Re: [Gimp-user] PNG vs JPG

2007-08-23 Thread Michael Schumacher
> Von: arnuld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Why JPG is so lightweight as compared to PNG ? (even when image doe > snot have any transparency) Because JPEG has been designed to be this way. It does achieve higher compression at the cost of quality loss. The features of both file formats are explained i

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.3.18 and script-fu errors

2007-08-23 Thread David Woodfall
On (22:49 22/08/07), Pere Pujal i Carabantes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> put forth the proposition: > El dc 22 de 08 del 2007 a les 12:43 +0100, en/na David Woodfall va > escriure: > > I have just downloaded and tested two scripts and get the same error with > > each: > > > > Error: Set!: Unbound variabl

[Gimp-user] jpeg compression levels

2007-08-23 Thread Andrew
Hello, I need to make a JPEG "saved at a high quality setting (i.e. Photoshop level 10 or above)". Since I don't know what Photoshop is ;), could someone please tell me what the equivalent would be using GIMP? TIA, Andrew ___ Gimp-user mailing list G

Re: [Gimp-user] A GIMP book - What GIMP version does it cover?

2007-08-23 Thread DJ
Hi Dotan, >> Hi Gimp-user, >> >> A friend sent me a link to a new GIMP book, "The Artist's Guide to >> GIMP Effects" to be published this month. There was a reference to it >> in the Javascript book he was reading from the same publisher. The >> sample tutorial looked good. >> >> http://nostarch

Re: [Gimp-user] jpeg compression levels

2007-08-23 Thread Raphaƫl Quinet
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:31:27 +0200, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to make a JPEG "saved at a high quality setting (i.e. Photoshop > level 10 or above)". Since I don't know what Photoshop is ;), could > someone please tell me what the equivalent would be using GIMP? Here is a table t

Re: [Gimp-user] A GIMP book

2007-08-23 Thread Michael J. Hammel
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:12:39 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Very nice, the sample chapters were amazing. This seems to be written > for Gimp 2.2, but 2.4 will have significant changes. Can you (or the > author) address that issue? The first part of the introduction in the book covers this. It took 2

Re: [Gimp-user] A GIMP book

2007-08-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 23/08/07, Michael J. Hammel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're interested in dicussing the book or issues related to the > GIMP, I set up a web site for the book: > http://www.graphics-muse.org/artistsguide/ That site looks like an unofficial blog- it does not due justice to the sample chap

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.3.18 and script-fu errors

2007-08-23 Thread Pere Pujal i Carabantes
El dj 23 de 08 del 2007 a les 09:49 +0100, en/na David Woodfall va escriure: > On (22:49 22/08/07), Pere Pujal i Carabantes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> put forth > the proposition: > > El dc 22 de 08 del 2007 a les 12:43 +0100, en/na David Woodfall va > > escriure: > > > Error: Set!: Unbound variable: ne

Re: [Gimp-user] Some questions about script-fu and tinyscheme.

2007-08-23 Thread Pere Pujal i Carabantes
> For now, I've worked around as this, but looks ugly: > > (for-each (lambda (z)(write-char z txt-output-file ))(string->list > text-string)) better as this: (display text-string txt-output-file) BTW The gimp script-fu console segfaults typing something like (let* (a 1)) Should I post a b

Re: [Gimp-user] A GIMP book

2007-08-23 Thread Greg
--- Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Very nice, the sample chapters were amazing. This seems to be written > for Gimp 2.2, but 2.4 will have significant changes. Can you (or the > author) address that issue? Speaking of books, I have Beginning Gimp, which was published in '06 but says it i

Re: [Gimp-user] jpeg compression levels

2007-08-23 Thread Jeffery Small
"=?UTF-8?B?UmFwaGHDq2w=?= Quinet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >This is probably way more information that you were expecting. The >short answer is: set your GIMP quality level to 93 or higher (but in >fact, 90 should be OK). And set the subsampling to 1x1,1x1,1x1. Raphael: Where do you set thi

Re: [Gimp-user] jpeg compression levels

2007-08-23 Thread Andrew
Jeffery Small wrote: > "=?UTF-8?B?UmFwaGHDq2w=?= Quinet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> This is probably way more information that you were expecting. The >> short answer is: set your GIMP quality level to 93 or higher (but in >> fact, 90 should be OK). And set the subsampling to 1x1,1x1,1

Re: [Gimp-user] Watermarking photographs---

2007-08-23 Thread Kevin Cozens
Richard Oliver wrote: > I have downloaded the ImageMagick program,but for the life of me I > cannot get it installed / launched so perhaps you could render some > more help ?? Make sure you downloaded one of the executable installer packages and not the source code of ImageMagick. I noticed tha