[Gimp-user] [Fwd: How to introduce greek letters]

2004-11-01 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardía
I've somehow solved this myself by: 1. Opening the 'map character' application (gnome menu) 2. Selecting the Standard Symbols L font 3. Choosing whatever letter I want and copy it 4. Opening in Gimp the text tool 5. Selecting the Standard Symbols L font 6. Pasting the copied letter This is much

Re: [Gimp-user] [Fwd: How to introduce greek letters]

2004-11-01 Thread Steve Stavropoulos
On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 17:09:03 +, Miguel Ortiz Lombardía wrote: I've somehow solved this myself by: 1. Opening the 'map character' application (gnome menu) 2. Selecting the Standard Symbols L font 3. Choosing whatever letter I want and copy it 4. Opening in Gimp the text tool 5.

Re: [Gimp-user] [Fwd: How to introduce greek letters]

2004-11-01 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Miguel Ortiz Lombarda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've somehow solved this myself by: 1. Opening the 'map character' application (gnome menu) 2. Selecting the Standard Symbols L font 3. Choosing whatever letter I want and copy it 4. Opening in Gimp the text tool 5. Selecting the

Re: [Gimp-user] [Fwd: How to introduce greek letters]

2004-11-01 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardía
Does anyone know a simpler solution? Just do the steps 4 through 6. You write in english and in the image you see it in greek (it is a little bit weird, but you won't write your entire life story this way...). No, it also appears in latin letters in the image. An alternative would be to select a

[Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.2-pre1 (the Halloween Release)

2004-11-01 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, we are glad to announce the availability of the first pre-release for GIMP 2.2. More than half a year after GIMP 2.0 saw the light of day, we are now close to finish work on it's successor, GIMP 2.2. You can download a first pre-release from ftp.gimp.org and it's mirrors:

[Gimp-user] new tutorials and previews

2004-11-01 Thread Carol Spears
hi, i heard that gimp-2.2pre would be out and threw together some new tutorials to show off a few of the new things. http://carol.gimp.org/gimp/2.1/ a preview of only a few of the new gimp previews (thanks to david odin): http://carol.gimp.org/gimp/2.1/previews/ you can configure your toolbox

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP-2.0.5 installation

2004-11-01 Thread Owen
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 19:46:03 -0500 gilson redrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the 2.0.5.tar.bz2. './configure' went OK. 'Make' went OK until I got to make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/gimp-2.0.5/app/core' if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I../../app

[Gimp-user] flat image bg color change

2004-11-01 Thread Tom
(new to gimp) Hi, I would like to change the background color of a photo, (preferably with a gradient or shadow effect) but it's a single layer (jpg). I tried to 'select by color' and replace it, but the edges of the object in the foreground turn out jagged and looks bad. I also tried to

Re: [Gimp-user] flat image bg color change

2004-11-01 Thread Eric Pierce
There are a billion different ways to do what you're talking about. But it really comes down to the quality/properties of the image you have. Show us what you have. On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 01:13:21AM -0500, Tom wrote: (new to gimp) Hi, I would like to change the background color of a

Re: [Gimp-user] flat image bg color change

2004-11-01 Thread Tom
Thanks Eric. Here it is. On Tuesday 02 November 2004 00:14, Eric Pierce wrote: There are a billion different ways to do what you're talking about. But it really comes down to the quality/properties of the image you have. Show us what you have. On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 01:13:21AM -0500, Tom

Re: [Gimp-user] flat image bg color change

2004-11-01 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 01:13 -0500, Tom wrote: (new to gimp) Welcome. :-) Hi, I would like to change the background color of a photo, (preferably with a gradient or shadow effect) but it's a single layer (jpg). I tried to 'select by color' and replace it, but the edges of the object in

Re: [Gimp-user] flat image bg color change

2004-11-01 Thread Mark W
I would use the path tool to trace the outline of the bottle, then change the path to a selection. Then you can float the selection and put the layer on a different background. The path tool takes a bit of practice but I think it will produce the best results in this situation. Tom wrote: