Re: [Gimp-user] new tutorials and previews

2004-11-02 Thread Gezim Hoxha
Thanks for taking the time to do this Carol, I really appreciate it :) --- Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 o

Re: [Gimp-user] new tutorials and previews

2004-11-02 Thread Przemyslaw Gawronski
> Thanks for taking the time to do this Carol, I really > appreciate it :) Same here !!! Thanks !!! Przemek -- TANREN DOJO - Klub Aikido (Warszawa - Ursynow) http://www.tanren.pl/ info: tel.: 0-506-61-31-47 (pon. - pt. 9 - 15) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOK (Natolinski Osrodek Kultury) ul

[Gimp-user] text tool crash (bug 154144 ?)

2004-11-02 Thread Andrew
Mandrake 10 Community I was using the gimp2_0-2.0.4-1mdk.i586.rpm that came with the above distro without any problems. I then upgraded to gimp-2.0.5 (tar.bz2). Now the text tool causes Gimp to crash after either one or two keystrokes. If it crashes after the second, the first letter I type appe

Re: [Gimp-user] text tool crash (bug 154144 ?)

2004-11-02 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mandrake 10 Community > I was using the gimp2_0-2.0.4-1mdk.i586.rpm that came with the above > distro without any problems. > I then upgraded to gimp-2.0.5 (tar.bz2). Now the text tool causes Gimp > to crash after either one or two keystrokes. If it crashe

Re: [Gimp-user] new tutorials and previews

2004-11-02 Thread Alan Horkan
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Carol Spears wrote: > Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 16:55:22 -0800 > From: Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: GIMPUser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Gimp-user] new tutorials and previews > > hi, > > i heard that gimp-2.2pre would be out and threw together some new > tutorials to

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

2004-11-02 Thread Tom
Thanks Carol, Mark and Malcolm. I've been experimenting with all the suggested methods and getting various results. As far as making it trasnparent (how, when, why), I could use some advice. :) On Tuesday 02 November 2004 02:31, you wrote: > hello, > > On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 01:54:19AM -0500,

Re: [Gimp-user] new tutorials and previews

2004-11-02 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 01:46:09PM +, Alan Horkan wrote: > On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Carol Spears wrote: > > > also, you can drop your own splash screen image in now: > > http://carol.gimp.org/gimp/2.1/splash > > I thought you could already set your own custom splash screen by replacing > the exist

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

2004-11-02 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:01:48PM -0500, Tom wrote: > > I've been experimenting with all the suggested methods > and getting various results. As far as making it trasnparent > (how, when, why), I could use some advice. :) > the transparency is like an extra color that you can add called alpha.

Re: [Gimp-user] new tutorials and previews

2004-11-02 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I thought you could already set your own custom splash screen by replacing > the existing splash screen graphic? What is different about how it is > done now? With former versions you had to have superuser priviledges in order to replace the systemw

[Gimp-user] how to set border to 0 when printing from gimp?

2004-11-02 Thread Nagy Gabor
Hi! I try to use gimp to print a picture that I want to match the original size. The full size A4 page is 210x297mm. According to the CUPS testpage, which prints the bounding box about 4 mm from the edge, the page size is 201.5x288.4mm, the border is 4.2mm I create a new picture, set the dpi to

Re: [Gimp-user] how to set border to 0 when printing from gimp?

2004-11-02 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Nagy Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The result is that it will be printed at 318.5 dpi, with top and bottom > borders at 1.27 cm. That's about three times more border than the size > CUPS has used. > > And the problem is that I cannot set it to be lower. > > I can write smaller numbers i

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

2004-11-02 Thread GSR - FR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2004-11-02 at 0154.19 -0500): > Thanks Eric. Here it is. Ok, I used select by colour, clicking first at the top area, then clicking with shift key more times and a bit lower until it selected all but the bottle and some of the white reflection in front. sides selected

[Gimp-user] what are palettes?

2004-11-02 Thread Gezim Hoxha
Hi gimpers, I was trying to modify my windows XP boot screen. Doing a tutorial it said that "Microsoft decided to remove the pallet from the logo to another location.So now when you open up ... the .bmps are just black images." So I had to use photoshop for this, but that's fine. My question is wh

[Gimp-user] Applying Filter ?

2004-11-02 Thread Richard
Just started using Gimp about a week ago, and I must say, its nice. Now, have a question: if I shot in B&W (via digital camera), wouldn't that give me a better image, to work with in Gimp, instead of converting it to Grey Scale? Tks - Rick :-\ ___ Gimp-u

Re: [Gimp-user] Applying Filter ?

2004-11-02 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 12:22:02AM -0500, Richard wrote: > Just started using Gimp about a week ago, > and I must say, its nice. > > Now, have a question: > if I shot in B&W (via digital camera), wouldn't that give me a better image, > to work with in Gimp, instead of converting it to Grey Scale?

[Gimp-user] Crop with ratio

2004-11-02 Thread Scott Ainslie
Is there any way that I can set the crop tool to crop to a given ratio? eg: Most prints are all the same ratio (width x height), is there a way that I can set the crop tool to 3x4 and the when I drag the box on an image it will alway be in the ratio of 3x4. ie: Whatever I crop will always print nic

[Gimp-user] Print passport photo template

2004-11-02 Thread Scott Ainslie
An ordinary jumbo print at my local photo lab costs just $0.40 but 4 passport photos, all on 1 jumbo print costs about $4.00. Is the any template that I could simply put an image into and it would create an image that when printed as a jumbo print would have 4 passport photos on it? All I would hav