Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP user friendliness suggestion

2018-11-16 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2018-11-16 at 14:41 -0500, Steve Kinney wrote: > > Ultimately, Save vs. Export is just a semantic issue: > > The GIMP "saves" image editing projects as XCF files, with all > layers, > channels, paths, etc. intact. XCF is the GIMP's native file format. > > The GIMP "exports" images from

Re: [Gimp-user] Book recommendation sought

2018-11-16 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2018-11-15 at 16:45 -0500, Dick Marti via gimp-user-list wrote: > Can you recommend the best > recent books on producing fantasy landscapes by arranging snippets of > several different pictures? i'm not aware of any books on that topic exactly :) but The Artist's Guide to GIMP (Hammel, 2n

Re: [Gimp-user] resizing image creates blurry image

2018-11-12 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2018-11-09 at 19:21 +0100, firefly24 wrote: > I'm trying to resize an image from 398x398 to 28x28. Since 398 isn't an exact multiple of 28, it may help to crop it first to 392 pixels by 392. Then scale down to 1/7th the size (56 x 56) and use curves to make sure you still have contrast, th

Re: [Gimp-user] Best way to upscale an image

2018-11-10 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2018-11-10 at 11:02 +0100, Helmut Jarausch via gimp-user-list wrote: > for a photobook I need to upscale an image (showing a landscape) by > a factor of 2. Usually fine art prints in books are done on a 144 or 150 line screen, and normally you want twice the lines-per-inch resolution, whi

Re: [Gimp-user] irregular cropping

2018-11-04 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2018-11-04 at 18:47 -0800, Ward Ricker via gimp-user-list wrote: > > > When I do so I am expecting everything outside of the desired picture > (i.e. the white area) to go away as the third-part tutorial > shows. Instead, everything gets deleted. i'm not sure what's going on here. You co

Re: [Gimp-user] Bulky GIMP

2018-10-21 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2018-10-21 at 20:48 +, James Rushton wrote: > The PATHS tool Edit function simply will not work for me. Can’t > change PATH colors via Stroke. GIMP is a bitmap editor; paths don't appear in the final image themselves, but are a tool for editing the image. You can convert a path to a s

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing images to scale

2018-10-10 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2018-10-10 at 21:41 +, Office TyAutDesigns wrote: > there is a section that I can change image dimensions but it won't > let me change them. Anybody have any ideas where I am going wrong? Not entirely - which Linux distribution are you using, and which GIMP version exactly? You could

Re: [Gimp-user] free select lasso tool options

2018-10-08 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2018-10-09 at 01:55 +, Nicholas Carrington via gimp-user- list wrote: > I know it is cool that you can edit the selection live in > the gimp it's like magic but having it in the new mode only really > slows down the use of the tool for many users. Does it? Are there many people who ju

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP SWAP Folder not honored

2018-09-18 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2018-09-12 at 18:20 +0200, stormy wrote: > > however, no matter what, GIMP still goes to either: > > c:\Users\myuser\.cache\gegl-0.4\12056-shared.swap > > c:\Users\myuser\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\gegl- > 0.4\12056-shared.swap Can you move the two gegl folders to a diffe

Re: [Gimp-user] No text input in file open dialog

2018-08-25 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2018-08-24 at 11:07 +0200, Jürgen Weber wrote: > > > In the Gimp file open dialog, there is not text input, You may find control-L gives you a text field. Liam (slave ankh) -- Liam Quin - web slave for https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ ___ g

Re: [Gimp-user] UI/Tools Lagging (Windows 7)

2018-08-22 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2018-08-22 at 18:12 +0200, PixelZapper wrote: > > Sometimes, the problems don't all happen together. But they're all > happening and none of these were an issue a few days ago. What has changed on your computer system in the past few days? It could be programs you've installed or removed

Re: [Gimp-user] External Drives

2018-08-21 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2018-08-21 at 15:26 -0700, Julie Bennett wrote: > With the advent of 2.10, Gimp now does not recognize external hard > drives. It certainly does here. Can you give us more details? What did you try, exactly. What did you expect to happen" What actually happens? Does the external drive s

Re: [Gimp-user] no box anymore

2018-08-16 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2018-08-16 at 12:11 +, peter butterworth via gimp-user-list wrote: > aloha, had the box, text colors, once but i cannot find it anymore. > Advise. Press the tab key. ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.or

Re: [Gimp-user] How to export jpeg without loss of quality?

2018-08-13 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2018-08-13 at 01:04 +0200, Rodolfo Medina via gimp-user-list wrote: > > I'm > embedding that picture in a pdf file after converting into eps > format. [...] The picture is a photo, that > I have in its original jpg format..., 12MB big. That's not very large for a print-resolution image

Re: [Gimp-user] Invisable Text

2018-08-11 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2018-08-11 at 08:20 -0700, Bill Vance wrote: > > Howdy; > > I'm running Kubuntu 16.04 here, on an amd64 box, and just > upgraded to gimp 2.8.22. When I try to add text to a > picture, nothing happens. Use the text tool to draw a large rectangle. Make sure that the text colour in Tool

Re: [Gimp-user] Source of photos

2018-08-10 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2018-08-10 at 13:09 +, Gordon Caines wrote: > Hello: > > > In Lightroom I was able to have a "directory" to choose from such as > Vacation 2017, or Vacation 2018. > > The pictures in these folders were indexed down the left side of the > screen. Stored in a separate hard drive. In

Re: [Gimp-user] Sinc (Lanczos3) Option

2018-08-08 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2018-08-08 at 17:14 -0700, Lisa D. via gimp-user-list wrote: > Thanks, everyone, for your help with this issue. I’m working with a > jpeg > that is 450x568 pixels @ 72 ppi/4.7x5.9”. I would like the dimensions > to be > 2.5” x 5.9”. Your primary choices are to make it wider and then scale

Re: [Gimp-user] transparent background becomes black

2018-08-06 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2018-08-06 at 16:54 +0200, Renate wrote: > i wasted all day trying everything, and at least 10 tutorials, to fix > this > error. transparent background saved in jpg or png becomes black. i > would really > appreciate any help First, only png supports transparency, not jpeg. Second, "becom

Re: [Gimp-user] Sinc (Lanczos3) Option

2018-08-06 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2018-08-06 at 09:08 +0200, Jernej Simončič wrote: > On Mon, 06 Aug 2018 01:59:46 -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote: > > > It might be that archive.org has saved a copy, but i doubt it. > > GIMP 2.4 for Windows is available here: > <https://download.gimp.org/mirror/pub/

Re: [Gimp-user] Sinc (Lanczos3) Option

2018-08-05 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2018-08-05 at 11:13 -0700, Lisa D. via gimp-user-list wrote: > Hi! I would like to stretch/resize an image without distorting it. This depends on exactly what you mean by distorting it. By default GIMP will retain the aspect ratio of the original ratio, but maybe that's not what you meant?

Re: [Gimp-user] Fixing wrinkled paper

2018-08-01 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2018-08-01 at 20:09 +0200, pihentagy wrote: > Hi all! > > My daugther's drawing became a bit ill (wrinkled). Can you point me > to a > tutorial where I can fix somehow this wrinkle? I'd try (1) use curves to brighten the highlights and get rid of most of the shadows; (2) use the erasor to

Re: [Gimp-user] file conversion.

2018-07-24 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2018-07-21 at 08:56 +, Hans Monsma via gimp-user-list wrote: > Hail the reader > J have 2 requirements > > 1. To convert a normal jpeg to a black and white pic This is easy. You can use gimp, or most Linux distributions include ImageMagick and also the netpbm library of commands.

Re: [Gimp-user] How to spice up my background colors

2018-06-30 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2018-06-30 at 06:09 +0200, GerryPeters wrote: > I'd like to add some variation to some of my backgrounds If you're comfortable with multiple layers you can use layer masks. Random noise, gradients, maybe filters/render/plasma, can all be useful. If you don't want to use layer masks, here'

Re: [Gimp-user] Image Capture

2018-06-29 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2018-06-29 at 20:03 +0200, atticus wrote: > Because when I use the fuzzy tool it invariably selects some of the > book as well. That's OK, it did when i reied too, and i went back and tidied it up by subtracting from the selection with the freehand select tool. slave ankh -- Liam Quin -

Re: [Gimp-user] Image Capture

2018-06-29 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2018-06-28 at 23:34 +0200, atticus wrote: > Hi. Is there a simple method (not using inversion, etc) by which I > can create a > floating image of a book. I think what you are asking for is to make the background be plain black (or plain white). For the image you have i'd select the red reg

Re: [Gimp-user] Quicker way to audition fonts?

2018-06-29 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2018-06-29 at 15:29 +0100, Greg Chapman via gimp-user-list wrote: > Hi Liam, > > On 29/06/18 01:49, Liam R E Quin wrote: > > On Thu, 2018-06-28 at 22:17 +0200, GerryPeters wrote: > > > The Aa is > > > really not enough > > > > Windows->D

Re: [Gimp-user] Quicker way to audition fonts?

2018-06-28 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2018-06-28 at 22:17 +0200, GerryPeters wrote: > The Aa is > really not enough Windows->Dockable Dialogues->Fonts or youcan get there with the aaa icon at the lower right of the "Aa" font list. -- slave ankh - web slave for https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ with fabulous vintage art and fas

Re: [Gimp-user] Layer groups seriously broken - huge resource hog

2018-06-19 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2018-06-19 at 17:13 +0200, BWK wrote: > I doubt you've ever tried doing a selection rectangle to that size > and getting > it exactly the right size and boundaries. It is a very slow and > fiddly operation. You can use tool options to fix the size in the rectangle select tool, and for that

Re: [Gimp-user] Pencil tool won't work

2018-06-19 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2018-06-19 at 21:25 +0200, Mizemm wrote: > . Now, > when I select > the pencil, it won't do anything on the image. Check tool options. For example, you might have Mode set to "lighten only". Check which brush the pencil tool is using. Check the brush size in tool options, and the hardnes

Re: [Gimp-user] Captioned newspaper photo

2018-06-12 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2018-06-11 at 22:05 +0200, lkl316 wrote: > I have a captioned newspaper photo iI would like to clean up and make > a photo on > photo paper. It has some creases I would also like to repair. Has > anyone > attempted this and give me some guidance? i've done a lot of this, and there's even b

Re: [Gimp-user] faded photo

2018-06-09 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2018-06-08 at 21:23 +0200, lkl316 wrote: > I have a kodacolor photo that was totally in color. It was unframed > and a > leaking roof left it totally washed out. It shows very faint color. > I s there > any technique using Gimp that can restore the color? Hard to tell without seeing it, b

Re: [Gimp-user] [Gimp-developer] Curious about GIMP-2.10 bugs on Windows

2018-05-11 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2018-05-11 at 14:32 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > it is available on openSUSE Tumbleweed and I have it installed. for > the > small uses I have made, it loads quicker than 2.8 and appears more > responsive. no crashes. some difficulty finding some actions, but > nothing major. Coo

Re: [Gimp-user] Pure black n white with smooth curves

2018-04-29 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2018-04-29 at 07:22 -0500, Frank Turk wrote: > If there was a way to extract the "K" layer in a "CMYK" > image, > it might be easier to grab just the black. You can use the separate+ plugin to do that, although what people think of as "pure black" for printing is not actually 0 in CMYK

Re: [Gimp-user] The GIMP opens in superuser mode

2018-04-05 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 23:40 -0400, Steve Kinney wrote: > > On 04/05/2018 09:41 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote: > > On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 20:42 -0400, Steve Kinney wrote: > > > > > > It /should/ be impossible for a program opened by a 'regular' > > >

Re: [Gimp-user] The GIMP opens in superuser mode

2018-04-05 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 20:42 -0400, Steve Kinney wrote: > > It /should/ be impossible for a program opened by a 'regular' user to > run in superuser mode, unless the regular user enters the root > password. It can happen if the program's binary is owned by the root user and is mode u+s (set-userid

Re: [Gimp-user] missing tool box

2018-03-29 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2018-03-29 at 21:46 +, Alan Larick via gimp-user-list wrote: > Please help me! I accidently Xclosed the toolbox on the right that > had layering info... How do I get it back? I already tried > uninstalling and reinstalling gimp program and the toolbox is still > gone. press the tab

Re: [Gimp-user] Question about fonts and XCF files

2018-03-06 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Thu, 2018-02-22 at 18:55 -0800, Tom Williams wrote: > If I send her the XCF file, will the fonts be embedded in it, No. > such that she > won't > have to have the fonts actually installed on her system or will the > XCF > contain references to the font, requiring her to have them installed >

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP License/Copyright Question

2018-02-09 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2018-02-06 at 20:31 +, Eric Sarver wrote: > I would like to know if files that I create with GIMP [...] will > remain under my property or ownership and that I can distribute > these characters/images under a copyrighted license to prohibit > others from using my work, in other words wh

Re: [Gimp-user] Plugin Request: Voronoi

2018-01-19 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2018-01-19 at 00:21 -0500, Steve Kinney wrote: > > The original plugin registry page is in the Wayback Machine, and > includes source code (one always had to compile this one for use on > Linux systems, IIRC). > > https://tinyurl.com/voronoi-2005 > > Updating this code to compile a useab

Re: [Gimp-user] Auto Crop

2017-11-13 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2017-11-13 at 01:32 +0100, jorglueke wrote: > Is the automatic crop option supposed to work when you have an object > in front of a fairly standard background? No - it relies on the "background" being a solid colour all of exactly the same pixel value. It's best for automatically-generate

Re: [Gimp-user] A question from a potential new user.

2017-11-03 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2017-11-03 at 22:10 +, Peter Prangley wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I use a Canon EOS 10D digital camera and have, up until now, saved my > pictures using Canon's RAW format (e.g. CRW_.CRW). RawTherapee and DarkTable can both process CRW files (as i understand it) and you can then edit t

Re: [Gimp-user] Does Gimp support more than 8 bits per color channel?

2017-10-24 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Fri, 2017-10-20 at 17:10 -0200, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: > > 8bits per color component is more than you eye can distinguish > already, so if these 10 bit components cost extra, don't go for them. Try a gradient from blue to white on a 1,000-pixel wide image and say you don't see banding. The an

Re: [Gimp-user] Is a high bit depth monitor worth getting? (was Re: emerge --emptytree : how to ?)

2017-10-20 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2017-10-20 at 12:30 -0400, Kevin Cozens wrote: > On 2017-10-20 12:01 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > I'm considering buying a new monitor (and graphics card) which > > supports > > 10 bits per color channel. > > Will Gimp on a Linux machine (X11) support this now or in the near > > future. >

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling an image down without ruining the text

2017-06-15 Thread Liam R E Quin
add the text to the images using ImageMagick. Liam -- Liam R E Quin Web slave for fromoldbooks.org ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list

Re: [Gimp-user] Move tool locks; what's triggering it?

2017-06-14 Thread Liam R E Quin
rk? If you wait for 10 minutes or so, do you get "GIMP is not responding" popping up? It's possible it's just taking a very very long time. Moving an image-sized layer can mean loading the entire image into memory a piece at a time to update the on-screen preview. Liam -- Liam R

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

2017-06-06 Thread Liam R E Quin
our spaces and gamma and precision and the purpose ("intent") of the conversion. The gegl c-to-g filter sometimes gets much better results than either the mono mixer or desaturating. Liam -- Liam R E Quin ankh on irc Web slave for fromoldbooks.org _

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.8.22 is wacky

2017-05-27 Thread Liam R E Quin
editor. Hope this helps, Liam [slave ankh on IRC] -- Liam R E Quin ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list

Re: [Gimp-user] File size too large

2017-05-08 Thread Liam R E Quin
surprised :) (depending on how your system is configured). It's changed. The exact result you get will also depend on how you "convert" to 144dpi - whether you just change the dpi metadata in the image or whether your image program inserts more pixels, but don't exp

Re: [Gimp-user] tips on working with gigantic files?

2017-05-05 Thread Liam R E Quin
here if you need it. I work with large images all the time - e.g. scanning A3/tabloid at 2400dpi - although the layer mask will considerably increase the amount of memory needed. Liam (ankh on IRC) -- Liam R E Quin Web slave at www.fromoldbooks.org - Words and Pictures from Old Books __

Re: [Gimp-user] Scanner/Camera menu item not available

2017-04-09 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Sat, 2017-01-28 at 15:19 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > > > Install XSane? > > That said, XSane was last updated in 2013, and it's unclear if it's > even compatible with GIMP 2.8. Seems to work fine here. > API changes in

Re: [Gimp-user] Help With OSX El Capitan

2016-12-02 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
e to load a 4.1G xcf file (GIMP said the file was corrupt). But (1) I'm on Linux and (2) GIMP 2.8 starts in 3 seconds, and (3) I have 32G of RAM. Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.o

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP not remembering Fonts

2016-12-02 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 19:00 +0100, MAD_King wrote: > Hello, > > when I create a text and use a font, save the file, close and re-open > it, it > does not remember the font which was used. It always shows either > "Sans"  or no font. What is "it" here eactly? Do you mean the on-canvas text widget

Re: [Gimp-user] Any plans to improve TIF support?

2016-11-26 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Wed, 2016-11-23 at 22:54 +0100, rpdayton wrote: > [...] > If GIMP has a 48K (or whatever the number is) upper limit on pixel > count, that > is fine, I'll withdraw the bug report, as it is not actually > something broken, and I will try not to assume :) It appears to be unrelated to TIFF images

Re: [Gimp-user] Trying to remove fading from old b&w photo

2016-11-22 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
d use file->open as layers to bring in the 2nd, and experiment with different layer modes or with making the top layer 50% opaque, in the Layers dockable dialogue thingy. Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin http://www.fromoldbooks.org - words an dpictures from old books __

Re: [Gimp-user] Replace Gold Splotches

2016-11-16 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
//www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/325/original/icm_fullxf > ull.107043823_salut2fnu0go0cks8www.jpg > -- Liam R. E. Quin ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailma

Re: [Gimp-user] unwanted watermark

2016-10-28 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Fri, 2016-10-28 at 18:52 +0200, Kenn wrote: > Gimp is placing an unwanted watermark on some of my images.  > > (see screen shot example) > > Any idea what causes this? A virus? Which virus? Guessing you use Microsoft Windows since youy didn't say :-) You could run a virus scan. but more like

Re: [Gimp-user] Image file format of the future?

2016-10-28 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
ce to add support to the colour pickers for the newer CSS syntax(es) for colours, but that's still evolving right now. Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin Words and Puctures From Old Books - http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List

Re: [Gimp-user] rotate pasted image

2016-10-27 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
x27;s a pain. So I think the workflow I've suggested may be easiest. Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin Words and Pictures From Old Books - http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership

Re: [Gimp-user] How to stop a filter from running

2016-10-27 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Fri, 2016-10-21 at 17:23 -0400, Rick Strong wrote: >  Too bad the filter > options  > dialogue doesn't open automatically beside where you are working. They do here. Is this under Linux? Which window manager / desktop environment? The GIMp that came with the distribution? Which version? Which d

Re: [Gimp-user] Importing PDF into Gimp 2.8.18

2016-10-20 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Thu, 2016-10-20 at 22:59 -0400, David Corbitt wrote: >  > https://filebin.net/vi1uxshq2x85hxwn/North_by_Northwest__1959_.pdf This made GIMP (2.9)'s pdf loader crash for me on Linux, but I could open the document ith eveince, print to a PDF file, and then open the PDF file. The stack trace was

Re: [Gimp-user] Redesign "move selection"?

2016-10-20 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
nt situation isn't bad, and that there have been fewer complaints this way round, even though I can see it's not ideal. Liam [ankh] -- Liam R. E. Quin The best thing about being a slave is not having a mortgage to pay. Oh, wait... I'm doing this wrong.

Re: [Gimp-user] Can't open extremely large .PNG

2016-10-15 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Sat, 2016-10-15 at 12:49 +0200, Deixis wrote: > >  > C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-7.0.3-Q16>magick identify 1.png > 1.png PNG 327168x325632 327168x325632+0+0 8-bit sRGB 1.0255GB 0.000u > 0:00.000 OK, so this will need approx. 400 gigabytes of swap space, maybe as much as twice that. If you wan

Re: [Gimp-user] quick discussion about new feature

2016-10-15 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Sat, 2016-10-15 at 01:09 +0200, black-explorer wrote: > > > > Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-Shift-N > > Good answer. But I'm looking for a mouse solution (right click > mouse). Edit->Copy (control-c) Edit->paste (control-v) Layer->New (control-shift-N) > Remember we have more than 3 different input m

Re: [Gimp-user] Can't open extremely large .PNG

2016-10-13 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Thu, 2016-10-13 at 01:42 +0200, Deixis wrote: > >  > Oh my gosh I'm sorry, I forgot that Gimp is released on more than > just Windows. It's OK, but giving information about your system is really really important when asking for help with software crashes. > Yeah, I run in on Windows 10. I do h

Re: [Gimp-user] Can't open extremely large .PNG

2016-10-12 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Wed, 2016-10-12 at 10:08 +0200, Deixis wrote: > Does anyone know any tricks on how to resize extremely large images? > I can't > even open this computer generated .PNG. I'm going to guess you are using a Linux system in this answer. Life is too short for me to try telepathy. If you run the fi

Re: [Gimp-user] How to Open Pdf File?

2016-10-04 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
ard in GIMP :-) You can try opening your file in sk1 or in inkscape. Best would be if you said exactly what you're trying to do, so people can give appropriate advice instead of guessing. Best, Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin ___ gimp-user-list mailing l

Re: [Gimp-user] BMP Image

2016-09-30 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
quot;Indexed" mode, GIMP will export as 8- bit indexed. If prompted, you probably do want the option to use run- length encoding. Liam [ankh] -- Liam R. E. Quin On the Internet no-one can hear your chains rattle. ___ gimp-user-list mailing list L

Re: [Gimp-user] Remove shine

2016-08-21 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Sat, 2016-08-20 at 11:11 +, David Holland wrote: > Thank you both for your answersIf you copy this URL can you see it?  > Yahoo mail is a bit tricky > "www.flickr.com/photos/14586608@N08/29025064471/in/dateposted- > public/" Yes. > I have thought about using flash off camera but I am worri

Re: [Gimp-user] Remove shine

2016-08-20 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
ee if the details can be recovered. If it's reflections not from the insect's carapace but from glass, a polarizing filter on the lens may help. They are available for a wide variety of cameras. Or, use a piece of black card to shade the glass from the

Re: [Gimp-user] Tile Cache Size

2016-08-10 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Wed, 2016-08-10 at 15:49 -0700, Alan Huntley wrote: > Currently running 2.8.18 under OS X 10.11.6 with 8GB memory and I > can't set the Tile Cache Size larger than 4GB. Is this a restriction > whereby this cache size cannot be larger than 50% of physical RAM? No. Are you on a 32-bit system? __

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.8.2, wheezy install

2016-07-25 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
the little up-arrow to the right of the number, and see if making the font larger makes it work. I hope this helps. Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.8.2, wheezy install

2016-07-23 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
ws from my own personal experience" but others use "not intuitive" to mean "I don't like it" or "I don't understand it". GIMP will prompt you in most cases before giving up and rendering a text layer to a bitmap. It's likely that this behaviour can be

Re: [Gimp-user] Space 49 small images around a circle?

2016-07-08 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
hecking the results in Inkscape. But that requires being comfortable with scripting (e.g. perl, python)... Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/l

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP Copyright

2016-07-01 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
ay it could not be used to promote child pornography or the Roman Catholic church, independently of any copyright. However, again, I doubt that's an issue for GIMP. Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-use

Re: [Gimp-user] No Histogram in Levels

2016-06-29 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
r is this some UFRaw thing? If the latter I think ufraw may have its own support list or forum. Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Gimp-user] Exporting PDFs

2016-06-21 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
oo). In inkscape, click on the fish, then right-click and ungroup, then right-click and there's an option to export the image to a file. Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List members

Re: [Gimp-user] Adding Hotspots

2016-06-20 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
one with the bitmap image, load it into Inkscape. Without knowing more about what you're doing it's hard to go further with suggestions. Best, Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin World Wide Web Consortium - the organization responsible for the Web

Re: [Gimp-user] Idea/Request: Fast start mode for GIMP

2016-04-02 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
I know there have been reported bugs about scanning all plug-ins on startup on Windows; in addition, some plugins (e.g. xsane) can do a lot of work when they're loaded. You can also get cache problems if your login directory is on a networked file system with an incorrect date, or if your syste

Re: [Gimp-user] Web Page PDF

2016-03-25 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Sat, 2016-03-26 at 02:05 +0100, Molecular Synergy wrote: > Hello, > > I have a PSD Photoshop template that I'm editing, and my goal is to > have a PDF based web page that has hyperlinks. Use inkscape to assemple the template. In most cases PhotoShop templates for Web pages are really really s

Re: [Gimp-user] Create hyperlinked image

2016-03-18 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
e from the SVG image the link will be lost of course. You can also include a URL e.g. as a JPEG or PNG comment in an image with GIMP, and then use e.g. jpegtran or exiftool commands to extract it later. Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin ___ gimp-user-list m

Re: [Gimp-user] How, really, to do text?

2016-03-12 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Fri, 2016-03-11 at 20:30 -0800, David Benfell wrote: > Hi all, > > Fiddling with anti-aliasing and hinting isn't working for me. Any > text I add to an image is horribly pixelated and the help I'm finding > with web searches isn't working. I've tried adding the text at full > size and I tried s

Re: [Gimp-user] Black and White photos

2016-01-31 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
reen, at the same time. There are actually books on restoring photos, e.g. "Digital restoration from start to finish" although they tend to assume you're using Adobe PhotoShop. Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin http://www.holoweb.net/~liam Words & Pic

Re: [Gimp-user] Questions regarding text and cloning

2015-12-03 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 23:43 +, Jeffery Small wrote: > I have a gimp layer with some text.  What I want to do is select the > text > and then clone a pattern from elsewhere on the drawing (from another > layer) > onto the text outline.  So far no luck. Depending what you mean by the text outlin

Re: [Gimp-user] ai files in gimp

2015-12-02 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
lled. How were you converting the files to PNG? What problems did you have? Can you share a sample file? (ignore if you've already solved it all!) Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.or

Re: [Gimp-user] Text display broken in 2.8.14 OS-X gimp?

2015-10-21 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 00:28:36 +1100 Douglas Ray wrote: > > Project is grayscale (blank canvas created as grayscale 600ppi), > with a couple of images pasted in / rescaled. A guess: at 600ppi the default text size may be so small you can't see it; try changing the font size to pt instead of px i

Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-09-30 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 01:37:37 -0400 Neal Weissman wrote: > i just installed gimp 2.8. > > i downloaded a book in .gz which when unzipped yields 517 sequential .jp2 > files (each sequential file of course yielding a page of the book). How can > I use gimp to open these .jp2 files sequentially? If

Re: [Gimp-user] Removing a vertical strip

2015-09-28 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 00:11:12 +0100 Timothy Murphy wrote: > I want to remove a vertical strip from a photo, > and join the remaining two parts together. Here's one way. (1) use the rectangle select tool to select the strip to remove and everything to the right of it. (2) press control-shift-l

Re: [Gimp-user] reduce resolution while retaining image size on computer

2015-08-08 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 06 Aug 2015 20:21:18 +0200 chrislz wrote: > 1) check the cubic or sinc option in quality box > 2) changed the resolution, in this case from 600 to 300. > 3) re-enter original width in width box > 4) click scale image > > When I do this, the image DOES NOT stay the same. It shrinks to

Re: [Gimp-user] removing tint from a picture

2015-07-30 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 18:59:40 + John Broyles wrote: > I recently converted some old slides to digital pictures. Unfortunately some > of the older slides have developed a pink tint, probably from age. Can I > remove this tint in the digital pictures using Gimp? I looked at color level > b

Re: [Gimp-user] Indexed layers

2015-07-25 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 19:42:11 +0100 Pedro Albuquerque wrote: > I'm trying to create a specific GNOME theme. > > When I try to change colours (menu Colours->Colorize(?) or Colour > curves) for png's in gtk3/assets, I get a message about not working > with indexed layers. At the top of the window,

Re: [Gimp-user] [Gimp-developer] Download

2015-06-18 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Tue, 2015-06-16 at 09:33 +0100, Toby Speight wrote: > 0> In article <1434392541.19586.197.ca...@holoweb.net>, > 0> Liam R. E. Quin mailto:l...@holoweb.net> ("Lee") wrote: > > Lee> Free here means that if you modify the software you must make > you

Re: [Gimp-user] Download

2015-06-15 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Sun, 2015-06-14 at 06:31 +, Avishai Noygershel wrote: > Hello > > I have a question regarding your software license agreement. > > I was wondering if your software is completely free? Can I use this > software for free in a profitable organization? Yes. Free here means that if you modify

Re: [Gimp-user] What causes random (in error) image color-inverting of TIFFs, over time? Is it correctable?

2015-05-31 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
;t detect it. Not impossible - an infinite number of monkeys typing for all eternity might all type nothing except page 54 of the January 1936 Great Western Railway timetable through Crewe - but I'd look for more likely causes first, the most likely of which might be a software ch

Re: [Gimp-user] Image transformation batch processing

2015-05-11 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 19:30 -0400, Kristen Sullivan wrote: > ok so I can't find the link to my thread I made so I'm lost LOL\ Bestto change the subject line at least infuture. > > OK so I have uninstalled this program and installed it AGAIN. Where exactly are you downloading GIMP from? Whic

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem with unsharp-mask

2015-05-07 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
untu-packaged version of GIMP? And have you installed all updates and restarted the system? > > > Le 2015-05-07 01:07, Liam R. E. Quin a écrit : > > On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 13:31 -0400, Gerald Brosseau wrote: > > > Under Kubuntu 15.4 > > > > > > I'

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem with unsharp-mask

2015-05-07 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 13:31 -0400, Gerald Brosseau wrote: > Under Kubuntu 15.4 > > I'm not able anymore to use unsharp-mask. > I always receive the same error message : If you run /usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/unsharp-mask (you may need to use "locate unsharp-mask" and run the program wherever

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.8 pixelation on resize

2015-04-26 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Wed, 2015-04-22 at 21:11 +0200, wk_ wrote: > Liam wrote: > > > If it is a scan of a printed document is is to be expected that > > there may be moiré patterns, even if the scanner is set to apply a > > "descreen filter". > > I feel that there is something lost from my original post. Like it

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.8 pixelation on resize

2015-04-22 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Sun, 2015-04-19 at 22:20 +0200, wk_ wrote: > Steve wrote: > > > I have never seen anything exactly like this, so I am confident > > that it is not an artifact introduced by scaling an image in the > > GIMP. > > I don't understand your way to this conclusion. In my original post I > have > so

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.8 pixelation on resize

2015-04-19 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Sun, 2015-04-19 at 01:26 +0200, renat wrote: > > scanned images are going pixelated > Faced the very same (or similar?) problem while trying to resize > photos made by > digital camera. Very similar "grids" appear on nearly-flat surfaces > with a bit > of noise (like on sky). Surprisingly, fac

Re: [Gimp-user] Tif Files

2015-04-18 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Sat, 2015-04-18 at 17:31 +0200, charneys wrote: > I am new to GIMP and using version 2.8.14 on a Mac with Yosemite. If > I want to > convert an image to a tif file I use Save or Save as but do not get > the tif > option. If I go to Export, tif is an option. However when I use the > tif option

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