Re: [Gimp-user] newbie question!!!

2010-03-30 Thread Peter Trittenwein|fokusIT
The scope of this question is way beyond what can be imparted via mailing list in any practical way. I'd recommend you browse the Tutorial section at an art community. deviantArt, for example, has plenty of GIMP tutorials already: http://browse.deviantart.com/#order=9q=gimp+tutorial Have fun!

Re: [Gimp-user] newbie question!!!

2010-03-30 Thread Leonard Evens
On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 17:13 -0400, Brad Pears wrote: Hi all!! Well I am no graphic designer and am the dummest of the dumb - when it comes to graphics stuff. The guy who used to do all of this at our company left and I got stuck holding the bag. I've never used GIMP nor Photoshop. I have Gimp

Re: [Gimp-user] newbie question!!!

2010-03-29 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:13:30 -0400 Brad Pears br...@truenorthloghomes.com wrote: Can someone point me to or send me detailed instructions on how I would open up two (or more) different images and then join them together - change the background colours (if need be), add some text to the new

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie Question

2005-07-12 Thread sam ende
On Monday 11 July 2005 20:30, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris wrote: Jonathan: You have to further trim down your selection, by using the selection by color and clicking on the desired color. In order for the new selection to be within the original selection, you have to use the select by color

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie Question

2005-07-11 Thread Akkana Peck
Jonathan Allen writes: I have a first-time question. In general terms, how can I change all the pixels of one colour within a hand-drawn selection into another colour ? Select by color, Fill But that selects all the black text in the guf, not just the one letter I need to colour.

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie Question

2005-07-11 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Jonathan Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a first-time question. In general terms, how can I change all the pixels of one colour within a hand-drawn selection into another colour ? Edit-Fill with FG Color The fact that you find it easier to ask this on a mailing-list than to

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie Question

2005-07-10 Thread Jonathan Allen
Andreas, I have a first-time question. In general terms, how can I change all the pixels of one colour within a hand-drawn selection into another colour ? Select by color, Fill But that selects all the black text in the guf, not just the one letter I need to colour. That was why I had

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie question - plugins in windows xp

2004-11-16 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Scott Binns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, my question now is, how do I build the plugin? What configuration/tools do I need, and what steps to I follow to get the .exe? You need a C compiler and you need the libgimp header files. GIMP comes with a tool called gimptool that helps you to

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie question - plugins in windows xp

2004-11-16 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Matthew H. Plough [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First of all, thank you to Carol for being so helpful on this issue. I praise your willingness to help people out, and go beyond the call of duty in providing useful information. If you and Sven were not high-ups, you would be

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie question - plugins in windows xp

2004-11-16 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Michael Schumacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some users reported that the gimptool executable doesn't work correctly. I don't think anyone invested much time in this, since everyone who seems to be able to compile gimp and plug-ins so far uses cygwin and/or mingw and thus thze gimptool

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie question - plugins in windows xp

2004-11-15 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 01:17:48AM -0700, Scott Binns wrote: I don't mind building it myself, I just don't know what the process to build is. I downloaded it from http://registry.gimp.org/ - is there some other place to get the binaries for plugins? this comes in the gimp source that you

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie question - plugins in windows xp

2004-11-15 Thread Scott Binns
So, my question now is, how do I build the plugin? What configuration/tools do I need, and what steps to I follow to get the .exe? Scott On Mon, November 15, 2004 1:04 pm, Carol Spears said: On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 01:17:48AM -0700, Scott Binns wrote: I don't mind building it myself, I just

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie question - plugins in windows xp

2004-11-15 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:41:49PM -0700, Scott Binns wrote: So, my question now is, how do I build the plugin? What configuration/tools do I need, and what steps to I follow to get the .exe? if i remember correctly, you are asking for the gimptool. i get this everytime i build gimp from the

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie question - plugins in windows xp

2004-11-15 Thread Scott Binns
Yes - but what do I need to do to build gimp (and by extension the plugin)? Thanks, Scott On Mon, November 15, 2004 3:48 pm, Carol Spears said: so here is the thing. since this plug-in uses the tools to build software that you need to build the gimp with anyways, the only way to get it is to

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie question - plugins in windows xp

2004-11-15 Thread Matthew H. Plough
First of all, thank you to Carol for being so helpful on this issue. I praise your willingness to help people out, and go beyond the call of duty in providing useful information. If you and Sven were not high-ups, you would be banned for being trolls. This is the best I can do for now since I

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie question - plugins in windows xp

2004-11-13 Thread Michael Schumacher
Gezim Hoxha wrote: As far as gimptool I wouldn't know...but I guess (big guess) that it's just some part of gimp--maybe toolbar! gimptool is a script that help you to compile gimp plug-ins. It knows about all the compiler switches that are needed, calls the compiler to build the plug-in and can

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie question - plugins in windows xp

2004-11-13 Thread Scott Binns
I don't mind building it myself, I just don't know what the process to build is. I downloaded it from http://registry.gimp.org/ - is there some other place to get the binaries for plugins? I am using Gimp 2.0.5 Thanks, Scott On Sat, November 13, 2004 1:01 am, Gezim Hoxha said: When I look in

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie question

2004-11-12 Thread Gezim Hoxha
Since I don't have windows XP I don't know the exact directory, but when you open up gimp, choose FilePreferences then on the left hand side click on Plug-ins under Foldersin here the directories where the plugins are stored should be listed. -Gezim P.S. when you post on the list please try

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie question - plugins in windows xp

2004-11-12 Thread Scott Binns
When I look in the folders listed, there .exe files there. the plugin I downloaded is a .c file - how do I get it from a .c to a .exe? I looked through the .c file, and it made mention of gimptool-2.0, so maybe I should be asking where do I get it? Thanks Scott On Fri, November 12, 2004 11:20