Re: [Gimp-user] How to rotate part of an image without getting white triangles at the corners ?

2009-04-02 Thread Jay Smith
David, Thanks for the bug number. Regarding the float method, I beg to differ. Unless I am missing something, what we are doing for Floating before rotating is ... get selection tool (must be done anyway) draw selection (must be done anyway) Ctrl-Shift-L(the only additional

Re: [Gimp-user] How to rotate part of an image without getting white triangles at the corners ?

2009-04-01 Thread David Gowers
Hi Jay, On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Jay Smith wrote: > Hi David, > > If convenient, please advise me of the bug number on this so that I can > track it.  Thank you very much. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577575 > > Related to the "bug", I hope you also noted the problem that t

Re: [Gimp-user] How to rotate part of an image without getting white triangles at the corners ?

2009-04-01 Thread Jay Smith
Hi David, If convenient, please advise me of the bug number on this so that I can track it. Thank you very much. Related to the "bug", I hope you also noted the problem that there is no Preferences option of using "black" as the default for newly created images. You said... > BTW, floating befo

Re: [Gimp-user] How to rotate part of an image without getting white triangles at the corners ?

2009-04-01 Thread David Gowers
Hello, On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Andrew wrote: > Jay Smith wrote: >> What am I missing? >> > Maybe a step by step. I've just tried it again and it works with a > minimum of mousing (I'm using gimp 2.6.4). > > 1. Add alpha channel to initial layer. > 2. Add new black layer and move it undern

Re: [Gimp-user] How to rotate part of an image without getting white triangles at the corners ?

2009-04-01 Thread Andrew
Jay Smith wrote: > What am I missing? > Maybe a step by step. I've just tried it again and it works with a minimum of mousing (I'm using gimp 2.6.4). 1. Add alpha channel to initial layer. 2. Add new black layer and move it underneath. (After this step make sure you change the active layer to

Re: [Gimp-user] How to rotate part of an image without getting white triangles at the corners ?

2009-03-31 Thread norman
Whilst yo are processing may I suggest that you save as .xcf and only save to .jpg when you have finished. Norman ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] How to rotate part of an image without getting white triangles at the corners ?

2009-03-31 Thread David Gowers
Hi Jay, On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Jay Smith wrote: > Using Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux. > > We are testing using Gimp to replace Photoshop on Windoze.  However, we > are hitting one problem/feature we have not been able to resolve. > > We scan images of postage stamps (using xsa

Re: [Gimp-user] How to rotate part of an image without getting white triangles at the corners ?

2009-03-31 Thread Jay Smith
Partial Oops... I had most recently responded to Andrew ... > I _think_ I did as you described, but after rotation the object I just > rotated seems to disappear under the "transparent" (checkerboard) > alpha channel, never to be seen again. If I have the black layer > underneath, then the rotat

Re: [Gimp-user] How to rotate part of an image without getting white triangles at the corners ?

2009-03-31 Thread Jay Smith
Andrew, Thanks for your suggestion, but... I must not be understanding something critically important. I _think_ I did as you described, but after rotation the object I just rotated seems to disappear under the "transparent" (checkerboard) alpha channel, never to be seen again. If I have the bl

Re: [Gimp-user] How to rotate part of an image without getting white triangles at the corners ?

2009-03-31 Thread Andrew
Jay Smith wrote: > Using Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux. > > We are testing using Gimp to replace Photoshop on Windoze. However, we > are hitting one problem/feature we have not been able to resolve. > > We scan images of postage stamps (using xsane from inside gimp). There > are multiple

Re: [Gimp-user] How to rotate part of an image without getting white triangles at the corners ?

2009-03-31 Thread norman
< big snip > > I understand that I could draw selections around the various unwanted > white parts and fill with black, but that is a big pain -- we scan > thousands of such images and would thus have to do 4x thousands of fills. > > Is Gimp unable to auto-fill those background areas? Or do I no

[Gimp-user] How to rotate part of an image without getting white triangles at the corners ?

2009-03-31 Thread Jay Smith
Using Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux. We are testing using Gimp to replace Photoshop on Windoze. However, we are hitting one problem/feature we have not been able to resolve. We scan images of postage stamps (using xsane from inside gimp). There are multiple postage stamps are on a blac

Re: [Gimp-user] how to rotate ?

2006-06-29 Thread T F
I have a little rectangle which I like to rotate / animate. The rotation should give a kind of 3D impression blender.org is an awesome package to do things like this. for example, create a cube, then apply a jpg photo to one or more faces, then use automatic rotation/zoom and scene record. th

Antwort: Re: [Gimp-user] how to rotate ?

2006-06-29 Thread Michael_Hoeller
Hello Jeff, thanks a lot - I am not sure if I got all. Will try soon. I have a German GIMP 2.2 and I am not sure what mad Object in the filter Menu can be no seem me right.. the filter menu is spilt in 5 parts, which of these is it? And will this be selfe explaining : "you'll need a bunch of la

Re: [Gimp-user] how to rotate ?

2006-06-29 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 03:48:48PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I have a little rectangle which I like to rotate / animate. The rotation > should give a kind of 3D impression -> the backward going part is > shrinking and the forward comming is growing relative to the middle axis

[Gimp-user] how to rotate ?

2006-06-29 Thread Michael_Hoeller
Hello, I have a little rectangle which I like to rotate / animate. The rotation should give a kind of 3D impression -> the backward going part is shrinking and the forward comming is growing relative to the middle axis which goes noth / south. I checked the GIMP help and asked google but I did n