Re: [Gimp-user] lossless cropping?

2009-02-02 Thread Johan Vromans
zhangwe...@realss.com writes: > Can any recommend such an editor for lossless cropping & rotating, > better even lossless resizing, Lossless resizing? How do you envision that? -- Johan ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https:

Re: [Gimp-user] lossless cropping?

2009-02-02 Thread Greg Chapman
Hi, On 02 Feb 09 08:24 Johan Vromans said: > > Lossless resizing? How do you envision that? 1. Read the file 2. Separate image segment from, Comment, EXIF, IPTC, and other data segments 3. Delete just those bytes that refer to the unwanted parts of the image 4. Reassemble the file, with any r

Re: [Gimp-user] select region inside a rectangle

2009-02-02 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi Adrian, Adrian Dusa wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm a Gimp newbie, using it for a long time but at an amateur level. > > I have the following (hopefully simple) problem: given two rectangles > with a common border, is there a way to select the region *inside* one > rectangle (to fill it with ano

[Gimp-user] Second try at Re: select region inside a rectangle

2009-02-02 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Adrian Dusa wrote: > > I'm a Gimp newbie, using it for a long time but at an amateur level. > > I have the following (hopefully simple) problem: given two rectangles > with a common border, is there a way to select the region *inside* one > rectangle (to fill it with another color), without affec

Re: [Gimp-user] Second try at Re: select region inside a rectangle

2009-02-02 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > Adrian Dusa wrote: > >> I'm a Gimp newbie, using it for a long time but at an amateur level. >> >> I have the following (hopefully simple) problem: given two rectangles >> with a common border, is there a way to select the region *inside* one >> rectangle (to fill it

Re: [Gimp-user] select region inside a rectangle

2009-02-02 Thread Nathan Lane
The GIMP Select tools have several modes including an additive mode which allows you to add a selection area to your current selection area, a difference mode which allows you to select the difference of two selections or subtract an area from a current selection (which sounds kind of like what you

Re: [Gimp-user] lossless cropping?

2009-02-02 Thread Alexander Rabtchevich
I guess lossless means the remained part ot the image hasn't been re-encoded (it has the same jpg data as the original image). Claus Cyrny wrote: > I have to admit that, after following this thread, I still > have no idea what Zhang Wei Wu means by 'lossless 'cropping'. > I understand' lossless c

[Gimp-user] Free textures

2009-02-02 Thread Claus Cyrny
Hi all, after reading the last post in the 'Golden Text' thread, I came up with a number of textures myself. I packed the in a zip archive, and anyone here on the list is free to download them for personal use. I'm actually not sure if those textures tile; an attempt to perform the 'Tile...' opti

Re: [Gimp-user] Free textures

2009-02-02 Thread Mike Williams
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Claus Cyrny wrote: > Ok, the textures are now available at > > http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/downloads/textures.tar.gz > > and > > http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/downloads/textures.zip > > Claus ;-) > Claus, Hi there. That's much better. Both of those are fine. Than

Re: [Gimp-user] lossless cropping?

2009-02-02 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 01:37:24PM +0100, Claus Cyrny wrote: > > I have to admit that, after following this thread, I still > have no idea what Zhang Wei Wu means by 'lossless 'cropping'. > I understand' lossless compression', but cropping is by definition > lossy (you remove part of the original

Re: [Gimp-user] Free textures

2009-02-02 Thread Claus Cyrny
Michael Schumacher wrote: >> Von: Claus Cyrny > >> zip archive: >> >> http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/downloads/textures.zip > > Could you check if this file is a valid zip file? Sorry, the file got corrupted somehow. I'm using Ubuntu's archive manager, and it seems that there's a problem with zi

[Gimp-user] lossless cropping?

2009-02-02 Thread Vlasta
> >Lossless resizing? How do you envision that? > >-- Johan > while I have heard about possible plans about how to do lossless resizing from one of the JPEG guys, it would require extension of the standard and it would only be able to resize to 1/8, 2/8, 3/8, ... of the original size. It does not

Re: [Gimp-user] lossless cropping?

2009-02-02 Thread Claus Cyrny
Greg Chapman wrote: > Hi Alexander, > > On 02 Feb 09 09:26 Alexander Rabtchevich > said: >> I think you mix cropping and resizing :). > > I didn't mix them. I just assumed Johan had. Up till now this thread > had been exclusively about cropping. I have to admit that, after following this thre

[Gimp-user] lossless cropping?

2009-02-02 Thread Vlasta
>On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 01:37:24PM +0100, Claus Cyrny wrote: >> >> I have to admit that, after following this thread, I still >> have no idea what Zhang Wei Wu means by 'lossless 'cropping'. >> I understand' lossless compression', but cropping is by definition >> lossy (you remove part of the ori

[Gimp-user] select region inside a rectangle

2009-02-02 Thread Adrian Dusa
Dear all, I'm a Gimp newbie, using it for a long time but at an amateur level. I have the following (hopefully simple) problem: given two rectangles with a common border, is there a way to select the region *inside* one rectangle (to fill it with another color), without affecting the contents o

Re: [Gimp-user] lossless cropping?

2009-02-02 Thread Alexander Rabtchevich
I think you mix cropping and resizing :). Greg Chapman wrote: > Hi, > > On 02 Feb 09 08:24 Johan Vromans said: > >> Lossless resizing? How do you envision that? >> > > 1. Read the file > 2. Separate image segment from, Comment, EXIF, IPTC, and other data > segments > 3. Delete just thos

Re: [Gimp-user] Free textures

2009-02-02 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 01:29:18PM +0100, Claus Cyrny wrote: > > Could you check if this file is a valid zip file? > > Sorry, the file got corrupted somehow. I'm using Ubuntu's > archive manager, and it seems that there's a problem > with zip files. I now created a tar.gz archive. I'm > not sure

Re: [Gimp-user] Free textures

2009-02-02 Thread Mike Williams
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Michael Schumacher wrote: >> Von: Claus Cyrny >> http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/downloads/textures.zip > > Could you check if this file is a valid zip file? > Sure doesn't work on my system, unzipping resulted in a bunch of error messages and only two files. alliga

Re: [Gimp-user] lossless cropping?

2009-02-02 Thread Greg Chapman
Hi, On 02 Feb 09 12:44 Alexander Rabtchevich said: > I guess lossless means the remained part ot the image hasn't been > re-encoded (it has the same jpg data as the original image). That was what I understood when I made my initial reply. Hence I described the workings of a "jpeg file editor"

Re: [Gimp-user] Free textures

2009-02-02 Thread Michael Schumacher
Claus Cyrny wrote: > http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/downloads/textures.tar.gz > > and > > http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/downloads/textures.zip The files should contain an statement regarding the usage and distribution. Currently, distribution by anyone else then you is disallowed under many jurisdic

Re: [Gimp-user] Free textures

2009-02-02 Thread Claus Cyrny
Jeffrey Brent McBeth wrote: > On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 01:29:18PM +0100, Claus Cyrny wrote: > >>> Could you check if this file is a valid zip file? >> Sorry, the file got corrupted somehow. I'm using Ubuntu's >> archive manager, and it seems that there's a problem >> with zip files. I now created

Re: [Gimp-user] lossless cropping?

2009-02-02 Thread Greg Chapman
Hi Alexander, On 02 Feb 09 09:26 Alexander Rabtchevich said: > I think you mix cropping and resizing :). I didn't mix them. I just assumed Johan had. Up till now this thread had been exclusively about cropping. Greg Chapman ___ Gimp-user mailing li

Re: [Gimp-user] Free textures

2009-02-02 Thread Michael Schumacher
> Von: Claus Cyrny > zip archive: > > http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/downloads/textures.zip Could you check if this file is a valid zip file? Michael -- Pt! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger01