[Gimp-user] Delete to transparency

2009-06-09 Thread Theo M
Hi, I'm a newbie to Gimp and I wonder if some of the users can help me out. At my flickr site http://www.flickr.com/photos/the-real-james-bond/3610598846/ i have a merged image made of a group of 4 shots of a rider jumping a gap. I did this in a round about fashion which took a lot of time. Can a

Re: [Gimp-user] Delete to transparency

2009-06-09 Thread Simon Budig
Theo M (for...@gimpusers.com) wrote: > Just a side note to my reference in the subject line, when i opened the > images to layers, i found that the inverse selection I did "to delete > everything but the rider", did not delete to transparent but rather to white, > which I then "convert colour to al

Re: [Gimp-user] Delete to transparency

2009-06-09 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tuesday 09 June 2009 18:56:04 Theo M wrote: > was under the impression that the I could delete > to transparency, and despite my best efforts I > could not get it work. If you imported the image or layer from a JPeG (.jpg) file, it will not have an alpha property for that layer. Use menu: Laye

[Gimp-user] Delete to transparency

2009-06-09 Thread Theo M.
>On Tuesday 09 June 2009 18:56:04 Theo M wrote: >> was under the impression that the I could delete >> to transparency, and despite my best efforts I >> could not get it work. > >If you imported the image or layer from a JPeG (.jpg) >file, it will not have an alpha property for that layer. > >Use m

[Gimp-user] Gimp crashes

2009-06-09 Thread John R.
>With an opened photo, the "filters" section runs ok. However, "tools" and >"colors" crashes Gimp with a Windows message that the "program has stopped >working". Downloaded/installed Gimp 2 times with same problem. I finally uninstalled version 2.6.6, and installed version 2.4.6, and had no prob

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp crashes

2009-06-09 Thread Frank McCormick
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:21:35 +0200 (CEST) "John R." wrote: > >With an opened photo, the "filters" section runs ok. However, > >"tools" and "colors" crashes Gimp with a Windows message that the > >"program has stopped working". Downloaded/installed Gimp 2 times > >with same problem. I finally >

[Gimp-user] Print Quality Poorer than Word?

2009-06-09 Thread bumpkin
The graphics guy sent me our logo as a .jpg so I created a new file with the appropriate dimensions in the lasest GIMP for windows. I imported and scaled down the logo to the appropriate size and placed it at the top, finished adding the text, combined the layers and exported as a .tiff for the pri

Re: [Gimp-user] Print Quality Poorer than Word?

2009-06-09 Thread Olivier Lecarme
bumpkin wrote: > The graphics guy sent me our logo as a .jpg so I created a new file with the > appropriate dimensions in the lasest GIMP for windows. I imported and scaled > down the logo to the appropriate size and placed it at the top, finished > adding the text, combined the layers and export