Re: [Gimp-user] What is the scale of Levels?

2009-08-25 Thread Asif Lodhi
Hi David, Obviously, you're more concerned about the mailing list. I know about flame wars and never do that. I do 100% agree that I should have emailed him personally on his own email address instead of this list but it's really shocking to read your stern reply. Does the freedom to say what you

Re: [Gimp-user] What is the scale of Levels?

2009-08-25 Thread David Gowers
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Asif Lodhi wrote: > Hi David, > > Obviously, you're more concerned about the mailing list. I know about > flame wars and never do that. I do 100% agree that I should have > emailed him personally on his own email address instead of this list > but it's really shocki

[Gimp-user] Problem porting 1.x-Perl script to 2.x

2009-08-25 Thread Michael
Hello, I'm trying to use a Perl script that makes use of Perl's Gimp module (the simplified version Gimp::Fu) for Gimp Gimp versions 2.x. (I have GIMP 2.6.2 under OpenSUSE 11.2). Whenever I try to execute the script from the Filters > Perl-Fu menu option I get error messages like: > Calling err

[Gimp-user] Gimp help pages (Windows)

2009-08-25 Thread Detty, David W
I saw the post on the issue with Gimp help pages. Did this ever get resolved? I've never used Gimp before but after installing 2.6.7 I get the same behavior. Dave Detty ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Ber

[Gimp-user] how to use layers

2009-08-25 Thread thomas w.
I've read the documentation several times and every tutorial I could get my hands on, but I still can't make any sense out of how to properly use layers.. For example, I want to merge two pictures, by taking some regions from one picture and some from another. I though I could do this by making un

Re: [Gimp-user] how to use layers

2009-08-25 Thread Olivier Lecarme
thomas w. wrote: > I've read the documentation several times and every tutorial I could get my > hands on, but I still can't make any sense out of how to properly use > layers.. > > For example, I want to merge two pictures, by taking some regions from one > picture and some from another. I thou

Re: [Gimp-user] how to use layers

2009-08-25 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 08/25/2009 07:23 PM, thomas w. wrote: > I've read the documentation several times and every tutorial I could get my > hands on, but I still can't make any sense out of how to properly use > layers.. > > For example, I want to merge two pictures, by taking some regions from one > picture and some

Re: [Gimp-user] how to use layers

2009-08-25 Thread Norman Silverstone
> I've read the documentation several times and every tutorial I could get my > hands on, but I still can't make any sense out of how to properly use > layers.. I felt like this not so long ago and then along came Rolf Steinort and www.meetthegimp.org and things started to fall into place. Norma

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp help pages (Windows)

2009-08-25 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 09:53 -0400, Detty, David W wrote: > I saw the post on the issue with Gimp help pages. Did this ever get > resolved? I’ve never used Gimp before but after installing 2.6.7 I > get the same behavior. The GIMP docs team hasn't made a release of the user manual for GIMP

Re: [Gimp-user] how to use layers

2009-08-25 Thread Jaime Seuma
thomas w. wrote: > > I wanted to use GIMP for my photo manipulation. I had assumed after all these > years that it was usable. I hope I'm not forced to go to Photoshop over > something simple like this. > GIMP is really good for photo post-processing. I use it a lot; even though I bought a lapt

Re: [Gimp-user] how to use layers

2009-08-25 Thread Akkana Peck
thomas w. writes: > For example, I want to merge two pictures, by taking some regions from one > picture and some from another. I though I could do this by making unwanted > regions transparent - this seems obvious. Yes, that's exactly the way to do it. And the best way to do that is to make a lay

[Gimp-user] GEGL crashes Gimp 2.6.6 on XP (solved!)

2009-08-25 Thread John
>Using Gimp 2.6.6 on XP SP3 and all current updates. >When attempting at open the GEGL dialog, Gimp crashes. >Anything else that I try works just fine (so far). >Is this known? Is there a work around? >Gimp 2.6.4 did not crash. > > Downloaded and installed Gimp 2.6.7 and it appears the the GEGL iss

Re: [Gimp-user] Set active layer by referring to its name

2009-08-25 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
On Thursday 20 August 2009, saulgo...@flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com wrote: > Quoting professor : > > When using Gimp interactively, I can assign names to the different > > layers, e.g. "p1", "p2", "p3" etc. > > > > Now, is it possible to set a layer active by referring to its name? E.g.: > > > > gi

Re: [Gimp-user] Set active layer by referring to its name

2009-08-25 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
Sorry -- there was an error in my python function On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: > > Huh???ah, You mean: > > def find_layer_by_name (image, name): -> for layer in image: + for layer in image.layers: > if layer.name == name: > return layer >