Re: [Gimp-user] Problem with the Newsprint filter?

2012-01-09 Thread Jay Smith
On 01/09/2012 10:00 AM, Zweibaby wrote: So, yesterday I was trying to halftone an image. Everything was working fine, but I couldn't figure out how to use it the way I wanted to. So I found a tutorial. I read it, figured out what I was doing wrong, went on my way. Everything seemed fine.

Re: [Gimp-user] Fix Orientation ?

2012-01-09 Thread Jay Smith
On 01/09/2012 04:10 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: 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

Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2012-05-05 Thread Jay Smith
On 05/05/2012 10:30 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Ken Warner wrote: but many posts calling for civility have come from people who want to divide the user base into two groups where one group is somehow more entitled to use GIMP than the other because of the

Re: [Gimp-user] Reply via List Headers [was: Re: Calm and rational Save/Export workflow report ; )]

2012-05-11 Thread Jay Smith
On 05/11/2012 09:39 AM, Michael Schumacher wrote: Von: Richard Gitschlagstrata_ran...@hotmail.com Then the real question is why every time I hit Reply, Hotmail prefills my form with the individual user's email instead of the mailing list's, and I have to change it every time before hitting

Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2012-08-07 Thread Jay Smith
On 08/07/2012 04:59 PM, Anoko wrote: On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Anoko wrote: The explanation page says In other words, GIMP used to assume that you don't mind accidental loss of unrecoverable project data and bothered you with confirmation dialogs. It was a convoluted logic, but people

Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2012-08-07 Thread Jay Smith
On 08/07/2012 05:52 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: snip The usability team spent quite a while writing all the reasoning down at gui.gimp.org. I don't really understand why we need yet another long thread to go through all these things yet again. Alexandre Prokoudine Alexandre, IMHO the

Re: [Gimp-user] Definition of project data .... vs image data vs workspace data

2012-08-07 Thread Jay Smith
On 08/07/2012 05:32 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Rob Antonishen wrote: And this is where your use case is wrong! The whole point of separating save and export is that ONLY save is safe. An export is NOT guaranteed to be either safe or lossless. It may be,

Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2012-08-07 Thread Jay Smith
On 08/07/2012 06:53 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:28 AM, Jay Smith wrote: As many husbands have taken decades to learn (or else they are no longer married), sometimes writing all the reasoning down won't make the wife feel better. Right now, the developers

Re: [Gimp-user] time saver?

2012-11-15 Thread Jay Smith
On 11/15/2012 09:48 PM, rmooney wrote: I enjoy using GIMP, but I'm looking for some help to cut down on my time watermarking my photos. Currently I am opening a photo, adding text, rotating text, duplicating the text layer, then moving each layer to the top left and bottom right corners. Surely

Re: [Gimp-user] time saver?

2012-11-15 Thread Jay Smith
On 11/15/2012 10:13 PM, Jay Smith wrote: On 11/15/2012 09:48 PM, rmooney wrote: I enjoy using GIMP, but I'm looking for some help to cut down on my time watermarking my photos. Currently I am opening a photo, adding text, rotating text, duplicating the text layer, then moving each layer

Re: [Gimp-user] finding layers after file has been closed (.... so much for the new export/save methods)

2012-11-18 Thread Jay Smith
On 11/18/2012 03:57 PM, jenn golden wrote: I totally understood what you both said - but I didn't know that I had to save it both ways - I only saved it, or exported it at a .jpg... Does that mean I can't recover the .xcf? On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Daniel Smith opened...@gmail.com

Re: [Gimp-user] finding layers after file has been closed (.... so much for the new export/save methods)

2012-11-18 Thread Jay Smith
On 11/18/2012 04:38 PM, Burnie West wrote: On 11/18/2012 01:13 PM, jenn golden wrote: However, this is an excellent illustration that this controversial change in the save/export methods is not a perfect solution either. On the good side, however, Jenn is happy to have learned the lesson --

Re: [Gimp-user] scanner works with linux

2012-11-29 Thread Jay Smith
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Gracia M. Littauer gra...@yadtel.net wrote: anyone recomend any newer good Epson scanner that work with linux? No, but I am using a couple Epson Perfection 4490 Photo, probably as old as what you have. They work great on Ubuntu Linux (with some tweaking of

Re: [Gimp-user] Post GIMP File Management, Organizing Viewing/Simpler Alternatives Options PLEASE READ HELP!!! How Make .JPG Files More Like Tiles or Icons. Once Moved They Stay Set

2013-04-11 Thread Jay Smith
On 04/11/2013 03:27 AM, FriendlyBeginner wrote: Hello Everyone, Please Help Me! I am perplexed hungry for ideas. I have thousands of 3x5 inch index cards, all hand written cards. And I have learned how to use GIMP to scan 4 cards at a time, crop, guillotine the 4 cards to make 4 seperate .JPG

[Gimp-user] Save vs export separate discussion forum needed

2013-07-19 Thread Jay Smith
Though I don't like the new and improved methods, they are what they are and they are not going to be changed back to the old way. It is really tiring and frustrating to have to listen to all the same stuff over and over -- even though (and because) I agree with some of what is said and I

Re: [Gimp-user] Is there a single bit that can accidentally flip an image to negative? (not Gimp specific)

2013-07-28 Thread Jay Smith
On 07/28/2013 07:00 AM, Elle Stone wrote: I'm going to call the image that isn't inverted right.jpg and the image that is inverted (not really inverted, but certainly it's not right) wrong.jpg, to avoid typing really long file names. Right.jpg doesn't have an embedded ICC profile. Right.jpg was

Re: [Gimp-user] suggestion for Gimp

2013-08-08 Thread Jay Smith
On 08/08/2013 03:47 PM, maderios wrote: Hi This positive proposal could end the eternal discussion save vs. export, etc Developers could offer two versions of Gimp: - One version for amateurs with the gimp 2.8 behavior - One version for professionals with the gimp 2.6 behavior that allows

Re: [Gimp-user] Question about bump map location

2013-09-02 Thread Jay Smith
On 09/02/2013 03:32 PM, Judy Wilson wrote: snipped My question: I would like to put a watermark of my logo on images, and I can do so with the Map, Bump Map Filter. However, the location of the bump map is a problem. At 0 on the X and Y Offset sliders, it goes into the upper left hand corner.

Re: [Gimp-user] logo

2014-07-29 Thread Jay Smith
that they are available to me for other uses). It is very powerful stuff, but it can take a bit of work to learn. Jay Smith ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp

Re: [Gimp-user] How to swap image colors

2014-10-23 Thread Jay Smith
On 10/23/2014 01:51 PM, CoolB wrote: It depends on whether the words are dithered or not. If there are sharp edges and the image really only has two colors, try the following: Click on the eyedropper (or O (O not 0), then click on the words to make the color of the words the foreground color.

[Gimp-user] What causes random (in error) image color-inverting of TIFFs, over time? Is it correctable?

2015-05-31 Thread Jay Smith
Greetings fellow Gimp Users, I make images using Gimp, but I assume that this question is not really Gimp specific. I have tens of thousands of images (postage stamps) on my site. Every now and then when I am looking at a page I discover that the image (a JPEG) has had is colors sort of

Re: [Gimp-user] Comments on GIMP

2015-08-07 Thread Jay Smith
On 08/07/2015 05:28 PM, George Misdary wrote: I'm not certain if this is the right place for this, but here goes, A few weeks ago I was on a mission to find a simple, yet effective, image editing program for a project I'm working on.After several frustrating experiences with a bunch of

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing

2017-01-12 Thread Jay Smith
ot necessarily Gimp), you are welcome to email me directly. Jay Smith ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list

Re: [Gimp-user] can't keep proportions

2016-12-19 Thread Jay Smith
example if the image was 400 x 200 pixels adding a 10 pixel border to all sides would give 420 x 220 - which alters the aspect ratio. Adding 10 pixels each side and 5 pixels top and bottom gives 420 x 210 which preserves the aspect ratio. -- Jay Smith e-mail: j...@jaysmith.com mailto:j...@jaysmi

Re: [Gimp-user] Ticket numbers

2019-12-11 Thread Jay Smith
uld be more work than simply hand-writing (oh no, not that) 360 numbers. You could write the numbers faster than it took you to even think about these emails. Jay Smith ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org L

Re: [Gimp-user] Resizing

2021-02-03 Thread Jay Smith
each image individually is very time consuming. Help! -- Jay Smith e-mail: j...@jaysmith.com mailto:j...@jaysmith.com website: http://www.JaySmith.com Jay Smith & Associates P.O. Box 650 Snow Camp, NC 27349 USA Phone: Int+US+336-376-9991 Toll-Free Phone in US & Canada: 1-800-447-8267 F

Re: [Gimp-user] Change background colour with GIMP 2.10.22

2021-03-23 Thread Jay Smith
housands of stamp images. I will watch this thread with interest. Zoltán, I welcome learning any advice you can give as you solve your problem. Jay Smith On 03/23/2021 07:15 PM, Zoltán Kluik via gimp-user-list wrote: Dear GIMP users, I would like to ask your help regarding removing backgr