On Thursday 13 September 2007 17:58:02 norman wrote:
> This is very much due to a video course I am following on
> www.meetthegimp.org which, in my opinion, is a great place
> to start for the amateur photographer.
Hello from sunny Tullah, Tasmania, where dialup is the peak of
modern Internet con
On Thursday 13 September 2007 20:25:33 you wrote:
> To set in turn of cost: Sony Alpha 700 (1400 USD),
> Canon 40D (1500+ USD), Nikon D300 (1800+ USD).
Thaks for that nice, simple list.
I got good value out of a Sony DSC-F707 until the day I
ran it over with my 2t van.
Several of the pro photog
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 10:17:50 jim feldman wrote:
> Even with it's bit depth shortcoming, I'd still take GIMP's
> mature tool set over anything OTHER than PS CS2/3 (at a
> mere $649US)
Approximating the $USD-$AUD conversions (http://www.xe.com/ucc/),
that's AUD$743, about the cost of a c
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 02:34:13 Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> Do I still have the old version?
[...]
> Do I have both versions so I need to make GIMP use the new
> one rather than the old one?
Maybe. Try "ldd $(which gimp)" & see what it says.
On this system (updated Ubuntu Fiesty) gimp is
On Thursday 27 September 2007 03:49:25 Sven Neumann wrote:
> Do you even know what you are talking about? I don't think so.
Oh. Someone seems to have put Sven into Happy Mode. (-:
I must say that as a programming novitiate, sorta, I do find
the open to- & fro-ing on lists like GIMP's very informa
On Friday 28 September 2007 01:00:45 George Farris wrote:
> If you can provide hard data that backs this up with numbers
Unfortunately, this is the Real World(tm), & rejection can be
as simple as "it looks too different."
However, I would be interested in hard numbers too.
Cheers; Leon
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On Friday 28 September 2007 02:37:14 Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris wrote:
> Unfortunatelly all articles are in Brazillian Portuguese only.
Yeah? I do like it when I'm able to read something in languages
other than English. BrazPort is something I could at best blunder
my way through, but it usually
On Saturday 29 September 2007 01:51:59 carol irvin wrote:
> I am switching myself to open source programs whenever I
> can to save money. It is no more complex than that.
Hi Carol!
Um, I convert people to OpenOffice who basically don't give a
hoot about the $$$. They adopt it because:
* They
On Sunday 30 September 2007 01:31:44 carol irvin wrote:
> I suspect I need to do something
> every time I do a paste that converts the paste into its own layer.
Yah, New Layer.
I'm sure that there's a keyboard shortcut for that, but the GIMP
(along with a few other apps) is broken on this antique
On Sunday 30 September 2007 03:26:33 carol irvin wrote:
> I don't see any reason why I shouldn't be able to do this
> completely in Gimp if I set my mind to it. I don't
> collaborate with any other artists so it doesn't matter what
> I use.
More than that, you have people you can actually as
On Sunday 30 September 2007 20:10:46 Sven Neumann wrote:
> The application can already add bookmarks and GIMP 2.4
> already makes use of this feature in some places. I am not
> convinced though that this would be a good way to solve the
> problems brought up the user who started the thread.
I am i
On Sunday 30 September 2007 20:06:09 Sven Neumann wrote:
> We are listening to our users. That's why we have this mailing-
> list and actually read about the problems and needs of our
> users.
Round of applause, that sentiment. (-:
Now I need to organise my own life better so I can make space
to
On Monday 01 October 2007 08:48:09 you wrote:
> Each person (who wanted to participate) would take an art
> step phase further using GIMP until we had a completed art
> work. For example, let's say you'd start it using a brush.
> Then maybe I'd go into what you did with an eraser and make
> it som
On Monday 01 October 2007 08:56:40 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Note: author has recently added a note that its not Vista-
> ready (and may or may not ever be :-( ). That alone is
> sufficient to keep me on WinXp as long as possible.
Or to inspire you to make a really robust & portable GTK version
w
On Monday 01 October 2007 09:55:19 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> I will pray for you. In linux.
What, not in Plan9? Or Hurd? Where's your ambition? (-:
Cheers; Leon
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On Monday 01 October 2007 13:57:40 carol irvin wrote:
> then i altered that version with a filter. and, drum roll
> please, made them into two layers!
Tah-daaah! Round of applause! (-:
Perhaps GIMP can develop some new modes so that future versions
of plugins etc can *optionally* make a new lay
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 04:35:36 David Southwell wrote:
> IMHO photoshop is NOT a tool designed for the "average user".
"Average" can mean "typical" & it can mean numbers (as in
mean/mode/median), either way, PS fits the bill.
So if you want to struggle with an "average" creativity ceiling
&
On Friday 05 October 2007 04:21:32 carol irvin wrote:
> I've always suspected that this is because art is my escape from reality.
Ah, well, at least you know what that is... & that an Open & Free
escape is much safer & more useful than one of those complex
psycho-whatsisnames. (-:
Cheers; Leon
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On Friday 05 October 2007 00:03:14 David Heino wrote:
> is 72 dpi still sufficient across all possible monitors--a
> little lap top screen to a large screen HDTV?
There ain't no simple answer to that.
A simple laptop screen starts at about 1024x768 pixels (dots)
so a 72DPI picture to cover that e
On Friday 05 October 2007 00:22:59 carol irvin wrote:
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Gimp/OptimisingImagesForWeb?
> topic=WebHome
> http://gimp.org/tutorials/
> http://meetthegimp.org/?cat=8
> http://www.gimpguru.org/
> http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/
> http://gug.sunsite.dk/
All mookbark
On Thursday 11 October 2007 00:50:09 J Figueroa G - Gmail wrote:
> (I dont speak and read english so much)
Don't worry about it ("No worries!" here in Australia).
I'd just be guessing if I _chose_ your native language as Spanish
or something like it (Casablanca?), & would have to patiently
spend
On Friday 19 October 2007 12:08:53 Chris Mohler wrote:
> with the ubuntu beta (gutsy)
OBTW, the package list is here:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/graphics/gimp
I'm fetching from Pacific, which happens to be in Sydney, near
where this dialup has its POP (although I'm actually in western
On Friday 19 October 2007 12:08:53 Chris Mohler wrote:
> I've been messing with the ubuntu beta (gutsy) and it
> installed RC3 from the start.
It seems to have enough packages to keep Feisty happy, & is
even small enough to download over dialup in an afternoon. I'll
dpkg this shortly. I might get
On Friday 19 October 2007 12:08:53 Chris Mohler wrote:
> On 10/18/07, Leon Brooks GIMP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> BTW, if anyone sees a real 2.4 DEB or RPM source, please drop
>> a message on this list saying so. Both I & my sister-in-law
>> photographer would
On Friday 19 October 2007 05:29:49 kerry wrote:
> Please could you tell me where I can download the 2.4
> for windows in complete package
AFAIK, nowhere. Wait a few days, at worst a week or two for
2.4 to be fully released & the Windows packagers to catch up.
BTW, if anyone sees a real 2.4 DEB o
On Saturday 20 October 2007 18:34:49 norman wrote:
> I have just looked at the Ubuntu 7.10 'try it first disc' and
> Gimp 2.4rc3 was on it.
I've finally got that installed on Feisty. I started too soon, as
Richard Hirner (thanks!) sent me a link for a native Feisty
package after I'd got all of the
On Saturday 20 October 2007 20:59:15 Leon Brooks GIMP wrote:
> It's taken 49 package updates
Correction, 79 packages including a couple of _games_ I had
to update to track changes in font-names used in a GIMP
dependency.
Cheers; Leon
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On Saturday 20 October 2007 20:59:15 Leon Brooks GIMP wrote:
> I'll let you know soonish how it actually runs.
This RAM-limited Celeron 566 makes it run kind of slowly, but
it does run reliably & some of the newer tools are enjoyable.
A friend from the other side of Oz will be mail
On Thursday 25 October 2007 23:18:04 norman wrote:
> I would like to be able to produce a black and white negative
> image from an ordinary colour image.
I'm lazy, so desaturating on luminosity works well enough for
me. If I wanted to alter the colours, I'd put the image through
a colour-map first
On Friday 26 October 2007 19:03:36 Jeffery Small wrote:
> Does the new release include up-to-date documentation on new
> features like the healing and perspective cloning tools?
Can't recall having seen the docs but these features did do stuff
when I whipped the Win32 edition into life this aftern
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 02:26:29 John Culleton wrote:
>> All that was released today was the source code. Binaries
>> for various platforms will come later.
> I use 2.4rc3 on my slackware Linux system. Is this the same
> as the final release? It seems to work fine.
I tried 2.4-for-real for Win
On Saturday 03 November 2007 22:31:44 carol irvin wrote:
> how many people here are on dialup?
Me. Mostly due to lack of alternatives.
If either the Government or an ISP or both gets an act, we can
eventually get a 512kb satellite connection for about AUD$45
a month. Plus ghasp dollars per gigaby
I walked a lady through GIMP on Windows 2000 today, & she was
delighted with it.
A feature that she particularly liked was being able to
select things (wand, oval, block, whatever) then feather
the selection so whatever you did had no sharp edges.
She also liked being able to select with the wand
On Thursday 15 November 2007 04:29:00 Akkana Peck wrote:
> But there's a solution for your friend in the meantime: the
> Quickmask. Click on that inconspicuous little square down
> at the bottom left of the image window, in the corner
> between the scrollbar and the ruler. That switches to
> Quickm
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