[Gimp-user] Batch mode ?

2012-04-13 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
It appears to me that virtually every photograph I have ever manipulated using GIMP has looked better after applying GIMP's Colors-Levels-Auto to it. Now, I have a batch of about 80+ scans of old family photos that I would like to apply this process to en mass. If I wanted to script this, you

[Gimp-user] Crop to oval?

2012-03-30 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
I've been using gimp for awhile now and have had great success using it to retouch about a zillion scans of old family photographs. but other than then few things I need in order to do that (paintbrush, clone tool, rotate tool and crop) I am still largely ignorant of how to use gimp. (There's

Re: [Gimp-user] Crop to oval?

2012-03-30 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 4f763699.3000...@gmail.com, Stefan Maerz stefanma...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/30/2012 03:19 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Anyway, a relative just sent me an old old family photo that some nitwit, perhaps a generation or two ago, did some seriously violence to with a pair

[Gimp-user] Fix Orientation ?

2012-01-09 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
What is the proper way, using gimp, to correct the orientation of an image? For example, I just took a shot with one of my cameras where I was holding the camera in a vertical (portrait) orientation. But when I transfer the .JPG to my PeeCee and view it with gimp (or ImageMagick) it is laying

[Gimp-user] Installing new script ?

2012-01-09 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
OK, so now that I've got my image oriantation all sorted out, now I have a different problem... I just took this shot, which I kind-of like, and I've already cropped reoriented it: ftp://ftp.tristatelogic.com/private/gimp/squirrel-b.jpg Unfortunately, however if you look close you'll see

Re: [Gimp-user] Installing new script ?

2012-01-09 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message CAE9_fe_H1H_LTZ-0ShV=j44geBQp==q0yftrchmukszrex3...@mail.gmail.com , Chris Mohler cr33...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote: =C2=A0But contrary to the directions on the page listed above, this new script _does not_

Re: [Gimp-user] Installing new script ?

2012-01-09 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 4f0b705b.2070...@pilobilus.net, Steve Kinney ad...@pilobilus.net wrote: On 01/09/2012 05:15 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: I did that, and actually, yes, the specific image I'm working with seems to have benefitted from having the defringer run on it twice. Here's the image after

Re: [Gimp-user] Uninstalling Gimp crashes computer

2012-01-06 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 01c30197$7abe94a0$703bbde0$@gmail.com, Marci Davis marcikda...@gmail.com wrote: My 11-year old daughter installed Gimp on our laptop. Shortly after, we started having trouble with speed and resolution. Gimp will not open, nor can we uninstall it. In fact, when I try, it

Re: [Gimp-user] Photoshop vs Gimp for mobile dev?

2011-12-31 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message cal8n2zm3hdjocyvjpcqr_56qdnkoxquqyzmksnyfmorw9s4...@mail.gmail.com , Frank Gore g...@friendlyphotozone.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: Only if you mean DCRaw. Because UFRaw development pretty much stagnated. Two

Re: [Gimp-user] Photoshop vs Gimp for mobile dev?

2011-12-31 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 20111231215357.gs25...@wahoo.no-ip.org, Patrick Shanahan ptilopt...@gmail.com wrote: * Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com [12-31-11 16:42]: I've been planning on buying a Lumix DMC-FZ150 next year, when the prices come down some more. ... I'd just like to ask

Re: [Gimp-user] Photoshop vs Gimp for mobile dev?

2011-12-31 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 20111231215523.gt25...@wahoo.no-ip.org, Patrick Shanahan ptilopt...@gmail.com wrote: Guess I should do the entire job :^) http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/Cameras.html Yes, thanks. I saw that too. But if you will recall, is was just earlier today that Frank Gore

Re: [Gimp-user] Photoshop vs Gimp for mobile dev?

2011-12-31 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message CAL8n2zN+=44uKMko4QbAww10XR2SVg3v1bFtoL=Lu4Qud4=5...@mail.gmail.com , Frank Gore g...@friendlyphotozone.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote: Anyway, I just now went and resarched it and found that the Lumix cameras produce

Re: [Gimp-user] Photoshop vs Gimp for mobile dev?

2011-12-31 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message CAL8n2zMck+rVT-xF=6k621a6iyzfoczmjvprvrbun-gffb_...@mail.gmail.com , Frank Gore g...@friendlyphotozone.com wrote: http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/373 I've used Digikam for my photo collections for years. Hey! Thanks a bunch! I didn't know about that one at all.

Re: [Gimp-user] OT: Was: Gimp name-picking

2011-12-29 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 253415241.1190746.1325133986615.javamail.r...@vms228.mailsrvcs.net , to...@verizon.net wrote: I didn't have time to read this whole thread, so pardon me if it's already been pointed out that the idea of changing the name of GIMP has come up more than once in the past. My vote:

[Gimp-user] Need help repairing image

2011-12-26 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
The following file was generated from a recent scan of a 40 year old 6x7cm color negative: ftp://ftp.tristatelogic.com/private/gimp/img001-b.jpg Despite the fact that the negative in question has been stored for the past 30+ years in a manner that I personally would have judged to be