[Gimp-user] how to fill...
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 8:32 AM, scythargon for...@gimpusers.com wrote: I have area(the whole layer) that I have filled with semi-transparent gradient, so now, I select it - (layer-alpha to selection) and trying to fill with ordinary non-transparent color, but I get the same area with the same semi-transparent gradient, the only thing that I changed - the main color of gradient:( You're selecting only the alpha channel. On that layer, Select All, then fill. Chris The Alpha Channel is a greyscale channel that only contains information about the transparency of the pixels in the layer. When you select by alpha channel, you're only selecting the part of the image with non-zero 'opaqueness'. -- SavvySaffer (via gimpusers.com) ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
[Gimp-user] Extreme newby needs some help please!
Congratulations, you're beginning to get to know your way around Gimp. You've come a long way already! Working on a layer - You said you selected the layer by turning the layer box to a highlighted color. Take another, closer look at the layers dialog. When you click on the little image of the layer, yes, the whole line will be highlighted, but a narrow WHITE border will appear around the thumbnail. Click on another layer in the same image to see what I mean. Black border... Not selected. White border... selected. When you start working with layer masks this will be vitally important to remember. Even more subtle is the actual layer name. If the name is written with a bold font, it has NO alpha-channel, and therefore no transparency information. If it is in normal font, the alpha channel is present. Right-click on the layer and add and remove the alpha channel to see how that works. While we're on the layers, there's an 'eye' button there too. Click it on and off to see the layer. If you apply a tool to a layer below all the visible ones, you won't be able to see your changes (depending on your blending modes, but that's for another discussion). Hey, that's pretty cool!! Thanks for sharing! Now, I understand it better. One last little thing before I step away for the day. Sorry to keep bugging y'all. I spent a pretty frustrating hour not really able to make anything work at all. When one wishes to use tools to change something about an image, I'd think that if they select the desired layer in the layer box to the right (turning it dark blue over there), I'd think one is good to go as far as modifying it. Is there some special secret handshake to tell the program that the particular image is what you want to work on, thus, allowing all of the interesting tools to work on it. I've been able to add an alpha channel to make it transparent, but want to go through and clean it up a bit. Thanks again. From: Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org gimp-user-list@gnome.org Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 9:03 AM Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Extreme newby needs some help please! On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Jessica Tomlinson wrote: am still quite foggy on this whole selecting with a layer mask thing. Why would one want some pixels to be partially selected, or partially transparent? Jessica, There are many uses for that. In general, this way you can make gradual transitions between two layers. For example, a typical sunset photo has a sky that looks OK, but the ground/water is a bit too dark. You can duplicate the original layer, then raise brightness of one of the layers, then combine them via a layer mask, where selection gradually changes. As the result, both sky and ground/water will look just like when you were taking the picture. Here is another example of, ahem, artistic use of this feature: http://prokoudine.info/gallery/images/20060901222040_img_0450.jpg Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org -- SavvySaffer (via gimpusers.com) ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP opening screen
Ron Leonard wrote What am I doing wrong? I'm running OS 10.6.8 GIMP V 2.8.0p1. My opening screen looks like this ... but the tutorials show this screen ... ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@ https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list If you are referring to single-window vs multiple-window mode, you can change it by toggling Single-Window mode in Menu/Windows. - Nik O. Никита Омуль -- View this message in context: http://gimp.1065349.n5.nabble.com/GIMP-opening-screen-tp34998p35003.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] build 2.8 on FreeBSD question
Tobias Jakobs tobias.jak...@gmail.com wrote .. I don't know about FreeBSD, gut Gimp 2.8 needs GTK 2.x Hand not GTK3. Regards Tobias Am 16.08.2012 21:49 schrieb Waitman Gobble uzi...@da3m0n8t3r.com: Hi, I'm building gimp on a FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT machine, with gtk3. I have a failure in at-spi2-core when it does the g-ir-scanner bit. It looks like it's possibly ignoring the include spec for Introspection, it's running: # /usr/local/bin/g-ir-scanner -v --namespace Atspi --nsversion=2.0 -I.. -I.. --include=GLib-2.0 --include=GObject-2.0 (ETC) note the -I.. -I.. anyway it's failing, complaining about not finding libintl.h included in glib gi18n.h I don't see where to add paths in autogen.sh, I edited the Makefile and added -I/usr/local/include to INTROSPECTION_CFLAGS without luck. I did find that manually changing to atspi path and running g-ir-scanner with an extra -I/usr/local/include does the trick, then gmake can finish the build. Does anyone have experience with this issue? Either I'm not correctly building at-spi2-core or possibly a bug. I appreciate any suggestions/pointers. -- Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list Thanks Tobias, I was getting a bit ahead I suppose. You're correct it's gtk2 - but still same issue with atk bridge. It's not a key issue, but if there's a bug i suppose it should be reported somewhere. ;-) -- Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
[Gimp-user] selective jpeg compression
Hi all, An issue I commonly come up against is getting appropriate definition in an image saved for the web. In particular, I often have images where most of the image could easily be saved at a high compression ratio, but selected portions, particular things like peoples' faces, need better definition and less compression. Does anyone have any tricks that might help with this? It would be really cool to have a plug-in that would allow one to use a selection tool and then have two compression ratios... Thanks, Gary ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] how to fill...
On 14 August 2012 10:32, scythargon for...@gimpusers.com wrote: I have area(the whole layer) that I have filled with semi-transparent gradient, so now, I select it - (layer-alpha to selection) and trying to fill with ordinary non-transparent color, but I get the same area with the same semi-transparent gradient, the only thing that I changed - the main color of gradient:( I am not shure about what you actually want to achieve, but it sounds like you could make use of the behind paint mode (change, on the tool options, the paint mode from normal to behind. ) js -- -- scythargon (via gimpusers.com) ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] A plug-in for those who still don't like the new Save/Export
On 08/17/2012 09:24 PM, Akkana Peck wrote: maderios writes: Hi Thanks for this post. This plug-in doesn't work for me (Debian Wheezy) I put it in /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/ chmod 755 What is it doing, or not doing? Doesn't work doesn't give me much to go on to figure out what needs fixing. ...Akkana Hi It means I can't see any change in the menu. I can't see any change concerning save and save as. Greetings -- Maderios ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
