[Gimp-user] importing paths from Photoshop
Hi all, is there any way to import paths that were made in photoshop documents into gimp? Just importing photoshop documents containing paths won't work. thanks, Bram -- === Bram Kuijper Rijksuniversiteit Groningen P.O. Box 14 9750 AA Haren, the Netherlands [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +31-6-25254616 ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] importing paths from Photoshop
Bram Kuijper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: is there any way to import paths that were made in photoshop documents into gimp? Just importing photoshop documents containing paths won't work. Unfortunately the documentation for the PSD format is not available freely, so we have no clue how paths are stored in a Photoshop file. Maybe there is a way to export the paths in Photoshop. Gimp can import SVG path data. Hope this helps, Simon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://simon.budig.de/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] GIMP is Great
Hi Everyone, I have SuSE Linux 9.2 and need to do some simple line drawings I'm doing for a book I'm translating. The site is at: http://www.geocities.com/klairbab/ I know Microsoft Paint pretty well, so you can imagine my surprise when I opened up gimp. It looks like a paint program but it's not. I discovered I can draw ellipses and rectangles by selecting a path then stroking the path. Pretty neat. But I'm having a hell of a time selecting and moving objects around. It looks like each Text object is being placed its own layer. What exactly is a layer? Do I select an object by selecting the layer? Do I move the whole layer? Does it make sense to draw inside a text object? Is it an object at all? All I need is a monocrome gif, but it would be nice if the resulting drawing were scalable, one which would grow and shrink if the user zooms in using the browser. Does gimp do that? I have friends who use AutoCad and are always talking about scalable, vector graphics. AutoCad also uses layers, but I've forgotten exactly what the were. Can you help? Thanks. Joe http://modern-greek-verbs.tripod.com/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Uninstaller?
I am straight up a novice, I don't like the fact that now that I have The Gimp installed, it took over any and all image folders, and will only open them in Gimp. I do not want my windows folders, or other program folders to be "ran" automatically through Gimp. Please help. Also, if I uninstall Gimp, will the images that it commandeered be lost, or will they go back where they should be with their "ME given"name? ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP is Great
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 09:19:47PM +0200, Joe Schaffner wrote: I know Microsoft Paint pretty well, so you can imagine my surprise when I opened up gimp. It looks like a paint program but it's not. I discovered I can draw ellipses and rectangles by selecting a path then stroking the path. there is a difference between selections and paths. there are also two dialogs: Dialogs/Selection Editor and Dialogs/Paths Pretty neat. But I'm having a hell of a time selecting and moving objects around. It looks like each Text object is being placed its own layer. Dialogs/Layers gimp displays paths and layers similarly (in a stack) and the same transformation tools work on them but they are not the same sort of information. paths are points and shaped segments and layers are made up of pixels. What exactly is a layer? Do I select an object by selecting the layer? Do I move the whole layer? Does it make sense to draw inside a text object? Is it an object at all? most of these questions can be answered by working through a tutorial in the beginners section of the tutorials at www.gimp.org All I need is a monocrome gif, but it would be nice if the resulting drawing were scalable, one which would grow and shrink if the user zooms in using the browser. Does gimp do that? scalable gif? no. gimp doesn't make scalable gif. does mspaint make them? I have friends who use AutoCad and are always talking about scalable, vector graphics. AutoCad also uses layers, but I've forgotten exactly what the were. i am pretty sure that AutoCad is not making a scalable gif. it would be scaling a file and converting it at the last minute to be a gif. the closest thing gimp has to AutoCad dynamics are the paths. you can make and edit paths with the pathtool and further manipulate them with the paths dialog. i have a script that adds some further editing ability to them http://carol.gimp.org/gimp/scripting/paths.html Can you help? you seem to be doing fairly well on your own. skip my web site if you are not using at least a gimp-2.3.5 carol ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Uninstaller?
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:22:36PM -0600, Bell wrote: I am straight up a novice, I don't like the fact that now that I have The Gimp installed, it took over any and all image folders, and will only open them in Gimp. I do not want my windows folders, or other program folders to be ran automatically through Gimp. Please help. Also, if I uninstall Gimp, will the images that it commandeered be lost, or will they go back where they should be with their ME givenname? i think you can change that behaviour by setting something in that windows manager thing -- i can't remember the name of it now. Display Manager? it has been a while since i used windows, but they set it up so that you can tell it which application to use to open different kinds of files. as far as removing it goes -- the gimp i use only knows where the images it has touched are on my desktop. it scans only its own resources on start up and does not attach itself to any of your images. you can remove it cleanly and quickly that way. i am curious, during the instalation process, did you agree to have gimp manage all of your images? your problems are due to your initial conversation with the installer i think and not with gimp itself. i am sorry it was not a nicer experience for you. carol ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Deleting background on photos
tcb888 (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: I need to remove the background of a photo and can't figure out how to quickly do this using GIMP. Basically, I have about 40 photos that I need to remove the background from for someone's website. I tried using the eraser to manually do it by hand but its taking too long. Can someone let me know if they have any ideas on how to quickly take care of this?? Attached is a sample photo, my client wants the photo to just show patio furniture with none of the grassy background. If I click on the grass to select the color to cut/delete, it also picks up some of the furniture as well... Your sample didn't attach. Have you tried looking at the Select Contigious Regions tool (the magic wand icon) and either quick mask or layer mask? jim ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Uninstaller?
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:22:36PM -0600, Bell wrote: I am straight up a novice, I don't like the fact that now that I have The Gimp installed, it took over any and all image folders, and will only open them in Gimp. There is a feature in windows called file associations that allows users to select what programs will be used for various files, based on the file extensions. You can change those associations easily enough. The details vary with different version and I do not have ME installed here, but here is a link to a detailed article about modifying file associations in windows me: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;262808 Carol Spears wrote: i am curious, during the instalation process, did you agree to have gimp manage all of your images? your problems are due to your initial conversation with the installer i think and not with gimp itself. Pretty sure that Carol is correct, I've never installed gimp on windows, but I would be very surprised if the windows installation changed the associations without asking. Mike ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Re: GIMP is Great
Joe Schaffner schreef: I have friends who use AutoCad and are always talking about scalable, vector graphics. AutoCad also uses layers, but I've forgotten exactly what the were. AutoCad is a CAD program and uses vector graphics; MS Paint and GIMP are bitmap graphics programs. If you what you want is bitmap graphics, GIMP is an excellent choice, but if it's vector graphics you need, you should check out Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org) which uses SVG (scalable vector graphics). GIFs are never scalable though; they only contain bitmap graphics (well you can rescale everything of course, but the quality will suffer). -- If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Roel Schroeven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Uninstaller?
Mike Williams writes: Pretty sure that Carol is correct, I've never installed gimp on windows, but I would be very surprised if the windows installation changed the associations without asking. The current 2.2 installer asks during the install, and defaults to no for all file types except maybe XCF (which of course it should claim). The defaults seem exactly right. Of course, if you check them all on, then GIMP will claim all those file types, but that's an action the user has to take. If there's a case where GIMP makes those file associations even though you didn't select the checkboxes, I'm sure the windows gimp maintainer would want to hear about that. (But GIMPwin-users might be a better place to ask about that.) When we tried it here, it worked fine and didn't claim any image file types it shouldn't have. ...Akkana ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Deleting background on photos
Maybye it would be more simple to select furniture with Ctrl+Z (you can append regions ticking where you need while holding Shift key) and then invert selection (Ctrl+I) and erase background (Ctrl+K. On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:21:52 -0500, tcb888 (sent by Nabble.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to remove the background of a photo and can't figure out how to quickly do this using GIMP. Basically, I have about 40 photos that I need to remove the background from for someone's website. I tried using the eraser to manually do it by hand but its taking too long. Can someone let me know if they have any ideas on how to quickly take care of this?? Attached is a sample photo, my client wants the photo to just show patio furniture with none of the grassy background. If I click on the grass to select the color to cut/delete, it also picks up some of the furniture as well... -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Deleting-background-on-photos-t983447.html#a2547097 Sent from the Gimp User forum at Nabble.com. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Re: Uninstaller?
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 12:00 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send Gimp-user mailing list submissions to gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Gimp-user digest... Today's Topics: 1. Uninstaller? (Bell) -- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:22:36 -0600 From: Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Gimp-user] Uninstaller? To: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I am straight up a novice, I don't like the fact that now that I have The Gimp installed, it took over any and all image folders, and will only open them in Gimp. I do not want my windows folders, or other program folders to be ran automatically through Gimp. Please help. Also, if I uninstall Gimp, will the images that it commandeered be lost, or will they go back where they should be with their ME givenname? -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /lists/gimp-user/attachments/20060124/dd4f141b/attachment-0001.html -- ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user First off, what has happened here is no more catastrophic than a simple file association issue. Uninstalling the Gimp is totally unnecessary just to try to correct a problem which is not really a problem. In Windows Explorer, you can simply click on Tools Folder Options and then File Types to look for the file extensions that you wish to re-associate with a different program. Secondly, even if you do uninstall the Gimp, you will not lose any of your images. Not even the ones you may have created with the Gimp. After all, they are just images, not an integral part of the program software itself. The uninstaller would not know of their existence. Also, they will remain with the name they were given in the location they were saved. Hope this helps. -- Mark Szymanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Didn't really want to uninstall-thanks
Mark, Thank you very much-problem that wasn't really a problem solved. I've got over 10 gigs of JPGs, that have all been painstakingly touched-up, color corrected, and chosen out of about that many more, so yes I was a bit paranoid when instead of my normal view of thumbs, I saw the Gimp. Thanks once again, Jason ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Uninstaller
Thanks everyone for your helpful suggestions, pointers and tips. Yes, I do like Gimp, and did not want to uninstall it. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Uninstaller?
Yes, I R A ediot, and I think I was half asleep during install, so I probably did say to the installer--sure thing, that sounds great. Anyway,what Mark suggested did the trick. Thank you, Jason - Original Message - From: Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: GIMPUser Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 2:11 PM Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Uninstaller? On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:22:36PM -0600, Bell wrote: I am straight up a novice, I don't like the fact that now that I have The Gimp installed, it took over any and all image folders, and will only open them in Gimp. I do not want my windows folders, or other program folders to be ran automatically through Gimp. Please help. Also, if I uninstall Gimp, will the images that it commandeered be lost, or will they go back where they should be with their ME givenname? i think you can change that behaviour by setting something in that windows manager thing -- i can't remember the name of it now. Display Manager? it has been a while since i used windows, but they set it up so that you can tell it which application to use to open different kinds of files. as far as removing it goes -- the gimp i use only knows where the images it has touched are on my desktop. it scans only its own resources on start up and does not attach itself to any of your images. you can remove it cleanly and quickly that way. i am curious, during the instalation process, did you agree to have gimp manage all of your images? your problems are due to your initial conversation with the installer i think and not with gimp itself. i am sorry it was not a nicer experience for you. carol ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Deleting background on photos
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 23:43, Vytautas Povilaitis wrote: Maybye it would be more simple to select furniture with Ctrl+Z (you can append regions ticking where you need while holding Shift key) and then invert selection (Ctrl+I) and erase background (Ctrl+K. On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:21:52 -0500, tcb888 (sent by Nabble.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to remove the background of a photo and can't figure out how to quickly do this using GIMP. Basically, I have about 40 photos that I need to remove the background from for someone's website. I tried using the eraser to manually do it by hand but its taking too long. Can someone let me know if they have any ideas on how to quickly take care of this?? Attached is a sample photo, my client wants the photo to just show patio furniture with none of the grassy background. If I click on the grass to select the color to cut/delete, it also picks up some of the furniture as well... -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Deleting-background-on-photos-t983447.html#a2547097 Sent from the Gimp User forum at Nabble.com. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user Look at any of the numerous tutorials on changing the background scattered over the net. I have tried atleast 3 different different, with differing effect depending on what i needed done and the original picture. (Anything from removing ppl/items in the bg, to changing DOF) -- /Rikard - email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] web : http://www.rikjoh.com mob : +46 (0)736 19 76 25 Public PGP fingerprint 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
