[Gimp-user] Scripting, toggles and accessing the application state

2016-09-30 Thread John Smith
Hello everybody, I am considering moving from Photoshop to The Gimp entirely. I did bend Photoshop to my needs and I master perfectly everything I need to master with this software. I am NOT a beginner in the world of image editing. Therefore, before starting the long and painful process of

Re: [Gimp-user] Use of Photoshop Tutorials with GIMP

2016-09-30 Thread Steve Kinney
On 09/29/2016 08:22 PM, Pat David wrote: > We have a couple of modern portrait tutorials as well: > > https://pixls.us/articles/an-open-source-portrait-mairi > https://pixls.us/articles/a-chiaroscuro-portrait > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 6:22 PM Steve Kinney

Re: [Gimp-user] Scripting, toggles and accessing the application state

2016-09-30 Thread Rick Strong
Ctrl + Z = Undo Ctrl + Y = Redo Hold down Ctrl and do a two-finger dance to toggle. Rick S. Question 3) As far as I understand it, it is not possible to have toggles at the moment. Ctrl z twice will cancel 2 actions instead of undoing and redoing the last action. Am I right? Cordialement,

[Gimp-user] BMP Image

2016-09-30 Thread pattyJ
Hello, I'm a newbie too, but have you tried Exporting it? From that dialog box you can choose Windows Bitmap (bmp). I'm afraid I don't know what indexes are in this context. Cheers, p@ttyJ >Hello everyone. > >100% Gimp beginner here as u gonna see in my question... :) > >How to save an

[Gimp-user] BMP Image

2016-09-30 Thread Ricardo10
Hello everyone. 100% Gimp beginner here as u gonna see in my question... :) How to save an image into BMP? ant then make it indexed? Thanks to whom may Reply. -- Ricardo10 (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List

[Gimp-user] open .png shows a checkered background

2016-09-30 Thread moderation
ah figured it out. indexed. -- moderation (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) ___ 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:

[Gimp-user] open .png shows a checkered background

2016-09-30 Thread moderation
hi when i open a .png file that has a white background it shows the pic with a checkered background in gimp. this is not normal for the program when opening .png or other pic formats. what causes this and how can i add a background? thanks. -- moderation (via www.gimpusers.com/forums)

[Gimp-user] open .png shows a checkered background

2016-09-30 Thread moderation
i forgot to mention a few other points. when i preview the .png image before i open it in gimp it show a small pic and it has the checkered background when the pic in opened in gimp and i add a new layer and set the foreground and background color to white then select all in the new layer and use

[Gimp-user] Colors change on export to JPG

2016-09-30 Thread Akhenaaten
Hello, I did some simple alterations (straighten and autocrop) to an image from a 35mm scan saved in JPG with a sRGB IEC61966-2.1 color profile. When I export the altered image to JPG, the color is not the same anymore. The dark greenish tones become more like red or brown. Given that I use mac

Re: [Gimp-user] BMP Image

2016-09-30 Thread Steve Kinney
Do control+e to open the Export menu, type in a file name ending in .bmp, and click the magic button... I was not aware that .bmp images can be indexed; the most common indexed format is .gif. Depending on the number of colors in the .bmp image, .gif may give acceptable results and a much

Re: [Gimp-user] Scripting, toggles and accessing the application state

2016-09-30 Thread Simon Budig
Rick Strong (rnstr...@primus.ca) wrote: > Ctrl + Z = Undo > Ctrl + Y = Redo > Hold down Ctrl and do a two-finger dance to toggle. This is unfortunately not true for german kezboards... Bye, Simon -- si...@budig.de http://simon.budig.de/

Re: [Gimp-user] BMP Image

2016-09-30 Thread Steve Kinney
On 09/30/2016 06:22 PM, Steve Kinney wrote: > Do control+e to open the Export menu, type in a file name ending in > .bmp, and click the magic button... > > I was not aware that .bmp images can be indexed; the most common indexed > format is .gif. Depending on the number of colors in the .bmp

[Gimp-user] BMP Image

2016-09-30 Thread Ricardo10
>Read the docs and you will soon know more than me: For instance, I >just >went poking around and found out that the GIF format uses LZW >compression. Just converting to an indexed format would not compress >an >image /nearly/ as much as doing that /then/ squashing it with LZW. > >But not

[Gimp-user] BMP Image

2016-09-30 Thread Ricardo10
>Hello, > >I'm a newbie too, but have you tried Exporting it? From that dialog >box you can choose Windows Bitmap (bmp). I'm afraid I don't know what >indexes are in this context. > >Cheers, >p@ttyJ Thanks Patty..I did use the Export option..but that's where i got lost.maybe a did

Re: [Gimp-user] Scripting, toggles and accessing the application state

2016-09-30 Thread Ofnuts
On 30/09/16 10:56, John Smith wrote: Question 1) Can I add a layer mask, make it active, add some noise, blur the thing, get a selection from a previously saved alpha channel and all that sort of things through scripts. Don't tell me how, I just want to know if I can do it. Yes Question 2)

Re: [Gimp-user] BMP Image

2016-09-30 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Sat, 2016-10-01 at 00:55 +0200, Ricardo10 wrote: > "The trick with using Gimp, is that when you are finished >  you need to set the skin to BMP > and then select (on the menu bar) "Image/Mode/mode/Indexed" > and then save the file. It will now be in the correct format for the > game." >   >