Re: [Gimp-user] Alpha Channel

2005-04-12 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 01:47 +0200, cedric wrote: > I wonder why, when Opening or creating a document, there are only 3 > color channel and then, when creatin a layer, the alpha is coming. What > this stand for ? The default setting for a new document is the RGB colorspace with the document filled

Re: [Gimp-user] X an Y resolution

2005-03-22 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 01:00 +0100, cedric wrote: > When creating a new document, we have two fields. I've always used the > same value but if they are 2 it is certainly because there is one. So > does anybody know in what cases X and Y should be different ? Think about printable media (not just

Re: [Gimp-user] Version 2.2 Gimp

2005-01-27 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 14:01 -0500, Richard wrote: > Question, going from version 2.0 > to version 2.2 what has changes, or what improvements, > do we have now? > > ...is this version now 48 bit ? per say, 16 bit per R/G/B ? > also, what about black and white? can we do 16 bit? or 32 bit grey scale

Re: [Gimp-user] flat image bg color change

2004-11-01 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 01:13 -0500, Tom wrote: > (new to gimp) Welcome. :-) > > Hi, > > I would like to change the background color of a photo, > (preferably with a gradient or shadow effect) > but it's a single layer (jpg). I tried to 'select by color' > and replace it, but the edges of the ob

Re: [Gimp-user] My new Howto on batch color correction using script-fu

2004-10-17 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 20:10 -0700, Marcus Bryner wrote: > Hey all, > > Maybe someone on this list is interested in this: Here is a new step by step > howto on batch color modifications (i.e. getting proper white balance) using > GIMP script-fu. > > http://schweizerhof.docbryner.com/~marcus/s

Re: [Gimp-user] Photoshop magic background eraser

2004-09-08 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 09:49 +0200, Michael Wagner wrote: > Good morning, > > You can find a magic background eraser in Photshop. How do I do this > in Gimp? I have version 2.0.4. What does it do? A lot of people on these lists have not or do not use Photoshop, so you'll need to provide a bit of a

Re: [Gimp-user] binary: 55392K

2004-09-06 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 09:07 +0200, Aewyn wrote: > Hello, > > I need some help: my 2.1.4 gimp has an > 55392K size binary. > > Of course I ./configure --enable-shared > then --disable-static with the same result. Debugging symbols (built in by default) are a large part of that. Running strip on

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: installing gimp-gap 1.3.25

2004-02-01 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 16:41, Owen wrote: > On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 23:10:18 +1100 > sime <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig > > > > Bingo! That did it. > > > Alternatively > > cp /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/whatever.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ > > which

Re: [Gimp-user] installing gimp-gap 1.3.25

2004-01-31 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 12:09, sime wrote: > I just installed 2.0pre2 and now attempting gimp-gap 1.3.25, in > configure it is asking me for gimp-2.0, should i just sym link that to > gimp-1.3. Heres the error: > > checking for gimp-2.0 gimpui-2.0 gimpthumb-2.0... Package gimp-2.0 was > not found

Re: [Gimp-user] dependency hell over glib stuffs

2004-01-01 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 02:02, Gene Heskett wrote: > Hi; this is rather offtopic, I'll say! > but maybe somebody's been there and done that. > > Trying to get gkrellm to watch the system when the kernel is a > 2.6.x requires a new gkrellm-2.whatever > > That in turn needs gtk+-2.2.x > That needs

Re: [Gimp-user] Compiling in from CVS

2003-11-27 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
. Run 'python super-clean.py .' inside the gimp directory. It will remove all files that are not known to CVS from your local copy (without running out on the network -- it just looks at the local CVS control files). You can run this, then 'cvs update' to get any new files and be

Re: [Gimp-user] Current layers dialog box behaviour

2003-11-05 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 11:52, Sven Neumann wrote: > Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > One of the obvious changes was that the new layers dialog wanted to > > always be on top (I had nuked all my previous gimp preferences and > > stuff, so what I w

[Gimp-user] Current layers dialog box behaviour

2003-11-05 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
I got around to building the latest Gimp CVS last night and was playing around with it. This was the first time in about six weeks I had rebuilt, so a few things had changed. One of the obvious changes was that the new layers dialog wanted to always be on top (I had nuked all my previous gimp pref

Mail encoding (was Re: [Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: The GIMP 1.3.21)

2003-10-06 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
David, On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 18:57, David Neary wrote: [...] > Other contributors: > Adam D. Moss, Dom Lachowicz, Manish Singh, Jakub Steiner, > Christian Neumair, Seth Burgess, Maurits Rijk, David Necas, > Tor Lillqvist, Ville PÀtsi Your mail was sent out with ISO-8859-15 as the characte

Re: [Gimp-user] Stripping an image from solid background

2002-12-25 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 11:31:45PM -0800, Eric Pierce wrote: > I've wondered for years if there's any way to > perfectly strip an image from a solid colored > background while maintaining any alpha channel info. > > Take this image for instance. > http://epierce.freeshell.org/temp/index.html > >

Re: [Gimp-user] resizing a set of images

2002-11-20 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:23:02AM +0100, Nasim Shamlou wrote: [...] > Is there a way to resize a set of images all at once, instead of editing > them one by one? > And if this can't be done with The Gimp, is there another program I could > use? > > I have about 100 images, and it would take far t

Re: [Gimp-user] tool-config cannot be saved

2002-11-11 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:45:36AM +0100, Falk Pauser wrote: [...] > ps: can anybody explain why new created layers with no content are sized > to the document-size? it slows gimp down if i use many layers and each > of them ist oversized... layer-sizes do not make sense for my > understanding - wh

Re: [Gimp-user] Tutorial Pointers Page in PDF format (former : Re. Good tutorial in PDF format)

2002-06-07 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 08:26:43AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Thanks for your advice. > > I found following website > > http://empyrean.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/~nem/gimp/tuts/ > > from www.gimp.org under the link referred as "Gimp Tutorial Pointers > Page". The documents there are quite interest

[Gimp-user] Re: GDynText

2002-05-26 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 06:29:34PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The thing is, the requests would look different depending on whether > it's the default text tool or GDynText that is favoured. > The latter has more features than the default tool, but that also means > that is has more flaws.

Re: [Gimp-user] GDynText

2002-05-26 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 05:25:08PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm interested to know what is the status of GDynText. > Is it not worked on anymore? I find it a good start, but there are > lots of further implementations needed. > And unfortunately, I don't know how to program. :) I don't k

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP 1.2.2 German

2002-04-07 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 06:15:30PM +0200, Dude wrote: > Hi everyone! > I've a problem with the German version of GIMP 1.2.2. > That's why I'll ask the question in German... > So, if you don't speak German you can delete this mail ;-) > > > Jetzt zu meinem Problem: > In einem Tutorial habe ich de

Re: [Gimp-user] Curious

2001-08-05 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 12:44:57AM -0400, Tracer Bullet wrote: > I have a burning question. I made a comment about how good I thought > GIMP was as an art/paint program and got blasted by some folks saying > it absolutely could not compete with the likes of Photoshop or > Painter? I still say