Re: [Gimp-user] Why I went back from GIMP 2.8 to 2.6.x
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 6:01 AM, Olivier oleca...@gmail.com wrote: About this point, please refer to the hundreds of mails already exchanged about the matter, and please really try the new behavior, without assuming bad thinking from the developers. I read all the emails about this. And I've been trying... I've spent weeks trying to get used to this new way of doing things. And yet every single day, I get nailed by it yet again. And every time I do, I scream out loud in frustration. It's the single-most aggravating new feature of Gimp. I despise it to no end. That one feature is almost enough to make me want to downgrade to Gimp 2.6, just as many others have done. A few more screams, and I just might. -- Frank Gore THE place to talk photography! www.FriendlyPhotoZone.com ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Adjusting Colors But Not Whites
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Ofnuts ofn...@laposte.net wrote: - make sure you have an alpha channel - use Colors/Color to alpha to make the white completely transparent - insert a white layer below: you now have the same icon but split on two layers - select the layer with the remaining blue icon - at top of the layer list, check the alpha-lock box:painting on the layer will not change the transparency of the pixels. - paint that layer in any color you wish (you can even bucket-fill the whole layer) That worked perfectly, thank you. -- Frank Gore THE place to talk photography! www.FriendlyPhotoZone.com ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Easter question..
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:49 PM, luigi luigi.dub...@gmail.com wrote: my first time here, question: i don't understand which is the last version of GIMP,verified and without bugs,for MAC| i have the 2.6,but i have read on the site,there the 2.8 CR.is it available for mac? 2.8 RC is a Release Candidate. It might still have annoying bugs, but is considered stable enough to get the RC tag. It's what the developers hope to release as a final version, barring any major bugs that get found. Oficially, 2.6 is still the latest stable release. -- Frank Gore THE place to talk photography! www.FriendlyPhotoZone.com ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Web development question?
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Kevin Cozens ke...@ve3syb.ca wrote: If you are using some fancy features on a web page it may not be as easy to have the same level of compatability across multiple browsers on multiple operating systems without some conditional code but the amount of browser specific checks should be kept to a minimum. Right, it's not like these new-fangled standards like HTML5 can possibly have any positive effect on a user's experience. Let's all cripple our work in an effort to support old, unmaintained, insecure browsers. In fact, we should ENCOURAGE users to continue using old, unmaintained, insecure browsers. It's the only responsible thing to do. Good plan! New, interactive features? Who needs 'em?!? /sarcasm -- Frank Gore THE place to talk photography! www.FriendlyPhotoZone.com ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Web development question?
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Xiella Harksell xie...@gmail.com wrote: As a point of difference :) I find myself tending to save the majority of my images (in terms of developing the site - stripes, decorations, non-content stuff) as PNGs. You're not the only one, the vast majority of professional web designers use PNGs as a flexible way of displaying images in browsers. The last browser I know of that didn't support PNG files properly was IE6... and can we count how many years old that is? -- Frank Gore THE place to talk photography! www.FriendlyPhotoZone.com ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Use GIMP for commercial / business purposes?
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Daniel Smith opened...@gmail.com wrote: Have there been lawsuits or fines regarding open source cases though? It's funny, for all the times I've heard of for example Microsoft or Adobe or whoever being involved in these evaluations of businesses where they check for licenses etc, and massive levies afterward, (whether the stories were real or created) I've never heard of any open source lawsuits or snares. Just wondering what you meant by testing your luck. Yes, the GPL has been tested in many courts. There are a few examples on the GPL Wikipedia page. Many of the decisions were handed down as judgments, not just as settlements between parties. -- Frank Gore THE place to talk photography! www.FriendlyPhotoZone.com ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Use GIMP for commercial / business purposes?
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Kekko for...@gimpusers.com wrote: Do you mean it is possible to sell GIMP itself? Can I put an item GIMP sw in an invoice? I' don't think it is possible or am I wrong? Yes, you are wrong. You can charge money for distributing Gimp. As long as either: a) you haven't modified it or b) if you have modified it, you can provide all the source code (including modifications) for free or a reasonable cost (ie. at no profit) Anyone can distribute GPL'd software for a fee. It's just not a very successful business model most of the time. -- Frank Gore THE place to talk photography! www.FriendlyPhotoZone.com ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] ICC Profiles: UFRaw + GIMP = 2x correction?
That's only true if you are assigning a color profile, but if you convert to a profile that is a correction and doing it twice is likely to result in an over-correction. Only if you first assign (incorrectly) and THEN convert. If the proper ICC profile is assigned in the first place, converting to that same profile accomplishes nothing. In Gimp 2.6.11, I have options set so that I always get asked what profile to use if it doesn't matching the working space. And the available options when it asks always include the file's embedded profile if it's present. I do not agree with this. Color management, when done properly, is a good an useful thing and in most cases will ensure better results than not doing it. Especially if the source file is not sRGB which might easily be the case, because there are many cameras that can produce images with AdobeRGB for example. I didn't say color management was bad practice. What I said was color management was not for the OP based on the question he asked. Color management done wrong serves no purpose other than to confuse users and create files that are frustrating for others to work with. If you don't know why you need color management, you shouldn't do it and should just stick to the default (usually sRGB) throughout the entire workflow. Also, larger colour spaces like AdobeRGB are mostly useless in 8-bit. You just end up with a wider gamut that has broader steps between shades (ie. banding on smooth gradients). All those cameras that have an AdobeRGB JPG option actually generate very inferior results than would be achieved with proper color management throughout the RAW workflow. After seeing what my camera did to my pictures in AdobeRGB, I learned to turn that feature off and stick to either RAW files or sRGB JPGs. Last I checked, Gimp still processes images at 8 bpp. -- Frank Gore THE place to talk photography! www.FriendlyPhotoZone.com Peter -- Frank Gore THE place to talk photography! www.FriendlyPhotoZone.com ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] ICC Profiles: UFRaw + GIMP = 2x correction?
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Gary Aitken ga...@dreamchaser.org wrote: I have a question regarding the use of ICC profiles in UFRaw + GIMP. If I load an image into UFRaw and specify an ICC profile for my camera, then output a .tiff image, that image is color-corrected. At least that is my assumption... Now, if I load the .tiff image into GIMP, and again specify an ICC profile for the camera, the image is corrected again, I think. Which amounts to over-correction. Correct? ICC is not a correction. It is a profile. It tells the application how to interpret the colours that are encoded in the file. If you specify an ICC profile in UFraw, that profile gets saved into the image file, and Gimp uses that profile information when it opens the image file. If you re-specify a new ICC profile within Gimp after you've opened the image, you're not over-correcting anything, you're just doing an extra useless step that results in nothing happening. In your case, I'd say you've got absolutely no reason whatsoever to be doing colour management. Sticking to standard sRGB for your entire workflow would be entirely acceptable and would give you the best results. -- Frank Gore THE place to talk photography! www.FriendlyPhotoZone.com ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Tablet
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Erica Benet anime_fan1...@yahoo.com wrote: I downloaded Gimp and have a tablet plugged it, but anytime I try to make say a line using the tablet, nothing appears. The tablet is on and working. The only way now I can make a line is by using the mouse. Please help. Brand and model of tablet? Type and version of operating system? Version of Gimp? -- Frank Gore THE place to talk photography! www.FriendlyPhotoZone.com ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Fix Orientation ?
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote: What is the proper way, using gimp, to correct the orientation of an image? Image - Rotate - XX Clockwise/Counter-clockwise, etc -- Frank Gore THE place to talk photography! www.FriendlyPhotoZone.com ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Photoshop vs Gimp for mobile dev?
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: Only if you mean DCRaw. Because UFRaw development pretty much stagnated. Two releases in last two years. Compare that to ACR. Yeah, the current version of UFraw is pretty far behind. Gimp does not make use of dcraw directly, it uses UFraw. And since dcraw is not a library, UFraw doesn't benefit from updates to dcraw unless they keep up with releases. UFraw currently barely supports my 2-year-old Pentax K-x, it's pretty pathetic. -- Frank Gore THE place to talk photography! www.FriendlyPhotoZone.com ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Photoshop vs Gimp for mobile dev?
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote: Anyway, I just now went and resarched it and found that the Lumix cameras produce their raw images into something called .RW2 files. Might be worth checking if it can also generate .DNG files. All of my Pentax cameras from the last 3 years (K-7, K-x, K-5) have the option of creating either Pentax-specific RAW files (.PEF) or .DNG RAW files. The .DNGs are pretty standardized and can be processed by most RAW processing software regardless of camera-specific support. The only issues you'll come across is that sometimes the extra pixels on some edges of the frame won't be automatically cropped out if your specific camera model isn't supported. -- Frank Gore THE place to talk photography! www.FriendlyPhotoZone.com ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Photoshop vs Gimp for mobile dev?
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote: But I also learned that there is a free DNG Converter utility available on the adobe.com site, an I just downloaded a copy of it, so I'll have it later on, just in case. The bad news? Of course, it is only available for Windoze and Mac. :-( Oh well. Better than nothing if I can't get Gimp+DCRaw+UFRaw to work for any reason. http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/373 I've used Digikam for my photo collections for years. -- Frank Gore THE place to talk photography! www.FriendlyPhotoZone.com ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] An introduction and some questions
It's pretty straightforward when it comes to the GPL. You can distribute the compiled software all you want either at no cost or for a price. What you can't do is make changes to it and then distribute it without making those changes available to everyone in source code form. Whatever you distribute must also be made available in source code form, either for free or for a reasonable cost (ie. the cost of making a CD and mailing it). You also can't incorporate any changes that make it incompatible with the GPL, which means any changes you make must not include code that is licensed under an incompatible license (ie. proprietary code). Since the source code for Gimp is easily available already, anyone can distribute the unmodified software and just include a link to the official source code online. Technically, the link is already there in the software. No costs involved, and full compliance with the GPL. -- Frank Gore www.ProjectPontiac.com ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
