Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP hints for astrophotography tweaking

2004-12-03 Thread Akkana Peck
Robin Laing writes: > One thing that I have read is making multiple exposures with digital > cameras and then adding the photos together. One common operation is "stacking": as you add layer N to the image, make the layer mask's transparency be 1/N. So the first layer is the background at 100%,

Re: [Gimp-user] virus?

2005-02-14 Thread Akkana Peck
In case anyone's interested in the last Received: header on that message, here it is: Delivered-To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Received: from kamery.org (pe113.radomsko.sdi.tpnet.pl [217.96.203.113]) by lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU (Postfix) with SMTP id 28EDC11418 for ; Mo

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Default mode for file dialog

2005-03-24 Thread Akkana Peck
(Regarding needing to expand the Save As dialog to show directories:) Pasi Savolainen writes: > I keep original photos in a separate directory tree. After modifying > them with gimp, they're saved in a folder of my choice. Which happens to > be never the one I open image from (and which is suggest

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Default mode for file dialog

2005-03-25 Thread Akkana Peck
Sven Neumann writes: > > Naming conflicts in files are another reason I frequently expand > > the dialog. I often save successive images to similar names. > > For instance, I might have lesson6-step1.jpg, lesson6-step2.jpg, > > lesson7-step1, etc. The autocomplete in the dialog will only > > com

Re: [Gimp-user] Speech bubble

2005-04-08 Thread Akkana Peck
David Holland writes: > Sorry I am very new to using the GIMP. > How do I add a speech bubble to a picture ? I had a lesson on that in the Linuxchix GIMP course: it was the second half of Lesson 5 in http://www.linuxchix.org/content/courses/gimp/ If you're new to the gimp and haven't used layers

Re: [Gimp-user] Making image sizes smaller

2005-04-27 Thread Akkana Peck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I want to include full page images of a magazine article in a new document. > A single scanned page comes in at about 3.5 MB as a png (saved directly to > png from the scan). Any suggestions as > to how I might reduce that? Try Image->Mode->Indexed, and play with the

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: when even free advertising fails

2005-05-08 Thread Akkana Peck
Sven Neumann wrote, regarding an indicator for selection visibility: > >Now what do you suggest? What kind of indication would you have expected? David Marrs writes: > A message in the status bar makes sense to me. Off the top of my head, a > marching-ants outline of an irregular shape (so as not

Re: [Gimp-user] configuration of a Wacom Intuos tablet

2005-05-09 Thread Akkana Peck
Olivier Lecarme writes: > I just bought a Wacom Intuos tablet, A5 format. [ ... ] > and my tablet is now recognized by Gimp (2.2), with the three devices > (stylus, eraser, and mouse). > > However, I cannot manage to have a different behavior for these three > devices. In the Devices dialog, only

Re: [Gimp-user] use of the Space key

2005-05-24 Thread Akkana Peck
Sven Neumann writes: > I consider to change what GIMP uses the Space key for and would like > to get some user feedback on this. Currently, pressing the Space key > temporarily switches to the move tool. Spacebar to switch temporarily to move is awfully useful. I didn't know about it until this di

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] use of the Space key

2005-05-26 Thread Akkana Peck
Tom Williams writes: > I'm in the same boat in that I didn't "discover" the current space bar > behavior and now that I know about it, I think it's great. The reason I > didn't discover it is purely because I never thought to press the space > bar at all. I don't even have that excuse. I pr

Re: [Gimp-user] script-fu int to string

2005-06-16 Thread Akkana Peck
Nolan Clayton writes: > > Debugging a script? Sorry to bother but what is the "int to string" > function in script-fu? Or is there a way to print variable values out. > All I know is (gimp-message string) (gimp-message (number->string n 10)) seems to work (the base 10 might be optional).

Re: [Gimp-user] Export and Print vs Save then Print ( Bug ? )

2005-06-28 Thread Akkana Peck
Richard Nagle writes: > When looking at a gimp file .xcf, and want to print out that file (photo) > I used export.. gimp wanted me to flatten the layers, I did not want to > do that... Some of what you and Michael Chang describe seems foreign to me, which made me wonder what platform you're on --

Re: [Gimp-user] Digital camera - Macro to normal

2005-07-04 Thread Akkana Peck
Jad Madi writes: > Today I took some shots but I've forgot to disable macro, > actually all was great shots, but macro screwed them up In what way did it screw them up? The most common way is that they'll be out of focus -- the camera is set to only focus on close things, and you pointed at some

Re: [Gimp-user] drawing a simple rectangle ; drawing an arrow (newbie)

2005-07-09 Thread Akkana Peck
John Que writes: > can anybody be more specific ? What you're looking for is Edit->Stroke Selection. As for arrows, I usually draw all the lines by hand (click at one end, shift-click at the other). I don't know if there's a shortcut for making good arrowheads. ...Akkana ___

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie Question

2005-07-11 Thread Akkana Peck
Jonathan Allen writes: > > > I have a first-time question. In general terms, how can I change all the > > > pixels of one colour within a hand-drawn selection into another colour ? > > > > Select by color, Fill > > But that selects all the black text in the guf, not just the one letter > I need

Re: [Gimp-user] tutorial/screenshots

2005-08-14 Thread Akkana Peck
sam ende writes: > i would find it a lot easier to write tutorials and the like if the drop > down menus did not disapear when doing screenshots, is there a way to > keep them dropped down for screenshots ? The screenshot window lets you set a delay in seconds. You can use that time to go back

[Gimp-user] Crop Tool Use Cases

2005-08-23 Thread Akkana Peck
A discussion on IRC about the new crop tool revealed that there are lots of different use cases for cropping. They're all important, and it's important to make sure there's a list of them so that the new crop tool will handle them. Here's a start. I hope people will jump in and fill in the detail

Re: [Gimp-user] Livre sur Gimp

2005-09-05 Thread Akkana Peck
Eric P writes: > Exactly. Where are all the English Gimp 2.x books? I think I've seen 2 > French books so far, and that's it. I'm working on a GIMP book, for Apress. It won't be out until next year, unfortunately (delays in the publishing process): we're currently aiming at April 2006. It will c

Re: [Gimp-user] Livre sur Gimp

2005-09-05 Thread Akkana Peck
michael chang writes: > On 9/5/05, Akkana Peck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > currently aiming at April 2006. It will cover 2.4 as well as 2.2. > > How can you do that? We're on 2.3.3... [or do you write about what's > in CVS and hope that it doesn't chang

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem Printing

2005-09-12 Thread Akkana Peck
Chris Spencer writes: > When I try to print any image (xcf, jpg, png, etc) of reasonable size > (4x3 inches) with the GIMP, my printer (HP Deskjet) prints out a single > page with: > %!PS-Adobe-3.0 > %%Creator: Print plug-in V4.2.7 - 15 Jul 2004 for > GIMP/Gimp-Print

Re: [Gimp-user] lighten background

2005-10-24 Thread Akkana Peck
Helen writes: > I have a photo of a dark red flower against a dark background. > I've tried tedious ways to lighten the background without changing the > flower, > but the details of the flower are too tiny. So I'm browsing tutorials. > Should I > be learning about masks? About layers? A hint how I

Re: [Gimp-user] Can't get this image sharp with GIMP. Any suggestions?

2005-11-02 Thread Akkana Peck
Jeff Trefftzs writes: > On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 14:19 +0100, qeldroma wrote: > > No matter how, because EVERY image get's blured. It could be summer in the > > desert and it would get blured ;) > > Every image?! Perhaps you have the camera set to "soft-focus" - > sometimes suggested for taking ro

Re: [Gimp-user] How to create jpeg files compatible with a sony camera?

2005-12-03 Thread Akkana Peck
Yannick Patois writes: > When I hack a picture taken with my sony-dsc-s80 camera with the gimp, > if I export in jpg, I cant read its format any more (the camera display > "file error" instead of the hacked content). (and the same with a digital print machine) I wonder if they need EXIF informatio

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling cartoons

2005-12-09 Thread Akkana Peck
JC Dill writes: > You can resize the image up in "steps" to smooth out the pixelization > and rough edges as you resize it, but you will never regain the missing > detail that was not recorded when the photo was taken at such a low > resolution so the resulting image will be soft. (Sharpening w

Re: [Gimp-user] compiling on SuSE (was "Add Glow" and "Center Layer")

2005-12-11 Thread Akkana Peck
Manish Singh writes: > But one of Myke's problems was that he managed to get the gimp-devel > package installed without having glib-devel installed. This means that SuSE users trying to get gimp-devel working (e.g. to compile plug-ins) will probably also need to install XFree86-libs-dev. I don't k

Re: [Gimp-user] Page Curl filter

2005-12-12 Thread Akkana Peck
Helen writes: > The Page Curl filter -- can it be adjusted so that the page is > "less" curled. Curled only on the corner, for example, or > only a quarter of the page? Try selecting only a part of the page (at the side or corner where you want the curl). You can control how much is curled by adj

Re: [Gimp-user] Uninstaller?

2006-01-24 Thread Akkana Peck
Mike Williams writes: > Pretty sure that Carol is correct, I've never installed gimp on windows, > but I would be very surprised if the windows installation changed the > associations without asking. The current 2.2 installer asks during the install, and defaults to "no" for all file types excep

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Smoothing Brush Strokes

2006-01-26 Thread Akkana Peck
Matthew Whitlock writes: > Carol, I tried looking at indexing. Doesn't seem to effect it. > > Attached is a small image of a quickly drawn cirle that shows > the facetting that I am experiencing. It looks like your system isn't reading all the mouse positions, only getting some of the mouse motio

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing success stories? (more info)

2006-02-19 Thread Akkana Peck
Paul Waldo writes: > > I am evaluating gimp on linux as a replacement for Photoshop on Windows. I > > am currently using Photoshop/Windows primarily for the color management > > capabilities. I have tried printing from gimp to my Epson Stylus Photo > > 1280, with horrible results--the colors are

Re: [Gimp-user] blue + yellow = green

2006-02-25 Thread Akkana Peck
Robert Citek writes: > I'm slowing getting familiar with gimp/gimpshop. And so I thought I > would try a couple of toy problems. One toy problem is to create a > venn diagram. The resulting image would look something like a Visa > logo, except the colors of the circles would be blue and ye

Re: [Gimp-user] newbie: does adding transparent square has to be so complicated?

2006-03-14 Thread Akkana Peck
Zhang Weiwu writes: > Hello. After read some GIMP tutorials and practised a little bit, I feel > like that I can make an image like in this example: > > gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/I/users/weiwu/trans_sample.jpeg > > Looks really simple, I can do this image in OpenOffice Draw in 3 mintues: > open t

Re: [Gimp-user] torn edge

2006-03-18 Thread Akkana Peck
matt1027 writes: > Does anyone have any tips or tutorials for making an edge that looks like > torn paper, ragged and semi-transparent? Is the script-fu Decor->Fuzzy Border similar to what you're looking for? ...Akkana ___ Gimp-user mailing lis

Re: [Gimp-user] lcd or crt monitor

2006-03-19 Thread Akkana Peck
Gilles Maltais writes: > In the past, CRT monitors were considered better because the displayed > gamut was wider, the color consistency (same color in different areas) > was better and greater resolutions were offered when compared to LCDs. For basic low-end displays (the ones you see on disp

Re: [Gimp-user] Startup values

2006-04-04 Thread Akkana Peck
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 09:01:18AM -0400, John R. Culleton wrote: > > When I start Gimp 2.3.7 it starts with a paintbrush. I would rather > > it started with the rectangular select tool. Somewhere in > > .gimp-2.3 is a value that sets this option I suspect. But I > > haven't found it yet. Carol

Re: [Gimp-user] Startup values

2006-04-05 Thread Akkana Peck
Carol Spears writes: > On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:49:52PM -0700, Akkana Peck wrote: > > That works for me, but if it doesn't work for you, try the > > "Input Devices" category of Preferences and click on "Save Input > > Device Settings Now". That sh

Re: [Gimp-user] centering layers(newbie)

2006-05-18 Thread Akkana Peck
John Minson writes: > Is there a bult in function to center layes ? There isn't exactly, but you can cheat: Cut, then Paste. When pasted, the layer shows up centered instead of where it was before. ...Akkana http://gimpbook.com ___

Re: [Gimp-user] Lines and arrowheads in GIMP?

2006-06-28 Thread Akkana Peck
Brad Simmons writes: > I've used GIMP's pencil tool, and as I expected, it draw a thick, very > pixellated line. For me to do callouts, I want a thin, straight line > which will not be so pixellated. This is easy in Photoshop, because it To eliminate the pixellation, use the paintbrush tool (which

Re: [Gimp-user] re: Drop Shadow Question

2006-06-29 Thread Akkana Peck
Wade Smart writes: > I asked about this Drop Shadow and someone responded back that > I have to click on color button - but I dont have that. > I have from top to bottom: Shadow Blur, Bevel the Image, > Make a drop shadow, x displacement, y displacement, > ok and cancel. It sounds like you're

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: GIMP can induce De Quervain's disease

2006-07-07 Thread Akkana Peck
Jeffrey Brent McBeth writes: > I would consider mouse toggling to be an accessibility issue best dealt with > at a desktop level (GTK/Gnome/Whatever) rather than application specific > hacks. When I saw the original request I was thinking of suggesting a "sticky mouse" option, equivalent to the "s

Re: [Gimp-user] Building perspective objects

2006-07-21 Thread Akkana Peck
David Fleming writes: [details of problem with Perspective tool] > or is there a bug here? I am getting a little frustrated with perspective > drawings. In case it isn't one of the problems that has already been suggested: How are you moving the layer? Clicking on the move tool, dragging the layer

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: rect-select: suppress 'expand from center' key or gesture shortcut

2006-11-05 Thread Akkana Peck
Sven Neumann writes: > On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 21:52 -0500, Jeff Kowalczyk wrote: > > Thanks for confirming that it is not intentional behavior, that's all I > > need to hear. > > You misunderstood me. It is of course intentional that you don't need to > use a checkbox in the tool options to do som

Re: [Gimp-user] Color selectors, which one do you use?

2006-12-05 Thread Akkana Peck
Sven Neumann writes: > Now the question is, which color selectors do you actually use? I have > myself never found the Watercolor selector to be useful. But your > mileage might vary. Tell me about it. I only use the default selector. I like the UI for the triangle selector in theory (maybe becaus

Re: [Gimp-user] CD Labels

2007-01-10 Thread Akkana Peck
Michael Satterwhite writes: > I was going to burn some Gimp CD's to distribute at our IBM (Brotherhood > of Magicians - not Business Machines) Ring. Does anyone know of any CD > labels that someone has made? Would look better than me just writing > "Gimp" on the front with a sharpie. I have a scri

Re: [Gimp-user] Copy the alpha channel from an image to another

2007-02-13 Thread Akkana Peck
Michael J. Hammel writes: > On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 23:50 -0800, "Germain Le Chapelain" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I would like to know who to copy the alpha channel of an image to > > another image. > > 1. Merge visible layers of the source image. > 2. Copy visible layer of source image > 3. Create

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP won't support installed printer?

2007-02-23 Thread Akkana Peck
Dave M G writes: > (On a side note, when I scan my installed packages, I don't even see > Gimp-Print 4.2. It seems like I *only* have Gutenprint 5.0 installed. So > why is GIMP saying, in the "About" button in the print interface) that > I'm using 4.2? It might be that your GIMP is including an

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp or inkscape?

2007-04-06 Thread Akkana Peck
Alex Feldman writes: > I have limited experience with Gimp, almost all of it with photographs, > and essentially none with Inkscape. I want to make some simple maps of > trails in the area, and mark them with mileages and a few comments. My > plan was to download the photographs of the area fr

Re: [Gimp-user] cropping respecting ratio

2007-05-14 Thread Akkana Peck
Fabrizio Lippolis writes: > I use GIMP working on digital images and I often need to crop images > respecting the original ratio. Is there any easy way to do it? To > perform this task I reduce the length for example, then I calculate how > many pixels should be in height respecting the ratio wi

Re: [Gimp-user] (no subject)

2007-05-16 Thread Akkana Peck
Alex Feldman writes: > Gthumb almost gives me a nice way to do this, presenting me with a > page of thumbnails that I can select from, and then rotate the selected > ones all at once. Trouble is, you then have to go through and > individually save each image to get it to "take". Does anyone

Re: [Gimp-user] How to spot fix a large area that is too light

2007-05-23 Thread Akkana Peck
> DJ wrote: > > My latest problem. I have a very nice black and white photo of a > > couple. The only problem is the man's right arm and part of his chest > > are too light. I tried using the cloning and smudge tool, but it Andrew writes: > If that's really all you want, do just that. Use the rect

Re: [Gimp-user] Clone Tool Not Responding as Expected

2007-06-29 Thread Akkana Peck
Don Selkirk writes: > I am using GIMP 2.2.15 in Windows XP. My clone tool has stopped > responding as I expect. [ ... ] > Now when I hold the left mouse button to start cloning the cross hairs > appear under my mouse pointer instead of the area I selected for > cloning. The image does not change.

Re: [Gimp-user] Using Wacom Graphire 4 in GIMP (Mac OS X/X11)

2007-06-30 Thread Akkana Peck
Victor Domingos writes: > I am testing a Wacom Graphire 4 tablet in my Mac (PPC) and > appearently I can't use its pressure sensitivity in GIMP. Has anyone > managed to use a graphics tablet in GIMP, under Mac OS X? Is X11 for > Mac compatible with this feature? My understanding is that Appl

Re: [Gimp-user] galen rowell filter?

2007-08-05 Thread Akkana Peck
> On 8/6/07, Rei Shinozuka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > is there a (relatively) simple way to add a "galen rowell" filter. > > that's the late national geographic photographer to made great use > > out of graduated color filters to bring out the colors in sunset, David Gowers writes: > otherwise

Re: [Gimp-user] I need to know how much was cropped with autocrop

2007-08-08 Thread Akkana Peck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > While looking into this, I notice that autocropping an image uses the > active layer, not the projection, to determine the resultant image > boundaries. (Would this be a bug?) If you want a plug-in that crops the image according to the contents of all layers, not just t

Re: [Gimp-user] How to set default value for Script-Fu scripts?

2007-09-16 Thread Akkana Peck
Manuel Reimer writes: > Hello, > > I know, that it's possible to set a default value while > "script-fu-register", but is it also possible to set a default value, > based on some information fetched by a small script? One thing I've done is calculate the default value before calling script-fu-r

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.4 Print dialog

2007-11-03 Thread Akkana Peck
Thomas Worthington writes: > > Is there any way to get the print dialog in 2.4 to work like the old > > Gimp-Print one? The new one is hopeless: doesn't list my printers (which norman writes: > that I haven't yet got Gimp 2.4.1 installed as there is nothing yet for > non-techies using Ubuntu.

Re: [Gimp-user] Dislike new crop tool

2007-11-08 Thread Akkana Peck
Adam Wieland writes: > I liked that the box > came up showing the dimensions of your image as it was changing. I > needed this to be able to crop perfect squares. I just watch the numbers that show in the tool options. Much more convenient than the old dialog that always came up on top of the im

Re: [Gimp-user] Feathered selections

2007-11-14 Thread Akkana Peck
Leon Brooks GIMP writes: > So I started wondering: is it feasible to do something like > make the selection's borders gently more fuzzy or > translucent when a selection is feathered? I'm assuming you're talking about the "marching ants" when you say selection borders, and it's an interesting sugg

Re: [Gimp-user] Alt Key

2007-12-20 Thread Akkana Peck
> Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >You enter the desired aspect > >ratio in the Crop tool options, like 16:9, and it will use that whenever > >you press Shift (or lock the ratio using the check button next to the Jeffery Small writes: > In my 2.4.2 version running on Solaris 10/SPARC un

Re: [Gimp-user] new cute python line drawing script

2008-01-08 Thread Akkana Peck
Alex Feldman writes: > I haven't upgraded to 2.4 yet. Is the notion of an active vector new to > 2.4, or is it something I have been missing all along? Try making a path with two disconnected parts. ...Akkana ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-use

Re: [Gimp-user] digital camera photo settings

2008-02-10 Thread Akkana Peck
Owen writes: > AFAIK, there was an exif plugin for the Gimp, but I can't find it now. There was an exif reading plug-in on the old registry (I forget who wrote it -- Simon Budig?) It was read-only; it couldn't change an image's exif. It doesn't seem to be on the new registry. Is there any way t

Re: [Gimp-user] digital camera photo settings

2008-02-15 Thread Akkana Peck
Michael Schumacher writes: > > Von: Akkana Peck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Is there any way to get to the old registry to grab a copy of > > older plug-ins? > > Yes, there is. The link to the archive is given in the switch announcement: > http://registry.gim

Re: [Gimp-user] 300 dpi screen capture

2008-02-22 Thread Akkana Peck
Michael J. Hammel writes: > On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 23:41 +0100, Daniel Hornung wrote: > > But maybe one of the > > actual book writers on this list may tell you more. *hint* > > I guess that's my cue. :-) Me too :-) except Michael has already covered it so well. The only thing I'll add is that w

Re: [Gimp-user] Q: How to apply transparent gradient to image?

2008-03-24 Thread Akkana Peck
D. R. Evans writes: > I have a simple PNG image, and I'd like to change the top half so that at > the very top the image is completely transparent, with the opacity > increasing linearly so that halfway down the image (and all the way to the > bottom) the image has 100% opacity. > > I've messed wi

Re: [Gimp-user] How to make text fit a shape, not just follow a path?

2008-04-11 Thread Akkana Peck
Shin Diggar writes: > It's something that's very common on badges and logos, and here is a mock-up > I made to simulate what I'd like GIMP to do for me: > > http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/4541/textsr9.png Curve Bend (under Distorts) does exactly that. You can set the upper and lower shapes s

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP template and tutorial for designing business card

2008-05-10 Thread Akkana Peck
satimis writes: > I have been googling a while searching for Gimp template and tutorial to > design business card without result, only Photoshop tutorial found. Can any > folk point me to the right direction. TIA I've made business cards with GIMP: I wrote a script to generate an image of the ri

Re: [Gimp-user] subtract selection control

2008-07-08 Thread Akkana Peck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Quoting ChadDavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I've got a rectangle selection. Now, I am trying to do a subtractive > > selection within that rectangular selection, to make a sort of picture frame > > selection. The problem is that I'm having trouble getting the inner,

Re: [Gimp-user] gimpshop breaks Gimp 2.4 in Ubuntu Hardy Heron

2008-07-24 Thread Akkana Peck
Robert Kennedy writes: > > After more testing and investigation, it looks like AWN is NOT to > blame in breaking the gimp in Hardy Heron [ ... ] > But then I did a "sudo ldconfig". Then gimp stopped working. (But > gimpshop still worked). If you did a "ldd `which gimp-2.4`", you would > see the gi

Re: [Gimp-user] Empty skull, vacated because I can't crop an image and its driving me to drink.

2008-09-05 Thread Akkana Peck
Gene Heskett writes: > I'm back again, trying to crop an image, again, yet, still. > > I can cut and cut and cut till I have what I want, but not even the zealous > crop will get rid of the image area cut, it is still part of the image even [ ... ] > Darnit, I want to see the crosshatch indicati

Re: [Gimp-user] Identify old GIMP font

2008-10-28 Thread Akkana Peck
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2008-10-27 at 1842.17 +0100): > > That looks like one of the "Fixed" fonts shipped with the X-Server. > > > > Since Gimp no longer uses the X11-mechanisms for font selection it no > > longer shows up in the font dialog. You need to somehow convince > > fontconfig to provide th

Re: [Gimp-user] sky question

2008-11-16 Thread Akkana Peck
Marco Presi writes: > If you want to artificially change the colors, I think the best way to > do it, is to do it in a selective manner: > > 1) duplicate the layer of the original photo > 2) change the color of the duplicate layer by using the color balance > tool to reach the sky tonality you wan

Re: [Gimp-user] Puzzle about my version of gimp

2008-11-21 Thread Akkana Peck
Martin Nordholts writes: > Leonard Evens wrote: > > I recently upgraded my main computer to Fedora 9 from Fedora 7. When I > > brought gimp up and clicked on 'about' under Help, a window came up > > claiming it is gimp 2.4.1. But the package is designated 2-2.4.7, from > > which I conclude it is

Re: [Gimp-user] How to update GIMP in Ubuntu?

2008-12-16 Thread Akkana Peck
> > How do I upgrade to v 2.6.x of Gimp on Ubuntu? > > I don't think you are going to be able to do this. > > To do so requires a number of updated libraries, glib,gtk, babl and > gegl are 4 off the top of my head and I am pretty sure the 8.04 > repositories wont hold these. > > You can do it by

Re: [Gimp-user] Bubble effect

2009-02-01 Thread Akkana Peck
Dave 77459 writes: > Thanks for the pointer. Do you have a recommendation for settings? > GIMPressionist seems to overlap brushes, rather than varying the size to fit > available spaces without overlap. The "Marble madness" preset in GIMPressionist does something similar to your example, but with

Re: [Gimp-user] Cropping to multiple aspect ratios (was Using "Tool Options" in Scripts)

2009-02-04 Thread Akkana Peck
Frank Barknecht writes: > I have to do some tedious work, namely crop many images to four aspect > ratios: 4:3, 3:4, 1:1 and 4:1. For each image I need to select > the picture detail to preserve manually, so this cannot be automated. [ ... ] > I already saved some Tool Presets for setting the optio

Re: [Gimp-user] labels (was: Change ruler to inches)

2009-03-22 Thread Akkana Peck
Carusoswi writes: > Also, although I was meticulous in measuring for and laying out the template, > my cards did not line up with the pre-cut forms that we had purchased. Martin already answered your questions about units, so I'll just address this part. I've done business cards and labels in gimp

Re: [Gimp-user] Snap to Guides by default

2009-04-08 Thread Akkana Peck
malefico writes: > >> I wonder if there is any way to turn off the "Snap to Guides" option [ ... ] > Thank you David, I know where the option is, but it is always on by > default. Is there any way to turn it off by default ? So when Gimp > starts it is unchecked ? In GIMP 2.6, no. In GIMP 2.7, y

Re: [Gimp-user] Green Stripes On Tools?

2009-05-29 Thread Akkana Peck
STINGER wibblywobblyteapot.co.uk writes: > If I use the paths tool and drag to move I get a horrible green mess of > breadcrumbs where the tool has been. I also get this on any other tools > when moving around. I've tried it on two different machines now (both > running Ubuntu) and I can't stop it.

Re: [Gimp-user] How to import Photoshop .pat files?

2009-06-02 Thread Akkana Peck
> > So I tried that, but still NOTHING. Question, It IS with the bucket fill > > tool > > that I should be able to access the .pat files right? DJ writes: > Yes and no. There is also the Patterns Dialog (see more below). [ lots more info about where to view your GIMP patterns, but not on how to

Re: [Gimp-user] How to import Photoshop .pat files?

2009-06-03 Thread Akkana Peck
Alec Burgess writes: > To get them created individually it looks like [Filters-Animation-Save > Layers] does the trick. If renumbering make sure to include enough ~'s > to cover total number of pattern files being written and specify an > extension] eg: > "/devart_PS_pats_~~~.pat" (If insuffi

Re: [Gimp-user] File > Open Location - No such file or directory

2009-06-13 Thread Akkana Peck
DJ writes: > Whenever I have used File > Open Location, I've gotten an error. I > thought I'd revisit it again while going through a tutorial on > blending modes. I got the same error, No such file or directory. Yet, > I can right-click and "Save Image As" with no problem. I got the url > by right-

Re: [Gimp-user] Chalk Logo doesn't work.

2009-07-31 Thread Akkana Peck
John Culleton writes: > I am making a chart of all the different logos under the > File>Create>Logos submenu. The Chalk Logo doesn't seem to work. I see the same thing. The problem is the Sobel filter. If you go through the steps in chalk.scm by hand, everything is fine until the point where it

Re: [Gimp-user] How to move image when selecting?

2009-08-18 Thread Akkana Peck
Patrick Horgan writes: > If you're trying to use the lasso it's frustrating like that, you have to do > the whole thing in one complex wack. If instead you use the path tool you can (and in another message) > In my link to the selection tutorial I should have given credit to

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

Re: [Gimp-user] WHat are my options, here

2009-09-21 Thread Akkana Peck
Noel Stoutenburg writes: > I have a topographical map, and I want to apply a color gradient which > follows the contour lines of the map, and blends from a darker hue at > the lower contour to a lighter hue at the next higher contour. The Have you used Shaped gradients? I think they'll help a l

Re: [Gimp-user] Urgently need to adjust photograph size

2009-11-17 Thread Akkana Peck
John Meyer writes: > Then you're probably going to want to crop out a square part of the picture > and adjust that. Agreed -- Crop is what you want. ...Akkana ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley

Re: [Gimp-user] Reduce or crop an image by N pixels?

2009-11-20 Thread Akkana Peck
vr writes: > Oops, after poking around a bit more I realize now that the actual crop > tool's selector is more friendly than the selection tool selector for what > I'm trying to do. I guess the real question I'm asking is how do you get > the selection tool to operate like the crop tools selector?

Re: [Gimp-user] Outline people in photos

2009-12-15 Thread Akkana Peck
Denis G. writes: > I am wanting to make an outline > drawing of the people in the photo and adding a letter or number in the > outlines so I can identify the people in the photo,much like they do in > newspapers to identify people in a large group photo. Owen writes: > Use the foreground select to

[Gimp-user] Printing (was Re: running out of hair)

2009-12-28 Thread Akkana Peck
Gene Heskett writes: > >So my question is: Where do I put the BR2140.ppd that cups uses so that the > >gutenprint plug-in can also find it? The regular print dialog has no > >knowledge of this printer, and nowhere near enough controls to be usable. The regular (GTK) print dialog should see CUPS-r

Re: [Gimp-user] JPG file size increases with saving

2010-01-15 Thread Akkana Peck
Philip Rhoades writes: > What still doesn't make sense is that if the original file is JPG and > one simply opens it and then saves it as another JPG file with 100% Because JPEG isn't meant to be saved at 100% quality. The JPEG FAQ, http://www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq/part1/section-5.html, says:

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: GIMP vs Photoshop

2010-01-20 Thread Akkana Peck
Martin Nordholts writes: > Ken Warner wrote: > > Yeah, I hate that too. What's the point of having a floating window > > if you can never bring it to the top of the stack? > > Edit -> Preferences -> Window Management, change the toolbox and dock > hints to 'Normal window' Except that you can't

Re: [Gimp-user] How to enhance low resolution graphic for larger modified image ???

2010-01-26 Thread Akkana Peck
helices writes: > I have a simple JPG (108x170 pixels) that I want to use in a larger, > higher resolution image that I'm creating. It is a fairly simple black > and white drawing -- actually, a light bulb with several curves and > angles and straight lines. > > Yes, I have expanded it to 1000x15

Re: [Gimp-user] Web resolution question

2010-01-27 Thread Akkana Peck
> 2010/1/27 : > > Is there a typical or standard monitor resolution a web site should be > > designed for? Deniz Dogan writes: > I virtually always make the assumption that the user has at least > 1024x768 and make my websites 960 pixels wide. Last time I checked > only 4 percent of Internet user

Re: [Gimp-user] How to crop with defined aspect ratio ???

2010-02-03 Thread Akkana Peck
helices writes: > When I'm editing an image and I want to crop that image so it will print > 8x10 or 5x8 or whatever, I'm challenged by adjusting the selection box > to exactly the right proportions. The Crop tool's options includes a checkbox for Fixed: Aspect ratio and a field where you can type

Re: [Gimp-user] Beginner: Selected tool has no effect

2010-02-11 Thread Akkana Peck
ChrisBrewster writes: > I've already done a couple of things with Gimp that made me think I was > getting it, but now I need to use some brush tools such as Smudge. So I click > the Smudge icon, put the cursor on the image, press the mouse key and drag, > and it doesn't do anything. In other image

Re: [Gimp-user] Text tool options menu, where is it?

2010-03-12 Thread Akkana Peck
Gene Heskett writes: > Greetings; > > My text font size is microscopic, and the help shows an option menu that lets > me adjust that, but I'll be a monkey's uncle if I can find it. Anybody know > where it wandered off to in gimp-2.6.6 as supplied with Fedora 10? You should have a text size but

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and Turboprint

2010-03-27 Thread Akkana Peck
Carusoswi writes: > If I print from 2.7, the Turboprint option is not available and, while I can > get my i960 to work, full functionality is not available. I don't know where this Turboprint option is, but if it's a separate Print option in GIMP's File menu, my guess is that Turboprint is install

Re: [Gimp-user] Rotate selection without content?

2010-04-18 Thread Akkana Peck
Philip U. writes: > Is there no way to do this? I want to use an elliptical selection, but at an > angle. Use the "Transform selection" button in the tool options for the Rotate tool. Described here: http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-tools-transform.html#gimp-tool-transform ...Akkana

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP 2.6.8

2010-04-28 Thread Akkana Peck
> > Von: Norman Silverstone > > I am looking at GIMP 2.6.8 on Ubuntu 10.04 RC and notice that the usual > > display of the ruler units and zoom percentage, below the image, is missing Michael Schumacher writes: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=612956 > > You should try to get Ubuntu

Re: [Gimp-user] Create a clickable hotspot?

2010-07-12 Thread Akkana Peck
Ludmilla writes: > >Thank you. I can create the hotspots on the picture I'm using but how > >do I add it into my web page? I'm using Kompozer which doesn't want to > >import the thing.it's a MAP file or some sort of thing. > > I wonder if you have found out how it works - to insert a hotspot

Re: [Gimp-user] curving text (text to path?)

2010-09-12 Thread Akkana Peck
Nathan H. writes: > Someone told me there was an ARC plug-in for CD labels, can I use this on my > windows based version of GIMP2? Probably arclayer: http://shallowsky.com/software/arclayer/ It's in Python, so it should work on Windows as long as you have gimp-python enabled. That script Saul po

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