Re: [Gimp-user] Unable to flatten and/or deselect image?

2011-12-21 Thread Keith Purtell
I'd hazard a guess that you are talking about yellow layer boundary. Check the lower half of the Layer menu for a command to bring layer's size to image's size after you enlarged canvas. I tried that, and the marching ants indicating the center (original) image stayed, and more such ants were

Re: [Gimp-user] Changing the size of an oval?

2012-01-11 Thread Keith Purtell
Thanks for all the info. It's very useful. Keith ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list

[Gimp-user] Exporting high-quality PNG w/transparency?

2012-01-28 Thread Keith Purtell
Several times a week I need to take a PDF (single-page doc), then convert to a page-sized PNG with quality good enough to read the text (and a transparent border), and then convert to a SWF. I have a PNG-to-SWF utility, but when I used it on the PNG saved after I opened my PDF and exported from

[Gimp-user] Why does saves as JPG default to quality 85?

2012-03-23 Thread Keith Purtell
I've noticed that every time I save an image in GIMP as JPG the quality slider bar defaults to 85. Even though I keep changing it to 75. If this numeric value is a Photoshop equivalent like other GIMP features, then 85 is probably a wasted effort. The research* I'm aware of* (note emphasis) says

Re: [Gimp-user] Why does saves as JPG default to quality 85?

2012-03-23 Thread Keith Purtell
I suppose the reason I didn't go the preview route is that I'm a bit annoyed that GIMP doesn't remember that I've changed that setting to 75 every single time I've made a JPG. Now that you suggest it, I could run a test and see if GIMP's apparent 85 default really does/doesn't make a significant

[Gimp-user] How to control one color only?

2012-04-11 Thread Keith Purtell
This is another of those things I knew how to do in PShop and am now trying to duplicate in GIMP. I have a photo of a flowchart drawn in green marker on a whiteboard. Photo taken with an iPhone, so quality is yuck. I brought out the greens with Color Enhance, but now the white board has areas that

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: How to control one color only?

2012-04-12 Thread Keith Purtell
one way to accomplish this. Best regards, Boris 2012/4/11 Keith Purtell kpurt...@imirus.com mailto:kpurt...@imirus.com This is another of those things I knew how to do in PShop and am now trying to duplicate in GIMP. I have a photo of a flowchart drawn in green marker

Re: [Gimp-user] How to control one color only?

2012-04-12 Thread Keith Purtell
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Judah Kleinveldt judahy...@yahoo.cawrote: [Gimp-user] How to control one color only? Keith the way I'd do it to keep things simple and quick is to create a selection of the troubling area, begin by creating a duplicate layer first then select (on the

[Gimp-user] Export quality setting for JPGs?

2012-06-15 Thread Keith Purtell
When I export a Web JPG from GIMP and it offers me a sliding Quality bar that goes 0 - 100. I want to know if that's an equivalent to the similar JPG quality setting in Photoshop? The reason I'm asking is that my research on Photoshop indicated that JPG output quality settings above 75 were

Re: [Gimp-user] Export quality setting for JPGs?

2012-06-18 Thread Keith Purtell
Aha; thanks for providing that informative link on previous research! And, as for the suggested 90 JPG output setting, maybe that explains why my GIMP persistently wants to default to that number. - Keith ___ gimp-user-list mailing list

[Gimp-user] How to make transparency gradiate?

2013-05-03 Thread Keith Purtell
A client has supplied a logo for Web display (PNG). The logo background is white and needs to become transparent. I've done this in GIMP no problem with simple graphics. However this one features design elements that cast a pale gray shadow onto the white background. Not sure how to make the

Re: [Gimp-user] How to make transparency gradiate?

2013-05-03 Thread Keith Purtell
was fairly close to the page's gray background. If they had been very different, I'd still be squawking for a solution. On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Chris Mohler cr33...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Keith Purtell kpurt...@imirus.com wrote: A client has supplied a logo

[Gimp-user] Create a music ruler in GIMP?

2014-02-13 Thread Keith Purtell
. Is there a fast way to do this in GIMP other than positioning a draw tool like Pencil at each location (identified by the pixels at bottom of the GIMP screen) and drawing each one? Keith Purtell ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list

Re: [Gimp-user] Create a music ruler in GIMP?

2014-02-17 Thread Keith Purtell
. Thanks all. Keith Purtell ___ 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

[Gimp-user] Color shift when opening TIFF?

2014-10-23 Thread Keith Purtell
the TIFF. Just to be clear, this is not a buggy TIFF from outside. I made it myself by take a normal PDF and using the Save-as-Image function. This didn't happen with the other three images from the same project. Experimenting with Mode made no difference. Ideas? Keith Purtell

Re: [Gimp-user] Color shift when opening TIFF?

2014-10-24 Thread Keith Purtell
how the image appears in all non-GIMP settings. http://i.imgur.com/jbja6QE.png Keith Purtell ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List

Re: [Gimp-user] Color shift when opening TIFF?

2014-10-24 Thread Keith Purtell
I think what may be going on is that: 1- My Acrobat Pro is not correctly set to convert all CMYK images to RGB on output, and 2-GIMP reportedly has limited CMYK support. The easy thing here is to fix my Acrobat prefs, yes? I'm in an Internet environment; no use for CMYK. Keith Purtell

[Gimp-user] Scanned negatives, moire patterns and GIMP?

2014-12-04 Thread Keith Purtell
I recently had some 20-year-old color negatives scanned. About half the scans had moire patterns. My understanding is that moire (in this case) would be caused by contact between the glossy back of the negative and another flat object such as a glass plate. When I went back to the photography

Re: [Gimp-user] Scanned negatives, moire patterns and GIMP?

2014-12-05 Thread Keith Purtell
Thanks to you and Steve for this. I'll make a screen capture available when I'm next at my regular computer. On a related note; yes the long-range solution will be to get some kind of access to a proper scanner. Original Message I recently had some 20-year-old

Re: [Gimp-user] Scanned negatives, moire patterns and GIMP?

2014-12-05 Thread Keith Purtell
Here's a link to one portion of the image: http://i.imgur.com/6RaV68i.jpg On 12/4/2014 7:11 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote: If they can't resolve this, what are my chances of solving the problem with GIMP? I tried a few of the existing filters without visible results. My first Google searches

[Gimp-user] Dealing with image degradation in old negatives?

2014-12-16 Thread Keith Purtell
The image link below goes to an enlarged portion of a scanned negative from the mid 1980s. One of the strange things I see are small spots like photo grain that have turned yellow. I've considered selecting by color and changing them to flesh tone or gray, or carefully using Gaussian blur,

[Gimp-user] Sharpening text inside images

2015-03-05 Thread Keith Purtell
I work daily with PNG files exported from magazine PDF files. They contain mostly text and some images. Some clients ask me to make the text look a bit sharper, and I'm frustrated working with sharpening tools designed for photographs. Every sharpening tutorial I've found so far is photo-based.