photo retouch

2000-07-10 Thread Nikolai Vladychevski
Hello, I wanted to add something beautiful to my site, so I scanned a picture of a nice lady. But the problem is, I never can get it to look like a photos on other sites (like www.lamaslinda.com for example). I tryed Curves, Hue/Saturation, Brightnes/Contrast, Sharpen filter, everything but the

Re: photo retouch

2000-07-10 Thread clemensF
Feiyi Wang: the following link, titled "photo touch up and enhancement in the GIMP" should cover the basic stuff. http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/5179/ is this just happening to me? when i try to get this page with netscape i get redirected (after a 404) to some insane

Two How-to Questions

2000-07-10 Thread Andrew J Fortune
Hi all, (1) If you have drawn an outline (e.g. a circle, square or any arbitrary closed path) with a pencil, brush, GFig etc., how can you turn that into a selection ? (note - I am not talking about using the Bezier tool). (2) How can you turn all occurrences of a particular color (e.g. white)

Re: photo retouch

2000-07-10 Thread Lenka Otap
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, clemensF wrote: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/5179/ is this just happening to me? when i try to get this page with netscape i get redirected (after a 404) to some insane 'net-game. happens even when shortening the url back to ...cities.com/ i know

Re: photo retouch

2000-07-10 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/5179/ is this just happening to me? when i try to get this page with netscape i get redirected (after a 404) to some insane 'net-game. happens even when shortening the url back to ...cities.com/ i know i could get into Silicon- Valley... I use

Re: photo retouch

2000-07-10 Thread Feiyi Wang
Hi, It seems that there are quite a bit interest on the link I posted a while ago and also some access problems with it. I assure you that the link itself is no problem, so you should just be patient and try again from different machine (?) I also want to point out that the author of the page

Re: Two How-to Questions

2000-07-10 Thread Alex Harford
Andrew J Fortune wrote: Hi all, (1) If you have drawn an outline (e.g. a circle, square or any arbitrary closed path) with a pencil, brush, GFig etc., how can you turn that into a selection ? (note - I am not talking about using the Bezier tool). Not quite sure what you mean... maybe you

Re: photo retouch

2000-07-10 Thread clemensF
Feiyi Wang: I also want to point out that the author of the page (Carey Bunks) is the same one who wrote the book "Grokking the GIMP" and put it on-line for free. There is a whole chapter of it devoted to the topic of using GIMP for retouch and enchancement. I will encourage anyone

Re: photo retouch

2000-07-10 Thread Jon Winters
Nikolai Vladychevski wrote: somebody tell me where to read a good paper about retouching? Practice! There is no substitute. Just experiment and you'll start to learn how to fix things up. I did a quickie touch-up on the image you attached: http://obscura.obscurasite.com/images/fixed.jpg

Re: Some perl error

2000-07-10 Thread Jeff Sheffield
i ran into the same problem as well.. could building perl 5.6.0 like this ./configure -Uuselargefiles -des (essentially turning of uselargefiles) cause gimp-1.1.24 not to build correctly..? (ahhh well it does ..@ least on my box anyway ) so I guess my question really is does that make since...?

Re: Wacom-tablet: Gimp kills mouse

2000-07-10 Thread Jeff Sheffield
well i am such a geek that I have multiple computers. I have 1 mon 1 key and 1 mouse. When i switch back and forth between x servers gpm gets all confused about the pointer (I suspect you are seeing a side effect of that same problem. My solution... ctrl-alt-f3 ctrl-alt-f7 (don't move the