[Gimp-user] How to update GIMP in Ubuntu?

2008-12-28 Thread Mike B.
>Hi, > >you can download the gimp source package from Ubuntu jaunty (which has >gimp 2.6.3 packaged) and then use dpkg-buildpackage to build a gimp >package for your particular system and Ubuntu distribution. This is >often called doing a backport and it if often the easiest way to install >a newer

[Gimp-user] Smoothing out the image edges?

2008-12-28 Thread Ajay Gautam
I followed the tutorial at: http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Borders_On_Selections/ and created: http://ajaygautam.com/star.png The image is very rough. I would like to either create a smoother image, or smooth this one out. I tried finding information on google, but perhaps I wasn't searching for

Re: [Gimp-user] How to update GIMP in Ubuntu?

2008-12-28 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, you can download the gimp source package from Ubuntu jaunty (which has gimp 2.6.3 packaged) and then use dpkg-buildpackage to build a gimp package for your particular system and Ubuntu distribution. This is often called doing a backport and it if often the easiest way to install a newer versio

Re: [Gimp-user] How to update GIMP in Ubuntu?

2008-12-28 Thread Tom Williams
Mike B. wrote: >> Do you probably know if there is an option/possibility to >> compile Gimp 2.6 for an older CPU architecture (AMD K6 II). >> I'm having Ubuntu 8.10 installed, but Gimp 2.6 crashed >> each time I tried some color adjustment/filters. Someone >> on the list suggested that it might hav