Re: [Gimp-user] drawing a simple rectangle ; drawing an arrow (newbie)
On Saturday 09 July 2005 17:42, Akkana Peck wrote: > 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. not as far as i know. a simple way to make them is to use the square selection tool. open a new image (say 100x100) draw a square with that tool copy and paste it as a new layer and fill with colour (or gradient or whatever). rotate it by 45 degrees, select half of that square with the square selection tool (say the complete left hand side to the middle)and hit cut. sammi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Is there a script to create web page buttons?
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 08:22:20PM -0400, Jim wrote: > > A bit of background, I'm running Gimp 2.2.6 on FC3. > you should be able to run gimp-1.2 from any current linux distribution. > For the old version of Gimp 1.2 there was a perl script plugin, > btn4ws.pl, that would take a text file that has all of the button text > and then allowed you to modify the look and feel of the buttons. Once > you had the looks of the button the way you wanted it, you clicked the > "Create" button. It then created 3 buttons for each text selection. They > were unpressed, mouseover and a depressed button. As an added feature > it also created the java code for the web page that you could copy and > paste along with an example html file. It is a great utility but it does > not work under Gimp 2.2.6. > gimp-1.2 and gimp-2.whatever are able to be installed together and not have too many problems sharing space. there might be some problems with gimp-perl running for both, however. i suggest that if it is a problem, to use the gimp-1.2 perl module since it has more working scripts and such. carol ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Is there a script to create web page buttons?
I've searched the archives and can not find an answer to my questions, in fact, I even downloaded the archive and loaded it into mutt and searched through it to try to find an answer. :-) I've seen that others have asked questions somewhat like this one. A bit of background, I'm running Gimp 2.2.6 on FC3. I've looked at the script-fu section with the button scripts but they do not do what I need to do. For example, when creating buttons with the beveled button script the width of the button depends on how many characters are in the text. Padding with spaces will come close to making buttons the same width but this takes a lot of effort and time to accomplish. Creating buttons with this script is fairly easy but the end result is a lot of buttons that are not the same width which makes for a very unprofessional look. For the old version of Gimp 1.2 there was a perl script plugin, btn4ws.pl, that would take a text file that has all of the button text and then allowed you to modify the look and feel of the buttons. Once you had the looks of the button the way you wanted it, you clicked the "Create" button. It then created 3 buttons for each text selection. They were unpressed, mouseover and a depressed button. As an added feature it also created the java code for the web page that you could copy and paste along with an example html file. It is a great utility but it does not work under Gimp 2.2.6. Does anyone know if there is a script that someone has created that does this or if there is another program that will do this that runs under Linux? I would really love to retire my old RH9 distro with Gimp 1.2 so I can build a new FC4 machine on it. ;-) I've found several web sites that create buttons for you for a fee but I just work on websites for my family. If I want to keep peace in the family, reimbursement is out of the question. If I were a programmer I would make a stab at trying to write a script but I have no idea even where to start nor do I have the time what with a full time job and only 2 weekends a month to play with. :-( Thank you. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Text on transparent background
Steve Croteau wrote: > 1)Don't save to jpg because it doesn't support transparency. > 2)Use gif or png instead. > 3)To be polite to Win users, if using a png format - change mode to > indexed. s/Win/IE/, but otherwise correct. Michael -- The GIMP > http://www.gimp.org | IRC: irc://irc.gimp.org/gimp Wiki > http://wiki.gimp.org | .de: http://gimpforum.de Plug-ins > http://registry.gimp.org | ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Text on transparent background
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 03:16:05PM -0700, Steve Croteau wrote: > Greetings, > I'm a Gimp newbie and I'm trying to create my company 'black text' logo on a > transparent background and save it as a jpg to be used on my web site. ?I > would like the black text to "float" above the background images on my site > allowing the background image to show around the text. ? > > I'm doing fine with the whole process except the transparancy issue. ?Every > time I try this I end up with my text logo on a white background. ?How do I > get a transparent background when saving to a jpg format? > you don't. jpegs were not designed to handle transparency. try png. all of the colors of jpegs and tranparency as well. carol ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Text on transparent background
On Sunday 10 July 2005 3:25 pm, Andreas Waechter wrote: > > I'm a Gimp newbie and I'm trying to create my company 'black text' logo > > on a transparent background and save it as a jpg to be used on my web > > site. > > Transparency and jpg are (AFAIK) a contradiction - jpg > doesn't support transparency. > > > I'm doing fine with the whole process except the transparancy issue. > > Every time I try this I end up with my text logo on a white background. > > How do I get a transparent background when saving to a jpg format? > > Use a different file format (e.g. png or gif support > transparency - where png's transparency is not fully > supported by Internet Explorer, IE only uses transparency in > png in indexed mode) > > Andreas > ___ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user Andreas, Thank you so much!! So just to sure I understand: 1) Don't save to jpg because it doesn't support transparency. 2) Use gif or png instead. 3) To be polite to Win users, if using a png format - change mode to indexed. Correct? Steve ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Text on transparent background
I'm a Gimp newbie and I'm trying to create my company 'black text' logo on a transparent background and save it as a jpg to be used on my web site. Transparency and jpg are (AFAIK) a contradiction - jpg doesn't support transparency. I'm doing fine with the whole process except the transparancy issue. Every time I try this I end up with my text logo on a white background. How do I get a transparent background when saving to a jpg format? Use a different file format (e.g. png or gif support transparency - where png's transparency is not fully supported by Internet Explorer, IE only uses transparency in png in indexed mode) Andreas ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Text on transparent background
Greetings, I'm a Gimp newbie and I'm trying to create my company 'black text' logo on a transparent background and save it as a jpg to be used on my web site. I would like the black text to "float" above the background images on my site allowing the background image to show around the text. I'm doing fine with the whole process except the transparancy issue. Every time I try this I end up with my text logo on a white background. How do I get a transparent background when saving to a jpg format? Thank you in advance? Steve Croteau ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie Question
Andreas, > > 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 to colour. That was why I had started with a hard-drawn selection to isolate just the one letter. > > I tried the colour-to-alpha idea suggested in the first background-colour > > change tutorial, but colour-to-alpha is greyed out and I don't how know > > to get past that, if it is the right way to go. > > Image - Mode - RGB > (while the image is in indexed mode, some things can't work) OK, I did that and colour-to-alpha turned on, but what I selected it, first it squared off the hand-drawn selection to include bits of other letters and secondly, it had made up its own mind about what was background and foreground so that I couldn't get at the black letter but only the white paper. Jonathan ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie Question
Jonathan Allen wrote: 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 I tried the colour-to-alpha idea suggested in the first background-colour change tutorial, but colour-to-alpha is greyed out and I don't how know to get past that, if it is the right way to go. Image - Mode - RGB (while the image is in indexed mode, some things can't work) Andreas ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Newbie Question
Hi All, 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 ? In specific terms, I have a gif file containing some black-on-white text. I want to be able to colour various parts of the black text to be red-on- white, or blue-on-white (whatever) for emphasis. I can't do that colouring on the originating system, so need to uyse the GIMP to do it. I tried the colour-to-alpha idea suggested in the first background-colour change tutorial, but colour-to-alpha is greyed out and I don't how know to get past that, if it is the right way to go. Any suggestions ? Jonathan ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] how to set default units in gimp 2.2?
Hi, Gabor Istvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I set the default units from inches to centimeters in GIMP 2.2. > 4 (SuSE 9.3)? Whenever I go to Image->Print Size or Image/Scale > Image I have to adjust manually the units in the pull-down menu > which is very inconvenient. Is it possible to have GIMP remember > these settings? The units are taken from the image. You probably want to tell GIMP to use centimeters as the default unit for new images and images that don't otherwise specify a unit. You can do that in the Preferences dialog. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] select rect snap to corner
Hi, "Tim E. Jedlicka - wrk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to use the "Select Rectangle" with a fixed aspect > ratio. I would like it to snap to the corner of the image/layer. I > have "snap to guides" set, but apparently the edges of an image > don't have "default" guides. The development version of GIMP has this feature. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Question about using psd format.
Hi, Don Rozenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So I do my gimp thing and build an 8.5x11 inches image with a > resolution of 300 px/inch. I then store it as a psd file. > > However, when I open the psd in Photoshop 7, Photoshop declares that > the image is 35.4x45.8 inches with a resolution of 72 px/inch. This > looks like a bug to me and since I would expect Photoshop to handle > their own format correctly, I assume that it is a gimp bug. It might be a missing feature in the GIMP PSD plug-in. The plug-in is probably not storing the print resolution to the file. But why do you care? It's still the same image with the very same number of pixels. Nothing to worry about. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] how to set default units in gimp 2.2?
Dear List Members? How can I set the default units from inches to centimeters in GIMP 2.2. 4 (SuSE 9.3)? Whenever I go to Image->Print Size or Image/Scale Image I have to adjust manually the units in the pull-down menu which is very inconvenient. Is it possible to have GIMP remember these settings? TIA, IG [freemail] extra 1GB-os postafiókkal, Önnek már van? http://freemail.hu ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] select rect snap to corner
On Sunday 10 July 2005 01:06 am, Tim E. Jedlicka - wrk wrote: > I'm trying to use the "Select Rectangle" with a fixed aspect ratio. I would > like it to snap to the corner of the image/layer. I have "snap to guides" > set, but apparently the edges of an image don't have "default" guides. Is > there a way to easily accomplish this? > > I'm usually trying to crop a 4x6 image down to > 3.5x5 maximizing as much of the original image as possible. > > Thank you for a wonderful program. > You could use the to crop your image. For example, if your original image is 900 X 600 pixels, you would set the canvas size to 750 X 525 pixels (make sure to unlock the width and height first). Then use the offset section of the dialog to "center" the original image in the new canvas. HTH -- Joe Carsto Murfreesboro, TN USA ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
