Re: [Gimp-user] PNG vs JPG

2007-08-23 Thread Michael Schumacher
Von: arnuld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why JPG is so lightweight as compared to PNG ? (even when image doe snot have any transparency) Because JPEG has been designed to be this way. It does achieve higher compression at the cost of quality loss. The features of both file formats are explained in

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.3.18 and script-fu errors

2007-08-23 Thread David Woodfall
On (22:49 22/08/07), Pere Pujal i Carabantes [EMAIL PROTECTED] put forth the proposition: El dc 22 de 08 del 2007 a les 12:43 +0100, en/na David Woodfall va escriure: I have just downloaded and tested two scripts and get the same error with each: Error: Set!: Unbound variable: new

[Gimp-user] jpeg compression levels

2007-08-23 Thread Andrew
Hello, I need to make a JPEG saved at a high quality setting (i.e. Photoshop level 10 or above). Since I don't know what Photoshop is ;), could someone please tell me what the equivalent would be using GIMP? TIA, Andrew ___ Gimp-user mailing list

Re: [Gimp-user] A GIMP book - What GIMP version does it cover?

2007-08-23 Thread DJ
Hi Dotan, Hi Gimp-user, A friend sent me a link to a new GIMP book, The Artist's Guide to GIMP Effects to be published this month. There was a reference to it in the Javascript book he was reading from the same publisher. The sample tutorial looked good.

Re: [Gimp-user] jpeg compression levels

2007-08-23 Thread Raphaƫl Quinet
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:31:27 +0200, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to make a JPEG saved at a high quality setting (i.e. Photoshop level 10 or above). Since I don't know what Photoshop is ;), could someone please tell me what the equivalent would be using GIMP? Here is a table that

Re: [Gimp-user] A GIMP book

2007-08-23 Thread Michael J. Hammel
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:12:39 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Very nice, the sample chapters were amazing. This seems to be written for Gimp 2.2, but 2.4 will have significant changes. Can you (or the author) address that issue? The first part of the introduction in the book covers this. It took 2

Re: [Gimp-user] A GIMP book

2007-08-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 23/08/07, Michael J. Hammel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're interested in dicussing the book or issues related to the GIMP, I set up a web site for the book: http://www.graphics-muse.org/artistsguide/ That site looks like an unofficial blog- it does not due justice to the sample chapters

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.3.18 and script-fu errors

2007-08-23 Thread Pere Pujal i Carabantes
El dj 23 de 08 del 2007 a les 09:49 +0100, en/na David Woodfall va escriure: On (22:49 22/08/07), Pere Pujal i Carabantes [EMAIL PROTECTED] put forth the proposition: El dc 22 de 08 del 2007 a les 12:43 +0100, en/na David Woodfall va escriure: Error: Set!: Unbound variable: new

Re: [Gimp-user] Some questions about script-fu and tinyscheme.

2007-08-23 Thread Pere Pujal i Carabantes
For now, I've worked around as this, but looks ugly: (for-each (lambda (z)(write-char z txt-output-file ))(string-list text-string)) better as this: (display text-string txt-output-file) BTW The gimp script-fu console segfaults typing something like (let* (a 1)) Should I post a bug

Re: [Gimp-user] jpeg compression levels

2007-08-23 Thread Jeffery Small
=?UTF-8?B?UmFwaGHDq2w=?= Quinet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is probably way more information that you were expecting. The short answer is: set your GIMP quality level to 93 or higher (but in fact, 90 should be OK). And set the subsampling to 1x1,1x1,1x1. Raphael: Where do you set this? Is

Re: [Gimp-user] jpeg compression levels

2007-08-23 Thread Andrew
Jeffery Small wrote: =?UTF-8?B?UmFwaGHDq2w=?= Quinet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is probably way more information that you were expecting. The short answer is: set your GIMP quality level to 93 or higher (but in fact, 90 should be OK). And set the subsampling to 1x1,1x1,1x1.

Re: [Gimp-user] Watermarking photographs---

2007-08-23 Thread Kevin Cozens
Richard Oliver wrote: I have downloaded the ImageMagick program,but for the life of me I cannot get it installed / launched so perhaps you could render some more help ?? Make sure you downloaded one of the executable installer packages and not the source code of ImageMagick. I noticed that