Re: [Gimp-user] Bit-depth Processing

2007-10-02 Thread Leon Brooks GIMP
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 04:35:36 David Southwell wrote: > IMHO photoshop is NOT a tool designed for the "average user". "Average" can mean "typical" & it can mean numbers (as in mean/mode/median), either way, PS fits the bill. So if you want to struggle with an "average" creativity ceiling &

Re: [Gimp-user] captcha

2007-10-02 Thread Chris Mohler
On 3 Oct 2007 01:23:24 -, mike reqavey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > greetings > please point me in the direction of how I could make a captcha around 8.5 x > 11.0 inches. It'd be a one shot deal for a poster, not something generated > randomly on a website. > I was thinking using lay

Re: [Gimp-user] captcha

2007-10-02 Thread Tim Jedlicka
On 3 Oct 2007 01:23:24 -, mike reqavey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > greetings > please point me in the direction of how I could make a captcha around 8.5x > 11.0 inches. > Closest I could come up with was the Filters->Animation->Rippling -- Tim Jedlicka, Network Entomologist [EMAIL PROTECTE

[Gimp-user] captcha

2007-10-02 Thread mike reqavey
greetings please point me in the direction of how I could make a captcha around 8.5 x 11.0 inches. It'd be a one shot deal for a poster, not something generated randomly on a website. I was thinking using layered letters and rotating each letter, but any suggestion would be helpful. thanks re

Re: [Gimp-user] Bit-depth Processing

2007-10-02 Thread Asif Lodhi
Hi David, > Message: 7 > Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 11:35:36 -0700 > From: David Southwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Bit-depth Processing > > IMHO photoshop is NOT a tool designed for the "average user". I would like to, respectfully, disagree. Photoshop IS meant for an "average u

Re: [Gimp-user] Bit-depth Processing

2007-10-02 Thread Asif Lodhi
> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 12:38:38 -0400 > From: "carol irvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Bit-depth Processing > > ... The instructors don't > care about > anything but the artistic merit of the results. If I were the student, I'd

Re: [Gimp-user] non-destructive editing

2007-10-02 Thread Simon Budig
Patrick Shanahan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * gimp_user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [10-02-07 13:47]: > Much unnecessary quote removed. > > One thing I forgot to mention is that if you are simply trying to > > edit an image for your own use and can revisit the original then the > > absense of non-de

Re: [Gimp-user] carol & the floating selection (now working in layers!)

2007-10-02 Thread carol irvin
no, my habit on this type of thing is to separately save the two versions (to desktop while working; to be moved when done). I then pick one of the images with Select>All and Edit>Copy. I then go to the other image and hit Edit>Paste. I now have 2 layers which show up in the layers palette, one

Re: [Gimp-user] Bit-depth Processing

2007-10-02 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:58:47AM -0700, Greg wrote: > --- Patrick Shanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Then you need to abandon the jpeg format as it is lossey (google for > > it) and you need to shoot RAW. > > I know, but if you can retain your original bit-depth, the lossyness > isn't as no

Re: [Gimp-user] Bit-depth Processing

2007-10-02 Thread Greg
--- Patrick Shanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then you need to abandon the jpeg format as it is lossey (google for > it) and you need to shoot RAW. I know, but if you can retain your original bit-depth, the lossyness isn't as noticeable, especially if you set the compression to the lowest poss

Re: [Gimp-user] non-destructive editing

2007-10-02 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* gimp_user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [10-02-07 13:47]: Much unnecessary quote removed. > One thing I forgot to mention is that if you are simply trying to edit an > image for your own use and can revisit the original then the absense of > non-destrucitve editing features may not be a handicap. Th

Re: [Gimp-user] carol & the floating selection (now working in layers!)

2007-10-02 Thread Greg
--- carol irvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i opened gimp and just used the default black brush and made a bunch > of black squiggles on a white canvas. then i altered that version > with a filter. and, drum roll please, made them into two layers! I did this in 2.2.17 and I didn't get another

Re: [Gimp-user] Noise-non-noise

2007-10-02 Thread Geoffrey
David Southwell wrote: > On Tuesday 02 October 2007 10:05:51 Sven Neumann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> while your explanation of non-destructive editing is all fine, I still >> think that your postings to this list are nothing but noise. This list >> is about using GIMP. The users who are interested in deve

Re: [Gimp-user] Bit-depth Processing

2007-10-02 Thread David Southwell
On Tuesday 02 October 2007 10:50:44 Elwin Estle wrote: > I am hardly an expert on this whole issue. I would like to see a side by > side comparison of prints made from 8 bit vs 16 bit images to see just > exactly what the difference might be. I think your average person probably > wouldn't care.

Re: [Gimp-user] Bit-depth Processing

2007-10-02 Thread Elwin Estle
I am hardly an expert on this whole issue. I would like to see a side by side comparison of prints made from 8 bit vs 16 bit images to see just exactly what the difference might be. I think your average person probably wouldn't care. It has been mentioned that monitors are poor venues on whic

[Gimp-user] Noise-non-noise

2007-10-02 Thread David Southwell
On Tuesday 02 October 2007 10:05:51 Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > while your explanation of non-destructive editing is all fine, I still > think that your postings to this list are nothing but noise. This list > is about using GIMP. The users who are interested in development know > very well that

Re: [Gimp-user] non-destructive editing

2007-10-02 Thread gimp_user
On Tuesday 02 October 2007 10:07:56 gimp_user wrote: > On Thursday 27 September 2007 08:00:45 George Farris wrote: > > Though you object to selective discussion of your discorse, you have > > at least twice falsely referred to gimp's lack of a tool for "non- > > distructive editing".  The term is a

Re: [Gimp-user] Creating grub-splash screens with GIMP

2007-10-02 Thread Michael J. Hammel
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 18:32:02 +0200 Frank Lanitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a small problem with creating splash screens for grub with > my GIMP. I need to create a file *.xpm.gz with this things: > > Basic instructions: > * xpm file format > * 640x480 > * 14 colors only > > and

Re: [Gimp-user] non-destructive editing

2007-10-02 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, while your explanation of non-destructive editing is all fine, I still think that your postings to this list are nothing but noise. This list is about using GIMP. The users who are interested in development know very well that everything you asked for is already on our roadmap. You can even ge

Re: [Gimp-user] Bit-depth Processing

2007-10-02 Thread David Southwell
> On 10/2/07, gimp_user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 01 October 2007 16:09:23 jim feldman wrote: > > > Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > > > * Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [10-01-07 13:29] > > > > > > > >> In any event, from what you've told me, GIMP may not be the right > > > > tool > > > > > >

[Gimp-user] Creating grub-splash screens with GIMP

2007-10-02 Thread Frank Lanitz
Hi, I've got a small problem with creating splash screens for grub with my GIMP. I need to create a file *.xpm.gz with this things: Basic instructions: * xpm file format * 640x480 * 14 colors only and I have no idea, how to mange it. Any hints? ;) Frank P.S. I'm using 2.4rc1. pg

[Gimp-user] non-destructive editing

2007-10-02 Thread gimp_user
On Thursday 27 September 2007 08:00:45 George Farris wrote: > Though you object to selective discussion of your discorse, you have > at least twice falsely referred to gimp's lack of a tool for "non- > distructive editing".  The term is a contradiction in itself.  Perhaps > you can take the time to

[Gimp-user] floating selection--how it arose

2007-10-02 Thread carol irvin
The way I cropped was to use the horizontal selection marquee tool and then pressed Image>Crop in the menu of the image. When the crop was completed, I had my nice cropped image BUT I also had a floating layer and thus 2 layers in the layers palette. The only tool which would appear on the image

Re: [Gimp-user] Bit-depth Processing

2007-10-02 Thread carol irvin
i used to teach in a college setting but in a non-art dept. the commercial art courses were all given with adobe products. this was good from one standpoint, i.e. that the students would be using the programs that an ad agency or similar would be using. It was bad from the standpoint though that

Re: [Gimp-user] floating selection

2007-10-02 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 09:57 -0400, carol irvin wrote: > The Mac doesn't have right click. Instead, you use with your left > hand the control key and with your > right the mouse bar on the macbook (or a left mouse button if you were > using an actual mouse). I have > used this on the float

Re: [Gimp-user] remember last location for "save as", "save a copy", "save", "open"

2007-10-02 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 23:31 +0200, Pere Pujal i Carabantes wrote: > I see the "Recently Used" (files) entry in file-chooser. Can it hold > "Recently Used Dirs" ? For the Save dialog, this would probably make more sense than presenting recently used files. Would probably make sense to bring t

Re: [Gimp-user] Bit-depth Processing

2007-10-02 Thread gimp_user
On Monday 01 October 2007 16:41:02 carol irvin wrote: > I've done some photography but usually I end up painting over it and > converting it to mixed media as I really prefer painting to photography. I > think for users who are drawn to art and painting, GIMP may satisfy their > needs more easily.

Re: [Gimp-user] Bit-depth Processing

2007-10-02 Thread gimp_user
On Friday 28 September 2007 17:28:36 jim feldman wrote: > Greg wrote: > > I appreciate all the info and discussion on this. It's a lot more than > > I expected...and that's a good thing. > > > > I guess what I really want to know is, am I going to see any noticeable > > loss if image quality from

Re: [Gimp-user] Bit-depth Processing

2007-10-02 Thread gimp_user
On Monday 01 October 2007 16:09:23 jim feldman wrote: > Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > * Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [10-01-07 13:29] > > > >> In any event, from what you've told me, GIMP may not be the right tool > >> for me at this time. I want to retain all my bits. So until GIMP > >> natively suppo

Re: [Gimp-user] floating selection

2007-10-02 Thread carol irvin
<> The Mac doesn't have right click. Instead, you use with your left hand the control key and with your right the mouse bar on the macbook (or a left mouse button if you were using an actual mouse). I have used this on the floating layer and no context menu comes up. so i think that one limitat

Re: [Gimp-user] floating selection

2007-10-02 Thread Michael Schumacher
> Von: "carol irvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It kept happening no matter what I tried UNTIL I tried this anchoring. You can also turn floating selections into new layers. The interesting question is how you did get crop to produce a floating selection in the first place. Either the definition of

Re: [Gimp-user] remember last location for "save as", "save a copy", "save", "open"

2007-10-02 Thread Pere Pujal i Carabantes
Hi! El dg 30 de 09 del 2007 a les 12:10 +0200, en/na Sven Neumann va escriure: > The application can already add bookmarks and GIMP 2.4 already makes use > of this feature in some places. I see the "Recently Used" (files) entry in file-chooser. Can it hold "Recently Used Dirs" ? > I am not co