Re: [Gimp-user] How to create jpeg files compatible with a sony
The jpeg files that GIMP creates are perfectly valid. I think the basic problem is that you are trying to use a camera as a storage device, which is not its intended purpose. There are some cameras that, when you take a picture, create a digital watermark that the camera can use to tell if the file has been altered or corrupted. If the watermark does not match the data -- which is bound to happen after editing in GIMP, because GIMP does not know about watermarks -- then the camera may treat the file as invalid and refuse to display it. I should add that I'm going pretty far beyond my knowledge here. While I'm reasonably confident that this sort of digital watermarking does exist, I am only speculating that this accounts for your problems -- particularly with the photo-printing service. Best wishes, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the CNPRC Email system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Re: when even free advertising fails
David Marrs wrote: As for layer effects, well perhaps you should ask the users what it is they get out of them. Who knows? You might learn something. I think most of the developers already understand the value of layer effects quite well. Let me try to summarize the current situation. There are basically two possible ways of proceeding. One is to add layer effects onto the current GIMP architecture, which could be done, but in a somewhat hackish and ugly way. The other is to defer them until the arrival of the long-planned GEGL-based architecture, which will make layer effects and many other nice things easy and natural to implement. The decision has been to wait for GEGL. Whether this is the correct strategy can be debated, but it definitely doesn't mean that we don't care about layer effects. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the CNPRC Email system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp contextual F1 help Crimson Editor in Windows
Sven wrote: I can't remember if html files has been associated to crimson. May be, but now aren't associated. I haved tried tipical solution: unistall crimson, gimp, look for crimson association in the windows register. This is not at all about filetype association. GIMP help calls the default web browser, so that's what you should be looking for. It appears that Crimson is set to be the default browser on your system. Actually this is not quite correct. GIMP simply tells Windows to open the url, it does not specify that a web browser should be used. Now, if the url had an extension of .html, then the system default browser would be used unless some other handler had been associated with the .html extension. But in many cases the url's used by the help system are more complicated, e.g. ch03.html#gimp-tool-options-save. It is not clear how Windows will react when asked to open such a thing. I have added a comment to this effect to the relevant bug report, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158463 Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the CNPRC Email system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Ghost Layer
Cristian David wrote: I downloaded the Picture Eastern Hemisphere 2048 by 2048 pixels (7.1 MB TIFF) from http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/ . After this I tried to put another layer over the black part. But what ever I tried, the black part of the picture covers it. Another strange thing is, that die black part is allways shown, even when al* layers are deactivated. Carol Spears wrote: the error message from gimp is somewhat revealing, however: alpha channel type not defined for file ~/.gimp-2.3/tmp/gimp_temp_157230.tif. Assuming alpha is not premultiplied An even more revealing error message appears if you try to display this image using xv: Sorry, can not handle 6 channel images. It looks like the GIMP tiff plug-in mishandles the image in a way that causes data corruption in the core. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the CNPRC Email system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Re: missing pixels
For people who would be interesting in learning a bit more about this topic, it might be worth taking a look at the related help docs, http://docs.gimp.org/en/ch02s04s04.html and http://docs.gimp.org/en/ch04s03s05.html Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the CNPRC Email system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Best performance on 4000x2200 pixel images.
Dana Silbera wrote: In any case, the specific problem I'm getting is while colour balancing of the final image, and each shift of the slider requires a bit over 20 seconds to complete the colour change over the image, which seems slower than it should be. It's just a little difficult to really get an idea how the before/after compare when it doesn't flick from one adjustment to another in time to see it 'real time'. I think you're right, actually. (You must have a pretty slow machine, though -- it only takes about 3 seconds for an image that size on mine.) I have noticed before that the previews for the image map tools (of which color balance is one) seem slower than they ought to be. The operation they are doing is extrememly simple, so they ought to be as fast as other simple tools like bucket-fill, but they are not. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the CNPRC Email system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] selection coordination
Gert Cuykens wrote: is there somewhere a tool where you can type something like select from 101*102 to 356*456 Well, you can open a script-fu console and use the gimp-rect-select command (ugh). But no, there is no reasonable way to do it right now. Over the past few days I've coded up a new interface for the rect select tool, modeled after the crop tool interface but with a few changes to remove some of the annoyances. After GIMP 2.3 branches off I'll put it into CVS (initally as a new tool, so as not to mess with the existing one), and if the user interface can be worked out to everybody's satisfaction, maybe it will show up in GIMP 2.4. But I'm afraid that's the whole story right now. (It would be very simple to write a script-fu to do this, though -- it would just be a wrapper around gimp-rect-select.) Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the CNPRC Email system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] CMYK and Postscript output.
Sven wrote: I don't know who's feeding you your information but that person is highly misinformed since there are no vector layers. If you want postscript or even pdf files using vectors instead of bitmaps, you are looking at the wrong application. GIMP is an image manipulation program for editing raster graphics. If you want to edit vectors, please use a vector editing application. The Gfig plugin now creates its own layers, and they are vector layers because if you run Gfig with the active layer being a Gfig layer, you can manipulate the objects there as vector objects. Dave Neary's GIMP 2.2 headlines mention this, with perhaps a bit more enthusiasm than is entirely justified -- this is presumably the source of the misinformation. In any case, the capabilities of Gfig are quite primitive in comparison with well-developed vector graphics programs such as Sodipodi or Inkscape -- and strictly speaking, the functionality does not come from GIMP itself but rather from the plugin. The rest of what you wrote I think is quite correct. It may be interesting to note that it would theoretically be possible to modify programs such as Inkscape or Sodipodi so that they would be capable of running as GIMP plugins, creating their own special layers and storing their data as layer attachments (i.e., parasites in GIMP terminology), in the same way that Gfig now does. (This is also basically how the Text tool works, except it doesn't use parasites.) Such an approach could give GIMP full-powered SVG-vector-editing capabilities without requiring any major changes in the GIMP core. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Re: GIMP fails to load JPEG
I have been using GIMP for several years and just encountered a problem that I had never seen before. I just bought a Canon Digital Rebel (300D) and GIMP 2.0.0 is unable to open the JPEG files that it produces. Most likely you are using a Linux distro (such as SuSE 9.1) that has a buggy version of libexif. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142252 for more info. The solution, if this is the case, is to upgrade to a newer version of libexif. (A newer version of GIMP won't help.) Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp Features Suggestion
MLF wrote: In future versions of GIMP, I'd love to see a filter or series of filters, that would help the user (especially the beginner) to turn digital photos into 'hand-drawn' images. I realize that with some talent and experience, a good GIMP user can already do this, but I am just thinking in terms of a feature that would strike a non-GIMP user, and possibly make them want to at least try the software. Just a thought. That wouldn't be so hard to do, but here's the thing: when such a tool exists, however nicely it works, if it is used often then people come to recognize its signature, and it steadily comes to look less and less interesting and more and more artificial. That's pretty much what has happened with the easy-to-use artistic filters in PhotoShop -- they look like cheap fakes to most people nowadays. I think in the long run it is better to force people to use a little taste and creativity if they want to produce a hand-drawn appearance. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Making a Tile
Nick W wrote: Right, thanks. I've worked out how to offset (only need the x offset) but the clone tool has a cirle with a line through it? - looks like it wont work for some reason? If the clone tool cursor looks like that, it means you haven't set the source to clone from: it can't copy if you haven't told it what to copy. See http://docs.gimp.org/en/ch03s03s08.html for more information. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Adding text layers with Gimp 2.0
JCA wrote: . . . Most of the times, when I type some text in the text window, I get nothing on the background, and not text layer is added. . . . This doesn't match any widely reported bug I know about. Of course if you type black text on a black background, you won't see the text, but you should still see the layer boundary in yellow even in that case. Because I, and very likely other developers, don't see this problem ourselves, we will need more information to be able to say anything useful. The most important information you could give would be a recipe that reliably and repeatedly reproduces the problem. If you can come up with one, it would also be important to give complete details about your GIMP installation: what version you're using, what OS, and other possibly relevant factors. One possible explanation is font problems, but that can't be pinned down based on the information you've provided. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] keybinding for File-Open Location
For what it's worth, Mozilla actually uses *Shift*-Ctrl-L for Open Location, by default. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Photoshop Brushes
Calvin Spealman wrote: If any of you have or know of any documentation, perferably on the more recent versions of the format, it would be very much appriciated. You can still find the PhotoShop 6.0 SDK -- the last one that was publically distributed -- at http://www.fine-view.com/jp/lab/doc/ps6ffspecsv2.pdf I would be surprised if the brush file specs have changed all that much since then. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] gimp in one window
Yemu wrote: my question is: is it possible to have gimp in one window? like in other graphic programs - not to mention photoshop or photo-paint. i found something like regimp but this software is old now. You might take a look at http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=3892 which is a plug-in called Windows Gimp Deweirdifyer. It is rather deprecated by the GIMP developers because of the obnoxious name and inelegant coding, but a substantial number of Windows GIMP users seem to like it in spite of its imperfections. You can find more discussion of the plug-in, and this topic in general, than you could possibly want to read at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7379 and http://gug.sunsite.dk/forum/?threadid=1630 Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] gimp in one window
Matt wrote: which is a plug-in called Windows Gimp Deweirdifyer. It is rather deprecated by the GIMP developers because of the obnoxious name ... How about calling it the Windows Gimp Unifier (if the Deweirdifyer name is offensive and hinders its success.) No offense :-) I see that I may have inadvertantly given the impression that I have something to do with that plug-in. Not so: I have never even used it, or GIMP on Windows at all for that matter. Joe Marshall is the creator of the Deweirdifier. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Tool Option Dialog detached from main dialog
I would like to re-integrate the Tool Option dialog but I didn't succeeded. How can I do this ? See chapter 3.4 in the user manual (http://docs.gimp.org/en/). Actually chapter 2.3.4. We really need to come up with a better way of linking to things in the Help docs :-). Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] dpi from 75 - 300 ??
Geoffrey wrote: So here's a question which will demonstrate my ignorance. I've got some digital photos I took that, when opened with GIMP are identified as being 75dpi x72dpi. I need images that are 300 dpi, so is it possible to convert the 75dpi image to 300 dpi?? I selected to scale the image and happened to notice that I can make this change at this point. Is this doing what I'm expecting? That is a question that only a mind reader can answer. (Sorry :-)) Here's the thing: a resolution in dpi is not a property of the image per se, it's a property of the way the image is displayed, on the screen or on paper. When you see a resolution of 72x72 dpi for an image, what those numbers represent is somebody's judgement that the image will look good when displayed with 72 pixels per inch; and usually this means look good when displayed on a monitor, because nothing looks very good when it is printed at 72 dots per inch. Now suppose you have a 300 x 300 pixel image, with a nominal resolution of 72 dpi, and suppose you want to convert it to 300 dpi for printing. There are two approaches you could take. (Actually more, but let's keep it simple for the moment.) (1) You caould say, okay, 300 pixels is about 4 inches at 72 dpi. I want my print to have the same size. So, I will scale the image to 1200 x 1200 pixels, and set the resolution to 300 dpi. (2) You could say, okay, I don't want to make the image look blurry by scaling up the number of pixels, so I will simply set the resolution to 300 dpi without changing the pixel dimensions, thereby getting a print about 1 inch across. Both of these are legitimate choices, and so are many others. The best way to do it depends on your image and your printer. What makes it complicated is the fact that printer dots have much poorer color resolution than monitor dots. On most modern systems, a monitor dot encodes 24 bits of color information. On a typical high-quality printer, a single dot encodes about 6 bits of color information. Thus, simply changing the resolution so that a single monitor dot becomes a single printer dot is usually not the best thing to do. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] binary: 55392K
Sven Neumann wrote: Aewyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But: running gimp, I got messages: gimp-2.1:375: warning: can't find numbered character 160 uncountable. I have never ever seen this message with any application. No idea what could be causing this. It's a font problem, somewhere a font is being used that does not handle character #160. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Histogram in only a selected region?
Adam Stein writes: Many tools operate only on the selected region. It seems Histogram is one that doesn't and that it always operates on the entire image. Is there an easy way to have it operate only on a selected region? I don't think so. It shouldn't be very hard to implement, though, since the histogram in the Levels tool does it, and I believe uses the same code as the histogram in the Histogram dialog. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and image properties
Item: The EXIF Browser plug-in is not distributed with GIMP. (It may be included in some packages, though.) It can be downloaded from the GIMP Plugin Registry, at http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=4153 Item: A digital camera image does not really have a true resolution. Assigning one of 300 dpi is simply arbitrary. A resolution only exists when an image is physically displayed, on a monitor or paper. The 300 dpi value is simply a recommendation of a resolution that will give a decent-looking result when used for printing the image. Anyway, the main reason GIMP does not show you the resolution is because it is stored in the EXIF data, and GIMP does not currently read EXIF data, it simply passes it through unchanged. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and image properties
An update: Thanks to Michael Schumacher I have been able to add a Windows binary for the EXIF browser plug-in to the Registry: exif-browser-bin.zip from http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=4153 To install, just unzip it and place the unzipped version in the plugins subdirectory of your personal GIMP directory. Michael says this should work with GIMP 2.0.x. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Line thisckness is eps files
Niels van Bakel wrote: How do you increase the line thickness of an object in an eps file? I use the select tool to get the object I want to edit. I can use grow and than fill the enlarged object. Is there a better way to do this? The eps format is not really suitable for this sort of thing: it was designed as an output format for a finished product, not as a format for things that would be modified in the future. It can, however, be done. An eps file is an ascii file, and can be edited in any text editor. If you are lucky, somewhere in the file there is a line that looks like 5 setlinewidth and you can change the line width by editing that line. If you're not lucky, the line width is set by some fancy unreadable macro defined in the header, and modifying it will be a real pain. It all depends on what program generated the file. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] getting rid of dust after scanning
Adrian wrote: I am scanning in some photos at a very large size. 23x35 inches, 300 dpi. The final output will be a poster of that size. In spite of my best attempts there is always some dust someplace. I'm wondering if there is an easy way to cover this without having to touch up each speck by hand. You might try the Despeckle filter (Filters-Enhance-Despeckle). It does best at dust removal if you select a small area containing the dust speck before applying it, but depending on your image it might work okay when applied to the whole thing. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Slow [Unsharp Mask] with particular settings
Steve Crane wrote: I am adapting a workflow from a Photoshop action and there is one step that does haze removal with USM using radius 60, amount 0.30 and threshold 1, that is extremely slow. I just timed it on a 94.4MB 4048x3040 photograph and it took 3 minutes, 50 seconds. That sounds about right, given the size of your image and the radius you're using. Unsharp Mask is a pretty compute-intensive algorithm. Switching to a new version of Gimp won't help -- this plug-in hasn't changed its algorithm in quite some time. Does Photoshop do it a lot faster with the same parameters? If so, it would be interesting to look at the Gimp code for things that could be speeded up. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] dreamy look
Milos Prudek wrote: I am guessing only but I'd say the tutorial forgets to mention that the upper layer (the blurry one) needs to be set to Screen mode. I can get a result that comes very close by following the tutorial and changing the layer mode to Screen. What can I say? That's exactly what was missing. Thank you very much! The other thing is that the radius of a Gaussian blur is somewhat arbitrary, because there is no sharp edge to it, so it is very likely that a radius of 6.0 in Gimp is not the same thing as a radius of 6.0 in Photoshop. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] EXIF-data not saved
Oskar Eyb wrote: Hello, the checkbox Save EXIF data is activated, but after saving the file doesn't contain EXIF data any longer. GIMP 2.0.3 Win32 Yes, you are right that it does not work: this is one of the main reasons why Gimp 2.0.4 is going to be released very soon -- in the next few days. It worked in 2.0.2, and it will work again in 2.0.4. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148632 for more information. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Invisible selection marching ant
Napoleon Ahiable writes: I was trying to make a selection with a grey background colour setting of R=127, G=127, and B=127. Trouble is i can not see the outline of the shape whilst drawing an outline. It only appears after i release the left mouse button [ . . . ] What can be done about this ? This is kind of an annoying answer, but it is possible by playing with display filters (View-Display Filters) to make the outline visible in the cases where it normally isn't. (This has no effect on your image, and can be turned off when you don't need it anymore.) Incidentally, this problem has nothing to do with marching ants -- the marching ants only appear after the selection is completed, and they show up fine. Anyway, this is a problem that if it were considered important would not really be that hard to solve, but nobody has ever considered it important enough to spend serious time on. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Re: Cannot open jpeg from camera
Matthew Marshall wrote: When I try to open jpeg images from my olympus stylus 400, a box pops up saying: Opening image file failed: Plug-In could not open image You didn't give enough information about your system for me to be sure, but I bet you are seeing the bug described by the following two URLs (which also tell you what to do about it): http://gug.sunsite.dk/forum/?threadid=2009 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142252 Basically it is a problem with the library called libexif in some recent SuSE OS's, and the solution is to replace libexif. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Re: how to change colors
Rick Pasotto wrote: I have a fairly simple gif image that has various shades of brown. I'd like to have the same image but with various shades of grey instead. What would be the easiest way of doing this? Is there an algorithmic way of converting the brown range to a grey range? Given that I could easily change the values in the colormap. First, since you are a novice, I should probably tell you to convert the image from Indexed type to RGB type, or you will not be able to do very much with it. After that, depending on exactly what is in the image there may be easier ways than what I am about to describe, but I think for a general solution you need to begin by creating a selection that contains the parts of the image you want to modify. Possibly the Select by Color function will do this for you, or you may have to do something more sophisticated. Once you have selected the parts you want to modify, the rest is easy: just activate the Hue-Saturation tool, and reduce the saturation to zero. Everything in the selection will then turn to gray. If this does not do what you want, please try to clarify the problem. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Re: Looking for PhotoShop-tutorial -- making flames in GIMP?
Baard Ove Kopperud wrote: A while back there was a question on this list wheter or not it would be breaking any copyright to translate a PhotoShop-tutorial about making a flame-effect to implement it under GIMP. Unfortunately, I just re-installed my system, so I'm not sure where the mails about this went... I was therefor hoping that somemone could give me the URL for this tutorial -- and possibly give me tips about things to watch-out for when trying it with GIMP. The archives of this list are available on the net, at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Concerning the copyright question, the answer is that you would not be breaking any copyright for PhotoShop per se, but you may well be breaking copyright for the tutorial. The only way to tell is to read the copyright notice. If you cannot find one, then I suggest that you contact the author of the tutorial. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Re: Color - transparency
Egon Brinken wrote: How can I subtract one specific color from the picture layer, e.g. let the uniform colored background be replaced by transparency? The Color to Alpha filter does exactly what you want -- access it using the menu path Filters - Colors - Color to Alpha. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] gradient-blur
Nem W Schlecht wrote: Any update on this, Bill? Thanks for the reminder. Okay, I have uploaded the code to the Gimp Plug-In Registry, at: http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=4169 You should have a working gimptool-2.0 in order to install it. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Re: dynamic text glow, what happened to them?
Dynamic text is no longer needed, because the things it did are now done by the regular text tool (and done a lot better, too!). I don't know about the glow filter, but there are indeed some filters that have not yet been ported from Gimp 1.2 to Gimp 2.0. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] can't install GTK+ on Debian 3.0 r1
Well, the right place to ask is [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- but a wild guess is that it might help to run ldconfig, if you haven't done so. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] gradient-blur
For what it's worth, I went ahead and implemented a true variable blur filter, by modifying the blur plug-in code from 2.0. I'll put the code in the plug-in registry after a little bug-fixing, but anyway, I put together a comparison of what you get with variable blurring versus what you get with variable blending of blurred and sharp images -- you can see it at: http://gug.sunsite.dk/pictures/1080149573.png Please note that I am not saying that one is better than the other, just that they are different. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] gradient-blur
On 20 Mar 2004, Sven Neumann wrote: Combining a blurred picture with an unblurred picture using layer mask seems to work well for me. Of course it's not the same but it should look reasonably similar. On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Jakub Steiner wrote: Just create an appropriate selection for the blur filter. The fastest method in this case would be toggling the quickmask, creating the gradient, toggling back and applying the blur filter. What is the best technique? What you suggest or the one that follows? Are there any problems with these two ways, compared with the mod of the blur filter way? Neither of these techniques work, as you will see if you try to apply them. When you mix a blurred image with a sharp image, the result does not look like a less-blurred image, it looks like a sharp image whose contrast has been reduced. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] gradient-blur
Actually the reality is that Gimp, with the standard plug-ins, does not have the ability to do this, although there are ways to fake something that looks sort of like it. The easiest way to get it would be to modify the blur filter (found in randomize.c in the plug-ins directory) so that the probability values are derived from a map-image rather than constant. This would really be a valuable thing to have. Best, -- Bill __ __ __ __ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at primate.ucdavis.edu ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
