[Gimp-user] select rect snap to corner

2005-07-10 Thread Tim E. Jedlicka - wrk
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.

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Timothy Jedlicka, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 1-630-713-4436, AOL-IM=tjbonzo
Network Entomologist, Lucent Technologies, LWS NOVE Lab Operations


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Re: [Gimp-user] select rect snap to corner

2005-07-10 Thread Joe Carsto
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 ImageCanvas Size 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
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[Gimp-user] how to set default units in gimp 2.2?

2005-07-10 Thread Gabor Istvan
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?
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Re: [Gimp-user] Question about using psd format.

2005-07-10 Thread Sven Neumann
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
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Re: [Gimp-user] select rect snap to corner

2005-07-10 Thread Sven Neumann
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
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Re: [Gimp-user] how to set default units in gimp 2.2?

2005-07-10 Thread Sven Neumann
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
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[Gimp-user] Newbie Question

2005-07-10 Thread Jonathan Allen
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
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Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie Question

2005-07-10 Thread Jonathan Allen
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
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[Gimp-user] Text on transparent background

2005-07-10 Thread Steve Croteau
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
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Re: [Gimp-user] Text on transparent background

2005-07-10 Thread Andreas Waechter
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
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Re: [Gimp-user] Text on transparent background

2005-07-10 Thread Steve Croteau
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
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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
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Re: [Gimp-user] Text on transparent background

2005-07-10 Thread Carol Spears
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

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Re: [Gimp-user] Text on transparent background

2005-07-10 Thread Michael Schumacher
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

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Re: [Gimp-user] Is there a script to create web page buttons?

2005-07-10 Thread Carol Spears
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

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