[Gimp-user] Layers

2015-10-03 Thread Martin Odile
Hi,   I need to increase the sharpness in some of my photographs but I cannot find the "Value" function in the "layers" menu.   Could you let me know where to find it.   Thanks very much in advance.   Odile Martin ___ gimp-user-list mailing

Re: [Gimp-user] Layers

2015-10-03 Thread Ross Martinek
I have found The Book of Gimp, by Olivier Lecarme and Karine Delvare to be a marvelous resource, well worth the money for a new GIMPer, especially if you are coming over from the dark side >}:^{D> (Adobe Photoshop). Ross On Oct 3, 2015, at 7:21 AM, Ofnuts wrote: > On 03/10/15 12:40, Martin

Re: [Gimp-user] What happened to Gimp?

2015-10-03 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Belleo, do you remember which version of GIMP you used on the previous systems you had? The latest stable GIMP has been in version 2.8.x since 2.8.0 was released around 2012 - three years ago (see https://github.com/GNOME/gimp/commits/master/NEWS ), and not too much changed in the UI there.

Re: [Gimp-user] Layers

2015-10-03 Thread Ofnuts
On 03/10/15 12:40, Martin Odile wrote: Hi, I need to increase the sharpness in some of my photographs but I cannot find the "Value" function in the "layers" menu. Could you let me know where to find it. Thanks very much in advance. I wonder what makes you think there is a

Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-10-03 Thread Neal Weissman
i solicited the gimp forum because I thought that gimp might open the .jp2 files, but we are indeed digressing from the purpose of this forum. my tablet does not have an external keyboard and the touchpad keyboard lacks many keys found on a physical keyboard - ESC is absent in particular. i also

Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-10-03 Thread Partha Bagchi
Of course GIMP can open jp2 files. Where did you hear that it cannot? On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Neal Weissman wrote: > i solicited the gimp forum because I thought that gimp might open the .jp2 > files, but we are indeed digressing from the purpose of this forum. my >

Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-10-03 Thread Neal Weissman
what do you mean by 'official build' - i installed the gimp 2.8 on windows 10 from the official gimp site five days ago. although several reviews implied that 2.8 does have .jp2 capability i see no tangible manifestation of such. /s/ Neal Weissman On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Partha Bagchi

Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-10-03 Thread Partha Bagchi
I presume you are asking me about "official build". Michael can tell you more about it. It's the build provided by GIMP maintainers. If that build does not include jp2 support, you'll have to ask Michael. My builds obtained from my website have jp2 support built in. HTH, Partha On Sat, Oct 3,

Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-10-03 Thread Michael Schumacher
On 10/03/2015 07:28 PM, Partha Bagchi wrote: > Of course GIMP can open jp2 files. Where did you hear that it cannot? It does that if JPEG-2000 support is compiled in. This is not necessarily so for all builds out there. -- Regards, Michael GPG: 96A8 B38A 728A 577D 724D 60E5 F855 53EC B36D

Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-10-03 Thread Partha Bagchi
Perhaps. I assumed that the official build would have it built in as mine does. On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Michael Schumacher wrote: > > > On 10/03/2015 07:28 PM, Partha Bagchi wrote: > >> Of course GIMP can open jp2 files. Where did you hear that it cannot? > > It does

Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

2015-10-03 Thread Bob Long
Neal Weissman wrote on 03/10/15 15:00: > i've attached a .png screen capture; hopefully you can see it. > > you can see that the .gz unzipped to 517 .jp2 files. i can only reason > to deal with these 517 sequential files as a slideshow .. can you think > of another way? We are getting off topic