Re: [Gimp-user] Plug-in's at registry.gimp.org

2007-06-01 Thread Elwin Estle
GREYCstoration shows up in Filters>Enhance. As far as I know, you can't control where plugins show up (tho if you are a programmer??) I have heard that you can change the location of where scripts show up. As for where to get it, I got mine from: http://www.greyc.ensicaen.fr/~dtschump/greycst

Re: [Gimp-user] Dodge or Burn layer but only to specific parts

2007-06-05 Thread Elwin Estle
You could do this several ways. What I usually do to spot adjust a single area is to make a selection around with the lasso tool. Then I turn on quickmask and gaussian blur the mask to give it a nice soft edge. Then I turn the mask back into a selection. Then I used the curves tool to locall

Re: [Gimp-user] Dodge or Burn layer but only to specific parts

2007-06-05 Thread Elwin Estle
> Elwin, you say: > "What I usually do to spot adjust a single area is to make a selection > around with the lasso tool. Then I turn on quickmask and gaussian > blur > the mask to give it a nice soft edge. " > You can save some time by just using the feather option of the lasso > tool -- IIRC fea

Re: [Gimp-user] About the replies to this list

2007-06-05 Thread Elwin Estle
I have done the same thing. I agree. ...I keep having to cut and paste the address. --- Victor Domingos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! I have a suggestion regarding this mailing list. > > Everytime I want to reply to a post, I press the button "Reply". > However, the reply-to field is a

Re: [Gimp-user] Dodge or Burn layer but only to specific parts

2007-06-05 Thread Elwin Estle
No...I usually blur it quite a bit, depending on how much I want to feather things. You can pretty much use filters on anything (except paths. of course). Quickmask is just a special sort of temporary channel. You can get some interesting effects with things like the pick filter, etc. You ca

Re: [Gimp-user] Selling our photos online

2007-06-22 Thread Elwin Estle
zazzle.com deviantart.com shutterstock.com --- Victor Domingos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know a reliable website where artists and photographers > may sell their photos and/or artwork? > > Thanks, > Victor > > > ___ > Gimp-user maili

Re: [Gimp-user] Locking layers

2007-06-27 Thread Elwin Estle
In addition, if you click the linking icon in the paths or channels dialog, the same function is performed, not just with each individual image element (i.e. layers, paths, channels), but across them as well. If you have the link icon clicked for a layer, and click it for a path or channel, the

Re: [Gimp-user] Locking layers

2007-06-28 Thread Elwin Estle
Everything is linked. There is no way to make specific links. The only way I can see to do it, would be to link just the channel and layer in question and nothing else. --- Victor Domingos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Em 2007/06/28, às 01:19, Elwin Estle escreveu: > &g

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp - gimpshop - newbie

2007-07-07 Thread Elwin Estle
Not sure how well GimpShop will run on FreeBSD. I don't know anything about FreeBSD, myself (I am running Ubuntu Dapper), but I wonder if GimpShop and and the Gimp 2.2.15 it looks like you installed will have a conflict. On windows, GimpShop has been pretty much a bugfest, at Gimptalk, we alwa

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp - gimpshop - newbie

2007-07-10 Thread Elwin Estle
>>a clumsy gui that is not at all easy to use >>(especially for those trained in photoshop) and which does not compare >>favourably with standards set by photoshop. I personally don't mind the UI... It is simply a matter of learning how to use it. I have never used PS, myself, but I suspect

Re: [Gimp-user] selections workflow???

2007-07-10 Thread Elwin Estle
Select the layer in question in the layers dialog. Right click on it and do "Layer to Image Size", this will make the layer exactly the size of the image. You might also check at the top of the layers dialog and make sure the small check box for "keep transparency" isn't checked. (indeed, perh

Re: [Gimp-user] How do I reactivate my rotate and scale icons

2007-08-05 Thread Elwin Estle
This may tie into your other problem with the tool options. Check the FAQ at Gimptalk as well as the Gimp documentation on "docking". As for the rotation and scale tools, in the options dialog which comes up when you select those icons, there are three buttons at the top of that dialog. The fi

Re: [Gimp-user] can someone check this doc for me?

2007-09-18 Thread Elwin Estle
I am not qualified to comment on the actual topic in question...however, you do have a sentence near the bottom that seems, at the very least, somewhat awkward. I can't quite figure out what it is trying to say. It almost seems as if it were somehow constructed from two separate sentences that

Re: [Gimp-user] Bit-depth Processing

2007-10-02 Thread Elwin Estle
I am hardly an expert on this whole issue. I would like to see a side by side comparison of prints made from 8 bit vs 16 bit images to see just exactly what the difference might be. I think your average person probably wouldn't care. It has been mentioned that monitors are poor venues on whic

[Gimp-user] compiling woes

2007-10-26 Thread Elwin Estle
I am attempting to compile 2.4 on a fresh Slackware 12.0 install. When I run ./configure, I get a message at the end about needing pygtk, but I have pygtk installed and the version number is high enough. Do I need some kind of development headers and if so, where do I get them? ___

Re: [Gimp-user] compiling woes

2007-10-27 Thread Elwin Estle
Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Elwin Estle wrote: > > I am attempting to compile 2.4 on a fresh Slackware 12.0 install. When I > > run > > ./configure, I get a message at the end about needing pygtk, but I have > > pygtk > installed > > and t

[Gimp-user] custom setup for mouse wheel

2007-11-15 Thread Elwin Estle
Sometime back I wrote a tutorial http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/The-Layer-mask-Rendering-Method-18687-1.html It was written under the 2.2.x series of Gimp releases. In it, I set up the mouse wheel to control both the scale and the softness/hardness of brushes created in the brush editor.

[Gimp-user] question

2007-11-15 Thread Elwin Estle
I have been busy with other projects and haven't really had a chance to sit down and play with 2.4.1. It's pretty impressive. I do have one question. Why can't one scale the smudge tool? I am guessing that smudging complicates things too much, but I am still curious. ___

Re: [Gimp-user] de-mosaic ?

2007-11-21 Thread Elwin Estle
Does filters>enhance>despeckle maybe do what you want? Here is the relevant doc page. http://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-despeckle.html --- Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does gimp off a de-mosaic filter or script ? > doing some scanning of documents into gimp via xsane. > > TIA > Richard

[Gimp-user] Is something like this scriptable?

2007-11-23 Thread Elwin Estle
The path was made in Inkscape and imported. A series of layers were created and the path was "progressively stroked" from one layer to the next by increasing the value of the fade out option. I think I remember seeing something about stroke path being a scriptable option. What about varying t

Re: [Gimp-user] mask tutorial

2007-11-24 Thread Elwin Estle
Masks give you a lot of control over things, plus, until you apply them, they are non destructive. Here is one tutorial on them : http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Shadows-And-Glows-3-d-Effects-4624-1.html And another : http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/The-Layer-mask-Rendering-Method-1868

Re: [Gimp-user] mask tutorial

2007-11-24 Thread Elwin Estle
Guess they have server problems...again When I sent the email, I went to the actual sites and cut and pasted the address. Give it a bit, then try again. --- Patrick Shanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > * norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-

Re: [Gimp-user] Feathered selections

2007-11-24 Thread Elwin Estle
I know there is another reply to this...but, since you might not know where your brushes directory is. You will have a hidden directory in your homve folder for gimp (whatever file manager you are using, Konqueror or Nautilus, should have an option to "show hidden files"). In this hidden folder

Re: [Gimp-user] tool affect all layers?

2007-11-26 Thread Elwin Estle
I think I have only had to do something like this once. But yes GAP does have a nice add-on that puts in an menu entry for "filter all layers". There are other things that GAP comes in handy for. You can use it to make image pipe brushes that would otherwise be a lot of work to do in regular G

[Gimp-user] buttons swapped in Windows

2007-12-10 Thread Elwin Estle
Just out of curiosity, why are the save and cancel buttons swapped location wise in the Windows version of 2.4.2? Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate tool and layers

2007-12-13 Thread Elwin Estle
In the layers dialog, to the right of the "eye" icon to turn the layer on and off, is a second icon that looks like a chain link. Click it for all layers you want to rotate/transform as a group. When they are linked together, whatever you do to one, as far as rotating, you will do to all of th

Re: [Gimp-user] only one gimp

2007-12-18 Thread Elwin Estle
You can simply drag an image file onto the Gimp Toolbox and it will open. --- Lionel Tarazon Alcocer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Each time I open a file (double-click over the image), a new GIMP application > opens even if there was already one. Opening images this way may end up wi

Re: [Gimp-user] Adding shapes to Gimp

2007-12-19 Thread Elwin Estle
Well, there are shapes, sort of, Filters>Render>Gfig. There are also Paths, which will do a lot of what you want. You can also create Paths in Inkscape and then import them into Gimp (which I find handy, since Inkscape has more features for dealing with paths than Gimp does). Converting paths

Re: [Gimp-user] Adding shapes to Gimp

2007-12-19 Thread Elwin Estle
...forgot something...you can load a file into Gimp's text option. So what's to prevent editing your text in something that does have spell checking and then just loading the file? --- Jason Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I like to see shapes added to Gimp as of way of Openoffice draw a

Re: [Gimp-user] What have you done with Custom Brushes?

2008-01-07 Thread Elwin Estle
The few times I have used custom brushes were for creating textures for the game BZFlag. I modeled a pine tree and used a custom brush I made for the pine-needles on the tree. I also did the same thing for a palm tree I created. For me, most of the time, the default Gimp brushes are more than

Re: [Gimp-user] Interactive B&W Conversion?

2008-01-16 Thread Elwin Estle
Would this do what you want? http://www.gimpguru.org/Tutorials/Color2BW/ --- Paul Waldo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am looking for a plugin that will help me convert a color image to > Black and White. I have looked at the Plugin Registry and found a > couple that do this, but t

Re: [Gimp-user] paint with patterns

2008-01-18 Thread Elwin Estle
Not with the paint tool, but you can set the clone tool to use a pattern source. --- Helen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to use the airbrush (or any paint tools) to paint with the > patterns? > > Thanks, > Helen > -- > using Linux, SuSE 10 > > _

[Gimp-user] compiling GAP

2008-01-23 Thread Elwin Estle
I am on Zenwalk 5.0. When I run ./configure, I get the follwing error message at the end. ./configure: line 8825: ./po/POTFILES.in: No such file or directory configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: error: cannot find input file: extern_libs/Makefile.in

Re: [Gimp-user] compiling GAP

2008-01-23 Thread Elwin Estle
Okay...I will hold off. I also tried it with 2.2.1 (which I have compiled previously on other distros with no problem...same thing). --- Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 12:14 -0800, Elwin Estle wrote: > > GAP 2.2.2 > > Not

Re: [Gimp-user] Shape tools

2008-01-30 Thread Elwin Estle
Rather than a plugin, you could just make your shapes with paths and store them in a separate .xcf file, then just drag whichever one you want from that .xcf into the one you are working on. From there, the transform tools work on Paths, so you can rotate, scale, etc. to get things however you

[Gimp-user] compiling Gimp 2.4.4

2008-01-30 Thread Elwin Estle
When I run ./configure, I get the following error: checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/ginstall -c checking whether build environment is sane... configure: error: newly created file is older than distributed files! Check your system clock What is happening...what newly created file

Re: [Gimp-user] compiling Gimp 2.4.4

2008-01-31 Thread Elwin Estle
What am I supposed to check it for? It has the correct date/time. --- Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I run ./configure, I get the following error: > > > > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/ginstall -c > > checking whether build environment is sane... configure: error: n

[Gimp-user] distress selection

2008-02-22 Thread Elwin Estle
I know the contents of the original Script-fu menu got distributed into the other menus in the 2.4 series...what happened to Script-Fu>Selection>Distress Selection? Is it still there, only buried somewhere? I have looked through the menus, but haven't come across it.Did it get removed all

Re: [Gimp-user] distress selection

2008-02-23 Thread Elwin Estle
I looked under Select...but didn't see that, but then I was looking for it under the old name...distress, rather than distort. Thanks! --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Elwin Estle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I know the contents of the original Script-fu menu got

Re: [Gimp-user] How can I specify the tranformation matrix for a perpsective directly

2008-03-11 Thread Elwin Estle
Have you tried using guides to snap the handles? --- Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't see a way to specify the matrix used to perform a desired > perspective transformation manually. Of course, I can adjust it by > dragging handles, but it would be much easier for me to calcula

Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration

2008-03-17 Thread Elwin Estle
I think there used to be a plugin in the registry for doing this, but I can't remember the name of it. Dunno if it would work in 2.4 or not. --- norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been copying some old colour transparencies using my digital > camera and most of the images produced suff

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

2008-04-11 Thread Elwin Estle
Inkscape can do that sort of thing. AFAIK, Gimp doesn't natively have this capability, tho I suppose somebody could write a plugin. But you could do it in Inkscape and then import it into Gimp, either as a bitmap, or as a path. --- Shin Diggar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > Is

Re: [Gimp-user] Preview window

2008-04-14 Thread Elwin Estle
There is also the "navigation" window under the dialogs menu, which will give you a small window that has a "zoom square" that shows the level of magnification you are using. You can also drag this window around on the larger image and it will change the view in the main canvas window. I have

Re: [Gimp-user] Feathering edges of an existing selection

2008-04-23 Thread Elwin Estle
There is another way to feather an existing selection as well, it is my preferred method, since you can actually see how much feather you are gonna get beforehand. Simply this: Convert the selection to a quickmask (also in the Select menu, and there is an icon in the lower left corner of the ca

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

2008-04-23 Thread Elwin Estle
Inkscape has two tools to do this. There is the new node tweaking tool that allows you to sort of "sculpt" the nodes. Another possibility is node sculpting. Select a group of nodes, then alt-click and alt-drag on it. It will move and sort of proportionally drag other nodes along with it. An

Re: [Gimp-user] Creating Youtube slideshow using Gimp

2008-04-24 Thread Elwin Estle
Youtube only accepts video formats. Doesn't really matter what format, everything is converted to .flv format, but some convert with better quality than others. --- Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 24 April 2008 1:39:34 pm John Culleton wrote: > > I am just getting started on this

Re: [Gimp-user] creative ideas for blending a cropped + rotated image?

2008-05-02 Thread Elwin Estle
You could do some heavy duty clone work on the background and on his shirt. Or, maybe just put an oval vignette around him. Another possibility might be to make him the centerpiece of a collage, perhaps put related holocaust images around him? --- Anthony Ettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[Gimp-user] Bizzare .png behavior

2008-07-11 Thread Elwin Estle
This is with Gimp 2.4.6 on Windows XP professional. I loaded an image into gimp and selected various aspects of it and cut away, i.e. rendered parts of the background using layer masks. What I ended up with were several layers, each with a different part of the original image, but still the sa

Re: [Gimp-user] Bizzare .png behavior

2008-07-11 Thread Elwin Estle
way smaller. Still won't do what I want in Blender, but that is another matter. --- On Fri, 7/11/08, Elwin Estle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Elwin Estle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Gimp-user] Bizzare .png behavior > To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu >

Re: [Gimp-user] Bizzare .png behavior

2008-07-11 Thread Elwin Estle
IL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Bizzare .png behavior > To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu > Date: Friday, July 11, 2008, 11:19 AM > Elwin Estle wrote: > > > Now for the weird part. If I turn off "use > alpha" in the Blender texture file options, the

Re: [Gimp-user] Colour correction affecting only particular colours

2008-08-02 Thread Elwin Estle
This is how I would do it, tho there may be other ways as well. I would duplicate the layer, do my color correction. Add a layer mask and paint the mask such that the areas that I did not want to be corrected showed through, feathering the mask appropriately where necessary. Perhaps kinda ted

Re: [Gimp-user] transparent pixel color

2008-09-07 Thread Elwin Estle
Why not just put a new layer underneath the one with the transparency and make it the color you want? It will show through the transparent areas. No need to select. ...or you could do alpha to selection and then invert the selection to select the transparent areas. Then bucket fill with the

Re: [Gimp-user] Text-in-stitches on GIMP

2008-10-21 Thread Elwin Estle
As another poster mentioned, an image pipe brush might do what you want. The trick is, to get the brush to "follow" the path and rotate appropriately. This is doable, but due to the limitations of the number of images you can have in a pipe, the available increment of rotation may not be enough

Re: [Gimp-user] Smoothing out the image edges?

2008-12-29 Thread Elwin Estle
Try converting the selection to a path and stroking the path. Or better yet, see if you can start with a path from the very beginning. The stroke on paths seems to be a bit smoother than the one on selections. --- On Sun, 12/28/08, Ajay Gautam wrote: > From: Ajay Gautam > Subject: [Gimp-us

Re: [Gimp-user] Win32: Use standard Windows File Open/Save dialog

2009-01-03 Thread Elwin Estle
I wonder if a problem I have had with saving files from Gimp in Windows is somehow related. If I save direct to the local hard drive, there isn't much of a problem. But if I try to save to say, a flash drive plugged into the same computer running Gimp, or to a network drive, then file save tim

Re: [Gimp-user] Win32: Use standard Windows File Open/Save dialog

2009-01-07 Thread Elwin Estle
ary 7, 2009, 4:19 PM > Hi, > > On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 18:16 -0800, Elwin Estle wrote: > > I wonder if a problem I have had with saving files > from Gimp in > > Windows is somehow related. If I save direct to the > local hard drive, > > there isn't much of a pro

Re: [Gimp-user] Win32: Use standard Windows File Open/Save dialog

2009-01-07 Thread Elwin Estle
I eject mine every time. Gimp is the only program that has this problem. I use Inkscape with it and it works fine. --- On Wed, 1/7/09, Dotan Cohen wrote: > From: Dotan Cohen > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Win32: Use standard Windows File Open/Save dialog > To: "Jernej Simončič" > Cc: gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Attach Gimp file in to Blender

2009-01-24 Thread Elwin Estle
Well...perhaps you already know this, but when you load a graphic file in Blender, you do have the option of "packing" it and making it part of the .blend file. But now, Gimp doesn't save native .blend format files. --- On Sat, 1/24/09, Claus Cyrny wrote: > From: Claus Cyrny > Subject: Re:

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

2009-02-19 Thread Elwin Estle
Do a google on vexels or vectoring. There are some tutorials on Gimptalk by curly haired boy on how to do something like this. There is also lots of stuff on deviantart. You can do this technique in either Inkscape or Gimp, tho the methods are a bit different in each program. You can end up

Re: [Gimp-user] pixels to dpi

2009-04-07 Thread Elwin Estle
Just to muddy the waters further, when you get into dpi with printers, it opens up a whole 'nother can of worms...at least as I understand from researching the subject on the net. With regard to printing, dpi and ppi are two seperate things. A printer might have a certain dpi rating, but that

Re: [Gimp-user] Is it really that complicated to make a circle?

2009-06-30 Thread Elwin Estle
Instead of stroke selection...you might try converting the selection to a path and stroking that. The result will be smoother. --- On Tue, 6/30/09, Dotan Cohen wrote: > From: Dotan Cohen > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Is it really that complicated to make a circle? > To: "Jaime Seuma" > Cc: "gi

[Gimp-user] scripting

2009-12-30 Thread Elwin Estle
Is it in the plan to remove the scheme scripting in Gimp and go to all Python scripting?  Is there much of a difference between what can be done with either?  I have tried a couple of times to learn Python, but I am an old fogy and keep coming up against a wall whenever I try to get my head arou

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

2010-01-19 Thread Elwin Estle
>But that' s not how at least *I* read messages on the many mailing >lists I follow. When new postings to an existing thread arrive in my >mailbox, I have read the postings prior to that post already earlier, >so I don' t have to read them again. For me, scrolling down all the >previous postings is

Re: [Gimp-user] Is the a Gimp version that works with the new version of Apple X 11 ?

2010-01-22 Thread Elwin Estle
You might try the URL below.  I am running 10.5.8, and this is the version I use. http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/News/News.html --- On Thu, 1/21/10, Willie B Bass wrote: From: Willie B Bass Subject: [Gimp-user] Is the a Gimp version that works with the new version of Apple X 11 ? To: gimp-us

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp crashes too much

2010-01-23 Thread Elwin Estle
Just to double check, you are using the actual Gimp and not Gimp-Shop, correct?  There have been people who have posted to this list about problems with Gimp-Shop (which, in my experience anyway, was a major bug fest and crashed all over the place.), but Gimp Shop is NOT an official Gimp package

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

2010-01-28 Thread Elwin Estle
Ditto on the Blender.  You could actually do the whole shebang in a combination of Inkscape and Blender.  Do the "pad" things and the connecting lines in Inkscape, import the path into Blender and extrude.  People or whatever could be done the same way. --- On Thu, 1/28/10, Jim Clark wrote: F

Re: [Gimp-user] Mirror Image

2010-02-17 Thread Elwin Estle
I'd do the same procedure, but change one of the steps. 1. Cut your person in half.  Keep the selection active. 2. Edit>Copy, then Edit>paste as new (to keep your original preserved. 3. Close the original so as not to do anything "unexpected" with it. 4. In the newly created canvase, duplicate

Re: [Gimp-user] Stripes spheres

2010-06-18 Thread Elwin Estle
Actually, Map Object would work just fine, and it will give  you the back.  What you do is just make your stripes on a transparent background.  Delete the default layer, add a new transparent layer and put in your stripes, leaving a transparent gap between them, then do map object. --- On Fri,

Re: [Gimp-user] warp by points

2010-12-26 Thread Elwin Estle
I wonder if the morph plugin in the GAP package could do what you want. --- On Sat, 12/25/10, Peter Keller wrote: From: Peter Keller Subject: [Gimp-user] warp by points To: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Date: Saturday, December 25, 2010, 10:28 PM What I'd like to be able to do is something

Re: [Gimp-user] A simple for loop while using Colorize

2011-01-07 Thread Elwin Estle
Wonder if this couldn't be done with GAP?  If so, it would be trivial to do, just load the original, duplicate it enough times to get 360, then run through the frames with "apply filter varying". --- On Fri, 1/7/11, Atrus wrote: From: Atrus Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] A simple for loop while usi

Re: [Gimp-user] First time user

2011-02-01 Thread Elwin Estle
I am guessing that you mean when you finished going around the area you wanted to remove, that you were unable to close the scissors loop? The scissors tool can be quite fussy like that. You have to hit your starting point exactly. But if that isn't the problem, then yes, like someone else sai

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate a picture?

2011-02-04 Thread Elwin Estle
Hmm... the 45 degree angle part is simple enough, if that is what you really mean. However, when you start talking about a "book" at a 45 degree angle, it sounds maybe like what you want is to make it look as if it is being "viewed" from a 45 degree angle? ... not just rotated? ... with some s

Re: [Gimp-user] How to remove background of shadowed and/or low-resolution and/or more complex images

2011-05-24 Thread Elwin Estle
When painting on a layer mask, if you use a dynamic brush created in the brush editor, you can set up in your preferences to allow you to resize and change the brush hardness "on the fly" while you are painting. I have mine set up so that pressing shift while scrolling the mousewheel increases