Alf C Stockton writes:
Is there any way to stitch photos together using the gimp ?
I've never managed to get panotools working, so I wrote a simple
plugin called pandora to help automate the stitching process described
in Grokking the Gimp.
http://www.shallowsky.com/software/pandora/
In a local LUG, we're trying an App of the Month format with GIMP
as the first app, and I thought it might be helpful to people if
I posted some ideas for projects to get them started. I'm reposting
it here in case anyone's interested, either in project ideas for
yourself, or for friends who are
Robin Laing writes:
One thing that I have read is making multiple exposures with digital
cameras and then adding the photos together.
One common operation is stacking: as you add layer N to the image,
make the layer mask's transparency be 1/N. So the first layer is
the background at 100%, the
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(Regarding needing to expand the Save As dialog to show directories:)
Pasi Savolainen writes:
I keep original photos in a separate directory tree. After modifying
them with gimp, they're saved in a folder of my choice. Which happens to
be never the one I open image from (and which is suggested
David Holland writes:
Sorry I am very new to using the GIMP.
How do I add a speech bubble to a picture ?
I had a lesson on that in the Linuxchix GIMP course:
it was the second half of Lesson 5 in
http://www.linuxchix.org/content/courses/gimp/
If you're new to the gimp and haven't used layers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I want to include full page images of a magazine article in a new document.
A single scanned page comes in at about 3.5 MB as a png (saved directly to
png from the scan). Any suggestions as
to how I might reduce that?
Try Image-Mode-Indexed, and play with the
Sven Neumann wrote, regarding an indicator for selection visibility:
Now what do you suggest? What kind of indication would you have expected?
David Marrs writes:
A message in the status bar makes sense to me. Off the top of my head, a
marching-ants outline of an irregular shape (so as not to
Olivier Lecarme writes:
I just bought a Wacom Intuos tablet, A5 format.
[ ... ]
and my tablet is now recognized by Gimp (2.2), with the three devices
(stylus, eraser, and mouse).
However, I cannot manage to have a different behavior for these three
devices. In the Devices dialog, only the
Sven Neumann writes:
I consider to change what GIMP uses the Space key for and would like
to get some user feedback on this. Currently, pressing the Space key
temporarily switches to the move tool.
Spacebar to switch temporarily to move is awfully useful. I didn't
know about it until this
Richard Nagle writes:
When looking at a gimp file .xcf, and want to print out that file (photo)
I used export.. gimp wanted me to flatten the layers, I did not want to
do that...
Some of what you and Michael Chang describe seems foreign to me,
which made me wonder what platform you're on -- I
Jad Madi writes:
Today I took some shots but I've forgot to disable macro,
actually all was great shots, but macro screwed them up
In what way did it screw them up?
The most common way is that they'll be out of focus -- the camera
is set to only focus on close things, and you pointed at
Jonathan Allen writes:
I have a first-time question. In general terms, how can I change all the
pixels of one colour within a hand-drawn selection into another colour ?
Select by color, Fill
But that selects all the black text in the guf, not just the one letter
I need to colour.
A discussion on IRC about the new crop tool revealed that there are
lots of different use cases for cropping. They're all important, and
it's important to make sure there's a list of them so that the new
crop tool will handle them.
Here's a start. I hope people will jump in and fill in the
Eric P writes:
Exactly. Where are all the English Gimp 2.x books? I think I've seen 2
French books so far, and that's it.
I'm working on a GIMP book, for Apress. It won't be out until next
year, unfortunately (delays in the publishing process): we're
currently aiming at April 2006. It will
Helen writes:
I have a photo of a dark red flower against a dark background.
I've tried tedious ways to lighten the background without changing the
flower,
but the details of the flower are too tiny. So I'm browsing tutorials.
Should I
be learning about masks? About layers? A hint how I can
Yannick Patois writes:
When I hack a picture taken with my sony-dsc-s80 camera with the gimp,
if I export in jpg, I cant read its format any more (the camera display
file error instead of the hacked content).
(and the same with a digital print machine)
I wonder if they need EXIF information
Manish Singh writes:
But one of Myke's problems was that he managed to get the gimp-devel
package installed without having glib-devel installed. This means that
SuSE users trying to get gimp-devel working (e.g. to compile
plug-ins) will probably also need to install XFree86-libs-dev.
I don't
Helen writes:
The Page Curl filter -- can it be adjusted so that the page is
less curled. Curled only on the corner, for example, or
only a quarter of the page?
Try selecting only a part of the page (at the side or corner where
you want the curl). You can control how much is curled by
Mike Williams writes:
Pretty sure that Carol is correct, I've never installed gimp on windows,
but I would be very surprised if the windows installation changed the
associations without asking.
The current 2.2 installer asks during the install, and defaults to
no for all file types except
Matthew Whitlock writes:
Carol, I tried looking at indexing. Doesn't seem to effect it.
Attached is a small image of a quickly drawn cirle that shows
the facetting that I am experiencing.
It looks like your system isn't reading all the mouse positions,
only getting some of the mouse motion
Robert Citek writes:
I'm slowing getting familiar with gimp/gimpshop. And so I thought I
would try a couple of toy problems. One toy problem is to create a
venn diagram. The resulting image would look something like a Visa
logo, except the colors of the circles would be blue and
Zhang Weiwu writes:
Hello. After read some GIMP tutorials and practised a little bit, I feel
like that I can make an image like in this example:
gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/I/users/weiwu/trans_sample.jpeg
Looks really simple, I can do this image in OpenOffice Draw in 3 mintues:
open the
matt1027 writes:
Does anyone have any tips or tutorials for making an edge that looks like
torn paper, ragged and semi-transparent?
Is the script-fu Decor-Fuzzy Border similar to what you're looking for?
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Gilles Maltais writes:
In the past, CRT monitors were considered better because the displayed
gamut was wider, the color consistency (same color in different areas)
was better and greater resolutions were offered when compared to LCDs.
For basic low-end displays (the ones you see on
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 09:01:18AM -0400, John R. Culleton wrote:
When I start Gimp 2.3.7 it starts with a paintbrush. I would rather
it started with the rectangular select tool. Somewhere in
.gimp-2.3 is a value that sets this option I suspect. But I
haven't found it yet.
Carol Spears
Carol Spears writes:
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:49:52PM -0700, Akkana Peck wrote:
That works for me, but if it doesn't work for you, try the
Input Devices category of Preferences and click on Save Input
Device Settings Now. That should save the tool, colors, brush,
pattern and gradient
John Minson writes:
Is there a bult in function to center layes ?
There isn't exactly, but you can cheat: Cut, then Paste. When
pasted, the layer shows up centered instead of where it was before.
...Akkana http://gimpbook.com
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Brad Simmons writes:
I've used GIMP's pencil tool, and as I expected, it draw a thick, very
pixellated line. For me to do callouts, I want a thin, straight line
which will not be so pixellated. This is easy in Photoshop, because it
To eliminate the pixellation, use the paintbrush tool (which
Wade Smart writes:
I asked about this Drop Shadow and someone responded back that
I have to click on color button - but I dont have that.
I have from top to bottom: Shadow Blur, Bevel the Image,
Make a drop shadow, x displacement, y displacement,
ok and cancel.
It sounds like you're
Jeffrey Brent McBeth writes:
I would consider mouse toggling to be an accessibility issue best dealt with
at a desktop level (GTK/Gnome/Whatever) rather than application specific
hacks.
When I saw the original request I was thinking of suggesting a
sticky mouse option, equivalent to the sticky
David Fleming writes:
[details of problem with Perspective tool]
or is there a bug here? I am getting a little frustrated with perspective
drawings.
In case it isn't one of the problems that has already been
suggested: How are you moving the layer? Clicking on the move tool,
dragging the layer,
Sven Neumann writes:
On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 21:52 -0500, Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:
Thanks for confirming that it is not intentional behavior, that's all I
need to hear.
You misunderstood me. It is of course intentional that you don't need to
use a checkbox in the tool options to do something
Sven Neumann writes:
Now the question is, which color selectors do you actually use? I have
myself never found the Watercolor selector to be useful. But your
mileage might vary. Tell me about it.
I only use the default selector. I like the UI for the triangle
selector in theory (maybe because
Michael J. Hammel writes:
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 23:50 -0800, Germain Le Chapelain
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would like to know who to copy the alpha channel of an image to
another image.
1. Merge visible layers of the source image.
2. Copy visible layer of source image
3. Create new image for
Dave M G writes:
(On a side note, when I scan my installed packages, I don't even see
Gimp-Print 4.2. It seems like I *only* have Gutenprint 5.0 installed. So
why is GIMP saying, in the About button in the print interface) that
I'm using 4.2?
It might be that your GIMP is including an old
Alex Feldman writes:
I have limited experience with Gimp, almost all of it with photographs,
and essentially none with Inkscape. I want to make some simple maps of
trails in the area, and mark them with mileages and a few comments. My
plan was to download the photographs of the area from
Fabrizio Lippolis writes:
I use GIMP working on digital images and I often need to crop images
respecting the original ratio. Is there any easy way to do it? To
perform this task I reduce the length for example, then I calculate how
many pixels should be in height respecting the ratio with
Alex Feldman writes:
Gthumb almost gives me a nice way to do this, presenting me with a
page of thumbnails that I can select from, and then rotate the selected
ones all at once. Trouble is, you then have to go through and
individually save each image to get it to take. Does anyone know
DJ wrote:
My latest problem. I have a very nice black and white photo of a
couple. The only problem is the man's right arm and part of his chest
are too light. I tried using the cloning and smudge tool, but it
Andrew writes:
If that's really all you want, do just that. Use the rectange
Don Selkirk writes:
I am using GIMP 2.2.15 in Windows XP. My clone tool has stopped
responding as I expect.
[ ... ]
Now when I hold the left mouse button to start cloning the cross hairs
appear under my mouse pointer instead of the area I selected for
cloning. The image does not change.
You
Victor Domingos writes:
I am testing a Wacom Graphire 4 tablet in my Mac (PPC) and
appearently I can't use its pressure sensitivity in GIMP. Has anyone
managed to use a graphics tablet in GIMP, under Mac OS X? Is X11 for
Mac compatible with this feature?
My understanding is that Apple's
On 8/6/07, Rei Shinozuka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is there a (relatively) simple way to add a galen rowell filter.
that's the late national geographic photographer to made great use
out of graduated color filters to bring out the colors in sunset,
David Gowers writes:
otherwise: no, by
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
While looking into this, I notice that autocropping an image uses the
active layer, not the projection, to determine the resultant image
boundaries. (Would this be a bug?)
If you want a plug-in that crops the image according to the contents
of all layers, not just the
Manuel Reimer writes:
Hello,
I know, that it's possible to set a default value while
script-fu-register, but is it also possible to set a default value,
based on some information fetched by a small script?
One thing I've done is calculate the default value before calling
Adam Wieland writes:
I liked that the box
came up showing the dimensions of your image as it was changing. I
needed this to be able to crop perfect squares.
I just watch the numbers that show in the tool options. Much more
convenient than the old dialog that always came up on top of the
Leon Brooks GIMP writes:
So I started wondering: is it feasible to do something like
make the selection's borders gently more fuzzy or
translucent when a selection is feathered?
I'm assuming you're talking about the marching ants when you say
selection borders, and it's an interesting
Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You enter the desired aspect
ratio in the Crop tool options, like 16:9, and it will use that whenever
you press Shift (or lock the ratio using the check button next to the
Jeffery Small writes:
In my 2.4.2 version running on Solaris 10/SPARC under
Alex Feldman writes:
I haven't upgraded to 2.4 yet. Is the notion of an active vector new to
2.4, or is it something I have been missing all along?
Try making a path with two disconnected parts.
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Owen writes:
AFAIK, there was an exif plugin for the Gimp, but I can't find it now.
There was an exif reading plug-in on the old registry (I forget who
wrote it -- Simon Budig?) It was read-only; it couldn't change an
image's exif. It doesn't seem to be on the new registry. Is there
any way
Michael Schumacher writes:
Von: Akkana Peck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there any way to get to the old registry to grab a copy of
older plug-ins?
Yes, there is. The link to the archive is given in the switch announcement:
http://registry.gimp.org/node/235
Thanks! The old exif-browser plug
Michael J. Hammel writes:
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 23:41 +0100, Daniel Hornung wrote:
But maybe one of the
actual book writers on this list may tell you more. *hint*
I guess that's my cue. :-)
Me too :-) except Michael has already covered it so well.
The only thing I'll add is that when I
D. R. Evans writes:
I have a simple PNG image, and I'd like to change the top half so that at
the very top the image is completely transparent, with the opacity
increasing linearly so that halfway down the image (and all the way to the
bottom) the image has 100% opacity.
I've messed with
Shin Diggar writes:
It's something that's very common on badges and logos, and here is a mock-up
I made to simulate what I'd like GIMP to do for me:
http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/4541/textsr9.png
Curve Bend (under Distorts) does exactly that. You can set the upper
and lower shapes
satimis writes:
I have been googling a while searching for Gimp template and tutorial to
design business card without result, only Photoshop tutorial found. Can any
folk point me to the right direction. TIA
I've made business cards with GIMP: I wrote a script to generate an
image of the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Quoting ChadDavis [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've got a rectangle selection. Now, I am trying to do a subtractive
selection within that rectangular selection, to make a sort of picture frame
selection. The problem is that I'm having trouble getting the inner,
Robert Kennedy writes:
After more testing and investigation, it looks like AWN is NOT to
blame in breaking the gimp in Hardy Heron
[ ... ]
But then I did a sudo ldconfig. Then gimp stopped working. (But
gimpshop still worked). If you did a ldd `which gimp-2.4`, you would
see the gimp
Gene Heskett writes:
I'm back again, trying to crop an image, again, yet, still.
I can cut and cut and cut till I have what I want, but not even the zealous
crop will get rid of the image area cut, it is still part of the image even
[ ... ]
Darnit, I want to see the crosshatch indicating
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2008-10-27 at 1842.17 +0100):
That looks like one of the Fixed fonts shipped with the X-Server.
Since Gimp no longer uses the X11-mechanisms for font selection it no
longer shows up in the font dialog. You need to somehow convince
fontconfig to provide that font as
Marco Presi writes:
If you want to artificially change the colors, I think the best way to
do it, is to do it in a selective manner:
1) duplicate the layer of the original photo
2) change the color of the duplicate layer by using the color balance
tool to reach the sky tonality you want
Martin Nordholts writes:
Leonard Evens wrote:
I recently upgraded my main computer to Fedora 9 from Fedora 7. When I
brought gimp up and clicked on 'about' under Help, a window came up
claiming it is gimp 2.4.1. But the package is designated 2-2.4.7, from
which I conclude it is really
How do I upgrade to v 2.6.x of Gimp on Ubuntu?
I don't think you are going to be able to do this.
To do so requires a number of updated libraries, glib,gtk, babl and
gegl are 4 off the top of my head and I am pretty sure the 8.04
repositories wont hold these.
You can do it by building
Dave 77459 writes:
Thanks for the pointer. Do you have a recommendation for settings?
GIMPressionist seems to overlap brushes, rather than varying the size to fit
available spaces without overlap.
The Marble madness preset in GIMPressionist does something similar
to your example, but with a
Frank Barknecht writes:
I have to do some tedious work, namely crop many images to four aspect
ratios: 4:3, 3:4, 1:1 and 4:1. For each image I need to select
the picture detail to preserve manually, so this cannot be automated.
[ ... ]
I already saved some Tool Presets for setting the options
Carusoswi writes:
Also, although I was meticulous in measuring for and laying out the template,
my cards did not line up with the pre-cut forms that we had purchased.
Martin already answered your questions about units, so I'll just
address this part. I've done business cards and labels in gimp
malefico writes:
I wonder if there is any way to turn off the Snap to Guides option
[ ... ]
Thank you David, I know where the option is, but it is always on by
default. Is there any way to turn it off by default ? So when Gimp
starts it is unchecked ?
In GIMP 2.6, no. In GIMP 2.7, yes (as
STINGER wibblywobblyteapot.co.uk writes:
If I use the paths tool and drag to move I get a horrible green mess of
breadcrumbs where the tool has been. I also get this on any other tools
when moving around. I've tried it on two different machines now (both
running Ubuntu) and I can't stop it.
So I tried that, but still NOTHING. Question, It IS with the bucket fill
tool
that I should be able to access the .pat files right?
DJ writes:
Yes and no. There is also the Patterns Dialog (see more below).
[ lots more info about where to view your GIMP patterns,
but not on how to
Alec Burgess writes:
To get them created individually it looks like [Filters-Animation-Save
Layers] does the trick. If renumbering make sure to include enough ~'s
to cover total number of pattern files being written and specify an
extension] eg:
DJ writes:
Whenever I have used File Open Location, I've gotten an error. I
thought I'd revisit it again while going through a tutorial on
blending modes. I got the same error, No such file or directory. Yet,
I can right-click and Save Image As with no problem. I got the url
by
John Culleton writes:
I am making a chart of all the different logos under the
FileCreateLogos submenu. The Chalk Logo doesn't seem to work.
I see the same thing. The problem is the Sobel filter.
If you go through the steps in chalk.scm by hand, everything is fine
until the point where it
Patrick Horgan writes:
If you're trying to use the lasso it's frustrating like that, you have to do
the whole thing in one complex wack. If instead you use the path tool you can
(and in another message)
In my link to the selection tutorial I should have given credit to Akkana Peck
whose
thomas w. writes:
For example, I want to merge two pictures, by taking some regions from one
picture and some from another. I though I could do this by making unwanted
regions transparent - this seems obvious.
Yes, that's exactly the way to do it. And the best way to do that
is to make a layer
Noel Stoutenburg writes:
I have a topographical map, and I want to apply a color gradient which
follows the contour lines of the map, and blends from a darker hue at
the lower contour to a lighter hue at the next higher contour. The
Have you used Shaped gradients? I think they'll help a
John Meyer writes:
Then you're probably going to want to crop out a square part of the picture
and adjust that.
Agreed -- Crop is what you want.
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vr writes:
Oops, after poking around a bit more I realize now that the actual crop
tool's selector is more friendly than the selection tool selector for what
I'm trying to do. I guess the real question I'm asking is how do you get
the selection tool to operate like the crop tools selector?
Denis G. writes:
I am wanting to make an outline
drawing of the people in the photo and adding a letter or number in the
outlines so I can identify the people in the photo,much like they do in
newspapers to identify people in a large group photo.
Owen writes:
Use the foreground select tool.
Gene Heskett writes:
So my question is: Where do I put the BR2140.ppd that cups uses so that the
gutenprint plug-in can also find it? The regular print dialog has no
knowledge of this printer, and nowhere near enough controls to be usable.
The regular (GTK) print dialog should see
Philip Rhoades writes:
What still doesn't make sense is that if the original file is JPG and
one simply opens it and then saves it as another JPG file with 100%
Because JPEG isn't meant to be saved at 100% quality.
The JPEG FAQ, http://www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq/part1/section-5.html, says:
Martin Nordholts writes:
Ken Warner wrote:
Yeah, I hate that too. What's the point of having a floating window
if you can never bring it to the top of the stack?
Edit - Preferences - Window Management, change the toolbox and dock
hints to 'Normal window'
Except that you can't use that
helices writes:
I have a simple JPG (108x170 pixels) that I want to use in a larger,
higher resolution image that I'm creating. It is a fairly simple black
and white drawing -- actually, a light bulb with several curves and
angles and straight lines.
Yes, I have expanded it to 1000x1575
2010/1/27 bigsk...@gmail.com:
Is there a typical or standard monitor resolution a web site should be
designed for?
Deniz Dogan writes:
I virtually always make the assumption that the user has at least
1024x768 and make my websites 960 pixels wide. Last time I checked
only 4 percent of
helices writes:
When I'm editing an image and I want to crop that image so it will print
8x10 or 5x8 or whatever, I'm challenged by adjusting the selection box
to exactly the right proportions.
The Crop tool's options includes a checkbox for Fixed: Aspect ratio
and a field where you can type
ChrisBrewster writes:
I've already done a couple of things with Gimp that made me think I was
getting it, but now I need to use some brush tools such as Smudge. So I click
the Smudge icon, put the cursor on the image, press the mouse key and drag,
and it doesn't do anything. In other image
Gene Heskett writes:
Greetings;
My text font size is microscopic, and the help shows an option menu that lets
me adjust that, but I'll be a monkey's uncle if I can find it. Anybody know
where it wandered off to in gimp-2.6.6 as supplied with Fedora 10?
You should have a text size button
Carusoswi writes:
If I print from 2.7, the Turboprint option is not available and, while I can
get my i960 to work, full functionality is not available.
I don't know where this Turboprint option is, but if it's a separate
Print option in GIMP's File menu, my guess is that Turboprint is
Philip U. writes:
Is there no way to do this? I want to use an elliptical selection, but at an
angle.
Use the Transform selection button in the tool options for the
Rotate tool. Described here:
http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-tools-transform.html#gimp-tool-transform
...Akkana
Von: Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org
I am looking at GIMP 2.6.8 on Ubuntu 10.04 RC and notice that the usual
display of the ruler units and zoom percentage, below the image, is missing
Michael Schumacher writes:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=612956
You should try
Ludmilla writes:
Thank you. I can create the hotspots on the picture I'm using but how
do I add it into my web page? I'm using Kompozer which doesn't want to
import the thing.it's a MAP file or some sort of thing.
I wonder if you have found out how it works - to insert a hotspot in
Nathan H. writes:
Someone told me there was an ARC plug-in for CD labels, can I use this on my
windows based version of GIMP2?
Probably arclayer: http://shallowsky.com/software/arclayer/
It's in Python, so it should work on Windows as long as you have
gimp-python enabled.
That script Saul
Per Tunedal writes:
I would be happy if there was two more filters:
remove green eyes and remove yellow eyes.
Or maybe a filter with an option to chose which colour to remove.
I've wanted that too. You can do it the old way (the way we used
before the red-eye filter was added in GIMP 2.4):
Mark Phillips writes:
P.S. I have also tried Hugin, which I could not get to work,
[ ... ]
I had a lot of trouble creating the points. I installed Hugin from the
Debian respositories (v 2010.0.0.5045) and out of the box I got the error
message about the non-free point calculating module. I
Leonard Evens writes:
I had previously posted something saying I had trouble installing the
script
pandora-combine-0.9.3.scm
under gimp 2.6.11 running under Fedora 14.
To see the resolution of this problem look at
/registry.gimp.org/node/25080
which includes my statement of the
Noel Stoutenburg writes:
If you want to make changes to an existing text layer, in the layer
dialog, make the layer containing the text you want to change the active
layer, and then click on any bit of the text in the layer. [ ... ]
[ ... ] As long as each text element is an
individual
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