[Gimp-user] Hi there
Hi there: I've been using The Gimp from some time now, but always as quick image editor. Now I want to use to more things. I'm by no means a pro, just a programmer, a linux user and an enthusiast on image editing. I'd like to learn about how using Gimp. Before posting something on the list I wish to know if there any kind of rule, besides the google first rule ;). Hope learn and help to learn. masterLoki ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Hi there
Hi there: I've been using The Gimp from some time now, but always as quick image editor. Now I want to use to more things. I'm by no means a pro, just a programmer, a linux user and an enthusiast on image editing. I'd like to learn about how using Gimp. Before posting something on the list I wish to know if there any kind of rule, besides the google first rule ;). Hope learn and help to learn. This manual is probably your best bet, http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/ Pretty old, http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/index.html but good on theory I haven't read this, but it's up to date and worth buying http://gimpbook.com/ Otherwise, as you say, Google for various tutorials, there are a zillion of them. http://www.gimpusers.com is a good place to bookmark Ask questions on irc.freenode.org #gimp -- Owen ___ 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 4:10 PM, Martin Nordholts ense...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/30/2009 11:04 PM, TREY Mcatt wrote: I would like to stop receiveing the gimp e-mail's. Thanks Then why don't you unsubscribe? Link can be found at the bottom of the mails And in the headers of every message, and in the e-mail he received when joining the list... :) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] hi
Hi Martin, On 30 Sep 09 22:10 Martin Nordholts ense...@gmail.com said: Then why don't you unsubscribe? Link can be found at the bottom of the mails Maybe because TREY does not see the link. When I opened TREY's mail there was no footer visible, but the message was marked as having an attachment. Turns out there were two. When I opened the first of these (text/html) it echoed exactly the plain text version I was seeing - no footer. Finally I opened the other (text/plain) and the footer was revealed. In my plain text mailer I have to go to a lot of hassle to read such attachments. I suffered the same issues with Paul Hartman's response in this thread. All I'm saying is that you can't rely on people seeing those footers. Sorry not to be talking about the GIMP. Time to shut up, methinks! Greg Chapman http://www.gregtutor.plus.com Helping new users of KompoZer and The GIMP ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] hi
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Greg Chapman gregtu...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi Martin, On 30 Sep 09 22:10 Martin Nordholts ense...@gmail.com said: Then why don't you unsubscribe? Link can be found at the bottom of the mails Maybe because TREY does not see the link. When I opened TREY's mail there was no footer visible, but the message was marked as having an attachment. Turns out there were two. When I opened the first of these (text/html) it echoed exactly the plain text version I was seeing - no footer. Finally I opened the other (text/plain) and the footer was revealed. In my plain text mailer I have to go to a lot of hassle to read such attachments. I suffered the same issues with Paul Hartman's response in this thread. I apologize, I accidentally sent a multipart text/HTML message. I normally operate in plain text mode and must have switched and forgotten to change it back. Sorry! Normally the footer should be visible. Martin uses a signature, maybe the fact that the footer is beneath the signature delimiter caused it to be hidden for you in that case... just guessing. :) Paul ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] hi
On Thursday 01 October 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Greg Chapman gregtu...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi Martin, On 30 Sep 09 22:10 Martin Nordholts ense...@gmail.com said: Then why don't you unsubscribe? Link can be found at the bottom of the mails Maybe because TREY does not see the link. When I opened TREY's mail there was no footer visible, but the message was marked as having an attachment. Turns out there were two. When I opened the first of these (text/html) it echoed exactly the plain text version I was seeing - no footer. Finally I opened the other (text/plain) and the footer was revealed. In my plain text mailer I have to go to a lot of hassle to read such attachments. I suffered the same issues with Paul Hartman's response in this thread. I apologize, I accidentally sent a multipart text/HTML message. I normally operate in plain text mode and must have switched and forgotten to change it back. Sorry! Normally the footer should be visible. Martin uses a signature, maybe the fact that the footer is beneath the signature delimiter caused it to be hidden for you in that case... just guessing. :) Paul One last word, although these things tend to get a life of their own. This is exactly the reason I like kmail, it ignores the -- sig delimiter, and I do see the senders sig, along with the rest of the footers messages. I personally would consider an email agent that hid that stuff, broken. But that is just one old mans opinion. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp Witch! Witch! They'll burn ya! -- Hag, Tomorrow is Yesterday, stardate unknown ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] hi
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
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] hi
On 09/30/2009 11:04 PM, TREY Mcatt wrote: I would like to stop receiveing the gimp e-mail's. Thanks Then why don't you unsubscribe? Link can be found at the bottom of the mails / Martin -- My GIMP Blog: http://www.chromecode.com/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Hi- Need to build a logo for my site
Hi , I am trying to build a site for product reviews reviewpunch.com. I need some logo for it can anybody please help me with it , I cant afford to pay for it but for sure when site comes up I can appreciate your help :) Thanks a lot -- Successful people make more mistakes because they do more Thanks Saurabh Agarwal ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] hi, merge two jpg together, the 2nd one does not display
On Monday, May 7, 2007 10:59 pm, Suin Edit wrote: I just installed the GIMP on my windows box. My task is simple, merging two jpg files together. When I increase the canvas size and copy and paste the second jpg into the first one, there is only a dashed outline of the second picture. I have no idea what's wrong. When you paste the second image, you have to do one of two things as your next action before anything else. You must either click the New Layer button or the Anchor button in the layers dialog. The first will create a new layer from the pasted image. The second will merge the pasted image into the top-most visible layer of the target image. Once you do one of those two things your pasted image will show. But increasing the canvas size may not be enough if you have an existing layer you want to paste the image into. The canvas is one thing. Layers are another. And they are not necessarily the same size. Increasing the canvas size just gives your layers, whatever size they happen to be, more room to be arranged in. If you want to paste a large image into a small layer, only part of the pasted image will show. If you make it a separate layer, you will avoid that trouble, as long as your canvas is large enough to accommodate the size of the pasted image. -- 73, AC7ZZ http://counter.li.org/ Linux User #246504 ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] hi, merge two jpg together, the 2nd one does not display
Dear All I just installed the GIMP on my windows box. My task is simple, merging two jpg files together. When I increase the canvas size and copy and paste the second jpg into the first one, there is only a dashed outline of the second picture. I have no idea what's wrong. Could anyone help me? Thanks. Scott D. Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] hi-Q scanning and converting
(Please CC me) I have what must be a very common problem, but I can't seem to solve it myself. I prefer to use linux, if possible. I want to scan photos to preserve them. I'd like high quality files. If practical, they can be as large as necessary to preserve all information. I also want to convert these images to various smaller images suitable for different purposes, such as viewing quickly on a computer screen, and also thumbnails. I am having some difficulty at each stage. I have tried xv, imagemagik, netpbm, and gimp. gimp in particular shows the problem of very large, but low quality jpeg files that I mention at the end of this message. I have access to some HP scanner attached to machine running NT. The installed program does not reveal what resolution I am scanning at, only the magnification. When I look at the resulting image with, say, xv, I find that indeed, in addition to being larger than I can view on the screen, the image is scanned at higher resolution (xv reports width and height in pixels). (Of course, I would prefer that the size of the image does not get huge just because I ask for higher resolution, but that does not seem to be an option.) By cropping and enlarging, I can see how much magnification I need to capture more or less all the information. For a studio photo, I believe I need maximum magnification to get all the information. Even a high quality picture from a cheap camera seems to continue to reveal more detail as I increase the resolution of the scanner to its max. The resulting files can be from about 70MB to 300MB (24 bit tiff) depending on the size of original photo. Am I misreading the results? Do I really need such large files ? Does anyone have information or a link on what kind of resolution is required to get an optimum scan of a photo? I can't find anything on the web. I find that these large tiffs can be compressed by about a factor of 2 to 3 using bzip2. I want to convert these to something viewable on a screen or for printing on some cheap paper. It appears that jpeg compression is a good choice for photos. I have some basic orientation now on the primary uses of the various compression formats and the differences between the file formats and compression algorithms. I find that different programs give very different results when converting to jpegs. I have tried xv, imagemagik, netpbm, and gimp. I have tried these programs with several quality settings and other parameters. (I typically use the integer setting). I would like a quickly loading jpg of, say, 50 KB to 300KB (I don't really know). But by the time I lower the quality setting enough that the resulting file size is down to 3MB to 5MB, which still takes a long time to load, the image is seriously degraded. It looks much worse than many 20KB jpegs that I have seen. I suppose I can make multiple scans, some at lower resolution and then convert those. These experiments are time consuming and I am kind of working in the dark. I wonder if there are web documents or books that discuss how to make high quality scans of photos, and how to make high quality lossy images for casual viewing. I would appreciate any information. Thanks! John ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] hi-Q scanning and converting
I am replying to the list as well, so that this is archived! Thanks much for the prompt reply. I won't have time right away to try this in detail. *Jeff Trefftzs wrote: computer screen or printing on ordinary paper, I would recommend something like ImageMagick to (a) reduce the size of the image (resolution) and (b) convert from tiff to jpeg. I guess you mean first make a tiff with lower resolution, then make a jpeg from that. Note that jpegs, even saved at high quality, look crappy when you blow them up enough. But when you resize the image first, from a lossless encoding like tiff, then you lose no information you will be able to notice at the desired end size. I think I get it. With some programs (including gimp) I convert a 100 MB tiff to a 250KB jpeg that looks crappy without blowing it up at all. I guess I need to reduce the resolution of the tiff first and then convert it. I'll play with that. I think my problem is because I am dropping the jpeg quality below 20% to get the file size down and it just doesn't perform well.` dependent on the grain size, and is usually on the order of tens or hundreds of megabytes per snapshot/slide/whatever. In my OK, that jibes with what I saw. Particularly even small prints from a portrait studio have better resolution than my scanner can capture. I can find structure in the iris of an eye. OTOH One series of snapshots that I have look fine when viewed at full scale, but the scanner easily gets all the available detail at less than max res. Were I getting hi-res scans of film imagery, however, I'd be prepared to gobble up huge wads of disk space if I wanted to keep as much of the original information as possible. Well, CDRs are cheap and can hold maybe ten to fifty of my bzipped large tiffs. Thanks, John ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
