[Gimp-user] Have readable texts and text styles

2013-01-25 Thread Fabio Colella
@RougueRanger I work in graphics in my company. Text styles in gimp are not easy to obtain. I achieve the result I want using many effects. The one that I mostly use is drop shadow. Try it with different parameters to achieve for shadows, blurs and glows. Il giorno 24/gen/2013 08:48,

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotating An Image Using GIMP 2.8.0. WITHOUT Losing Any Of The Image

2013-01-25 Thread scl
You are right, the online help is a bit skimped in that point. The most comprehensive is written in chapter 4.5 [1]. I'd like to mention some thoughts: - If rotating the image is embedded into a bigger workflow, steps 1 and 10 are not necessary for rotating. - 'Image/Fit Canvas to Layers' can

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotating An Image Using GIMP 2.8.0. WITHOUT Losing Any Of The Image

2013-01-25 Thread Michael Schumacher
Von: scl scl.gp...@gmail.com You are right, the online help is a bit skimped in that point. The most comprehensive is written in chapter 4.5 [1]. I'd like to mention some thoughts: - If rotating the image is embedded into a bigger workflow, steps 1 and 10 are not necessary for rotating.

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotating An Image Using GIMP 2.8.0. WITHOUT Losing Any Of The Image

2013-01-25 Thread Michael Schumacher
Von: Alex Vergara Gil a...@cphr.edu.cu But what is lost if I rotate and then adjust the canvas to the layers without doing any of the additional steps? This is evidently for lossy image formats like jpg where the cosine transform is over the rows and when you rotate the image details

[Gimp-user] Rotating An Image Using GIMP 2.8.0. WITHOUT Losing Any Of The Image

2013-01-25 Thread dsvendse
WOW!!! What a GREAT team! It sure helps to have a solid knowledge and experience base...which I do not. :-) I really enjoy learning about GIMP, and I learn more every time I sit down with it. The only online Help that I was able to find was from folks who really didn't know about GIMP's many

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotating An Image Using GIMP 2.8.0. WITHOUT Losing Any Of The Image

2013-01-25 Thread Michael Schumacher
On 25.01.2013 22:55, dsvendse wrote: The only online Help that I was able to find was from folks who really didn't know about GIMP's many features and tools. Never trust anyone if they don't answer your questions by pointing to the user manual. -- Regards, Michael

Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book - sample chapter

2013-01-25 Thread Steve Kinney
On 01/24/2013 09:10 PM, Steve Kinney wrote: On 01/24/2013 07:11 PM, Christen Anderson wrote: I just ordered it!! can't wait for it to get here!! ~Christen On 1/23/2013 11:17 PM, Olivier wrote: See http://nostar.ch/BoG_promo And so as you can see, politely plugging your book about the

Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book - sample chapter

2013-01-25 Thread upscope
On Friday, January 25, 2013 07:56:09 PM Steve Kinney wrote: On 01/24/2013 09:10 PM, Steve Kinney wrote: On 01/24/2013 07:11 PM, Christen Anderson wrote: I just ordered it!! can't wait for it to get here!! ~Christen On 1/23/2013 11:17 PM, Olivier wrote: See

Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book - sample chapter

2013-01-25 Thread Steve Kinney
On 01/25/2013 08:50 PM, upscope wrote: You don't say what browser you used. i just downloaded chaper 5 from the link and then My Browser SeaMonkey open in Okular just fine. Of Course I'm in a Linux environment. Browser? I downloaded the file to my desktop (Mint 14 w/Cinnamon) and tried

Re: [Gimp-user] help gray threshold

2013-01-25 Thread Thomas Widlar
I got it done, Steve. It worked the first time. I used the Tools Color Tools Curves method with the value x=141 and y=64, the dot near the middle horizontally and 1/4 of the way up. The staff lines became considerably darker. Thank you very much. On 1/17/2013 8:39 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:

Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book - sample chapter

2013-01-25 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 4:56 AM, Steve Kinney ad...@pilobilus.net wrote: Hey Olivier, You might want to take a look at the PDF file for the sample chapter: In Evince, I could only see the images and page footers; text was blank, and highlighting did not make it visible. Evince 3.6.0,

Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book - sample chapter

2013-01-25 Thread Steve Kinney
On 01/25/2013 10:07 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 4:56 AM, Steve Kinney ad...@pilobilus.net wrote: Hey Olivier, You might want to take a look at the PDF file for the sample chapter: In Evince, I could only see the images and page footers; text was blank, and

Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book - sample chapter

2013-01-25 Thread Olivier
To all who downloaded Chapter 5 of my book from No Starch's website: I generated the original PDF using pdflatex on my Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) computer, but the people at No Starch added the book cover in front of the PDF. Anyway, on my own computer I can look at this file using Evince, Okular,