[Gimp-user] Jpeg image qualyties setting

2005-02-09 Thread tomohiko kitamura
-- > Hi, > > Where can I set the default quality when saving JPEG images? The default 85 > is too low, I want to use 98. I could not find a suitable setting anywhere, > either in config files or in menus. Where is it hidden? > > Right now I'm just using "Save as" as a workaround because the

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Default JPEG quality setting - where?

2005-02-09 Thread Geoffrey
Henrik Herranen wrote: Manish Singh gimp.org> writes: On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 08:19:29PM +0200, Antti MÃkelà wrote: (No lectures on the default 85 being "enough", thank you - it is not enough, and I can clearly see artifacts on my edited digital photographs if saved with 85.). You do get the lect

Re: [Gimp-user] missing pixels

2005-02-09 Thread Geoffrey
Dana Sibera wrote: It's a problem, but not so much a bug as a limitation of the 'crawling ants' view that shows a selection. Pixels aren't just 'selected' or 'not selected' in that image, there are some pixels which are 10% selected, 20, 50, 80, 100% selected, and so on. The crawling ants outlin

Re: [Gimp-user] missing pixels

2005-02-09 Thread Dana Sibera
On 10/02/2005, at 1:19 AM, Geoffrey wrote: Dana Sibera wrote: It's a problem, but not so much a bug as a limitation of the 'crawling ants' view that shows a selection. Pixels aren't just 'selected' or 'not selected' in that image, there are some pixels which are 10% selected, 20, 50, 80, 100% se

[Gimp-user] Re: missing pixels

2005-02-09 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Geoffrey wrote: Dana Sibera wrote: It's a problem, but not so much a bug as a limitation of the 'crawling ants' view that shows a selection. Pixels aren't just 'selected' or 'not selected' in that image, there are some pixels which are 10% selected, 20, 50, 80, 100% selected, and so on. The craw

Re: [Gimp-user] missing pixels

2005-02-09 Thread Geoffrey
Dana Sibera wrote: On 10/02/2005, at 1:19 AM, Geoffrey wrote: I had no idea that GIMP could select a portion of a pixel. How is it that it can select a % of the pixel? It depends on the way you make the selection in the first place. If you just use the lasso to select areas, then gimp will sel

[Gimp-user] Re: Default JPEG quality setting - where?

2005-02-09 Thread Antti Mäkelä
William Skaggs primate.ucdavis.edu> writes: > First, jpeg still achieves substantial compression, > and is still lossy, even at a quality setting of 100. Yes, I know (see Henrik's post) > Second, the jpeg docs recommend not using quality settings > above 95, because they greatly increase the

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: missing pixels

2005-02-09 Thread Geoffrey
Olivier Ripoll wrote: You misunderstood. A portion of the "value" (RGBA) of the pixel is selected, not a portion of the pixel geometry. Think of it like a phantom (ghost, whatever you call it): The shape of the human body is totally preserved, but you can see through it. Still, I didn't know you

RE: [Gimp-user] Re: missing pixels

2005-02-09 Thread Gregbair
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Geoffrey > Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 11:02 AM > To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Re: missing pixels > > Olivier Ripoll wrote: > > > You misunderstood. A p

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-09 Thread Jakub Steiner
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 20:03 -0800, Carol Spears wrote: > while i have no idea what the developers are doing, either as a group or > individually (it is always just a guess about everything and anything, > not just gimp stuff), i always thought that they kept the ability to > read psd to a minimum

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-09 Thread Alan Horkan
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Carol Spears wrote: > Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 20:03:30 -0800 > From: Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jakub Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > GIMPUser > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd > > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 02:40:13AM +0100, Jakub Steiner wro

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-09 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:15:36PM +0100, Jakub Steiner wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 20:03 -0800, Carol Spears wrote: > > > while i have no idea what the developers are doing, either as a group or > > individually (it is always just a guess about everything and anything, > > not just gimp stuff)

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: missing pixels

2005-02-09 Thread William Skaggs
For people who would be interesting in learning a bit more about this topic, it might be worth taking a look at the related help docs, http://docs.gimp.org/en/ch02s04s04.html and http://docs.gimp.org/en/ch04s03s05.html Best, -- Bill __ __ __

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Default JPEG quality setting - where?

2005-02-09 Thread Owen
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 08:32:56 -0500 Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, what is normal use? Websites? What would be a good quality value > for a jpeg used on a website? I suppose like every one else, I have done some experiments and am surprised that sometimes a quality of 15-20% is fin

[Gimp-user] JPEG

2005-02-09 Thread Jeffrey McBeth
I'll admit up front to not having followed the conversation so far. What quality levels you use on JPEG depends heavily on the type of data you are wanting to store, you quality requirements, space requirements, etc. As an example (worked up for a map conversation) http://broggs.org/~mcbeth/CivM

Re: [Gimp-user] Default JPEG quality setting - where?

2005-02-09 Thread jim feldman
Antti Mäkelä wrote: Hi, Where can I set the default quality when saving JPEG images? The default 85 is too low, I want to use 98. I could not find a suitable setting anywhere, either in config files or in menus. Where is it hidden? (No lectures on the default 85 being "enough", thank you - it is

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Default JPEG quality setting - where?

2005-02-09 Thread Geoffrey
Owen wrote: On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 08:32:56 -0500 Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, what is normal use? Websites? What would be a good quality value for a jpeg used on a website? I suppose like every one else, I have done some experiments and am surprised that sometimes a quality of 15-20% i

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-09 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris
Hi. So. TIFF format can have layers, and that is documented (although just using the 'normal' blending mode). Can Photoshop work with layered TIFF's? I think the support for layers in TIFFs is a lot easier to achieve than trying to figure out the PSD file, since the TIFF standard is document

[Gimp-user] Boring old artistic question--no philosophy

2005-02-09 Thread Jim Clark
I would like to make an arch like the one seen in the logo on the top of the page at http://www.rma.usda.giv/ The arch is symmetrical but not a piece of an arc. And it has one color on the outside and another on the inside. I'd appreciate any assistance anyone has to offer. I like this shape.

Re: [Gimp-user] Boring old artistic question--no philosophy

2005-02-09 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 21:15, Jim Clark wrote: > I would like to make an arch like the one seen in the logo on the > top of the page at http://www.rma.usda.giv/ The arch is symmetrical > but not a piece of an arc. And it has one color on the outside and > another on the inside. > > I'd appre

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-09 Thread Eric Pierce
One of the admins at my work purportedly uses Macormedia's Fireworks for raster image editing. He told me that the default file format is png! I called him a bold faced lier, but he swears up and down that png is the default format. I asked him about layers, and he said the pngs that Firework

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-09 Thread Simon Budig
Eric Pierce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [MM Fireworks] > He told me that the default file format is png! I called him a bold > faced lier, but he swears up and down that png is the default format. > I asked him about layers, and he said the pngs that Fireworks saves > can DO LAYERS. I haven't seen

RE: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd

2005-02-09 Thread Gregbair
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Simon Budig > Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:09 PM > To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with layers from psd > PNG can handle custom application specifi

Re: [Gimp-user] Boring old artistic question--no philosophy

2005-02-09 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:15:19PM -0600, Jim Clark wrote: > > I would like to make an arch like the one seen in the logo on the top of > the page at http://www.rma.usda.giv/ The arch is symmetrical but not a > piece of an arc. And it has one color on the outside and another on the > inside. > >