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

2012-01-11 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 09:27 -0600, Keith Purtell wrote: OK, I Googled and found the steps for creating a colored circle with the border size I preferred. Cool. But when it came to something as simple as copying that circle (it's in a new layer) and changing the size, You could use the gfig

Re: [Gimp-user] Seeking better green screen method

2012-01-18 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 15:17 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: We have tried scanning on many different non-black background colors and surfaces, but there are always some extreme-edge color artifacts remaining ... leaving a sort of halo effect around the stamp object. I've found that scanning object

Re: [Gimp-user] Benchmarking Gimp/GEGL

2012-03-20 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 11:44 +, Derek Mortimer wrote: Looking at the image you referred to, Firefox tells me that it is 7,360px × 4,912px (scaled to 864px × 577px). If what I have been told is correct, that 1 pixel = 1 byte ( or thereabouts), that is a 36mb file, which to my mind is

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

2012-03-23 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 21:52 +0100, Olivier wrote: Considering the quality rating in JPEG as a percentage would mean that a quality equal to 100 would be perfect, i.e. no loss at all. Nonsense. A quality of 100% means you have chosen 100 out of a possible 100. per cent means out of 100 in Latin.

Re: [Gimp-user] Trace an image?

2012-03-24 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 18:23 -0400, . wrote: Since the image has a lot of curves is there a tool or gadget in Gimp that can provide a smooth curve, say, around a circle? Inkscape comes with a user interface for running potrace, a program (at least on Linux) that can trace bitmap images and make

Re: [Gimp-user] Crop to oval?

2012-03-30 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 13:19 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: So anyway, how do I do this? Bitmap images are rectangular. What you really need is a rectangular image with the corners being transparent or white. Make the selection bigger than you want, feather the selection, invert, and cut.

Re: [Gimp-user] Batch mode ?

2012-04-13 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 16:50 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: It appears to me that virtually every photograph I have ever manipulated using GIMP has looked better after applying GIMP's Colors-Levels-Auto to it. They often do, especially with lower-end or older cameras. They may look even

Re: [Gimp-user] brush size controls?

2012-04-24 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 18:58 +0200, MadMinstrel wrote: Hi! I've just tried the RC1 and so far I'm loving the new brush engine. I've got a little question though. What's the fastest way to change the brush size with a tablet? The [ and ] hotkeys work, but they change the brush size one

Re: [Gimp-user] How can I create huge billboard sized files in super high dpi?

2012-04-25 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 16:25 -0500, Daniel Smith wrote: So, the 144 would be basically twice the web resolutio of 72 to make for better resampling on resize, or no relation? Well, if by Web you mean World Wide Web, no, no relation; there are 72 points to the inch in printing, and a lot of

Re: [Gimp-user] How can I create huge billboard sized files in super high dpi?

2012-04-26 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 21:44 -0400, Tara Gover wrote: Hi guys, I am printing super high res images onto fabric. My print guy has instructed me to create my images in 1440 dpi I think he meant 144 dpi, which is a common resolution used for colour images in print. If the thread count of the

Re: [Gimp-user] Install multiple versions

2012-05-03 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 11:37 +0200, SteveK wrote: What do I have to do to keep 2.6 installed along with 2.8? Depends on your Linux distribution. E.g. you may have to override an obsoletes. Or maybe you're using Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X? Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C,

Re: [Gimp-user] set F1 /F6 shortcut

2012-05-12 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 17:12 +0200, ceas wrote: i am not sure is it a bug i want to set some dialog the F1~F8 but doesnt work on F1 and F6 F1 is usually reserved for Help. I don't know about F6. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old

Re: [Gimp-user] set F1 /F6 shortcut

2012-05-13 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 09:18 +0200, ceas wrote: i don't know what for the F6 too but for the F1 key i do try able/ disable from the ubuntu both show me the help of the gimp after press the F1 The gtk toolkit uses F1 for Help, and I think F6 to switch between different parts of an application.

Re: [Gimp-user] Bug with fonts when antialiasing on

2012-05-13 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 21:41 +0200, gimp-bug wrote: All text in gimp 2.8 has greenish border when antialiasing is on, no matter which color is on the background. http://i.imgur.com/Ntky2.png - upper part with antialiasing, lower without This problem happens with gimp 2.8 on gentoo/kde 4.8

Re: [Gimp-user] Bug with fonts when antialiasing on

2012-05-13 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 17:05 +0200, gimp-bug wrote: Liam Thank you for the answer! Yesterday on IRC I was suggested the same - to check antialiasing settings. There's nothing wrong in my fontconfig, it's pretty standard. In KDE there are three options for antialiasing: Enabled, System

Re: [Gimp-user] Ppm 16bit handling

2012-05-23 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 23:34 -0300, br...@buys.net.br wrote: I don't understand: can't Gimp just open the file as it is, with no conversion whatsoever, since support to 16bit is there? Yes - all it takes is programming, code to handle each format at higher bit depths. Patches are generally

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP 2.8.0 WIN32 - Very Slow

2012-05-26 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 07:22 +0200, ceas wrote: [...] Some common culprits: (1) a colour management bug (especially on Windows) To see if this is affecting you, go to View-Display Filters Select Colour Management and uncheck it, and use the left-pointing arrow to move it out of the

Re: [Gimp-user] application suggestions to evaluate tool options - input needed

2012-05-31 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 13:05 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: On 05/31/12 04:24, eduperez wrote: So, I'm always using some type of brush tool in GIMP; I exclusively use round brushes, that I change in size and hardness quite frequently. same here. I have $ and % keys bound to changing hardness,

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

2012-06-15 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 14:51 -0500, Keith Purtell wrote: 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? No; gimp's 75 is awful, although I often use it for the

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP corrupted photo now unable to open! PLEASE HELP!!!

2012-06-17 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 11:45 -0700, Angela D wrote: I spent a lot of time editing this photo and when I uploaded it into gimp to further edit and attempted to save, it would not. Note for the future - use Save to save a copy in xcf or xcf.gz format if you will be working on it again. If there

Re: [Gimp-user] [Gimp-developer] Merge Save a Copy with Export As [was: Ditch the Save a Copy command (really)]

2012-06-23 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2012-06-23 at 10:47 -0700, Richard Gitschlag wrote: [Liam wrote] save a copy saves as xcf without changing the image filename It's not doing the same thing as export a lossy copy you might or might not be able to re-open Is this difference enough of a difference to even be a

Re: [Gimp-user] newbie trouble needs to fit canvas

2012-06-23 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 10:28 +0200, Madhatter wrote: I have a square picture with a blank background. I would like to cut off the background so that i only have the real picture in the file (so that background will show around my picture when i use it on a homepage) To remove a blank

Re: [Gimp-user] Tips for digitising/tracing image with GIMP?

2012-06-25 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 14:53 -0700, avamk wrote: Do you think GIMP is suitable for this kind of image analyses? Or should I use a vector based program like Inkscape? In GIMP you will need a data structure to track the traced lines, rather than having a plugin just draw them on the canvas.

Re: [Gimp-user] How to rotate a 2D image about the Y Axis.

2012-06-27 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 21:30 +0200, stephen wrote: I'm wanting to get different views of a 2D image The computer doesn't know what's on the other side of the image. I've seen software that tries to guess, but it doesn't (and can't) do a very good job from a single image. The way multiple

Re: [Gimp-user] Adjusting Colors But Not Whites

2012-06-29 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 15:44 -0400, Frank Gore wrote: I have a set of icons which are a specific color (blue) with white text on them. I want to change them to be a different color (turquoise) and a fair bit darker, but I want the text to remain white. First, best is to keep the text as a text

Re: [Gimp-user] correct reference for the Gimp ?

2012-07-02 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 17:12 -0400, Lyerra wrote: Sorry for the silly question, but... I'm using the Gimp quite heavily in my Ph. D. thesis redaction. I wish to reference it in the bibliography, as it should be. What is the correct/proper way of doing that ? Thanks in advance. Depends on your

Re: [Gimp-user] correct reference for the Gimp ?

2012-07-02 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 18:47 -0400, Lyerra wrote: I do not wish to refer to the website (although the reference will contain the website but that is a detail), but to the authors. You'd have an awfully long reference if you named all the contributors. I'd suggest something like, All who

Re: [Gimp-user] Thank you developers, for your patience.

2012-07-05 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 12:23 +0200, eduperez wrote: In my humble opinion, the quid of the question regarding the new save / export policy, relies on the fact that the new behaviour reflects a change in the intended audience for the project: the old load JPEG + edit + save JPEG serves perfectly

Re: [Gimp-user] CentOS packanges for 2.8?

2012-07-16 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 04:14 +0200, erroneus wrote: You need to build things in the selected build directory, babl, gegl and gimp If glib and gtk versions are too low, you need to build those and their dependancies in the selected directory. DO NOT BUILD IN /usr or /usr/local Just a note

Re: [Gimp-user] CentOS packanges for 2.8?

2012-07-16 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 04:14 +0200, erroneus wrote: You need to build things in the selected build directory, babl, gegl and gimp If glib and gtk versions are too low, you need to build those and their dependancies in the selected directory. DO NOT BUILD IN /usr or /usr/local Just a note

Re: [Gimp-user] printing photos on paper etc

2012-07-20 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 05:52 -0700, odimegwu david wrote: [...] I want to process some photos for printing (i.e the paper used for printing family and social photos; I believe you understand what I mean?). please, what dpi or ppi do I use on gimp? Btw, what do photographers call such a

Re: [Gimp-user] DON'T HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2012-07-21 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2012-07-21 at 18:44 -0700, Richard Gitschlag wrote: [Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:] On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 3:43 AM, scott s. wrote: [...] GIMP uses a 3rd party library to read tiff, and I guess GIMP spec doesn't specify if on import if GIMP is to retain meta-data, silently

Re: [Gimp-user] Cannot enter Japanese text?

2012-07-22 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2012-07-22 at 15:47 -0400, Daniel Hauck wrote: When I open the text tool, I try to switch over to mozc and I cannot when using either CTRL-SPACE or ALT-~ (alt-grave). And I also cannot do it by clicking the IME selection thing in the systray as it says (i) No input window when I

Re: [Gimp-user] DON'T HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2012-07-31 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 09:11 -0700, Richard Gitschlag wrote: As a quick comparison, Windows doesn't allow you to drag-and-drop items directly onto an application's taskbar button either and I don't understand why. Win 95 and Win XP did, in general, I don't know about later versions of Windows.

Re: [Gimp-user] MIDI controllers for controlling brush size and colors [was: Save Export Complaints]

2012-09-13 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 08:47 -0300, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: [...] What do you think would be a reasonable largest size multiplier (as opposed to actual brush size)? The current value is 1000.0 - in the previous version it was 10.0. I used to patch GIMP to set the max _size) 1000 because the

Re: [Gimp-user] Preventing closing a dock by mistake

2012-09-13 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 02:08 +0900, Jehan Pagès wrote: Hello, I have a question which hopefully has a nice answer. :-) Sometimes I would close by mistake a tool dock Look in the Windows menu for Recently closed docks. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C,

Re: [Gimp-user] [Request] Do not confirm closing if unsaved image was exported/overwrited ?

2012-09-13 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 00:34 +, minhsien0330 wrote: Dear developers: Can we have a new option Do not confirm closing if unsaved image was exported/overwrited ? It would defeat the purpose of moving Save to Export - that of avoiding accidental work loss. I would like to be told exactly

Re: [Gimp-user] [Request] Do not confirm closing if unsaved image was exported/overwrited ?

2012-09-15 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2012-09-15 at 23:12 +0200, Ofnuts wrote: [...] saving as XCF by accident may make you lose some time, but will never make you lose data, because you can always save the JPG again from the XCF. This isn't always true. For example, after working on a photograph I scale it down e.g. to

Re: [Gimp-user] Converting Screen Shots

2012-09-20 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 01:55 +0200, crouching_ant wrote: Hi list, I'm a newbie and have the following problem: I have about 2500 screen shots in png-format. I need to convert them all into b/w-pictures. Use imagemagick's mogrify program on a cpoy of the images. How could this be done easily?

Re: [Gimp-user] interface to ufraw -- save options

2012-09-20 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 22:37 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: Is there a way to tell gimp to bring up ufraw differently, You can run ufraw outside of gimp, not as a plugin. There are also other raw camera image processing tools, including for example darktable, although that has a really confusing

Re: [Gimp-user] xcf difficulty

2012-10-14 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2012-10-14 at 23:01 -0400, Brittany Bug wrote: I want to know if i can save my pic's i create as jpg so i can download them elsewhere Use file-export to do that. Note that jpeg is lossy - you should save as xcf or xcf.gz, and then also export as jpeg, and that way you can edit the xcf

Re: [Gimp-user] Stuck Gimp

2012-10-18 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 12:07 +0100, Jonathan Allen wrote: I've got my Gimp stuck. Something happened and it gets stuck in the file dialogue. It will open recently used files, but goes into a brown study on File-Open or File-Save-As and the only way out is force-quit. This Gimp 2.2 on an

Re: [Gimp-user] multi-threaded Gimp

2012-10-19 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 16:50 +0200, Dexter Filmore wrote: Am Thursday 18 October 2012 21:05:35 schrieb Jernej Simončič: On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:47:56 +0200, maderios wrote: I have a Core I7 with 8 cpu. I noticed Gimp use only 1 cpu to save image. If you're talking about saving a file,

Re: [Gimp-user] Accurate printing and adjustments

2012-10-22 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 20:05 -0500, Dwayne Julin wrote: The big problem I have is trying to set the page setup setting from the File menu - It is stuck at Portrait, A4, Front tray and will not change - it resets every time. It refuses to switch to landscape or US 8.5 x 11. The Print menu

Re: [Gimp-user] Accurate printing and adjustments

2012-10-22 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 20:05 -0500, Dwayne Julin wrote: The big problem I have is trying to set the page setup setting from the File menu - It is stuck at Portrait, A4, Front tray and will not change - it resets every time. It refuses to switch to landscape or US 8.5 x 11. The Print menu

Re: [Gimp-user] trial fit new colours on car picture

2012-10-24 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 15:03 +0200, wallisonline wrote: I have myself a picture of my kitcar which I am looking to change the colour of however I want to preview a selection of colours using GIMP to see how they look on the car. I'd probably try select by colour first, and/or the fuzzy wand.

Re: [Gimp-user] Lost grid

2012-10-28 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2012-10-28 at 16:27 -0600, Donald Miller wrote: I used grid on one file, made a new file, defaulted to no grid. 'Show grid' did not show grid. Here, I did the following in a new file: (1) image-configure grid changed grid size to every 100 pixels (was every 10 pixels but my images

Re: [Gimp-user] Lost grid

2012-10-28 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2012-10-28 at 16:56 -0600, Donald Miller wrote: Ok, got a grid of a light color. I think it defaults to the toolbox colours when you configure it. [...] Use Pixels for a measurement - inches are for photoshop users :-) and are pretty much meaningless. Actually, some of us print

Re: [Gimp-user] Virtual rescale

2012-11-02 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 23:19 +0100, Johannes Bauer wrote: Is it possible to virtually rescale layers in the Gimp? Or is this planned? Because it would be an awesome feature. Not currently - if you want this a lot, check out Inkscape. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C,

Re: [Gimp-user] Allow myself to introduce...... myself

2012-11-08 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 23:07 +, Desmond Devlin wrote: [...] (ps. the 'Keep Calm' images weren't designed using GIMP, but the others are using fonts I searched for using Google) Note, the fact you can find something with a free-to-use search engine like Google doesn't mean the fonts are

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp fais saving some jpg files

2012-11-10 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2012-11-11 at 00:16 +0300, Alexander Rabtchevich wrote: Hello I have some jpg files, produced by darktable (git)m, which are opened with GIMP without problems. But trying to save the file leads to an error message, the resulting jpg is 28K in size and broken. What error message

Re: [Gimp-user] Error

2012-11-11 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2012-11-11 at 20:04 +0100, Sleepingbeautiie wrote: Yeah, decided to re-submit this thing again... lol. Basically, every time I load gimp, it opens for me, ect; but when I close it (to throw some brushes in, ect) it loads slower, and then it gives me a C++/Library whatever error...

Re: [Gimp-user] Error

2012-11-11 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2012-11-11 at 23:54 +0100, Sleepingbeautiie wrote: On Sun, 2012-11-11 at 20:04 +0100, Sleepingbeautiie wrote: Roughly how many brushes do you have? What is the error exactly? To be honest, I'm not really sure. Maybe you could write it down next time. But I do know that there

Re: [Gimp-user] Resynthezier: can't make it work

2012-11-15 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 19:14 +0100, Dexter Filmore wrote: Suse 12.2, gimp 2.8-git branch installed in ~/gimp, compiled resynth-git prefixed there, too. Can call heal selection and Resynthesize, but the do nothing. If you run ~/.gimp-2.8-git/plug-ins/resynth it should give you a message about

Re: [Gimp-user] time saver?

2012-11-15 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 03:48 +0100, rmooney wrote: I enjoy using GIMP, but I'm looking for some help to cut down on my time watermarking my photos. For http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ I use imagemagick to watermark the images, in a little script (for Linux) I'd be happy to share. Liam -- Liam

Re: [Gimp-user] How to revert to version 2.6 in Ubuntu

2012-11-25 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 18:38 -0800, Pietro Calogero wrote: Hi all, I need to revert to GIMP version 2.6. Please tell me the proper BASH commands to do this in an Ubuntu system. [...] I only have about 20,000 photos, and I need to revise the JPGs or preferably work with PNGs. For 20,000

Re: [Gimp-user] scanner works with linux

2012-11-29 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 20:00 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: 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? I use the Epson Expressionist 1 XL for www.fromoldbooks.org - it's a large-format scanner

Re: [Gimp-user] UFRaw cutting file

2012-11-29 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 07:47 +0100, Ebizjoey wrote: [...] it is intermittent, like yesterday it was doing it and today it is not, same files. Copy files off a memory card or out of your camera onto your computer before working on them. You may find that helps. I've seen problems with slow cards

Re: [Gimp-user] Disabling keyboard menu shortcuts

2012-12-02 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2012-12-02 at 12:27 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: [...] Wouldn't it make most sense to unify the two, so that the menu selectors are configurable in the normal key shortcut dialog? The use of the alt key to navigate menus ties in to accessibility and to internationalization; the

Re: [Gimp-user] Question about the new sliders

2012-12-05 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 12:38 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: So two thoughts: 1. Should the integral behavior I am seeing with the up-arrow on the threshold for fuzzy select be going by tenths, or by whole integers? Neither, it depends on the width of the toolbox. It should go up or down by

Re: [Gimp-user] Question about the new sliders

2012-12-05 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 13:46 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: On 12/05/12 13:12, Liam R E Quin wrote: I don't think so. In the case of the paintbrush size, what is the max value? The maximum value is 10,000. However, since your slider is probably less than 10,000 pixels wide, the approach taken seems

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp multipage tiff

2012-12-07 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 11:52 +0400, Oleg wrote: Hi, all. Gimp open a multipage tiff as a multilayer image and i can edit it. But when i save it, all layers are merged into one and i've get a onepage tiff. How can i save a multipage tiff? No easy way, although someone my have a script to

Re: [Gimp-user] Photo protection - transparent foreground

2012-12-17 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 14:48 -0600, Chris Mohler wrote: FYI, anyone with the knowledge can defeat this protection quite easily. For example, by taking a screenshot... Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/

Re: [Gimp-user] Enhancing text

2013-01-23 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 05:05 +0100, RogueRanger wrote: The procedure I normally did after writing the text was to go to Layer/Style and then you would have several options, like drop shadow, etc etc. I GIMP does not have layer styles. (GIMP also does not have a large team of programmers, nor

Re: [Gimp-user] a new GIMP book

2013-01-24 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 07:17 +0100, Olivier wrote: See http://nostar.ch/BoG_promo Olivier, I'm sure it would actually be fine to send a synopsis of the book to this list for people's information; I think that's more useful than being too embarrassed to tell people the book is on sale this week

Re: [Gimp-user] Enhancing text

2013-01-24 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 21:05 -0500, Steve Kinney wrote: [...] A while back I found another method for outlining text [...] 2. Right click on the text, select Path from text from the drop menu.* Yes, it gives slightly better results, but, as I wrote, I was trying to give methods that didn't

Re: [Gimp-user] (no subject) [view all colours in an imge]

2013-01-29 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 23:15 -0500, christopher draper wrote: Is there a way to view all the colors in an image at once in GIMP? If not is there a place I can suggest it? Is this for an indexed image? Colours-Info has an option to generate a pallette from the colours in the image, but an RGB

Re: [Gimp-user] Unskewing images of flat rectangular objects in Gimp

2013-02-04 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 00:46 -0800, Elmer Wix wrote: The size and aspect ratio of the rectified quadrilateral isn't always close to what I want it to be, though. I use it like this when I can: 1. crop the image so the object is in the middle, approximately (or float it to a new layer together

Re: [Gimp-user] Suggestions for the GIMP

2013-02-07 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2013-02-07 at 09:44 -0800, Richard Gitschlag wrote: There are not many applications where the undo history is considered a tangible part of the current document/project being worked on. No, although I've encountered it. Most programs are indeed lossy in this regard. (On the same

Re: [Gimp-user] Suggestions for the GIMP

2013-02-08 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 08:25 +0100, Gunold Brunbauer wrote: Is there any way to save the undo-history ? Not currently, no. It may happen after the move to GEGL,which is currently in progress but a lot of work. -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from

Re: [Gimp-user] Screen tearing and slow when panning the canvas under windows 7

2013-02-09 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2013-02-10 at 04:31 +0100, jarmade wrote: i just reinstalled windows after using linux for a few months Bad move :-) Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 460/PCIe/SSE2 Graphics Driver version: 310.90 Did you get the driver from nvidia's Web site?

Re: [Gimp-user] import vs open

2013-02-18 Thread Liam R E Quin
Is it time to have Import for non-xcf files? How about * File-Open filters to *.xcf* by default; attempting to open a non-xcf file brings up a message, myfile.jpg is not an XCF file. Would you like to import it? * File-Import behaves as open as layers today, unless the image is not dirty, in

Re: [Gimp-user] import vs open

2013-02-18 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2013-02-18 at 14:06 -0600, Chris Mohler wrote: Current File-Open makes sense as it is, at least to me. File-Save made sense to people too. But if GIMP is an XCF editor that can only save xcf files, being able to open non-xcf files is an obvious bug, a hole in the metaphor. It should

Re: [Gimp-user] What is wrong with this picture?

2013-02-21 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 14:03 -0800, Richard Gitschlag wrote: You missed only one (very important) detail: The tool's Overlap setting. No, I did it at 50% and mentioned that. All pixels with hues falling between a 15° ~ 45° deviation from Magenta (a 30° range, or 50% of the 60° between

Re: [Gimp-user] Toolbox Disappears

2013-02-22 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 07:38 +0100, androidlove wrote: I'm using 2.8.4 in multi windows mode fullscreen. Sometimes the toolbox will disappear. I have to hit my Windows key and then click on Gimp in the Windows toolbar to make it come back. You may find the tab key brings it back. If not, try

Re: [Gimp-user] Image discoloration

2013-02-25 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2013-02-26 at 04:42 +0100, Llewellan wrote: I have just installed Gimp 2.8 and really, really like it except upon opening an image to work on, Gimp really discolors it. This so spoils the original. Which platform? Linux Ubuntu? Which version? One possible reason is to do with colour

Re: [Gimp-user] Want off the list

2013-03-03 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2013-03-03 at 12:37 -0800, Ari Yoder wrote: I would like off this list. How do I do that? If you can do that, please do so at your earliest convenience. Thanks . . . You can no longer unsubscribe directly; instead, you must now use the Export dialogue to become a Previous Subscriber.

Re: [Gimp-user] Commercial use of GIMP

2013-03-11 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 21:31 +0100, Krzysiek Olak wrote: Dear support GIMP, Can I use GIMP commercially? To make sure you get a clear answer... GIMP can be used commercially, yes. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books:

Re: [Gimp-user] How to flatten images of book page

2013-03-21 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 16:35 +0100, Mario Valle wrote: The new cage tool is fantastic to solve the following problem, but I need suggestions how to be more effective. I take a photo with the smartphone of a book page. I need two hands for this. Don't forget that you probably also have

Re: [Gimp-user] Install Issues

2013-03-31 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2013-03-31 at 18:47 +0200, Bunky67 wrote: Is this gimp 2.8 not able to be used on my machine Possibly not under Windows XP; depending on the system it may work fine on the same machine but under a GNU/Linux™ operating environment, for example. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead,

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate image gest squashed

2013-04-09 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2013-04-09 at 18:58 +0200, Dunkgrease wrote: That is exactly what I am doing. But the image is squashed. If you take a tall thin image and rotate it you will get a short wide image. If this is not what you expect, or you are trying to do something different, you'll have to explain

Re: [Gimp-user] Scripting Gimp's Hue-Saturation tool's overlap?

2013-04-12 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 05:46 -0600, Sam Bizzell wrote: Thanks Kevin! I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out another way to simulate the overlap behavior, sure haven't been able to come up with anything yet. Do you have any suggestions, or know where I could look for the answer? I also

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP Site Redesign

2013-04-12 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 11:22 -0700, Tom Williams wrote: On 04/12/2013 10:41 AM, Sam Gleske wrote: We live in an age of high resolution monitors. Higher resolution images would be good to take advantage of that. High resolution monitors might be frequently installed but many people

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP Site Redesign

2013-04-12 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 18:02 -0400, Kasim Ahmic wrote: As for the CSS, I'm attempting to get it to pass W3C specs but it's proving difficult for whatever reason. I'll keep trying though. If validator.nu or the W3C validator is complaining about prefixed properties, check with caniuse.com maybe,

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP Site Redesign

2013-04-18 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2013-04-18 at 20:51 -0400, Sam Gleske wrote: On Apr 18, 2013, at 8:39 PM, Liam R E Quin l...@holoweb.net wrote: Why not? Hey, Julie, do you have the download link for gimp? Yeah, it's... uh... I can't find it I wanted to run gimp on my iPad.. That's my point. GIMP doesn't run

Re: [Gimp-user] Which is the best book about Gimp?

2013-04-24 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 20:13 +0200, marciomendonsa wrote: Hello Folks!! I read The Beginig Gimp - From Novice to professional and would like to learn more about Gimp! After that, which is the best Gimp book? Best is to use GIMP yourself for a while, to look on the Web, at the GIMP plugin

Re: [Gimp-user] making a plug-in (bridge 2 programs)

2013-04-29 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 04:40 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Vata-Raven wrote: There a few other videos showing off the bridge on youtube...not many. Granted CS2 is free... Except it isn't really :) CS2 is free as in zero dollars, but not free as in

Re: [Gimp-user] making a plug-in (bridge 2 programs)

2013-04-29 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 07:31 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Liam R E Quin l...@holoweb.net wrote: On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 04:40 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Vata-Raven wrote: There a few other videos showing off

Re: [Gimp-user] making a plug-in (bridge 2 programs)

2013-04-30 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 19:54 -0400, Kevin Cozens wrote: The GIMP plug-in needs to be able to obtain a list of textures available in the currently loaded DAZ scene, load the selected images in to GIMP, and have GIMP pass the modified image back to DAZ. Best bet would be to contact DAZ and see

Re: [Gimp-user] Selection Bug?

2013-05-06 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 16:43 -0400, Scott O'Nanski wrote: Here's the situation; I'm using GIMP 2.8.x I'm attempting to make a pressed letter effect with two layers. One layer is a text layer, the second layer (above the first) is a selection of the text from the first layer. I'm

Re: [Gimp-user] Folder display

2013-05-10 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 17:31 +0200, Shinnen wrote: Hi all, I would like to have Gimp open a specific folder (in my camera's SD card) and display thumbnails of the JPGs in that folder, so that I can click on the one I want to work on and have it open full size. Can this be done? Thanks, Since

Re: [Gimp-user] Dark Theme for GIMP?

2013-05-10 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2013-05-11 at 09:52 +0900, Jehan Pagès wrote: Hi, on various websites, you can see screenshots of GIMP with dark themes. There are quite a few dark themes that work with gimp today, at least on Linux - I have not tried other platforms. Any dark gtk+2 / gnome 2 theme for controls

Re: [Gimp-user] Dark Theme for GIMP?

2013-05-11 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2013-05-11 at 20:29 +0900, Jehan Pagès wrote: Ok. I remembered for instance years ago, when everybody started to make their personal website with broken html, most were dark because it seemed cooler. Then it was told that dark websites are harder to use/read and finally are not that

Re: [Gimp-user] Folder display

2013-05-11 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2013-05-11 at 13:05 -0700, Burnie West wrote: On 05/10/2013 09:31 AM, Liam R E Quin wrote: Linux is a registered trademark of Linux Torvalds um-m -- Linus Torvalds ? oops, silly typo there :-) Linus did own the trademark last time I checked. -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP 2.8x on Linux Debian Squeeze?

2013-05-12 Thread Liam R E Quin
tl;dr - see http://azul.m.iguel.net/Blog/?entrada=73 On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 09:06 +1000, Owen wrote: From: Henry W. Peters Does anyone on the list here, have any actual knowledge or experience building GIMP 2.8x on Linux Debian Squeeze? My current version of GIMP is 2.6.1. You can

Re: [Gimp-user] Using Ctrl + Scrollwheel to Zoom

2013-06-02 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2013-06-01 at 20:21 +0200, richardchiu wrote: I used to be able to use the shortcut of ctrl + scrollwheel to zoom around on the image I'm working on. Now I can't get this shortcut to work for me anymore. I tried reinstalling GIMP 2.8.4 with no luck. Control-mousewheel works here,

Re: [Gimp-user] A sad case of regression ?

2013-06-15 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 22:37 -0400, Helen wrote: The export feature could have been added without disabling the save as feature. Control-shift-e (export to) works like the old save as for non-xcf formats. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from

Re: [Gimp-user] How to colorize image

2013-06-16 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 04:11 +0200, tipiyano wrote: Hi, I am having trouble colorizing a greyscale image. Note that the first step is to change the image mode to RGB (go to the Image menu and select Mode, then RGB). If this isn't it, you'll need to give us more details - exactly what did you

Re: [Gimp-user] How to colorize image

2013-06-16 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 04:45 +0200, tipiyano wrote: Thanks for your reply Liam. Sorry I didn't include enough information. I was just trying random things so didn't think it would be very helpful. In any case, I tried two different methods but neither worked: I tried (1) colours-invert,

Re: [Gimp-user] for me a sad case - xcf -file lost

2013-06-17 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 00:27 +0200, Uniklaps wrote: Is there anywhere a hidden place on my disk where GIMP save my work in the background (like Open Office) ?? Sadly, no. And: It would be great to have this restore-function in GIMP too when restartíng a hung-up GIMP. I agree. Right now

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