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello! On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 16:35, Oliver Neumann [New Identity AG] oliver.neum...@nidag.com wrote: Is this something that is on some agenda and if so, do you know when this feature will be implemented?

Re: [Gimp-user] drop out background tutorial

2009-09-15 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Bob Meetin b...@dottedi.biz wrote: I have seen this before but never used it for a project.  Okay now I played with it for a few minutes.  There must be some trick/finesse to getting it to zero in on the subject, really on the subject's edges.  By following the

Re: [Gimp-user] HOWTO: stroke a path with the current tool?

2009-09-12 Thread Chris Mohler
along a path - I assume this function is also available in script-fu. I've pasted what I was messing around with below, but w/o access to the current tool, it's a bit useless as a plug-in ;) Chris #!/usr/bin/env python # Author: Chris Mohler # Copyright 2009 Chris Mohler # License: GPL v3

Re: [Gimp-user] A non-tool selection...

2009-09-04 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Ilya Zakharevichnospam-ab...@ilyaz.org wrote: On 2009-08-28, Greg Chapman gregtu...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I find it annoying that there appears to be no selection tool that turns off all tools. I am confused by this feature request. The GIMP is an image editing

Re: [Gimp-user] saving layers

2009-09-02 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Norman Silverstonenor...@littletank.org wrote: Suppose there are three different layers in a stack that need to be saved individually and then used as the input for a RPI plugin. What would be the best procedure to use, please? Here is a plug-in to export all

Re: [Gimp-user] Measure tool (feature proposition)

2009-08-26 Thread Chris Mohler
. Filters-Measure-Active Path - Enter pixels (integer) from the ratio in the first box, and units (integer) in the second box (eg, meters). Then look in the Error console for output. Did not test it much - let me know if it works out... HTH, Chris #!/usr/bin/env python # Author: Chris Mohler

Re: [Gimp-user] Measure tool (feature proposition)

2009-08-26 Thread Chris Mohler
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Adam Majewskia...@albedo.art.pl wrote:  thank you for your answer and script. i run it, and i removed  every int() because there were much differences between results.  Without int results are very close (almost the same).  Maybe i will more frequently use

Re: [Gimp-user] Measure tool (feature proposition)

2009-08-26 Thread Chris Mohler
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Noel Stoutenburgmjol...@ticnet.com wrote: If I'd read the posts in this thread in a different order, or at least read all of the posts before making a response, instead of writing BTW, I'm not sure I've ever had the occasion to need this in GIMP, but if it is

Re: [Gimp-user] Magic-lasso tool?

2009-08-17 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Dotan Cohendotanco...@gmail.com wrote: I have last used an image editing program several years ago, I think it was photoshop. It had a magic-lasso tool that would snap to areas of different colour, and make selecting objects very easy. Does gimp not have such

Re: [Gimp-user] How to move image when selecting?

2009-08-17 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Dotan Cohendotanco...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/17 Chris Mohler cr33...@gmail.com: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Dotan Cohendotanco...@gmail.com wrote: When I am selecting an area with the freehand select tool, how can I move the image shown? I need to select

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling a foto

2009-08-17 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Monika Himpelmannmonika_1...@yahoo.it wrote: I would understand the loss in quality if I would try to enlarge the fotos but making them smaller in size should not make them loose quality??? Any hints from you out there? Thank you in advance for any answer.

Re: [Gimp-user] Can a default cursor be changed?

2009-08-16 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Markfor...@gimpusers.com wrote: I would like to use a 'Paths' cursor that offers more precision. I currently use GIMP 2.4.7 + Windows Vista on a PC. Can the default cursor for Paths be changed to something more precise? Crosshairs, fine pointer or something

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMp won't lauch on IMAC

2009-08-15 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Johnnyfor...@gimpusers.com wrote: I been using GIMp for years(first pc now MAC).  REcently I was shut out of a folder that required a partial reinstall of osx.  This messed up my X11 so I reinstalled that.  Now GIMP won't run.  It doen't even start to launch

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing issue

2009-07-25 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Erik Lotspeiche...@lotspeich.org wrote: The fact that the Gimp engineers haven't integrated these two printing systems is unacceptable -- they should be ashamed.  Gimp will never be taken seriously until this printing nightmare is resolved.  I am a software

Re: [Gimp-user] Script to change color

2009-06-16 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Michael S.for...@gimpusers.com wrote: Hi! I want to do a simple task with a gimp-fu script but I didn't find anything in web yet. I want to exchange the color 255 255 255 (RGB) to 254 254 254 (RGB) in a windows-bitmap. Or rather, i want to do that in MANY

Re: [Gimp-user] How do I effectively use a blue screen scanning method with gimp

2009-06-16 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Jay Smithj...@jaysmith.com wrote: Ideas? Maybe use two backgrounds - each just dark enough to include the shadow in a reasonable selection (or hide it), one tinted/colored a warm color and the other a cool color (red and blue?). Then put warm stamps on the

Re: [Gimp-user] how to make condensed text along path

2009-06-15 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Zhang Weiwuzhangwe...@realss.com wrote: Owen wrote: I wonder why you can't use Inkscape to do this? Because I tried. Yeah - I tried Inkscape first too - there seems to be no way to condense the text once it's on a path. Did you try Scribus? Chris

Re: [Gimp-user] How do I effectively use a blue screen scanning method with gimp

2009-06-13 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Jay Smithj...@jaysmith.com wrote: [big snip] So I am hoping for suggestions as to a) how to avoid the color shadow of using a colored background and b) if it cannot be avoided, how to fix it in gimp without a lot of messing around and/or other color

Re: [Gimp-user] how to make condensed text along path

2009-06-13 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Zhang Weiwuzhangwe...@realss.com wrote: Hello. I followed the tutorial of how to make text along path: http://gimp-tutorials.net/node/114 My difficulty here is to make manually condensed text along path. I want the text so much thin that any font's condensed

Re: [Gimp-user] Can't install the Gimp

2009-05-29 Thread Chris Mohler
2009/5/29 Jernej Simončič jernej.listso...@ena.si: On Thu, 28 May 2009 18:22:39 -0500, Chris Mohler wrote: Oh - and I'm also assuming that you are _not_ using Windows XP Professional x64 Edition - you need the 'x64' version of the installer instead if you are. No, you don't. The Windows x64

Re: [Gimp-user] Can't install the Gimp

2009-05-28 Thread Chris Mohler
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Sister Regina peacen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi - I have a Systemaz Athlon, Windows XP, IE8, and 2g of Ram. I have installed the Gimp 6 times, after the second times I installed Python 3 just to make sure I had everything, it installs and as it opens the sign comes

Re: [Gimp-user] blur between images

2009-05-04 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:21 AM, shay t. for...@gimpusers.com wrote: any one can help me to do it with gimp? From the tutorialo/article: There are no magic formulas for this operation, just painstaking cutting, assembling, fitting and filling in missing pieces, erasing shadows, toning down the

Re: [Gimp-user] Color Schemes

2009-05-03 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 3:31 PM, DJ delphit...@yahoo.com wrote: Anyone do anything special to create palettes? I like Agave a lot. The (Adobe) kuler website is nice as well - I wrote (an admittedly hackish) plugin to import kuler palettes: http://registry.gimp.org/node/10325 It could use more

Re: [Gimp-user] PCD format density?

2009-04-25 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:27 PM, John Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: Gimp doesn't use PCD format. So I have been trying to convert  a PCD image to something Gimp will use, such as tiff or jpg, using the convert program from Imagemagick. I have tried various density settings. Is there

Re: [Gimp-user] sane

2009-04-17 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:36 AM, David Miller da...@millersweb.com wrote: [...] My File Create menu has, From Clipboard, Screenshot, Buttons, Logos, Patterns, and Web Page Themes.  I still don't see anything about acquire. Hmm - it's been a while since I used Fedora, but look in yum (or package

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp Printouts

2009-04-02 Thread Chris Mohler
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Walter S. for...@gimpusers.com wrote: Hi there. Thanks for allowing me to join this forum. I have been using Gimp for some time, but now that I have got as far as printing out some of my work I have come across a snag. I could not understand why the print was

Re: [Gimp-user] Text Tool - No Centering option?

2009-03-31 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Brian Weese dbwe...@gmail.com wrote: hey, I'm new to using GIMP and love it so far... I can't seem to figure out how to center several lines of text within the Look in the Tool Options dialog while typing the text - there are justification options there...

Re: [Gimp-user] Computing percent area of color in a picture

2009-03-30 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Owen rc...@pcug.org.au wrote: Hello, I'm making a mosaic. I've used Gimp to winnow down the colors to sixteen (reds, brown, greens, black and white). Each color is now on a different layer. Now I need to buy tile to break up and do the work. I'd like to

Re: [Gimp-user] Can Gimp calculate area of a color?

2009-03-27 Thread Chris Mohler
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Steven Howe howe.ste...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I'm making a mosaic. I've used gimp to strip out extraneous background artifacts posterize the picture down to a sixteen colors. separated the colors onto different layers. Now I'd like to know either by area

Re: [Gimp-user] Changing the color of only part of my text

2009-03-23 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:01 AM, mdedwards for...@gimpusers.com wrote: Hello I am creating a simple text logo. The logo is three words but they are all run together: thedaughterproject and I want the word daughter to be in a different color. I cannot seem to figure out how to simply get

Re: [Gimp-user] Photo printing

2009-03-03 Thread Chris Mohler
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:47 PM, A. M. for...@gimpusers.com wrote: OK, thanks. I just wondered if the CD photos would have the right information - I read somewhere that the ppi. for photo printing should be about 200, the ppi. for my CD prints is 72. It depends on the pixel dimensions - if the

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-03-02 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Bob Long b...@oblong.com.au wrote: zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: Nope. I also have a second computer runs Ubuntu 8.04 (I didn't upgrade to 8.10 yet), that every time the system tell me to upgrade I would do it (last time was in last week). But it still uses Gimp

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-03-02 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:37 AM, zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: Sven Neumann schrieb: Hi, On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 13:10 +, Chris Mohler wrote: GIMP 2.6 is out for five months already. There is really no good reason why your distribution does not offer it yet. Perhaps time to switch

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-03-01 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Sven Neumann s...@gimp.org wrote: Hi, On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 10:55 +0800, zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: It will take months until gimp reaches 2.6 on Gentoo stable. GIMP 2.6 is out for five months already. There is really no good reason why your distribution

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-02-27 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 3:04 AM, zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: Chris Mohler schrieb: I wrote a trivial text 'find and replace' script for GIMP 2.6: http://registry.gimp.org/node/12212 Currently it operates in all layers - I'd love to get some feedback on how it works in real-world cases

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp launch pt2 redux

2009-02-26 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Kim Cascone k...@anechoicmedia.com wrote: So what about grabbing the tools that do tell you what a program does, and try to investigate? The problem won't solve itself, and especially not without the effort of someone who is affected by it... I'm not a

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with Help!!! -- Att.: Sven

2009-02-26 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:12 PM, rlt46...@aol.com wrote: [...] All snide remarks aside... Just my opinion, but you should lighten up a bit. Sven is an active developer of GIMP, and if you go through the archives, there are a lot of people who post unanswerable/unintelligble questions on this

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-02-25 Thread Chris Mohler
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:34 AM, saulgo...@flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com wrote: Quoting Daniel Hornung daniel.horn...@gmx.de: Or you could try and write a script that changes the text of all text layers in the same way, I think that should be possible at least in theory. Yes, such is

Re: [Gimp-user] old riped paper script, tutorial, or texture?

2009-02-04 Thread Chris Mohler
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Zachary Bruno zachary.br...@tx.rr.com wrote: Does anyone know how or know a script or tutorial which makes an old ripped paper effect? Is there a texture that looks like this? Much help would be appreciated. Not a tutorial, but there are some nice paper

Re: [Gimp-user] Batch convert .xcf to .xcfgz

2009-02-04 Thread Chris Mohler
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:06 PM, David Gowers 00a...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:36 AM, D.Jones (aka) Capnhud capn...@yahoo.com wrote: GSR Is this possible on windows xp? Becaues what you just said sounded like a foreign language that I have never heard :) This is

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