Re: [Gimp-user] When black and white is not black and white

2017-06-06 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2017-06-06 at 06:02 +0200, Lancer wrote: > I am a school teacher. One of the checks I ask students to do in > order to test the contrast of their graphics work, is to convert the > images to grayscale and see whether images are still clear. As you discovered, there are different ways to co

Re: [Gimp-user] When black and white is not black and white

2017-06-06 Thread Rick Strong
For a quick & dirty contrast test I would get them in the habit of converting to greyscale. This converts the colour space from RGB (or CMYK) to Greyscale...but it may not give them the best perceptual rendering of a colour scene in B&W (greyscale) if what they **want** to end up with is a grey

Re: [Gimp-user] Color Fonts`

2017-06-06 Thread Daniel Smith
Remember too that in case you're doing this type thing for the web that you can do some wild text styles with JavaScript or css etc. Dan http://www.google.com/search?q=css+JavaScript+font+animations&btnG= On Jun 6, 2017 2:28 PM, "Carol Spears" wrote: > On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 11:36 PM, Samuel Mar

Re: [Gimp-user] 3D Text to infinity

2017-06-06 Thread Ofnuts
On 06/04/17 02:52, Logansfury wrote: Hello, Im trying to create a 3D text that appears to go off into the distance into infinity. I followed this tutorial at youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfeIBK1k_PY and tried to create a vanishing point at the bottom left of canvas. What I got wasnt

Re: [Gimp-user] Color Fonts`

2017-06-06 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 11:36 PM, Samuel Martin wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently become aware of color fonts like these< > https://designshack.net/articles/typography/color-fonts-a-beginners-guide/ > >. > > Are they supported in GIMP, and if not will they be? > > I can see how those could get real u

Re: [Gimp-user] When black and white is not black and white

2017-06-06 Thread Casey Connor
I'll take a stab at this, but other more knowledgeable people may weigh in: as I understand color theory, the notion that there is a canonical equivalent grayscale value for every color is somewhat of a fallacy; any such translation relies on pyscho-perceptual assumptions about how we perceive

Re: [Gimp-user] When black and white is not black and white

2017-06-06 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
Good luck documenting the diferences between the different ways to convert an image to grayscale: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/69308/how-to-convert-color-images-to-black-white-in-gimp/69372#69372 On 6 June 2017 at 06:02, Lancer wrote: > I am a school teacher. One of the chec

[Gimp-user] libstdc++-6.dll not found

2017-06-06 Thread Nem0
After installation of 2.8.22 version I have 3x alert window that libstdc++-6.dll not found. - web-page.exe - help-browser.exe - file-pdf-load.exe This file is in c:\Program Files\GIMP 2\bin\ directory (previous instalation) What is wrong? -- Nem0 (via www.gimpusers.com/forums)

[Gimp-user] 3D Text to infinity

2017-06-06 Thread rich2005
>Hello, > >Im trying to create a 3D text that appears to go off into the distance >into infinity. I followed this tutorial at youtube: ...snip... >and tried to create a vanishing point at the bottom left of canvas. >What I got wasnt at all what I hoped for. Please see attachment image. More than

[Gimp-user] When black and white is not black and white

2017-06-06 Thread Lancer
I am a school teacher. One of the checks I ask students to do in order to test the contrast of their graphics work, is to convert the images to grayscale and see whether images are still clear. There are two methods students are using to convert their images to grayscale for this test... Method

[Gimp-user] 3D Text to infinity

2017-06-06 Thread rich2005
>a true 3D text with defined thickness, stretching to seeming >infinity (all the way to a dot) off on any angle that I choose, not >simply straight vertical down. Guilty of not reading your post correctly - sorry. So you can forget my previous post. The problem is even when the text is well spa

[Gimp-user] 3D Text to infinity

2017-06-06 Thread Logansfury
Hello, Im trying to create a 3D text that appears to go off into the distance into infinity. I followed this tutorial at youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfeIBK1k_PY and tried to create a vanishing point at the bottom left of canvas. What I got wasnt at all what I hoped for. Please see

[Gimp-user] Text rendering

2017-06-06 Thread zylstra
Is it possible to for GIMP to display (and export) text at the same size as other programs if I use the same unit and the same value for the font sizes? If so, how? What must I set in GIMP? Do you experience what I do? Or does GIMP display (and export) the same size text across programs on your

[Gimp-user] Batch plugin

2017-06-06 Thread rich2005
>Hello, > >I'm looking for a batch plugin, which is the opposite of imposing the >same watermark on thousands of images. > >I have one background image and I need to put thousands of different >images on it. > >Thank you in advance, >greetings Stating the obvious You see from another post that wr

[Gimp-user] Color Fonts`

2017-06-06 Thread Samuel Martin
Hi, I've recently become aware of color fonts like these. Are they supported in GIMP, and if not will they be? Cheers, Sam ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gi

[Gimp-user] Sierra

2017-06-06 Thread Linda Newton
Getting ready to download GIMP, but not seeing the option for Mac Sierra...what to do? Thanks! Linda ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List a