[Gimp-user] curving text (text to path?)
Hi folks; Im a new user here so be gentle. A little background: I work for a small engineering firm that designs racing transmission parts. Im comfortable using CAD and other engineering software, but this 20min project has taken up half my day. I need to create a logo, using our existing one. All I wanted to do was add a curved text portion above and below our original logo. It needs to have the same curve top and bottom. Ive played with the text-to-path and I cant get a good looking linear curve over the top of our logo. And, even if I did; I dont know how to match that curve on the bottom rocker so they look similar. I tried the circular text logo template, but I need the text to read RTL on the top curve and the bottom. Someone told me there was an ARC plug-in for CD labels, can I use this on my windows based version of GIMP2? Thanks for your time; Nate -- Nathan H. (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Glib-Error
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 22:43:57 +0200 (CEST), Nathan wrote: Using WinXP SP3. Downloaded and installed gimp-2.6.8-i686-setup.exe. When trying to open it I get GLib-ERROR**:This version of GLib requires NT-based Windows. I have never seen this problem before. How do I get gimp to run on my computer? Looks like you set compatibility mode on gimp-2.6.exe for some reason - right-click it, choose Properties and disable any compatibility settings. How do I get to the Properties if gimp doesn't even open? -- Nathan (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Glib-Error
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 22:43:57 +0200 (CEST), Nathan wrote: Using WinXP SP3. Downloaded and installed gimp-2.6.8-i686-setup.exe. When trying to open it I get GLib-ERROR**:This version of GLib requires NT-based Windows. I have never seen this problem before. How do I get gimp to run on my computer? Looks like you set compatibility mode on gimp-2.6.exe for some reason - right-click it, choose Properties and disable any compatibility settings. How do I get to the Properties if gimp doesn't even open? Never mind I found it! It was set for Windows 95 compatibility. It works fine now. Many thanks, Nathan -- Nathan (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Glib-Error
How do I get to the Properties if gimp doesn't even open? The compatibility settings are not set in gimp itself, it is a windows setting. You right click on the GIMP shortcut, go to properties and set it from there. I found it! It was set to Windows 95 compatibility. Now everything works fine. Many thanks, Nathan -- Nathan (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Glib-Error
Von: Nathan for...@gimpusers.com The compatibility settings are not set in gimp itself, it is a windows setting. You right click on the GIMP shortcut, go to properties and set it from there. I found it! It was set to Windows 95 compatibility. Do you know why it had been set to Windows 95? Michael No idea how it got there. Nathan -- Nathan (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Glib-Error
Using WinXP SP3. Downloaded and installed gimp-2.6.8-i686-setup.exe. When trying to open it I get GLib-ERROR**:This version of GLib requires NT-based Windows. I have never seen this problem before. How do I get gimp to run on my computer? Thanks, Nathan PS. Previously posted to the wrong forum. -- Nathan (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Create web page?
Sorry, you are right. W3C does not own W3Schools. Thanks for that. W3C does only go over the very basics of everything they offer. Which may make it silly. At any rate it is a good starting point and utilizes the W3C standards as a workbench. That was the point I was trying to make. Crap I feel bad that I was wrong. Thanks for correcting me. On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Deniz Dogan deniz.a.m.do...@gmail.comwrote: 2010/1/27 Nathan Lane nathamberl...@gmail.com: I have not hear that. Why would professional developers ridicule the body of computer scientists who work hard to make it possible for them to develop more easily. W3C is the only reason that HTML works on every browser on every operating system. It's the reason we have CSS. Without the W3C JavaScript would still be useless. They also develop the standards for the Internet in general. It's too bad that some developers ridicule they very root reason they have a job or a hobby. W3Schools is a W3C website. I'm not saying *W3C* is a bad thing and I'd doubt any serious web developer would say that either. All I'm saying is that the impression I've gotten from working with other web developers (in real life and on the Internet) is that W3 Schools is silly. I don't know why. W3 Schools is not associated with W3C as far as I know. Why would W3C have lots of ads and banners on any of their websites? -- Deniz Dogan -- Nathan Lane Blog, http://blog.nathandelane.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Create web page?
Just adding my two cents. I just glanced at the TOC of that doc and noticed that a lot of it is out of date. Marquee and Font tags are no longer fully supported, and Framesets are a bad idea (although iframes for certain things are a good idea). Also never use tables to lay your website out. A lot of people still do, but I would not even consider it a poor-man's-layout, rather it is and always has been a terrible idea. Divs were invented specifically for layout of websites. Just a heads up. Tables are however good for displaying tabular data. Just taking a glance around the web, I came across this, http://webdesign.about.com/od/tables/a/aa122605.htm, which goes over what to use tables for and what tabular data is. About.com is always a pretty good source for information, and I trust them on a lot of things. While they don't specialize in much of anything I would take a look. http://www.W3Schools.com has the most up-to-date tutorials on HTML and CSS, which are the two technologies you need to learn to achieve the creation of a decent website, even if it is simple. Nathan On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Claus Cyrny claus.cy...@web.de wrote: bigsk...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/26/2010 11:56 AM, Deniz Dogan wrote: 2010/1/26 Programmer In Trainingp...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us: I use a plain text editor. If you're going to be doing any sort of even half-serious web design, I highly recommend several methods of learning HTML: Read the standard available at:www.w3.org In the very beginning, I used this document as a reference: http://www.lib.tsinghua.edu.cn/chinese/INTERNET/HTML/Table/html_design.html Claus -- Blog http://artificial10.wordpress.com/ Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/claus_01/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Nathan Lane Blog, http://blog.nathandelane.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Create web page?
I have not hear that. Why would professional developers ridicule the body of computer scientists who work hard to make it possible for them to develop more easily. W3C is the only reason that HTML works on every browser on every operating system. It's the reason we have CSS. Without the W3C JavaScript would still be useless. They also develop the standards for the Internet in general. It's too bad that some developers ridicule they very root reason they have a job or a hobby. W3Schools is a W3C website. On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Deniz Dogan deniz.a.m.do...@gmail.comwrote: 2010/1/27 Nathan Lane nathamberl...@gmail.com: http://www.W3Schools.com has the most up-to-date tutorials on HTML and CSS, which are the two technologies you need to learn to achieve the creation of a decent website, even if it is simple. Nathan Lots of professional web developers ridicule W3 Schools often, but it's a good place to find quick (and dirty) information. -- Deniz Dogan -- Nathan Lane Blog, http://blog.nathandelane.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Layer selection using mouse click
I don't believe that you can. For one, generally speaking, GIMP is a raster-based image program and thus does not have the notion of objects. If you don't want to keep going back and forth between the Layers dialog and your image, then another option is to right-click on the image, go to Layer and pick an option. Most of those options also have shortcuts on the keyboard, so you could also utilize those. Nathan On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Peter Rosenberg p.rosenb...@gmx.netwrote: How can I change the layer selection by clicking on the object in the image? ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Nathan Lane Blog, http://blog.nathandelane.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Tutorial gradient question
It was probably not mentioned, but you should just create another layer for the gradient background. On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:08 PM, DJ delphit...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Gimp-user, I was going through this tutorial, and got stumped. http://ajitgraphics.blogspot.com/2008/09/neon-lights-tutorial-gimp.html I have the white outline of the image, but I can't figure out how they did the gradient so the background gets the gradient, but it looks like the white outline was also affected by the gradient. I tried various Modes, among failed attempts. :-( I have: FG: Purple, BG: Green Tool: Blend Tool (FG to BG, Linear) Layer 3: Transparent Background w/white outline. Layer 2: Gradient (not mentioned in the tutorial but was tried by me) Layer 1: Black Background Layer 3 will be duplicated twice, with Layer 4's mode set to Value, and Layer 5 blurred 20 pixels. Any suggestions? Is there another way to get the effect of multiple rough outlines of an image? The tutorial's creator added layers and used Filters Distort Iwarp, repeating that several times. Thank you. -- __ DJ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Blog, http://nathandelane.blogspot.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Are these bugs? Missing/duped menu mnemonics non-working keystrokes (per menus)
Uhm, you can change your mnemonics or keyboard shortcuts Edit Preferences Interface Configure Keyboard Shortcuts... and just take care of it for yourself. There's not really a reason for that to be a bug when it's fully configurable. 2009/5/6 Jernej Simončič jernej.listso...@ena.si On Tue, 05 May 2009 18:36:00 -0700, bgw wrote: In my system, ALT E followed by a letter seems to select an entry whose first character is that letter: Paste, Paste as, and Preferences. IMHO, this should count as a bug - mnemonics should be unique, and every item should have a mnemonic (which isn't necessarily the first letter). -- Jernej Simon+AQ0-i+AQ0- http://eternallybored.org/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Blog, http://nathandelane.blogspot.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Are these bugs? Missing/duped menu mnemonics non-working keystrokes (per menus)
As an update, I don't see that any keyboard shortcuts are set to Alt+E in my keyboard shortcuts default list. Naturally because the Edit menu has the mnemonic E and Alt refers directly to the menu system in Windows (I don't know what OS you are using), I expect Alt+E to open the Edit menu. In the Edit menu, I do see that three items have P underlined, but Alt+P does not affect them, and both Paste and Paste As sub items have their keyboard shortcuts. Preferences does not have a keyboard shortcut listed next to it, but I can just as easily use my arrow buttons or mouse to open that item. I don't understand the complaint fully. 2009/5/6 Nathan Lane nathamberl...@gmail.com Uhm, you can change your mnemonics or keyboard shortcuts Edit Preferences Interface Configure Keyboard Shortcuts... and just take care of it for yourself. There's not really a reason for that to be a bug when it's fully configurable. 2009/5/6 Jernej Simončič jernej.listso...@ena.si On Tue, 05 May 2009 18:36:00 -0700, bgw wrote: In my system, ALT E followed by a letter seems to select an entry whose first character is that letter: Paste, Paste as, and Preferences. IMHO, this should count as a bug - mnemonics should be unique, and every item should have a mnemonic (which isn't necessarily the first letter). -- Jernej Simon+AQ0-i+AQ0- http://eternallybored.org/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Blog, http://nathandelane.blogspot.com -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Blog, http://nathandelane.blogspot.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] select region inside a rectangle
The GIMP Select tools have several modes including an additive mode which allows you to add a selection area to your current selection area, a difference mode which allows you to select the difference of two selections or subtract an area from a current selection (which sounds kind of like what you want, and an intersection mode, which allows to to make one selection, then using the select tool, select an intersecting area and take the intersection of the two selections as the final selection (which also may be what you're looking for). Nathan On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Adrian Dusa dusa.adr...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I'm a Gimp newbie, using it for a long time but at an amateur level. I have the following (hopefully simple) problem: given two rectangles with a common border, is there a way to select the region *inside* one rectangle (to fill it with another color), without affecting the contents of the other rectangle? I attached a .png file just for illustration, I hope attachments are allowed. The problem is of course simplified, in the real problem I have different shapes for each rectangle (but still with comon borders, like in maps). Thanks for any hint, Adrian -- Adrian Dusa Romanian Social Data Archive 1, Schitu Magureanu Bd. 050025 Bucharest sector 5 Romania Tel.:+40 21 3126618 \ +40 21 3120210 / int.101 Fax: +40 21 3158391 ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Blog, http://nathandelane.blogspot.com attachment: Selection Tool Modes - GIMP.png___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Billboards
I don't really see what you're trying to do -- If you download that billboard image, then take another image you want to put in that white space on the billboard, then that is completely trivial. Can you explain more please? Nathan On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Johan Vromans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, You probably know http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/billboard.php . It should be fairly easy to create billboards like this with GIMP. Bottom layer: an arbitrary background. Top layer: the billboard itself, with empty (transparent) contents. Then the billboard image, cropped to the right size, can be inserted between these layers and voila! The crucial part is the image of the billboard. Has anyone already done this, and wants to share? -- Johan ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Blog, http://nathandelane.blogspot.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How to specify printer color profile
What flavor/version of Linux are you using? On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Marco Presi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, reading at the Gimp documentation, I found how to apply soft proof, so that I can preview the printed image. Now, supposing I have a valid printer profile, how do I specify to use a specific profile? when printing? Both the gnome print interface, and the gimp-print interface don't allow me to specify a printer profile (and the rendering intent). I am using Gimp 2.6.2. Thanks Marco ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Blog, http://nathandelane.blogspot.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Making a .gif file transparent
Why don't you 1. Open the GIF image 2. Select the entire image (Ctrl+A) 3. Copy it (Ctrl+C) 4. Right-click on the image, then click on Edit Paste as New Image Now you'll have a non-indexed image which will allow you to add transparency, after you're done, 5. Select the entire image (Ctrl+A) 6. Copy it (Ctrl+C) 7. Paste it onto the image you want to watermark (Ctrl+V), then you can move it around to where you want and then click off of the selection to set it One thin about the image you're pasting it onto is that if it is a GIF, then you might experience transparency problems there also. Two things a) I never use GIF images where I can use PNG images, and 2) GIF images are always indexed, which means you're limited to whatever colors are in the index, so you can't really paste another image onto a GIF image and expect it to work On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nathan, It's an image we created for our website to protect photos sent to us for display by watermarking them and I've tried layering and adding an alpha layer to no avail. I am clueless as to the ins and outs of imaging software and GIMP is the program we use. I've searched the tutorials to no avail. Gene On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:36:41 -0700, Nathan Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gene, maybe you could help us out by telling us the steps you took previously to create transparent areas on the GIF image you are talking about. Also, are you using a GIF image that you created or that you downloaded from somewhere? Nathan On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 7:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just beginning to use GIMP and I am baffled about how to properly transform a .gif file to make it appear transparent when I subsequently add it to a photo. Each method I have tried still has a solid image that blocks out the original photo. Thanks in advance. Gene ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Blog, http://nathandelane.blogspot.com -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Blog, http://nathandelane.blogspot.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Question about Gimp 2.6.1 on Ubuntu Linux
Go to Edit Preferences, select Window Management, change the Hints for the Toolbox and Docks to Normal Window. On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Tom Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running Gimp 2.6.1 on Ubuntu 8.10 (64-bit) and I've noticed when I load an image, the image window stays behind the toolbox and the layers window all the time. I didn't see a preference where I could control always on top behavior. This makes it challenging for me to work with images. Is there anything I can do about this? Thanks! Peace... Tom ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Blog, http://nathandelane.blogspot.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Making a .gif file transparent
Hi Gene, maybe you could help us out by telling us the steps you took previously to create transparent areas on the GIF image you are talking about. Also, are you using a GIF image that you created or that you downloaded from somewhere? Nathan On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 7:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just beginning to use GIMP and I am baffled about how to properly transform a .gif file to make it appear transparent when I subsequently add it to a photo. Each method I have tried still has a solid image that blocks out the original photo. Thanks in advance. Gene ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Blog, http://nathandelane.blogspot.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] stroke selection not antialiased
Well now that really makes sense -- that might be a good wiki addition. So I believe that this tool is working both as designed and as expected -- antialias does do its job when you fill a selection though. :) And basically it can't do it's job as a rule when you stroke a selection. On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:30 AM, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 17:54 +1030, David Gowers wrote: I can confirm this bug. If you stroke using a tool (eg paintbrush), the result is antialiased, so I don't understand why the vector stroking isn't Simon has actually explained this quite well already. The outline you are stroking is the selection border. Since the selection is a mask it consists of pixels. So the selection border runs along pixel edges and thus consists of only horizontal and vertical segments. Zoom in and look at the marching ants. Now if you stroke this, you get the expected result. Stroking with the paint tool is implemented by stamping the brush in regular intervals along the path you are stroking. This eliminates the problem somewhat as the stroking does not closely follow the selection border on its way along the pixel edges. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Blog, http://nathandelane.blogspot.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] stroke selection not antialiased
So why not convert your selection to a path then stroke the path? This is a good work around, and even in my mind now, this makes sense. The stroked path is antialiased. Nathan On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:04 AM, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 18:14 -0400, Ernie Wright wrote: Does something the user does not expect is the definition of a design flaw It's more like technically it does the right thing, but the user expects a different result. Unfortunately there is often no clear solution for these kind of problems. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Blog, http://nathandelane.blogspot.com attachment: antialiasedpathaliasedselection.png___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] croping an image
What tutorial are you using to crop your image? Can you give me a link or URL to it? Here is the method that I use to crop an image (by crop I assume you mean remove parts of the image and resize/reshape the image to the part that you kept.) 1. Click on the selection tool of your choice. 2. Select an area on your image that you would like to crop the image down to. 3. Copy the part of the image you are keeping by pressing Ctrl+C or using the Edit menu (then click on Copy) 4. Right click on the image and go to the Edit menu again, then click on Paste as New Image Now you will have the cropped image in a new frame and you can save it. I don't think that I've ever used any cropping tools or scripts in the GIMP, so I don't really know about them. In my mind though, the ideal should be: Do things the simplest way that you can possibly think of. Hope that helps, and if you could tell me more about the tutorial you are using, then I might be able to help more. Nathan Hello I am following the help instructions to crop an image, i do everything fine until it says, a little crop and resize information dialog box pops up, telling you information about the borders that where defined, but i do not get this when i have croped the image When i do press the help button, and go to crop an image i do not get this box coming up , as it shows you on the help page. I am a complete beginner and probably doing something wrong can anyone help windows xp, gimp 2.6.0 -- Nathan L. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] using gimp on windows xp
Terry, They have simplified GIMP, which is probably why you don't see Copy to Clipboard in the Edit menu anymore -- now simply copying should copy the contents to the clipboard. If you are using Windows or Linux, then Ctrl+C will copy your image to the clipboard. I'm not sure about the keyboard shortcut to copy on Mac, but Edit Copy will do the trick. Simplication of the tool means removing some unused or redundant features, and combining features that should go together. By combining simple copy and copy to clipboard, into simply copy they have made this MUCH easier to use in my opinion. Nathan Hi Carl, I am copying you what I have sent to a number of people and I hope you have more assistance than I have had..yesterday I got 42 Emails from GIMP users, (176 Emails in all so far) NON OF WHICH, HELPED ME IN ANY WAY AT ALL...read on Carl. Hi Carl, I am also a relative beginner and I don't go into these layers and stuff but I am about to give up on this latest, (almost) edition of GIMP, I used the older (2yrs) version of GIMP and was ok for what I needed. I certainly am nowhere near an expert but managed ok for what I needed, all I was asking was for someone to help me with, 'copy to clip board'with the older version I could click on edit and scroll down to where it said, 'copy to clipboard' and from there I could use it in my story, (I record processes where I work) but with this latest version when I click edit and scroll down there is no 'copy to clipboard' can you put some light on this for me...? cheers,Terry Moss (here in Durban SA) - Original Message --- -- Nathan L. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] croping an image
Crop to Selection is located in the Image menu by the way. Nathan You can crop an image without copy/paste anything, just right-click on your selection and choose Crop to Selection and voila. Regards malefico. Nathan L. wrote: What tutorial are you using to crop your image? Can you give me a link or URL to it? Here is the method that I use to crop an image (by crop I assume you mean remove parts of the image and resize/reshape the image to the part that you kept.) 1. Click on the selection tool of your choice. 2. Select an area on your image that you would like to crop the image down to. 3. Copy the part of the image you are keeping by pressing Ctrl+C or using the Edit menu (then click on Copy) 4. Right click on the image and go to the Edit menu again, then click on Paste as New Image Now you will have the cropped image in a new frame and you can save it. I don't think that I've ever used any cropping tools or scripts in the GIMP, so I don't really know about them. In my mind though, the ideal should be: Do things the simplest way that you can possibly think of. Hope that helps, and if you could tell me more about the tutorial you are using, then I might be able to help more. Nathan Hello I am following the help instructions to crop an image, i do everything fine until it says, a little crop and resize information dialog box pops up, telling you information about the borders that where defined, but i do not get this when i have croped the image When i do press the help button, and go to crop an image i do not get this box coming up , as it shows you on the help page. I am a complete beginner and probably doing something wrong can anyone help windows xp, gimp 2.6.0 -- Nathan L. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] using gimp on windows xp
Yes go right ahead. I suspect that many users including myself use GIMP on Windows XP. Nathan On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 5:51 AM, carl r. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello I am a complete beginner, and have just downloaded gimp 2.6.0 And have just found this forum, is it ok to post questions using gimp on windows xp thanks -- carl r. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Blog, http://nathandelane.blogspot.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Saving individual layers
You could make each layer the only visible layer then save the file out and only one layer will be saved out to a file. On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 2:37 PM, scott s. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using the Microsoft Office scanning software. It has the capability of saving scans in tiff format. There must be some provision in tiff that allows multiple images (pages) to be saved in a single tiff format file. Gimp 2.4 (Win XP) tiff reader understands this format, opens the file and asks if it should open each page as image or as layers. Opening as layers allows single operations to apply on all pages, making work easier. The problem is there doesn't seem to be any way to print without flattening (all you get is the top layer of course) or to save the result, keeping the layers, in some format that another program can read. What I would like is something that could convert layers to images at least. scott s. . ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Blog, http://nathandelane.blogspot.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] introducing gimpgallery
Not to say that this isn't a great idea, actually it's a wonderful idea! But why don't we just use the forums and sites already available, like DeviantArt (http://the-gimp.deviantart.com/gallery/) or GIMPTalk ( http://www.gimptalk.com)? If they need to be redone, or revamped, let's get with the developers and do it. Or is there another good reason why you created this site? Just wondering. Nathan Lane On 5/5/08, davide|gimpgallery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *What is gimpgallery?--* gimpgallery is a website made for the gimp users communities from all over the world, to give them a special place to store and share images, animations, drawings, videos made with the best open-source software for raster graphic. It is a complete suite providing everything we need to make our graphics shine in a dynamic website and to share our thoughts, projects, ideas starting from or leading to the gimp. *---Where is it?* gimpgallery isn't officially online, you find a splash page at http://gimpgallery.net But the reason we keep it in a test environment is that we need to populate it with your images, animations, graphics. this is why we are introducing it in the gimp communities to make people see it and start using it. You find the whole website at http://test.gimpgallery.net It is totally usable, you are invited to register, to post graphics, to look around because we have to debug it too and we only need to complete some sections. The images you see right now on the website, as well as the forum topics and the comments are taken from inkscapegallery (http://inkscapegallery.net) and there's only one user (that is me...) just to show the way gimpgallery will look when it will be populated. * Why did you do this?--* Because we have many resources in the web about gimp, we may find many tutorials, many single galleries and many communities talking about gimp and using it. But we miss a website especially meant to collect our graphics, images in a gallery website where to look happily about how many people is using the gimp just for fun, for arts and why not, even for work purposes. We couldn't tell anyone where to go to see what gimp can do, but primarily what people already do with this software. Now we will. We know GUG as the biggest gimp graphics archive and we hope to host as many images they do and maybe more... *Is it for everyone or just an elite?* It is made for the communities and for any gimp user, everyone can publish images right after registering on the website. But it is not only meant for artists because many people do know gimp without using it actually; we would like to bring them on the website, suggesting to give gimp a try...maybe they will be the best designers some day. Everyone can participate, even not only posting images but writing comments, voting or asking question in the forums *-Forums? So this is not only an image gallery website!--* gimp gallery is a big community website, it provides a powerful images and video handling but it holds more than this. You see forums, a tutorial section, a gimp presentation, links to download it, private messages for registered users, a personal section for any single artist. So our focus is on images and galleries 'cause these were missing in the gimp communities, but gimpgallery gives you some of the features you may find on gimpusers, gimptalk, meetthegimp and others, in a secondary goal. These are fantastic websites and we only wanted to fill the gap they have about users images upload and galleries. We wanted to make gimpgallery as good as we could; as good as the software we used was able to. *So tell us, which software?--* gimp gallery is made with drupal, an open-source cms, we knew it quite well and we do better now after working hardly on it. It is a great cms, even though it is not still perfect, we tried to make it work the best it could, now you decide if we did in a good way! *it is a deja-vu or i'm remembering another gallery website?---* Probably you went to visit inkscape gallery, the first step of this project to give the open source graphic softwares communities the best place to show what they can do, as well as their users. We had a good starting point, we took inkscape gallery and we started working to suit drupal to another software like gimp, with different needs to improve it. At the beginning we planned just to change layout and something bare like the source files upload and something else. but then we realized that we had something more to do and gimp gallery is quite different from inkscape gallery. It shares its heart but it has its own features, its own personality. * --what is new in gimp gallery?-* There are many new features, especially about content organization. But there's something we chose to put
Re: [Gimp-user] Things GIMP do not have, or I do not know if have
Yep, Lap, All of these tools/capabilities are already part of GIMP. Ensure that you have the latest version, but most of these have been there from the start. Nathan On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Michael J. Hammel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 09:47 -0300, Lap1994 wrote: A ellipse tool to draw ellipse, as a rectangle tool to draw rectangle, and a polygon tool to draw ah, you know. You do this by stroking selections. The Rectangular and Elliptical selections will cover the first two, and the Paths tool (converted to a selection) will cover the latter. On the other hand, I once wrote a plugin (GFXShapes) for creating a number of basic shapes. It was part of a set of plugins I called the Graphics Muse tools. It's written for GIMP 2.2 but it works (as far as I can tell) under GIMP 2.4. You can grab a copy of the source code from my web site: http://www.ximba.org/sw/gfxmuse/GFXMuseTools-3.0.0B2.tar.gz The web site with docs is: http://www.ximba.org/gfxmuse/gfxmuse.html Not to mention GFig, which draws lots of shapes for you: Filters-Render-GFig. A method to draw text using a system like boards systems to change text properties, font, style, size stuff. Like using bbold here!/b GIMP doesn't do that currently. I'd cringe at adding it to the core system since I consider that feature-creep. But providing the right API for a plugin to handle it would be a nice addition. A way to draw curves. Use the Paths tool. Click once to drop an endpoint to the curve. Click again to drop the second. In the Tool Options, switch to Edit mode and then click on each end point and drag out to get an anchor point to adjust the shape of the curve. Then use Stoke Path in the Tool Options. A way to deny modifications in a layer, and a way to change this property That would be nice. GIMP currently does not suppor this in 2.4. A method to organize layers. A plugin could do that pretty easily. Define organize. Remember that you can drag layers up and down the stack in the Layers dialog. You can align layers using the Alignment Tool from the toolbox. GFXLayers in my Graphics Muse Tools also does this though I think the Alignment tool is probably a simpler to use interface. A method to assign a same mask to various layer modifying one mask Not sure what you mean here, but you can copy and paste masks. You can't link a single mask to multiple layers, however. Linking masks to multiple layers might be a nice feature. A gradient color with more colors. Like Flash where you can set more than two colors in a gradient. You can set as many colors as you want in gradients. Use the gradient editor (New gradient button the Gradients dialog). I key shortcut to stop drawing layer outline You can dynamically set keyboard shortcuts for any menu item that does not already have one: File-Keyboard Shortcuts (from the Toolbox menus). Find your item, click on it and then type the keyboard shortcut. For example, change View-Show Layer Boundary to use Ctrl-? (re: Ctrl-Shift-/) you just find View-Show Layer Boundary in the Configure Keyboard Shortcuts dialog, click on it and then type Ctrl-Shift-/. -- Michael J. HammelPrincipal Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://graphics-muse.org -- The time it will take before the breadth of human knowledge is available on the Internet is precisely inverse to the amount of time it took to remove it from cable television. -- Michael J. Hammel ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Blog, http://nathandelane.blogspot.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] JavaScript
You would either need to learn Script-Fu, Python, or C/C++ and learn how to integrate into the GIMP api. I have a couple of questions, first, why are you using slicing for your HTML projects when CSS handles the sorts of things you can do with slicing in a much more logical and browser-friendly manner, and second, the javascript to do this isn't very hard to learn. If you'd like I can bring you by (teach you). What is it that you are trying to do, menus? Anyway, there are open source/free tools that also enable you in the way of web site creation, that are similar to Adobe Dreamweaver, for example, Amaya, Quanta Plus, and NVU. But seriously, I can help you learn or this website, http://quirksmode.org/, can help you learn how to do cross-browser javascript easily. If you decide to go the CSS route, things like image flipping for buttons becomes a ton easier also. Just let me know off-list if you want help learning that stuff. On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Jan Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all humans, I have been using GIMP for webdesign but have to write all the JavaScript by hand in Gedit the Linux text editor. Since the slice tool and imagemap tool export some HTML tables and JavaScript, I think it would be nice if GIMP somehow included JavaScript or CSS templates and it's own text editor console sort of like the python console it has for editing plugins. Somehow the script templates could automatically be included into the slice HTML exported file. Is this feasible? Also, I have limited programming knowledge. Does anyone know what it might take to program this into GIMP. I will try to do it myself but need some hints. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Blog, http://nathandelane.blogspot.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] JavaScript
It's not really integrated with any text editor, and it itself is not a web design tool, even though it has slicing capabilities. On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Jan Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I know CSS is better but I took a JavaScript class and have been messing around with it under Linux. I have a Virtual Machine of windows I sometimes run with Fireworks, Dreamweaver, and Flash (8). I'm trying to get away from these and found in Linux that the best way is to write the code myself and use GIMP or Inkscape to do more vector based work. I was just curious of ways that GIMP might become more integrated with say some sort of text editor and include script templates (also CSS). I'm taking an XHTML/CCS class soon. I will check out Amaya and Quantaplus. I already have NVU/Kompozer. I prefer a plain text editor over Kompozer. Thanks On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Nathan Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You would either need to learn Script-Fu, Python, or C/C++ and learn how to integrate into the GIMP api. I have a couple of questions, first, why are you using slicing for your HTML projects when CSS handles the sorts of things you can do with slicing in a much more logical and browser-friendly manner, and second, the javascript to do this isn't very hard to learn. If you'd like I can bring you by (teach you). What is it that you are trying to do, menus? Anyway, there are open source/free tools that also enable you in the way of web site creation, that are similar to Adobe Dreamweaver, for example, Amaya, Quanta Plus, and NVU. But seriously, I can help you learn or this website, http://quirksmode.org/, can help you learn how to do cross-browser javascript easily. If you decide to go the CSS route, things like image flipping for buttons becomes a ton easier also. Just let me know off-list if you want help learning that stuff. On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Jan Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all humans, I have been using GIMP for webdesign but have to write all the JavaScript by hand in Gedit the Linux text editor. Since the slice tool and imagemap tool export some HTML tables and JavaScript, I think it would be nice if GIMP somehow included JavaScript or CSS templates and it's own text editor console sort of like the python console it has for editing plugins. Somehow the script templates could automatically be included into the slice HTML exported file. Is this feasible? Also, I have limited programming knowledge. Does anyone know what it might take to program this into GIMP. I will try to do it myself but need some hints. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Blog, http://nathandelane.blogspot.com -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Blog, http://nathandelane.blogspot.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] JavaScript
Also writing the javascript, html, and css yourself ensures that you don't succumb to any html/css/javascript bugs that might be found in those dreamweaver-like tools because they tend not to be perfect like coding everything yourself. On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Nathan Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not really integrated with any text editor, and it itself is not a web design tool, even though it has slicing capabilities. On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Jan Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I know CSS is better but I took a JavaScript class and have been messing around with it under Linux. I have a Virtual Machine of windows I sometimes run with Fireworks, Dreamweaver, and Flash (8). I'm trying to get away from these and found in Linux that the best way is to write the code myself and use GIMP or Inkscape to do more vector based work. I was just curious of ways that GIMP might become more integrated with say some sort of text editor and include script templates (also CSS). I'm taking an XHTML/CCS class soon. I will check out Amaya and Quantaplus. I already have NVU/Kompozer. I prefer a plain text editor over Kompozer. Thanks On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Nathan Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You would either need to learn Script-Fu, Python, or C/C++ and learn how to integrate into the GIMP api. I have a couple of questions, first, why are you using slicing for your HTML projects when CSS handles the sorts of things you can do with slicing in a much more logical and browser-friendly manner, and second, the javascript to do this isn't very hard to learn. If you'd like I can bring you by (teach you). What is it that you are trying to do, menus? Anyway, there are open source/free tools that also enable you in the way of web site creation, that are similar to Adobe Dreamweaver, for example, Amaya, Quanta Plus, and NVU. But seriously, I can help you learn or this website, http://quirksmode.org/, can help you learn how to do cross-browser javascript easily. If you decide to go the CSS route, things like image flipping for buttons becomes a ton easier also. Just let me know off-list if you want help learning that stuff. On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Jan Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all humans, I have been using GIMP for webdesign but have to write all the JavaScript by hand in Gedit the Linux text editor. Since the slice tool and imagemap tool export some HTML tables and JavaScript, I think it would be nice if GIMP somehow included JavaScript or CSS templates and it's own text editor console sort of like the python console it has for editing plugins. Somehow the script templates could automatically be included into the slice HTML exported file. Is this feasible? Also, I have limited programming knowledge. Does anyone know what it might take to program this into GIMP. I will try to do it myself but need some hints. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Blog, http://nathandelane.blogspot.com -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Blog, http://nathandelane.blogspot.com -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Blog, http://nathandelane.blogspot.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] JavaScript
Yeah, GIMP doesn't really have all of the strong slicing features that other programs have, but I suspect that they will begin moving away from slicing paradigms as the default because CSS is more widely and fully supported. For example, rather than slicing your background image, you can place it in different positions in a div using CSS. This is much cleaner and has better support because divs were made for web layout and tables were not. GIMP is not only the best open source tool on the market for imaging, but also the most versatile, and if it doesn't have something that you want, then the nice thing is that you can program it, but for what you want to do, I don't think it is worth the effort to program the plugins, simply because tables are not the layout standard for the web anymore. That's just my opinion of course. Nathan On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Jan Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just wondering because GIMP is quite good in many aspects that it could replace many windows programs, on the other hand there is another program called Pixel which isnt freeware that is good for webdesign. Still, I wasnt entirely pleased with the DEMO and would just as well use the GIMP for web design even if I have to code the pages myself. One thing I really miss from Fireworks though is the behavioral slices which are like transparent rectangles that can be placed over an image and optimized with JavaScript behaviors and exported as HTML, though as you mentioned the code this produces looks kind of bizarre and overtly complex. On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Nathan Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also writing the javascript, html, and css yourself ensures that you don't succumb to any html/css/javascript bugs that might be found in those dreamweaver-like tools because they tend not to be perfect like coding everything yourself. On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Nathan Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not really integrated with any text editor, and it itself is not a web design tool, even though it has slicing capabilities. On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Jan Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I know CSS is better but I took a JavaScript class and have been messing around with it under Linux. I have a Virtual Machine of windows I sometimes run with Fireworks, Dreamweaver, and Flash (8). I'm trying to get away from these and found in Linux that the best way is to write the code myself and use GIMP or Inkscape to do more vector based work. I was just curious of ways that GIMP might become more integrated with say some sort of text editor and include script templates (also CSS). I'm taking an XHTML/CCS class soon. I will check out Amaya and Quantaplus. I already have NVU/Kompozer. I prefer a plain text editor over Kompozer. Thanks On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Nathan Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You would either need to learn Script-Fu, Python, or C/C++ and learn how to integrate into the GIMP api. I have a couple of questions, first, why are you using slicing for your HTML projects when CSS handles the sorts of things you can do with slicing in a much more logical and browser-friendly manner, and second, the javascript to do this isn't very hard to learn. If you'd like I can bring you by (teach you). What is it that you are trying to do, menus? Anyway, there are open source/free tools that also enable you in the way of web site creation, that are similar to Adobe Dreamweaver, for example, Amaya, Quanta Plus, and NVU. But seriously, I can help you learn or this website, http://quirksmode.org/, can help you learn how to do cross-browser javascript easily. If you decide to go the CSS route, things like image flipping for buttons becomes a ton easier also. Just let me know off-list if you want help learning that stuff. On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Jan Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all humans, I have been using GIMP for webdesign but have to write all the JavaScript by hand in Gedit the Linux text editor. Since the slice tool and imagemap tool export some HTML tables and JavaScript, I think it would be nice if GIMP somehow included JavaScript or CSS templates and it's own text editor console sort of like the python console it has for editing plugins. Somehow the script templates could automatically be included into the slice HTML exported file. Is this feasible? Also, I have limited programming knowledge. Does anyone know what it might take to program this into GIMP. I will try to do it myself but need some hints. ___ Gimp-user mailing
Re: [Gimp-user] black white
Last attempt... ...of course between the layers that GIMP has and the Channels, I'm sure that it is not impossible to emulate adjustment layers. You should note that each layer in the GIMP is fully functional. Some things you can do with them include applying a filter, like dodge, burn, multiply, or overlay, which works non-destructively on the entire layer. I'm guessing from your response, Norman, that none of us were answering correctly, that I didn't look at the Photoshop tutorial very well that you referenced in your original question. Looking at the tutorial more closely, here is what I'd suggest resembles the tutorial in your first post, but it requires two less layers than the four given in the tutorial for Photoshop: 1. Load the photo in question 2. Duplicate the Background layer by clicking on the Duplicate (or copy layer) button in the Layers dialog 3. Click on the Background Copy layer in the Layers dialog 4. Adjust the Mode for this layer by clicking on the Mode drop-down box and selecting Hue (near the bottom) 5. Right-click on the image 6. Select Colors Hue-Saturation... 7. In the Hue-Saturation dialog, move the Saturation slider down (in a negative direction) until you get the black and white levels you desire. That's as close as I can get to the same thing. In my opinion the GIMP's is much more straight-forward - namely have filters on discrete layers, rather than Photoshop's having a filter stack. Nathan I attached a zip archive containing the three images I worked on using the technique described above. And a fourth that is only slightly desaturated. I couldn't get these to you, so here are some links to them - they are GIMP 2.4 XCF files, so you'll see all of the layers and such when you load them in GIMP: http://www.mediafire.com/?j0gdzitgg2y http://www.mediafire.com/?xgaipryzm31 http://www.mediafire.com/?pgywazmwgeo http://www.mediafire.com/?dgzi99gmjos The original stock photograph used is attributed here: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/981014 Daniel Hornung said: There are no such things as adjustment layers in GIMP... -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Mirror, http://nathandelane.awardspace.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Re-hue-ing a graphic
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Nathan Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, here are the steps I followed to do what I think you are trying to do. 1. Load you image 2. Using the dropper tool, click on the color on the image the was the old text color 3. Click on the Color in the Gimp Toolbox to open the color chooser 4. Note the H value (Hue at the top right of the color chooser) 5. Now type the hex value of the new text color into the text field on the color chooser 6. Note the H value (Hue) again 7. Subtract the old H-value from the new H-value 8. If the result is positive, subtract that amount from the Hue in the Hue-Saturation dialog under Colors, if it is negative, add that amount to the Hue in the Hue-Saturation dialog. Tell me if you get lost of have any questions - it kinda makes sense, really. Nathan ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Re-hue-ing a graphic
I might have gotten the add/subtract part mixed up in number 8, if so, it'll be obvious, just cancel and reverse the operation. On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Nathan Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Nathan Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, here are the steps I followed to do what I think you are trying to do. 1. Load you image 2. Using the dropper tool, click on the color on the image the was the old text color 3. Click on the Color in the Gimp Toolbox to open the color chooser 4. Note the H value (Hue at the top right of the color chooser) 5. Now type the hex value of the new text color into the text field on the color chooser 6. Note the H value (Hue) again 7. Subtract the old H-value from the new H-value 8. If the result is positive, subtract that amount from the Hue in the Hue-Saturation dialog under Colors, if it is negative, add that amount to the Hue in the Hue-Saturation dialog. Tell me if you get lost of have any questions - it kinda makes sense, really. Nathan -- Nathan Lane Home, http://www.nathandelane.com Mirror, http://nathandelane.awardspace.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Re: gimp-by-color-select trouble
If I change the last parameter to gimp-by-color-select (sample-merged) to false, then it works. Now if I can figure out how to put all the hair that I pulled out back in, I'll be in good shape. /Nathan. On Thursday 11 April 2002 11:43 am, Nathan Hackett wrote: I am writting a script-fu that uses the gimp-by-color-select function. The trouble I am having is that the function only works the way that I expect when the drawable that I pass to it has an open display. If the drawable has no open display then the result is that it selects the entire image, not just the color that I want. Example - The following script works as predicted: (define (redglow inImage inLayer) (let* ( ; define local vars ( (thePaste) (bounds) (x) (y) ) ; the script (gimp-by-color-select inLayer '(255 255 80) 60 2 1 0 0 1) (set! bounds (gimp-selection-bounds inImage)) (set! x (cadr bounds)) (set! y (caddr bounds)) (gimp-edit-copy inLayer) (gimp-selection-grow inImage 2) (gimp-selection-feather inImage 4) (gimp-palette-set-background '(255 80 255)) (gimp-edit-fill inLayer 1) (set! thePaste (car(gimp-edit-paste inLayer 0))) (gimp-layer-set-offsets thePaste x y) (gimp-floating-sel-anchor thePaste) ) ) However, the following script does not produce the same result: (define (redglow inImage inLayer) (let* ( ; define local vars (theImage (car (file-png-load 0 buttons/n_button_0_2.png buttons/n_button_0_2.png))) (theLayer (aref (cadr (gimp-image-get-layers theImage)) 0) ) (thePaste) (bounds) (x) (y) ) ; do it (gimp-by-color-select theLayer '(255 255 80) 60 2 1 0 0 1) (set! bounds (gimp-selection-bounds theImage)) (set! x (cadr bounds)) (set! y (caddr bounds)) (gimp-edit-copy theLayer) (gimp-selection-grow theImage 2) (gimp-selection-feather theImage 4) (gimp-palette-set-background '(255 80 255)) (gimp-edit-fill theLayer 1) (set! thePaste (car(gimp-edit-paste theLayer 0))) (gimp-layer-set-offsets thePaste x y) (gimp-floating-sel-anchor thePaste) ) ) Unless I add (gimp-display-new theImage) before the call to gimp-by-color-select, then it works again. This solution is not optimal since I am hoping to run this in batch mode with no displays. I have searched gimp.org deja.com etc., but I can't find any reference to a similar problem. Any hints on what I am doing wrong would be much appreciated. I am using gimp 1.2.2 from the FreeBSD 4.5 ports collection. Thanks, /Nathan. ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
