Re: [Gimp-user] Need help repairing image

2011-12-28 Thread Daniel Smith
wow, this turned into the most useful thread to teach me a lot about GIMP. I would'a used the program for a few years and wouldn't have known what you told us. Now to go back to first email and try it all out. Thanks Steve. Dan On 12/28/11, Steve Kinney wrote: > On 12/27/2011 09:28 PM, Ronald F.

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help repairing image

2011-12-27 Thread Steve Kinney
On 12/27/2011 09:28 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: [ ...a whole bunch of stuff that I mostly left out of this reply, and:] > I just don't know how to look at two or more layers on my screen > all at once, you in separate display windows. [...] I would feel > more comfortable if I could see the t

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help repairing image

2011-12-27 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
Many thanks to both Steve Kinney and Daniel Smith for their various suggestions for fixing this damaged color image. I'm not sure that I can do all the thinsg they've suggested, given my limited knowledge of The Gimp at this point, or even that I understand them all, but I'm going to go over all

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help repairing image

2011-12-27 Thread Ken Warner
DON"T SEND LARGE IMAGES TO THE ENTIRE MAILING LIST Daniel Smith wrote: One more thing I tried a little, if you look at one I've attached, at the bottom right screwed up section, area where the rocks extend up to about the blue guy's shoulder... I selected this area in two pieces, one wh

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help repairing image

2011-12-26 Thread Daniel Smith
Yes, that way of doing it with the mask, correction layer and merging etc would be a better way than the actual way I did by selecting rectangular sections in the single layer. I just used to do a lot of that in one layer. But you can see if you look up close at the rectangular layers how their col

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help repairing image

2011-12-26 Thread Steve Kinney
In message <4ef8950f.6050...@pilobilus.net>, Steve Kinney wrote: > Can you recall the specifics of how you tamed the streak? I know that I duplicated the base layer, used a mask to isolate the streak (so that it would be the only visible part of its layer), and applied color corrections to it un

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help repairing image

2011-12-26 Thread Francesco Scaglioni
Have a look at some of the video tutorials on Rolf's meetthegimp.org site. You should find much that will help. The one on removing lens flare springs to mind. HTH Regards, Francesco --- (Apologies for brevity, top posting and poor citation - this email was sent from a mobile device) ---

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help repairing image

2011-12-26 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <4ef8950f.6050...@pilobilus.net>, Steve Kinney wrote: >You won't find a "one tool" or "one filter" solution for this one. :-( >This is a fairly major project. However, rest assured it can be >done; check out the first image on this page: >http://pilobilus.net/photo_rework.html

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help repairing image

2011-12-26 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message , Daniel Smith wrote: >Hey Ronald >From what I understand, slides are open to the same kind >of degradation that any plastic is... Not that it makes any real difference to anything, but I just feel compelled to clarify again that the image I posted a link to was_not_ from a ``slide'

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help repairing image

2011-12-26 Thread Daniel Smith
Oh, thanks for some post holiday friviolity! I always liked the name Gimp, it's in an ironical humorous tone, no? @gerard82 Thanks for the details about slide construction. Very useful, I would have never known. Better look at my own slides soon... On with the Xmas name calling!!! >:) Dan On

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help repairing image

2011-12-26 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Dotan Cohen [12-26-11 13:03]: > On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 17:38, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > * Dotan Cohen [12-26-11 06:03]: > >> The GNU Image Manipulation Program will only be able to repair its > >> image by changing its name. > > > > Somehow you completely missed the "Subject:".  You are wel

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help repairing image

2011-12-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 17:38, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Dotan Cohen [12-26-11 06:03]: >> The GNU Image Manipulation Program will only be able to repair its >> image by changing its name. > > Somehow you completely missed the "Subject:".  You are welcome to try > again! I deliberately misinter

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help repairing image

2011-12-26 Thread Steve Kinney
On 12/26/2011 05:14 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > The following file was generated from a recent scan of a 40 year old > 6x7cm color negative: > > ftp://ftp.tristatelogic.com/private/gimp/img001-b.jpg > > [...] > > I'd very much appreciate any advice that anybody would like > to share with m

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help repairing image

2011-12-26 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Dotan Cohen [12-26-11 06:03]: > The GNU Image Manipulation Program will only be able to repair its > image by changing its name. Somehow you completely missed the "Subject:". You are welcome to try again! -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wah

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help repairing image

2011-12-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
The GNU Image Manipulation Program will only be able to repair its image by changing its name. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help repairing image

2011-12-26 Thread Daniel Smith
Hey Ronald >From what I understand, slides are open to the same kind of degradation that any plastic is, the same thing that we found out that can happen to cds that we thought would live forever. I have a whole family history's worth that I'm afraid to even begin to evaluate, but have to begin eve