Re: [Gimp-user] Polygon Selection Tool?

2005-09-13 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 12:03:30AM -0400, percy tiglao wrote: > On 9/13/05, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chris Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Also, does anyone know an easy way to make word balloons? In > > > Photoshop this could be easily be done by selecting an oval a

Re: [Gimp-user] Polygon Selection Tool?

2005-09-13 Thread percy tiglao
On 9/13/05, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Chris Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Also, does anyone know an easy way to make word balloons? In > > Photoshop this could be easily be done by selecting an oval area > > (ellipse select), union that with a triangular selectio

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Polygon Selection Tool?

2005-09-13 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Chris Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks. However, can you perform boolean operations on paths? I see add, > subtract, and intersect functions for selections, but only a "merge" > option for visible paths, which just places all nodes on the same layer. Booleam operations on paths a

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 08:00:48PM -0400, michael chang wrote: > On 9/13/05, Chris Kinata [kcom] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > By "absent image" are we talking about the img frame.png in > > the passages > > > > > > > > but can't find a correct path f

[Gimp-user] Re: Polygon Selection Tool?

2005-09-13 Thread Chris Spencer
Sven Neumann wrote: Also, does anyone know an easy way to make word balloons? In Photoshop this could be easily be done by selecting an oval area (ellipse select), union that with a triangular selection (polygon select), then convert to path and stroke. That's pretty much how you'd be doing t

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread michael chang
On 9/13/05, Chris Kinata [kcom] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By "absent image" are we talking about the img frame.png in > the passages > > > > but can't find a correct path for frame.png. I think we call this generative loss or something... frame.png

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread Carol Spears
one more time: On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 04:02:13PM -0700, Carol Spears wrote: > > i fully admit that i am unable to use the gimp image map plug-in to its > fullest, however even with my limited skills, it would be easy to get a > screenshot of the page being rendered correctly and send all IE viewe

RE: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread Chris Kinata [kcom]
-Original Message- | From: Carol Spears [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: 20050913 Sep Tue 16:02 | To: Chris Kinata [kcom] | Cc: GIMPUser | Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency | | | On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 03:41:58PM -070

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 03:04:52PM -0700, Carol Spears wrote: > > personally, i thank everyone who has been involved in giving me a > lifestyle in which i do not need to worry about broken propietary > software when i make pages. the mess you see on my web site is all my > own making for my own p

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 03:41:58PM -0700, Chris Kinata [kcom] wrote: > > With respect, could you clarify what the issue is on > the page you've referenced? I'm looking at > > http://carol.gimp.org/blog.html > > in both IE6 and Firefox, and the major differences > I see are some spacing variation

RE: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread Chris Kinata [kcom]
- every-browser design. I absolutely do not know where the line should be drawn, but really want to achieve certain effects anyway. Hence the pain 8). Regards, Chris | www.kinata.net web design and hosting | -Original Message- | From: Carol Spears [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 02:23:14PM -0700, Chris Kinata [kcom] wrote: > > Hi all... > > I was frustrated about IE PNG support (still am), but did some research, > and found several ways to fix this in IE, depending on what you want. > we were discussing this on the irc some. it is all very conf

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread michael chang
On 9/13/05, Patrick Shanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * michael chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [09-13-05 15:33]: > > > > So logically, should we even be using tRNS in PNG anyway? IE is one > > of the most commonly used browsers, AFAIK... > > > > Why would you cripple a *good* program because a *ba

RE: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread Chris Kinata [kcom]
| Sent: 20050913 Sep Tue 13:55 | To: michael chang | Cc: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu | Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency | | | On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 04:26:39PM -0400, michael chang wrote: | > > IE ignores tRNS when you are

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* michael chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [09-13-05 15:33]: > > So logically, should we even be using tRNS in PNG anyway? IE is one > of the most commonly used browsers, AFAIK... > Why would you cripple a *good* program because a *bad* program, IE, is broken? -- Patrick Shanahan

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 04:26:39PM -0400, michael chang wrote: > > IE ignores tRNS when you aren't in palette mode, anytime you added some of > > that color to an image, it would turn transparent seperate from what you > > expect, etc. > > So logically, should we even be using tRNS in PNG anyway?

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread michael chang
On 9/13/05, Jeffrey Brent McBeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 05:30:21PM +0300, Diaa Sami wrote: > > > > that's exactly what I wanted, I looked into PNG docs, and I found out > > that there are two functions responsible for this, which are > > png_get_tRNS and png_set_tRNS.

Re: [Gimp-user] Polygon Selection Tool?

2005-09-13 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Steve Stavropoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I see your point. You can easily use paths to do that (click at the > points you want and ctrl-click at the first one to close the path. > Then turn the path into a selection). Nevertheless, I agree that a > polygon selection tool would be ni

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 05:30:21PM +0300, Diaa Sami wrote: > > that's exactly what I wanted, I looked into PNG docs, and I found out > that there are two functions responsible for this, which are > png_get_tRNS and png_set_tRNS. Yup. For just about any chunk, there is a get/set pair in the ref

[Gimp-user] Re: PNG binary transparency

2005-09-13 Thread Diaa Sami
Jeffrey Brent McBeth wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 06:06:14AM +0300, Diaa Sami wrote: first, I want to thank you for your long and clear response. well, you're asking about what I'm trying to achieve. what I want is to have somekind of transparent color which is written in the PNG file. I d

Re: [Gimp-user] Polygon Selection Tool?

2005-09-13 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Chris Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does the GIMP have anything like Photoshop's polygon lasso tool? I've > found this tool extremely useful. It's like the GIMP's free select tool, > but it allows you to select an arbitrary polygonal selection area by > clicking out the points the way

Re: [Gimp-user] brush editor

2005-09-13 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Helen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I created a brush with my signature, but somehow, it >is huge. I'd like to make is smaller. A read in a tutorial >that only a parametric brush can be made smaller, but >I find nothing on how to turn this into a parametric >brush. Can I

Re: [Gimp-user] Polygon Selection Tool?

2005-09-13 Thread Steve Stavropoulos
2005/9/13, Chris Spencer: > Does the GIMP have anything like Photoshop's polygon lasso tool? I've > found this tool extremely useful. It's like the GIMP's free select tool, > but it allows you to select an arbitrary polygonal selection area by > clicking out the points the way you would for a path.

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Livre sur Gimp (aka publishing GIMP books)

2005-09-13 Thread Roman Joost
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 06:03:49PM -0400, michael chang wrote: > On 9/12/05, Juhana Sadeharju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >From: "Michael J. Hammel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > >FWIW, I'm working on another GIMP book, tentatively titled The Artist's > > >Guide to GIMP Effects. It's essentiall