Re: [Gimp-user] lossless cropping?

2009-02-03 Thread Gary Collins
Hi,   There is a very nice *free* picture viewer cum editor called irfanview, which will do lossless cropping and rotation of jpeg images (not sure about the resizing, though).   I think it's at www.irfanview.com, but if this isn't right you can find it very easily by googling irfanview and

[Gimp-user] Error on install: Entry Point Not Found

2009-04-09 Thread Gary Collins
Have you tried copying the file and then renaming the copy? Seems to me that that should work...Not ideal I know, but as a workaround, should save a lot of fiddling about. /Gary Okay, I renamed the file libxml2.dll, in my WINDOWS/System32 directory. Gimp now starts up. I have discovered that

[Gimp-user] Layered TIFF?

2009-04-14 Thread Gary Collins
Hi,   For me, one of the greatest hindrances to migrating to GIMP is its inability to handle layered TIFF files. I have a large number of such files, with zip compression, and I really don't wan't to have to change this format, because for one thing my preferred picture viewer can handle

Re: [Gimp-user] Levels tool with Layers

2009-08-12 Thread Gary Collins
It seems to me that gimp works a bit differently from photoshop. In photoshop (actually, I'm still using 'elements-2', can you believe? Although I have got Richard Lynch's excellent hidden power installed which releases a lot more of the underlying photoshop 7 functionality - and the book was

Re: [Gimp-user] Levels tool with Layers

2009-08-13 Thread Gary Collins
Thanks for the info. It seems exciting things are on the horizon. I eagerly await with much anticipation.   /Gary Correct me if I'm wrong, please, but it seems that in gimp I have to make a copy of the base layer and apply any adjustments to the copy; and repeat this for any new

Re: [Gimp-user] Multi-page TIFF

2009-08-24 Thread Gary Collins
Alternatively, if you don't have microsoft office and don't want to fork out for it, you can always download and install the free image browser-cum-editor irfanview. That will enable you to easily create a multi-page tiff file from a set of images.   /Gary

[Gimp-user] Layered TIFF

2009-08-29 Thread Gary Collins
  A long(ish) time ago I wrote:     Any chance that the ability to load/save layered TIFF files (with zip compression) might appear in a future version of GIMP?     and Michael Schumacher replied: Basically the tiff plug-in is waiting for someone to add this. Maybe you do want to have

Re: [Gimp-user] Layered TIFF

2009-09-01 Thread Gary Collins
Thanks for the info, Michael! I'll start checking out those sites.   /Gary ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Layered TIFF

2009-09-01 Thread Gary Collins
Hello Daniel,   thanks for your reply, which I somehow managed to miss before. There are lots of plugins in python, but I don't know if it's the best choice for file i/o plugins, since if you do a good job, it might be included into GIMP by default, and Python isn't installed everywhere. 

[Gimp-user] brush precision

2009-09-28 Thread Gary Collins
hi,   some time ago there was a thread about changing the brush icon between showing the brush size and a precise crosshair. I can't seem to locate that thread, but if I remember rightly it was suggested that the change should happen at mouse-click, or when holding the mouse button down.   Now

Re: [Gimp-user] brush precision

2009-09-30 Thread Gary Collins
  Oh. That's probably why I couldn't find the thread - I must've been looking in the wrong archive   Thanks, Sven; I will post the suggestion there   /Gary Maybe you should post that suggestion to the gimp-developer list. There was a discussion about the brush outline recently