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

2006-03-14 Thread Zhang Weiwu
GIMP I need to: 1) show layer "mask"; 2) fill the rounded square with ligher gray; 3) copy this layer and past to the photo layer's mask; I think I must have done something very wrong, to mess up this simple process so complicated. Is my way wrong? Is there a better way? Do I sim

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

2006-03-14 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Akkana Peck wrote: > 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 > &g

[Gimp-user] how to save TIFF file in multi-layer format?

2006-08-18 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Maybe this is an age old question: I used to store files in TIFF format as long as layer is the only information I wish to keep (80% of the times). I always think that is better then keeping PSD format which is a special format of special software (Photoshop) and may be unusable on computers withou

[Gimp-user] pucker skin

2008-01-29 Thread Zhang Weiwu
do an effective google on related tutorials. Can you provide some ideas how can I find (e.g. keywords to use) some useful how-to on adding this effect? Best regards Zhang Weiwu -- Real Softservice Huateng Tower, Unit 1788 Jia 302 3rd area of Jinsong, Choao Yang Tel: +86 (10) 8773 0650 ext 603 M

[Gimp-user] how to make condensed text along path

2009-06-12 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. I followed the tutorial of how to make text along path: http://gimp-tutorials.net/node/114 My difficulty here is to make manually condensed text along path. I want the text so much thin that any font's condensed version could not do. To make such condensed text, I either scale the text lay

Re: [Gimp-user] how to make condensed text along path

2009-06-13 Thread Zhang Weiwu
danny tauro wrote: > Not sure if this helps but after you create your text you can use the > scale tool break the link between Width and height and scale the text > on the width only. I did exactly this (use the scale tool on the tool box) but this would make the layer as "changed text layer" that

Re: [Gimp-user] how to make condensed text along path

2009-06-15 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Owen wrote: > > I wonder why you can't use Inkscape to do this? > Because I tried. In inkscape you can make the text object as thing as you want, but as soon as you make it follow a path it automatically change back to the original ratio. ___ Gimp-use

[Gimp-user] how to remove coffee stain from scanned documents?

2009-06-27 Thread Zhang Weiwu
In my case I think it should be easy because the document is printed in blue color while coffee stain dark and red. A person can easily tell documents from the stain, so should gimp. Can you recommend a tutorial that I can follow, that solves similar problem? Thanks Zhang

Re: [Gimp-user] how to remove coffee stain from scanned documents?

2009-08-03 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Hello. I knew how to create coffee stain, there are too many > tutorials available for that but google always tell me what I knew. In > fact I don't need gimp to make coffee stain, I can simply pour coffee on > the print output. What I need is to remove co

[Gimp-user] how to reproduce the "carved in" text style as in Window title bar in Mac OS

2009-12-13 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. How can I reproduce the carved text effect as used on window title bars in Mac OS X? Here is a screenshot of Mac OS X in use: http://blandname.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/mac-os-x-1047-server-screenshot.png Please notice the text "string", which looks a bit carved in. I could use drop-s

Re: [Gimp-user] how to reproduce the "carved in" text style as in Window title bar in Mac OS

2009-12-13 Thread Zhang Weiwu
bob wrote: > I've been playing with this over the last few days. Hi. Thank you very much for the detail explanation. What I overlooked is to try blending mode. I played various setting for drop-shadow but not get even close to the good image I got by using blending mode like Overlay and "Soft Light

[Gimp-user] specify png background color?

2004-04-03 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. I have a png logo with alpha channel, it looks good on every browser excepte IE, which rander the alpha channel to a single color. I wish to set the optional png background color to be #222, the background color of the webpage where the logo is. In this case even IE failed to rander alph

[Gimp-user] IE deals with png transparency?

2004-04-08 Thread Zhang Weiwu
For years I was told and tried and confirmed the alpha channel is not supported on IE with a simple . Recently I decide to convert all my gif pictures to png. I used GIMP, and (as expected) I lose transparency on IE. But later I tried another tool, the gif2png by Eric Raymond, surprisingly the

[Gimp-user] transparent pixels while alpha channel?

2004-04-11 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Thank you Michael Schumacher for helping me on the IE transparent pixel problem last time. Now I have a question: is it possible to create a png file with indexed color, with transparent pixels, while still have an alpha channel, so that the png file display alpha channel on cool browsers like

[Gimp-user] open windows ico files?

2004-09-02 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. My friend droped me a large collection of ico files from Windows, it seems GIMP 2.0.2 could not open any of them and gives a "the plugin could not open ico file" message. 1) is there a plugin for opening ico file? 2) pertty good a REF, isn't it? I don't use / like micros~1 but I need to c