Re: [Gimp-user] how to invert greyscale values only...

2010-02-05 Thread yahvuu
Rich Evans wrote: > That's it! Perfect. glad to hear it works as expected. Just want to add that the programmer's route, aka doing it by the math, is quite viable, too. Some selected options: - the MathMap plugin probably enables the most concise solution: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/scha

Re: [Gimp-user] how to invert greyscale values only...

2010-02-04 Thread Rich Evans
- Original Message From: yahvuu To: Rich Evans Cc: Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Sent: Thu, February 4, 2010 4:31:19 AM Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] how to invert greyscale values only... hi, Rich Evans wrote: > [..] Is there a > technique or tool to invert any part of the image that is

Re: [Gimp-user] how to invert greyscale values only...

2010-02-04 Thread yahvuu
hi, Rich Evans wrote: > [..] Is there a > technique or tool to invert any part of the image that is only a shade of > grey? > i.e. invert pixeils with a saturation of ~0 (if that is how you say > it). The on-board tools are just fine for this. "Do something to some pixels (here: invert) and lea

Re: [Gimp-user] how to invert greyscale values only...

2010-02-04 Thread Cédric Gémy
"Duplicate layer, invert bottom layer and cut all blacks and whites out of (transparent) top layer (of course, if there's a range of greys it gets more complicated)." it's evident that this is the problem : i don't know about Rich's photo but the sample i use here have various flavors of blacks'

Re: [Gimp-user] how to invert greyscale values only...

2010-02-03 Thread Andrew
be to write a c program from scratch).Would >> anyone consider this... easy? >> >> continue thanks, >> -Rich >> >> >> >> - Original Message >> From: Cédric Gémy >> To: Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU >> Sent: Tue, Februa

Re: [Gimp-user] how to invert greyscale values only...

2010-02-03 Thread Rich Evans
. Does this type of tool/script exist? continued thanks, -rich - Original Message From: Ken Warner To: Rich Evans Cc: Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Sent: Tue, February 2, 2010 8:12:09 PM Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] how to invert greyscale values only... Colors -> Desaturate; C

Re: [Gimp-user] how to invert greyscale values only...

2010-02-02 Thread Owen
CF.Berkeley.EDU > Sent: Tue, February 2, 2010 5:58:51 PM > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] how to invert greyscale values only... > > not completely satisfied with sven's method, working on some pictures > but not any, depending on the shades. > I used to do it in CMYK a long time ag

Re: [Gimp-user] how to invert greyscale values only...

2010-02-02 Thread Ken Warner
mp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > Sent: Tue, February 2, 2010 5:58:51 PM > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] how to invert greyscale values only... > > not completely satisfied with sven's method, working on some pictures > but not any, depending on the shades. > I used to do it in

Re: [Gimp-user] how to invert greyscale values only...

2010-02-02 Thread Rich Evans
ogram from scratch).Would anyone consider this... easy? continue thanks, -Rich - Original Message From: Cédric Gémy To: Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Sent: Tue, February 2, 2010 5:58:51 PM Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] how to invert greyscale values only... not completely satisfied with

Re: [Gimp-user] how to invert greyscale values only...

2010-02-02 Thread Cédric Gémy
not completely satisfied with sven's method, working on some pictures but not any, depending on the shades. I used to do it in CMYK a long time ago with photoshop by just pushing the image to CMYK and inverting the K curve. I guess something might be done with decompose color filter or so. But the

Re: [Gimp-user] how to invert greyscale values only... leaving colors alone

2010-02-02 Thread Sven Neumann
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 15:27 -0800, Rich Evans wrote: > Hello, Is this the right place to ask a question about special filters in > GIMP? If so, I'd love some advice on the following task: > > I have an RGB image that is basically a black background with many > colorful objects and white text. --

Re: [Gimp-user] how to invert greyscale values only... leaving colors alone

2010-02-01 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Rich Evans wrote: > I have an RGB image that is basically a black background with many colorful > objects and white text. --- I'd like to invert the image so that it is a > white background with black text but a simple invert inverts the colors in > all the colored objects as well. Is there a