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 sort

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 that same

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 that same

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 Rhoadesp...@pricom.com.au 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

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 p...@pricom.com.au 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

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 Rhoadesp...@pricom.com.au 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

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 leon-g...@cyberknights.com.au 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

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 p...@pricom.com.au 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

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 leon-g...@cyberknights.com.au wrote: If the image is text or

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 Rhoadesp...@pricom.com.au 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

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 p...@pricom.com.au 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

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 image

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 leon-g...@cyberknights.com.au 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 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 selection without content?

2010-04-18 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 1:51 PM, rich for...@gimpusers.com 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

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 akk...@shallowsky.com To: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Sent: Sun, April 18, 2010 1:14:20 PM Subject: Re: [Gimp-user

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 the

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 to

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

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

2007-09-19 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

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:

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

2007-09-18 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 + crop - 1 action?

2007-09-18 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 to do

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? Thanks!

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 implement this

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

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

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 I rotate pic

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 filled

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, andrei Now

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 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

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

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