Re: [Gimp-user] Neon effect on jpg ?'s
The tutorial assumes white text on a transparent layer, with a black layer background. You can do this by starting with your THEBOLT image and using color to alpha http://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-colortoalpha.html to make the black transparent. Then just follow steps 3,4, and 5. -Rob A> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Longstreet wrote: > > I suppose the problem is that I'm starting with two different things, i.e. > starting from scratch with the text vs trying to manipulate a jpg. I've tried > experimenting along the way, but it's hard to experiment when I'm not sure > what I'm doing in the first place. I'm sure what I'm trying is possible, but > I'm not sure how to go about it. > > Any ideas or suggestions? Tia. > ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Problem script-fu gimp-text-layer-get-text
You can access it using sed/grep or some such tool. Opening the xcf file in a text editor, even after an autocrop, the text information remains in the following format: (text "test text") (font "Sans") (font-size 18.00) (font-size-unit pixels) (hinting yes) (antialias yes) (language "en-us") (base-direction ltr) (color (color-rgb 0.00 0.00 0.00)) (justify left) (box-mode dynamic) (box-unit pixels) I posted a grep example here: http://registry.gimp.org/node/25145#comment-11229 -Rob A> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Volker Lenhardt wrote: > Am 08.08.2011 21:00, schrieb Ofnuts: >> On 08/08/2011 12:57 PM, Volker Lenhardt wrote: >>> Gimp 2.6.8 on Linux openSUSE 11.3 >>> >>> I need to extract text and font from a text layer. No problem, I >>> thought, with gimp-text-layer-get-text and gimp-text-layer-get-font. >>> >>> But I find that the original text layer was cropped with >>> plug-in-autocrop-layer. Nevertheless Gimp lets me edit the text with the >>> text edit tool - after a confirmation dialog. >>> >>> But I can't get the text with script-fu. Is there a way to manage it? >>> There are many files involved. >> >> The layer name is "usually" the text contents, so instead of getting the >> text you can retrieve the name. Your Mileage May Vary. > > It does vary, I'm sorry for it. Thank you all the same. > > Volker > ___ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: scriipt-fu or python?
Hi John, I put python scripts in ~/.gimp-2.6/plug-ins/. After trying script-fu and python, I recommend python. The language is more similar to what you know and better documented, and a more useful language to know anyway. Best regards, Rob On 05/13/2011 06:08 AM, John Culleton wrote: Gimp 2.6.11 on Slackware Linux: 1. Do python scripts go into the same folder as .scm scripts? If not, where? I find the .scm scripts in /usr/share/gimp/2.0/scripts 2. I don't know either language but have programmed in COBOL and Tcl/Tk with side excursions into Perl, C and so on. Given this background which will the easiest to master for my first plug-in? The task I have in mind is "gel" text as described in "The Artist's Guide to Gimp Effects" on page 268ff. I did same for my current project but did not have much fun going through the 26 +/- steps over and over. -- Rob Frohne, Ph.D., P.E. E.F. Cross School of Engineering Walla Walla University 100 SW 4th Street College Place, WA 99324 (509) 527-2075 http://people.wallawalla.edu/~rob.frohne <>___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] How can you make files open in one instance of gimp?
Hi All, I'm trying to streamline a daily activity processing photos with Gimp by using incrontab (which makes it when you add files to a directory, it will automatically run a program to deal with the event). I have a python-fu script that I need to run after selecting four corners of what will be new photos. It will run itself on all images open in gimp which reduces my keystrokes or mouse clicks. The problem I'm having is that when I put four photos into the processing directory, incron opens four instances of gimp instead of opening gimp once and adding each photo to its open images. I'm using Ubuntu Linux. Are there any ideas out there on how to get around this problem cleanly? I'd really like to make the same instance of gimp open the photos, but I'm not sure how to do that. Thanks, Rob -- Rob Frohne, Ph.D., P.E. E.F. Cross School of Engineering Walla Walla University 100 SW 4th Street College Place, WA 99324 (509) 527-2075 http://people.wallawalla.edu/~rob.frohne <>___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Can't read file header
I see no metadata (EXIF or IPTC) in the image provided. I did notice that XP flags it as "blocked" http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/53691-45-this-file-computer-blocked so that could be the issue? -Rob A> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Tőkés Ábel wrote: > Dear Folks! > > My problem is not strictly related to Gimp, but I hope that Gimp can > help me solve it and > I am sure that there are a lot of clever people on this list who can > help me understand what is happening here. > > I have appr. 100 pictures selected from the thousands taken of my > wedding. I would like to send them to a > printer company, but the software they give cannot use them because of > the failure that prevents IrfanView > from opening them too. The funny is that all the other picture viewers > can open these pictures, including > Gimp. > > I tried to open a picture with gimp, then save it in different formats, > but they behave the same: IrfanView cannot open them. > I tried jpg with and without exif data, png, tif and xcf. The funny is > that if I try to open it from inside gimp by file>open or > by drag-and-drop, it opens it without problem, but if I try to open it > from the file manager, it gives an error message: > Opening 'C:\Documents and Settings\Ábel\My Documents\My > Pictures\2009-04-25 Esküvo\p0023.jpg' failed: Could not open > 'C:\Documents and Settings\Ábel\My Documents\My Pictures\2009-04-25 > Esküvo\p0023.jpg' for reading: No such file or directory > > One of the images is here: > https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/QVOculUehRDqAywlBYIwwQ?feat=directlink > > What is the problem with these pics and how can I eliminate it? > > Thanks: > Abel > > ps. I am on Windose XP SP3 > ___ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Image-defined Select Tool
> Hi, ... > My question is, how do I apply this selected region to the original image? > That is, having filtered the original image so I have only the regions I > would like to work with, and then having selected all of that region from > the filtered image, how do I then apply that selection region to the > original image, so I can then work on only the selected region? > > Thanks I think you want this- - Duplicate layer - Edge detect on duplicate - Make selection - Delete duplicate layer You will have the selection still active on the original image. -Rob A> ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] how to apply a stepping curve
> I still haven't thought up an easy solution. > > Chris If you export the curve to a file you can ee the syntax used, then create your own files that can be loaded into the curve tool. -Rob A> ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Rule of thirds or golden ratio tool (suggestion)
> hello > > I'd suggest a tool for photographic composition that has as options the > rule of thirds or the golden ratio. So you can do photo composition on the > fly and crop the image based on it. > Both the rectangle selection tool and the group tool support these "guides": Guides With this menu you can select the type of guides that is shown within the selection to make the creation of a selection easier, respecting Photo composition rules. No Guides No guides are shown at all. Center lines Only center lines are shown as guides within the selected area. Rule of thirds Guides are shown along the rule of thirds while creating the selection. Golden sections With this option, guides show up to mark the golden sections. -Rob A> ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Stacking images
Check out this page for a set of astronomy tools for gimp. Never used them, but I recalled seeing them http://hennigbuam.de/georg/gimp.html -Rob A> ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] reverting to base state
Here's a little script I wrote: http://registry.gimp.org/node/14246 to do the save-as to a unique file. I just added a key-binding to call it. -Rob A> ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Substitute for Hue/Saturation adjustment layer
Try this- After you have a rough sketch, create a new layer filled with Hue: 200 Saturation: 60 Lightness 75 below your sketch layer and set your sketch layer blend mode to screen. Your image will now look like it is drawn in non photo blue. Create a new white layer on top and set the mode to multiply and sketch over using black. When happy with that layer, change its mode to screen and move the blue layer below it. Repeat and rinse. -Rob A> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Patrick Horgan wrote: > I'm reading "The DC Comics Guide to DIGITALLY DRAWING Comics" by Freddie > E Williams II. In it he talks about a workflow where he does a rough > sketch, puts an adjustment layer over it with Hue: 200 Saturation: 60 > Lightness+75, that makes the underlying rough sketch look like a > non-photo blue pencil sketch. Then he refines the drawing, pops another > adjustment layer over it, and continues the process until he's happy. > Older versions get progressively pushed into the background in a > non-destructive way, although when he gets to the version he's happy > with he can delete all of the intermediate ones. They're just steps in > the process. > > Now GIMP doesn't have adjustment layers and although they're a > frequently requested thing, unless someone with time and expertise steps > up to do the development, the current team has their hands full with > other priorities for quite some time. The move to gegl is more > important, and I'm sure would make this easier to implement. So, I'm > not holding my breath. > > What I'm looking for is a substitute. Preferably a non-destructive > one. I can turn down the opacity of layers gradually as they recede > into the drawing past, but that's annoying. Alternatively, there's the > Hue Saturation Lightness tool, but I have no idea how to reproduce those > settings. The numbers on that tool (assuming the master is chosen) have > no relationship to the numbers used in PS. > > The Colorize tool seems more hopeful, you can enter those numbers into > the tool and it looks similar to what you want. Of course it doesn't > affect any but that layer, so stacking them to progressively decrease > the visibility of the underlying older versions doesn't help. You'd > still have to go into each of the older layers and manually decrease > their opacity. > > Anyone have any better ideas? > > Patrick > ___ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] How do I get the current image filename and directory name in script-fu?
Hi All, I need to process multiple photos every day in the same way and am trying to minimize the effort needed by automating Gimp with Scrip-fu, which seems to be kind of limited. My plan was to save the files in specified folders and using incron (an inotify service) to open them in Gimp; do a manual perspective backward transformation by hand and start a script would, resize them and based on their filename and what directory they came from, save them to the correct folders for display on web pages. I'm having difficulty figuring out how to get the filename and directory which the images came from. Does anyone have any tips? Thanks, Rob -- Rob Frohne, Ph.D., P.E. E.F. Cross School of Engineering Walla Walla University 100 SW 4th Street College Place, WA 99324 (509) 527-2075 http://people.wallawalla.edu/~rob.frohne <>___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Can't access Script-Fu
mamboze wrote: These are Script-Fu > Layer Effects > Drop Shadow, >> ...> Inner Shadow, ...> Bevel and Emboss. > I think these are from the Layer Effects script: http://registry.gimp.org/node/186 Did you install these appropriately? -Rob A> ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling / rotating images and focus
Not sure about GEGL previews, bu there is a new transform tool spec: http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Transformation_tool_specification To combine scale, shear and rotate into one tool. No mention of how previews are to be handled, however. -Rob A> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Jeremy Nell wrote: > I must have missed that response. > > Thanks. Looking forward to the new release! > > > On 28/01/2011 11:09, Tőkés Ábel wrote: > > Øyvind have already answered your question: > > "It indeed is, and this should eventually solve itself as GEGL is more > properly integrated with the layer stack of GIMP and what is shown is > no longer a preview but the actual result. For now the preview is a > hack that provides better visual feedback than just a bounding box or > a wireframe grid. > > /Øyvind K." > > This means that your request will be automatically solved in the future > release. > You don't have much chance that anyone will spend his/her time by writing a > temporary solution. > > Abel > > > > On 1/28/2011 9:58 AM, Jeremy Nell wrote: > > How does one go about requesting this as a feature enhancement? > > To include this in Gimp would vastly improve usability in this regard, as > well as making logical (and practical) sense. > > > > On 26/01/2011 12:14, Jeremy Nell wrote: > > Except that the opacity slider makes it tougher to see the preview as the > opacity is made less. > > But that's besides the point. > > 1. If I've set the opacity of the layer, then the opacity of that layer > should remain as is when I scale / rotate. > 2. When I scale / rotate, the layer's position in the stack should remain > in its place, rather than suddenly appear at the top of every layer when > being rotated / scaled. > > Surely, this is a reasonable request? > > > On 26/01/2011 12:06, Ofnuts wrote: > > On 01/26/2011 09:22 AM, Jeremy Nell wrote: > > The more I work in Gimp, the more I realise that this is something that > needs to be looked at by the developers, as it is not very intuitive. > > Again, I've found how the focus of the image being rotated / scaled > interferes with the rest of the working area. For example, if I set a > particular layer's opacity to 20% and the layer is at the bottom of all > other layers, why, then, does the opacity become 100% and the layer suddenly > appear on top of all other layers? > > This makes it very difficult to work efficiently. > > Is there a way to fix this / work around it? > > The Scale and Rotate tools have an opacity slider for the preview... > > ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Using Script-Fu, how can I get coordinates selected by a user on an image?
Hi All, I am trying to write a script-fu script to process white board photos. I want to select four coordinates to do a perspective-transformation and crop on. Is there a way to interactively let a user select points on a photo and get that information back into the script? Thanks, Rob -- Rob Frohne, Ph.D., P.E. E.F. Cross School of Engineering Walla Walla University 100 SW 4th Street College Place, WA 99324 (509) 527-2075 http://people.wallawalla.edu/~rob.frohne <>___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Deleting multiple layers
Because it simply isn't scriptable. There is no way to multiselect so there is no way to delete multi selected layers. One could use/abuse other layer toggles by having a script delete all: Linked or not linked layers, Visible or non visible layers, Trans locked or not translocked layers. -Rob A> On 1/19/11, Jeremy Nell wrote: >> The ability to select multiple layers opens a rather large can of > worms. What happens when you paint with several layers selected? > > Then Gimp simply doesn't allow you to paint (because it doesn't know > which layer you want). Simple. > >> If you have so many layers than it's has become tedious to delete them > one by one, is it because you created them by hand > > Correct. Much like most of the graphic design / illustration world (who > use Photoshop), layers (sometimes many many layers) are standard and > don't have to be justified. > > If not a standard feature, why can't this, at least, be a script? > > > > On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 12:10 +0100, Ofnuts wrote: > >> On 01/19/2011 09:19 AM, Jeremy Nell wrote: >> >> > No, you can't select multiple layers. I'm suggesting that there >> > should be a way to do so (and delete them). >> >> >> The ability to select multiple layers opens a rather large can of >> worms. What happens when you paint with several layers selected? >> >> >> > On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 09:16 +0100, Ofnuts wrote: >> > >> > > On 01/19/2011 07:03 AM, Jeremy Nell wrote: >> > > >> > > > If I select multiple layers (by, say, ctrl-clicking), I should >> > > > have the option to drag all of them into the bin. >> > > >> > > >> > > But can you select multiple layers? Not as far as I know... >> > > >> > > >> > > > Unless I've missed it somewhere, is there is a script enabling >> > > > the deletion of multiple layers? >> > > >> > > >> >> >> If you have so many layers than it's has become tedious to delete them >> one by one, is it because you created them by hand or because they >> have been auto-generated by a script? >> >> ___ >> Gimp-user mailing list >> Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU >> https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Is LZW included in GIMP?
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Piotr wrote: > What, please is «LZW»? Why do people always think other know exactly what > their 3-letter-words mean? > > > -- > Piotr (via gimpusers.com) Lempel–Ziv–Welch Compression. Commonly refereed to as LZW. This is the common use term and is perfectly acceptable to use. -Rob A> ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] warp by points
Have you looked at Hugin? I know it is used for similar things: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vertical_Aerial_Photographs http://www.mail-archive.com/hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com/msg11990.html and a more generic tutorial for hugin: http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/Mosaic-mode/en.shtml -Rob A> ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Opens only in 72 dpi
> The DPI is just an indication... the only place where it really matters > is in the "New image" dialog where instad of entering a dimension in > pixels you can enter a size in inches/centimers and a DPI. Otherwise the > only thing that really counts is the size in pixels. > It does make a very big difference if one is using scaled viewing rather than dot for dot. (View->Dot for Dot checked or unchecked) When dot for dot is checked, the image DPI doesn;t matter as one image dot will be shown as one screen dot. When dot for dot in unchecked, however, the image DPI and screen PPI will be used to calculate the display size, so a 300px by 300px image that is 300dpi will be shown as 1" by 1" (or 72px by 72 px for a screen resolution of 72PPI) at 100% when the dot-for-dot is unchecked, and 4.16 by 4.16 inches (300px by 300px) on the same 72PPI screen. -Rob A> ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Why are my filters disabled
It is probably a greyscale tiff. Many filters only work on RGB. Try image>mode>RGB then you should be able to use the filters. -Rob A> ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Script-Fu "Illegal Function" Error
Try getting rid of the double parenthesis around the gimp-image-get-active-vectors. -Rob A> ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Wacom Tablet For Flower Photographer and Software Developer
>> Some of the higher end tablets allow for screen toggling (i.e. toggle >> the screen the tablet is active on) so you need to check that. > > I would have expected this to be the task of the operating system, not > the tablet. > Not windows (at least not with my Wacom graphire using bamboo drivers). I can pick the screen in the tablet software, or use this: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=87386 -Rob A> ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Wacom Tablet For Flower Photographer and Software Developer
The dual monitor setup is also an issue for some tablets. If you map the area of both screens to the tablet area you will either have a different aspect ratio (bad for drawing) or only use a portion of the tablet. Some of the higher end tablets allow for screen toggling (i.e. toggle the screen the tablet is active on) so you need to check that. -Rob A> ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How are parasites represented in Script-Fu?
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Gino D wrote: > Hi > > Currently, what type of data should be used to enter a parasite as a > parameter within those Script-fu procedures that handle such an > object? By chance, can you give me any examples? > AFAIK, only strings are supported and are passed in as a list. First parameter is the parasite name and the third is the string value. Not sure what the seconf parameter is but I always use the number 1: (gimp-parasite-attach (list "parasite-name" 1 "parasite value")) -Rob A> -Rob A> ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [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. > Not to chase away a gimp user, but with your cad background (and for logo work in general) you may be better off using a vector based application like Inkscape. -Rob A> ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] dependant scm files and script-fu load
> Is there a way to refer to something like "folder in which curent > script resides" or "user GIMP configuration folder" (e.g. on my > machine Docs and Settings\UserName\.gimp-2.6)? > gimp-directory gets you to there. Check out this page: http://www.ve3syb.ca/wiki/doku.php?id=software:sf:writing -Rob A> ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Fwd: script-fu: saving dialog choices
> > Generally: do all the gimp-*-parasite-attach methods suffer from same > bug, so should be reapplied til they work? > Yep. use the https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572865 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624555 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624567 (last 2 marked as duplicates) I beleive there is a proposed patch though. Instead of parasites consider using gimp_gimprc_set() and gimp_gimprc_query() which don't seem to have this issue. -Rob A> ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Unemboss plugin/operation
Hi all, sorry if this can be easily found, but I've googled for it without success. Is there an easy way to "revert" emboss effect? I mean, to get image resembling original as close as possible, as I understand it is lossy operation. Do you have an idea how to do that? Regards, Robert ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] 3D heightfield render plugin?
A few gimp versions ago I thought there was a 3D rendered view of your image as a heightfield. This was a second '"view" and it would update as you worked on the main image with the normal tools. The only think you could change was the camera position. Does anyone remember this? Is it still available for the current version of gimp? Am I having a hallucination? Thanks in advance- -Rob A> ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Using channels to select pixels
What are you describing goes beyond my comprehension of gimp. If you have the > time, I'd love it if you could break that down for me. > > Decomposition was simple enough once I'd figured it out. > > I think SG's solution is simplest to use. -Rob A> ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Using channels to select pixels
> Step 24 is interesting. Water spray is seperated from a background colour, > using a manipulation of channels. > > I can't seem to figure out how to the same thing in gimp. > Any idea how I can do it? > > There may be an easier way, but what I will do is decompose the layer to a new image. Identify the decomposed layer that gives the best match to the desired selection, then drag that layer into the channel panel of your original image. You can then load it as a selection, and further use quickmask mode to tweak it. -Rob A> ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] 3d view?
Is there a plugin to preview/display bumpmaps in 3D? Ideally, it could be moved around (like the 3d preiew in the normalmap plugin) but renders it as a ocluding heightfield. I recall using something like that back in 2.4 but can not find it now. -Rob A> ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] script-fu-round-corners
> Hi List, > > I thought I might tie off this thread by indicating that I now have a working > script. It appears the definition for "script-fu-round-corners" in script-fu > console is in error in that the "run-mode" variable indicated is not > reflected in the definition of the script. I removed the RUN-NONINTERACTIVE > from my script and I was off and running. Here is the final script: > I beleive Saul Goode already indicated this is not an error. The calls in the PDB and are correct when calling from a plugin (C or Python). My understanding is that scheme scripts get their functions wrapped in a PDB wrapper when registered, and can not be called interactively from within scheme. This means you can't call the registered PDB function, but instead have to call the scheme script declaration that was registered. If you look in the file selection-round.scm you wil see the declaration: (define (script-fu-selection-rounded-rectangle image drawable radius concave) ... which is what must be called to access this from within scheme. When this is registered in the PDB with the following call: (script-fu-register "script-fu-selection-rounded-rectangle" _"Rounded R_ectangle..." _"Round the corners of the current selection" "Alan Horkan, Sven Neumann" ; authors "Sven Neumann" ; copyright "2004/06/07" "*" SF-IMAGE "Image" 0 SF-DRAWABLE"Drawable" 0 SF-ADJUSTMENT _"Radius (%)" '(50 0 100 1 10 0 0) SF-TOGGLE _"Concave"FALSE ) It ends up existing with the additional run-mode parameter in front. -Rob A> ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Selecting area within area
Use boolean operations. Make your first selection with (for example) the rectangle selection. Then in the magic wand select options check out the four top icons and pick the one with the intersect tooltip. My computer isn't handy to check, sorry. Also when using the magic wand select click and hold then move the mouse pointer up and down to dynamically adjust the threshold setting. -Rob A> On 6/13/10, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Thanks Branko and Chris, layers it is then. I just wanted to make sure > that I wasn't missing out on some fantastic technique made just for > this. > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > http://gibberish.co.il > http://what-is-what.com > ___ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Changing a dark colour
> Can anybody help with this, thanks. > > Try creating a new layer filled with the colour you want and set its layer mode to Grain Merge. -Rob A> ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] The best way to make a rounded corner box with a border
>> BTW- Inkscape can use gimp gradients (they are the same format). > > Are they? > Maybe not the same format(?), but drag and drop a .ggr into the canvas and you can then use it in inkscape. -Rob A> ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] The best way to make a rounded corner box with a border
> Sure, I'm just saying I can't use GIMP's gradients. I have to use the > ones in Inkscape. :) > BTW- Inkscape can use gimp gradients (they are the same format). Back to the main question, the process for stroking any selection is to convert it to a path, then stroke that. It gives results that are always better. I tried scripting it, but couldn't figure out how to open the stroke path dialog (or advanced stroke path dialog) from a script. It would be nice if gimps stroke selection did that internally rather than thresholding the selection and "stroking" along that. -Rob A. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] A bunch of questions
Regarding backups I wrote a script http://registry.gimp.org/node/14246 that makes a backup xcf file with the same name and date plus time appended. If you bind it to a key (that is what I do) it is very quick to save a working copy every now and then. -Rob A> On 5/20/10, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > Adam wrote: >> Hey folks! >> >> I've got a small mess of questions, and I do not mind being redirected to >> older threads. :) >> >> Here goes: >> >> If I have a bunch of text layers, how do I reselect them to move them >> and/or >> edit their content without moving backwards in the history? > > This will only work if you haven't merged the text dialog into another > layer, even another text layer: in the layers dialog, make the layer > with the bit of text you want to edit the active layer, and click on the > text to open the text dialog. Note that in a layer dialog, only the text > is in the layer, so if you are using a font with a large size, you might > have to click exactly on a character of the text. > >> >> Also, I have a smudge brush effect currently behind a text layer. The >> brush >> effect was a long time before the text layer. I need to remove the brush >> effect. How do I do so without going backwards in the history, thus >> eliminating the text (and any other previous work on the project after the >> smudge tool was used)? > > Activate the layers dialog, select the layer with the brush effect, and > delete it. Of course, if there is other content in the layer that > contains the brush effect you want to eliminate, that will be deleted, too. > > >> Is there any way to save projects "in progress" to continue editing later, >> with the history intact? > > I know that saving an image as an ~.xcf file will preserve the layers. > I've never tried to save a file with an intact history, so I may be > wrong, but I'm not sure you can save a file with the history intact. > I've never tried to do this, because I've never needed to, since my > standard workflow method is that when I work on a highly complex image, > where I anticipate that I might want to have access to the history, I > create this history by incremental back-ups; that is, after I have layer > 1 the way I want it, I save the work, then when I get layer 2 the way I > want it, I make second a back-up with a different name, and when I get > layer 3 the way I want it, I make a backup with a name distinct from the > first two. > ___ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] removing layer area
I have a script http://ffaat.pointclark.net/incoming/scripts/transbg.scm The combines select by colour and colour to alpha with a few parameters to simplify this process. -Rob A> ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] New Image from Visible Layers?
Don't use Save as. If you just "save a copy" as png it will flatten the image and save what is visible exactly as you see it. -Rob A> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Sacryd wrote: > I'm new to both GIMP and this forum. Please forgive me if this question has > been asked - I don't see it anywhere. > > Is there a way to create a new image from visible layers? > > I'm creating a set of cards that includes arrows, shadows, text and > background. Each of these objects are in their own layer. All of the layers > are in a single .xcf file. > > I need to mix and match these layers down into multiple .png files. > > I could do this by: > 1. Making one variation of layers visible. > 2. Save as a .png file. > 3. Reload my .xcf file. > 4. Repeat until I have created all my cards. > > Is there a simpler way? > > Thanks! :) > > > > -- > Sacryd (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 mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] A sequence of actions
Currently the "blocks" of steps that can be performed are all contained in the pdb. There are two different ways to get the same result (a set of actions that can be repeated in a single "call") 1) tap into the history buffer somehow to "record" then "playback history" from a different point in history. THis would require modifications to the core, and may not be portable to a gegl model. 2) provide a gui/visual language front-end to the pdb (think inputs/outputs/connectors) to visually create scripts that either get turned into scheme in the back end, or get implemented directly. This could be done as a plugin that would allow creation, saving and loading actions. -Rob A> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Tarun Samvedi wrote: > Michael, Jay - Thanks for the response :) > > I'll be trying to implement the idea for GSoC, was just making sure there is > no way of doing it which is unknown to me. > ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP plugin for faking a newspaper frontpage image
It could be done with a displacement map fairly easily, or possibly the curve bend tool. There is a GSoC project that may give a "cage distort" that would make such a thing trivial. -Rob A. On 3/28/10, Deniz Dogan wrote: > Recently a friend of mine showed me a picture where someone had taken > a photo of a newspaper that laid on a table, slightly folded in the > middle as newspapers often are. (See e.g. > http://www.brogan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/newspaper.jpg) > This particular someone had then inserted a picture of himself, > replacing some other picture that was on the front page. It looked > pretty realistic, unless one looked closely. > > This got us discussing how this someone had put the picture of himself > in there. The main problem would be to get the picture to "fold" > according to the newspaper. We are both newbies when it comes to this > sort of stuff, but my friend who is a computer graphics freak insisted > that the person had used a 3D model of a newspaper and then simply > "texturized" it with the image of himself. > > Personally, I thought (and still believe) that this can easily be done > using a GIMP plugin in which one somehow selected the parts where the > real image was located on the newspaper and then the plugin would > perform some magic (skew etc.) to replace it with the other picture. > > Are there any plugins readily available for this sort of stuff? Is it > "easy" to write a plugin which does this? > > -- > Deniz Dogan > ___ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] ???
I just got GIMP for Mac and in installing it says no because I need X-11. What is that? ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
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[Gimp-user] compiled version of separate+
I am new to Gimp, but it looks great. I have downloaded the latest version and am using mac os x. I now need to convert images from rgb to cmyk. I am wondering if there is a version (compiled or otherwise) of separate+ for the mac os? Any other ideas on how to convert these images - I am sure this is a common need of users. -- Rob ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Create Colored Slate
I need to create a texture just like the gray slate that comes as a pattern in gimp. However, I need to create it in a few different colors. All of the tuts I've found online only show how to make a black/white or rainbow texture. Can anyone point me in to a tutorial that can show me how to specify the color of the slate pattern (or create my own)? ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] whats the best way to learn script-fu
Whats the best way to learn script-fu? Is there a good online tutorial? A book? Seems to be a ton of instruction material on the web and I was wondering if anyone can recomend something specific that they thought was the best way to get started with batch image processing with gimp. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] what is the most simple bit map file format
I wanted to understand a graphics file format... any format that could be disected with a programming language...any programming language. What is the absolute simplest bit map file format we can save out a black and white image in GIMP? I think it might be PPM in my version 2.2.6 but there may be somehing simpler for black and white images like what I look to end up with in making screen color seperations. Space is not an issue any more with 80 gig hard drives so compression is not needed any more. So leaving out ALL compressed graphics formats whats left? Interesting enoughASCII art is a SAVE AS option. I wonder how fine a grain of detail we get when saving as ASCII art. I have to play with that one. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Photo emulsion silkscreen screen printing color seperation for inks
I thought I had made this clear that the desired task was to use green muck photo emulsifier that you smear on a silk screen and then lay a black and white image of anything on the muck and shine light on it and the black in the image blocks light while the light getting into the green muck causes it to harden. You then rinse off the remaining muck and you have a perfect transfer of the black and white image into a T shirt silk screen. Do that a few time with a few colors and you have pretty T shirts. So I figured GIMP should be able to make the color seperation and the newsprint shading within good to great results without having to resort to adding in any missing GIMP features. SO far I have gotten great advice how to make the color seperated individual images that can be printed onto overhead transparancy film. The question of how to color seperate into individual inks seems to be up in the air now and subject to experimentation. To use RGB or CYMK or channels. I have not played with channels yet but did get CYMK individual images. Thankyou to everyone who has contributed advice. I am running KNOPPIX debian linux installed to hard disk which came with GIMP but does not have help installed so even though my help is crippled I got ALL this help from the email list. Rob Chris Mohler wrote: This advice to not use DECOMPOSE and to use a plugin from blackfiveservices... Is the standard GIMP DECOMPOSE implementation so bad that it will not produce images that are worthy of using for screen printing? "Screen Printing" is too broad a subject. If you're preparing screens for 4-color process, I doubt the decompose mode nor the CMYK plugin will be adequate. I would let the person actually doing the printing handle that. OTOH, if you're going to be making a file for printing spot colors, I'd skip CMYK/RGB altogether and use channels - 1 per ink color. There are tutorials on screen preparation out there - most focus on photoshop, but you can do most of the same things in GIMP. Chris PS - maybe you can provide some more detals about what it is you're trying to do? ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] wouldn't use DECOMPOSE
This advice to not use DECOMPOSE and to use a plugin from blackfiveservices... Is the standard GIMP DECOMPOSE implementation so bad that it will not produce images that are worthy of using for screen printing? I like bells and whistles as much as the next guy but I try to use the base software when possible so I would like to stay away from plugins if DECOMPOSE will do the desired task. Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 20:28 -0600, Tim Jedlicka wrote: Is there a way in GIMP to take any JPG image and have GIMP output 4 color seperated images as individual CYGK or RGB or choosable colors? I'm not sure I understand what you're after but take a look at Image->Mode->Decompose I wouldn't use Decompose for this but rather the "separate" plug-in which does the job according to a CMYK color profile in contrast to the rather naive implementation in Decompose. http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/separate.shtml Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] saves out visible great.. automation
Ok...very good.. the desired result. I didn't know that the SAVE AS would only save the visible PNG image and not the underlying bag of tricks. OK... so looks good...got the desired effect color seperation and also how to make newsprint shading. So how about automaticly doing this process? Can I make a script process that starts out with a JPG ..or GIF..or whatever is best..I didnt' get any advice on that... AND THEN IMAGE -MODE-DECOMPOSE into CYMK format then display only each individual color and save out an image in PNG or whatever is best.. then when all 4 colors are done... individually do FILTER-DISTORT-NEWSPRINT to 4 more images Is there an example of how to do this kind of scripting? ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] save 4 layers as 4 seperate mages ....I am stumped
Interesting...newsprint filter does make the dots resolutions. OK Looks like all the pieces are here except for. I still have not figured out how to save out ONE layer at a time while in the CYMK.jpg 4 layers greyscale image. Can anyone give me the instruction to accomplish this one simple task? I'm stumped. I can't find any way to isolate single layers and each layer is the individual seperated colors I desired to work with. Such a tease. So close but still no cigars. Asif Lodhi wrote: Hi Rob, On 11/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message: 4 Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 03:25:48 -0500 Subject: [Gimp-user] how to break down a photo into printing colors andnewsprint shading Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Is there a way in GIMP to take any JPG image and have GIMP output 4 color seperated images as individual CYGK or RGB or choosable colors? I want to make a silk screen with a real complicated color image and I thought it could be possible to break down the photo into the silk screen inks and then make 4 different ink screens with emulsifiers by each color of the photo. I find pallettes and tools and such but can not make any sense of how to actually accomplish the task. Also... what about shading. Does gimp do shading...like newprint shading with dot densities? Is there a technical name for this kind of shading where a black and white image can appear as shading by dot saturations and not actually by having shades of grey? I'm real new at this so any information woul dbe greatly appreciated. I think there is a CMYK plugin for GIMP. May be that's what you need. May be Filter/Distord/Newsprint is what you need for newsprint shading. -- Asif ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] after DECOMPOSE to CMYK then what
I got as far as IMAGE MODE DECOMPOSE and that produces the desired black and white images in greyscale 4 layers and if I do a page up or down I get black,yellow_k,magenta_k,cyan_k on the image box at the bottom of the image BUT then what? I seem to be missing the one magic step that breaks these 4 layers in seperate images. What action do I need to make the 4 seperated images to save out to the hard disk? ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] thanks and what format is best to start with when doing seperations
Thanks for the newsprint and color seperation instructions. I was certain these were possible but could not find detailed instructions. I have not tried anything yet but will get on it now an dhave some tests in this hour. I was very disappointed to get this first response: I don't think this is possible. JPEG are already cooked, and flattened picture. I don't think you will be able to break it down, and turn it back to xcf (gimp format). I guess you shouldn't have deleted the original file of the image. BUT then the real answers came flying in. I said JPG at first but I don't care if I start with a JPG or BMP or GIF. I figure any image I can scan on the flatbed scanner can be a target to work with. Which brings out the question of WHAT FORMAT would be the best to start in when knoing that the whole seperation process will be done with an image. Is there any reason to select any one format over another considering that most shared images do show up as GIF and JPG.?!?!?! ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] how to break down a photo into printing colors and newsprint shading
Is there a way in GIMP to take any JPG image and have GIMP output 4 color seperated images as individual CYGK or RGB or choosable colors? I want to make a silk screen with a real complicated color image and I thought it could be possible to break down the photo into the silk screen inks and then make 4 different ink screens with emulsifiers by each color of the photo. I find pallettes and tools and such but can not make any sense of how to actually accomplish the task. Also... what about shading. Does gimp do shading...like newprint shading with dot densities? Is there a technical name for this kind of shading where a black and white image can appear as shading by dot saturations and not actually by having shades of grey? I'm real new at this so any information woul dbe greatly appreciated. Rob ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
RE: [Gimp-user] Color Printing
John, I'm the OP'er...since I'm a network tech and not a graphic designer I want to make sure I understand what I'm getting from these posts before I go back to the designer. When you wrote, "...will need to understand its limitations for photos destined for print jobs and develop workarounds" Does that mean that there is no fix? Or is the fix to convert the visible image to cmyk in the Gimp so the designer can adjust colors, etc so the print should match the screen? I've been using the Gimp in a limited capacity for the past 4 years and I love it. I like to promote it as much as possible. Rob Ogle, MCSE Computer Server Solutions, inc http://www.css1.cc -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John R. Culleton Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 8:07 AM To: Øyvind Kolås Cc: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Color Printing On Wednesday 27 September 2006 18:03, Øyvind Kolås wrote: > > Color management support is improved in the latest development > versions of GIMP, this is not the same as editing in CMYK mode, but it > should be the thing more than 90% of the people asking for CMYK needs, > even though they think it is not. > > It is sufficient to do the conversion to CMYK when exporting from GIMP > to file/the printer to achieve correct colors if you have a color > correction profile for your display as well as your printer. This is a > separate issue from being able to work with the image in CMYK mode. > Manipulating a photograph in CMYK mode is in most cases mostly > pointless since the source of the data is the RGB model and the human > visual system operates in RGB as well. The separation needed for CMYK > varies between printers whilst sRGB is a standard color space for > image exchange. > > /Øyvind K. Welll perception is everything. It is necessary for Gimp not to be as good as but better than its competition to gain acceptance. As soon as the CMYK lack is mentioned people in my industry are turned off and won't consider the product further. The product of professional print designers today is not separations or an sRGB file but a PDF or tiff file in CMYK model. Prepress, making of separations etc. is a separate process. If conversion is done at the end of the designer's workflow then there is no chance to put back the brightness that is lost. But there is perhaps a way to do it. If a display function can be added to Gimp whereby a double conversion is done, from RGB to CMYK and back again, then the user could view the illo in Gimp with the gamut limited to what it will be in CMYK model, and adjust saturation etc. to bring the photo back up to requirements. Since there is already a function to separate into CMYK colors it could possibly be a recombination of those separations into a single image. In the meantime people like the OP who want to use Gimp instead of Photoshop in their workflow will need to understand its limitations for photos destined for print jobs and develop workarounds. We need to be honest about this up front. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Color Printing
I'm trying to get a wedding chapel to move away from Photoshop and start using the Gimp. They are almost on board except for a printing issue. If we print a photo from Photoshop to an Epson Stylus 2200 the photo looks great. But when we print from the Gimp, the colors are "wrong". I don't know enough graphics terms to describe it. The picture has a greenish and/or faded quality to it. We're running Gimp for Windows on a new XP Pro box w/ a P4 cpu, 1GB RAM and a 200GB drive. Any suggestions? ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] removing backgrounds
Like Colin said, there are a lot of ways to do this, but I'm trying to learn more ways to do the same things. If I understand correctly, deleting should leave transparency everywhere that was the background colour. Cropping would cut the whole image down to the size of the remaining selection - the logo. Is it about the same result as the other method or is there an advantage in some cases? I'm just firing up the Gimp to see what I see... Carol Spears wrote: On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 05:30:56PM +0200, Colin Brace wrote: On 4/24/06, C. DeBerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can someone explain to me the process of removing the background color from my logo? It has this nasty white box around it, and looks horrible on colored paper/backgrounds. There are probably various ways to do this, but one way would be to use the the "select regions by color" tool (ctrl-o) . Select the background color and then just delete it. i would make the selection like this, but then i would Select-->Invert and then Image-->Crop. this little shortcut in the menu will make the croptool snap to the selection. carol ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Rob Russell http://rr.latenightpc.com/wp/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Gimp-user Digest - Open Save dialog
One other nit-pick: I can't just paste text for the path, I have to start typing first then I can paste. With a text widget, well, the path acts like any other text. Matt Gushee wrote: Sven Neumann wrote: they fixed something that IMHO was not broken, for the sake of the non-technical users they hope to attract to the GNOME platform, and at the expense of *actual* users who, for the most part, have no trouble typing /path/to/whatever and would like to be able to do so with a minimum of fuss. Have you ever tried to type /path/to/whatever into a GTK+ file-chooser dialog? Can there be any less fuss? You mean GTK2? Okay, now I see that it works. But people like me who have been using GUIs since the mid-80s are accustomed to having a text entry widget to type into. When there is no such widget, people ... well, I don't know about 'people', but I tend to assume that text input is not allowed. So maybe the new dialog isn't so bad after all ... but how are users supposed to know they can type in a path? -- Rob Russell http://rr.latenightpc.com/wp/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Tiling a picture
Not sure if this is exactly what you mean, but there's a tutorial at http://www.yorkspace.com/2005/08/28 on fitting digital pictures into one of those collage frames with a bunch of different sized holes in it. hth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I would like to make a poster out of a picture, but not in one piece. I have many small frames hanging on a wall and I would like to place one part of the original image in each frame, in such a way that when all the frames are placed side by side the original picture would appear. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I could split an image into an arbitrary number of pieces, specifying at the same time the size of those pieces? Thanx a lot! Vassilis. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Rob Russell http://rr.latenightpc.com/wp/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Gimp-user Digest, Open Save dialog
Specifically I don't like the ctrl-L thing to type a path in - I frequently use a file browser or shell that I can copy a path from and paste into the open dialog of most applications I use. Until last month I didn't even know about the ctrl-L option. In a more philosophical sense I don't like that it's different from the rest of the file open/save dialogs on the OSes that I use. I use KDE and Windows and I love that I can get the Gimp in both. I don't like that in both of those environments I have this application that acts differently to do the same job. It's not just the Gimp, I have the same complaint about the File Open/Save in Blender3d and all those Windows apps that think Open/Save needs to be redone. PS: It seems hard to discuss this kind of issue without starting a war, but please read all my statements in the friendliest (but not, of course, sarcastic) voice that you can imagine ;-) George Farris wrote: On Thu, 2006-02-03 at 12:00 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the other hand, the new GTK open/save dialogue has been subject to many critics, in Gnome and in Gimp. Gimp developers have tried to implement fixes for most of the annoyances. But the dialogue is still quite bothering. However, the blame is to be put on the gnome HIG, not on Gimp developers. Just my 0.02 euro cents, as a user. I love the open/save dialogue. What specifically are people having trouble with? Having the places tied into these dialogs is great and I can add remove these "bookmarks" as I like. Is it the functionality or the UI? PS: This is just curiosity I'm not trying to start a war. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Rob Russell http://rr.latenightpc.com/wp/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] arrow heads on lines
And you can import some SVG (which Inkscape produces) back in to the gimp as a path. Not sure if the arrowheads will make it, but it's worth a try. Harish Narayanan wrote: David Herring wrote: I would like to be able to draw lines with arrow heads on the end of them, and for this to work with latest Gimp 2.2.10 on both linux and windows - what is the best solution ? Are you restricted to using the GIMP? The GIMP is primarily not a drawing tool. To do the task you just described, another program, Inkscape[1], fits the bill perfectly. It is compiled to work on GNU/Linux and MS Windows. Harish [1] http://www.inkscape.org/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] problem running GIMP on remote machine
I'm trying to get GIMP to work over remote X. All other programs I try to use on the same setup work, but GIMP is stubbornly refusing. I log in on the server using ssh -X jarl If I simply fire up xterm, it starts and displays on my local system. However, GIMP gives the following output: INIT: gimp_load_config Parsing '/etc/gimp/2.0/gimprc' Parsing '/home/rob/.gimp-2.2/gimprc' gimp_composite: use=yes, verbose=no Processor instruction sets: -mmx -sse -sse2 -3dnow -altivec -vis Adding theme 'Small' (/usr/share/gimp/2.0/themes/Small) Adding theme 'Default' (/usr/share/gimp/2.0/themes/Default) Writing '/home/rob/.gimp-2.2/themerc' The program 'gimp' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'. (Details: serial 150 error_code 3 request_code 38 minor_code 0) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) Does this make any sense to anyone out there? Rob -- ___ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and image properties
>> I don't have filters / generic / exif browser menu. >Maybe this is an additional plug-in - I don't have this either. http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=4153 It's not ported for the Windows version of Gimp that I could find (with my humble google-fu). It would be nice to have though. Rob ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Terrible time to get 2.01 running
Why is package config in /usr/local/bin ? Are you installing the whole of gnome from source to try and get this to work? This will cause problems in the future as you won't be able to automatically upgrade. Did you install glib from source or rpm? Removing the version glib that everything is using is most likly going to give you a world of pain. But 'make uninstall' from the directory you installed it from as root if it's source. And "rpm -e " if rpm (as root again). If your installing libs from source you need to set up your computer to use them. As the error message says. Not sure exactly what would be needed on Suse. Most likly adding /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf. Add setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH to /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig. Possibly other things too. Rember you need all the -dev rpms if you want to compile stuff. It would be a much much beter idea for you to install the rpm. Ditching suse for debian would also be a good idea. -- On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 21:17, Robert Krueger wrote: > Robert Krueger wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 02:53:44PM -0400, Robert Krueger wrote: > > > >> > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> I am having a terrible time getting 2.01 to run in my Suse 9.0 > >>> system.I do have 1.2 working ok, but I have read everything I > >>> can on this, and spent 3 weeks on and off trying to get it to > >>> configure.I feel especially bad because we downloaded the 2.01 > >>> Windows version onto my wifes new Dell laptop with the XP system, > >>> and it's running peachy, no problems.The main problem centers > >>> around pkg-config.Here's the error. > >>> > >>> "pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.2.3 but GLIB ( 2.3.6 > >>> ) was found!" > >>> > As an additional note, here is the complete message: > > checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config > checking for GLIB - version >= 2.2.0... > *** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.2.3, but GLIB (2.3.6) > *** was found! If pkg-config was correct, then it is best > *** to remove the old version of GLib. You may also be able to fix the error > *** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by editing > *** /etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that is > *** required on your system. > *** If pkg-config was wrong, set the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH > *** to point to the correct configuration files > no > > Sure would like some help... > > Thanks, > Robert > ___ > Gimp-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] dividing a page of images into individual images
On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 18:36, Roland Roberts wrote: > >>>>> "rob" == rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > rob> I'm trying to catalog my photos I've got a negative scanner > rob> which scans them in 12 twelve at a time (epson 2450 photo) is > rob> there a script I can run it through to get 12 individual > rob> images? > > I'm attaching an undocumented script I use to scan film and slides > with my epson 2450 using scanimage. Here's how I used it this morning > to scan a set of 12 images while I was commuting to work. > > roland I'm so stupid this is much better way to do things :) I think it'd be a good idea if the ability to select individaul negatives etc went in the driver. I don't know if this is possible but it'd be much simpler. I'll send an email to sane-devel I think. Thanks again this was exactly what I wanted to be able to do. :) -- rob ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] dividing a page of images into individual images
On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 18:36, Roland Roberts wrote: > >>>>> "rob" == rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > rob> I'm trying to catalog my photos I've got a negative scanner > rob> which scans them in 12 twelve at a time (epson 2450 photo) is > rob> there a script I can run it through to get 12 individual > rob> images? > > I'm attaching an undocumented script I use to scan film and slides > with my epson 2450 using scanimage. Here's how I used it this morning > to scan a set of 12 images while I was commuting to work. > > roland I'm so stupid this is much better way to do things :) I think it'd be a good idea if the ability to select individaul negatives etc went in the driver. I don't know if this is possible but it'd be much simpler. I'll send an email to sane-devel I think. Thanks again this was exactly what I wanted to be able to do. :) -- rob ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] dividing a page of images into individual images
hi, I'm trying to catalog my photos I've got a negative scanner which scans them in 12 twelve at a time (epson 2450 photo) is there a script I can run it through to get 12 individual images? -- rob ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Video CD format
I have a need to have photo's transferred to a DVD so that they may be viewed on a tv screen via a DVD player. I have been told that Video CD format is the only way to go. Does anyone know anything about this format, or alternatives. My knowledge of this is nil. Regards, Rob Unsworth ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Re: gimp and dead X
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 23:09:13 Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-03-23 at 2251.37 +): > > Unless you ran gimp as root there is nothing it can do that would harm > your > > system. (With the possible exception that it could get stuck in a loop > and > > spew out error messages untill you run out of disk space). > > It can also capture the pointer and "hang" the system (it is not hung, > just becomes "hostage"). Or trigger a bug somewhere else (window > manager, X or kernel). Netscape is famous for this. > I meant permenent harm to the system i.e something not cured by rebooting. If X gets looked up you can kill it with ctrl-alt-backspace (or if it just an application that has crashed you can kill it by typing "killall -KILL theNameOfTheApp", pressing the reset button should only be used as a last resort (i.e keyboard has locked up and you have no way of fixing the problem remotley) as this could (but you'd have to be pretty unlucky for it to) cause permenant damage to the system (and lose data). rob ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] gimp and dead X
Unless you ran gimp as root there is nothing it can do that would harm your system. (With the possible exception that it could get stuck in a loop and spew out error messages untill you run out of disk space). This isn't the place for a fix but you would need to give a lot more info about the problem. i.e what version of X your using, what graphical login your using (gdm,xdm etc), what error messages you get, whether you can start X from the command line. or if you wanted to fix why gimp went strange for starters you need to say what version your running, what messages you got in the error logs, what hardware your using and anything else that might be petienet such as what exactly you did and if it is repeatable. On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:02:22 mrweb wrote: > Hi List, > > I was working with a couple of images the other day, simply adjusting the > tonal qualities on one of them when suddenly gimp went wild on me. > > Within only a few seconds my screen was filled with hundreds of task bar > buttons for a multitude of new copies of the image in question. Before I > could kill it off my entire 19" monitor screen was completely covered > with > new copies of the image. > > I shut down my system and when I went to reboot I could only boot into > text mode? > > Has anyone else experienced this, who may possibly be able to suggest a > fix? > > Much thanks, > > Wade > > > > > ___ > Gimp-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > rob ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] TIFF/JPEG errors on 1.2.1
Hi all, I recently compiled and installed gimp 1.2.1 on a RH7 Intel system. I have a bunch of tiffs that were sent to me that I can't use. Initially I had no problems but all of a sudden I hit some TIFFs I can't convert to JPG. I open the tiff, crop, and try to convert to jpeg but I get rediculous file sizes, like 2k jpg for a 1.5MBtiff, or at 33% I get a 300 byte jpg, of course nothing in it and unopenable. I tried to re-compile, checked tiff and jpeg libraries (stock redhat 7), deleted .gimp dirs but am unable to solve. Can anyone help? Rob ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] How to choose the best value for tile chache (and similar questions)
hi, For the first time last weekend I tried using gimp to print. And the experience was not a happy one :( Gimp really crawled (just filling was taking 15 mins). Anyway a lot of this was probably my fault for I hadn't bothered changeing any of the enviroment options from there defaults. So I spent monday playing with different values and am a bit confused. The help file says to set the tile cache so that gimp only uses real memory, however I'm not entirley sure how to figure this out. I'm running gimp on a debian box with 64meg of ram by the time X has started I have virtually no real memory left. Should I set the tile cache small enough not to require any swap (<1meg)? Or am I missing the point? Secondly would it make any difference tweaking the values in hdparm (I allready have udma turned on) bearing in mind that I'm swapping 100M+ images(before I have added any layers) in and out (presumably in tile cache size chunks). Thirdly as I'm using the .deb would I see any improvements here if I recompiled gimp myself (i.e would I get any kind of mmx type speed enhancements)? Finally are there anyother ways I can improve the speed at which gimp works when dealing with large images? (I have experiment with "conservative memory usage" but didn't notice any drastic changes) One more question haveing a large undo history size only affects the amount disc space used and dosen't impact on performance, right? I'm not looking for miracles but gimp was trounced by photoshop editing the same image on slower computer (select -> fill with forground colour, a round five minutes in photoshop the same thing >15 in gimp). Something must be wrong some where. thanks for any help (I'm running potatoe, with gimp 1.2.1. k6 2 400, 64 meg, udma 66 hd) (the photoshop box was k6 2 300, 64meg, umda 33) rob ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
