[Gimp-user] color managing slows gimp down?

2017-03-02 Thread Casey Connor
I notice that when I use a color managed display, the zooming in and out of an image is very slow (maybe 500ms per increment). If I disable color management, zooming is instantaneous. Is this normal/expected? Gimp 2.9.5, commit 86e101e322, Kubuntu 16.10. Thanks, -Casey _

[Gimp-user] problems with input controllers

2017-03-02 Thread Casey Connor
I got a wacom pen tablet and was working through setting it up with gimp on Kubuntu. (Wasn't particularly successful, but that's a different thread.) Now my regular mouse is all misconfigured and I can't seem to fix things. E.g. ctrl-scrolling with the mousewheel to zoom in/out is broken. (Pen

Re: [Gimp-user] Text Characters

2017-03-02 Thread Paula Koval
Hello, Everyone! I am looking for the way to take text that I have created that has a solid color, make an outline around the edges of each character, and make the center of each character transparent so it the attributes of the layer below it will show through the transparent area. I tried to wo

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP resize options

2017-03-02 Thread Pat David
It's actually one of the very first options as an example in the docs: https://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-tutorial-quickie-scale.html Or the first tutorial on the tutorials page: https://www.gimp.org/tutorials/GIMP_Quickies/#changing-the-size-dimensions-of-an-image-scale There's a few other thin

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP resize options

2017-03-02 Thread Casey Connor
Do: Image > Scale Image And uncheck the "chain" icon next to the values. This is pretty standard GUI to indicate that things are not "linked". Same paradigm in play in the layers dock; they can be linked together so that they move together. You can also use the Scale tool (ctrl-T by defaul

[Gimp-user] GIMP resize options

2017-03-02 Thread Cliff Esler
I am a relatively new user running GIMP 2.8.18 on Win7 Pro x64 OS. Am puzzled by the absence of a simple "resize" option which is standard in most graphics applications, allowing you to choose pixel resize with or without maintaining present width to height ratio. I do not see this in Image > Tr