[Gimp-user] Help needed with creating a GIF image
Hi! I'm creating a GIF image with a colored background and some colored text. I'm using gimp 1.2.4 on Windows 2000. Here is what I do: 1. Load an existing GIF that I want to modify (since it already has the desired background) 2. Create a new layer and fill with FG color 3. Select the background layer and use the eye dropper to select the background color 4. Select the new layer (with the FG color fill) and use the Fill tool to fill this layer with the desired background color 5. Create a new transparent layer 6. Select the background layer (bottom most layer) and use the eye dropper to select the color of the text in the background layer 7. Select the transparent layer 8. Use the dynamic text tool to render my desired text in the desired color using the Monotype Corsiva Windows font 9. At this point, the image looks PERFECT and the text is smooth and has no jagged edges or anything 10. Click image/File/Save As, I specify By Extension as the type and save the image with a .gif file extension. I merge all visible layers and the GIF is created. Now, when I view the newly created GIF, the text has jagged edges and is not smooth like it was when I first rendered it. Any ideas on what's going on? Thanks... Peace... Tom ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Mnemonics
hi there, could someone explain to me what is the idea of mnemonics in GTK2 / GIMP 1.3 ? All I had seen until now is that some keys are reserved and cannot be used as dinamic shortcuts, and that the space bar serve as a temporary call to the move tool. I do not even know if this feature is related to the mnemonics. Thank you so far. JS -- ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Help needed with creating a GIF image
Hi there. The problem is happening at the time of color reduction to indexed mode, inside the save as gif procedure. One simple work around seens to be merging your layers manualy, before saving as gif. JS -- On Thursday 26 June 2003 19:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm creating a GIF image with a colored background and some colored text. I'm using gimp 1.2.4 on Windows 2000. Here is what I do: 1. Load an existing GIF that I want to modify (since it already has the desired background) 2. Create a new layer and fill with FG color 3. Select the background layer and use the eye dropper to select the background color 4. Select the new layer (with the FG color fill) and use the Fill tool to fill this layer with the desired background color 5. Create a new transparent layer 6. Select the background layer (bottom most layer) and use the eye dropper to select the color of the text in the background layer 7. Select the transparent layer 8. Use the dynamic text tool to render my desired text in the desired color using the Monotype Corsiva Windows font 9. At this point, the image looks PERFECT and the text is smooth and has no jagged edges or anything 10. Click image/File/Save As, I specify By Extension as the type and save the image with a .gif file extension. I merge all visible layers and the GIF is created. Now, when I view the newly created GIF, the text has jagged edges and is not smooth like it was when I first rendered it. Any ideas on what's going on? Thanks... Peace... Tom ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Metal tutorial
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 06:17, Khiraly Kalman wrote: Hi! Im trying to reproduce some photoshop tutorial in gimp. Im stoned at this tutorial: http://www.deviantart.com/tutorial/529467 i have no idea how to do STEP 10 in GIMP, does anyone have some idea? Hi Khiraly - The GIMP does not (to my knowledge) have anything that *exactly* matches PhotoShop's lighting plugin. But you can do a lot with the GIMP's own lighting plugin. You just have to play with it a lot. I seem to remember some rumors from last year (?) that someone was working on a new, improved GIMP lighting plug-in, but ... Sorry I can't be more help. Happy Gimping, -- --Jeff Jeff Trefftzs [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tcsn.net/trefftzsHome Page http://gug.sunsite.dk/gallery.php?artist=68 Gimp Gallery http://trefftzs.topcities.com/ Photo Gallery ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Metal tutorial
On Thursday 26 June 2003 14:17, Khiraly Kalman wrote: Hi! Im trying to reproduce some photoshop tutorial in gimp. Im stoned at this tutorial: http://www.deviantart.com/tutorial/529467 i have no idea how to do STEP 10 in GIMP, does anyone have some idea? that is pretty neat, had a go myself but changed it around a bit at the end. step ten _is_ tricky and i couldn't get it exactly either but if you goto filters/lighting effects and chose 'create new image' and then click on the 'light' tab and chose light type 'point' and dark blue as colour and postions; x=0.40, y=0.10 and z=0.25 and then click on the material tab and check that ambient is 0.40, diffuse 1.00 you should get a fairly accurate if washed out similar effect. you can then play around with lightness/contrast to make it a bit more like on the tutorial (and maybe someone even knows how to do it better, but that's what i did. i then bumpmapped this new image with the one indicated in the tutorial. filter/map/bumpmap, selecting linear map and playing around with the levels until it looked the same or similar to the one on the tutorial and then dragged this new image onto the old one as a new layer. i didn't like the blood bit much so made mine transparent. http://www.sende.freeserve.co.uk/knife.html sammi ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Fonts in 1.3.15
Hi Mike - Fonts aren't quite as intuitive (or maybe we're both just set in our ways) as in GIMP-1.2.x, but here's how it works: 1. Double click on the text tool in the toolbox. This will give you the tool's own dialog box, where you can set the font, the size, the color, and the alignment of the text you enter. When you click on the selector button at the right of the font name, you will get a dialog box with the six dozen liquor jugs text. There you can set the font style, if there are any variants. 2. Click in the image window. This will pop up an entry box where you can enter your desired text, also selecting left-to-right or right-to-left directionality. I think 1.3.x puts a whole lot of controls in the tools' own control panels. Once you've opened a single tool control panel, though, it will reflect the controls for whatever tool is active. HTH, -- --Jeff Jeff Trefftzs [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tcsn.net/trefftzsHome Page http://gug.sunsite.dk/gallery.php?artist=68 Gimp Gallery http://trefftzs.topcities.com/ Photo Gallery ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Fonts in 1.3.15
I'm totally lost with fonts in 1.3.15. Here's what I know: * The text tool has a button for open, a button for clear, and a couple of buttons to indicate the direction of the text. There's also the text window. * There is a font dialog where I can see an Aa example of the fonts plus a quote in that font once I roll over a font label with the mouse. My problems are that: * I cannot change the color of the font, regardless of how I set my foreground color. * I cannot change the size of the font. * I don't seem to be able to actually change the font at all, although I can highlight a font in the font dialog. * Getting the text to appear on the image, even assuming the default font in black, is inconsistently successful. I've been using the earlier Gimp 1.x.x series for a few years now, so I know my way around Gimp fairly well. I'm pretty much all googled out with this problem. I'm running Gnome 2.2 off of the recent Ximian Desktop 2 updates. Could I just have a bum generic font widget from that? I feel like I taking crazy pills here. Has anyone else run into this? -Mike ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Metal tutorial
Hi! Im trying to reproduce some photoshop tutorial in gimp. Im stoned at this tutorial: http://www.deviantart.com/tutorial/529467 i have no idea how to do STEP 10 in GIMP, does anyone have some idea? Thx in advance, Khiraly ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
