Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.8.2, wheezy install

2016-07-23 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
ws from my own personal experience" but others use "not intuitive" to mean "I don't like it" or "I don't understand it". GIMP will prompt you in most cases before giving up and rendering a text layer to a bitmap. It's likely that this behaviour can be

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.8.2, wheezy install

2016-07-25 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
the little up-arrow to the right of the number, and see if making the font larger makes it work. I hope this helps. Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail

Re: [Gimp-user] Tile Cache Size

2016-08-10 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Wed, 2016-08-10 at 15:49 -0700, Alan Huntley wrote: > Currently running 2.8.18 under OS X 10.11.6 with 8GB memory and I > can't set the Tile Cache Size larger than 4GB. Is this a restriction > whereby this cache size cannot be larger than 50% of physical RAM? No. Are you on a 32-bit system? __

Re: [Gimp-user] Remove shine

2016-08-20 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
ee if the details can be recovered. If it's reflections not from the insect's carapace but from glass, a polarizing filter on the lens may help. They are available for a wide variety of cameras. Or, use a piece of black card to shade the glass from the

Re: [Gimp-user] Remove shine

2016-08-21 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Sat, 2016-08-20 at 11:11 +, David Holland wrote: > Thank you both for your answersIf you copy this URL can you see it?  > Yahoo mail is a bit tricky > "www.flickr.com/photos/14586608@N08/29025064471/in/dateposted- > public/" Yes. > I have thought about using flash off camera but I am worri

Re: [Gimp-user] BMP Image

2016-09-30 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
quot;Indexed" mode, GIMP will export as 8- bit indexed. If prompted, you probably do want the option to use run- length encoding. Liam [ankh] -- Liam R. E. Quin On the Internet no-one can hear your chains rattle. ___ gimp-user-list mailing list L

Re: [Gimp-user] How to Open Pdf File?

2016-10-04 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
ard in GIMP :-) You can try opening your file in sk1 or in inkscape. Best would be if you said exactly what you're trying to do, so people can give appropriate advice instead of guessing. Best, Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin ___ gimp-user-list mailing l

Re: [Gimp-user] Can't open extremely large .PNG

2016-10-12 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Wed, 2016-10-12 at 10:08 +0200, Deixis wrote: > Does anyone know any tricks on how to resize extremely large images? > I can't > even open this computer generated .PNG. I'm going to guess you are using a Linux system in this answer. Life is too short for me to try telepathy. If you run the fi

Re: [Gimp-user] Can't open extremely large .PNG

2016-10-13 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Thu, 2016-10-13 at 01:42 +0200, Deixis wrote: > >  > Oh my gosh I'm sorry, I forgot that Gimp is released on more than > just Windows. It's OK, but giving information about your system is really really important when asking for help with software crashes. > Yeah, I run in on Windows 10. I do h

Re: [Gimp-user] quick discussion about new feature

2016-10-15 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Sat, 2016-10-15 at 01:09 +0200, black-explorer wrote: > > > > Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-Shift-N > > Good answer. But I'm looking for a mouse solution (right click > mouse). Edit->Copy (control-c) Edit->paste (control-v) Layer->New (control-shift-N) > Remember we have more than 3 different input m

Re: [Gimp-user] Can't open extremely large .PNG

2016-10-15 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Sat, 2016-10-15 at 12:49 +0200, Deixis wrote: > >  > C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-7.0.3-Q16>magick identify 1.png > 1.png PNG 327168x325632 327168x325632+0+0 8-bit sRGB 1.0255GB 0.000u > 0:00.000 OK, so this will need approx. 400 gigabytes of swap space, maybe as much as twice that. If you wan

Re: [Gimp-user] Redesign "move selection"?

2016-10-20 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
nt situation isn't bad, and that there have been fewer complaints this way round, even though I can see it's not ideal. Liam [ankh] -- Liam R. E. Quin The best thing about being a slave is not having a mortgage to pay. Oh, wait... I'm doing this wrong.

Re: [Gimp-user] Importing PDF into Gimp 2.8.18

2016-10-20 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Thu, 2016-10-20 at 22:59 -0400, David Corbitt wrote: >  > https://filebin.net/vi1uxshq2x85hxwn/North_by_Northwest__1959_.pdf This made GIMP (2.9)'s pdf loader crash for me on Linux, but I could open the document ith eveince, print to a PDF file, and then open the PDF file. The stack trace was

Re: [Gimp-user] How to stop a filter from running

2016-10-27 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Fri, 2016-10-21 at 17:23 -0400, Rick Strong wrote: >  Too bad the filter > options  > dialogue doesn't open automatically beside where you are working. They do here. Is this under Linux? Which window manager / desktop environment? The GIMp that came with the distribution? Which version? Which d

Re: [Gimp-user] rotate pasted image

2016-10-27 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
x27;s a pain. So I think the workflow I've suggested may be easiest. Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin Words and Pictures From Old Books - http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership

Re: [Gimp-user] Image file format of the future?

2016-10-28 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
ce to add support to the colour pickers for the newer CSS syntax(es) for colours, but that's still evolving right now. Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin Words and Puctures From Old Books - http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List

Re: [Gimp-user] unwanted watermark

2016-10-28 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Fri, 2016-10-28 at 18:52 +0200, Kenn wrote: > Gimp is placing an unwanted watermark on some of my images.  > > (see screen shot example) > > Any idea what causes this? A virus? Which virus? Guessing you use Microsoft Windows since youy didn't say :-) You could run a virus scan. but more like

Re: [Gimp-user] Replace Gold Splotches

2016-11-16 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
//www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/325/original/icm_fullxf > ull.107043823_salut2fnu0go0cks8www.jpg > -- Liam R. E. Quin ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailma

Re: [Gimp-user] Trying to remove fading from old b&w photo

2016-11-22 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
d use file->open as layers to bring in the 2nd, and experiment with different layer modes or with making the top layer 50% opaque, in the Layers dockable dialogue thingy. Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin http://www.fromoldbooks.org - words an dpictures from old books __

Re: [Gimp-user] Any plans to improve TIF support?

2016-11-26 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Wed, 2016-11-23 at 22:54 +0100, rpdayton wrote: > [...] > If GIMP has a 48K (or whatever the number is) upper limit on pixel > count, that > is fine, I'll withdraw the bug report, as it is not actually > something broken, and I will try not to assume :) It appears to be unrelated to TIFF images

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP not remembering Fonts

2016-12-02 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 19:00 +0100, MAD_King wrote: > Hello, > > when I create a text and use a font, save the file, close and re-open > it, it > does not remember the font which was used. It always shows either > "Sans"  or no font. What is "it" here eactly? Do you mean the on-canvas text widget

Re: [Gimp-user] Help With OSX El Capitan

2016-12-02 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
e to load a 4.1G xcf file (GIMP said the file was corrupt). But (1) I'm on Linux and (2) GIMP 2.8 starts in 3 seconds, and (3) I have 32G of RAM. Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.o

Re: [Gimp-user] Scanner/Camera menu item not available

2017-04-09 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Sat, 2017-01-28 at 15:19 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > > > Install XSane? > > That said, XSane was last updated in 2013, and it's unclear if it's > even compatible with GIMP 2.8. Seems to work fine here. > API changes in

Re: [Gimp-user] tips on working with gigantic files?

2017-05-05 Thread Liam R E Quin
here if you need it. I work with large images all the time - e.g. scanning A3/tabloid at 2400dpi - although the layer mask will considerably increase the amount of memory needed. Liam (ankh on IRC) -- Liam R E Quin Web slave at www.fromoldbooks.org - Words and Pictures from Old Books __

Re: [Gimp-user] File size too large

2017-05-08 Thread Liam R E Quin
surprised :) (depending on how your system is configured). It's changed. The exact result you get will also depend on how you "convert" to 144dpi - whether you just change the dpi metadata in the image or whether your image program inserts more pixels, but don't exp

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.8.22 is wacky

2017-05-27 Thread Liam R E Quin
editor. Hope this helps, Liam [slave ankh on IRC] -- Liam R E Quin ___ 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: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list

Re: [Gimp-user] When black and white is not black and white

2017-06-06 Thread Liam R E Quin
our spaces and gamma and precision and the purpose ("intent") of the conversion. The gegl c-to-g filter sometimes gets much better results than either the mono mixer or desaturating. Liam -- Liam R E Quin ankh on irc Web slave for fromoldbooks.org _

Re: [Gimp-user] Move tool locks; what's triggering it?

2017-06-14 Thread Liam R E Quin
rk? If you wait for 10 minutes or so, do you get "GIMP is not responding" popping up? It's possible it's just taking a very very long time. Moving an image-sized layer can mean loading the entire image into memory a piece at a time to update the on-screen preview. Liam -- Liam R

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling an image down without ruining the text

2017-06-15 Thread Liam R E Quin
add the text to the images using ImageMagick. Liam -- Liam R E Quin Web slave for fromoldbooks.org ___ 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: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list

Re: [Gimp-user] Is a high bit depth monitor worth getting? (was Re: emerge --emptytree : how to ?)

2017-10-20 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2017-10-20 at 12:30 -0400, Kevin Cozens wrote: > On 2017-10-20 12:01 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > I'm considering buying a new monitor (and graphics card) which > > supports > > 10 bits per color channel. > > Will Gimp on a Linux machine (X11) support this now or in the near > > future. >

Re: [Gimp-user] Does Gimp support more than 8 bits per color channel?

2017-10-24 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Fri, 2017-10-20 at 17:10 -0200, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: > > 8bits per color component is more than you eye can distinguish > already, so if these 10 bit components cost extra, don't go for them. Try a gradient from blue to white on a 1,000-pixel wide image and say you don't see banding. The an

Re: [Gimp-user] A question from a potential new user.

2017-11-03 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2017-11-03 at 22:10 +, Peter Prangley wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I use a Canon EOS 10D digital camera and have, up until now, saved my > pictures using Canon's RAW format (e.g. CRW_.CRW). RawTherapee and DarkTable can both process CRW files (as i understand it) and you can then edit t

Re: [Gimp-user] Auto Crop

2017-11-13 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2017-11-13 at 01:32 +0100, jorglueke wrote: > Is the automatic crop option supposed to work when you have an object > in front of a fairly standard background? No - it relies on the "background" being a solid colour all of exactly the same pixel value. It's best for automatically-generate

Re: [Gimp-user] Plugin Request: Voronoi

2018-01-19 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2018-01-19 at 00:21 -0500, Steve Kinney wrote: > > The original plugin registry page is in the Wayback Machine, and > includes source code (one always had to compile this one for use on > Linux systems, IIRC). > > https://tinyurl.com/voronoi-2005 > > Updating this code to compile a useab

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP License/Copyright Question

2018-02-09 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2018-02-06 at 20:31 +, Eric Sarver wrote: > I would like to know if files that I create with GIMP [...] will > remain under my property or ownership and that I can distribute > these characters/images under a copyrighted license to prohibit > others from using my work, in other words wh

Re: [Gimp-user] Question about fonts and XCF files

2018-03-06 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Thu, 2018-02-22 at 18:55 -0800, Tom Williams wrote: > If I send her the XCF file, will the fonts be embedded in it, No. > such that she > won't > have to have the fonts actually installed on her system or will the > XCF > contain references to the font, requiring her to have them installed >

Re: [Gimp-user] missing tool box

2018-03-29 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2018-03-29 at 21:46 +, Alan Larick via gimp-user-list wrote: > Please help me! I accidently Xclosed the toolbox on the right that > had layering info... How do I get it back? I already tried > uninstalling and reinstalling gimp program and the toolbox is still > gone. press the tab

Re: [Gimp-user] The GIMP opens in superuser mode

2018-04-05 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 20:42 -0400, Steve Kinney wrote: > > It /should/ be impossible for a program opened by a 'regular' user to > run in superuser mode, unless the regular user enters the root > password. It can happen if the program's binary is owned by the root user and is mode u+s (set-userid

Re: [Gimp-user] The GIMP opens in superuser mode

2018-04-05 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 23:40 -0400, Steve Kinney wrote: > > On 04/05/2018 09:41 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote: > > On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 20:42 -0400, Steve Kinney wrote: > > > > > > It /should/ be impossible for a program opened by a 'regular' > > >

Re: [Gimp-user] Pure black n white with smooth curves

2018-04-29 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2018-04-29 at 07:22 -0500, Frank Turk wrote: > If there was a way to extract the "K" layer in a "CMYK" > image, > it might be easier to grab just the black. You can use the separate+ plugin to do that, although what people think of as "pure black" for printing is not actually 0 in CMYK

Re: [Gimp-user] [Gimp-developer] Curious about GIMP-2.10 bugs on Windows

2018-05-11 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2018-05-11 at 14:32 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > it is available on openSUSE Tumbleweed and I have it installed. for > the > small uses I have made, it loads quicker than 2.8 and appears more > responsive. no crashes. some difficulty finding some actions, but > nothing major. Coo

Re: [Gimp-user] faded photo

2018-06-09 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2018-06-08 at 21:23 +0200, lkl316 wrote: > I have a kodacolor photo that was totally in color. It was unframed > and a > leaking roof left it totally washed out. It shows very faint color. > I s there > any technique using Gimp that can restore the color? Hard to tell without seeing it, b

Re: [Gimp-user] Captioned newspaper photo

2018-06-12 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2018-06-11 at 22:05 +0200, lkl316 wrote: > I have a captioned newspaper photo iI would like to clean up and make > a photo on > photo paper. It has some creases I would also like to repair. Has > anyone > attempted this and give me some guidance? i've done a lot of this, and there's even b

Re: [Gimp-user] Pencil tool won't work

2018-06-19 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2018-06-19 at 21:25 +0200, Mizemm wrote: > . Now, > when I select > the pencil, it won't do anything on the image. Check tool options. For example, you might have Mode set to "lighten only". Check which brush the pencil tool is using. Check the brush size in tool options, and the hardnes

Re: [Gimp-user] Layer groups seriously broken - huge resource hog

2018-06-19 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2018-06-19 at 17:13 +0200, BWK wrote: > I doubt you've ever tried doing a selection rectangle to that size > and getting > it exactly the right size and boundaries. It is a very slow and > fiddly operation. You can use tool options to fix the size in the rectangle select tool, and for that

Re: [Gimp-user] Quicker way to audition fonts?

2018-06-28 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2018-06-28 at 22:17 +0200, GerryPeters wrote: > The Aa is > really not enough Windows->Dockable Dialogues->Fonts or youcan get there with the aaa icon at the lower right of the "Aa" font list. -- slave ankh - web slave for https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ with fabulous vintage art and fas

Re: [Gimp-user] Quicker way to audition fonts?

2018-06-29 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2018-06-29 at 15:29 +0100, Greg Chapman via gimp-user-list wrote: > Hi Liam, > > On 29/06/18 01:49, Liam R E Quin wrote: > > On Thu, 2018-06-28 at 22:17 +0200, GerryPeters wrote: > > > The Aa is > > > really not enough > > > > Windows->D

Re: [Gimp-user] Image Capture

2018-06-29 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2018-06-28 at 23:34 +0200, atticus wrote: > Hi. Is there a simple method (not using inversion, etc) by which I > can create a > floating image of a book. I think what you are asking for is to make the background be plain black (or plain white). For the image you have i'd select the red reg

Re: [Gimp-user] Image Capture

2018-06-29 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2018-06-29 at 20:03 +0200, atticus wrote: > Because when I use the fuzzy tool it invariably selects some of the > book as well. That's OK, it did when i reied too, and i went back and tidied it up by subtracting from the selection with the freehand select tool. slave ankh -- Liam Quin -

Re: [Gimp-user] How to spice up my background colors

2018-06-30 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2018-06-30 at 06:09 +0200, GerryPeters wrote: > I'd like to add some variation to some of my backgrounds If you're comfortable with multiple layers you can use layer masks. Random noise, gradients, maybe filters/render/plasma, can all be useful. If you don't want to use layer masks, here'

Re: [Gimp-user] file conversion.

2018-07-24 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2018-07-21 at 08:56 +, Hans Monsma via gimp-user-list wrote: > Hail the reader > J have 2 requirements > > 1. To convert a normal jpeg to a black and white pic This is easy. You can use gimp, or most Linux distributions include ImageMagick and also the netpbm library of commands.

Re: [Gimp-user] Fixing wrinkled paper

2018-08-01 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2018-08-01 at 20:09 +0200, pihentagy wrote: > Hi all! > > My daugther's drawing became a bit ill (wrinkled). Can you point me > to a > tutorial where I can fix somehow this wrinkle? I'd try (1) use curves to brighten the highlights and get rid of most of the shadows; (2) use the erasor to

Re: [Gimp-user] Sinc (Lanczos3) Option

2018-08-05 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2018-08-05 at 11:13 -0700, Lisa D. via gimp-user-list wrote: > Hi! I would like to stretch/resize an image without distorting it. This depends on exactly what you mean by distorting it. By default GIMP will retain the aspect ratio of the original ratio, but maybe that's not what you meant?

Re: [Gimp-user] Sinc (Lanczos3) Option

2018-08-06 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2018-08-06 at 09:08 +0200, Jernej Simončič wrote: > On Mon, 06 Aug 2018 01:59:46 -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote: > > > It might be that archive.org has saved a copy, but i doubt it. > > GIMP 2.4 for Windows is available here: > <https://download.gimp.org/mirror/pub/

Re: [Gimp-user] transparent background becomes black

2018-08-06 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2018-08-06 at 16:54 +0200, Renate wrote: > i wasted all day trying everything, and at least 10 tutorials, to fix > this > error. transparent background saved in jpg or png becomes black. i > would really > appreciate any help First, only png supports transparency, not jpeg. Second, "becom

Re: [Gimp-user] Sinc (Lanczos3) Option

2018-08-08 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2018-08-08 at 17:14 -0700, Lisa D. via gimp-user-list wrote: > Thanks, everyone, for your help with this issue. I’m working with a > jpeg > that is 450x568 pixels @ 72 ppi/4.7x5.9”. I would like the dimensions > to be > 2.5” x 5.9”. Your primary choices are to make it wider and then scale

Re: [Gimp-user] Source of photos

2018-08-10 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2018-08-10 at 13:09 +, Gordon Caines wrote: > Hello: > > > In Lightroom I was able to have a "directory" to choose from such as > Vacation 2017, or Vacation 2018. > > The pictures in these folders were indexed down the left side of the > screen. Stored in a separate hard drive. In

Re: [Gimp-user] Invisable Text

2018-08-11 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2018-08-11 at 08:20 -0700, Bill Vance wrote: > > Howdy; > > I'm running Kubuntu 16.04 here, on an amd64 box, and just > upgraded to gimp 2.8.22. When I try to add text to a > picture, nothing happens. Use the text tool to draw a large rectangle. Make sure that the text colour in Tool

Re: [Gimp-user] How to export jpeg without loss of quality?

2018-08-13 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2018-08-13 at 01:04 +0200, Rodolfo Medina via gimp-user-list wrote: > > I'm > embedding that picture in a pdf file after converting into eps > format. [...] The picture is a photo, that > I have in its original jpg format..., 12MB big. That's not very large for a print-resolution image

Re: [Gimp-user] no box anymore

2018-08-16 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2018-08-16 at 12:11 +, peter butterworth via gimp-user-list wrote: > aloha, had the box, text colors, once but i cannot find it anymore. > Advise. Press the tab key. ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.or

Re: [Gimp-user] External Drives

2018-08-21 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2018-08-21 at 15:26 -0700, Julie Bennett wrote: > With the advent of 2.10, Gimp now does not recognize external hard > drives. It certainly does here. Can you give us more details? What did you try, exactly. What did you expect to happen" What actually happens? Does the external drive s

Re: [Gimp-user] UI/Tools Lagging (Windows 7)

2018-08-22 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2018-08-22 at 18:12 +0200, PixelZapper wrote: > > Sometimes, the problems don't all happen together. But they're all > happening and none of these were an issue a few days ago. What has changed on your computer system in the past few days? It could be programs you've installed or removed

Re: [Gimp-user] No text input in file open dialog

2018-08-25 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2018-08-24 at 11:07 +0200, Jürgen Weber wrote: > > > In the Gimp file open dialog, there is not text input, You may find control-L gives you a text field. Liam (slave ankh) -- Liam Quin - web slave for https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ ___ g

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP SWAP Folder not honored

2018-09-18 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2018-09-12 at 18:20 +0200, stormy wrote: > > however, no matter what, GIMP still goes to either: > > c:\Users\myuser\.cache\gegl-0.4\12056-shared.swap > > c:\Users\myuser\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\gegl- > 0.4\12056-shared.swap Can you move the two gegl folders to a diffe

Re: [Gimp-user] free select lasso tool options

2018-10-08 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2018-10-09 at 01:55 +, Nicholas Carrington via gimp-user- list wrote: > I know it is cool that you can edit the selection live in > the gimp it's like magic but having it in the new mode only really > slows down the use of the tool for many users. Does it? Are there many people who ju

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing images to scale

2018-10-10 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2018-10-10 at 21:41 +, Office TyAutDesigns wrote: > there is a section that I can change image dimensions but it won't > let me change them. Anybody have any ideas where I am going wrong? Not entirely - which Linux distribution are you using, and which GIMP version exactly? You could

Re: [Gimp-user] Bulky GIMP

2018-10-21 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2018-10-21 at 20:48 +, James Rushton wrote: > The PATHS tool Edit function simply will not work for me. Can’t > change PATH colors via Stroke. GIMP is a bitmap editor; paths don't appear in the final image themselves, but are a tool for editing the image. You can convert a path to a s

Re: [Gimp-user] irregular cropping

2018-11-04 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2018-11-04 at 18:47 -0800, Ward Ricker via gimp-user-list wrote: > > > When I do so I am expecting everything outside of the desired picture > (i.e. the white area) to go away as the third-part tutorial > shows. Instead, everything gets deleted. i'm not sure what's going on here. You co

Re: [Gimp-user] Best way to upscale an image

2018-11-10 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2018-11-10 at 11:02 +0100, Helmut Jarausch via gimp-user-list wrote: > for a photobook I need to upscale an image (showing a landscape) by > a factor of 2. Usually fine art prints in books are done on a 144 or 150 line screen, and normally you want twice the lines-per-inch resolution, whi

Re: [Gimp-user] resizing image creates blurry image

2018-11-12 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2018-11-09 at 19:21 +0100, firefly24 wrote: > I'm trying to resize an image from 398x398 to 28x28. Since 398 isn't an exact multiple of 28, it may help to crop it first to 392 pixels by 392. Then scale down to 1/7th the size (56 x 56) and use curves to make sure you still have contrast, th

Re: [Gimp-user] Book recommendation sought

2018-11-16 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2018-11-15 at 16:45 -0500, Dick Marti via gimp-user-list wrote: > Can you recommend the best > recent books on producing fantasy landscapes by arranging snippets of > several different pictures? i'm not aware of any books on that topic exactly :) but The Artist's Guide to GIMP (Hammel, 2n

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP user friendliness suggestion

2018-11-16 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2018-11-16 at 14:41 -0500, Steve Kinney wrote: > > Ultimately, Save vs. Export is just a semantic issue: > > The GIMP "saves" image editing projects as XCF files, with all > layers, > channels, paths, etc. intact. XCF is the GIMP's native file format. > > The GIMP "exports" images from

Re: [Gimp-user] Command line GIMP 2.10.6

2018-11-18 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2018-11-18 at 15:04 -0600, Tim Even via gimp-user-list wrote: > Hello, > > I need to do batch processing of photo files. gimp from a command > line dosn't work. To wit: PS C:\Users\timre> gimp gimp : The term > 'gimp' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, Same for > gimp_2.10.6. C

Re: [Gimp-user] Beautify

2019-01-25 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2019-01-25 at 18:35 +, Tawney Carrier via gimp-user-list wrote: > I am trying to add the beautify filter to my GIMP. I have visited > several sites who all have different methods. None seem to work for > me. Why aren't these filters just included in the download, instead > of being a

Re: [Gimp-user] Opening raw images in GIMP

2019-01-29 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2019-01-29 at 11:43 -0500, Rick Kline wrote: > Hi, > > Some folks working with planetary data would like to use raw PDS http://areo.info/gimp/ may help. It needs to be updated to handle 16- bit images now that GIMP can open them. it’s also possible to use ImageMagick or g'mic to conver

Re: [Gimp-user] Wrong version downloading

2019-02-23 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2019-02-24 at 16:24 +1100, Mary Whiting via gimp-user-list wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks to all of you for this great product. I love its > capabilities! > > However, when I click on the "Download GIMP 2.10.8 directly" button Which button exactly on which Web page? > directly it is actuall

Re: [Gimp-user] SVG File Content Understanding

2019-03-18 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2019-03-18 at 18:29 -0700, Michael Ruch via gimp-user-list wrote: > So in trying to start a project to read the file contents of Gimp's > SVG > format I am struggling. I am going on about 6 hours of research and > have not > found anything that breaks the format down for me. Since I am new

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling up photo

2019-03-20 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2019-03-20 at 17:57 -0400, Rick Strong wrote: > Does anyone know of really good software for scaling up an 8x12 inch, > 300 pxi photo to, say, 16x20 or 20x24 inches or larger? Will GIMP do > that? At 10 to 12 feet, 144dpi will be fine. Fine Art magazines and books rarely go over 150 lines

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2 - hexa colour bug on Windows ?

2019-04-20 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2019-04-20 at 13:19 +0200, Pierre L. wrote: > > but when I'm checking the colour with the picker it's not the same :/ There are two colour pickers in GIMP right now. One takes colours from the image, and the other from anywhere on the screen. Try turning off view->colour management->colo

Re: [Gimp-user] Text gets enlarged automatically upon ...

2019-05-20 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2019-05-21 at 06:40 +0200, chrisj wrote: > > thanks for taking the time to explain - much appreciated > > also, does photoshop have any advantage over the quality of an > outputted file, > over GIMP? Not in general, no. There are diferences related to metadata, and the jpeg encoding algor

Re: [Gimp-user] Windows Application Issue | The GIMP Team | REF # 21716266

2019-06-14 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2019-06-13 at 17:39 +, Oscar Ortiz Garcia (Axelerate LLC) via gimp-user-list wrote: > > 4. Google any images and copy the URL from the web and paste it in > the URL holder. Could you be more specific? Please include a full, complete, and ACTUAL URL that causes a crash. Are you right-

Re: [Gimp-user] making image background transparent

2019-06-15 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2019-06-15 at 02:20 -0500, Willard Hine via gimp-user-list wrote: > I am trying to do this and have tried multiple suggestions from the > help doc. What works best depends a lot on your starting image. You may find a tutorial will help, though. "The Artist's Guide to GIMP" is a book i fo

Re: [Gimp-user] Can't copy and paste drop shadow

2019-06-19 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2019-06-20 at 02:03 +0200, robot wrote: > Hi all > I have an image on a transparent background that I am able to create > a drop shadow for [...] When I draw a box round it and copy and past > the subject onto my other piture/ layer > the shadow dose not come with it! > > Any ideas on a fi

Re: [Gimp-user] (no subject)

2019-06-20 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2019-06-20 at 17:16 -0400, Rick Kline wrote: > Well, selling . html was written by a lawyer, wasn’t it? ;-) The primary author of SGML, the language on which HTML was based, was written by a lawyer (Dr. Charles Goldfarb). HTML itself came from the SGML Starter Set via Anders Berglund to (

Re: [Gimp-user] Help cannot paint on layer groups

2019-06-24 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2019-06-24 at 09:04 +0200, Cramos2888 wrote: > Hello > Im having some trouble drawing on a new layer in gimp 2.10 > so i can use the pencil or brush tool when i make a new project but > if i add a > new layer on to it , i cant draw on that layer and a message comes > up that > says cann

Re: [Gimp-user] C2G

2019-06-27 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2019-06-27 at 09:11 +0200, Pierre L. wrote: > Hey, > > I saw something similar... this one is about alpha channel, and .dds > export, a guy is showing : > https://imgur.com/a/qW7zzdE > from the forum message : > http://www.maniapark.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=211743#p211743 This person is

Re: [Gimp-user] don't reply

2019-06-28 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2019-06-28 at 22:25 -0500, Ross Martinek via gimp-user-list wrote: > Ditto what Rick said, and I’m still using 2.8! (The midst of a large > project is no time to learn new technology—as I’ve proven countless > times. I finally learned.) > Years ago i had a boss who would say “I’m too busy

Re: [Gimp-user] from the shadows . . .

2019-07-01 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2019-06-29 at 16:19 +, dep wrote: > when i use the shadow control to bring detail out of the muck, past > a certain point it also adds blotchiness to areas such as the sky. Make sure your image is in 16 or 32-bit mode, under image->precision. When i tried, i found i got blotchiness in

Re: [Gimp-user] is there a rotoscoping tool

2019-07-01 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2019-07-02 at 05:29 +0200, robot wrote: > Trying to do something like this in this video, where I can just > select an object and cut round it but with just one image and not a > video. GIMP has a number of select tools you can use. There's the foreground select tool and select by colour

Re: [Gimp-user] HELP Color error using cmyk

2019-07-01 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2019-07-02 at 04:57 +0200, walshlg wrote: > Ive had this issue in 2.10.0-2.10.10 and I really need help: > The cmyk color I apply is not what is detected when I recheck with > color picker. This is really about the colour picker, and which one you are using, not about CMYK. It's doing thi

Re: [Gimp-user] HELP Color error using cmyk

2019-07-01 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2019-07-02 at 04:57 +0200, walshlg wrote: > Ive had this issue in 2.10.0-2.10.10 and I really need help: > The cmyk color I apply is not what is detected when I recheck with > color picker. Actually, after reading th code, what is going on with the colour selector is that it converts to r

Re: [Gimp-user] from the shadows . . .

2019-07-02 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2019-07-02 at 15:40 +, dep wrote: > Which is to say that I'd > like > to set a GIMP default to 32 bits while in GIMP, no matter the bit > depth of > the original image. Does this make sense? Yes, it'd be a good feature request. Please file an issue. Thanks! Liam -- Liam Quin, ht

Re: [Gimp-user] Thickening/darkening lines of scanned images

2019-07-05 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2019-07-05 at 23:38 +0200, Chungster wrote: > My problem is, how can I thicken and darken very thin/faint lines of > scanned > images? filters->distorts->valuepropagate, set to "more black" and about 0.23, followed by colours->curves, and then filters->enhance->sharpen (unsharp mask) wit

Re: [Gimp-user] Huge image problem

2019-07-06 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2019-07-06 at 16:24 +0200, btt wrote: > I was hoping people might have > suggestions on how to reduce the size of the file without reducing > the image quality too much. > It's only going to get bigger haha. I've got no experience with > vector based > programs, is that the direction I ne

Re: [Gimp-user] from the shadows . . .

2019-07-06 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Sat, 2019-06-29 at 16:19 +, dep wrote: > when i use the shadow control to bring detail out of the muck, past > a certain point it also adds blotchiness to areas such as the sky. Make sure your image is in 16 or 32-bit mode, under image->precision. When i tried, i found i got blotchiness in

Re: [Gimp-user] New image too large?

2019-07-11 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 12:40 +0200, Eoraptor wrote: > Gimp makes an assumption that I'm going to use > a lot more data than I necessarily intend to, what with layers, > stacks, etc. and that I don't really have to take the size warning > too seriously, am I right? GIMP has a really small default fo

Re: [Gimp-user] Photographic Text

2019-07-17 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2019-07-17 at 17:43 +0200, BEDROCK wrote: > Desire is to have the image base layer show through the text. For translucent text, just change the opacity of the text layer (or play with layer mode). If you want the image beneath to appear *only* where the letters are, then ... take the bas

Re: [Gimp-user] resizing

2019-07-20 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2019-07-20 at 15:33 -0400, Helen via gimp-user-list wrote: > I'm submitting a picture that needs to be 1.5 megapixels. How do I > tell GIMP that this picture should be 1.5 M? This is a slightly mathsy reply but i hope the short answer isn't too intimidating :) Is it megapixels or me

Re: [Gimp-user] resizing

2019-07-20 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2019-07-20 at 20:28 -0400, Helen wrote: > Sorry! I meant to say, Is there a way, in GIMP, to size a picture to > precisely 1.5 megabytes? For an 8-bit precisoin RGB image like JPEG, each pixel uses 3 bytes of memory. So the image will be three times bigger than we might expect. So, divig

Re: [Gimp-user] Google Chrome download taken over by GIMP

2019-07-23 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2019-07-23 at 14:44 -0500, Grant Fergeson via gimp-user-list wrote: > Hello, > > I installed GIMP and not when I download a document from Chrome and > save it my only option as file type is a GIMP 2.10.12. How can I > restore the pdf type option and delete the GIMP type? This sounds like

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