Re: [Gimp-user] OT: Gimp name-picking (Was: Need help repairing image)

2011-12-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 04:30, Patrick Horgan wrote: >> Patrick -> Patricius -> patrician ->Honourable Man > Not quite right.  I don't believe that patrician has ever meant an > honorable man.  Patrician is from the Middle-English patricion, > derivative (via ancient French) of the plural of the l

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help repairing image

2011-12-27 Thread Steve Kinney
On 12/27/2011 09:28 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: [ ...a whole bunch of stuff that I mostly left out of this reply, and:] > I just don't know how to look at two or more layers on my screen > all at once, you in separate display windows. [...] I would feel > more comfortable if I could see the t

Re: [Gimp-user] OT: Gimp name-picking (Was: Need help repairing image)

2011-12-27 Thread Patrick Horgan
On 12/26/2011 12:32 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 20:57, Patrick Shanahan wrote: >> I'm sure you are a terrific person, also, but the name in no worse in it's >> stead than "Dotan". >> >> Or, for that matter, Patrick/paka > Patrick -> Patricius -> patrician ->Honourable Man Not

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help repairing image

2011-12-27 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
Many thanks to both Steve Kinney and Daniel Smith for their various suggestions for fixing this damaged color image. I'm not sure that I can do all the thinsg they've suggested, given my limited knowledge of The Gimp at this point, or even that I understand them all, but I'm going to go over all

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help repairing image

2011-12-27 Thread Ken Warner
DON"T SEND LARGE IMAGES TO THE ENTIRE MAILING LIST Daniel Smith wrote: One more thing I tried a little, if you look at one I've attached, at the bottom right screwed up section, area where the rocks extend up to about the blue guy's shoulder... I selected this area in two pieces, one wh

[Gimp-user] A good book - Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional

2011-12-27 Thread Steve Kinney
Hey y'all, The other day I spent a couple of hours looking through this book at the library: Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional by Akkana Peck http://gimpbook.com/ I liked it a lot. Although I can't say it was an "eye opener" I did pick up a couple of things from it, and it seems to m