Re: [Gimp-user] album cover

2013-10-25 Thread rosea.grammostola
On 10/24/2013 04:35 AM, Sam Gleske wrote: On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 2:37 PM, rosea.grammostola mailto:rosea.grammost...@gmail.com>> wrote: Artwork and music is here: http://www.munk050.nl/music/ 100% made with free & opensource software on GNU/Linux (music, art, vid

Re: [Gimp-user] album cover

2013-10-23 Thread rosea.grammostola
On 10/23/2013 04:00 PM, Burnie West wrote: On 10/23/2013 02:49 AM, rosea.grammostola wrote: Wow, seperating the image to CMYK gives a very dissapointing result Did you export to jpg? Recall jpg is lossy compression -- I got some help from a friend who is more experienced then me and has

Re: [Gimp-user] album cover

2013-10-23 Thread rosea.grammostola
On 10/20/2013 01:38 PM, rich2005 wrote: You might find a printer that will take an RGB image. Gimp will convert to a tiff or jpeg using a plugin called separate+ (a search will find it) Inkscape is the same as Gimp uses RGB and there are extensions to export to CMYK. There can be (will be) a co

Re: [Gimp-user] album cover

2013-10-22 Thread rosea.grammostola
On 10/22/2013 10:20 PM, Owen wrote: On 10/22/2013 06:36 PM, rosea.grammostola wrote: What would be best, to do the conversion yourself via Gimp or let the company do it? Why would an RGB editor be useful if all the professional printing companies uses CMYK? This is what I have now, almost

Re: [Gimp-user] album cover

2013-10-22 Thread rosea.grammostola
On 10/22/2013 06:36 PM, rosea.grammostola wrote: What would be best, to do the conversion yourself via Gimp or let the company do it? Why would an RGB editor be useful if all the professional printing companies uses CMYK? This is what I have now, almost finished, feedback is welcome

Re: [Gimp-user] album cover

2013-10-22 Thread rosea.grammostola
On 10/20/2013 01:38 PM, rich2005 wrote: You might find a printer that will take an RGB image. Gimp will convert to a tiff or jpeg using a plugin called separate+ (a search will find it) Inkscape is the same as Gimp uses RGB and there are extensions to export to CMYK. There can be (will be) a co

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.8 toolbox

2013-10-20 Thread rosea.grammostola
On 10/20/2013 01:04 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 2:50 PM, rosea.grammostola wrote: Hi, Moving from 2.6 to 2.8. I was used to the toolbox displaying extra options for a tool, lets say text tool (font, position, color, etc.). But using 2.8 I don't get these op

[Gimp-user] 2.8 toolbox

2013-10-20 Thread rosea.grammostola
Hi, Moving from 2.6 to 2.8. I was used to the toolbox displaying extra options for a tool, lets say text tool (font, position, color, etc.). But using 2.8 I don't get these options (there is only text saying 'drop dockable stuff here'. Also the text tool seems to have changed, now displayed

Re: [Gimp-user] album cover

2013-10-20 Thread rosea.grammostola
On 10/20/2013 12:24 PM, rich2005 wrote: Hi, I want to make an albumcover, the file is 3008x2000. Here are the files: http://ubuntuone.com/2dvEtfLvTurvZjnJAxYpPc (jpg) wallet template: http://www.wizbit.net/12cm_cd-dvd_packaging_options_printed_card_wallets.htm Do not want to throw a spann

Re: [Gimp-user] album cover

2013-10-20 Thread rosea.grammostola
On 10/19/2013 09:34 PM, Rolf Steinort wrote: I would do this: - download the png template and load it into GIMP as the top layer for the whole project. - put the image below that on a new layer. - scale the layer to fill the frame for printing - sharpen if necessary - clone out the highlight

Re: [Gimp-user] album cover

2013-10-19 Thread rosea.grammostola
I would do this: - download the png template and load it into GIMP as the top layer for the whole project. - put the image below that on a new layer. - scale the layer to fill the frame for printing - sharpen if necessary - clone out the highlights - add the text - make the top layer invisibl

Re: [Gimp-user] album cover

2013-10-19 Thread rosea.grammostola
On 10/19/2013 05:44 PM, Rolf Steinort wrote: Your image is too small for the template, if you scale it later it will get all mushy. I'm really confused here. I scaled the photo with Gimp to the width of 254 mm as is mentioned in the template, but the endresult seems to be smaller. The output

Re: [Gimp-user] album cover

2013-10-19 Thread rosea.grammostola
The text seems to get unreadable after scaling, that seems to be the biggest problem for me atm. On 10/19/2013 03:41 PM, rosea.grammostola wrote: I would prefer to get some tips to do it myself. I tried to rm a bit of the light on the back wall and cropped the image so that it should be

Re: [Gimp-user] album cover

2013-10-19 Thread rosea.grammostola
to do all the edits before scaling? http://ubuntuone.com/6y0Uoo2uUBEVIrYrWAKBX3 \r On 10/19/2013 01:45 PM, rosea.grammostola wrote: Hi, I want to make an albumcover, the file is 3008x2000. What is the best way to get it in the right dimensions for a CD wallet cover? Do I first edit

[Gimp-user] album cover

2013-10-19 Thread rosea.grammostola
Hi, I want to make an albumcover, the file is 3008x2000. What is the best way to get it in the right dimensions for a CD wallet cover? Do I first edit everything, adding title etc. and then scale and crop it? Or crop and scale it first? If you look at the picture in the background you see