How to Copy transparency Layers?
Hi, I have a blue background image and I want to copy Tux from a gif which has a total transparent background to the blue background-image. If I select all and copy it, Tux is lightblue because his opacity is default 50 %. How do I make it that Tux himself is 100% opacity and his transparent background is 0% opacity? I want a black/white/yellow Tux with a blue background. Regards, Max Moritz Sievers
solved: How to Copy transparency Layers?
I must have been just too stupid to copy the Tux. Now it works fine. Regards, Max Moritz Sievers
Making persistient keybindings in channels, layers, paths dialogbox?
Hi! Is there a way to make keybindings to blending modes (sorry if I'm using the wrong terms here...that's how they're expressed in Photo$hop) in the Layers, Channels Paths dialog persistent? I can dynamically bind them (by virtue of gtk's dynamic binding feature), but these bindings never persist from gimp session to gimp session. If none of that made any sense, I'm looking to make it so the blending modes (normal, dissolve, multiply, screen, divide, etc) to the keypad...that is, KP_0 (0) to normal KP_1 to multiply (I never seem to have any use for dissolve), and on up to KP_9 for lighten only. Then with the blending modes for which there are no keys left (hue, saturation, color and value) use ALT+KP_1 ALT+KP_2 etc. It might sound like a lot of "sugar for a nickel" as my dad used to put it, but I find these bindings incredibly useful because I'm constantly blending layers...but I find that I have to reset them everytime I use the gimp. The gimp has no preset keybindings from anything in the keypad, and since these are only bound to the layers, channels paths dialog box, they don't interfere with anything else...but at any rate, as it is now, nothing will bind to these blending modes. Perhaps this could be added to a wish list? Or perhaps there's something I could define somewhere in ~/.gimp ? I've looked pretty carefully but as yet have found nothing there. Thank you for any help or suggestions! Vince Frost
adjust /import layers function
Hello everybody, anyone to help me? I found two functions in the GIMP manual, but cannot find them in the program itself. In the section layers on bottom of the page the functions "adjust layer" and "import layer" are desrcibed. I tried to find them in the program itself, but could neither locate them in the normal pop-up menu nor in the layer pop-up menu in the layerschannels dialogue. So: where can I find them. Thank you very much for your help, S. Koller -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net
Re: adjust /import layers function
Are you using the most recent version of gimp (1.1.25)? Renzo -- -- LINUX: Reboot once a year...just for fun. -- Take a look at www.gameoefter.org
Re: merging 2 layers
At 15:57 31/7/00 -0400, "Mike Spice (Michael Spiceland)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to the GIMP user manual and book, users used to be able to merge 2 layers together. My understanding is that the user manual includes many features that are more recent than the last stable version (1.0.4), so if anything, from your point of view, the book tells you what you will be able to do, not what you used to be able to do. Apparently, all that you can do with 1.0.4 is to mergea all of the layers together. It's been a long time between "stable" versions. 1.0.4 is what I got with Red Hat 6.0 Linux. It seems to be a constant refrain on the mailing lists that "...that's such an old version. You should download a much newer one...", by people who seem to have forgotten that 1.0.4 is officially the version for most users to use. Recommending that someone take on a release more recent than the official stable release is taking on a significant responsibility. The developers appear to be concentrating on trying to get the next major release out, rather than producing an interim stable version. There also seems to be some difficulty in adhering to a feature freeze, which isn't likely to improve the release date any. Is this true? If there is a way to merge just 2 selected layers, how can I do this? I use "merge visible layers", as Aaron suggested. Regards, Ian
Re: keep layers ??
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Christian Wenz wrote: i there a way to keep the layer structure in a gimp file ??? i like to save a file with several layers and get a layers when i load the file in gimp again. save as xcf, the gimps native format. theres also a psd (photoshop) writing plug in at the registry. gimp already comes with the filter for reading photoshop. -- feed your processor! the NEXUS
Re: keep layers ??
i there a way to keep the layer structure in a gimp file ??? i like to save a file with several layers and get a layers when i load the file in gimp again. save as xcf, the gimps native format. theres also a psd (photoshop) writing plug in at the registry. gimp already comes with the filter for reading photoshop. XCF saves more things... or at least you know that it rarelly will leave out data, do not use PSD for dailly work. Just a suggestion to avoid problems. For better space management, use bzip2 or gzip after it. When saving, choose "by extension" and write "filename.xcf.bz2" (or "gz") in the box. You keep all the data, and is saved in compressed way (loseless, of course). Gimp creates the xcf and then calls the compressor, quite easy. And you can extract the xcf file by hand (usefull when sending to a guy that does not have bzip2... rare but there are some still), or leave the work to Gimp. GSR
Re: Combining several *.pbm into one picture with layers
to automatically combine several pbm's to one layered file, you'd probably have to write a gimp script, and then still enter each file name to merge in a dialog box. this seems like more trouble than it's worth. Other way was to write a script, which calls the net-gimp server... you could start such a script with all files as argument an it writes down one "combined.xcf". Or you could just ask for a directory in a Script-Fu, where all the pbm's reside. With best regards Steve
Re: Combining several *.pbm into one picture with layers
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 02:35:18PM -0600, atta dubson wrote: On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Jon Winters wrote: You can use something like ImageMagick to convert them to .gif images then use something like gifmerge to make them into a .gif anim. When you open the .gif in Gimp each frame should be a layer. I don't know anything about the .pbm format. Is it indexed? If not then the above method would result in a loss of image quality. pbm = Portable BitMap. it's generally the format of the scanner output (when using sane, at least). so, no, it's not indexed. to automatically combine several pbm's to one layered file, you'd probably have to write a gimp script, and then still enter each file name to merge in a dialog box. this seems like more trouble than it's worth. You think so? Isn't it an all day task? I draw images by hand to form an animation and then scan them all with my fax-device which has an automagic page feeder. That's comfortable. But it is not very comfortable to load every image into a layer by hand with gimp :( Raoul
Re: Combining several *.pbm into one picture with layers
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:47:48PM -0600, Bruce Burden wrote: Hi Raoul, I want to automatically combine several image files (*.pbm) into one image with each of the combined files on a seperate layer. As one helpful soul explained it to me: 1. Create a workspace large enough to hold the combined size of the images. You apparently can't expand the canvas once it has been sized. 2. Copy the first image, and place where required. Open the "Layers" pop-up. You will have a "Background" and a "Floating Layer" present. Click on the "Floating Layer", and select "New Layer". You can now rename the "Floating Layer" as necessary. 3. Repeat for all remaining images. Thanks, yes! That's how I did it. But that's not very automatically, is it? :o) Raoul
Re: Combining several *.pbm into one picture with layers
I want to automatically combine several image files (*.pbm) into one image with each of the combined files on a seperate layer. As one helpful soul explained it to me: [...] 3. Repeat for all remaining images. Thanks, yes! That's how I did it. But that's not very automatically, is it? :o) IIRC there is a plugin or script to load sequences of files. I think it has something related about the Gimp Animation Plugin, or something. Please search the Registry and the list archives for more info. If it does not exist (damn bad brain), you could write the script yourself. GSR
Combining several *.pbm into one picture with layers
Hi. I want to automatically combine several image files (*.pbm) into one image with each of the combined files on a seperate layer. How can I do this? Raoul
Re: Combining several *.pbm into one picture with layers
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Jon Winters wrote: You can use something like ImageMagick to convert them to .gif images then use something like gifmerge to make them into a .gif anim. When you open the .gif in Gimp each frame should be a layer. I don't know anything about the .pbm format. Is it indexed? If not then the above method would result in a loss of image quality. pbm = Portable BitMap. it's generally the format of the scanner output (when using sane, at least). so, no, it's not indexed. to automatically combine several pbm's to one layered file, you'd probably have to write a gimp script, and then still enter each file name to merge in a dialog box. this seems like more trouble than it's worth. with mettaa... atta from the dhammapada: Though one were to live a hundred years without seeing the rise and passing of things, the life of a single day is better if one sees the rise and passing of things. 113 http://pali.cjb.net http://www.dhammanet.net
Re: layers
right-mouse-click-Layers-Layer to Image Size :) On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, kasim kasmani wrote: I dearly enjoy the gimp. but, say I have an image 250 x 250, and when I create a new layer, how can I make that layer the size of the object? I know it says there what size of layer do you want, but can it automatically decide latter after I have actually created the layer, say typed in some text or soemthing, it becomes a hastle to resize the layer after. I'm lost, I hope I haven't lost you. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com --Ames -- "Fine! Then I'm just gonna take my laptop and go home!!!" Amy L. Abascal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Design Chic, VA Linux Systems www.valinux.com Web Design Chic, Silicon Valley Linux Users Groupwww.svlug.com --
layers
I dearly enjoy the gimp. but, say I have an image 250 x 250, and when I create a new layer, how can I make that layer the size of the object? I know it says there what size of layer do you want, but can it automatically decide latter after I have actually created the layer, say typed in some text or soemthing, it becomes a hastle to resize the layer after. I'm lost, I hope I haven't lost you. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: layers
Dne Èt, 09 bøe 2000 kasim kasmani napsal(a): I dearly enjoy the gimp. but, say I have an image 250 x 250, and when I create a new layer, how can I make that layer the size of the object? I know it says there what size of layer do you want, but can it automatically decide latter after I have actually created the layer, say typed in some text or soemthing, it becomes a hastle to resize the layer after. I'm lost, I hope I haven't lost you. There's plenty of ways how to do that in 1.1.X gimp. The fastest is probably to duplicate the layer (right click on a thumbnail in the layer window), selelect all (imageselectall) and clear (ctrl+k). The other way is to create a new layer and use a cropping tool with "current layer only" setting enabled. The cropping tool is great for resizing layers (yes it can even enlarge). The original resize and border resize functions did not appeal to me too. Jakub Steiner -- -[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-[ http://hideout.musichall.cz ]- " .. if Windows is the answer it must have been a stupid question .. "
