Re: [Gimp-user] Photo stitch

2003-03-31 Thread Akkana Peck
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/

[Gimp-user] Learning GIMP: Some Project Ideas

2003-08-01 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP hints for astrophotography tweaking

2004-12-03 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] virus?

2005-02-14 Thread Akkana Peck
In case anyone's interested in the last Received: header on that message, here it is: Delivered-To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Received: from kamery.org (pe113.radomsko.sdi.tpnet.pl [217.96.203.113]) by lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU (Postfix) with SMTP id 28EDC11418 for

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Default mode for file dialog

2005-03-24 Thread Akkana Peck
(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

Re: [Gimp-user] Speech bubble

2005-04-08 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Making image sizes smaller

2005-04-27 Thread Akkana Peck
[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

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: when even free advertising fails

2005-05-08 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] configuration of a Wacom Intuos tablet

2005-05-09 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] use of the Space key

2005-05-24 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Export and Print vs Save then Print ( Bug ? )

2005-06-28 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Digital camera - Macro to normal

2005-07-04 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie Question

2005-07-11 Thread Akkana Peck
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.

[Gimp-user] Crop Tool Use Cases

2005-08-23 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Livre sur Gimp

2005-09-05 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] lighten background

2005-10-24 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] How to create jpeg files compatible with a sony camera?

2005-12-03 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] compiling on SuSE (was Add Glow and Center Layer)

2005-12-11 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Page Curl filter

2005-12-12 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Uninstaller?

2006-01-24 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Smoothing Brush Strokes

2006-01-26 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] blue + yellow = green

2006-02-25 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] newbie: does adding transparent square has to be so complicated?

2006-03-14 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] torn edge

2006-03-18 Thread Akkana Peck
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? ...Akkana ___ Gimp-user mailing list

Re: [Gimp-user] lcd or crt monitor

2006-03-19 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Startup values

2006-04-04 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Startup values

2006-04-05 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] centering layers(newbie)

2006-05-18 Thread Akkana Peck
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 ___

Re: [Gimp-user] Lines and arrowheads in GIMP?

2006-06-28 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] re: Drop Shadow Question

2006-06-29 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: GIMP can induce De Quervain's disease

2006-07-07 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Building perspective objects

2006-07-21 Thread Akkana Peck
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,

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: rect-select: suppress 'expand from center' key or gesture shortcut

2006-11-05 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Color selectors, which one do you use?

2006-12-05 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Copy the alpha channel from an image to another

2007-02-13 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP won't support installed printer?

2007-02-23 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp or inkscape?

2007-04-06 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] cropping respecting ratio

2007-05-14 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] (no subject)

2007-05-16 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] How to spot fix a large area that is too light

2007-05-23 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Clone Tool Not Responding as Expected

2007-06-29 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Using Wacom Graphire 4 in GIMP (Mac OS X/X11)

2007-06-30 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] galen rowell filter?

2007-08-05 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] I need to know how much was cropped with autocrop

2007-08-08 Thread Akkana Peck
[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

Re: [Gimp-user] How to set default value for Script-Fu scripts?

2007-09-16 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Dislike new crop tool

2007-11-08 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Feathered selections

2007-11-14 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Alt Key

2007-12-20 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] new cute python line drawing script

2008-01-08 Thread Akkana Peck
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. ...Akkana ___ Gimp-user mailing list

Re: [Gimp-user] digital camera photo settings

2008-02-10 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] digital camera photo settings

2008-02-15 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] 300 dpi screen capture

2008-02-22 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Q: How to apply transparent gradient to image?

2008-03-24 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] How to make text fit a shape, not just follow a path?

2008-04-11 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP template and tutorial for designing business card

2008-05-10 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] subtract selection control

2008-07-08 Thread Akkana Peck
[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,

Re: [Gimp-user] gimpshop breaks Gimp 2.4 in Ubuntu Hardy Heron

2008-07-24 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Empty skull, vacated because I can't crop an image and its driving me to drink.

2008-09-05 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Identify old GIMP font

2008-10-28 Thread Akkana Peck
[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

Re: [Gimp-user] sky question

2008-11-16 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Puzzle about my version of gimp

2008-11-21 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] How to update GIMP in Ubuntu?

2008-12-16 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Bubble effect

2009-02-01 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Cropping to multiple aspect ratios (was Using Tool Options in Scripts)

2009-02-04 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] labels (was: Change ruler to inches)

2009-03-22 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Snap to Guides by default

2009-04-08 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Green Stripes On Tools?

2009-05-29 Thread Akkana Peck
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.

Re: [Gimp-user] How to import Photoshop .pat files?

2009-06-02 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] How to import Photoshop .pat files?

2009-06-03 Thread Akkana Peck
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:

Re: [Gimp-user] File Open Location - No such file or directory

2009-06-13 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Chalk Logo doesn't work.

2009-07-31 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] How to move image when selecting?

2009-08-18 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] how to use layers

2009-08-25 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] WHat are my options, here

2009-09-21 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Urgently need to adjust photograph size

2009-11-17 Thread Akkana Peck
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. ...Akkana ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU

Re: [Gimp-user] Reduce or crop an image by N pixels?

2009-11-20 Thread Akkana Peck
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?

Re: [Gimp-user] Outline people in photos

2009-12-15 Thread Akkana Peck
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.

[Gimp-user] Printing (was Re: running out of hair)

2009-12-28 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] JPG file size increases with saving

2010-01-15 Thread Akkana Peck
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:

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: GIMP vs Photoshop

2010-01-20 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] How to enhance low resolution graphic for larger modified image ???

2010-01-26 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Web resolution question

2010-01-27 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] How to crop with defined aspect ratio ???

2010-02-03 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Beginner: Selected tool has no effect

2010-02-11 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Text tool options menu, where is it?

2010-03-12 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and Turboprint

2010-03-27 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate selection without content?

2010-04-18 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP 2.6.8

2010-04-28 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Create a clickable hotspot?

2010-07-12 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] curving text (text to path?)

2010-09-12 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Removal of yellow and green eyes

2010-11-03 Thread Akkana Peck
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):

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Questions About Creating Panoramas From Several Images

2010-11-29 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem with pandora script resolved

2011-02-21 Thread Akkana Peck
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Changing a Text Layer

2011-05-11 Thread Akkana Peck
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