[Gimp-user] Color temperature modification plugin available!

2006-12-12 Thread Luca de Alfaro
Dear All, I have just uploaded to the Gimp plug-in repository a plug-in that enables you to modify the color temperature of a photo. I can be used to correct the bluish cast in overcast photos, or even (to some extent) the red cast in photos taken under incandescent light with the camera set to

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

2006-12-12 Thread Luca de Alfaro
I think the danger in a simplification is this: there are many users that are "advanced" in the sense that they are advanced in their processing of photos or graphical arts, but that are not "advanced" in the sense of computer users. If you hide things in the module manager, they may never be abl

Re: [Gimp-user] Color temperature modification plugin available!

2006-12-12 Thread Luca de Alfaro
g-in seems to work! I have only one problem with it now - it doesn't define a place to be put in the register procedure. I added /Script-Fu/Enhance/ before the Convert Color Temperature and could find it :). I use GIMP 2.3.12 on Windows. Luca de Alfaro wrote: > Dear All, > > I hav

Re: [Gimp-user] Color temperature modification plugin available!

2006-12-13 Thread Luca de Alfaro
ander Rabtchevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok, it appears exactly where you said. I simply wasn't able to find it there. Luca de Alfaro wrote: > This is strange - I defined it so that it goes under "Tools/Color Tools" > for version 1.2 (It used to be Layer/Colors). That&

Re: [Gimp-user] Color temperature modification plugin available!

2006-12-13 Thread Luca de Alfaro
Hi, I took Sven's advice, and moved the plug-in to Filters/Colors/Convert Color Temperature. Indeed Sven is right, that is a more logical place, and since the new model going forward is to have plugins register to the appropriate area, rather than "script-fu", I went ahead with that. BTW, I like

Re: [Gimp-user] plugins for photographers

2006-12-13 Thread Luca de Alfaro
Ok, I made two plugins (available from the repository): - colortemp: converts the color temperature of an image. You can specify the source temperature in K, or as the temperatue at which a black-body color best matches the selected foreground color. - whitebalance: converts the foreground colo

Re: [Gimp-user] plugins for photographers

2006-12-13 Thread Luca de Alfaro
very good paradigm. As a user, I am much more likely to tinker with simple, self-contained scheme scripts, than with .c stuff that needs a whole build environment to compile. Luca On 12/13/06, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 13:02 -0800, Luca de A

[Gimp-user] Can Gimp start with something less dangerous than a brush, please?

2006-12-14 Thread Luca de Alfaro
I often open photos to do color balancing, etc, and I am annoyed that Gimp selects, as the first tool, something as dangerous as a brush. An errant click of the mouse, and splat! - a black dot on my photo. Sure, I can undo it - *if* I realize that I did it (with many windows open, an errant clic

Re: [Gimp-user] Color temperature modification plugin available!

2006-12-15 Thread Luca de Alfaro
Not as a script. It does not depend on the script, but on how Gimp calls the script. Unfortunately, the script is called only when you press OK, and not when you modify a control. It's a pity, and I wonder if scripts could be called differently - at each change of some control - in some future v

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp vs. Photoshop

2006-12-20 Thread Luca de Alfaro
For a class, I don't know, but for serious photo work, Photoshop is incredibly more advanced. Some exampes: Color: - support for more than 8 bits/color/pixel (my scanners have 16) - support for color profiles (.icc profiles - how are you going to profile a printer otherwise?) - support for color s

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp vs. Photoshop

2006-12-20 Thread Luca de Alfaro
I, for one, don't believe that open source projects should necessarily avoid slang words. "Gimp" is a relatively obscure slang word. Let me define this: most English speakers speak English as a second language, and i bet 99% of them are not familiar with the unofficial uses of the word "Gimp". F

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp vs. Photoshop

2006-12-21 Thread Luca de Alfaro
I wholeheartedly agree. It is an absurdity that some print drivers ship with separate .icc profiles. I am not quite sure why the situation evolved, but I suspect that professional users started to wish to have a way to calibrate their output for their specific printer (even now, people who care ab

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp vs. Photoshop

2006-12-21 Thread Luca de Alfaro
Trapper wrote: > 5. The Gimp's GUI, unfortunately, is in direct opposition to human logic > and our normal thought patterns. I have no other way to describe it. I > know of no one under any OS that emulates The Gimp's GUI strategy. > There's probably good reason for that. I don't find Gimp to be

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp vs. Photoshop

2006-12-21 Thread Luca de Alfaro
Correct. However, there is no reason why these .icc profiles should go in photoshop rather than in the printer driver. Especially as I have anyway to tell my printer driver (I am not sure why) which kind of paper I am using. Luca On 12/21/06, Bob Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It should be

[Gimp-user] Plugin registry broken (no logins allowed)

2007-01-04 Thread Luca de Alfaro
For several days, the Gimp plugin registry has been refusing all log-ins. If asked for a password reminder, it sends back the correct password (unencrypted!), but then it does not let log in. The problem is, of course, that people cannot upload new plug-ins, nor update the information for existing