wanted to show that I have tried to
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> I would like to ask photographers which plugins you use and you think
> are most useful. Actually I use ufraw for RAW conversion and
> manipulation and resynthesizer for photo retouching. Thank you.
There is a useful redeye reducer
< snip >
> http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=8730
> I hope it can be useful to others! Give it a try, it has extensive
> help included.
I would be glad to give it a try if you could please explain to this,
somewhat ignorant linux user, what to do to obtain the
> http://registry.gimp.org/file/colortemp.scm?action=download&id=8738
>
> Follow that link. Then save the file to
> your /home/$USER/.gimp*/scripts directory.
Thanks, it worked and all is well.
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benefit from progress and change. I could go on but this is probably not
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mirror my right side is
still on the right. If I could flip, then my right side would be on the
left.
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> On Dec 17, 2006, at 8:36 PM, norman wrote:
>
>
> > Sorry, but I must disagree. If I look into a mirror my right side is
> > still on the right. If I could flip, then my right side would be on
> > the
> >
ry answers to these 2 simple questions then I suggest this
thread should stop as it is meaningless.
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it's a great
> name.
I note that, so far, no one has taken up my challenge.
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s well?
I tried Registax with wine some time ago without much success. Things
might have improved since then so I must try again. Meanwhile there is
an application called AstroStack, freely available on the Web, which
does what you need for stacking multiple photos. Also, t
o, the usual tools
> such as contrast, brightness, sharpness etc are readily available and
> not difficult to use in Gimp.
I came across this which you may find interesting.
http://www.threebuttes.com/RegistaxTutorial.htm
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> grid to distort the whole picture. Is there anything like that in GIMP?
Have a look at Grokking the Gimp, section 2.6.5 which deals with
perspective correction.
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else is, in my opinion. irrelevant and should not appear here.
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The printer I have is said to be capable of printing on a CD or DVD. I
wondered if it were possible to prepare and print images using Gimp and,
if so, how would one go about the task?
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> * norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07-19-07 13:35]:
> > The printer I have is said to be capable of printing on a CD or DVD. I
> > wondered if it were possible to prepare and print images using Gimp and,
> > if so, how would one go about the task?
>
> no pro
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 21:04 +0100, norman wrote:
> > * norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07-19-07 13:35]:
> > > The printer I have is said to be capable of printing on a CD or DVD. I
> > > wondered if it were possible to prepare and print images using Gimp and,
> >
work).
> Draw lets you arrange shapes (circles, in this case) so that nothing prints
> outside the outer circle, and nothing prints in the inner circle.
Thank you for that very useful information.
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want one label per DVD and the templates appear to give two the same. I
must look further.
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have the one template I want. The help file of
glabels describes how to make ones own templates but I do not understand
how to do this. Perhaps my brain is not as agile as it was 70 years ago.
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> downloaded it. Took just a few seconds. Will coment on the contents
> later.
The idea is great and I too will comment when I have had a good chance
to internalise your suggestions.
(How about a contest? I am on 79.5 years of age).
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ome out.)
>
> The videos are of great quality and professionally made and presented.
> Good work!
I would really like to see these videos but, for some reason, am unable
to do so. When I attempt to download I am presented with a black screen
and nothing else. I am using Ubuntu 7.04
when I am running 2.2.13 and not the version of
Gimp in the demonstration. Without this, I am not sure if I will be able
to follow, practically, the demonstrations shown.
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this what I intend to do. Open the video in Avidemux
and find the example of the image to be worked on. Go to File and Save
and save as JPEG image. So, when giving the image a name add .jpg. This
image can then be opened in the Gimp and worked on.
I hope that this is some use.
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Is there some way I can obtain the exif information of a photograph
using Gimp, please?
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y research has also led me to believe that there is no way to get the
info in Gimp. Which tools would you recommend please?
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> I recomment exiftool by Phil Harvey. You can get this at:
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> http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
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teria, the camera must be
light and easy to handle (a bit shaky due to age and arthritis) and
shoot in RAW. All suggestions gratefully received.
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uipment is not comfortable and I
do like to wander on my own when out for a shoot.
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range filter? Or is there any other 'fix' to this
> problem?
>
> Any help to a quivering n00b will be deeply appreciated...
I expect an individual who is far more knowledgeable than me will reply
with some very clever way of correcting your images but the curve
to the finer points of Linux. Please, could anyone give me
the benefit of their advice.
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On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 19:27 +0200, Andrew wrote:
> norman wrote:
> > < snip >
> >
> >> I'd expect that the documentation for building ufraw tells you how to
> >> install it as a gimp plug-in, too. Maybe something at configure time or
> >> may
to the window and off we go,
load Gimp 2.3.18, drag image into window and we get a list of complaints
each headed by TIFF Image manager.
I think I will start my winter hibernation early this year.
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e liquid resize plugin for the Gimp: http://meetthegimp.org/?p=60
>
> Why use some Flash if you can do it in the Gimp? ;-)
I would like to endorse what Rolf has written. I watched the video 3
days ago and have had great fun resizing and removing parts of images
ever since.
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could
report their findings whenever they are new or different to those in the
video and backed up by evidence, so that the rest of us may benefit from
their experience.
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> most other distros can do the same if they are in a hurry for Gimp 2.4rc3.
I have just looked at the Ubuntu 7.10 'try it first disc' and Gimp
2.4rc3 was on it.
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official release. By the way I am using Ubuntu 7.10.
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, blue would be black and red would be clear and transparent. Have
you any suggestions how to approach this using the Gimp, please.
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", perhaps I
am looking in the wrong place. I am using Gimp 2.4.0-rc3.
Would it then be possible to actually have the white areas transparent?
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Crude or not it looks very effective and a good starting point. Thank
you.
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lot of this terminology is relatively new to me.
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> You might try creating a new white layer and placing it at the bottom
> of the layerstack to show the regions where your image is transparent.
>
At last I am beginning to understand. The white shows where before there
was the grey and white squares layer. Brilliant thank you
Could some kind person please let me know if Gimp 2.4.1 is available for
a not very computerate person like me. Thanks.
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> if you use in 32bit machine and gutsy, you can get what you want in here.
>
> http://www.getdeb.net/release.php?id=1760
Thank you very much, just what I need.
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I believe that printing in Gimp is via a plugin which on Linux systems
is Gutenprint.
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inch choice is
> of course a matter of nationality but the offsets simply have no purpose that
> I can see.
Is there not a button which says print and save?
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some very interesting, surrealistic images with lots of impact. If there
is any interest at all, I will gladly post the details of the technique
here or anywhere else considered to be appropriate.
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Thank you for looking and commenting, it is most welcome.
Starting a screencast sounds very ambitious and probably beyond my
capabilities. Not a bad idea though. (Presumably YT is You Tube).
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gt; what is left.
> Or is there something different achieved by masking?
> Thanks,
> Helen, using Gimp 2.2.10 on SuSE
Have a look at http://meetthegimp.org/ there are several good examples
of using layer masks.
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Tried both of these but Firefox can't find them. I wonder why?
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application? without using
> "File->Open" of course. I've searched through the GIMP preferences but haven't
> found an option.
>
> Thanks
Perhaps I have totally misunderstood the question but why not simply
drag the image in question and drop it on the toolbox?
fford Photoshop. I have the time to
view helpful videos and read articles, which you may not have and I even
bought a book which shows me around the latest version of Gimp. There
are far more people like me in the world than like you and for us Gimp
is very good, thank you.
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> I recommend "Beginning Gimp" by Akkana Peck, ISBN 1-59059-587-4
I fully agree.
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On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 14:33 +0100, Sebastian Laube wrote:
> you should upgrade to the latest version...
Perhaps, however, I have an excellent Red Eye Removal Tool which I have
used with Gimp for quite some time and which I downloaded and installed
as a plug in.
Nor
hether it is the same as in the latest Gimp I do not know because I do
not have the latest Gimp but it is in the list of plugins available to
be downloaded and has been there quite some time.
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quite expensive and I wondered if anyone knew of any device which would
enable me to use my camera to make copies? I realise this is not exactly
about using Gimp but I cannot think of any better place to ask the
question.
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> from "Mask unselected areas".
Try saving as .xcf that is what I use to save layers etc.
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degrees and then clicked inside the grid,
the grid jumped towards zero. However, when I manually rotated the grid,
and then clicked inside the grid stayed where it was. The behaviour was
the same in both Normal and Corrective.
I am using Gimp 2.4.0-rc3 with Ubuntu 7.10.
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when I want to correct the image by rotation I just wanted to see if I
could reproduce what had been reported.
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> I'm pretty sure the same thing is true of the latest Fedora package for
> gimp 2.4.3. But one can get the gutenprint gimp plugin which does the
> job quite well. I bet that is available for ubuntu also.
As far as I know, it always has
I have a small, mushroom shaped object that I would like to display as
if it were rotating. This is because the colouring and patterning
changes around the object. Is this possible and, if so, please suggest
where I might read up on how to do it.
Norman Silverstone
particular figure?
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> I noticed this in 2.4.3 and now 2.4.4, when you zoom in/out using the
> ctrl mousewheel or keypad +/-,
> the 150% view causes the whole image to become transparent.
>
> I checked the drop down menus, the 150% view does not exist in either.
Using 2.4.2 on Ubuntu, this does not
and how to get round the difficulty will be gratefully
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chromatic aberration as much as possible. Any advice in
this direction would be very welcome.
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per end, point and press so perhaps I need a
better camera with a larger chip.
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>
> - Original Message
> From: norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:52:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] chromatic aberration
>
> < sni
day
> tool is available under the Google Summer of Code:
>
> http://wiki.panotools.org/SoC_2008_ideas#tCA_Correction
This seems to assume that the optics are the cause of the CA whereas I
understand that CA is also caused by the chip in e digital camera. Will
this process take care of that?
Norman
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> Are you "copying" the slides, or are you scanning them?
>
> If you're using a slide copying attachment and effectively rephotographing
> them onto your digital camera, then the CA of the copying equipment will be a
many cameras.
> Details available on:
> http://epaperpress.com/ptlens/
>
> It costs $15 for a full license
Sounds interesting, would you know if it will run using Wine?
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> > I have found that a small low cost program called Ptlens does a very
> > fair job of reducing CA, and various other lens distortions.. It only
> > runs on Win2K, XP or Vista or Unix with a windows simulator, either free
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en installed with Wine.
Being a lazy sort I use Cross Over.
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specialised knowledge.
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What is the best way of installing a script, please? I tried by
downloading the script to my desktop and dragging it into
~/.gimp2.4/scripts. I then ran, in GIMP, Xtns > Script-Fu > Refresh
Scripts and got a message, Error while executing :-
load"/home/norman/.gimp-2.4/scripts/col
s and got a message, Error while executing :-
> > load"/home/norman/.gimp-2.4/scripts/colourtemp.scm". Error reading
> > string.
> >
> you already got the error message. it means the script is broken.
> or isn't compatible with gimp 2.4
> please, check wheth
> The description of the script says that it will work with Gimp 2.4. Do
> I, therefore, assume that the script is broken?
The script I am looking at is at
http://www.farcrydesign.com/GIMP/PurpleFringe.html
Does this help?
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> The plugin version of PTlens supports TIF files (the standalone does
> not!). I am using the plugin with GIMP 2.4.1 on windows xp with no problem.
How interesting, but does it plugin with GIMP 2.4 on Ubuntu 7.10?
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I have been using GIMP for many months and I have just realised that I
do not have the means to minimise the window, I wonder why? I am using
Ubuntu 7.10 and GIMP 2.4.2.
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I forgot to say that the JPEG is sharper than the RAW conversion.
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> Could it be that your camera sharpened the JPEG quite aggressively and you
> did
> not sharpen the result of the RAW conversion?
That could very well be the reason. I had forgotten that there is
sharpening going in the camera with JPEG which, of course, does not
happen with RAW
display on the monitor screen, I
have no idea where to start. We both use Ubuntu 7.10 and I use GIMP
2.4.2.
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On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 20:30 +0200, Daniel Hornung wrote:
> On Friday 11 April 2008, norman wrote:
> > I am trying to gather information on how to convert from colour to black
> > & white. In my searches I came across the following which is in
> > photoshop:-
>
< snip >
>
> Hello Norman,
> http://www.gimpguru.org/Tutorials/ has a lot of thing to add to your list.
> But in the end it's up to you to try them out and find for each image the
> method that works best.
I have looked but this does not answer my specific questio
>
> The coloured seem to be effectively desaturated with one of the adjustment
> layers.
Thank you very much indeed. Now I can forget all about the approach I
thought I would look at and concentrate on those ways I know best - the
methods suggested and demonstrated by Ralph Steinort.
N
Excuse my ignorance but how should I decide which to use, merge or
flatten? I have read the book definitions but these do not help me in
deciding which to use.
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I have a photograph of a black hexagon on a white background and I would
like to make the background transparent so that I can lay this onto
another image. I have tried and not made much progress and would be
grateful if some kind person could please point me in the right
direction.
Norman
> Convert the image to RGB mode if it's not already. Select the white
> region by color. In the Layer -> Transparency menu, add an alpha
> channel. In the same menu, set "Color to alpha". This should make the
> white background to transparent.
te region by colour and in the Layer-> Transparency
menu added an alpha channel. However, the set Colour to Alpha setting
remained greyed out of action. What have I missed, please?
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No, changed to RGB, problem solved, thank you.
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nd follow the videos listed
here. I did and learnt a lot of very useful things about Gimp for the
amateur photographer.
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o RGB and
> you'll see two new alpha transparent arrows appear on the left hand side (!?)
>
> Checking the header of the image I see Adobe Fireworks in there. Any ideas
> what this anomaly of a png is?
I went to the URL but all I got was a blank page.
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e arrow in the bottom right corner pointing
downwards. There is also a pale grey arrow pointing to the right in the
top left corner and another similar arrow pointing downwards in the
bottom left corner. The 2 grey arrows were not noticeable when the image
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