Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Gimp latest version

[phanisvara das]

On Friday 16 January 2009 21:52:41 Cristian Secară wrote:
> My comment was related to „the easiest way would be to upgrade to
> Ubuntu 8.10” statement, given as a solution to be able to use a newer
> version of an application (no matter which). This is something I
> consider to be exaggerated.

depends. it took me several hours to install GIMP 2.6.4 on openSUSE 
11.0, because upto now the OS repositories offer GIMP 2.4 librariies 
only. had to install a bunch of dependencies, compile some of them, and 
change libraries that openSUSE was using by default.

if the latest (stable) GIMP version is supported in a newer version of 
ubuntu, it seems to make more sense to spend the time upgrading to that 
OS version, since most likely that will be done sooner or later anyway, 
than fiddling around with dependencies in the older OS version...

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Re: [Gimp-user] sharpening

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On Monday 27 July 2009 23:17:26 Norman Silverstone wrote:
> Quite some time ago a method for sharpening was given here and which
> I have enjoyed using. Unfortunately, I have lost my notes and I would
> be grateful if the method could be posted again, please.

are you looking for this turorial: "smart sharpening" ? URL: 
http://gimp.org/tutorials/Smart_Sharpening/

it's found under the GIMP tutorial section, together with tons of other 
useful tips, at http://gimp.org/tutorials/

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Re: [Gimp-user] A "non-tool" selection...

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On Saturday 29 August 2009 08:15:11 zed wrote:
> That, together with the fact that at the start a tool is
> selected and I click on the image and wonder what has happened and how I
> change it..  

i had the same "problem" when i started using gimp. not used to the shape and 
meaning of pointers, i was wondering what might happen if i clicked somewhere 
on the open image. quick way to choose an "inoffensive" tool that doesn't 
change anything inadvertantly is hitting "e" on the keyboard, activating the 
ellypse selection tool, or "r" for rectangle selection. and if you happen to do 
something you didn't want to, there's always ctrl-z to "undo" whatever you 
did...

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Re: [Gimp-user] Important menu options are missing

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On Saturday 05 September 2009 08:41:38 am Bill S. wrote:
> I'm using GIMP 2.6.6 that came with my Ubuntu 9.04 distro.   I've been 
trying
> to learn about GIMP.  I bought a book about GIMP for $45.

your book obviously was written for an earlier version of GIMP. you can 
of course install that earlier version instead of the later one, but i 
wouldn't do that; you'd loose the improvements that have been made in 
recent development, and you can still use your book with newer versions.

while the location of menus and options has changed in some cases, they 
are still available, and the procedures and techniques described in the 
book are still valuable. i would use GIMP's online help 
(http://gimp.org/docs/) to locate options that are in different places 
now and for new features that weren't available when the book was 
written.

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Re: [Gimp-user] sharpening

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On Saturday 05 September 2009 12:54:32 pm Carusoswi wrote:
> I'm trying to follow this smart sharpening tutorial from version 
2.6.7. 
> Several items in the early steps are slightly different - menu steps to
> decompose vary a bit, for example.

i had the same problem and found that this procedure works for me:

--after decomposing, i go back to the original (or duplicate) image, do 
the edge, levels, and gaussian blur things;
--select all and copy the selection to the clipboard;
--then undo everything until the normal color image is visible again;

--now change to the decomposed image;
--highlight the "L" layer;
--go to channels and add a new one;
--select the new channel and paste the selection still in the cliboard;
--go to layers and anchor the floating selection;
--go back to channels and create a selection from the new channel;
--switch off visibility of the new channel and deselect it, selecting the 
original ones;
--go to layers, make sure "L" is selected, and apply unsharp mask;
--select colors->components (or whatever it's called)->recompose;
--close the (previously) decomposed image and save changes;

now the original image has the smart sharpening applied. if you don't 
like the result, you can undo and start over.

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Re: [Gimp-user] I'm sure this has been reported -- main window covers dialogs...

[phanisvara das]

On Saturday 05 September 2009 10:56:04 pm Ken Warner wrote:
> Probably everybody knows this.  It became inconvenient last night 
> editing a big image.

did you try hitting the tab key? in my GIMP (2.6.7) this brings the 
dialogs to the front.

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Re: [Gimp-user] Can't start program

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On Monday 28 September 2009 02:58:00 am Joseph W. wrote:
> Can anyone help me get GIMP to start?

start gimp from a konsole window by typing "gimp" and post the resulting 
messages here. that should provide a clue what's going wrong.

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Re: [Gimp-user] Blurry text, layout->print problems, why?

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On Sunday 27 September 2009 10:37:30 am Carusoswi wrote:
> That worked out quite well, except that the smaller text (phone number,
> address, email address, etc) printed looking rather fuzzy and of low
> resolution. 

after creating the text, do you keep it as text layer, or do you merge it with 
another layer, or by some other means rasterize it?

text should scale without loss of quality as long as it's not rasterized. once 
you do that, you can't change the size anymore without loss.

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Re: [Gimp-user] adjusting a horizon

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On Monday 28 September 2009 02:59:17 pm Jude T. wrote:
> >Tools > Transformation > Rotate

this should be the first step in straightening out an image with distorted 
perspective, as you get when you don't hold the camera straight. 

after getting _something_ straight, either the middle of the image, or an 
important part somewhere else, you'll have to adjust the perspective. either 
choose tools -> transform tools -> perspective, or the perspective tool from 
the 
toolbox.

you'll have to play around a little to find the ideal perspective shift. if you 
change the perspective too much, the photo will look weired. after adjusting 
the 
perspective you can undo & redo, and repeat the process if necessary.

online manual links:

http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-tool-rotate.html
http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-tool-perspective.html

i didn't see a tutorial dealing with this subject, but you'll find lots of 
helpful information in there: http://gimp.org/tutorials/

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Re: [Gimp-user] Blurry text, layout->print problems, why?

[phanisvara das]

On Monday 28 September 2009 03:16:52 pm Carusoswi wrote:
> >Well, actually, I created one copy of the business card as an independent
> image.  Text in that image was flattened along with other elements.

that's where you get the fuzzy-ness from. you can copy & paste text layers 
between images without having to flatten them. once flattened, the text is just 
a 
bunch of pixels, not vector definition of letters anymore.

text can be re-sized w/o loss of quality; once you flatten the image, scaling 
of 
the raster image will affect it's quality, particularly if you make it larger.

you can copy and pate text layers, also repeatedly, and keep them as such until 
the very last step, before printing. that way you shouldn't get fuzzy outlines.

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Re: [Gimp-user] Bits per channel

[phanisvara das]

On Tuesday 29 September 2009 07:06:52 am Phil Labonte wrote:
>  have looked online on the Gimp site and I am not clear if Gimp
> supports 16 or 24 or 32 bit images?

as far as i know, GIMP processes colors with 16 bit precision when "use GEGL" 
is 
enabled from the "colors" menu. work is in progress to make it possible to 
fully 
support opening & saving of 16 bit (or higher?) images.

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Re: [Gimp-user] Bits per channel

[phanisvara das]

On Tuesday 29 September 2009 01:05:40 pm Joerg Bergmann  
wrote:
> > as far as i know, GIMP processes colors with 16 bit precision when "use 
> > GEGL" is enabled from the "colors" menu. work is in progress to make it 
> > possible to fully support opening & saving of 16 bit (or higher?) images.
> > 
> Wrong. GEGL uses 32 bit floating point numbers, that gives 128 bit per
> coloured pixel (with alpha channel). Using 16 bit integers, the maximum
> intensity of a color channel is 0x. This may lead to temporarily
> color cropping during multi-step operations, even if the final channel
> intensity is below 0x. By using floating point numbers, no
> temorarily cropping will occur.

thank you for clarifying that. i've read about it a while ago and didn't 
remember correctly.

NB: this reply arrived at my personal email address. that doesn't bother me, 
but 
other list users won't see it; seems your email client defaults to the wrong 
adress...

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Re: [Gimp-user] OFF THE DAMN MAILING LIST

[phanisvara das]

On Friday 02 October 2009 12:21:14 pm dudu...@juno.com wrote:
> 
>I will soon start writing nonesence on your forums so that maybe you can 
>cick me out

you already started. you signed up for the mailing list yourself, you'll 
have to sign yourself off again, too. go to the following address:



it's included in each mail from this list for a purpose, you know...

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Re: [Gimp-user] OFF THE DAMN MAILING LIST

[phanisvara das]

On Friday 02 October 2009 01:08:38 pm you wrote:
> Except it won't work.  I tried to unsubscribe a few weeks ago and it
> failed, but I do not care as much as the original poster!

oops, you're correct. the berkley list doesn't accept my login, even though 
they reminded me of my subscription, including my password (in plain text) 
just yesterday.

you can unsubscribe via URL command in your email, though. to get a list of 
commands with instructions, send an email to  with the single word "help" in the email 
body. 


at , at the very 
bottom of the form, you can enter your email address and arrive at another 
form (that's the one where login isn't working). at the bottom of that form 
there's a button to "unsubscribe." didn't try that, since i do not want to 
unsubscribe, and since this list doesn't seem to always work, i didn't want 
to try.

in any case, it's not the gimp users list's fault; if the OP feels he should 
harrass someone, he should go to the berkley list maintainers...

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PS: sorry for sending this message to simon separately. in addition to not 
accepting logins, the berkley list seems to mess up the reply-to field in the 
header, too. with all other lists i'm subscribed to, replies go to the list, 
not to the poster...
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[Gimp-user] gimp.org website down?

[phanisvara das]

since yesterday afternoon i've been trying to get to the gimp.org website, 
but no luck. is this a local network problem (i'm living in india), or is 
the website down?

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Re: [Gimp-user] Font scaling looks choppy

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On Sunday 01 November 2009 09:30:17 pm vr wrote:
> 
> I'm working with scratchy looking fonts trying to give them something to
> stand out.
> 
> I create a transparent canvas about 348x67 then pick a font, select white
> for the color, and set the font at around 34. Then using the scale tool I
> stretch the text to fill more of the canvas space. Then I right click the
> text layer and "alpha to selection". Then I select -> grow selection by 3.
> Then I use the bucket tool to fill the 3 pixel region with black.
> 
> My end result is a choppy unpleasant looking white logo with a black
> border.

i'm not sure where your text gets choppy; i followed the instructions you 
outlined, and got a decent looking outlined text. of course, before using 
the bucket filler, i inserted a new layer underneath the text layer.

yesterday i came across an article that describes how to produce nice 
looking glossy text; perhaps you find that useful: 


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Re: [Gimp-user] Font scaling looks choppy

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On Sunday 01 November 2009 10:37:33 pm vr wrote:
> I've been retracing my steps trying different things all morning and it
> seems (for me) the inner white text gets choppy when scaled to fill the
> canvas every time.

that probably means that you converted the text layer. as long as it remains 
a text layer, you can scale it without quality loss. once it gets 
rasterized, by merging the layer down to the next one per example, scaling 
will create fuzzy edges, etc.

make sure that you don't change the text layer to anything else until all 
your scaling and re-sizing has been done.

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Re: [Gimp-user] Font scaling looks choppy

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On Sunday 01 November 2009 09:30:17 pm vr wrote:
> I create a transparent canvas about 348x67 then pick a font, select white
> for the color, and set the font at around 34. Then using the scale tool I
> stretch the text to fill more of the canvas space. Then I right click the
> text layer and "alpha to selection". Then I select -> grow selection by 3.
> Then I use the bucket tool to fill the 3 pixel region with black.

wait a sec--what i wrote earlier isn't right. i tried your steps again, and 
found that once you change the size of the text with the resize tool, the 
resulting image isn't a vector image anymore, means it can't be scaled 
without quality loss.

you'll have to adjust the text size by editing the font size in the toolbox. 
then move the text layer to the exact position you want it. you can add 
borders or whatever on additional layers beneath the text layer (or above 
it, depending on what you want to do).

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Re: [Gimp-user] Completely off every imaginable topic;)

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On Monday 18 January 2010 06:53:26 pm Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> Dude, I never ran any related research, but I 'm sure as hell that I
> do all sorts of posting depending on situation. Does it make me Dr.
> Jackill and Mr. Hyde? :) I'm also quite sure that I'm not alone in
> this.

in my opinion, as long as you actually do think and choose your posting 
style according to the situation, that's fine. what's obnoxious is 
people using whatever defaul their email client comes up with, 
subjecting others to scrolling thru' tons of unnecessary stuff, or 
making it difficult or impossible to find out what they're talking about 
because there's no context to be found.

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Re: [Gimp-user] reverting to base state

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On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:00:00 +0530, Jeremy Nell  wrote:

> How possible is it for someone to create a script / plugin that solves this 
> problem?  (Sadly, I know nothing about coding.)

to me the easiest seems to make it a habit to "save as" any image you want to 
be able to revert to. no scripting required...

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