Re: [Gimp-user] Advice
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 21:00:52 -0500, goy genius wrote: > I want to get away from windows but I can't because quite frankly > GIMP is crap and I *need* photoshop. That's easy -- buy a Mac. That way you can both get away from Windows and continue to use Photoshop. Cristi -- Cristian Secară http://www.secarica.ro ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] what does "enter tags" ? (in the new / development version)
On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 16:05:45 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > Thinks of tags as of very small labels that can only contain a word or > two to describe characteristics of something. > > For example tags for an apple could be: round, green, red, tasty. > > You can assign such tags to resources such as brushes so that you > could group e.g. all brushes that share a common feature. For example > you ned only round brushes. So you tag all round brushes as "round" > and then at any time you can enter that tag, and only brushes that > have "round" tag will be displayed. Oh. After several attempts I finally realized that this field works in conjunction with the "find" field. It appears this is not self-explanatory, it should be "assign or remove a tag", or something similar (IMO). Thank you very much, at least I have understand what to search for. Cristi -- Cristian Secară http://www.secarica.ro ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] what does "enter tags" ? (in the new / development version)
I would like to know what is the use of the "enter tags" text box in the default Brushes / Patterns / Gradients panel. Is this new feature described somewhere ? Right now in the drop down list there is already the word "round", if I select it it adds a dot after it and waits for another word. I don't understand a thing (but perhaps I am not familiar with the meaning of the English word "tag"). Thank you, Cristi -- Cristian Secară http://www.secarica.ro ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] how can I change the direction of bevel lightning ?
I need to make some simple rectangle buttons and the Filters -> Decor -> Add Bevel... looks just what I need for. However, it only generates a single direction of the bevel highlight and shadow sides. How can I change the direction of where the light appears to come from ? Cristi -- Cristian Secară http://www.secarica.ro ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Open a file r/o
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:19:29 +0100, Lennart Svensson wrote: > When you start gimp from the promptline you got the Application > Options: -a, --as-newOpen images as new > > Why is this not available (as a button) when you open a file inside > gimp ? If I understand correctly you want to open the same image as the one currently opened, but as separate image ? If this is what I have understand (?) you can open as many same-but-different image by simply drag and drop the image over the toolbox. (opening images by drag and drop is always an easier method for me than to browse for a file via the open dialog each time I want to open something; unfortunately the save by drag and drop is not possible :) Cristi -- Cristian Secară http://www.secarica.ro/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] fuzzy around text
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:09:40 +0100 (CET), bennettjon wrote: > But, we still don't have a good solution to using these images in > Word and converting to PDF without the noise. Of course, it's > possible - I've seen it many times. There must be a process to do > this successfully. Does anyone know how? When I need clean images in a .pdf document (assuming I have clean lossless format images in the source document), I use either of the two: 1. I have Adobe PostScript driver installed as a printer, with which I create .ps files; then I use Adobe Acrobat Distiller 5 (version 5, because this is what I have; don't know about more recent versions) with Settings -> Job Options... -> Compression -> both "color images" and "grayscale images" set to ZIP or 2. I use OpenOffice Writer (or use OO also for MS Word documents if the slightly layout differences are not strict) and create the .pdf with the OO built-in menu command (Scribus is also a good option, but may be a different thing/scope) Otherwise I tried Ghostscript & GSView, or PDFWriter, but I have never been able to find an option to force the creation of a .pdf with images *not* converted to JPEG. Cristi -- Cristian Secară http://www.secarica.ro/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] fuzzy around text
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:41:09 +0100, Tőkés Ábel wrote: > From the behavior of these documents I got to the conclusion that > Word stores all bitmap pictures in a jpg format. This is independent > from the source of the picture (whether it was inserted as a picture > file or just pasted from the clipboard.) So, every time I save the > document, more and more jpeg errors are produced in all pictures. This is not true, or at least not true in just any case. Look at the these two snapshots http://www.secarica.ro/misc/png_test.png http://www.secarica.ro/misc/png_test_word_to_paint.png The png_test_word_to_paint.png is the result of this: I opened a blank Word document (Office 2003) I dragged the file test.png onto it I saved the document without closing I wrote something I closed the document with save I opened the document and wrote something I closed the document with save I opened the document I copied the image in clipboard I opened Paint and pasted the clipboard there I saved the image from Paint as .png Ok, the saved image has fewer colors (so it is no longer the perfect original), but as it looks it has *never* been in JPEG format. Cristi -- Cristian Secară http://www.secarica.ro/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] printing
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 23:05:19 +0100 (CET), jon s. wrote: > I am running windows xp on a nice dell optiplex. I believe the os is > up to date. Just upgrade to ..6.8. Gimp works fine, except that I > cannot print! I open a line drawing, do file, print, and nothing > happens. There must be some setup or plugin I am missing. I have a similar problem with a Konica Minolta 1300 that is set up on network (http port), which happens to be the default one in my system. My workaround, if I *really* need to prin from within GIMP: - in my system there is also PDFCreator installed - I set PDFCreator as the default printer *before* starting GIMP - do whatever in GIMP - print -> PDFCreator -> generating pdf - open the pdf and print to whatever printer In the above case, after the click on "Print..." but just when the printers dialog comes up I select the Konica Minolta printer, the dialog hangs and I have to close it by force, giving a GIMP message about the plug-in "print.exe" which has crashed, blah, blah. Cristi -- Cristian Secară http://www.secarica.ro/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] whan means "tube button" ?
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:06:55 +0100, yahvuu wrote: > the old homepage survived on > http://classic.gimp.org Aha. So the tube is that blue thermometer ? Still, I'm not sure what is the similarity between the claimed "tube" epithet in GIMP menu and the physical generated button. Thank you anyway, Cristi -- Cristian Secară http://www.secarica.ro/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] whan means "tube button" ?
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 12:44:33 +0100, Simon Budig wrote: > > Ok, I go to http://gimp.org. Where are the tubes ? > In the past. The tube on our homepage is long history... :-) If so, then it would be better to remove the particular reference to gimp.org from that tooltips ? Cristi -- Cristian Secară http://www.secarica.ro/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] whan means "tube button" ?
In menu File -> Create -> Web Page Themes -> Classic.Gimp.Org there are several "tube" labels. What means "tube" ? Is this the geometrical object tube ? (like "a hollow cylinder or pipe of metal, glass, rubber, etc.," (Webster Dict.)) What is its alike with gimp.org ? Example from a tooltip: "Create an image of a Tube Button Label using the gimp.org webpage theme". Ok, I go to http://gimp.org. Where are the tubes ? (what should I search for ?) Cristi -- Cristian Secară http://www.secarica.ro/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] chalk type logo creation does something ? (script-fu)
I'm not sure what I should expect to see, but apparently there is nothing to see here. I mean File -> Create -> Logos -> Chalk... -> (all defaults) -> Ok => only an empty (?) blackboard appears. Am I missing something ? Cristi -- Cristian Secară http://www.secarica.ro/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] what is fisheye and what is eyefish ? (flame render plugin)
In the flame filer (Filters -> Render -> Nature -> Flame) the fractal type can be selected from a list. Among several types there are this two: Fisheye Eyefish Are these different things ? In the French translation the first one is "Grand angle" (photo lens type, I assume), while the second is "Oeil de poisson". In Spanish translation the first one is "Ojo de pez", while the second is "Gran angular" (photo lens type, I assume) In German translation the first one is "Fischauge", while the second one is "Augenfish". ?? Thank you, Cristi -- Cristian Secară http://www.secarica.ro/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] JPG file size increases with saving
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:56:40 +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote: > - When saving as JPG with 85% quality am I losing information? Yes, but still with the same 85% quality you may obtain different results by changing other parameters. Just look at the following example. Note the file size for each, but most of all, look at the color quality and the outline of objects (the files are quite small; save them somewhere and look at them by switching forth and back so you can notice the differences). The JPEG were both saved with 85%, but one with subsample for best quality and the other with subsample for minimum file size: http://www.secarica.ro/misc/monopoly.bmp http://www.secarica.ro/misc/monopoly.png http://www.secarica.ro/misc/monopoly_gimp_hi_quality.jpg http://www.secarica.ro/misc/monopoly_gimp_minim_size.jpg Take the .bmp and do further tests with the save options. Cristi -- Cristian Secară http://www.secarica.ro/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] JPG file size increases with saving
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:56:40 +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote: > - Why is PNG so inefficient? PNG is not efficient for real life images (ordinary photos). PNG is very efficient for computer generated images (like a snaphot of a program window, or a relatively simple paint, or vector graphics, or some CAD drawing export), where large areas use exactly the same pixel value from one pixel to the other. Cristi -- Cristian Secară http://www.secarica.ro/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How do I change text color in existing object?
On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 19:51:55 +0930, David Gowers wrote: > Re: the reply-to issue: > [...] OTOH, what exactly do you expect your mailer to do when you > choose 'reply' rather than 'reply to all'? I am expecting to reply to the Reply-To: field, if existing. If not, to the From: field. The GIMP mailing lists misses the Reply-To: field, causing a lot of annoyances and sometimes delays (delays when realising after several hours that my message was sent wrongly to the author instead to the mailing list). For a mailing lists (generally), for me the "Reply to All" is only useful if for some reason I want to reply off-list to the sender, in which case I copy-paste-delete some recipient fields in order to particularize the destination. But this is the exception, not the rule. Long time ago I used a very good mailer program for its time, PMMail, which had a very useful feature: a popup message was triggered in case the From: and Reply-To: was different, asking me to whom I want to actually reply. Unfortunately that program is now dead (and the latest versions lacks UTF-8 encoding as well as threading based on Message-ID). Cristi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How do I change text color in existing object?
On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:40:45 +0100, norman wrote: > May I take this opportunity to add another thing. When replying to an > item always use 'Reply to list' or the equivalent and not 'Reply to > all'. All the GIMP mailing lists have a configuration problem, in that when I reply to a message it goes to the sender and not to the list. After a while when I waiting for my message to appear and obviously it does not, I remember "ough, this is the GIMP list, damn", so I have to redirect the message with the address manually entered. The GIMP lists are the only ones from those where I am subscribed (~15) that behaves in this way. Perhaps because the Sender address includes something with "bounces" and not actually the list address ? I don't know, but it is annoying and annoys the receiver when I first relplay to him and then again to the list. Cristi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How do I change text color in existing object?
On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 16:32:25 +0930, David Gowers wrote: > Yes. If you want to be respectful of the people posting here, to this > mailing list (gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu) , then please stop > using the 'forum' interface on gimpusers.com and instead, genuinely > subscribe to this mailing list. If so, then what is the purpose of the "forum" ? Who has interest that some people can (tehnically) be non-respectful of the people posting here ? (why is not the "forum" simply erased then ?) (I don't know the forum address or where it lies, I only comment the idea) Cristi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] SVG import problem
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:46:51 +0100 (CET), mike510 wrote: > after I have upgraded Gimp to 2.6.4 (Windows), it stopped to inport > SVG files (neither via File -> Open, nor via Paths Dialog - Import > path). In the last case it seems to work but no paths are seen in a > picture, only in path layers dialog. It appears it works fine here. I have done a small garbage (a few lines) in Inkscape, saved as .svg, the opened in GIMP. My garbage was there, over a transparent background. Both via drag & drop and/or via open dialog. For the second test I don't know the steps to reproduce. Cristi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Gimp latest version
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:17:53 -0500, Mark J. Reed wrote: > its not the Gimp team's job to package things. Of course it is not. My comment was related to „the easiest way would be to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10” statement, given as a solution to be able to use a newer version of an application (no matter which). This is something I consider to be exaggerated. Cristi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp latest version
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:08:04 +0100, Claus Cyrny wrote: > I tried this myself, but found it very difficult. IMHO, the easiest > way would be to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10. Then you have all the latest > libraries installed. And then when GIMP goes to 2.7+ will have to upgrade also the OS to Ubuntu 8.20+/whatever ? Cristi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] I don't understand how GIMP treat pasted selection -- something with a floating anchor
I am doing this: - I open an ordinary .jpg file - I choose a selection tool (say, rectangle) - I select some small region - copy (from menu) - paste (from menu) - the pasted selection appears as a "Floating Selection / (Pasted Layer)" - I choose the move tool - I move the pasted layer to my desired location - I choose a selection tool (say, elipse) - I try to select some small region on the base layer (the original image) - while hovering the mouse over the image, the cursor shows an anchor - while clicking to make the new selection, the existing layers are combined into one single layer I don't understand what is this. I just want that after the first paste action the new created layer remain there for ever, even after six or ten thousands other further actions. I only want to combine layers when I give the command to flatten the image. The tooltip over the Undo menu says "Undo Anchor Floating Selection". I can un-anchor the layers, but then it combine back again at next move. How can I paste as a simple layer which can remains as is ? I also noticed that I cannot select the layers with the mouse (in the Layers dock window), but I can move the layer selection with the keyboard up/down keys (but that didn't change anything for me). Which part of the documentation explain this ? (I didn't found this, but maybe I looked wrong). Thank you, Cristi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] plugin or something for broadcast video images ?
I need to handle 4:3 or 16:9 images, all based on 720:576 pixels (D1 or anamorphotic). This means non-square pixel. Is there a plugin available for GIMP to handle such particular format ? (which perhaps can handle also 720:480 or 720:486 for NTSC, etc.) Cristi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] interface language
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:52:58 +0100, denemigen wrote: > Under winXP at the start menu>programmes you can find the 'GTK+ > Runtime Enviroment' folder with an application called 'select > language'. with it you can select your favoured language without a > problem. On my WinXP there is no such thing. The only GTK+ item there is "Theme Selector" which only appears after Pidgin installation (and only works for Pidgin). (on my system at present there are four GTK+ applications: GIMP, GnuCash, Pidgin and Sylpheed) Cristi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Pasting into MS Word from Gimp?
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:06:22 +0100 (CET), Ed S. wrote: > I don't know if this helps, but the Windows XP clipboard viewer > (clipbrd.exe) says that Gimp is offering images of type "DIB Bitmap" > and "Bitmap". It appears there s a problem with the Bitmap format. If I try to view the Bitmap format with the ClipBook Viewer, a message tells me that "ClipBook Viewer cannot display the information in its current format or there is not enough memory to display it. Quit one or more application to increase the available memory, and then try again." As I assume that 2G memory is enough, though, for a 750K image, then it should be a problem with something else. Perhaps Word tries this format in front of other. (and Word is not the single application, the same type of problem occurs when trying to copy and paste to Paint.NET, for example; there it gives either "The image in the clipboard couldn't be recognized. Try re-opening it with the original application that was used to qcquire it", or "There is no usable image in the clipboard") Cristi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] how to add new fonts?
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 05:25:18 -0800 (PST), Akshay Narayan wrote: > i am under the impression that any font in window$ must be detected > by GIMP text tool. unfortunately, it is not happening so. > is there any specific method to add the fonts to gimp? > if so how? Try to use the "Rescan font list" command. (click the font selection button -> click the Open the font selection dialog button at the bottom -> some sort of refresh button appears at the bottom of the opened window) Cristi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Fw: need help 2.6.1 in windows vista
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:25:26 +0200, Francois du Toit wrote: > Those menu options are probably disabled because you haven't opened an > image yet. The "New" menu option disabled before creating a new blank image ? Right now I am on XP (where it works well), will try to make some experiments by the end of the weekend on a Vista test system. Cristi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Keyboard shortcuts not working in Windows Gimp 2.6
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 07:03:38 -0700 (PDT), D.Jones (aka) Capnhud wrote: > In Gimp 2.6 when I open the gimp and try to use keyboard shortcuts in > an empty environment nothing happens. But if I go to the menu item > and select new, recent file, or screenshot it works. It appears to work fine here. I mean I open GIMP, directly press Ctrl+O and the open file dialog comes up (for example). Don't know if I have to test other thing. WindowsXP SP3 here. Cristi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] switch interface language?
On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:37:44 +0200, Rene Veerman wrote: > Is it possible to switch interface languages? I've been fed dutch, > but like english better. You can make a simple *.bat file on the desktop and then click that one instead of the original shortcut. That way you can launch whatever version you need/want. The file should contain these four lines: set lang=en cd c:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\bin start GIMP-2.6.exe exit Cristi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] strange workaround for slow GIMP start (WinXP) (resent)
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:11:19 +0300, Cristian Secară wrote: > > Have you tried starting GIMP twice without Pidgin installed? > Yes, I started it dozen of times, [...] ... other than that, I am not alone – the internet is full of complains about the program lock at fonts cache splash screen (on Windows). Maybe it is related to some particular method or detail used for Win32 compilation (?). Cristi -- Cristian Secară http://www.secarica.ro/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] strange workaround for slow GIMP start (WinXP) (resent)
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:06:08 +0200, Daniel Hornung wrote: > Have you tried starting GIMP twice without Pidgin installed? Yes, I started it dozen of times, because currently I am working at the Romanian translation and during (say) ~1 hour of translation work I start and close the program almost each and every ~10 minutes in order to check my strings. These days I rarely use GIMP for image processing ... Cristi -- Cristian Secară http://www.secarica.ro/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] strange workaround for slow GIMP start (WinXP)
After a system reinstall (HDD change) on my HP nc8230 notebook, GIMP was starting painfully slow, almost bloking itself at Fonts-something startup splash screen. This was something new for me, as in the previous WinXP system install GIMP started almost immediately. Searching a bit I noticed that this happens to be a common issue on many Windows systems, where some have mentioned something about GTK+. This pointed me to the question - what was different in my previous system install related to GTK+ ? Answer - two more GTK+ applications (except for Sylpheed, which does not matter for the subject), Pidgin and GPA. So I installed Pidgin (2.4.2), et voilà, GIMP now starts immediately ! So who knows, maybe this info can be of some help for others too ... (and perhaps for GIMP developers too :) Cristi -- Cristian Secară http://www.secarica.ro/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] strange workaround for slow GIMP start (WinXP) (resent)
(resent message, my original one sent on 24 Jun 2008 21:05:05 +0300 appers it never reaches the gimp-user destination) After a system reinstall (HDD change) on my HP nc8230 notebook, GIMP was starting painfully slow, almost bloking itself at Fonts-something startup splash screen. This was something new for me, as in the previous WinXP system install GIMP started almost immediately. Searching a bit I noticed that this happens to be a common issue on many Windows systems, where some have mentioned something about GTK+. This pointed me to the question - what was different in my previous system install related to GTK+ ? Answer - two more GTK+ applications (except for Sylpheed, which does not matter for the subject), Pidgin and GPA. So I installed Pidgin (2.4.2), et voilà, GIMP now starts immediately ! So who knows, maybe this info can be of some help for others too ... (and perhaps for GIMP developers too :) Cristi -- Cristian Secară http://www.secarica.ro/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] value invert is for luminance only, or can be also other thing ?
In Colors menu there are two invert positions, one is Invert and other in Value invert. For the first invert, the floating help says "Invert the colors". For the second invert, the floatig help says "Invert the brightness of each pixel". My first question is why are the menu names not self-explained. Why is the first only "Invert" and is not "Color invert" ? My second question is what other value things can be inverted other than the luminance pixels. Why is the second "Value invert" and not "Luminance invert" ? Whom else value ? Cristi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] where is Image/Mode/Decompose
On Wed, 28 May 2008 03:27:04 +0200 (CEST), Alchemie foto\grafiche wrote: > 2) this do not seems a question for the developer list will be better > ask to the gimp user list or to some gimp forum as > http://www.gimptalk.com/forum.php ? I have sent that message to the _user_ list. Even the subject has been automatically preceded by [Gimp-user]. Cristi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] where is Image/Mode/Decompose ?
On Tue, 27 May 2008 21:26:51 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > > I followed the tutorial here > > http://www.gimpguru.org/Tutorials/SmartSharpening/ > > and stopped at the "Right-click on the duplicate image and select > > Image/Mode/Decompose.". > > There is no "Decompose" here. > > Image->Colors->Components->Decompose. > You could have used the Plug-In Browser to locate the plug-in in the > menus. >From a "tutorial" I am expecting to learn something. If I have to learn things only from Google or asking other sources, then what is the use of a step-by-step type tutorial ? Other than that, how do I suppose to know that this is a plugin ? From my point of view (as generic user) it may be very well part of the main program. Or everything in GIMP is plugin ? Thank you anyway, Cristi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] where is Image/Mode/Decompose ?
I followed the tutorial here http://www.gimpguru.org/Tutorials/SmartSharpening/ and stopped at the "Right-click on the duplicate image and select Image/Mode/Decompose.". There is no "Decompose" here. What now ? I'm on Win32, GIMP 2.4.5. Cristi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
