Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

2012-01-27 Thread Brent Shifley
Thanks!

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-Original Message-
From: James [mailto:vir...@rocketmonkeys.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 2:07 PM
To: Brent Shifley
Cc: gimp-user-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

> Colours → Colourise, works on the current selection or all if none is 
> selected.
> http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-tool-colorize.html

Or use colors -> levels.  I find colorize to be counter intuitive when 
adjusting colors.  However, with levels it's easy to adjust the red/green/blue 
levels till the color comes out right.  Then the next time you use the levels 
dialog, just use the first dropdown to use your last settings.  Pretty easy to 
use the same color over and over.
Also preserves variations in colors better than colorize (which reduces all 
colors to grayscale first, essentially).

-James
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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

2012-01-27 Thread James
> Colours → Colourise, works on the current selection or all if none is 
> selected.
> http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-tool-colorize.html

Or use colors -> levels.  I find colorize to be counter intuitive when
adjusting colors.  However, with levels it's easy to adjust the
red/green/blue levels till the color comes out right.  Then the next
time you use the levels dialog, just use the first dropdown to use
your last settings.  Pretty easy to use the same color over and over.
Also preserves variations in colors better than colorize (which
reduces all colors to grayscale first, essentially).

-James
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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

2012-01-27 Thread Brent Shifley
Wow!  That's great!  You just save me a ton of time.

Thanks!

Brent Shifley
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-Original Message-
From: Gary Aitken [mailto:g...@dreamchaser.org] 
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 3:51 PM
To: Brent Shifley
Cc: Seth Burgess; Stefan Maerz; gimp-user-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

Hi Brent,

For painting, try this:

Once you have the area selected, by whatever means:

Create a new layer containing only the selected areas, with a transparent 
background in other areas:
   Edit/Copy (ctrl-C on windows)
 This will copy everything in the selection (green areas, roads, etc)
   Create a new layer.
 Make sure "Transparent" is selected for background type when
 creating it.
 The layer will become the currently selected layer
   Edit/Paste (ctrl-V on windows)
   Click on the eyeball of original background in the layers dialog
 The background will disappear;
 you will be left with only your new layer being visible.
 The transparent parts will be a grey checkerboard.
   At this point, nothing is selected.

Select everything except the transparent area.
   Click on the "Select by Color" tool
   Uncheck the "Select transparent areas" check box in the tool's options
   Set the threshold to 255
   Click anywhere in the image not on the transparent background.
   The selection will be outlined with an
 alternating black-and-white, blinking line.

Fill the selection with the color you want:
   Select the color you want to use:
 Double-click on the foreground color
   (upper square, usually black, in lower left corner of the toolbox)
 A dialog for choosing colors should appear.
   Note the box which shows "current" and "old" color
   Tweak the sliders or the color choice tool (object in left square)
 to get the color you want shown as the "current" color
   Click ok.
 Note the upper square showing the foreground color in the toolbox
   should now have the color you want to paint with.
   Click on the bucket-fill tool
 Make sure "FG color fill" is selected in the tool's options
 Make sure "Fill whole selection" is selected in the tool's options
 Click anywhere in the selection.
   It should all change to a solid color with the new color;
   transparent areas, outside the current selection, should still
   show a gray checkerboard.
   If you want the colored part to be partially transparent,
 Use the "Opacity" slider for the layer.

Save the result.

If you find the final area covers more than you thought it would, it is 
probably because the original selection contained stuff you weren't aware of.
This will happen if you leave any of "Anti-aliasing" or "Feather edges" 
or "Select transparent areas" or "Sample merged" checked when making your 
original selection.

Gary

On 1/26/2012 1:57 PM, Brent Shifley wrote:
> Again I want to say thanks to all of you that helped me. I have another 77 
> images to process, and what you have sent me helped a lot.
>
> I was not able to follow the trick for "painting" 100+ different areas the 
> same color, at the same time.  As I stated before I am an absolute newbie to 
> Gimp, and sometimes have need little "extra" help in understanding how to do 
> a step/process/procedure, and why.  Any other help would be appreciated.

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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

2012-01-26 Thread Bernd Weber
Hi,

one final answer: If you have to process a lot of files I would
recommend you to wirte a script, especially if the same tasks have to be
performed very often.
GIMP-standard-scripts are written in scheme. I prefer perl-GIMP. If I
can help you with this, let me know.

Bernd

Gary Aitken schrieb:
> Hi Brent,
>
> For painting, try this:
>
> Once you have the area selected, by whatever means:
>
> Create a new layer containing only the selected areas,
> with a transparent background in other areas:
>   Edit/Copy (ctrl-C on windows)
> This will copy everything in the selection (green areas, roads, etc)
>   Create a new layer.
> Make sure "Transparent" is selected for background type when
> creating it.
> The layer will become the currently selected layer
>   Edit/Paste (ctrl-V on windows)
>   Click on the eyeball of original background in the layers dialog
> The background will disappear;
> you will be left with only your new layer being visible.
> The transparent parts will be a grey checkerboard.
>   At this point, nothing is selected.
>
> Select everything except the transparent area.
>   Click on the "Select by Color" tool
>   Uncheck the "Select transparent areas" check box in the tool's options
>   Set the threshold to 255
>   Click anywhere in the image not on the transparent background.
>   The selection will be outlined with an
> alternating black-and-white, blinking line.
>
> Fill the selection with the color you want:
>   Select the color you want to use:
> Double-click on the foreground color
>   (upper square, usually black, in lower left corner of the toolbox)
> A dialog for choosing colors should appear.
>   Note the box which shows "current" and "old" color
>   Tweak the sliders or the color choice tool (object in left square)
> to get the color you want shown as the "current" color
>   Click ok.
> Note the upper square showing the foreground color in the toolbox
>   should now have the color you want to paint with.
>   Click on the bucket-fill tool
> Make sure "FG color fill" is selected in the tool's options
> Make sure "Fill whole selection" is selected in the tool's options
> Click anywhere in the selection.
>   It should all change to a solid color with the new color;
>   transparent areas, outside the current selection, should still
>   show a gray checkerboard.
>   If you want the colored part to be partially transparent,
> Use the "Opacity" slider for the layer.
>
> Save the result.
>
> If you find the final area covers more than you thought it would,
> it is probably because the original selection contained stuff
> you weren't aware of.
> This will happen if you leave any of "Anti-aliasing" or "Feather
> edges" or "Select transparent areas" or "Sample merged" checked
> when making your original selection.
>
> Gary
>
> On 1/26/2012 1:57 PM, Brent Shifley wrote:
>> Again I want to say thanks to all of you that helped me. I have
>> another 77 images to process, and what you have sent me helped a lot.
>>
>> I was not able to follow the trick for "painting" 100+ different
>> areas the same color, at the same time.  As I stated before I am an
>> absolute newbie to Gimp, and sometimes have need little "extra" help
>> in understanding how to do a step/process/procedure, and why.  Any
>> other help would be appreciated.
>
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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

2012-01-26 Thread Gary Aitken

Hi Brent,

For painting, try this:

Once you have the area selected, by whatever means:

Create a new layer containing only the selected areas,
with a transparent background in other areas:
  Edit/Copy (ctrl-C on windows)
This will copy everything in the selection (green areas, roads, etc)
  Create a new layer.
Make sure "Transparent" is selected for background type when
creating it.
The layer will become the currently selected layer
  Edit/Paste (ctrl-V on windows)
  Click on the eyeball of original background in the layers dialog
The background will disappear;
you will be left with only your new layer being visible.
The transparent parts will be a grey checkerboard.
  At this point, nothing is selected.

Select everything except the transparent area.
  Click on the "Select by Color" tool
  Uncheck the "Select transparent areas" check box in the tool's options
  Set the threshold to 255
  Click anywhere in the image not on the transparent background.
  The selection will be outlined with an
alternating black-and-white, blinking line.

Fill the selection with the color you want:
  Select the color you want to use:
Double-click on the foreground color
  (upper square, usually black, in lower left corner of the toolbox)
A dialog for choosing colors should appear.
  Note the box which shows "current" and "old" color
  Tweak the sliders or the color choice tool (object in left square)
to get the color you want shown as the "current" color
  Click ok.
Note the upper square showing the foreground color in the toolbox
  should now have the color you want to paint with.
  Click on the bucket-fill tool
Make sure "FG color fill" is selected in the tool's options
Make sure "Fill whole selection" is selected in the tool's options
Click anywhere in the selection.
  It should all change to a solid color with the new color;
  transparent areas, outside the current selection, should still
  show a gray checkerboard.
  If you want the colored part to be partially transparent,
Use the "Opacity" slider for the layer.

Save the result.

If you find the final area covers more than you thought it would,
it is probably because the original selection contained stuff
you weren't aware of.
This will happen if you leave any of "Anti-aliasing" or "Feather edges" 
or "Select transparent areas" or "Sample merged" checked

when making your original selection.

Gary

On 1/26/2012 1:57 PM, Brent Shifley wrote:

Again I want to say thanks to all of you that helped me. I have another 77 
images to process, and what you have sent me helped a lot.

I was not able to follow the trick for "painting" 100+ different areas the same color, at 
the same time.  As I stated before I am an absolute newbie to Gimp, and sometimes have need little 
"extra" help in understanding how to do a step/process/procedure, and why.  Any other 
help would be appreciated.


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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

2012-01-26 Thread Brent Shifley
Again I want to say thanks to all of you that helped me. I have another 77 
images to process, and what you have sent me helped a lot.

I was not able to follow the trick for "painting" 100+ different areas the same 
color, at the same time.  As I stated before I am an absolute newbie to Gimp, 
and sometimes have need little "extra" help in understanding how to do a 
step/process/procedure, and why.  Any other help would be appreciated.


Brent Shifley
AWIN Support

Arkansas Wireless Information Network (AWIN)
501-683-1798
awin.operati...@arkansas.gov

-Original Message-
From: Brent Shifley 
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 4:10 PM
To: 'g...@dreamchaser.org'
Cc: Seth Burgess; Stefan Maerz; gimp-user-list@gnome.org
Subject: RE: [Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

THANK YOU!

I have been burning brain cells on this for a while.  I do have one final 
question.  Like in the case where there was green in all sorts of places, how 
could I go and change all the green areas to any color that I want, in only a 
couple of clicks?

Brent Shifley
AWIN Support

Arkansas Wireless Information Network (AWIN)
501-683-1798
awin.operati...@arkansas.gov


-Original Message-
From: Gary Aitken [mailto:g...@dreamchaser.org]
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 2:40 PM
To: Brent Shifley
Cc: Seth Burgess; Stefan Maerz; gimp-user-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

Hi Brent,

This is pretty simple in terms of getting the selected area with this 
particular image:

Load the image into gimp.
Choose the color selection tool.
Set Threshold to 30
Click on the darker green area.
At least for your sample map, that got everything.  Note that the color on your 
sample map is not uniform, which is why the threshold has to be upped from the 
default (15) to 30.  If it doesn't get everything, start over (undo the last 
operation or exit and start over), up the threshold some more and click on 
missing areas until you get them all.  This works relatively pain-free because 
there is no similar green anywhere in the image.

Edit/Copy to copy the selected area.
Select/None to deselect everything

File/New
   Click to expand "Advanced Options"
Set "Fill with" to transparency
Edit/Paste
   You should have just the green areas

Close the window containing the original image

If you don't have the layers dialog open, bring it up.
You should see a "Floating Selection"
Click the anchor button along the bottom (next to the trashcan) to anchor the 
pasted stuff into the background.

File/Save

On 1/25/2012 11:26 AM, Brent Shifley wrote:
> Here is the url to the file:
>
> http://photobucket.com/Brent_ARK
>
> This is actually a much simpler graphic than what I would normally be 
> using, but you get the idea. In as few clicks as possible, I just want 
> the green areas, and want the rest of the graphics transparent.
>
> Brent Shifley
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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

2012-01-26 Thread Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
Brent Shifley  writes:

> THANK YOU!
>
> I have been burning brain cells on this for a while.  I do have one final 
> question.  Like in the case where there was green in all sorts of places, how 
> could I go and change all the green areas to any color that I want, in only a 
> couple of clicks?

Colours → Colourise, works on the current selection or all if none is selected.
http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-tool-colorize.html

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[Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

2012-01-26 Thread rich
>THANK YOU!

>I have been burning brain cells on this for a while.  I do have one final 
>question.  Like in the case where there was green in all sorts of places, how 
>could I go and change all the green areas to any color that I want, in only a 
>couple of clicks?

>File/Save

>On 1/25/2012 11:26 AM, Brent Shifley wrote:
>> Here is the url to the file:

>> This is actually a much simpler graphic than what I would normally be 
>> using, but you get the idea. In as few clicks as possible, I just want 
>> the green areas, and want the rest of the graphics transparent.
>>
>> Brent Shifley

The great thing about Gimp is there is always another way.

Have to confess, my first thoughts were with the G'mic plugin but maybe a 
better way for your specific case is 

Convert the image to indexed with a small number of colours
Edit the colour map so anything non green is (say) white
Back to RGB mode and colour-to-alpha to remove the white.

Short demo - 2 mins here http://youtu.be/xVy4rwoye6o


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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

2012-01-25 Thread Gary Aitken
Seth, you're way ahead of me with your thoughts and methods on this, but 
I might offer an easier, but less precise, alternative.


As you point out, Brent probably wants to include those areas the road 
obscures.  Since the roads are pretty narrow, one could get fairly 
accurate results by simply selecting the green, growing the selection by 
2, and shrinking it by 2.  That would force inclusion of the roads in 
areas they traverse.  It would have the unwanted side-effect of also 
including small non-green areas of approximately 4 pixels in diameter. 
Whether that would matter or not I'll let Brent chew on, but in looking 
at the sample map it's pretty good.


Gary

On 1/25/2012 3:10 PM, Seth Burgess wrote:


I expect that you want more than just the green selection - you want
what the green selection would be if there were no roads/other data
overlaid, right?

The best way I can do this in a reasonably automated fashion is:

1) Extract the roads as a selection
1-a) Colors->Components->Decompose, RGB, delete all but Green channel
1-b) Levels, adjust so that only roads are black and everything else is
white (be fairly generous with what you call a road - a little slop is
better than too little road)
1-c) Copy (control-C)
2) Back in original image, Create a new layer, transparent, select it as
active layer.
3) Quick Mask
4) Paste (Control-V), Anchor (Control-H)
5) Quick Mask off
6) Select->Invert
6) Select->Grow (2)
7) Fill with white (drag from toolbox)
8) Select->None

At this point you should have 2 layers; the top has all the roads
covered by white, and the bottom your original map image

9) Run the G'MIC plug-in (probably a separate download, google for it),
select Region Inpainting, OK with defaults
Wait a few seconds, and you now have a map that has just green and grey
regions with no red or hints of roads.
10) Delete the top layer that's no longer useful.

At this point the problem of extracting what you really want (an
in-filled green image) can begin.  Its a bit messy with your image due
to compression artifacts, but you can get decent results doing a Select
by Color with threshold=28, then Select->Shrink(1) followed by
Select->Grow(1) to get rid of the smallest objects, but there's still
some garbage in the final results.  Color-To-Alpha with white and then
black can also produce a semi-transparent image, but its got a lot of
noise (other colors existed in the image that are now
really noticeable).  Experimenting with Posterize or other color
reduction/smoothing may be beneficial too, just to remove compression
artifacts.

This isn't suitable for anything scientific - the infill process is
certainly making guesses based on surrounding data which just doesn't
exist in the image - but hopefully it'll get you at least part of the
way to where you want to be.  You could script most of this once you
find values that work for you (though figuring out the G'MIC plug-in may
be tough as it just takes a string input in non-interactive mode).

Happy GIMPing,

Seth Burgess

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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

2012-01-25 Thread Seth Burgess
Hi Brent,

I expect that you want more than just the green selection - you want what
the green selection would be if there were no roads/other data overlaid,
right?

The best way I can do this in a reasonably automated fashion is:

1) Extract the roads as a selection
1-a) Colors->Components->Decompose, RGB, delete all but Green channel
1-b) Levels, adjust so that only roads are black and everything else is
white (be fairly generous with what you call a road - a little slop is
better than too little road)
1-c) Copy (control-C)
2) Back in original image, Create a new layer, transparent, select it as
active layer.
3) Quick Mask
4) Paste (Control-V), Anchor (Control-H)
5) Quick Mask off
6) Select->Invert
6) Select->Grow (2)
7) Fill with white (drag from toolbox)
8) Select->None

At this point you should have 2 layers; the top has all the roads covered
by white, and the bottom your original map image

9) Run the G'MIC plug-in (probably a separate download, google for it),
select Region Inpainting, OK with defaults
Wait a few seconds, and you now have a map that has just green and grey
regions with no red or hints of roads.
10) Delete the top layer that's no longer useful.

At this point the problem of extracting what you really want (an in-filled
green image) can begin.  Its a bit messy with your image due to compression
artifacts, but you can get decent results doing a Select by Color with
threshold=28, then Select->Shrink(1) followed by Select->Grow(1) to get rid
of the smallest objects, but there's still some garbage in the final
results.  Color-To-Alpha with white and then black can also produce a
semi-transparent image, but its got a lot of noise (other colors existed in
the image that are now really noticeable).  Experimenting with Posterize or
other color reduction/smoothing may be beneficial too, just to remove
compression artifacts.

This isn't suitable for anything scientific - the infill process is
certainly making guesses based on surrounding data which just doesn't exist
in the image - but hopefully it'll get you at least part of the way to
where you want to be.  You could script most of this once you find values
that work for you (though figuring out the G'MIC plug-in may be tough as it
just takes a string input in non-interactive mode).

Happy GIMPing,

Seth Burgess


On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Brent Shifley
wrote:

> Morning,
>
> ** **
>
> I have been using your app extensively since November.  I
> have come up with a real need to perform in Gimp, but I do not know if Gimp
> can do it.
>
> ** **
>
> What I am trying to do is import a PDF that contains a
> graphic of radiation patterns from RF towers, along with all roads and
> other geographical data.  Once imported, I want to remove all of the roads
> and unwanted data and keep the radiation pattern.  The radiation pattern is
> in 1 color that dominates the image, and “covers” most of the other
> unwanted info, almost as a 50% transparency.  I then want to export the
> radiation pattern, and use it in Google Earth.  Additionally, where the
> radiation pattern is not, have it become completely transparent
>
> ** **
>
> Can you tell me how to perform this feat using Gimp? 
>
> ** **
>
> Brent Shifley
>
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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

2012-01-25 Thread Brent Shifley
THANK YOU!

I have been burning brain cells on this for a while.  I do have one final 
question.  Like in the case where there was green in all sorts of places, how 
could I go and change all the green areas to any color that I want, in only a 
couple of clicks?

Brent Shifley
AWIN Support

Arkansas Wireless Information Network (AWIN)
501-683-1798
awin.operati...@arkansas.gov


-Original Message-
From: Gary Aitken [mailto:g...@dreamchaser.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 2:40 PM
To: Brent Shifley
Cc: Seth Burgess; Stefan Maerz; gimp-user-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

Hi Brent,

This is pretty simple in terms of getting the selected area with this 
particular image:

Load the image into gimp.
Choose the color selection tool.
Set Threshold to 30
Click on the darker green area.
At least for your sample map, that got everything.  Note that the color on your 
sample map is not uniform, which is why the threshold has to be upped from the 
default (15) to 30.  If it doesn't get everything, start over (undo the last 
operation or exit and start over), up the threshold some more and click on 
missing areas until you get them all.  This works relatively pain-free because 
there is no similar green anywhere in the image.

Edit/Copy to copy the selected area.
Select/None to deselect everything

File/New
   Click to expand "Advanced Options"
Set "Fill with" to transparency
Edit/Paste
   You should have just the green areas

Close the window containing the original image

If you don't have the layers dialog open, bring it up.
You should see a "Floating Selection"
Click the anchor button along the bottom (next to the trashcan) to anchor the 
pasted stuff into the background.

File/Save

On 1/25/2012 11:26 AM, Brent Shifley wrote:
> Here is the url to the file:
>
> http://photobucket.com/Brent_ARK
>
> This is actually a much simpler graphic than what I would normally be 
> using, but you get the idea. In as few clicks as possible, I just want 
> the green areas, and want the rest of the graphics transparent.
>
> Brent Shifley
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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

2012-01-25 Thread Steve Kinney
On 01/25/2012 03:52 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~pat/Test%20Coverage.pdf 

Ah, now I see, sort of...

Just tinkering around, I got better results on the selection after I
made a copy of the base layer (i.e. original image) and used the
Colors > Hue/Saturtation tool with the Green segment turned on, to
crank up the saturation and reduce the brightness of the green area
to enhance contrast.  (Trying to rotate the hue of the red roads to
green was disappointing - they are more brown and black than red.) 
The Color Select tool then has an easier time sorting out those
faint edges.

I took that selection, copied and pasted it as a new layer, put a
new while layer under that and merged down.  As for how to remove
the white lines where roads, streams, scale, etc. were, the first
thing that occurs to me is to turn on the Smudge tool, set its
"rate" very high (why not 100%), and start smearing.

To get your transparent overlay, duplicate the modified green and
white layer, and do Colors > Color to Alpha to make the white go
away.  This will also make the green semi-transparent - and at this
point, the extra contrast introduced earlyer may accidentally prove
beneficial.  I'm not sure where this overlay will go, but if it's
into an image, just open same, drag the last mentioned layer into
it, scale to fit, and adjust its transparency, saturation, etc as
required.

Or something like that.  Always more than one way...

:o)

Steve



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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

2012-01-25 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Patrick Shanahan  [01-25-12 14:24]:
> * Brent Shifley  [01-25-12 13:41]:
> > I do not.  Photobucket will not let me upload it either.
> 
> available:
>   http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~paka/Test Coverage.pdf

Sorry, that should be:
   http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~pat/Test%20Coverage.pdf

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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

2012-01-25 Thread Gary Aitken

Hi Brent,

This is pretty simple in terms of getting the selected area with this 
particular image:


Load the image into gimp.
Choose the color selection tool.
Set Threshold to 30
Click on the darker green area.
At least for your sample map, that got everything.  Note that the color 
on your sample map is not uniform, which is why the threshold has to be 
upped from the default (15) to 30.  If it doesn't get everything, start 
over (undo the last operation or exit and start over), up the threshold 
some more and click on missing areas until you get them all.  This works 
relatively pain-free because there is no similar green anywhere in the 
image.


Edit/Copy to copy the selected area.
Select/None to deselect everything

File/New
  Click to expand "Advanced Options"
Set "Fill with" to transparency
Edit/Paste
  You should have just the green areas

Close the window containing the original image

If you don't have the layers dialog open, bring it up.
You should see a "Floating Selection"
Click the anchor button along the bottom (next to the trashcan) to 
anchor the pasted stuff into the background.


File/Save

On 1/25/2012 11:26 AM, Brent Shifley wrote:

Here is the url to the file:

http://photobucket.com/Brent_ARK

This is actually a much simpler graphic than what I would normally be
using, but you get the idea. In as few clicks as possible, I just want
the green areas, and want the rest of the graphics transparent.

Brent Shifley

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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

2012-01-25 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Brent Shifley  [01-25-12 13:41]:
> I do not.  Photobucket will not let me upload it either.

available:
  http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~paka/Test Coverage.pdf
  
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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

2012-01-25 Thread Chris Mohler
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Brent Shifley
 wrote:
> I do not.  Photobucket will not let me upload it either.

OK - for the record: the PDF is just a container for the raster image;
no layers or paths*.  So the JPEG at Photobucket is pretty much all
there is to work with.

I'm sure someone will chime in with a suggested method to isolate those areas...

Chris

* The PDF was generated by Word 2007, and appears to be a JPEG placed
in a blank .DOC then exported.
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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

2012-01-25 Thread Brent Shifley
I do not.  Photobucket will not let me upload it either.

I have tried importing the graphic into Gimp as layers, but it only comes out 
as you see it.

Brent Shifley
AWIN Support

Arkansas Wireless Information Network (AWIN)
501-683-1798
awin.operati...@arkansas.gov

-Original Message-
From: Chris Mohler [mailto:cr33...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 12:37 PM
To: Brent Shifley
Cc: Seth Burgess; Stefan Maerz; gimp-user-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Brent Shifley  
wrote:
> This is actually a much simpler graphic than what I would normally be 
> using, but you get the idea.  In as few clicks as possible, I just 
> want the green areas, and want the rest of the graphics transparent.

Hmm - do you have a link to the PDF version?  I wonder if perhaps the green 
areas are vector and/or possibly on their own layer?

Chris
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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

2012-01-25 Thread Chris Mohler
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Brent Shifley
 wrote:
> This is actually a much simpler graphic than what I would normally be using,
> but you get the idea.  In as few clicks as possible, I just want the green
> areas, and want the rest of the graphics transparent.

Hmm - do you have a link to the PDF version?  I wonder if perhaps the
green areas are vector and/or possibly on their own layer?

Chris
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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

2012-01-25 Thread Brent Shifley
Here is the url to the file:

http://photobucket.com/Brent_ARK

This is actually a much simpler graphic than what I would normally be using, 
but you get the idea.  In as few clicks as possible, I just want the green 
areas, and want the rest of the graphics transparent.

Brent Shifley
AWIN Support

Arkansas Wireless Information Network (AWIN)
501-683-1798
awin.operati...@arkansas.gov

From: Seth Burgess [mailto:seth.burg...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 10:20 AM
To: Stefan Maerz
Cc: Brent Shifley; gimp-user-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

Actually "color to alpha" adds an alpha channel if it doesn't already have one, 
so you don't need to do that step.

Seth
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Stefan Maerz 
mailto:stefanma...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Brent,

If your image isn't proprietary, I'd recomend uploading a sample to an image 
host like photobucket to show us.

Without looking, a very useful tool for me has been color>color to alpha. This 
will require that you have the alpha channel enabled ( iirc -- posting from my 
phone -- can be done through layers>transparency>add alpha channel.

If you play around with this feature a little bit you'll figure its strengths 
and weaknesses out quickly.

Hth,
-Stefan Maerz
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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

2012-01-25 Thread Seth Burgess
Actually "color to alpha" adds an alpha channel if it doesn't already have
one, so you don't need to do that step.

Seth

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Stefan Maerz wrote:

> Brent,
>
> If your image isn't proprietary, I'd recomend uploading a sample to an
> image host like photobucket to show us.
>
> Without looking, a very useful tool for me has been color>color to alpha.
> This will require that you have the alpha channel enabled ( iirc -- posting
> from my phone -- can be done through layers>transparency>add alpha channel.
>
> If you play around with this feature a little bit you'll figure its
> strengths and weaknesses out quickly.
>
> Hth,
> -Stefan Maerz
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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

2012-01-25 Thread Stefan Maerz
Brent,

If your image isn't proprietary, I'd recomend uploading a sample to an image 
host like photobucket to show us.

Without looking, a very useful tool for me has been color>color to alpha. This 
will require that you have the alpha channel enabled ( iirc -- posting from my 
phone -- can be done through layers>transparency>add alpha channel.

If you play around with this feature a little bit you'll figure its strengths 
and weaknesses out quickly.

Hth,
-Stefan Maerz 
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[Gimp-user] Gimp newbie trying to get a job done.

2012-01-25 Thread Brent Shifley
Morning,

I have been using your app extensively since November.  I have 
come up with a real need to perform in Gimp, but I do not know if Gimp can do 
it.

What I am trying to do is import a PDF that contains a graphic 
of radiation patterns from RF towers, along with all roads and other 
geographical data.  Once imported, I want to remove all of the roads and 
unwanted data and keep the radiation pattern.  The radiation pattern is in 1 
color that dominates the image, and "covers" most of the other unwanted info, 
almost as a 50% transparency.  I then want to export the radiation pattern, and 
use it in Google Earth.  Additionally, where the radiation pattern is not, have 
it become completely transparent

Can you tell me how to perform this feat using Gimp?

Brent Shifley
AWIN Support

Arkansas Wireless Information Network (AWIN)
501-683-1798
awin.operati...@arkansas.gov

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