Re: [Gimp-user] Image resizing based upon image content

2007-10-04 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Thursday 04 October 2007, Konstantin Svist wrote: Kevin Cozens wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: There is an amazing video describing an image resizing algorithm that removes (or adds) pixels based upon their importance to the subjecto of the photo. Can this be implemented in The Gimp?

Re: [Gimp-user] Using shift with selection tools

2007-10-16 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Tuesday 16 October 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote: I see that some modifier keys perform two different functions when used in conjunction with the select tools. Shift with the ellipse selector, for instance, forces circles if held while dragging. If it is held while releasing the mouse button,

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp says cannot open image

2007-12-16 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Sunday 16 December 2007, Helen wrote: Does anyone have any ideas about what happened, or how I might recover. (Actually, I just realized this is not, strictly speaking a Gimp question -- it's just that I use Gimp. I apologize if this is off-subject.) So can other programs open those

Re: [Gimp-user] Alt Key

2007-12-19 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Thomas Worthington wrote: Is there any way to restore the Alt key to its old usage in 2.4? I can't drag selections anymore because it requires Alt and mouse at the same time, which is a problem on Linux. It's a problem in some (most?) window managers, not with

Re: [Gimp-user] Alt Key

2007-12-20 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Robert Smits wrote: Windows key? What is this mythical key? It is certainly not evident on any of my keyboards. It's the one with the flying (i.e. moving) window. But I'm afraid some malicous company grabbed it as their trade mark without even implementing the

Re: [Gimp-user] Alt Key

2007-12-20 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Scott wrote: Actually, moving a selection in Gimp 2.4 is easier than it was in 2.2. Simply left click within the selected region and drag... no modifier keys needed and no need to grab the edge of the selection when doing so. I just did this in 2.4.1 in KDE 3.5.8

Re: [Gimp-user] Alt Key

2007-12-21 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Friday 21 December 2007, Jeffery Small wrote: I think if you hold shift before beginning to drag the mouse, then it should also lock the aspect ratio. I'd guess this is to make the crop tool's use consistent with the rectangle/ ellipse selection tools, where pressing modifier keys _before_

Re: [Gimp-user] explenation for layer mode needed

2008-02-02 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Saturday 02 February 2008, Axel Wernicke wrote: Hi list, there are two layer modes that I don't understand: Grain extract and Grain merge is there an example of the usage somewhere on the net? There is, possibly even on your hard drive:

Re: [Gimp-user] cannot install gimp 2.4.4

2008-02-13 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Khoem Sokhem wrote: Hello all, I cannot install via yast -i gimp or zypper in gimp in my openSUSE 10.3. I tried both command in my konsole but does not work. any idea? Thanks, Sokhem What exactly does not work? What's suse's current version your

Re: [Gimp-user] 300 dpi screen capture

2008-02-22 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Friday 22 February 2008, ChadDavis wrote: I'm trying to take some screen captures that will be used in a book. How do I set the resolution / dpi of the screen capture device? I tried setting the defulat new image parameters, but it doesn't seem to be used by the screen capture device.

Re: [Gimp-user] stroking path with 1 pixel width brush is semiopaque

2008-03-25 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, dorai iyer wrote: I selected a 1 pixel thick brush to stroke the drawn path onto an image. When I stroked the path, the color of the stroke appears semi transparent. Is there a way to make it appear completely solid. Thanks You could turn off antialiasing (extension

Re: [Gimp-user] black white

2008-04-11 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Friday 11 April 2008, norman wrote: I am trying to gather information on how to convert from colour to black white. In my searches I came across the following which is in photoshop:- http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/tutorial_pages/elements_2/PSE2_BW.html Could some kind person please

Re: [Gimp-user] black white

2008-04-12 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Saturday 12 April 2008, norman wrote: I have looked but this does not answer my specific question, unfortunately. I cannot believe my question was so obscure that no one has been able to answer it yet. Perhaps it is too simple and I am missing the point somewhere. Norman Yes, maybe you

Re: [Gimp-user] black white

2008-04-12 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Saturday 12 April 2008, norman wrote: Yes, maybe you should rephrase it, I'd thought that you wanted to know methods to have more control than with one of the straightforward methods: - Image-Mode-Grayscale (the whole image will be grayscale, you'd have to change back to RGB mode to

Re: [Gimp-user] transparency

2008-04-27 Thread Daniel Hornung
Convert the image to RGB mode if it's not already. However, the set Colour to Alpha setting remained greyed out of action. What have I missed, please? Norman Are you in RGB mode? You can check it in Image-Mode. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [Gimp-user] EXIF

2008-05-01 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Kim Cascone wrote: When you take an image with a digital camera, the camera itself leaves a data file which automatically identifies itself. This file is called an EXIF and usually has information like the make of the camera, the ISO setting, the date and time, the

Re: [Gimp-user] Opacity

2008-05-16 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Friday 16 May 2008, Lap1994 wrote: Hello. I want to draw a image with a 50% opacity border. When I change the opacity of the pencil and use it, the selected color and the color where I use the pencil, combine itself. I do not want it, I want draw a pixel with exact 50% of alpha and the

Re: [Gimp-user] strange workaround for slow GIMP start (WinXP) (resent)

2008-06-26 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Thursday 26 June 2008, Cristian Secară wrote: After a system reinstall (HDD change) on my HP nc8230 notebook, GIMP was starting painfully slow, almost bloking itself at Fonts-something startup splash screen. This was something new for me, as in the previous WinXP system install GIMP started

Re: [Gimp-user] Calibrating monitor and a bit of more information

2008-06-28 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Saturday 28 June 2008, David G. wrote: I've an Acer 19 /widescreen AL1916W, yet I don't feel like it's really calibrate and I really can't tell. What's the best practices for this? Also, I would someone to introduce me more in depth to ICC profiles and how do they help when creating

Re: [Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.6.0

2008-10-04 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Saturday 04 October 2008, Johan Vromans wrote: I don't think F9 is the only distro suffering... The bottomline appears to be that the Gimp really depends on these very new versions of babl and gegl. Very new is relative, they are from June. And without GIMP, would any distribution ever

Re: [Gimp-user] Searching GIMP user manual

2008-10-19 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Sunday 19 October 2008, Sven Neumann wrote: I am a new user to GIMP, but haven't for the life of me been able to find a way to search the GIMP user manual or help. I am interested to learn why you need to search the user manual at all. We might want to add such a feature, but that

Re: [Gimp-user] Changing events

2008-10-19 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Sunday 19 October 2008, Johan Vromans wrote: Hi, I have a couple of databases where I entered the date that people were christened instead of date of birth, the latter being unknown. However, The Narrative Web Report seems to use the event Baptism instead of Christening. Is there an

Re: [Gimp-user] rectangular selection

2008-10-20 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Monday 20 October 2008, David Gowers wrote: I use version 2.2.17 and what do you mean by choose something else? I am needing a rectangle with curved edges. Thanks Upgrade to 2.4, ... Upgrade to 2.6 ... Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [Gimp-user] Searching GIMP user manual

2008-10-21 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Tuesday 21 October 2008, First Last wrote: Ok, let me explain the situation I had today that prompted the posting. I have some photos that have some pretty bad vignetting and I was hoping GIMP could take care of it for me. So I was expecting I could open the Help or the user manual and

Re: [Gimp-user] Moving Selections

2008-10-28 Thread Daniel Hornung
A task that I find myself frequently performing is cropping images. In the old GIMP I used to drag out a selection box, and then use one of the control keys (CTRL/ SHIFT/ ALT, can't remember which sadly) to move it around until it looked right. One link to rule them all

Re: [Gimp-user] Another question.

2008-11-17 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Monday 17 November 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a database of script-fu programs I can look at 1.) to help learn the language, and 2.) that will allow me to automate certain stages of the placement of the 2 watermarks since each watermark will have to be placed in a different

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp Startup Problems

2008-11-22 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Saturday 22 November 2008, Skyler wrote: I'm running windows vista 32 bit and GIMP 2.6.2. The vast majority of the time that I try running GIMP, it doesn't start. There are no windows or anything, but it is listed in the process list in task manager. Is there anyway to fix this? Did you

Re: [Gimp-user] Replacing colors

2008-11-23 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Sunday 23 November 2008, Avraham Makeler wrote: My first task is to replacing colors in an image - like Find-Replace. First, how do you do a straightforward 'Replace Colors' op? Second: my specific need is to convert a gray gradient to a similar one in a shade of red/pink. Hello! The

Re: [Gimp-user] apply gradients to the canvas/area , err msg: Blend does not operate on indexed layers

2008-11-23 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Sunday 23 November 2008, Avraham Makeler wrote: and I have tried using the Blend Tool, but it tells me Blend does not operate on indexed layers. Hi! As http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-blend.html clearly says, the blend too is the correct one. It even tells you why it doesn't work in

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp andTurboPrint

2008-11-24 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Sunday 23 November 2008, norman wrote: I use TurboPrint 2.x to print from Gimp 2.6.2 on my desktop computer running Ubuntu 8.04. I would like to print from a remote laptop computer running Ubuntu 8.10 using a wireless connection and still be able to use TurboPrint. Has anyone any experience

Re: [Gimp-user] rulers

2008-11-26 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Wednesday 26 November 2008, Paul G. wrote: I can't for the life of me figure out what this is for and have looked everywhere to find out. What is this for? This is called a sample point ;) It's not used for very much at the moment, but it could be useful if you want to keep a look at a

Re: [Gimp-user] unknown software exception

2008-11-27 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Thursday 27 November 2008, Rinke H. wrote: I just installed gimp 2.6 on my windows 2000 machine, but the program is inherently instable and is not able to run longer than 5 seconds before it crashes and disappears. Most of the time it already crashes at startup; if not it crashes as soon as

Re: [Gimp-user] Color dialog

2008-12-07 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Sunday 07 December 2008, Lap1994 wrote: Sorry if I made myself unclear. I'm speaking about the color dialog. Its on windowsdockable dialogscolors or dialogscolors depending which version you use. There you right click and the color is choosen. You left click and the color is choose. But

Re: [Gimp-user] normalmap and resynthesizer plug-ins and gimp 2.6

2008-12-16 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Tuesday 16 December 2008, peter kostov wrote: Hm, thanks David, but it isn't so easy, because the package uses pkg-config too. Try setting your PKG_CONFIG_PATH before configuring the plugins. Greetings, Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [Gimp-user] Help files not accessibile

2008-12-20 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Saturday 20 December 2008, Florio wrote: I'd prefer to have direct access to the user manual rather than using the online one. Can someone please explain how to get the help file working? Hello! The documentation/ help usually has to be installed separately. You should be able find it at

Re: [Gimp-user] Animation VCR-style buttons for GIMP

2009-01-05 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Monday 05 January 2009, Robert Slater wrote: I am trying to create some teaching aids using GIMP animation. I have a few GIMP animations working so far. All of the animations run in a loop without stopping. I would like the user to be able to control the frames using VCR-style buttons

Re: [Gimp-user] Fonts

2009-01-05 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Monday 05 January 2009, Tagg wrote: How can I add more fonts to gimp? Simply put them into one of the font folders shown in GIMP's preferences or add folders there if there are fonts in a different place already. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [Gimp-user] From Clipboard as Layer

2009-01-10 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Friday 09 January 2009, daviodan wrote: It is possible to exist in future versions of the GIMP option: File-Create-From Clipboard as Layer? Sometimes it is necessary using more screenshots. I don't know if I understood you correctly, but does Edit Paste As New Layer do waht you want?

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp latest version

2009-01-16 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Friday 16 January 2009, Cristian Secară wrote: And then when GIMP goes to 2.7+ will have to upgrade also the OS to Ubuntu 8.20+/whatever ? First of all, there will be no stable GIMP 2.7, since odd minor version numbers are reserved for development releases. Second, all complaints about

Re: [Gimp-user] One tomato from five

2009-01-16 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Friday 16 January 2009, Philip Rhoades wrote: People, I want to select only the middle tomato and then treat the edges of the single tomato so that the edges are soft like edges of the existing tomatoes on the left and right. I have tried cropping down to one tomato and then various

Re: [Gimp-user] Resizing a larger image to smaller image causesdistortion

2009-01-22 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Thursday 22 January 2009, Ajay Gautam wrote: Now that you know the desired end result, what would the best way to go about creating the it, if I were to recreate it from start? Thanks Ajay If you can recreate it (or will anyway), do it in a resizable format, like svg with a program like

Re: [Gimp-user] Question: How to....

2009-01-28 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Wednesday 28 January 2009, rlt46...@aol.com wrote: I have Gimp 2.6. It says I need to install the additional help package. Where do I find the download? Rebecca Usually at the same place you found GIMP itself, which usually depends on your operating system. Daniel signature.asc

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Gimp latest version

2009-01-31 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Saturday 31 January 2009, John Culleton wrote: If the Gimp source distro contained a compatible version of gegl and babl then compiling from source would be a lot easier. Now my only other choice is to install Ubuntu or whatever on another partition and see if they have an updated binary

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp and ubuntu compatible tablet

2009-01-31 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Saturday 31 January 2009, Michael J. Hammel wrote: The HyperPen 12000U is still available from Aiptek: http://www.aiptek.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PRODProduct_Code=R-HP1 2UCategory_Code=T1Store_Code=AS Aiptek tablets are also often sold under other names. The cheap tablets you get

Re: [Gimp-user] Free textures

2009-02-03 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Tuesday 03 February 2009, Adrian Dusa wrote: Sorry to be ignorant, but how does one include these files in Gimp's textures? Adrian You can see which folders are relevant for your system in the preferences: http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-pimping.html#gimp-prefs-folders-data Daniel

Re: [Gimp-user] No script/pattern files in my iMac Leopard ?

2009-02-09 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Monday 09 February 2009, OnyX wrote: Hello, I try to download bling Text script-fu from this site http://gimpscripts.com/?p=15 into my iMac Leopard. Somthing wrong happen. Gimp is OFF and inside my mac Home - Library - App Support - Gimp - there is no script or pattern folder to

Re: [Gimp-user] How to do this?

2009-02-19 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Thursday 19 February 2009, vicky aur wrote: Hi all, How do I make a photograph to look like this? http://customize.org/wallpapers/52351 This is my first post. If i have missed some guidelines, please redirect me to proper channel. Thanks, Vicky Was that made from a photograph? I'd

Re: [Gimp-user] using levels on layer

2009-02-23 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Monday 23 February 2009, Helen wrote: I haven't found a way to use the levels tool on one layer only. Is it possible to do this, to adjust the color of a layer rather than the image? Hello Helen, (nearly) all tools work just on the current layer, as does the levels tool. Maybe you merged

[Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: using levels on layer

2009-02-23 Thread Daniel Hornung
properties setting that I've missed. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Daniel Hornung daniel.horn...@gmx.dewrote: On Monday 23 February 2009, Helen wrote: I haven't found a way to use the levels tool on one layer only. Is it possible to do this, to adjust the color of a layer rather than

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-02-25 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Wednesday 25 February 2009, zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: Hello. Is there a feature in gimp that behave like inkscape, where a text layer (in Inkscape an object or a group of object) can have some clone text layers. No, (linked) clones are not available in GIMP (yet?), maybe in one or two

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how t o do clone on a layer )

2009-02-27 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Friday 27 February 2009, zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: I wrote a trivial text 'find and replace' script for GIMP 2.6: http://registry.gimp.org/node/12212 sounds interesting! Does it work on 2.4.6? In the real world people like me are afraid of the cutting edge and use the latest stable...

Re: [Gimp-user] how to clone a text layer (not how to do clone on a layer)

2009-03-01 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Sunday 01 March 2009, zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: saulgo...@flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com schrieb: Hi. Thanks a lot. I'll re-try both plugins you recommended after once day my operating system (gentoo) bring me to 2.6.x. I can manually make an upgrade to 2.6.x by changing some

Re: [Gimp-user] extract text in a rectangle from a jpg file

2009-03-04 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Wednesday 04 March 2009, powah wrote: My image is 640 x 512 pixels X Y resolution are both 300 pixels/in. How to improve the image so that the OCR programs will recognize the text better? I try the Scale Image menu with different values of pixels X Y resolutions (e.g. 1920 x 1536 pixels

Re: [Gimp-user] tips on enhancing text written in pencil

2009-03-05 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Thursday 05 March 2009, James wrote: Ideally, I'd like all the yellowed paper that forms the background of these images to turn as close to white as possible, while all the pencil text should be as close to black as possible. Can anyone point me to things I can try under gimp that will help

Re: [Gimp-user] How do I do this?

2009-03-13 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Friday 13 March 2009, Henry Meeuwsen wrote: I was just wondering if there was a way I could unlock the Toolbox and the Docks from always being on top of the menu box, because I usually draw on the whole screen, and having the toolbox in my way is a hinderance. If anybody knows anything

Re: [Gimp-user] Change Language in Gimp

2009-03-16 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Monday 16 March 2009, Karl F. wrote: Thanks for helping, but i dont find, the( lang en )  In Edit - Adjustments- Enviroment I try to type ( Lang ) and/or ( en ) but nothing happen As Martin said, please read the linked documentation. That's not a setting in the preferences but how you

Re: [Gimp-user] A new layer enforced for each text object?

2009-03-19 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Thursday 19 March 2009, Avraham Makeler wrote: Hi all, I read something in the documentation that says that each text (box?) is automatically placed in a new layer. And that's also what seems to happen in practice. Doesn't sound so great to me. I like being able to have multiple objects

Re: [Gimp-user] problem getting the thing to work

2009-03-19 Thread Daniel Hornung
Just a guess: Did you install GTK+ manually? That shouldn't be necessary any more with GIMP 2.6.x, but old GTK+ installations might mix badly with the one provided with the GIMP installer. Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [Gimp-user] Auto shutdown

2009-03-20 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Friday 20 March 2009, Agnes Goh wrote: Hi,   Recently I have been encountering a problem which does not exist before. Whenever I tried to the scale image, and tried to copy  paste, the program will auto shut down. An error message - A problem caused the program to stop working correctly

Re: [Gimp-user] stiching image

2009-03-22 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Sunday 22 March 2009, ivo wrote: I need some guidance to achieve the following: I have nice landscape picture with a horizontal horizon which I want to manipulate to have the sides match in color and shape. In this case the sides almost match in color and shape... After the facts I would

Re: [Gimp-user] stiching image

2009-03-24 Thread Daniel Hornung
in hugin on full auto. scaled to 20% for filesize. i couldn't spot the seams between the photos. please excuse the mess. i recently dove back into hugin and was taking test shots. hth, g On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Daniel Hornung daniel.horn...@gmx.de wrote: On Sunday 22 March 2009

Re: [Gimp-user] sharpening a black and white graphic

2009-03-25 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Wednesday 25 March 2009, CJ wrote: I have an image of two musical staves with the bass and treble cleft symbols that is pixilated. This image will be made into a rubber stamp and needs to look professional. I don't know what your image looks like, but if you need a high resolution image,

Re: [Gimp-user] sharpening a black and white graphic

2009-03-25 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Wednesday 25 March 2009, Curt Tresenriter wrote: Thanks for the reply Pete. I did find an image but not both bass and treble clefts with the musical staves which is what I need. I've uploaded andimage to imagebin http://imagebin.org/42844 Rosegarden should be able to give you this

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP 2.6.4 on Vista, Invisible Files

2009-03-26 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Thursday 26 March 2009, Googoo wrote: I ended up finding them.  They were in USER_DIR\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\GIMP-2.0\bin.  That was a new experience for me. Sounds very similar to this bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574018 Daniel PS: Please don't

Re: [Gimp-user] Using Gimp with Vista 64bit

2009-03-26 Thread Daniel Hornung
Hello Karen, I don't know from my own experience if it'll work, but at least there's a specific package for x64 Windows here: http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html If you notice any problems that should not occur, please feel free to report them at http://bugzilla.gimp.org Daniel

Re: [Gimp-user] logos

2009-03-28 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Saturday 28 March 2009, Kantamba wrote: What happened to the logos command that used to be under the old file menu? that command where you could enter text and see it in various logo renditions. It's still there. Under File Create ... Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [Gimp-user] Don't feed the troll (Was: not to knock gimp...I love it, BUT I have never has decent prints from it)

2009-03-31 Thread Daniel Hornung
Based on the amount of actual information given and the number of answers so far: \|||/ (o o) ,~~~ooO~~(_)~, | Please | | don't feed the | | TROLL! | '~~ooO~~~' |__|__| || || ooO Ooo signature.asc

Re: [Gimp-user] Modify text on a jpg file with gimp 2.6.4

2009-06-15 Thread Daniel Hornung
Hello! On Monday 15 June 2009, powah wrote: I want to modify text on a jpg file ... I had read that I should select the text layer. What does it mean? That means that there is no text layer. jpg files don't know about text, just about pixels. If you saved the image yourself as jpg, you

Re: [Gimp-user] Modify text on a jpg file with gimp 2.6.4

2009-06-15 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Monday 15 June 2009, powah wrote: The jpg file is exported from a visio file embedded in a ms word document. Instead of using the jpg file format, what else should I use to keep the text information? You could try to export to either svg (better) or pdf (not quite as good) and open the

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

2009-08-17 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Monday 17 August 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: When I am selecting an area with the freehand select tool, how can I move the image shown? Hello Dotan, try pressing the space bar. Then the mouse should move (or more specifically pan) your view of the image when no mouse button is pressed. I

Re: [Gimp-user] Magic-lasso tool?

2009-08-17 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Monday 17 August 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: I have last used an image editing program several years ago, I think it was photoshop. It had a magic-lasso tool that would snap to areas of different colour GIMP has magic scissors instead of lassos :) signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [Gimp-user] Installing 2.6.7 in Ubuntu

2009-08-29 Thread Daniel Hornung
Hello Caruso, On Sunday 30 August 2009, Carusoswi wrote: Ok, sorry. I'm running Ubuntu 9.04. I downloaded the three packages and used the package installer to extract and install two of the three, but received this error when attempting to install the application package: Error:

Re: [Gimp-user] Change black to dark something in image, when printer is out of black ?

2009-09-02 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Wednesday 02 September 2009, Greg Edwards wrote: Hi, The scenario - have an inkjet printer which regularly runs out of black ink, but still has plenty of colour ink. I would like to change black to dark blue or whatever, so I can print eg. a concert ticket with a black barcode, which will

Re: [Gimp-user] adjusting a horizon

2009-09-28 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Monday 28 September 2009, Jude T. wrote: I know I have seen, in the Gimp Manual, a way of adjusting a photo that's been taken on a bit of a slant - for instance a photo of a window. I have a photo where my horizon is on a slant. Can anyone remind me where in the Gimp manual it tells me how

Re: [Gimp-user] adjusting a horizon

2009-09-28 Thread Daniel Hornung
Hello Phani, check out the Corrective mode please excuse my ignorance, but where do i find this mode? http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tools-transform.html#gimp-tool-transform - Tool Options - Direction You find this setting (and all other tool related options) in the tool options dialog,

Re: [Gimp-user] Help needed with text

2009-10-04 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Sunday 04 October 2009, Tom C. wrote: I am just starting to use GIMP. I am having trouble getting the effect I want. I have 2 photos one over the other. I want to put text over the upper layer and have the lower layer show through. If I put a mask over the upper layer and draw on it with

Re: [Gimp-user] Help needed with text

2009-10-04 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Sunday 04 October 2009, Tom C. wrote: then I select the mask and fill with black. I tried FG and BG. If the mask is white before, that layer should've been completely opaque, so filling the selection with black (simply dragdrop from the color patch onto the image) should make the layer

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp in science

2009-12-02 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Friday 27 November 2009, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: Hi, Is anybody using here GIMP in science or medicine? If yes, how? What tools, plug-ins and scripts do you use? Not a real answer to the question, but as soon as (semi-)automatic image analysis, registering or measuring areas,

Re: [Gimp-user] Thumbnail Images are Larger then Originals

2010-01-06 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Wednesday 06 January 2010 21:42:12 Programmer In Training wrote: I need to read up on the GIMP documentation regarding PNG quality settings. Mine are apparently too high. Hello, png is lossless, so what you set is the compression factor, which doesn't affect the quality/size ratio but

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: Completely off every imaginable topic;)

2010-01-18 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Monday 18 January 2010 20:40:49 Dotan Cohen wrote: ... What a nice little flamewar :) Too bad that it's on a most-of-the-time-serious mailing list, where it might frighten some new, innocent people. *gets some popcorn* Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [Gimp-user] Text looks rough

2010-01-26 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Tuesday 26 January 2010 15:35:45 RSA wrote: When I make a web banner that is only text it looks great in GIMP and in my web page maker. When I put it up on the web the text looks rough like someone cut it out with a jig saw. I use the banner in JPG format or GIF format and the results

Re: [Gimp-user] What tool could do this?

2010-01-28 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Thursday 28 January 2010 18:44:30 Jim Clark wrote: http://www.ciscohouston.com/interconnect.jpg I captured this image, and I would like to produce something like it. The connected platforms, except with boxes rather than humanoid shapes on them. And 10 platforms, not 6...and maybe

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help: correcting exposures in time-lapse imagesets

2010-02-09 Thread Daniel Hornung
Hi Kinata, On Tuesday 09 February 2010 09:49:16 kinata wrote: In a related issue posted elsewhere in this forum, I'm wanting to isolate the dye part of the image: -- convert the RGB triple for the dye color (approximately a cyan) to HSB (HSV?) colorspace, -- rotate it to (say)

[Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: Need help: correcting exposures in time-lapse imagesets

2010-02-10 Thread Daniel Hornung
Forwarding the answer to the list: Bugzilla from daniel.horn...@gmx.de wrote: I think that all this kind of stuff might be a lot easier with a program dedicated to image analysis. ImageJ/Fiji would be one example, it has lots of plugins for almost any analysis need. While GIMP is a

Re: [Gimp-user] Open a file r/o

2010-03-25 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Wednesday 24 March 2010 23:03:26 Lennart Svensson wrote: This button should inhibit the possibility to save the file during editing and destroy the original file. Same as the command line option -a. I don't know the exact current state of the save/export menu discussion, but wasn't the plan

Re: [Gimp-user] Separate+ 0.5.7

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Friday 30 April 2010 17:42:45 Yoshinori Yamakawa wrote: Separate+ 0.5.7 is released. This version contains the dithering support and some minor improvements for UI. Cool! For all Gentoo users, there's a fresh ebuild here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24837 Thank you for the great

Re: [Gimp-user] Increasing pixel size

2010-07-25 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Sunday 25 July 2010 03:49:47 Byram wrote: I have an old 7 mp image that I'm trying to increase to around 10MP. I've read it's best to increase by 10%, then unsharpen, and repeat process until you get to the desired result. I unsharpened with radius at 5, threshold 15, and amount .5. I

Re: [Gimp-user] scaling image in centimeters

2010-11-03 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Tuesday 02 November 2010 23:13:48 Lorenzo Bettini wrote: and also the grid, when set to cm, (using 100% zoom) uses something that's smaller than a centimeter... what am I doing wrong? The other have said already WHY it may display other lengths than you may have expected, here's the

Re: [Gimp-user] scaling image in centimeters

2010-11-03 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Wednesday 03 November 2010 17:37:59 Daniel Hornung wrote: In the Preferences window, select Display and press the Calibrate... button there to calibrate GIMP for your display. This dialog used to show up on the very first GIMP start in earlier times, I don't know about the current version

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotation witout cropping.

2011-06-25 Thread Daniel Hornung
Hi John, do you rotate the layer or the image? Cheers, Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotation witout cropping.

2011-06-25 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Sunday, June 26, 2011 01:26:53 John Culleton wrote: On Saturday, June 25, 2011 06:50:04 pm Daniel Hornung wrote: Hi John, do you rotate the layer or the image? Cheers, Daniel The image, using the tool on the left hand tool palette. How do I rotate both simultaneously? As Stefan