Re: [Gimp-user] Interesting illusion

2002-11-01 Thread Giles Ellis
Jim Clark wrote: > > Thought you might enjoy this--very amusing! The illusion is a checkerboard > with a white and black square being the same color because of a shadow. > > http://www.sunbelt-software.com/stu/fooled.jpg > > ___ > Gimp-user mailing lis

Re: [Gimp-user] Interesting illusion

2002-11-01 Thread Kevin Myers
I also really appreciated that "illusion" image. Not only is it a cool illustration, but it also happens to fit right in to a project that I'm presently working on, which involves distinguishing black and white portions of scanned images that have varying contrast and brightness due to folds, stai

Re: [Gimp-user] Looking for another technique

2002-11-01 Thread Mark Drummond
Thanks Andrew. I gave this a shot but it does not seem to work ... I think maybe because the foreground and background colours are not distinct enough. I think I will look at using bezier curves ... got some reading to do! Andrew Wilson wrote: Mark, Have you tried using the threshold tool (ri

Re: [Gimp-user] stitching scans together

2002-11-01 Thread Will Muir
I seen a plug-in around some were that was supposed to do this automagickly. I can't remember the name of it but I think it was in the plug-in registry. If not do a google search for it. Personally I think the best way to do it is to overlap your images and then use layer masks to blend them toget

Re: [Gimp-user] stitching scans together

2002-11-01 Thread Karl Auer
"Will Muir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Personally I think the best way to do it is to overlap your images and then > use layer masks to blend them together. The level tool also can be handy to > mach colors. Check around on some of the Photo Shop sites or photography > sites for tutorials on th