Re: [Gimp-user] How to rotate part of an image without getting white triangles at the corners ?

2009-04-01 Thread Andrew
Jay Smith wrote: > What am I missing? > Maybe a step by step. I've just tried it again and it works with a minimum of mousing (I'm using gimp 2.6.4). 1. Add alpha channel to initial layer. 2. Add new black layer and move it underneath. (After this step make sure you change the active layer to

[Gimp-user] Masking for Contrast Control - Can this be done in Gimp?

2009-04-01 Thread paperaussie
Can any experienced Gimp users tell me how the process described in Ron Bigelow's article can be reproduced in Gimp most efficiently? http://www.ronbigelow.com/articles/contrast/contrast.htm http://www.ronbigelow.com/articles/contrast/contrast.htm Looks like a quite handy process to optimise so

Re: [Gimp-user] Masking for Contrast Control - Can this be done in Gimp?

2009-04-01 Thread Francesco Scaglioni
How about something like : duplicate layer desaturate invert slight blur adjust opacity merge HTH - The information in this e-mail and any attachments is confidential and is intended for the attention and

[Gimp-user] not to knock gimp...I love it, BUT I have never has decent prints from it

2009-04-01 Thread Carusoswi
>>I always do them in Photoshop on my windows laptop. >> >>Am I the only one with this problem?/ I have a bet going that I'm >>not ;^). I say linux is weak in the printing area & it's about the only >>good thing windows does. >> > >Hmm, if I had photoshop I wouldn't be using gimp! > >I've got w

Re: [Gimp-user] How to rotate part of an image without getting white triangles at the corners ?

2009-04-01 Thread David Gowers
Hello, On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Andrew wrote: > Jay Smith wrote: >> What am I missing? >> > Maybe a step by step. I've just tried it again and it works with a > minimum of mousing (I'm using gimp 2.6.4). > > 1. Add alpha channel to initial layer. > 2. Add new black layer and move it undern

Re: [Gimp-user] Masking for Contrast Control - Can this be done in Gimp?

2009-04-01 Thread David Gowers
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:32 PM, paperaussie wrote: > > Can any experienced Gimp users tell me how the process described in Ron > Bigelow's article can be reproduced in Gimp most efficiently? > > http://www.ronbigelow.com/articles/contrast/contrast.htm > http://www.ronbigelow.com/articles/contrast/

Re: [Gimp-user] Masking for Contrast Control - Can this be done in Gimp?

2009-04-01 Thread Olivier Lecarme
Francesco Scaglioni wrote: > How about something like : > > duplicate layer > desaturate > invert > slight blur > adjust opacity > merge Placing the top layer in divide mode is also very useful. Also try Overlay or Soft light. All this is much simpler than the method suggested by the original

Re: [Gimp-user] Masking for Contrast Control - Can this be done in Gimp?

2009-04-01 Thread saulgoode
Quoting paperaussie : > > Can any experienced Gimp users tell me how the process described in Ron > Bigelow's article can be reproduced in Gimp most efficiently? > > http://www.ronbigelow.com/articles/contrast/contrast.htm The following link is to a short screen capture of how that might be don

Re: [Gimp-user] Masking for Contrast Control - Can this be done in Gimp?

2009-04-01 Thread David Gowers
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Olivier Lecarme > Placing the top layer in divide mode is also very useful. Also try > Overlay or Soft light. All this is much simpler than the method > suggested by the original site, which seems an overkill. Agreed. If I was doing this, I would not use channels a

Re: [Gimp-user] not to knock gimp...I love it, BUT I have never has decent prints from it

2009-04-01 Thread Marco Ciampa
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:39:17AM +0200, Carusoswi wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 06:46:59PM -0400, Gracia M. Littauer wrote: > >> I always do them in Photoshop on my windows laptop. > >> > >> Am I the only one with this problem?/ I have a bet going that I'm > >> not ;^). I say linux is weak

[Gimp-user] How to cause Image... Canvas Size... Layers... to _always_ be All Layers instead of None ?

2009-04-01 Thread Jay Smith
Using Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux. For the vast majority of my work, every time I enlarge the canvas (which I have to do a _lot_ ), I want _all_ the Layers to enlarge as well. However, the dialog box Image... Canvas Size... Layers... _always_ seems to default to "None" instead of

Re: [Gimp-user] How to rotate part of an image without getting white triangles at the corners ?

2009-04-01 Thread Jay Smith
Hi David, If convenient, please advise me of the bug number on this so that I can track it. Thank you very much. Related to the "bug", I hope you also noted the problem that there is no Preferences option of using "black" as the default for newly created images. You said... > BTW, floating befo

Re: [Gimp-user] How to cause Image... Canvas Size... Layers... to _always_ be All Layers instead of None ?

2009-04-01 Thread saulgoode
Quoting Jay Smith : > Using Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux. > > For the vast majority of my work, every time I enlarge the canvas (which > I have to do a _lot_ ), I want _all_ the Layers to enlarge as well. > > However, the dialog box > >Image... Canvas Size... Layers... > > _always_

Re: [Gimp-user] How to cause Image... Canvas Size... Layers... to _always_ be All Layers instead of None ?

2009-04-01 Thread Jay Smith
Hi saulgoode, Thanks for your input, but I am afraid that you have completely misunderstood the intent of my question. - I want the visible "objects" (other than the background color) currently in the image to remain exactly the same size. - I want to increase the size of the canvas and fill the

Re: [Gimp-user] How to cause Image... Canvas Size... Layers... to _always_ be All Layers instead of None ?

2009-04-01 Thread Jay Smith
I have just discovered an additional -- but exactly the same basic subject -- problem with this dialog box: The 'link' symbol at the top, between the two pixel sizes, reverts every single time to "linked" status. It seems that it has to be "unlinked" every time if you wish to change only one of t

Re: [Gimp-user] not to knock gimp...I love it, BUT I have never has decent prints from it

2009-04-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 01 April 2009, Marco Ciampa wrote: >On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:39:17AM +0200, Carusoswi wrote: >> >On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 06:46:59PM -0400, Gracia M. Littauer wrote: >> >> I always do them in Photo shop on my windows laptop. >> >> >> >> Am I the only one with this problem?/ I have a b

[Gimp-user] File Creation Permission Problem ONLY for TIF files: Creating as 644 (rw-r--r--) when should be 664 (rw-rw-r--)

2009-04-01 Thread Jay Smith
Using Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux. TIFF ONLY This problem seems *only* to be happening when creating/saving TIFF (.tif) files. If the filetype is something else, then the problem is not happening. On two different workstations, being run by two different login users, creating fi

Re: [Gimp-user] How to rotate part of an image without getting white triangles at the corners ?

2009-04-01 Thread David Gowers
Hi Jay, On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Jay Smith wrote: > Hi David, > > If convenient, please advise me of the bug number on this so that I can > track it.  Thank you very much. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577575 > > Related to the "bug", I hope you also noted the problem that t

Re: [Gimp-user] Masking for Contrast Control - Can this be done in Gimp?

2009-04-01 Thread Alec Burgess
Saul: You said 1. Drag your original layer over to the Channels Dialog and drop it, creating a new channel. In your video, when you drag the image from the layer dock up to the channels dock your cursor has a '+' sign inside the _ |+ ... when I do it I have no plus sign and when the channels d

[Gimp-user] Reporting back: The Artist's Guide to GIMP effects

2009-04-01 Thread Patrick Horgan
I mentioned some time ago that I was reading The Artist's Guide to GIMP Effects, by michael j. hammel, and that over time I'd report on what I thought about it. Ok, here's what I think about it--WOW! I still have a long way to go to absorb everything in here, but in a few weeks I've gone from

Re: [Gimp-user] Masking for Contrast Control - Can this be done in Gimp?

2009-04-01 Thread saulgoode
Quoting Alec Burgess : > Saul: > You said >> 1. Drag your original layer over to the Channels Dialog and drop >> it, creating a new channel. > In your video, when you drag the image from the layer dock up to the > channels dock your cursor has a '+' sign inside the > _ > |+ ... when I do it I

Re: [Gimp-user] Masking for Contrast Control - Can this be done in Gimp?

2009-04-01 Thread Alec Burgess
Thanks Saul. (Leaving text below in case this s/b the basis for a bugreport ...) a) I can drag and drop in the Layers dialog - but never see the '+'-sign in the cursor. b) In your video (I stepped through it frame by frame so I'm pretty sure I have this correct) as soon as you grabbed the layer