[Gimp-user] Newbie alert - please be gentle!

2006-03-01 Thread Ross Brown
Afternoon All A newbie to Gimp but wanted to give it a go as I'd heard so many good things about it. Found a basic problem that could stop me using it - but I'm sure it's solvable. I'm running Gimp through X11 on a Mac (running OSX 10.4.5). I keep all my work on a remote file server but

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie alert - please be gentle!

2006-03-01 Thread Ross Brown
Sorry, newbies are not allowed here. Right, I'll take my Mac and wipe my tears then... Just kidding.. :) Thank God for that! Is the problem the mounted drive doesn't appear in the Open dialog or that it does appear and you can't open it? The mounted drive doesn't appear in the

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie alert - please be gentle!

2006-03-01 Thread Ross Brown
so where did you search? The right place would be /Volumes/ nameOfTheMountedVolume. If you can't navigate to that place for some reason you can enter the path directly to the text field in the GIMP open file dialog. Aha! (sort of). Found it but it wasn't *that* simple... Open | Filesystem

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimpshop

2006-03-01 Thread Ross Brown
Sorry for jumping in half-way through a conversation that I haven't been entirely privy to - but I just wanted to make a suggestion/point that is (I hope) relevant. On 2 Mar 2006March2, at 02:33, Manish Singh wrote: Perhaps all that's really needed is the PS menu-GIMP menu mapping