Re: [Gimp-user] Alt Key

2007-12-21 Thread JC Dill
Scott wrote:
 I didn't attack you... yet. You, on the other hand, ARE attacking 
 others here: And why on Earth would you not at least display 
 the actual ratio as the user works? Changing that (as compared 
 to 2.2 which DOES display the current ratio) was just nuts, 
 frankly.

 What should the fact that you thought that was a sensible way of 
 doing it make me think about you?
   
I didn't write either of those quotes.

You are now attacking me based on what others wrote.
 You don't use the GIMP. 
I said I used Gimp in the past.  (The person who wrote the erroneously 
attributed quotes above is a current Gimp user.)

When I used Gimp in the past, I had problems that I was not able to 
overcome, despite reading tutorials, documentation (such as it was), 
googling, and asking for help on this very list.  I'm not a novice at 
using computers - I've been using computers since 1979 (TRS-80 - I wrote 
programs in DOS).  I had experience using PSP, PS, and other image 
editing tools.  I'm an early adopter - yet I was unable to do some 
basic things with Gimp due to the poor design of the program for these 
particular (common) image manipulation tasks.  I gave you my feedback on 
that.  All I have received in reply are attacks.  Not one person on this 
list has said you have a good point, some of the things you have 
mentioned are real problems and we should work on that more (or we are 
working on that now).  The closest anyone has come was a reply from 
Michael (thank you, Michael) referring to the bugzilla thread (going 
back to March, 2001, almost 7 years now) on why it's hard to fix my #1 
stopper problem due to some initial poor design decisions. 
 You attack the developers and attempt to 
 shame anyone here who might attack you, the messenger. You 
 waste other's time. What should all of that make us think about 
 you?

 It leads me to conclude you are a troll with nothing better to 
 do. It leads me to think of you as a jerk.
   
Look in the mirror.  I haven't called you names.  I've given you my 
feedback.  You can't even keep straight who said what, and now you are 
the first to call others names - calling two different people jerks 
because they have been willing to take the time to explain the problems 
they have with the program. 

An intelligent, mature, and humble person would quickly apologize 
profusely for these mistakes.  An arrogant, immature, or unintelligent 
person would be quick to splurt out more excuses, or attack yet again.  
Let's see which approach you take...

jc

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Re: [Gimp-user] Alt Key

2007-12-21 Thread JC Dill
Geoffrey wrote:

 I guess you missed the reference to the fact that ALL the work put 
 into GIMP is done by the developers on their time.

I put in many years as one of the primary list admins for an open source 
project's -users list (similar to gimp-user) and -dev list, organizing 
and adding to the the FAQ, answering questions on both lists, writing 
documentation, submitting bug reports, feature requests, and proposing 
UI improvements.  I'm quite aware of how open source projects are 
developed, and I've paid my dues volunteering.  I have a right to give 
my feedback when I feel an OS project is misguided and has overlooked 
critical aspects of design such as consistent tool use (backwards 
compatible), intuitive UI, and good documentation.

jc
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Re: [Gimp-user] Alt Key

2007-12-20 Thread JC Dill
Thomas Worthington wrote:
 I've just reverted to 2.2
 
 2.4 has too many problems to bother with; the alt key is the final straw.

I've been lurking on this list for several years.  I'd LOVE to be able 
to use Gimp instead of paying the ever increasing price of Photoshop. 
But Gimp is NOT a suitable replacement for Photoshop for most image 
editing professionals and this alt-key problem highlights why.  Gimp 
programmers make capricious changes in the software with total disregard 
for their user community.  They expect that all users are programmers, 
that they can work around bad design decisions, handle bad UI decisions, 
deal with poor documentation, write their own patches, etc.

Gimp will never come into general use until these issues are fixed. 
Firefox is a true competitor to IE because the Firefox development team 
understands these issues and built a product that average computer 
users can easily use.  The Gimp development team should give this 
serious consideration.  It doesn't take a lot of work to fix Gimp - it 
just requires a small change in focus - design the program for 
non-programmers to USE, don't make capricious changes, don't BREAK 
things when you introduce new versions.

Back to lurking...

jc - professional photographer, Photoshop user since v4.0, currently 
using CS3.
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Re: [Gimp-user] Alt Key

2007-12-20 Thread JC Dill
Olivier Lecarme wrote:
 JC Dill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   
 Thomas Worthington wrote:
 
 I've just reverted to 2.2

 2.4 has too many problems to bother with; the alt key is the final straw.
   
 I've been lurking on this list for several years.  I'd LOVE to be able 
 to use Gimp instead of paying the ever increasing price of Photoshop. 
 But Gimp is NOT a suitable replacement for Photoshop for most image 
 editing professionals and this alt-key problem highlights why.  Gimp 
 programmers make capricious changes in the software with total disregard 
 for their user community.  They expect that all users are programmers, 
 that they can work around bad design decisions, handle bad UI decisions, 
 deal with poor documentation, write their own patches, etc.

 Gimp will never come into general use until these issues are fixed. 
 Firefox is a true competitor to IE because the Firefox development team 
 understands these issues and built a product that average computer 
 users can easily use.  The Gimp development team should give this 
 serious consideration.  It doesn't take a lot of work to fix Gimp - it 
 just requires a small change in focus - design the program for 
 non-programmers to USE, don't make capricious changes, don't BREAK 
 things when you introduce new versions.
 

 I generally remain silent in front of so strong statements, but this one
 is too typical. 

 Could you be only a little specific about these capricious changes?
 And what is this alt-key problem? 
   

As was stated in the first post in this thread:

 Is there any way to restore the Alt key to its old usage in 2.4? I can't  
 drag selections anymore because it requires Alt and mouse at the same  
 time, which is a problem on Linux. How do I tell Gimp to use another  
 shift-type key for that action?

The behavior and use of the Alt key changed between 2.2 and 2.4, without 
providing any way for users to select or configure the older behavior in 
Gimp.  That is showing disregard for your established user base.  You 
may have good reasons to decide the new behavior is better but you 
should provide a way (within the software itself) for the user to 
configure the older behavior  (in Gimp) rather than force them to go 
back to a prior version to use the software they way they have been 
using it, or to change how they use the software.  This is basic 
backwards compatibility.

 Note that such comments always come from people calling them
 true professionals, as if anybody else would be simple and stupid
 amateurs...

Now you resort to an ad hominem attack of the messenger instead of 
listening to the message. 

I've seen this happen several times over my years of lurking on this 
list.  I didn't call myself a true professional - I  stated that I'm a 
professional photographer solely to give you context for my comments. 

I'm a typical potential Gimp user.  I tried to use it many years ago 
(when I first joined this list) but it couldn't meet my needs.  I've 
remained interested in Gimp, and stayed on the list to lurk and learn.  
I had hope that someday it would develop into a software product that I 
could use instead of Photoshop.  I provided this background so you would 
understand the context for my comment - not to say I'm in any way better 
or special.  If you want users like me to embrace and use Gimp you must 
consider our needs and comments when you make design decisions.  The 
fact that few outside the programmer community use Gimp shows that you 
are not making inroads into this other possible user base - it's clearly 
because you don't keep these other users in mind when you design the 
program and UI.

A programmer friend (Linux user/programmer, avid open source proponent) 
asked me recently if I thought he should recommend Gimp to another 
friend.  I told him what I'm telling you - it's not suitable for a 
non-programmer, especially when there are other choices (as abound on 
Windows and Mac OSs).  There are a plethora of easier-to-use free 
products (like Irfanview) - if someone needs more tools than those free 
products offer, they are MUCH better off paying for Photoshop or 
Photoshop Elements than dealing with the quirky nature of Gimp and 
subject to the capricious changes that occur as new versions are rolled 
out.  The benefit of saving a few bucks isn't worth the multitude of 
problems - particularly the poor documentation and lack of support.  A 
Photoshop user has thousands of web forums and millions of other PS 
users as resources to learn how to do something in PS.  Try taking any 
PS tutorial (especially one about programming an action) and applying to 
to Gimp.  This is impossible for most users!  So those resources aren't 
available to Gimp users.  I came to this forum because I was trying to 
do something in PS and I was told oh, you can do that in Gimp.   I 
downloaded Gimp, tried to figure it out (and was dismayed at the poor 
documentation) and I came here for help.   I couldn't get Gimp

Re: [Gimp-user] Alt Key

2007-12-20 Thread JC Dill
Sven Neumann wrote:
 Hi,

 On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 11:17 -0800, JC Dill wrote:

   
 I'm a typical potential Gimp user.  I tried to use it many years ago 
 (when I first joined this list) but it couldn't meet my needs.  I've 
 remained interested in Gimp, and stayed on the list to lurk and learn.  
 I had hope that someday it would develop into a software product that I 
 could use instead of Photoshop.  I provided this background so you would 
 understand the context for my comment - not to say I'm in any way better 
 or special.  If you want users like me to embrace and use Gimp you must 
 consider our needs and comments when you make design decisions.  The 
 fact that few outside the programmer community use Gimp shows that you 
 are not making inroads into this other possible user base - it's clearly 
 because you don't keep these other users in mind when you design the 
 program and UI.
 

 I don't know where you get that impression from. 
I get that impression from reading the posts on this list.
 The ongoing redesign of
 the user interface is based on an extensive analysis of user feedback,
 workspace observations and analysis by user interface professionals. Our
 UI team is working on this for more than a year now, spending about
 twenty hours per week. And they are doing this in their free time. We,
 the developers, then pick up their suggestions and spend our free time
 implementing them. It would be nice if you could show some appreciation
 for this work. 
This is the first I heard of this work.  How do you expect someone to 
appreciate something that they haven't heard about?
 There are certainly many things that can be done even
 better. We are just beginning to incorporate the results of the
 usability evaluation that took place.

You admit you are just beginning to incorporate the results of the 
usability evaluation.

I can hardly be expected to know about something that hasn't been 
incorporated, or has just recently been incorporated but not widely 
announced.  As I said - I'm a potential Gimp user.  I tried it several 
years ago, and I am subscribed to this list to stay abreast with the 
changes that are discussed on this list.  I don't currently have it 
installed.  Like millions of other potential Gimp users, I don't have 
time to install and test it every time you release a new version to see 
if it's ready for prime time yet.  Rather than try to convince me it's 
great (while you also admit you are just beginning to incorporate 
needed changes as a result of a usability evaluation), it would be nice 
if you would just admit that it still needs a lot of work, and that you 
will let the user (and potential user) community know when you have 
actually done the work to make it easier to use for non-programmers.

I hope that documentation is high on your list.  This is one of the 
weakest parts of most open source projects.  Something like a browser 
needs little documentation.  Something more complex like a mail reader 
needs more documentation.   It's no coincidence that Firefox has more 
users than Thunderbird - the documentation in Thunderbird is not very 
complete.  Gimp was (the last time I used it) very poorly documented.  
It is very important to document not just new features but also anytime 
you change how a feature works - such as this alt-key issue. 

jc



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Re: [Gimp-user] Alt Key

2007-12-20 Thread JC Dill
Scott wrote:
 On Thursday 20 December 2007 11:17:17 am JC Dill wrote:

   
 Is there any way to restore the Alt key to its old usage in
 2.4? I can't drag selections anymore because it requires Alt
 and mouse at the same time, which is a problem on Linux. How
 do I tell Gimp to use another shift-type key for that
 action?
   
 The behavior and use of the Alt key changed between 2.2 and
 2.4, without providing any way for users to select or
 configure the older behavior in Gimp.  That is showing
 disregard for your established user base.
 

 You already said you are not among that user base, I'm a 
 typical 'potential Gimp user'. Why are you acting all hurt over 
 this change; it doesn't affect you?
   

Oh, but it does.  If you do this type of thing now (and don't see 
anything wrong with it), you can be expected to do it again.  If I start 
with Gimp now, at some point I'll be urged to upgrade to take advantage 
of new features, but then discover that you changed how the program 
works - that old workflows no longer work in the same way. 

 you should provide a way (within the software itself) for the 
 user to configure the older behavior... This is basic backwards
 compatibility.
 

 Backward compatibility is not the holy grail of interface design. 
   
Are you an interface designer, or a programmer?
 If it were, we would all still be using the command-line...

The command line still works - and breaking command line programs when 
an OS is upgraded is one of the biggest problems with OS upgrades.  You 
can put new features over the old (e.g. add a GUI over a command line 
interface), but you shouldn't break old features or old commands when 
you do that.
 The fact that few outside the programmer community
 use Gimp
 

 I don't think this is a given. 
I assert that it's is quite obviously a given - based on the lack of 
widespread adoption of this program and continued strong sales for a 
similar program that costs hundreds of dollars.  Why would people be 
buying Photoshop if Gimp were just as good and just as easy to use?  
Look at the adoption of Firefox when IE is free - if IE costs hundreds 
per computer Firefox would have totally taken over the market by now.  
The only reason IE has the user base it has is because MS gives it away 
for free and embeds it in the OS.  But Photoshop is not given away for 
free, and is not embedded in the OS.  Instead, people pay hundreds of 
dollars - usually every few years for the next version, to buy PS 
instead of using free Gimp.  Clearly there are huge benefits for the 
average (non-programmer) user to stick with PS.
 I, for one, am not a programmer. 
 There is a thriving non-programmer GIMP user community forum at 
 http://gimptalk.com/. GIMP's user base may not be as large as 
 Photoshop's, but it is not a given that it is largely 
 programmers using it. I also personally know at least two 
 professional photographers (they make their living doing 
 photography) who use GIMP for all their digital image processing 
 who are not programmers, either. I had a conversation with one 
 of them less than a month ago. He said that GIMP provides all 
 the necessary tools a professional photographer needs.
   
I don't know of any professional photographer who doesn't use Actions.  
You can't record an action in Gimp - you have to program it.  This 
makes it much harder to use for non-programmers, and makes it impossible 
to use Photoshop Actions recorded by others.

I do know some photographers who use Gimp - they are all programmers, 
all happy to spend their time fiddling with the programming aspects 
rather than having the tool do the hard work (actions) while they do the 
creative work (creative edits).

 You say:
   
 it's not suitable for a non-programmer...
 

 And then:
   
 Try taking any
 PS tutorial (especially one about programming an action) and
 applying to to Gimp.  This is impossible for most users!  So
 those resources aren't available to Gimp users.
 

 Without dwelling on the obvious contradiction in your remarks, 
   
There is no contradiction. 
 GIMP does not attempt to clone Photoshop. I would not expect 
 macros written for any program to work in any other that was not 
 intended to clone that product.
I'm talking about following the concept of creating an action, following 
the ideas in the tutorial.  The concept of here is a way to do a thing 
and here is a way to program your software to do this thing over and 
over automagically is not new in image editing software.  Many methods 
of how to do a thing in PS and Gimp are similar (e.g. how to use a 
given editing tool such as a paintbrush or eraser), but the method for 
doing something over and over is fast and easy in PS (record an action) 
and laborious and complicated in Gimp (script-fu).
  But if you insist, your argument 
 could as easily be turned around and applied to making PS do 
 what a tutorial or macro does in GIMP. Would it be easy to 
 achieve the same

Re: [Gimp-user] Adding a watermark and copyright info...

2006-05-19 Thread JC Dill

Mirageii wrote:

The
copyright (c) symbol is supposed to be Alt+0169, according to Windows
Character Map, but in the GIMP Text Editor box, where you type in your text,
pressing Alt+0169 yields absolutely nothing, no response.  It simply doesn't
work. 


You have to use the numbers on the keypad, not the numbers in the row 
above the letters on your keyboard.  If you are using a laptop, there 
should be a function key that swaps 7,8,9,u,i,o,j,k,l,m (your keypad 
number set might be on different letters) into numbers.  So you have to 
activate the swap function (on my laptop this is fctn+f11), then type 
alt+0169, then turn the swap function off (fctn+f11).


It works fine when you do it that way:  ©

jc

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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimpshop

2006-02-28 Thread JC Dill

Michael Schumacher wrote:

Von: Robert Citek [EMAIL PROTECTED]


But enough trash talk about Gimpshop.  Tell me how wonderful this  
forum is. What makes this forum shine?  


Well, I'd be more happy to answer this if you drop forum and use list
instead. 


fo·rum Pronunciation (fôrm, fr-)
n. pl. fo·rums also fo·ra (fôr, fr)
1.
   a. The public square or marketplace of an ancient Roman city that
  was the assembly place for judicial activity and public business.
   b. A public meeting place for open discussion.
   c. A medium of open discussion or voicing of ideas, such as a
  newspaper or a radio or television program.
2. A public meeting or presentation involving a discussion usually among
   experts and often including audience participation.
3. A court of law; a tribunal.


Robert was apparently using the term forum in the context of 1b  - a 
public meeting place for open discussion.  On the internet, forum is 
frequently used as an umbrella term that collectively refers to the 
different online discussion methods.  Mailing lists (both those with and 
without webpage interfaces), usenet and non-usenet newsgroups, BBSs, web 
forums (in the sense of 1c, a specific medium), Tribe tribes, Orkut 
communities etc. are all forums in the sense that they are all public 
meeting places (on the internet) for open discussion of various topics. 
 So when someone asks you to tell them how wonderful this forum is, 
you can assume they are inviting comparison with all other forums on the 
topic, not just other mailing lists.


The term forum is especially useful for discussion forums that take 
multiple forms at the same time.  Some people see usenet groups as 
newsgroups (read with a news reader) and others see it as this site 
(because they view it thru a web interface  such as google groups, or a 
gateway website).  A similar problem exists for Yahoo Groups which are 
both mailing lists and this site to different users.  The term this 
forum will be correct for all users, where using this newsgroup or 
this list or this site can be confusing for users who don't 
understand the various ways the discussion forum is made available.


jc


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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimpshop

2006-02-28 Thread JC Dill

Michael Schumacher wrote:

JC Dill wrote:


So when someone asks you to tell them how wonderful this forum is,
you can assume they are inviting comparison with all other forums on the
topic, not just other mailing lists.


Well, this is a mailing list. Anyone who uses it via a different access
vector should be aware of this - mailing lists, like newsgroups, have
more formal requirements to the message style than e.g. a web forum.

For example: proper quoting, character encoding, addressing, ...


All of that is irrelevant to the context of how forum was used.  It 
was used as an umbrella term to include this list as well as all 
other lists, forums, usenet groups, etc. that could be compared with 
this list.


jc

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Re: [Gimp-user] gimp fonts in windows

2006-02-09 Thread JC Dill

Vytautas P. wrote:
I assume everybody is keeping track on thread and knows what i'm 
answering.


Sometimes email delivery is congested and delayed, resulting in messages 
received out of order.  Sometimes someone is new to the group and is 
just starting to get the posts in the middle of a discussion.  That's 
why we should always quote the *relevant* part of the prior text in our 
reply, to give context to what we are replying about.


I don't like to scroll way down through all records, 


First, that is an artifact of BAD quoting - quoting all of the prior 
post.  When people ONLY quote the part they are replying to then no 
scrolling should be necessary to get to their reply.


Second, since you are writing this post for *others* to read, you should 
post it in the format that the *others* have said they want it.  That 
means no top posting.


especially on long threads. So no, I will not reply below quoted text. 


So, in other words, you refuse to participate in this group in the 
manner in which everyone else participates in it because of your 
personal (and misguided) belief that in doing so you make things easier 
for yourself, even if it makes things harder for everyone else.  That's 
selfish and rude.


And yes, i'll try to quote only parts i'm answering to. 


If you are willing to do that, why not just go the whole way and stop 
top posting and do it the way the rest of the group does it and the way 
that netiquette specifies is the preferred method?


http://www.cybernothing.org/cno/docs/rfc1855.html

If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting be sure you
summarize the original at the top of the message, or include
just enough text of the original to give a context.

Doing it differently (quoting at the bottom and especially quoting the 
entire post at the bottom) *really* screws up quoting when there are 
nested quotes.


It would be very refreshing if you would reconsider your reasons for 
refusing to cooperate and instead give it a try to do it the way the 
group prefers, the way described in RFC 1855, a system that has worked 
well for over a decade (since 1995).  It would show that A) you aren't 
selfish and rude after all; and B) that you are willing to listen to 
arguments about why your way may not be best for the group as a whole; 
and C) that you DO care about presenting your ideas in a way that makes 
it easier for the others in the group to read them.


Thank you!

jc

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Re: [Gimp-user] Howto write 8 Bit per pixel BMP files with gimp

2006-01-29 Thread JC Dill

John R. Culleton wrote:

On Thursday 21 July 2005 10:26 am, Rainer Lehrig wrote:

I have a software, that only works on Microsoft BMP files
with 8 bits per pixel and 256 colour lookup table.

How can I create such files with gimp.

I already tried Indexed but without success.

Best regards:
Rainer


What is the target program and what does it do? Perhaps there is another
program that will accomplish your objective without the BMP
restriction.  


On Linux systems IMageMagick will convert almost any format to
almost any format but I sense you are not on LInux. 


For Windows users I know you can do this conversion with Irfanview. 
Irfanview can open/read almost any image file.  You can save as windows 
bmp with 8bpp and 256 colors.  If you have a lot of images to convert, 
open Irfanview thumbnails, select the images, then do a batch conversion 
(B).


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Re: [Gimp-user] Question about scaling digital photos for prints

2005-12-08 Thread JC Dill

Tom Williams wrote:
A friend of mine took a bunch of photos using her Vivitar 3.2MP digital 
camera with the camera set at 640x480 resolution.  She wanted 4x6 prints 
of those and printed a bunch that came out looking all pixelated and 
basically like crap.   Since then, we've set her camera back to the max 
resolution since previous photos taken at this resolution printed fine 
as prints.


My question:  is there anyway to use Gimp to scale the 640x480 images so 
they look as best as possible (no pixelation if possible) as 4x6 
prints?  I've scaled the images to 4x6 and have increased pixels per 
inch and have run many filters with no real success.   Or is my friend 
basically stuck with what she has?


You can resize the image up in steps to smooth out the pixelization 
and rough edges as you resize it, but you will never regain the missing 
detail that was not recorded when the photo was taken at such a low 
resolution so the resulting image will be soft.  (Sharpening will help 
some, but not a lot.)


To upsize in steps, increase the image size by no more than 10% (some 
say no more than 5%) at a time until it is at the desired size.  For 
minimum quality 4x6 print you want 150 dpi which means you need 600x900 
pixels (her 480x640 will need to be cropped as it is the wrong 
proportion for a 4x6, which means you need to resize it larger, then 
crop), for better quality you want 300 dpi which means 1200x1800 pixels. 
 Upsizing in 5% increments takes 22 steps to get to ~1200x1800:


480 640
1   504 672
2   529 706
3   556 741
4   583 778
5   613 817
6   643 858
7   675 901
8   709 946
9   745 993
10  782 1042
11  821 1095
12  862 1149
13  905 1207
14  950 1267
15  998 1331
16  10481397
17  11001467
18  11551540
19  12131617
20  12741698
21  13371783
22  14041872


Upsizing in 10% increments takes 11 steps:

480 640
1   528 704
2   581 774
3   639 852
4   703 937
5   773 1031
6   850 1134
7   935 1247
8   10291372
9   11321509
10  12451660
11  13691826

10% goes faster, but only you can tell if the slower method will produce 
an improved result on this particular image.


I'm not presently using gimp (I gave up and returned to photoshop and am 
mostly lurking to see if using gimp is something I should try again in 
the future), so I can't tell you the exact method for resizing but I 
hope that this is something you already know how to do.


jc

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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp

2005-12-05 Thread JC Dill

thegame2119 andrade wrote:
Hi, I am a new user of the Gimp program and have a question about it. 
Hopefully I am asking in the right thing. Anyway, I have used the free 
trials of a number of image programs and one tool I really like is the 
clone brush, yet I can't seem to find one in the Gimp. Is there one? The 
reason I like it is because I like to make graphics and stuff out of 
pictures I get on the web and some of these pictures have stamps or 
something on them depicting the logo of the website I got the picture 
off of and the clone brush is a tool I find most helpful in getting rid 
of the stamp and also making it look like I haven't touched the picture. 


Just because a photo is displayed on the web doesn't mean it is legal to 
take it and use it for your own purposes.  Copyright law exists for a 
purpose.  People who make copyright-protected art can only make a living 
if their copyright is respected.  Stealing their art for your own 
purposes is illegal and rude.  You wouldn't like it if I went into your 
home and took something that belonged to you and used it for my own 
purposes without your permission and without compensating you.  Please 
don't do that to others.


There are SO many works given freely for use that it is not difficult to 
find those works and use them instead.  Or ask the artist for permission.


Removing the copyright imprint and then using the image anyway is a 
serious offense.  If the artist discovers that you have done this and 
sues you, here in the US the law provides for over $100,000 in statutory 
damages for copyright infringement per image.  You can't plead ignorance 
when you have gone thru the effort of removing the copyright imprint on 
the image!  You can be held liable for these damages even when your use 
is non-commercial (for your non-commercial site etc.).


jc
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Re: [Gimp-user] unsubscribing

2005-11-13 Thread JC Dill

Harald wrote:

Hi,

I am sory to mis-use this e-mailadres for it, but I trie to unsubscribe
from this list, but don't succeed because of a error-message again and
again: 


Error: No address given

Wich I GAVE ofcourse. So, what do I do wrong?


What address did you give, your address or the address of the list? 
What address were you mailing to?  What did you put in the subject, 
and/or in the body?  What was the address of the error message you 
received in reply?



Unsubscribing from other mailinglist worked so far without any problem.
Is there perhaps also an other way to unsubscribe?


When viewing the full headers of email you get from this list, one will 
discover:


List-Unsubscribe: 
http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user,

mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

The unsubscribe link only works when you send the email from the exact 
address used to subscribe to the list.


The headers also include:

List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Plus the following is found in the footer of each post from the list:

http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

That page has an unsubscribe form.  Have you tried it?

jc



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