Re: [Gimp-user] Stripes in print (Gimp 2.6.7)

2010-12-08 Thread Claus Cyrny
A. den Oudsten wrote: Op 08-12-10 15:04, Claus Cyrny schreef: Hi, after editing a photograph of a girl I downloaded for free from Stockvault, I printed it out at a local drugstore (on one of those Kodak stations), but unfortunately the print contained a pattern of fine stripes. The woman in

[Gimp-user] Stripes in print (Gimp 2.6.7)

2010-12-08 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi, after editing a photograph of a girl I downloaded for free from Stockvault, I printed it out at a local drugstore (on one of those Kodak stations), but unfortunately the print contained a pattern of fine stripes. The woman in the drugstore told be that this must be due to to file. To test thi

[Gimp-user] 16-bit - why the long delay?

2010-07-05 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi all, after this has first been announced, I think, in 2002 (!), I wonder why 16-bit/channel has still not been implemented. Two years ago (or something like this) I read that 16-bit would be available in 2.6, but now someone stated that it would probably take a few more years (!). IMHO, 16-bit

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

2010-06-24 Thread Claus Cyrny
Chris Mohler wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Leon Brooks 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] Command line, PDF resizing & cropping

2010-05-07 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi Craig, On 05/07/2010 05:13 PM, Craig Fairhurst wrote: Hi Could anybody tell me if it would be possible to perform actions such as PDF resizing and cropping on the command line with GIMP. I would use ImageMagick for this. This is really an outstanding set of tools one can access via the c

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

2010-04-09 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi, I need to provide a business card as PSD/ CMYK: Web Coated (SWOP) V2. How do I go about there in Gimp 2.6.7 (Ubuntu 9.10)? I designed the card initially in Inkscape & will import it into Gimp as a PNG. This is actually the first time I am using a color profile, so any tips would be appreciate

Re: [Gimp-user] GaGa GIMP example - someone make for demo, by tomorrow, Fri Feb 12 before 4PM, quickly?

2010-02-12 Thread Claus Cyrny
Here's number of royalty-free images the person in question could use: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lady_Gaga Claus giovanni_re wrote: Hi Akkana, gimp list people, (I don't have time to post to the "gimp images yahoo group) (but that would be a great place to forward this message,

Re: [Gimp-user] Create web page? (correction)

2010-01-27 Thread Claus Cyrny
Deniz Dogan wrote: 2010/1/27 Nathan Lane : http://www.W3Schools.com has the most up-to-date tutorials on HTML and CSS, which are the two technologies you need to learn to achieve the creation of a decent website, even if it is simple. Nathan My "At least I fail to understand that" was

Re: [Gimp-user] Create web page?

2010-01-27 Thread Claus Cyrny
rn to achieve the creation of a decent website, even if it is simple. Adfter taking a brief glance, at least I fail to understand this. Claus Nathan On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Claus Cyrny <mailto:claus.cy...@web.de>> wrote: bigsk...@gmail.com <mailto:bigsk...@gmail.com> wr

Re: [Gimp-user] Create web page?

2010-01-26 Thread Claus Cyrny
Claus Cyrny wrote: bigsk...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/26/2010 11:56 AM, Deniz Dogan wrote: 2010/1/26 Programmer In Training: I use a plain text editor. If you're going to be doing any sort of even half-serious web design, I highly recommend several methods of learning HTML: Rea

Re: [Gimp-user] Create web page?

2010-01-26 Thread Claus Cyrny
bigsk...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/26/2010 11:56 AM, Deniz Dogan wrote: 2010/1/26 Programmer In Training: I use a plain text editor. If you're going to be doing any sort of even half-serious web design, I highly recommend several methods of learning HTML: Read the standard available a

Re: [Gimp-user] Create web page?

2010-01-26 Thread Claus Cyrny
Programmer In Training wrote: On 1/26/2010 10:56 AM, Deniz Dogan wrote: 2010/1/26 Programmer In Training : I use a plain text editor. I also write all of the code myself, but I would at least recommend a text editor which had syntax highlighting. Under Linux, this is really no problem,

Re: [Gimp-user] Create web page?

2010-01-26 Thread Claus Cyrny
Programmer In Training wrote: On 1/26/2010 10:56 AM, Deniz Dogan wrote: 2010/1/26 Programmer In Training : I use a plain text editor. If you're going to be doing any sort of even half-serious web design, I highly recommend several methods of learning HTML: Read the standard available a

Re: [Gimp-user] Plugins

2010-01-22 Thread Claus Cyrny
BGP wrote: I've noticed there are a lot of plugins that are available for GIMP. Say for example you find a gradient plugin. Where do you install it? ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/lis

Re: [Gimp-user] Complaint

2010-01-22 Thread Claus Cyrny
Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:41 AM, BGP wrote: I'm sure you folks are all experts at GIMP but I've found it to be a very hard to learn how to use. But how many hundreds of hours did it take you to learn how to use it? It depends what you mean by "learn how to use it"

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: GIMP vs Photoshop

2010-01-20 Thread Claus Cyrny
Programmer In Training wrote: On 1/20/2010 12:08 PM, Martin Nordholts wrote: But I think we need to keep the setting we have. Some people prefer it the way you do, they want their image windows to hide docks, while others don't want the docks to be hidden. / Martin Then the old be

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: GIMP vs Photoshop

2010-01-20 Thread Claus Cyrny
Programmer In Training wrote: On 1/20/2010 7:04 AM, David Gowers wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Programmer In Training So the next update will see the ability to revert back to the old behavior? That will be nice. (: What version are you using? GIT HEAD (dd8b86785

Re: [Gimp-user] JPG file size increases with saving

2010-01-19 Thread Claus Cyrny
yahvuu wrote: Norman Silverstone wrote: Here is a table that provides an approximate mapping between Photoshop quality levels and GIMP (actually IJG JPEG library) quality levels: Adobe Photoshop quality 12 <= GIMP quality 98, subsampling 1x1 Sure; subsampling takes groups of 4 x 4 p

[Gimp-user] New GUG site available

2010-01-18 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi again, since I am able to post to the list again, here's a post of mine that came back initially. After the old GUG (Gimp User Group) website had been shut down, a new site is up again at http://gug.criticalhit.dk/ So far, there are the old tutorials and a few posts available. It seems to

Re: [Gimp-user] JPG file size increases with saving

2010-01-18 Thread Claus Cyrny
Philip Rhoades wrote: Cristi, On 2010-01-16 06:55, Cristian Secară wrote: On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:56:40 +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote: - When saving as JPG with 85% quality am I losing information? Yes, but still with the same 85% quality you may obtain different results by cha

Re: [Gimp-user] Looks like another Gimp book will be out in November: GIMP Bible by Jason van Gumster, Wiley Press

2009-05-20 Thread Claus Cyrny
DJ wrote: > Hi Gimp-users, > > Looks like another GIMP book will be out in November. > > GIMP Bible by Jason van Gumster, Publisher: Wiley > http://www.amazon.com/GIMP-Bible-Jason-van-Gumster/dp/0470523972 I'm actually a bit skeptical due to the book's subtitle ("The book you need to succeed"). IM

Re: [Gimp-user] Layered TIFF?

2009-04-16 Thread Claus Cyrny
ould open in Gimp. I actually converted the TIFF to PSD using ImageMagick, but Gimp complained about an unknown compression type in layers. You may want to try this TIFF specific mailing list: http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/tiff Maybe you can get a hint there on how to go about conv

Re: [Gimp-user] Batch tool suggestions? (corr.)

2009-04-10 Thread Claus Cyrny
Claus Cyrny wrote: 4.) Perform 'Find Edges (Sobel)' on the mask Value: 0.25 5.) Perform a 'Gaussian Blur' (value: 0.35 ... 0.50) on the mask This should actually read '0.2'. ('0.35 ... 0.50' are the values I use for the final 'Unsharp M

Re: [Gimp-user] Batch tool suggestions?

2009-04-10 Thread Claus Cyrny
; on the now-selected 'V' layer 8.) Compose the image back to RGB The results one gets when using this technique are visibly better than a mere 'Unsharp Mask'. Greetings, Claus -- .:: Claus Cyrny - Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie ::. :: Website: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/

[Gimp-user] 16-bit/CMYK roadmap?

2009-04-04 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi, after following the thread on printing out of the Gimp, I wonder when 16-bit/CMYK is supposed to be implemented in the Gimp? TIA, Claus -- .:: Claus Cyrny - Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie ::. :: Website: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. :: Photo.net: http://photo.net/photodb/slideshow

Re: [Gimp-user] Fading to transparency tutorial?

2009-03-02 Thread Claus Cyrny
layer ('Layers > Add Layer Mask', with the default setting; then apply the black-to-white gradient to this layer, and as a third step, 'Apply Layer Mask'. Finally, merge the two layers with 'Flatten Image' or CTRL+M (Merge Visible Layers). That's basical

Re: [Gimp-user] HTML ??

2009-02-28 Thread Claus Cyrny
send messages in plain text? In Thunderbird, this is possible (but you seem to be using some AOL client). Claus -- .:: Claus Cyrny - Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie ::. :: Website: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. :: Photo.net: http://photo.net/photodb/slideshow?folder_id=714471 ::. :: Saatchi O

Re: [Gimp-user] How to do this?

2009-02-19 Thread Claus Cyrny
" menu]. This way, you still see the photograph on the bottom layer. When you're finished drawing, all you have to do is, to delete the photograph, make the second layer fully opaque again, select the drawing you made [ + A] and export the drawing as a PNG [ + E]. HTH, Claus -- .::

Re: [Gimp-user] Script-Fu

2009-02-18 Thread Claus Cyrny
image' when I later > called 'plug-in-compose' (the code I had functioned fine, it just > might be a little confusing). thanks a lot for the code you attached, and many thanks to the others who responded! Greetings, Claus -- .:: Claus Cyrny - Webdesign | Grafik | Foto

[Gimp-user] Script-Fu

2009-02-17 Thread Claus Cyrny
ue: 2.5) on the mask - Perform 'Gaussian Blur' (value: 2) on the mask - Make a selection from the mask - Delete the mask - Select the V layer with the selection - Perform 'Unsharp Mask' (value depends upon the image) - Compose the image back to RGB TIA, Claus -- .:: Claus Cyrny

Re: [Gimp-user] How to remove alpha channel?

2009-02-16 Thread Claus Cyrny
Keyboard Shortcuts". HTH, Claus -- .:: Claus Cyrny - Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie ::. :: Website: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. :: Fotos: http://photo.net/photodb/slideshow?folder_id=714471 ::. :: MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/claus_01 ::. _

Re: [Gimp-user] Changing the default values

2009-02-16 Thread Claus Cyrny
Claus Cyrny wrote: Hi, where can I change the Gimp's default values for filters, etc.? I am using Gimp 2.4.7. under Ubuntu 8.10. After looking through all of the Gimp's directories, such as /usr/share/gimp, /etc/gimp, or $HOME/.gimp-2.4, I wonder if this is possible at all without

[Gimp-user] Changing the default values

2009-02-15 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi, where can I change the Gimp's default values for filters, etc.? I am using Gimp 2.4.7. under Ubuntu 8.10. TIA, Claus -- .:: Claus Cyrny - Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie ::. :: Website: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. :: Fotos: http://photo.net/photodb/slideshow?folder_id=7

Re: [Gimp-user] zip archive with textures

2009-02-04 Thread Claus Cyrny
t46...@aol.com > <mailto:rlt46...@aol.com> ? Thanks. -- .:: Claus Cyrny - Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie ::. :: Website: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. :: Fotos: http://photo.net/photodb/slideshow?folder_id=714471 ::. :: MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/claus_01 ::. ___

Re: [Gimp-user] Free textures

2009-02-03 Thread Claus Cyrny
s\gimp-[version]\patterns. Claus -- .:: Claus Cyrny - Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie ::. :: Website: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. :: Fotos: http://photo.net/photodb/slideshow?folder_id=714471 ::. :: MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/claus_01 ::. ___

[Gimp-user] Free textures (2)

2009-02-03 Thread Claus Cyrny
://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/de/ The new archive can be found at http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/downloads/textures_02.zip Claus -- .:: Claus Cyrny - Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie ::. :: Website: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. :: Fotos: http://photo.net/photodb/slideshow?folder_id=714471

Re: [Gimp-user] lossless cropping?

2009-02-03 Thread Claus Cyrny
m not commandline guru) on Linux can be used to do > lossless cropping? For Linux, there's of course the command line based ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/). You can do really amazing stuff with it (see at http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/). Greetings, Claus -- .:: Cla

Re: [Gimp-user] select region inside a rectangle

2009-02-02 Thread Claus Cyrny
or each rectangle (but still with comon borders, like > in maps). One way to accomplish this would be, to use the magic wand with the default setting. This implies that the background has just one color: otherwise, you would have to increase the threshold. HTH, Claus -- .:: Claus Cyrny - Webd

Re: [Gimp-user] Free textures

2009-02-02 Thread Claus Cyrny
Jeffrey Brent McBeth wrote: > On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 01:29:18PM +0100, Claus Cyrny wrote: > >>> Could you check if this file is a valid zip file? >> Sorry, the file got corrupted somehow. I'm using Ubuntu's >> archive manager, and it seems that there's

Re: [Gimp-user] lossless cropping?

2009-02-02 Thread Claus Cyrny
admit that, after following this thread, I still have no idea what Zhang Wei Wu means by 'lossless 'cropping'. I understand' lossless compression', but cropping is by definition lossy (you remove part of the original image), so I don't know what 'lossless'

Re: [Gimp-user] Free textures

2009-02-02 Thread Claus Cyrny
Michael Schumacher wrote: >> Von: Claus Cyrny > >> zip archive: >> >> http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/downloads/textures.zip > > Could you check if this file is a valid zip file? Sorry, the file got corrupted somehow. I'm using Ubuntu's archive manage

[Gimp-user] Free textures

2009-02-02 Thread Claus Cyrny
oads/textures.zip The archive contains both preview images (120x120, as JPEG's), as well as the textures themselves as .xcf files (400x400). Hope you like them, Claus -- .:: Claus Cyrny - Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie ::. :: Website: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ :: :: Fotos: http://ph

Re: [Gimp-user] Unable to replicate Golden Text effect, explained in Gimp tutorials.

2009-01-31 Thread Claus Cyrny
d some > kind of "secret" remains uncovered. IMHO, there isn't a "secret" to it; it's just a technique everybody can learn. If you're still stuck, feel free to ask me again. Greetings, Claus -- .:: Claus Cyrny - Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie ::. ::

[Gimp-user] Calibrating one's system

2009-01-31 Thread Claus Cyrny
(ICC profiles for offset printing, docs on the proper use of PDF, etc. - http://lprof.sourceforge.net/ (calibration software for Linux) - http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=moncal (LProf HOWTO at the Scribus site) Cheers, Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie :: Web:

Re: [Gimp-user] Bubble effect

2009-01-30 Thread Claus Cyrny
s, such as the size of the dots, random distribution, density, ... You can also choose a background pattern, or set the background to a solid color. HTH, Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie :: Web: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. :: Fotos: http://photo.net/photodb/slid

[Gimp-user] ICC profiles

2009-01-28 Thread Claus Cyrny
ossibly know where I can obtain/download those profiles? (Regarding the monitor profile I posted in the Fujitsu Siemens user forum, so maybe I'll be getting an answer there. At the moment, the most important profile is the one for the camera.) TIA, Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Gra

Re: [Gimp-user] About Pointillism / Pointillist Effect

2009-01-28 Thread Claus Cyrny
h something similar, but the dithering in the Linus Torvalds image is much subtler. My guess is that this was achieved by using a plug-in (Photoshop?). I couldn't find anything similar (at least during a quick search) on the Gimp plug-ins site, at http://registry.gimp.org/. Maybe someone els

Re: [Gimp-user] About Pointillism / Pointillist Effect (correction)

2009-01-28 Thread Claus Cyrny
Claus Cyrny wrote: > 3. Increase the contrast as much as possible, > without losing the details you would like to > keep. Here I made a mistake. The more shades of grey you have in the original image, the better the dithering (-> more details). Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesi

Re: [Gimp-user] About Pointillism / Pointillist Effect

2009-01-28 Thread Claus Cyrny
x27; and 'Dithering > Color Dithering > Floyd-Steinberg (reduced color bleeding)'. You may not get all the subtle details included in your example (this 'copperplate engraving' effect), but at least that's a start. Maybe there is some plug-in for the Gimp available.

Re: [Gimp-user] facing difficulty in irunning gimp

2009-01-26 Thread Claus Cyrny
r Gimp 2.6 installed that doesn't match Gimp 2.4.5. You need to a) uninstall the present libgimp (via Synaptic), b) get the appropriate libgimp for 2.4.5 (as a .deb file) http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12511801/libgimp2.0-doc_2.4.5-1ubuntu2_all.deb and c) install it via 'sudo dpkg inst

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.6.1 on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-01-26 Thread Claus Cyrny
Claus Cyrny wrote: > Olivier Lecarme wrote: >> Claus Cyrny wrote: >>> libpoppler IS there, as are librsvg, libexif, and libgnomeui-2.0 >>> (I didn't check the rest). Does anyone know what's the matter here? >>> I downloaded the source from the FTP

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.6.1 on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-01-25 Thread Claus Cyrny
Olivier Lecarme wrote: > Claus Cyrny wrote: >> >> libpoppler IS there, as are librsvg, libexif, and libgnomeui-2.0 >> (I didn't check the rest). Does anyone know what's the matter here? >> I downloaded the source from the FTP site (the link is include

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.6.1 on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-01-25 Thread Claus Cyrny
27;t check the rest). Does anyone know what's the matter here? I downloaded the source from the FTP site (the link is included on the Download page at gimp.org). TIA, Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie :: Web: http://home.arcor.de/ccyr

Re: [Gimp-user] Attach Gimp file in to Blender

2009-01-24 Thread Claus Cyrny
e. I wish I spoke German (that's the language there, right?). It's actually French! ;-) Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie :: Web: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. :: Fotos: http://photo.net/photodb/slideshow?folder_id=714471 ::. __

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling image via the command line

2009-01-24 Thread Claus Cyrny
-process files. ImageMagick has an amazing number of options where you can specify the output file format, the compression ratio, compression algorithms, resolution, and much more. Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie :: Web: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. :: Fotos: http://pho

[Gimp-user] Gimp 2.6.1 on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-01-24 Thread Claus Cyrny
the latter, Gimp still doesn't output the quality of say, Photoshop. I especially become aware of this when using curves to get a chromium effect, or applying 'Lighting Effects', where I am frequently getting 'stripes' instead of smooth gradients. I don't know, thoug

Re: [Gimp-user] What is the best white balance script/plugin?

2009-01-24 Thread Claus Cyrny
the white object in the panorama and say go. Why don't you just use Gimp's 'Colors > Levels'? There's exactly the kind of color picker you would like to have. You can select both black & white point, you have the option 'auto', you can apply 'Levels'

Re: [Gimp-user] Resizing a larger image to smaller image causes distortion

2009-01-22 Thread Claus Cyrny
e image down & apply an 'Unsharp Mask' to it with the amount'25'. Finally, apply 'Colors > Hue/Saturation > Lightness', until you have the original blue again. HTH, Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Gr

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp latest version

2009-01-16 Thread Claus Cyrny
/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig" > export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /opt/share/aclocal" I tried this myself, but found it very difficult. IMHO, the easiest way would be to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10. Then you have all the latest libraries installed. HTH, Claus -- Claus C

Re: [Gimp-user] "Live" update of selected regions

2009-01-07 Thread Claus Cyrny
ath, and, at demand, proceed vice versa (path -> selection). Then you could, say, feather the selection, or whatever. This way, you wouldn't have to select the same area again. That's what comes to my mind instantly. HTH, -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik |

Re: [Gimp-user] drop shadow

2009-01-02 Thread Claus Cyrny
n is of some help. Greetings, Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie :: Web: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

[Gimp-user] Gimp User Group web site

2008-12-19 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi all, has the GUG web site at http://gug.sunsite.dk/ been discontinued, or is it just temporarily off the web? Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie :: Web: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] How to update GIMP in Ubuntu? (P.S.)

2008-12-18 Thread Claus Cyrny
Claus Cyrny wrote: > Meanwhile I performed an upgrade to 2.6 via Synaptic (including > 'gimp-data' and 'libgimp') and selected 'libbabl-dev' in addition I selected gegl as well. Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie

Re: [Gimp-user] How to update GIMP in Ubuntu?

2008-12-18 Thread Claus Cyrny
David Gowers wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Claus Cyrny wrote: >> Hi Akkana, >> >> Akkana Peck wrote: >> >>> I'm building GIMP 2.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 and it's really no big deal. >>> You don't need the whole gtk+ chain -- the on

Re: [Gimp-user] How to update GIMP in Ubuntu?

2008-12-17 Thread Claus Cyrny
l and gegl? I tried to compile 2.6 and got an error message during ./configure that both gegl and babl were missing, although according to Synaptic, they are both installed. TIA, Claus -- Claus Cyrny : Webdesign | Grafik | Fotografie :: Web: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ ::. __

Re: [Gimp-user] How to update GIMP in Ubuntu?

2008-12-15 Thread Claus Cyrny
o that As an afterthought to my private email, I think I agree with that. There are simply too many additional libraries to update, not just 'gimp-data' and 'libgimp'. I only kept my /home partition from Ubuntu 8.04 and did a complete new install of Ubuntu 8.10. HTH,

Re: [Gimp-user] Billboards

2008-12-09 Thread Claus Cyrny
Johan Vromans wrote: > "Nathan Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I don't really see what you're trying to do -- If you download that >> billboard image, then take another image you want to put in that >> white space on the billboard, then that is completely trivial. Can >> you explain more pl

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.6.1 and 2.6.3 crash

2008-12-06 Thread Claus Cyrny
On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:47:28 +0100, Claus Cyrny wrote: >> I just ran Gimp from a terminal, and I am getting >> "(script-fu:5142): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: >> gimp_wire_read(): >> error > Illegal instruction" > after it closes. > Wha

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.6.1 and 2.6.3 crash

2008-12-06 Thread Claus Cyrny
Chris Mohler wrote: > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Claus Cyrny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Chris, >> >> Chris Mohler wrote: >>> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Claus Cyrny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>>

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.6.1 and 2.6.3 crash

2008-12-06 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi Chris, Chris Mohler wrote: > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Claus Cyrny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10, but Gimp 2.6.1 included there >> closes abruptly when I open "Colors > Color Balance...". >> I

[Gimp-user] Gimp 2.6.1 and 2.6.3 crash

2008-12-06 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi, I just upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10, but Gimp 2.6.1 included there closes abruptly when I open "Colors > Color Balance...". I removed 2.6.1 and got a .deb package of 2.6.3 (with libgimp and gimp-data), but here's exactly the same behavior. Does anyone know how to fix this? Is this a known issue? Un

Re: [Gimp-user] Changing hair colour

2007-06-01 Thread Claus Cyrny
Victor Domingos wrote: > What is, in your oppinion, the best method to make dark hair look > like blond hair? Given that you have masked out the hair well enough, I would suggest that you try a combination of 'Tools > Color Tools > Levels...' (to lighten the hair in the first place), and then

Re: [Gimp-user] How to spot fix a large area that is too light

2007-05-23 Thread Claus Cyrny
DJ wrote: > Hi, > > >>> My latest problem. I have a very nice black and white photo of a >>> couple. The only problem is the man's right arm and part of his chest >>> are too light. I tried using the cloning and smudge tool, but it >>> looked like he was wearing a dead raccoon. Not the look I wa

Re: [Gimp-user] How do you select the inside of a circle?

2007-05-22 Thread Claus Cyrny
Chris Mohler wrote: > On 5/22/07, Claus Cyrny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> David Gowers wrote: >> >>> Drawing a circle in Inkscape will not improve it's quality. The gimp >>> quality is about the maximum, and you'll find tha

Re: [Gimp-user] How do you select the inside of a circle?

2007-05-22 Thread Claus Cyrny
David Gowers wrote: > Drawing a circle in Inkscape will not improve it's quality. The gimp > quality is about the maximum, and you'll find that inkscape provides > pretty much the same quality. I have to disagree with you. I noticed that the anti-aliasing in the Gimp is by far not as good as in In

Re: [Gimp-user] How do you select the inside of a circle?

2007-05-22 Thread Claus Cyrny
DJ wrote: > Hi, > > How do I get a selection of the entire inside of an outline of a > circle? For example, I have a transparent background, and I draw a > circle in black (it looks like this " O ", minus the quotes) > How do you draw the circle in the first place? Are you using the circular se

Re: [Gimp-user] Adobe Illustrator output.

2007-05-03 Thread Claus Cyrny
Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 08:20 -0400, John R. Culleton wrote: > >> Gimp (and other programs) can use Adobe Illustrator output with one >> small change. Just rename the file from foo.ai to foo.pdf. It is >> actually pdf 1.4 in format. >> > > If these files are

Re: [Gimp-user] Photos negatives scanned into the gimp

2007-04-18 Thread Claus Cyrny
Owen wrote: >> Or do I need to code a plugin, and if so, what exactly is the operation >> to be done >> (in terms of RGB) ? >> > > > > Image->Layers->Colors->Invert ? > Actually it's not that easy, because the film contains a mask (yellow & red), which has to be filtered out. Claus --

[Gimp-user] KPT for the Gimp?

2007-04-16 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi, does anyone know if there is a Script-Fu available somewhere which emulates Kai's Power Tools (KPT)? I once had KPT v 3 under Corel PHOTO-PAINT, and it had some really nice fx. What I'm particularly looking for is the KPT tool which has a sort of magnifying glass as an interface, which allowe

[Gimp-user] IPTC standard

2007-04-05 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi all, is there some way in which the Gimp supports the ITPC standard for copyright information, author, etc. in JPEGs? TIA, Claus -- Home Page- http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/[in English] graf-o-matic - http://grafomatic.twoday.net/ [in German] :: django|log ::

Re: [Gimp-user] more than 8 bit/channel

2007-03-12 Thread Claus Cyrny
Marco Ciampa wrote: > so the > answer is no for now and perhaps yes for the next version (2.6? 3.0?) GIMP > version. That's why people are switching to other apps like Krita or CinePaint. Claus -- Home Page: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ (Photographs) Blog: http://grafomatic.twoday.net (in Germa

[Gimp-user] Realistic textures

2007-03-08 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi all, as a good alternative to the commonly used 'tiling' textures, there's a great plug-in for the Gimp, written by Paul Harrison . This creates so-called 'near-regular' textures. For more on this, please see Textu

Re: [Gimp-user] removing the background from a scanned text

2007-03-08 Thread Claus Cyrny
P.S.: To keep the transparency, you should finally save the text either as TIFF, PNG, or XCF. JPEG doesn't support transparency. Claus ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] removing the background from a scanned text

2007-03-08 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi Ed, Ed wrote: > Hello all, > My knowledge of Gimp and image editing borderlines /dev/null so bare with me > please! > > Is there a way to make the background transparent so that only the hand > written text remain after I have scanned a document... or do I need a tablet? > > The document is s

Re: [Gimp-user] Pan Tool keyboard shortcut

2007-02-27 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi Dave, Dave M G wrote: > Sven, > > Thank you, sort of, for responding. > >> Did you see a Pan tool somewhere in the toolbox or in the Tools menu? >> No, you didn't. you can pan by clicking on the middle mouse button (MMB) and then moving the cursor, which changes to a hand, around the image.

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP throwing away TIFF tags

2007-02-13 Thread Claus Cyrny
scott s. wrote: > Paul Surgeon wrote: > >> Ok so let's throw the tags away. >> Is there anyway to get GIMP to use libgeotiff instead of libtiff? >> libgeotiff is built on top of libtiff. >> I have to touch up hundreds of aerial photos and it's a PITA to have to save >> and then reapply the proj

[Gimp-user] 16-bit support/color management

2007-02-12 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi, after reading through a number of old posts to the devel-list, I subscribed to this list again (after some time of absence), because I'm not a programmer/developer, but a user. With the advent of new bitmap editors like CinePaint (ok, basically not for stills, but for 35mm film), Krita or Pix

Re: [Gimp-user] Copy the alpha channel from an image to another

2007-02-12 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi, Germain Le Chapelain wrote: > > Hi, > > I feel like my question might be very stupid : > > I would like to know who to copy the alpha channel of an image to > another image. Simpy select the alpha channel with 'select all' ([CTRL]+A) and copy it into the clipboard. Then go to the second ima