Re: [Gimp-user] How to input multiple lines of text onto seperate photos

2017-03-15 Thread Rick Strong
Yes, it would be nice if GIMP had simple a scripting language. I.E. "Get text from here. "Format it. "Place it here. Rick S. -Original Message- From: TeddyRuxpinBear Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 7:07 PM To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org Cc: notificati...@gimpusers.com Subject:

[Gimp-user] Brush icons and color picker are blue and difficult to see

2017-03-15 Thread usr238
>Have a look at the bottom right of that image you posted > >See the word "Basic"? > >Try changing that may or may not fix it > > > >Owen It just gave me a filter, splatters, basic, media etc There was an option to edit the brush in gimp, I picked a brush at random to edit and it looks fine, no

Re: [Gimp-user] why autocrop layer would not cut all the blanks?

2017-03-15 Thread Ofnuts
On 15/03/17 19:53, bsmile wrote: Three questions, (1) can I group the layers together and then request autocrop? right now, I seem to have to merge layers to be one to request autocrop. But that prevents me from the ability to do changes as needed. (2) After I merge to just a single layer,

Re: [Gimp-user] Brush icons and color picker are blue and difficult to see

2017-03-15 Thread Owen Cook
> > I just installed linux with a fresh copy of gimp. The brush icons and color > picker among other things are dark blue here is a link that shows the problem > > http://i.imgur.com/8ALjVRE.jpg > Have a look at the bottom right of that image you posted See the word "Basic"? Try changing

[Gimp-user] can anybody help me to get rid of the white background of a layer?

2017-03-15 Thread bsmile
>First an explanation as to why you will run into problems trying to >adjust your 3 layers. > >The background layer has both alpha (transparency) and pixels locked. >You might have done this to fix the layer location. That is not their >purpose. Easy to click on the icons and unlock. see

[Gimp-user] Brush icons and color picker are blue and difficult to see

2017-03-15 Thread rich2005
>I just installed linux with a fresh copy of gimp. The brush icons and >color picker among other things are dark blue here is a link that >shows the problem > >http://i.imgur.com/8ALjVRE.jpg > >How to fix it? Never seen anything like that before and I have run Gimp in several flavours of linux

[Gimp-user] can anybody help me to get rid of the white background of a layer?

2017-03-15 Thread rich2005
>Thanks for the clear explanation. I have followed both your ways to >fix the issue. Actually it seems skipping creating a new layer from >visible also works, just unlock the lowest layer which I have no idea >when locked, and then merge till the last, then remove the alpha >channel, that seems to

[Gimp-user] Problems Opening 2.8.20

2017-03-15 Thread LeccyD
>* LeccyD [03-14-17 15:41]: >did you merge or flatten layers before saving? >I only see any version of windows on someone else's box and haven't >had >gimp there for years and much has changed. sorry. Wow, that's just strange, Patrick, because what you said worked. I

[Gimp-user] can anybody help me to get rid of the white background of a layer?

2017-03-15 Thread rich2005
>I am a total newbie of using gimp. I tried to combine three plots into >a figure, but got the first plot having white background. Is there way >to remove the white background and then merge all the layers into one, >and then fill the background with white? Thanks, First an explanation as to why

[Gimp-user] Brush icons and color picker are blue and difficult to see

2017-03-15 Thread usr238
I just installed linux with a fresh copy of gimp. The brush icons and color picker among other things are dark blue here is a link that shows the problem http://i.imgur.com/8ALjVRE.jpg How to fix it? -- usr238 (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) ___

[Gimp-user] can anybody help me to get rid of the white background of a layer?

2017-03-15 Thread bsmile
I am a total newbie of using gimp. I tried to combine three plots into a figure, but got the first plot having white background. Is there way to remove the white background and then merge all the layers into one, and then fill the background with white? Thanks, Attachments: *

[Gimp-user] Brush icons and color picker are blue and difficult to see

2017-03-15 Thread usr238
>Never seen anything like that before and I have run Gimp in several >flavours of linux over many years. > >What version of linux? Which desktop environment? Which desktop >theme? For good measure which version of Gimp? > >rich: www.gimp-forum.net sudo uname -a Linux odroid-jessie 3.10.104+ #1

[Gimp-user] why would the input png automatically get blurred?

2017-03-15 Thread bsmile
The xcf should reproduce the issue. Just delete the existing layer from layer->delete layer, and then file->open as layers to import the attached png file, and you will see the figure gets blurred. Quite weird, is it? Also another question is, what's the use of "new from visible"? It seems it

[Gimp-user] why autocrop layer would not cut all the blanks?

2017-03-15 Thread bsmile
Three questions, (1) can I group the layers together and then request autocrop? right now, I seem to have to merge layers to be one to request autocrop. But that prevents me from the ability to do changes as needed. (2) After I merge to just a single layer, it seems autocrop can crop the

Re: [Gimp-user] why would the input png automatically get blurred?

2017-03-15 Thread Michael Schumacher
On 03/15/2017 08:10 PM, bsmile wrote: > The xcf should reproduce the issue. Just delete the existing layer from > layer->delete layer, and then file->open as layers to import the attached png > file, and you will see the figure gets blurred. Quite weird, is it? The image is in indexed colors

[Gimp-user] why would the input png automatically get blurred?

2017-03-15 Thread bsmile
>The image is in indexed colors mode. Use Image > Mode to switch to >RGB. >It is a very fast way to create a new layer from exactly what's >visible >in the image as a whole. This is useful if you want to reuse the >current >result in another image, for example. Thanks, after change the mode, the

Re: [Gimp-user] Problems Opening 2.8.20

2017-03-15 Thread Michael Schumacher
On 03/15/2017 11:43 AM, LeccyD wrote: > So the process of creating a jpg file compresses the original even though you > are not saving your original as a jpg file! I thought that was what saving it > as > a jpg file was for! Not changing the original! Well I've learnt my lesson and > a > big