Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate a picture?

2011-02-04 Thread Greg Chapman
Hi Peace, On 04 Feb 11 03:48 "Owen" said: > 1. Rotate the image > 2. Cut out the background (color to alpha if possible) > 3. Alpha to selection > 4. Copy/Cut and Paste as new image with transparent background > 5. Save as png It was 2004 when I produced this image: http://www.bankandshop.plus.c

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] Rotate a picture?

2011-02-03 Thread Owen
> I'd like to orient a picture of a book so that it's on a 45 degree > angle and then "cut out" the area around the "book" to that when you > view the picture is looks like a book on a 45 degree angle with no > area > around it. I'm sure GIMP can do that but the question is whether I > can > put

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate a picture?

2011-02-03 Thread Stefan Maerz
> I'd like to orient a picture of a book so that it's on  a 45 degree > angle and then "cut out" the area around the "book" to that when you > view the picture is looks like a book on  a 45 degree angle with no area > around it.  I'm sure GIMP can do that but the question is whether I can > put tha

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate increases PNG size x10 ! - next Q

2010-06-25 Thread Philip Rhoades
Branko, On 2010-06-26 00:54, Branko Vukelic wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: >> OK, so now the next question is: If the original is recognised by >> "identify" as a 1 bit per pixel image, why doesn't Gimp keep it that way >> when opening the file? At 300dpi there

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate increases PNG size x10 ! - next Q

2010-06-25 Thread Branko Vukelic
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: > OK, so now the next question is:  If the original is recognised by > "identify" as a 1 bit per pixel image, why doesn't Gimp keep it that way > when opening the file?  At 300dpi there is no real issue with "jaggy" > edges - is it just a judg

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate increases PNG size x10 ! - next Q

2010-06-25 Thread Philip Rhoades
Chris, On 2010-06-25 02:54, Chris Mohler wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote: >> Confirmation of what is going on from the gurus would be appreciated! > > It was as I guessed - the scans are in grayscale mode but the contents > are essentially a 1-bit image. > > Open a

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate increases PNG size x10 !

2010-06-24 Thread Philip Rhoades
Chris, On 2010-06-25 02:54, Chris Mohler wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote: >> Confirmation of what is going on from the gurus would be appreciated! > > It was as I guessed - the scans are in grayscale mode but the contents > are essentially a 1-bit image. > > Open a

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate increases PNG size x10 ! - resending

2010-06-24 Thread Philip Rhoades
People, I am resending this - the firsts attempt with the attachment didn't make it apparently . . I can provide it if anyone is interested . . On 2010-06-24 10:08, Chris Mohler wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Leon Brooks > wrote: >> If the image is text or something else essentiall

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate increases PNG size x10 !

2010-06-24 Thread Chris Mohler
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote: > Confirmation of what is going on from the gurus would be appreciated! It was as I guessed - the scans are in grayscale mode but the contents are essentially a 1-bit image. Open a scan, do image->mode->bitmap, choose 1-bit palette. Then ro

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate increases PNG size x10 !

2010-06-24 Thread Claus Cyrny
Chris Mohler wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Leon Brooks wrote: If the image is text or something else essentially monochrome Or image->mode, bitmap, 1-bit palette should drastically reduce the file size. I suspect that the 'line art' setting in xsane is producing a grayscale

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate increases PNG size x10 !

2010-06-23 Thread Chris Mohler
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Leon Brooks wrote: > If the image is text or something else essentially > monochrome Or image->mode, bitmap, 1-bit palette should drastically reduce the file size. I suspect that the 'line art' setting in xsane is producing a grayscale image but with each pixel e

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate increases PNG size x10 !

2010-06-23 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:04:57 am Branko Vukelic wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, Philip Rhoades wrote: >> What is going on with these size increases? > It may be that after rotation, pixels that were > otherwise the same color got anti-aliased and were > slightly different color. This would increase the >

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate increases PNG size x10 !

2010-06-23 Thread Branko Vukelic
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: > What is going on with these size increases? It may be that after rotation, pixels that were otherwise the same color got anti-aliased and were slightly different color. This would increase the image size. Can you show us the original scan?

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate selection without content?

2010-04-18 Thread Thomas Hart
Both rotate and move tools have an option to apply on the selection; maybe other tools have it, too.  Thomas J. Hart From: Akkana Peck To: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Sent: Sun, April 18, 2010 1:14:20 PM Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate selection

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate selection without content?

2010-04-18 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 1:51 PM, rich wrote: >>Is there no way to do this? I want to use an elliptical selection, but at an >>angle. >> > Looks like the rotate tool does not work on an empty selection. You need to check the 'Selection' button next to 'Transform' in the Rotate Tool's options, as A

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate selection without content?

2010-04-18 Thread Akkana Peck
Philip U. writes: > Is there no way to do this? I want to use an elliptical selection, but at an > angle. Use the "Transform selection" button in the tool options for the Rotate tool. Described here: http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-tools-transform.html#gimp-tool-transform ...Akkana

Re: [Gimp-user] rotate

2008-08-05 Thread Burnie West
Zoltan Tibenszky wrote: > Hi everybody! > > I am new on this mailing list, and I have just get basic knowledge about > GIMP. > I have got the following issue: > I have to put some text on a picture. Some text have to be vertical. I > have created the text with the text tool, and I have rotated it

Re: [Gimp-user] rotate

2008-08-05 Thread Michael J. Hammel
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 01:53 +0200, Zoltan Tibenszky wrote: > I have to put some text on a picture. Some text have to be vertical. I > have created the text with the text tool, and I have rotated it to make > it vertical. The problem was that the sides of the text become > transparent and just th

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate tool and layers

2007-12-13 Thread Scott
On Thursday 13 December 2007 9:17:05 am Rolf Steinort wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to rotate a stack of layers with the rotate > tool? Yes. In the layers dialog you can link together layers by clicking to the right of the eye icon to enable this linking. Then, you can rotate one of the layers

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] rotate + crop -> 1 action?

2007-09-19 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 08:53 +0200, B.W.H. van Beest wrote: > I see, do you mean there is no one involved with fixing this, and that > you are just hoping that somebody is going to do it? The respective bug report is on the 2.4 milestone but so far no one appears to be working on a fix: ht

Re: [Gimp-user] rotate + crop -> 1 action?

2007-09-18 Thread B.W.H. van Beest
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 07:55 +0200, B.W.H. van Beest wrote: When I rotate an image using GIMP a few degrees, to correct that I didn't hold my camera horizontal, the next step is to crop the rotated image such that it appears upright again. I realise that it must be p

Re: [Gimp-user] rotate + crop -> 1 action?

2007-09-17 Thread vt
On Tuesday 18 September 2007, B.W.H. van Beest wrote: > Dear GIMP people, > > When I rotate an image using GIMP a few degrees, to correct that I > didn't hold my camera horizontal, the next step is to crop the rotated > image such that it appears upright again. > I realise that it must be possible

Re: [Gimp-user] rotate + crop -> 1 action?

2007-09-17 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 07:55 +0200, B.W.H. van Beest wrote: > When I rotate an image using GIMP a few degrees, to correct that I > didn't hold my camera horizontal, the next step is to crop the rotated > image such that it appears upright again. > I realise that it must be possible to do the

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate brushes?

2007-05-01 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 14:57, Renan Birck wrote: > Em Seg, 2007-04-30 às 23:12 -0300, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris escreveu: > > No, this feature is not implemented. Sorry. > > > > It can be more o r less worked around with scripts for the time > > being. > > I see. Would it be possible to implemen

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate brushes?

2007-05-01 Thread Renan Birck
Em Seg, 2007-04-30 às 23:12 -0300, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris escreveu: > > No, this feature is not implemented. Sorry. > > It can be more o r less worked around with scripts for the time > being. I see. Would it be possible to implement this feature on the development version? Thank

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate brushes?

2007-04-30 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris
On Monday 30 April 2007 17:18, Renan Birck wrote: > Hello, > > In GIMP 2.3 from SVN the feature to scale brushes was added. > > However, I would like to know if is there some way to rotate/flip > brushes. I haven't seen it, but I could be missing something. > > Any ideas? No, this feature is not im

Re: [Gimp-user] rotate a pic

2004-04-05 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, David Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Use the rotate tool (part of the transform tool in 1.2.x) and set > your rotation to 20 degrees. In the tool options make sure that > "Clip result" is unchecked (which it is by default) and you will > get a new, rotated layer with the extra bits being

Re: [Gimp-user] rotate a pic

2004-04-05 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, "Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le 05.04.2004 22:02, Gracia M. Littauer a écrit : > >I want to rotate a pic about 20 degrees. > > > >I can easily do this in PhotoShop...but of course I end up with a > >larger > >pic & the white triangles that square off the pic. How do

Re: [Gimp-user] rotate a pic

2004-04-05 Thread Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)
Le 05.04.2004 22:18, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) a écrit : Le 05.04.2004 22:02, Gracia M. Littauer a écrit : I want to rotate a pic about 20 degrees. I can easily do this in PhotoShop...but of course I end up with a larger pic & the white triangles that square off the pic. How do I rotate pic in gim

Re: [Gimp-user] rotate a pic

2004-04-05 Thread David Neary
Hi Gracia, Gracia M. Littauer wrote: > I want to rotate a pic about 20 degrees. > > How do I rotate pic > in gimp & end up without the pic cut off. Use the rotate tool (part of the transform tool in 1.2.x) and set your rotation to 20 degrees. In the tool options make sure that "Clip result" is

Re: [Gimp-user] rotate a pic

2004-04-05 Thread Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)
Le 05.04.2004 22:02, Gracia M. Littauer a écrit : I want to rotate a pic about 20 degrees. I can easily do this in PhotoShop...but of course I end up with a larger pic & the white triangles that square off the pic. How do I rotate pic in gimp & end up without the pic cut off. Resize the cancas bef

Re: [Gimp-user] rotate image script-fu

2002-06-18 Thread Joel
> would you can send me the script? I am very interested about using GIMP to > make/process animations, so a script that gets all the imagens in a > directory, and apply some kind of transformation in them would be very > useful for me. And I am still a Script-fu beginner :) > > thank you, > andre

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate

2001-04-09 Thread Nigel
Using the measure tool to determine the angle followed by the transform tool is another way to do this. Nigel > the photo is crooked. I want to align the photo so it is streight. I found > that using guidelines helps alot, so I can get this perfect. How can I use > the rotate tool, combined

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate

2001-04-07 Thread Kelly Martin
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001 04:30:46 +, Rick Rosinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Found it! I see that I can use a grid and spin it around. This >works great! Now, is there a way to align the rotation to a >guideline? For example, I open up a scanned photo and the photo is >on a white page, but the

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate

2001-04-07 Thread kate
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Rick Rosinski wrote: > Am I missing something, or is GIMP really limited in the ability to rotate an > image? I nice that it is only limited "right angle", 180, 360, etc. I have > been saving temp images to disk and using ImageMagick's Display to do the > rotating, then open

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate

2001-04-07 Thread Rick Rosinski
Found it! I see that I can use a grid and spin it around. This works great! Now, is there a way to align the rotation to a guideline? For example, I open up a scanned photo and the photo is on a white page, but the photo is crooked. I want to align the photo so it is streight. I found that us

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate

2001-04-07 Thread Nigel
Double click on the trnsform tool. Nigel - Original Message - From: "Rick Rosinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gimp User Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 2:04 PM Subject: [Gimp-user] Rotate > Am I missing something, or is GIMP really limited in the ability to r