[Gimp-user] Animation of text for home video editing

2005-11-01 Thread Preben Randhol
Hi I'm looking for a tool to make some animations. I'm editing some home videos and I want to add a title screen animation and a scrolling text at the end. But let's concentrate on the first. I have been looking at gap and as far as I see from the tutorials it seems to be a lot of work to make

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem with patterns

2005-11-01 Thread Jim Lynch
/usr/share/gimp/2.0/patterns /home/jwl/.gimp-2.2/patterns The former is where I'm trying to add the pattern. No -s on this directory. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-11-01 07:57 . I also attempted to add the file to the .gimp... directory but it still isn't showing up. I can open the file in

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem with patterns

2005-11-01 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 08:06:26AM -0500, Jim Lynch wrote: When I'm in the pattern screen, and click on a pattern, there is a short description of the pattern displayed, but I can't find any way to see that description when I'm editing a pattern in gimp. Is it possible my converted jpeg

[Gimp-user] Font Problem,

2005-11-01 Thread Michael Luich
Hey everyone, I have a user who keeps getting : font '-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal-*-*-540-72-72-P-*-ISO10646-1' not found. I can recreate it by trying to use the text tool to insert Helvetica bold. RHEL 3 Everyhting seems to be default. I can't seem to figure where it's trying to get this

Re: [Gimp-user] Animation of text for home video editing

2005-11-01 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:51:14AM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: I'm looking for a tool to make some animations. I'm editing some home videos and I want to add a title screen animation and a scrolling text at the end. But let's concentrate on the first. I have been looking at gap and as far

Re: [Gimp-user] Font Problem,

2005-11-01 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 01:07:11PM -0500, Michael Luich wrote: I have a user who keeps getting : font '-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal-*-*-540-72-72-P-*-ISO10646-1' not found. I can recreate it by trying to use the text tool to insert Helvetica bold. RHEL 3 Everyhting seems to be default.

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem with patterns

2005-11-01 Thread Jim Lynch
I found it. The images are ordered alphabetically by the comment. I didnt realize I had left the default comment of Gimp pattern in the image when I saved it. Sorry for the confusion. Jim. On 11/1/05, Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 08:06:26AM -0500, Jim Lynch

[Gimp-user] Can't get this image sharp with GIMP. Any suggestions?

2005-11-01 Thread qeldroma
Hello Gimp-users, i've got a bad digital camera and want to work over the results. Bad in this case means, that i've got good resolution and good results concerning the light, but a bad sharpness. My idea is, that if i've got a good resolution, what the fact is, there must be a way to sharpen

Re: [Gimp-user] Can't get this image sharp with GIMP. Any suggestions?

2005-11-01 Thread patman
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:36:27PM +0100, qeldroma wrote: i've got a bad digital camera and want to work over the results. Bad in this case means, that i've got good resolution and good results concerning the light, but a bad sharpness. My idea is, that if i've got a good resolution, what

Re: [Gimp-user] Can't get this image sharp with GIMP. Any suggestions?

2005-11-01 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:36:27PM +0100, qeldroma wrote: i've got a bad digital camera and want to work over the results. Bad in this case means, that i've got good resolution and good results concerning the light, but a bad sharpness. My idea is, that if i've got a good resolution,

Re: [Gimp-user] Can't get this image sharp with GIMP. Any suggestions?

2005-11-01 Thread Brendan
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 04:48 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:36:27PM +0100, qeldroma wrote: i've got a bad digital camera and want to work over the results. Bad in this case means, that i've got good resolution and good results concerning the light, but a bad

Re: [Gimp-user] Font Problem,

2005-11-01 Thread Matt Gushee
Carol Spears wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 01:07:11PM -0500, Michael Luich wrote: I have a user who keeps getting : font '-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal-*-*-540-72-72-P-*-ISO10646-1' not found. How exactly do they get this message? Does it appear in a GIMP error dialog? I can recreate it

[Gimp-user] double border script

2005-11-01 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
Hi, I'm new to Script-Fu (but not to GIMP) and I'm trying to customize Double Border script by Pavel Antokolsky and Frank Ufie (http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=4899). The very first thing I did is replacing old calls (beginning with gimp-palette-*) to new calls (gimp-context-*) to make it

Re: [Gimp-user] Can't get this image sharp with GIMP. Any suggestions?

2005-11-01 Thread michael chang
On 11/1/05, qeldroma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Gimp-users, i've got a bad digital camera and want to work over the results. Bad in this case means, that i've got good resolution and good results concerning the light, but a bad sharpness. How was the camera being held? Was it sitting on

Re: [Gimp-user] Can't get this image sharp with GIMP. Any suggestions?

2005-11-01 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:36:27PM +0100, qeldroma wrote: Of course, i could do it in Windows using the well known utilities, but i WANT since i do not use Windows and as a linux user, i do not have enough time to discover all of the excellent and well known software available to me, much

Re: [Gimp-user] Can't get this image sharp with GIMP. Any suggestions?

2005-11-01 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] [11-01-05 20:12]: i am sure your willingness to answer will be just as keen as your willingness to ask for help here. touchette ... -- Patrick ShanahanRegistered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org@

Re: [Gimp-user] Can't get this image sharp with GIMP. Any suggestions?

2005-11-01 Thread Kirk Thibault
The image looks blurred by camera shake with the long shutter speed and a non-steady handheld photo. unsharp masking probably won;t help. Try going here: http://registry.gimp.org/list?category=12 and looking at the plug-ins that refocus the blurry image. I have not used these plug-ins,

Re: [Gimp-user] Can't get this image sharp with GIMP. Any suggestions?

2005-11-01 Thread Tim E. Jedlicka - wrk
gimp wise you could try Filters-Unsharp Mask. But as for the camera - I couldn't tell from the sample pic if it is a focus problem. Is it focusing someplace else - easier to tell if there is more depth in the photo. Take a snap of a brick wall from an angle, or snap a photo of some stairs. Is

[Gimp-user] Select by color

2005-11-01 Thread Bruno Silva de Oliveira
Hi everyone! I'm new in the list, but I think a can ask some things... Does anybody knows how the select by color, or more precisely, the threshold works. How does the GIMP makes the selection using the threshold interval and how does this threshlold works in the tree channels (R,G and B)? I'm