[Gimp-user] Crop tool - highlight intensity
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.
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 Colors-Colorize and drag the hue over to yellowish to get the effect you're after? 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.
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 ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Merge linked
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 become visible after being merged. A more intuitive action would be for the merged layers to respect their current state, since there is a reason why they're set to visible / invisible. Agree? Disagree? You should try contacting Saul Goode - the script's author. I haven't seen him posting on this list recently, maybe try the contact form here? http://registry.gimp.org/user/7463/contact Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Enhancement for Gimp menus
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 a screen to get the normal weight font. This is a minor inconvenience, but becomes a major pain if you have to do it all day long. I suggest enhancing the code slightly to display the currently selected items in the center of the list or window when they are opened. +1 from me. I normally use a tablet, and resort to using the 'up arrow' key in the situation you describe. Inkscape does a fair job with its font list. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] can i use gimp 2 for commercial works?
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 GIMP - including selling. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Suggestions for GIMP layout
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 always remain in sync with the active folder I don't see any tree (then again I just looked over the dialog in XP, not win7). The items under Places are just bookmarks for convenience that can be added/removed. GIMP uses GTK's file Open and Save dialogs, which differ a bit from native windows dialogs. It may just be that you'll need to spend some time getting used to the differences. 2) [...] So my second suggestion is to clarify the file type selection for saving files so that it becomes intuitive and unmistakable. The upcoming version will divide Save from Export - where saving will produce XCF files (native GIMP files) and exporting will produce formats like BMP, PNG, etc. In 2.6 I leave the 'By Extension' area minimized and just put the desired extension in the filename. So if I was working on 'image.xcf' and wanted to save as BMP I would do 'Save As' and type'image.bmp' in the filename box, and it will produce a BMP file. 3) The third issue is one of esthetics. GIMP is divided into separate windows. Single-Window Mode is coming in the next version (as an option). In the meantime, use the Tab key to show/hide the dialogs and toolbox. HTH, Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP
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' and enter/paste a URI, which is then downloaded and opened in GIMP. Of course GIMP does not open or listen to any ports on the local machine. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Changing a Text Layer
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 make that layer the active layer. However, the highlight color in the layers dialog may or may not be blue (mine is orange). Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] New user for windows platform
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 Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] how to apply a stepping curve
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 point-to-point and ctrl for angles, My attemp here http://imgur.com/8ElzN. We're talking about using straight line segments in the Curves tool (not the Bezier tool - we're not talking about paths). I still haven't thought up an easy solution. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] how to apply a stepping curve
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? I'm not sure what would be best - maybe a quick Inkscape drawing, a series of points or something else? Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] how to apply a stepping curve
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 a function in the PDB called gimp-curves-explicit: Modifies the intensity mapping for one channel in the specified drawable. The drawable must be either grayscale or RGB, and the channel can be either an intensity component, or the value. The 'curve' parameter is an array of bytes which explicitly defines how each pixel value in the drawable will be modified. Use the 'gimp-curves-spline' function to modify intensity levels with Catmull Rom splines. So I guess it would theoretically be possible to write a script or plug-in for this. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] tif vs TIF
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 correct the case and see them as the same file, but this didn't happen (it didn't overwrite the file). You have saved two TIFF files with differing names. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] tif vs TIF
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 *.tiff, *.tif, *.TIF, and *.jpg *could* all be the same png file type :^) In Windows (XP), when saving foo.tif then foo.TIF in the same directory the original foo.tif is replaced by foo.TIF. In Linux, the same procedure leaves both files side by side. So I'm guessing OP is on a non-Windows platform ;) Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] locked up file selection screen
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 do anything but close it. Anybody experienced anything like this? No, but if you start GIMP from a terminal do you get any additional info? Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] opening binary flat files
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 Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Windows XP - Service Pack?
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 when setting it up was to install SP3. Why not install SP2 (or SP3)? Just curious. Anyway - maybe the portable version would work? Just a guess - I have no way of testing it: http://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/gimp_portable Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Tick marks
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 of an easy way to do that? I finally just drew them manually using a snap to grid and setting grid to 1/4, quite tedious. Run the grid plug-in with spacing at 0.25, then do a rectangle select of nearly the entire image (leaving the outermost segments of the grid deselected) and press delete. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] LZW Compression - Image rendition advice
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 that GIMP's implementation is lossless and it turned out OK[1]. PNG is a lossless format as well, and may give a slightly smaller file size than TIFF. Chris [0] I did the following in GIMP 2.6.10: - Open an uncompressed TIFF file - Save a copy with LZW - Close all files - Open original - Open As Layers LZW copy - Change LZW layer mode to Difference - Move the cursor about in the image while looking in the 'Pointer' dialog - All RGB values are 0% (black) throughout the image (could also flatten the image at this point and use levels or curves to verify that there are no anomalies) [1] In an older version of Photoshop (5? 6?) I did the above and came out with a very slight shift or loss. It could have been a mistake on my part, but at the time we figured it was a bug in Adobe's LZW handling. I can't reproduce this any more in Photoshop - so whether or not it was pilot error or a bug, it's no longer relevant - except it's the reason I remember the above procedure ;) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] LZW Compression - Image rendition advice
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 never benchmarked this - I'm sure there is some performance hit, but not sure how much. b) (Though not a Gimp issue) Are there any implications using LZW-compressed TIFF images in other applications? Specifically, I use Perl scripts and ImageMagick to create four different sizes of JPEGs from each TIFF file. Do such operations care whether or not a TIFF file has been LZW compressed? Since the LZW patent wars are finally over I would not expect any problems reading/writing LZW compression. I've never had any LZW issues with ImageMagick. c) Other than saving disk space and/or reducing file transmission time in the case of uploading/downloading, are there any particular reasons to use (or not to use) LZW compression? As far as I see it (and I'm no expert, just someone who has some experience with various printing methods) it's a trade-off between file size and processing. I use LZW for most TIFFs, but if - hypothetically - you had a massive amount of very small TIFF files that needed lots of read/write operations done on them, you might look at running some benchmarks. I just scanned the Wikipedia entry on TIFF and it seems pretty accurate to me (again no expert here). Although I had no idea that the third and fourth bytes equal 42 for its deep philosophical significance ;) My 0.02, Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] newbie: script for comverting eps line drawings to gif
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 support for GIMP if so: http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/faq.html Most procedures can be found in the Procedure Browser - type 'eps' in the search field. Also - I second the recommendation of David's Batch Processor, if you cannot get imagemagick to do the trick. That was the script whose name escaped me ;) Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] A simple for loop while using Colorize
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, Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] warp by points
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 the same places, and the new image will be adjusted to match. Is there a way to do this with GIMP? I have not been able to find anything like this so far in looking around. Maybe I just don't know the correct terminology for GIMP. This plug-in aligns two layers based on two points in each layer: http://registry.gimp.org/node/18961 It's been some time since I messed with it - IIRC you may need to tweak the register line of the script before it will appear in the menu. There was some discussion here: http://registry.gimp.org/node/18412 HTH, Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] removing timestamps from a photo
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 the best way to do this in batch? I've not used it, but here: http://registry.gimp.org/node/15187 HTH, Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimpusers.com - Webmaster(?)
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 owner/webmaster/administrator for gimpusers.com I can't find it anywhere. Anyone here that can help out? Nope - contact info here: http://gimpusers.com/site/imprint Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Square Pic in a Rectangular Hole
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 toward it for future questions). There are a few sites that index this list and offer a search - gmane for example: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.gimp.user/ There are links to archive sites listed here: http://www.gimp.org/mail_lists.html In short, how can I use GIMP to add blank space to a given photo so that it keeps the original data within the confines of a 4x6 (for example) aspect ratio? I believe you are looking for Image-Canvas Size... You may need to unlock the width/height from one another, but this should do what you want. Yours in Pasta, Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Layer masks: how do you memorize which color means opaque?
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 transparent overlay. If I imagine the mask as a window above the layer, then white is clear and anything darker than that is masked from view. [But after saying that: I do have to stop and think about it sometimes - after doing a lot of screen printing work, positive and negative space often get mentally blurred for me ;) Colors-Invert to the rescue.] Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] gimp.tutorials.net
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 irritating that gimpusers.com has connected a forum to this mailing list, but that's another topic ;) Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] how do I find the pathname of a selected font?
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 for it. I had a similar problem - I had a directory containing tons of fonts that were all very badly named. I wrote this snippet to rename the files based on the actual font name (family_style.ttf) so I could find them and install as needed: http://pastebin.com/GB6PKBim BE WARNED: this changes the file names *in place* - there is absolutely no safety net. You might consider copying your font dir to a temporary location and then running the script there instead. For me it worked well - that whole directory is named correctly now, but I make no guarantees (may kick puppies, eat kittens, etc. ;) Also it only will do TTF files, and probably only works on linux. You need python-imaging and python-magic as well. Another possibility would be to modify this script to output the filename and the font name on the same line - that way you could pipe that through grep and see which file matches which font. HTH, Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] how do I find the pathname of a selected font?
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 on the same line: http://pastebin.com/ztbgPJhZ I only tested it once but it seems to work OK. On a fairly stock Ubuntu I only had to install python-magic. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Drawing a notice board
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: http://www.cgtextures.com/login.php?texid=19209destination=texview.php?id=19209 HTH, Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Combine two images
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 view), put them together to make a single, larger one. Many different ways to do this, but try: 1. Open image #1 2. Go to Image - Canvas Size. Go ahead and add more than enough room for the other images 3. File-Open as Layers, select Images #2 and #3. 4. Save as XCF 5. Select each new layer (in the layer dialog) and use the move tool to position, or other tools if you need to rotate, scale etc. 6. When done, save - then Image-Flatten Image, Image-Autocrop 7. Save as PNG or JPEG (or whatever format you need). Hmm - I'm not sure if GIMP version 2.4 has open as layers. If not, instead of step 3: 1. Open image #2, select all, copy, close 2. Paste into image #1 3. Click on the new layer icon in layers dialog (turn floating selection into new layer) 4. Repeat for image #3 The rest of the steps would be the same. HTH, Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] [SPAM] - Re: Square selection fill round ????? - Email found in subject
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 Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] What do you use for lettering?
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 ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Overlaying One Photo Over Another
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 Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Overlaying One Photo Over Another
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 select step after you paste. In other words: when you make a selection (as with the fuzzy select tool) and copy, only the selected area is copied to the clipboard. Make sense? Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Overlaying One Photo Over Another
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 background pic. Then do your select, copy, paste as layer. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate increases PNG size x10 !
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 palette. Then rotate and save - the file size will be comparable to the original. Your image has that fine dot pattern all over the place - that's what (I think) is causing the huge size blowup when rotated. Open a scan, zoom to 100% or greater and look at the character of those small dots. If you rotate the image in grayscale mode, look at the dots again at 100% or greater - they are now quite blurry. Where each dot was n pixels of solid black, now each dot is something like n+5 pixels of shades of gray, which makes the image harder to compress efficiently. On the file increase when just saving - see here: $ identify TestScanningDoc.png TestScanningDoc.png PNG 2552x3523 2552x3523+0+0 PseudoClass 2c 8-bit 230.383kb 0.740u 0:02 $ identify TestScanningDoc_nochange.png TestScanningDoc_nochange.png PNG 2552x3523 2552x3523+0+0 PseudoClass 256c 8-bit 366.076kb 0.870u 0:02 It appears the original has a 2-color palette, while the unchanged, saved image has a 256-color palette. HTH, Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate increases PNG size x10 !
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 image but with each pixel either solid black or solid white, which would make the resulting PNG easy to compress. Rotating likely causes many pixels to become shades of gray along the edges and increasing the file size. My scanner is dead or I'd test this out myself. Not sure on the increase when saving the image as-is - are all of the 'Save Comment', 'Save Creation', etc. boxes unchecked in the PNG save dialog? Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Help recovering a bad .xcf file
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 bitter pill to swallow, but there's a take-away lesson: every so often do File-Save As and save a copy. I tend to name my files like 'project_name-01', and after an hour or two (or any client revisions) save as 'project_name-02', then '-03', '-04', etc. There's a GIMP plug-in that adds an iterative save option (I've never used it though): http://registry.gimp.org/node/18873 For what it's worth I learned my lesson from Photoshop, not GIMP. It trashed a file I had been working on for over 6 hours and I was only able to retrieve bits and pieces - nothing close to the full document. I had to start over. Over the past 10 years I've seen trashed files at least once from most of the Adobe suite, so I don't think you give up on GIMP just yet. A crash during the save process can be a very dangerous thing, no matter which program you're using. HTH, Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] how to create something like harvey balls
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 be a smarter way to do this. I would use Inkscape to draw them and then export PNG files. In Inkscape, after drawing an ellipse look at the start and end parameters: if you punch in 90 for the end (and leave start at 0), you'll have the 25% ball. See the section on ellipses: http://www.inkscape.org/doc/shapes/tutorial-shapes.html Another approach would be to use SVG directly on the page (either on the fly or saved from Inkscape) - but that is likely not supported well by older browsers. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate selection without content?
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 options, as Akkana pointed out. Then you are rotating the selection itself and not the contents. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] PSD as CMYK: Web Coated (SWOP) V2
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 the 'Compatibility' option to PDF/X-3 on the 'General' tab of the PDF export Dialog. Then a new tab will become available: PDF X-3 [0]. Here you may specify the output profile to be used. Note you must put something into info string before it will let you save. Sorry this info is sorta all over the place - I do a little prepress stuff in linux from time to time, but have mainly been stuck using Adobe products in a VM. Chris Here's one reference site on PDF-X3, and plenty more exist: http://www.pdfxreport.com/doku.php?id=en:faq ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] looking for binary software to install
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 software there. I am not interested in the source code. http://www.gimp.org/windows/ Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] [SPAM] - Re: looking for binary software to install - Email found in subject
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 you mean - can you please provide some more details? Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] [SPAM] - Re: looking for binary software to install - Email found in subject
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. Have you tried Image-Canvas Size? If you're new to image editing, you should probably search around for GIMP tutorials. The manual is a must-read as well. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] A question that has never been asked....
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 Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] A question that has never been asked....
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 Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Get the shadows in these clothes
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 it to the new shirt. It's probably easier to make new shadows. See this file: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4747089/Upper_body_template-GNOME.xcf.zip This is a template I was using when messing around with 3D apps. Notice the series of shadow layers with mode set to 'multiply'. It's going to take some time to create them, but once you have your shadow layers you can then use them on multiple items. HTH, Chris PS - there's a bunch of unused junk in that file as well - the layers that are invisible. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] fuzzy around text
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 new doc, paste in (or insert) your image, then File-Export PDF. Chris PS - Scribus also produces quality PDFs, but may not be usable on Windows (or it wasn't the last time I checked, but that was quite some time ago). ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] change of color
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 simple to imagine, but not so straightforward to do it seems Have you any idea ? Have you tried image-colorize? I opened a photo and did: 1. Image-Mode-Grayscale (it was a color photo) 2. Image-Mode-RGB 3. Image-Colorize (drag the slider to the appropriate hue) Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How to enhance low resolution graphic for larger modified image ???
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 with several curves and angles and straight lines. This may be missing the point somehow, but if you used some kind of outlining program (followed by a little editing) that creates a vector-based (instead of bitmap based) image, you could then scale to whatever size you want with perfect resolution, and then convert that size to a bitmap format like JPG. If you save the vector version, you can scale-and-save-out to as many sizes as you like. I would open Inkscape, import the graphic, then either do a trace or redraw it. Then delete the image, save as SVG, open in GIMP at desired size. Back in the day I used Adobe Streamline for this kind of task, but I don't know if that even still exists any more. Streamline was for OS 8-9 IIRC, and never got ported to OSX. I use inkscape to do tracing - it works better than the auto-trace feature in Adobe's products anyway (especially on blank-and-white images). Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] python script for rectangle selection
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 doing wrong!?
Yes - that was originally written as a plug-in (place in
~/.gimp-2.x/plug-ins, chmod +x, it registers as 'File-Export Area').
I think this code should work in the console - either via execfile or
typing/pasting it in.
Chris
import os
from gimpfu import *
# size and position of rectangle
areaWidth = 200
areaHeight = 200
areaPosX = 20
areaPosY = 20
# path to save PNG
path = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~'),'Desktop')
# operate on first image
img = gimp.image_list()[0]
filename = img.name + -sm.png
fullpath = os.path.join(path, filename);
tmp = img.duplicate()
tmp.flatten()
tmp.crop(areaWidth, areaHeight, areaPosX, areaPosY)
pdb.file_png_save(tmp, tmp.layers[0], fullpath, filename, 0, 9, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1)
#pdb.gimp_image_delete(tmp)
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Re: [Gimp-user] make a christmas ball and insert a picture
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: http://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-curve-bend.html You might google around for a pre-made ornament template as well. HTH, Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How do I create this effect?
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 way to save my selections, maintaining the different alpha values in them? Select-Save to Channel. Then to reload, right-click the saved channel and do 'channel to selection'. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Need new printer
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 set of tanks for the old C82, and probably very similar pricing for the C88's inks. Not an Espon, but I have a Canon Pixma somewhere around here that is very nice in one regard: the ink tanks are clear plastic and have liquid reservoirs (no cotton). The printer shines a light through a prism at the bottom to determine ink level - therefore refilling them is painless. It prints a decent photo also, if you buy nice paper. I quit buying Epson after they decided that a cartridge had to be replaced after X number of prints. My 0.02 Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How do I copy a color to the foreground ?
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 ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How do I copy a color to the foreground ?
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 use it as the foreground color. If you: 1. Press o key, release 2. Click on the image Then the color you clicked on should become the foreground color. I'm guessing, but it sounds like you are using the 'select by color' tool and not the 'color select/eyedropper tool). Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] hi
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 https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user Follow the link at the bottom of this - or any - message from the mailing list. This one: https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Feature: PSD Layer effect
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? PSD support is somehow useless without layer effects as this is something, that is a commonly used feature in photoshop (at least within designers I know ;)). Yes, something like layer effects is planed for Gimp. But even if there are layer effects in Gimp it is hard to say if we will see it in the PSD import, because Adobe provides no documentation about the file format. Thought that the SDK had the format specs? http://www.adobe.com/devnet/photoshop/sdk/index.html Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] drop out background tutorial
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 instructions in Figure 13.26 and keep redrawing the line the border gets pretty mixed up in the shadow areas especially. Maybe it's my inexperience, but I can actually get a smoother edged selection by using the Paths tool. Paths tool is a good choice. Here's a poor man's isolation method: http://yfrog.com/b5dsc4355retouchj This is just a levels adjustment (Colors-Levels): auto, then pull the highlight slider in toward the center. As you can see it's not perfect, but if the BG is the same on all the pics, it might be a time-saver since a little erasing here and there should be enough to clean up afterwards. HTH, Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] HOWTO: stroke a path with the current tool?
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Ilya Zakharevich nospam-ab...@ilyaz.org wrote: I want to stroke the path with the current tool, with all the parameters as selected in the tool options. I do not think I can do it with the PATHs right-mouse-click menu, can I? (What I see are only choices of Paint tools. What I want is Select tools, like color select and/or magic wand.) === An alternative would be to use Script-Fu API to walk along a path; but I would need to invoke the current tool at the specified point from Script-Fu, and I can't guess how to find this with the Script-Fu procedure browser... Any help would be appreciated, Ilya Hmm - I can't find a way to access the current tool through the PDB. Am I mistaken? I was playing with this idea a bit (in Python), and vector.stroke.interpolate will give a list of points 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 # Version 0.1 # GIMP plugin to use arbitrary tool along a path from gimpfu import * gettext.install(gimp20-python, gimp.locale_directory, unicode=True) def tool_on_path(img, paths): try: # get active path path = pdb.gimp_image_get_active_vectors(img) # get points on the path points = path.strokes[0].interpolate(0.1)[0] # empty return message ret = # process points for i in range(len(points)/2): x = points.pop(0) y = points.pop(0) # collect points for message ret = ret + str(i) + : + str(x) + , + str(y) + \n # don't see any way to grab the active tool, so... # just do a ellipse select, 20 px wide pdb.gimp_ellipse_select(img, x-10.0, y-10.0, 20, 20, 0, 1, 0, 0) # output message to error console # gimp.message(ret) except: pass register( proc_name=(python-fu-tool-on-path), blurb=(Tool on Path), help=(Use arbitrary tool along a path.), author=(Chris Mohler), copyright=(Chris Mohler), date=(2009), label=(Tool on Path), imagetypes=(*), params=[ (PF_IMAGE, img, Image, None), (PF_VECTORS, paths, Paths, None) ], results=[], function=(tool_on_path), menu=(Vectors), domain=(gimp20-python, gimp.locale_directory) ) main() ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] A non-tool selection...
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 package not an image display package. Wrong. GIMP is a package for whatever the *USER* decides it is going to use GIMP for. And an absence of a convenient non-destructive tool is a major misfeature. Gnu Image *Manipulation* Program http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/manipulate If you want to use GIMP as a display program that's fine - but you're using the wrong tool for the job... OTOH, having a shortcut like 'h' for the hand/panning tool would be fine with me - I would use it. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] saving layers
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 layers as PNG files: http://registry.gimp.org/node/18440 I wrote it as an exercise in learning more about python and GIMP, so it's not battle-tested. May kick your dog, eat your kittens, etc. Only tested on linux, but it *should* work on win/mac. Although if you are only dealing with three layers, it probably won't help much - I was thinking of having 10 or 20 layers and having to save each one... Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Measure tool (feature proposition)
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Adam Majewskia...@albedo.art.pl wrote: If someone will have solution i am interested in! I just hacked my path measurement plug-in to handle this. You need gimp-python. Once it's installed: 1. Draw a path with the pen tool over what needs to be measured. 2. 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 # Copyright 2009 Chris Mohler # License: GPL v3 # Version 0.3 # GIMP plugin to measure the length of a path from gimpfu import * gettext.install(gimp20-python, gimp.locale_directory, unicode=True) def measure_path(img, drw, pixels, units): try: path = pdb.gimp_image_get_active_vectors(img) len = pdb.gimp_vectors_stroke_get_length(path, 1, 1) len = int(len) if pixels != 0 and units!=0: len = int((len/pixels)*units) pdb.gimp_message(Length of + path.name + : + str(len) + units) else: pdb.gimp_message(Length of + path.name + : + str(len) + px) except: pass register( proc_name=(python-fu-measure-path), blurb=(Measure Path), help=(Measure Length of the active path. Output is directed to the Status Bar or Error Console.), author=(Chris Mohler), copyright=(Chris Mohler), date=(2009), label=(Active Path), imagetypes=(*), params=[ (PF_IMAGE, img, Image, None), (PF_DRAWABLE, drw, Drawable, None), (PF_INT, pixels, Pixels, 0), (PF_INT, units, Units, 0) ], results=[], function=(measure_path), menu=(Image/Filters/Measure), domain=(gimp20-python, gimp.locale_directory) ) main() ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Measure tool (feature proposition)
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 solution posted by Daniel Hornung, but this will give me some more possibilities :) No problem - when I read your question I realized that I could just add a couple of lines to the plug-in and it might solve the problem. One nice thing is that you can draw a path with multiple segments or curves and it should still be fairly accurate. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Measure tool (feature proposition)
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 not there, the ability to determine the total length of a selected path in pixels might also be a nice addition. Maybe this would be a good Summer of Code 2010 project, though. I'd have instead asked for the name of Chris Mohler's plug-in, and where to find it in GIMP, or if it's not included in the main distribution, where to find it and how to install it. The plug-in lives here: http://registry.gimp.org/node/17235 I've not uploaded version 0.3 to the registry yet though - I attached it to an earlier message in this thread. the only addition in v 0.3 is two integer fields - one for pixels and one for arbitrary units - if those boxes are filled in, the plug-in reports the path length in units (as opposed to pixels, the default). Installation depends on your OS, but you do need python installed. If your OS is Windows and you do not already have python installed, I think that you need to install python, then re-run the GIMP installer - but Windows is not my primary OS, so that could be wrong. Once python is available in GIMP (Filters-Python-Fu-Console), place the plug-in into the .gimp-2.6.x dir in your docs folder. In linux, you just need to install python-gimp (or gimp-python, don't remember) and place the plug-in in ~/.gimp-2.6 and make sure it's executable. Sorry for any typos - I'm in the middle of painting the house and am crouched in a funny position - no furniture ;) Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Magic-lasso tool?
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 a tool? I cannot find it. Thanks. Try the scissors tool? I also make frequent use of the 'select by color' tool... Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How to move image when selecting?
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 an area that is larger than my screen size. Zooming out is not an option because I need the precision that zoom gives me. Thanks. Try middle-mouse or space bar... Thanks, Chris, but what I am looking for is a way to pan while selecting. As I cannot release the left mouse button (I have not selected all that I need to select) I need to pan with it depressed. Let go, pan using either MMB or space, then continue making the selection. There's no penalty for releasing LMB early :) Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling a foto
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. Are the images in RGB mode? (Image-Mode-RGB) Scaling indexed images can cause problems... Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Can a default cursor be changed?
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 similar to what is found in Photoshop would be ideal. Thank you very much in advance. In GIMP 2.6, there is an option in Preferences-Image Windows, then the 'Mouse Pointers' section. Hopefully the new 2.6.7 installer for Windows fixes some issues that popped up in the 2.6.6 version - I have not tested, since I use GIMP mainly on linux... Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMp won't lauch on IMAC
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 (bouncing up and down on dock). I've reinstalled the new version several times, but it still won't start. Any ideas on knowledge as to why this is happening. TY Is X11 working? Apps-Utilities-Terminal Then type 'startx' and press enter. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Printing issue
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 engineer myself, so it's not like I'm speaking simply from a user point-of-view. Please go here and read the history/purpose of gutenprint (below the news): http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Then direct your rant at whoever is packaging your distro ;) Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Script to change color
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 pictures, so it is not reasonable to do it manually... I really need a script. Perhaps this method: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/color/#replace_draw HTH, Chris PS - you should consider using the mailing list directly, and not through the forum. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How do I effectively use a blue screen scanning method with gimp
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 cool bg and vice versa? This will take some fiddling though. Or on the black bg - make your fuzzy selection, and if it picks up the watermark too, ctrl-drag a rectangular selection as close to the edges as you can, then fill with black - perhaps the darkened areas at the very edges (where the perforation is) will not be noticeable? Sorry - I'm just throwing random ideas out there ;) I've spent a lot of time pulling my hair out over scanning. I remember one time in particular when a publisher mailed us a book cover to scan for a poster - and it made heavy use of metallic silver in the layout - what a nightmare! Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] how to make condensed text along path
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 ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How do I effectively use a blue screen scanning method with gimp
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 distortion problems. Have you tried putting something heavy on the colored background (I tend to use a thick book)? This may reduce or eliminate the shadow. Have you tried reducing the wand (or select by color) tool's threshold when selecting the black background? I would guess that the postmark color and the background color differ at least slightly. A couple of the raw scans of the stamps might be useful for analysis. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] how to make condensed text along path
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 version could not do. To make such condensed text, I either scale the text layer with layer scale tool, or I convert the text to path and scale the path. However after scaling layer or path, Text along path no longer apply. Any idea? thanks in advance for hints. I'm not sure of any way to do this within GIMP. I was able to to this in Scribus[1] however, by following these instructions: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Text_on_a_Path Then I was able to set the text width to 50%. Then selecting the text, doing Object-Convert-To Path, then File-Export-SVG I was able to make a SVG file that could be opened inside of GIMP. It's a somewhat clumsy method, but maybe it will work? Chris [1] http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=enpage=download ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Can't install the Gimp
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 version of GIMP is experimental, and doesn't have all the features of 32bit version (which runs just fine on 64bit Windows). My fault. I hardly ever install on windows - sorry about the misinformation. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Can't install the Gimp
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 up Windows has encountered a problem and must close - do you wish to send an error report? I though the file might be corrupt so I downloaded it from different locations but it simply won't work and I don't know what to do. Does anyone else? - Regina Hi, I'm assuming that you are installing the 2.6.6 version of GIMP (I've seen a handful of problems/reports with that version on Windows but I think mainly on Vista). If that is the case, perhaps you could try going back one version. Here is the page that lists all available windows installers: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=121075package_id=250052 And the GIMP+GTK 2.6.5 installer is here: http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=121075filename=gimp-2.6.5-i686-setup.exea=4389991 Or, if you want to try again with getting 2.6.6 installed, look in Add/Remove programs and remove GTK and GIMP. Then, rename your GIMP directory (I'm not on Windows, but I think it's in Documents Settings\.gimp) to something like .gimp_OLD. Then try installing 2.6.6 again - the GIMP+GTK package: http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=121075filename=gimp-2.6.6-i686-setup.exea=79790231 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. Best of luck, Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] blur between images
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 hair, until we get a usable texture. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Color Schemes
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 testing - if you feel like it, please try the plugin and let me know if it works for you. It requires python and gimp-python. Easy in linux, but takes a few steps in windows. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] PCD format density?
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 a default density to a PCD image? If so, what is it? Maybe this is helpful? http://dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_24.html#SEC359 Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] sane
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 manager of your choice) for something like 'gimp-xsane' or 'xsane-gimp'. IIRC, it's packaged separately... Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp Printouts
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 so much darker than the image on the monitor. Having scanned the help files in Gimp, I find the information, that this is because the monitor is showing the image in RGB,but the actual printout is in CMYK. I am wrestling with the logic of this and failing to comprehend why it should be. I am hoping that there is a way of resolving this tremendous mis-match. Is there any Gimp knowledgeable member out there who could fill me in on the way to overcome this difference? I sure hope so. Many thanks. cypher000 Try preparing the image in GIMP, then printing from GIMP and also another program - compare the results. There are issues with RGB-CMYK conversion in any program, but this test will at least let you know if GIMP's print plug-in is to blame for skewing the colors, or if you've just chosen colors that are out of gamut. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Text Tool - No Centering option?
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... Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Computing percent area of color in a picture
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 know if there is a script or function that can determine the percent area covered by a color on a layer? This may, or may not be relevant to you http://registry.gimp.org/node/15080 Yes - please let me know if that plug-in works for you. You will need to have python support for GIMP installed - the procedure varies based on your operating system. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Can Gimp calculate area of a color?
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 (cm, or inch) or percentage of the picture each of the colors (so I can figure out how much tile I'll need). I don't see an obvious function such a calculation tool for this. Is there one and if so, can someone point me to it? Hi Steven, I was messing around with python yesterday and wrote a small plug-in that you might find useful: http://registry.gimp.org/node/15080 I've only tested it on flattened images and a handful of colors, but it seems to be fairly accurate when it picks up the color (I'm still researching why sometimes the colors don't match). Let me know how it works out... Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Changing the color of only part of my text
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 that one word in there changed, without creating three text boxes and messing with trying to make it look like they all run together, especially since I am using a cursive font. Any help is much appreciated. You might try Inkscape (another program) - since the end result will be vector, it will be more suited to logo creation if you ever need to submit it for printing. You could then open the SVG file in GIMP if it needs to be part of a larger composition... Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Photo printing
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 CD photos are only 360 px by 504 px ( which is 5x7 at 72 DPI), you will not get very high quality prints. However, I suspect the CD photos are probably much larger - so you should resize them to 5x7 with software like GIMP and see what the resulting PPI is... Wow, does that even make sense? Let me try again: even though the CD photos are at 72 DPI, they're probably much larger than 5x7 - if so you can resize them to 5x7 and end up with a higher PPI. Most drugstore labs (where I live) can print photos from a SD card or a USB stick... Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)
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 2.5.4 (sh?? an unstable version?). My standard Ubuntu 8.10 with all updates is running GIMP 2.4.5 (repeat: 2.4.5, not 2.5.4). Well, we're getting pretty off-topic here, but maybe you meant 8.04? $ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 8.10 $ aptitude show gimp Package: gimp State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 2.6.1-1ubuntu3 IIRC, 8.04 ships with the 2.4 series of GIMP, but as Sven mentioned, Ubuntu would do well to backport the 2.6 series to their LTS version... Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)
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 to a more reasonable Linux distribution? Yes, but even Ubuntu is still shipping 2.6.1 with their latest stable version (8.10) and shipping 2.4.x with the long-term-support version (8.04). They have 2.6.3 in intrepid-backports, so a user of the latest stable version should have that at least. 2.6.3 is already much more recent than 2.6.1 and has lots of bug-fixes. But yeah, Ubuntu should do their users a favor and provide more recent bug-fix releases. 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 2.5.4 (sh?? an unstable version?). If Ubuntu has 2.6 without a system-upgrade, I'd be glad to try. I don't want to fight the hassle of system-upgrade in recent months. Usually a system-upgrade means I need to get used to something a bit different, I prefer trying that in less heavy-working days When I was running Ubuntu 8.04, I compiled GIMP 2.6 and installed into /opt - this seemed the easiest solution for me. however, you may be able to get .deb files from getdeb, as outlined here: http://angpilipinogimp.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/install-gimp-26-on-ubuntu-804-hardy-heron/ Or, you could browse their repo and download them manually and install with dpkg... Some months ago, I upgraded to 8.10 - but I understand your hesitation: the upgrade worked pretty well, but a few things needed to be reconfigured. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)
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 does not offer it yet. Perhaps time to switch to a more reasonable Linux distribution? Yes, but even Ubuntu is still shipping 2.6.1 with their latest stable version (8.10) and shipping 2.4.x with the long-term-support version (8.04). Personally, I compile GEGL, BABL, and GIMP and install them in /opt so I can use the latest version of GIMP - once you go through it once or twice it's pretty easy - YMMV. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)
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... sounds interesting! Does it work on 2.4.6? In the real world people like me are afraid of the cutting edge and use the latest stable... I don't think so - I think the needed text procedures were added in the 2.6.x series. 2.6 is stable for me and has new features - I can't think of any reason to keep using 2.4 Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] gimp launch pt2 redux
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 developer for GIMP but which tools for OS X would you recommend for spotting thread hogs? It's been a long time since I developed anything on OSX, but have a look here: http://developer.apple.com/tools/performance/ XCode (and friends) used to be free - I'm not sure if that is still the case... Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Need help with Help!!! -- Att.: Sven
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 list. I would guess he's more exasperated than arrogant - but then again we've never met ;) You should definitely contact the people who are distributing the 2.6.5 OSX binary and ask about the corruption - it's always best to use the latest stable version if possible, esp. when trying to track down a bug/issue. The HTML and thread-breaking are indeed a bit annoying - and you will find that other mailing lists will make the same requests of you. Again - just my humble opinion. Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)
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 possible (and owing to recent additions to the Procedural DataBase, not just in theory). 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... HTH, Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] old riped paper script, tutorial, or texture?
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 textures here: http://www.cgtextures.com/ There's a cap (15 MB?) on how much you can download in one day though - so choose carefully ;) Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Batch convert .xcf to .xcfgz
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 because of the depravity and poverty of Windows software culture. :) Seriously, http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gzip.htm should be usable in a very similar way to the instructions given. And doesn't Cygwin provide gzip also? Not to mention a better shell than stock XP ;) http://www.cygwin.com/ Chris ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
