Re: [Gimp-user] How to make make a field transparent

2008-03-13 Thread Owen
> > I have a small picture in the center of an otherwise > blank image and I want the blank to be transparent. How > can I do that? > > Lots and lots of thanks for this. Image->Colours->Colout to Alpha Owen ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gi

[Gimp-user] How to make make a field transparent

2008-03-13 Thread edward storm
I have a small picture in the center of an otherwise blank image and I want the blank to be transparent. How can I do that? Lots and lots of thanks for this. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.

Re: [Gimp-user] some function of screenshot seems to work oppositely

2008-03-13 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 11:28 +0900, Choi, JiHui wrote: > it's so weird. I'm using gimp 2.4.5 on Ubuntu 7.10 > and use compiz. compiz is a terrible hack and breaks lots of things. This is one. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.B

Re: [Gimp-user] Tiff and Ufraw plugin problem

2008-03-13 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 18:29 +0100, Stephan Hegel wrote: > Hi all, > > I've a file here which is identified as an tiff image by Imagemagick's > identify, opens perfectly without any warning in xv, gqview and > cinepaint but when I try to open it in Gimp the Ufraw plugin is launched. > > What

Re: [Gimp-user] More on specify a perspective correction precisely

2008-03-13 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 11:12 -0500, Leonard Evens wrote: > The best solution would be the ability to enter the target positions > directly. Short of that, if one could move the position a pixel at a > time by use of the arrow keys, one could get where one wanted. That > capability may have ex

[Gimp-user] More on specify a perspective correction precisely

2008-03-13 Thread Leonard Evens
It appears to be true that the only way to specify a perspective transformation is to move the corners of the handles to desired locations. But this seems to be almost impossible to achieve. I can get very close but never right on. If the horizontal coordinate is right, the vertical coordinate is

[Gimp-user] Dimensions are off significantly in svg created by path export

2008-03-13 Thread D.Jones (aka) Capnhud
I am noticing a problem where the text image that I am working with is in pixels, but when I export the text path the dimensions are in inches and it is significantly smaller than what it should be. How do I fix this? Here are two example files that use the exact same dimensions image and tex