Re: [Gimp-user] extract a reasonably dark image from its background?

2012-02-06 Thread Kasim Ahmic
What you could do is go to Color > Color To Alpha > Change the color to white. That should remove all the white. ~ Kasim Sent from my iPod On Feb 6, 2012, at 1:46 AM, GimpDummy wrote: > Hi How does anybody know how I extract a reasonably dark image from its > background? > > Below are two id

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.6.12 installer for Windows

2012-02-06 Thread Cristian Secară
În data de Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:45:14 +0100, finlander a scris: > Anyone else having trouble with 2.6.12 on WIN XP Service Pack 3? I installed now 2.6.12 over 2.6.11, without reinstalling the old one, but before installing I deleted the user data directory (.gimp-2.6 and .thumbnails). Starts ok a

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.6.12 installer for Windows

2012-02-06 Thread Cristian Secară
În data de Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:02:04 +0200, Cristian Secară a scris: > I installed now 2.6.12 over 2.6.11, without reinstalling the old one, ... sorry, I mean without UNinstaling the old one. Cristi -- Cristian Secară http://www.secarica.ro ___ gimp-u

Re: [Gimp-user] extract a reasonably dark image from its background?

2012-02-06 Thread Kevin Cozens
On 12-02-06 01:46 AM, GimpDummy wrote: So I just want to paste the image from the links below onto a light blue business card if that is possible. http://www.divshare.com/download/16727822-d94 It is easy to remove the white background in the image. Right click the image, then select Layer ->

Re: [Gimp-user] extract a reasonably dark image from its background?

2012-02-06 Thread James
I'd recommend doing Color > Levels first, then making sure the black is as black as you want. Otherwise if it's dark gray (not quite black), that will translate to partially-transparent when you do the Color to Alpha. You could also do Color > Levels and adjust alpha layer after. Either way. -J

Re: [Gimp-user] extract a reasonably dark image from its background?

2012-02-06 Thread Frank Gore
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:39 AM, James wrote: > Otherwise if it's dark gray (not quite > black), that will translate to partially-transparent when you do the > Color to Alpha. Isn't that a good thing? Then you get a soft edge that blends well on other backgrounds rather than a hard edge that look

[Gimp-user] 2.6.12 installer for Windows

2012-02-06 Thread GreenWhite
>I have not been able to get a good install of 2.6.12 on Win XP Service Pack 3. >Neither the stable installer nor the unstable installer will work. >Both installs result in the immediate error message when starting GIMP after >the install. I am doing perfectly clean installs, even scrubbing the

[Gimp-user] Misleading reply to a FAQ for installing a GIMP2.6 Windows 7-32 executable

2012-02-06 Thread urbite
>On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:09:34 +, Rene Grognard wrote: >> I simply cannot understand why GIMP does not look first into its own >> version in ProgramFiles\GIMP-2.0\bin which of course it finds once the >> Windows version is renamed. >Because the DLL search path in Windows is roughly "executa

[Gimp-user] Gimp-2.7 Help/Manual?

2012-02-06 Thread gerard82
>Try > http://docs.gimp.org/2.7/en/index.html >On 2/5/2012 11:40 AM, gerard82 wrote: >> I compiled Gimp-2.7.x from git sources. >> There are things in brush Tool Options not very clear to me. >> Is there any Help/Manual available for this version? >> If so where can I find it? >> Thanks in advan

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.7 Help/Manual?

2012-02-06 Thread Olivier
Define your own paint dynamics, with a box checked in the Color row and the Pressure column. 2012/2/6 gerard82 : >>Try >>   http://docs.gimp.org/2.7/en/index.html > >>On 2/5/2012 11:40 AM, gerard82 wrote: >>> I compiled Gimp-2.7.x from git sources. >>> There are things in brush Tool Options not ve

[Gimp-user] Gimp-2.7 Help/Manual?

2012-02-06 Thread gerard82
>Define your own paint dynamics, with a box checked in the Color row >and the Pressure column. >2012/2/6 gerard82 : >>>Try >>> Your talking about 2.6. Gerard. -- gerard82 (via gimpusers.com) ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org htt

[Gimp-user] extract a reasonably dark image from its background?

2012-02-06 Thread GimpDummy
>What you could do is go to Color > Color To Alpha > Change the color to white. Thanks the "to Color > Color To Alpha > " worked. -- GimpDummy (via gimpusers.com) ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/

[Gimp-user] extract a reasonably dark image from its background?

2012-02-06 Thread GimpDummy
Replying to all at once here: It is easy to remove the white background in the image. Right click the image, then select Layer -> Transparency -> Colour to Alpha... then click OK. . Kevin. GimpDummy: Thanks Kevin that worked too. I am looking at the option to colourfy. Do you

[Gimp-user] extract a reasonably dark image from its background?

2012-02-06 Thread GimpDummy
Well I have succeeded in removing white or background colours, but that still means that I see the image with those ugly charcoal and black squares underneath. More importantly, when I create a nice light turquoise layer and paste the image on there, the nice light turquoise colour c

Re: [Gimp-user] extract a reasonably dark image from its background?

2012-02-06 Thread James
Your email is formatted strangely. Hard to read. I think this is a good reason to do levels first. Without doing levels, you get a semi-transparent black, and the background shows through. Before levels: http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m171/rocketmonkeys/1-beforelevels.png After levels: htt

[Gimp-user] extract a reasonably dark image from its background?

2012-02-06 Thread GimpDummy
Thanks James I will have a good look at that after I get a quick bite. Currently Vistaprint is telling me I have a pixel problem. See next post. -- GimpDummy (via gimpusers.com) ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnom

Re: [Gimp-user] extract a reasonably dark image from its background?

2012-02-06 Thread Owen
> Your email is formatted strangely. Hard to read. > > I think this is a good reason to do levels first. Alternatively change the mode to indexed and 2 levels. Then change it back to rgb -- Owen ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome

[Gimp-user] extract a reasonably dark image from its background?

2012-02-06 Thread GimpDummy
There is a new development which is more easily explained here on this screenshot: http://www.divshare.com/download/16734472-6d9 This is the actual card size and appearance that I would be happy with: http://www.divshare.com/download/16727868-e64 but for some weird reason Vistaprint's

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.7 Help/Manual?

2012-02-06 Thread Olivier
No, I'm talking about 2.8 (or 2.7 from git sources). In 2.6 you cannot define your own paint dynamics. 2012/2/6 gerard82 : >>Define your own paint dynamics, with a box checked in the Color row >>and the Pressure column. > >>2012/2/6 gerard82 : Try > Your talking about 2.6. > Gerard. > > -

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.7 Help/Manual?

2012-02-06 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:59 PM, gerard82 wrote: > In 2.6 you can click "Use color from gradient". > This has gone from 2.7.x! Moved, not gone. Create a new paint dynamics definition, map Color to Fade, in brush settings choose a gradient. Then try it on canvas :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://li

Re: [Gimp-user] extract a reasonably dark image from its background?

2012-02-06 Thread Owen
> There is a new development which is more easily explained here on this > screenshot: http://www.divshare.com/download/16734472-6d9 > > This is the actual card size and appearance that I would be happy > with: http://www.divshare.com/download/16727868-e64 > > but for some weird reason Vistaprint