Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP

2010-07-16 Thread Andre Anckaert
Hi Sven,

The third image in my yesterday's mail, shows the (Windows) folder where the 
help was installed: it was definitely nl. Of course I can still download the 
en-version. I understand that would then be put in a en-folder where GIMP 
would find it.

My clever (?) otherwise-proposition was to simply rename the existing 
nl-folder in en, hoping that GIMP then would show the - partly - translated 
Dutch help instead of the pure English, which for some people here is like 
Chinese.

BTW: You CC'd your mail to the gimp-usr list but it was not bounced to me. But 
I can see it in the archive. How come?

Thanks for your reaction.

André Anckaert

-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Sven Neumann [mailto:s...@gimp.org] 
Verzonden: donderdag 15 juli 2010 20:56
Aan: Andre Anckaert
CC: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU
Onderwerp: Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP

On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 15:28 +0200, Andre Anckaert wrote:

 Or otherwise, in order to keep as much as possible of the Dutch
 translation, I might perhaps better just change the name of the
 existing directory/folder to en instead of nl ?? Would that be
 enough to lure GIMP into giving its help??

I am not quite sure if I understand what you are reporting here. You
installed the Dutch help package, but it installed itself in a folder
named en ??

Please note that you should always install the English manual _and_ the
localized version. That ensures that the help-browser can use the
English manual as a fallback. You could also install other languages as
fallback and use the help-locales gimprc variable to tweak the order
of locales that the help browser tries to use.


Sven


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[Gimp-user] [Offtopic] Design learning

2010-07-16 Thread Bill
There are literally thousands of gimp tutorials out there, many concentrate on
web graphics.

Here's what I'd do.

1. Create your new image using the desired dimensions (make it slightly wider
than you need, you can crop it later)
2. click on the gradient tool. Choose foreground colour white, choose
background colour grey
click and drag the gradient tool from the top of the image to the bottom.
3. Choose green as foreground colour, use the rectangular selection tool to
select a thin line at the top of the image (doesn't matter if you go the edges
of the image) then click EDIT  FILL WITH FG COLOUR
4. Use the same tool to select a second rectangle further down (again it
doesn't matter if your selection goes off the edges), and fill with FG colour
again
5. Then choose white as foreground colour. Click EDIT  STROKE SELECTION -
choose line width of the stroke in pixels, click OK.
6. Now crop your image to size.

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Re: [Gimp-user] [Offtopic] Design learning

2010-07-16 Thread Mike Marchywka









 To: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU
 From: for...@gimpusers.com
 Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:16:15 +0200
 Subject: [Gimp-user] [Offtopic] Design learning

 There are literally thousands of gimp tutorials out there, many concentrate on
 web graphics.

I know I'm hijacking this thread but I've been trying to find the right audience
to ask this question. In the past, web graphics or at least primitive
computer graphics consistented of ASCII characters arranged
in a way which when viewed from a distance created the illusion of 
an image. I was recently browsing through an old disk trying to figure out what
was what and I was using ssh which is text oriented but had no way to figure
out what some images were- if I could just type them out that would have
been a big help even if the result was very crude. Also, there are times when 
you WANT to 
convert an image into a more concise representation ( compression does this)
that captures the perceptually important stuff while tossing out
other detail ( you can imagine issues with image indexing too). 

I guess my question is ,  does anyone know of tools that can convert 
images to ASCII characters, 
say like imagemagick, or does GIMP provide a way to catagorize blocks
of pixels, say based on wavelet coefficients for each block, and convert
an arbitrary image into a smaller block of text, probably limited to
80 character width?


Thanks.





 Here's what I'd do.

 1. Create your new image using the desired dimensions (make it slightly wider
 than you need, you can crop it later)
 2. click on the gradient tool. Choose foreground colour white, choose
 background colour grey
 click and drag the gradient tool from the top of the image to the bottom.
 3. Choose green as foreground colour, use the rectangular selection tool to
 select a thin line at the top of the image (doesn't matter if you go the edges
 of the image) then click EDIT FILL WITH FG COLOUR
 4. Use the same tool to select a second rectangle further down (again it
 doesn't matter if your selection goes off the edges), and fill with FG colour
 again
 5. Then choose white as foreground colour. Click EDIT STROKE SELECTION -
 choose line width of the stroke in pixels, click OK.
 6. Now crop your image to size.

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Re: [Gimp-user] [Offtopic] Design learning

2010-07-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 14:29, Mike Marchywka marchy...@hotmail.com wrote:
 I guess my question is ,  does anyone know of tools that can convert
 images to ASCII characters,

This was the first hit on a google search for images to ASCII characters:
http://asciiconvert.com/

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Re: [Gimp-user] [Offtopic] Design learning

2010-07-16 Thread Mike Marchywka








 Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:45:11 +0300
 Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] [Offtopic] Design learning
 From: dotanco...@gmail.com
 To: marchy...@hotmail.com
 CC: for...@gimpusers.com; gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu

 On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 14:29, Mike Marchywka  wrote:
 I guess my question is ,  does anyone know of tools that can convert
 images to ASCII characters,

 This was the first hit on a google search for images to ASCII characters:
 http://asciiconvert.com/

Thanks,  I didn't  bother to look but I guess I will try that.
That link doesn't obviously have the ability to download an opensource  command 
line utility
but I'll see if others are out there. I think there used to be places that
put picture on T shirts or something by doing this, maybe algorithgms
have gotten betteer now with wavelets LOL.




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