Re: [Gimp-user] Help installation, 2.6.1-html-en.tar.bz2
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 07:20 -0600, Doug Huffman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Where does html/en need to be installed in GIMP file structure, please? The file you downloaded is not meant to be installed by users. If possible, please grab an installer for your platform. If that is not possible (your platform might not have an appropriate installer released yet), then you can also unpack the tarball that you downloaded and place the en folder into $prefix/share/gimp/2.0/help where $prefix would /usr or /usr/local or wherever your GIMP installation resides. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp's rendering speeds
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 15:32 +0200, Jeremy Nell wrote: Speaking of which, I am using an i7 PC with 3 gigs of RAM allocated to Gimp alone, so I'm not sure how to make Gimp's response time any quicker. What exactly do you mean when you say that you allocated 3 gigs of RAM to GIMP? Did you increase the tile-cache size in GIMP to 3 GB or do you just have 3 GB of RAM that GIMP could use if you allowed it to do that (by increasing the tile-cache size appropriately)? Just asking to make sure that there isn't a misunderstanding... Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp remembering settings
On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 14:53 +0200, Jeremy Nell wrote: I've got the appropriate boxes checked, yet, for some reason, Gimp seems to remember some of my settings inconsistently. For example, my save dialogues don't remember how I saved files the last time Gimp was running. Specifically, saving as TIFF. I always select LZW compression, yet almost daily (because I use Gimp daily), it defaults to none and includes the comment Created with Gimp after I've removed that comment from the main preferences. It's a long-standing missing feature, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63610 Please speak up on the gimp-developer mailing-list if you want to work on this. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] JPEG Files
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 11:17 -0800, MM wrote: I am using the 2.6.11 version I normally make panoramas with Autopano, and the rendered file is often more than 30Mb. This time it was very close to 49Mb and I am receiving the following error message “Glib-ERROR”:gmem.c137:failed to allocate 1638bytes aborting…….. Looks like there's an integer overflow somewhere. It would help a lot to get a proper stack trace. But it would already help if you could tell us how large are these images pixel-wise? Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] No new colours
On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 14:45 +0100, drwr wrote: This seems to be the problem. Gimp will only save as either indexed or greyscale. I can change the mode whenever I need to edit. It's not GIMP who makes this decision. The file format you have chosen (GIF) only supports grayscale or up to 256 indexed colors. Unless you have a very good reason to use GIF, you should consider switching to PNG instead. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Layers with Mask
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 17:35 +0100, hannes61 wrote: at the moment i am testing the version 2.7 and i miss the chance to add a mask to a layer group. To compose with layer groups this would be a cool add on. At the moment i use the work around: creating a new layer from the viewed, and add to this a mask. But this is very inconvenient, cause if the result of layer-group changes i have to create a new layer,... Did i miss something to add a mask to the layer-group? It's simply not yet implemented. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Image Properties dialog in inches?
On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 01:24 +0100, jk78 wrote: Using Gimp 2.6.10 (Windows). So, I have set my image to Inches in the dropdown in the main window, and also in the Image -- Print Size menu, but the Image -- Image Properties dialog displays the print size in mm. I find this particularly odd since the Resolution _is_ listed in ppi (pixels per Inch). Is there any way to change that? The dialog uses the default unit for your locale. I have no idea though how you can change that on Windows. Perhaps it would indeed make more sense to use the image display unit here. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Printing Problem
On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 01:11 +0100, geoffrey wrote: I just installed gimp with Ubuntu 10.10. Simple problem. Any way I try to print, the printer produces a blank sheet of paper. HPDeskJetPro prints any other program's output. It seems that the package on Ubuntu gets the 2,6.10 with the cairo software that doesn't work. Have I answered my own question? Indeed. Please file a bug-report at Ubuntu. We explicitly released a fixed version (2.6.11) before the Ubuntu release. The Ubuntu maintainers should do their users a favor and update to that release. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] script-fu-menu-register with space in folder name?
On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 20:24 +, Alan Campbell wrote: I'd like to do (script-fu-menu-register some_func Image/File/Create/Joint Scripts) but if I try, subfolder Joint Scripts doens;t appear (script-fu-menu-register some_func Image/File/Create/JointScripts) works fine. Any way to get a space in a subfolder name? Are you sure? I wonder how all the scripts in the Alpha to Logo folder register themselves then. Perhaps you should register the menu branch first? Can you perhaps show us a simple example script to illustrate the problem? Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] gimp.tutorials.net
On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 10:04 +1000, Bob Long wrote: When I visit http://gimpusers.com/gimp/links there is that list you mention. In my case, Gimp-Tutorials.net does indeed go to http://gimp-tutorials.net/ So either that has very recently been fixed, or there is a problem elsewhere. The link to gimp-tutorials.net was added 2008-11-07 and hasn't been changed since then. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.6.11
Hi, GIMP 2.6.11 is a bug-fix release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series. Among other bug-fixes, it restores printing functionality with version 1.10 of the cairo library. Many Linux distributions start to ship this version now. The source code for GIMP 2.6.11 can be downloaded from ftp.gimp.org or from one of the mirrors listed at http://gimp.org/downloads/#mirrors. Binary packages for the supported platforms should become available soon; please check the Downloads section at www.gimp.org. Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.6.10 to GIMP 2.6.11 === * Bugs fixed: 631199 - Printing and Print preview broken with cairo 1.10 572865 - Parasite handling had problems and can cause crashing 628893 - Error with string-append and gimp-drawable-get-name 623850 - (Paco) Recursive Gaussian Filter error 624487 - Fix incorrect wrap mode documentation values in Edge plug-in 557380 - Difference of Gaussians gives blank doc if Invert selected 627009 - Image type filter doesn't include .rgba SGI files 626020 - Console window opening on file-ps-load 624698 - Wood 1 and Wood 2 have bad alpha value 624275 - Image saved from google docs generates a 'gimp-image-set-resolution' error message * Updated translations: German (de) Spanish (es) Italian (it) Japanese (ja) Romanian (ro) Chinese (Hong Kong) (zh_HK) Chinese (Taiwan) (zh_HK) Happy GIMPing, Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] script-fu: underscore?; script-fu-register; script-fu-menu-register
On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 12:59 +, Alan Campbell wrote: One of uses of an underscore is to pick out the shortcut character in a menu item: (script-fu-register wrdhb_create_half_blind_dovetail _Half blind dovetail... ;menu label Create Template for Half blind Dovetail ) There also appears to be (script-fu-register wrdhb_create_half_blind_dovetail _Half blind dovetail... ;menu label ... ) whch I gather has something to do with translation: I assume it would have no effect in this particular case because it's sadly unreasonable to expect translation dictionaries (po files??) to know blind or dovetail. That so? If you want your scripts to be translated, then you need to put your scripts into a separate translation domain and ship the translations with them. You can of course not expect the strings from your scripts to be part of the standard script-fu translation domain. Also, I've been using this style of getting a script registered for use in create menu: (script-fu-menu-register wrdhb_create_template_half_blind_dovetail Image/File/Create/Woodrat) (a) Can I combine the two, putting path in second parameter of script-fu-register? Using a path in the script-fu-register call is deprecated. Please use script-fu-menu-register. (b) Is there anyway of getting a letter of the submenu Woodrat to be a shortcut key? I've tried variations of underscore in the Image/File/Create/Woodrat parameter, doesn't work. You need to explicitly create the submenu using gimp-plugin-menu-branch-register. This procedure should accept mnemonics marked with an underscore. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] script-fu: underscore?; script-fu-register; script-fu-menu-register
On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 13:42 +, Alan Campbell wrote: You need to explicitly create the submenu using gimp-plugin-menu-branch-register. This procedure should accept mnemonics marked with an underscore. Tried (gimp-plugin-menu-branch-register Image/File/Create W_oodrat) (gimp-plugin-menu-branch-register Image/File/Create _Woodrat) followed by (script-fu-menu-register wrdhb_create_half_blind_dovetail Image/File/Create/W_oodrat) or script-fu-menu- (script-fu-menu-register wrdhb_create_half_blind_dovetail Image/File/Create/_Woodrat) or (script-fu-menu-register wrdhb_create_half_blind_dovetail Image/File/Create/Woodrat) Always got the Woodrat folder under File | Create menu, no shortcut key indicated. I am pretty sure that it theoretically should work this way. After all the Script-Fu extension itself creates sub-menus this way and those sub-menus do have mnemonics. You definitely should not use the underscore in the menu-register call. However the problem is most likely that Script-Fu doesn't provide you any means to call this procedure before the menu-register call is executed. There would probably have to be a script-fu-menu-branch-register() wrapper added for this purpose. A possible solution would be to write your scripts in Python. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] how do I find the pathname of a selected font?
On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 09:13 +0200, bobdobbs wrote: I've got lots of fonts in quiet a few directories. I'm using a particular font in an image I'm editing. I want to discover the pathname of this font. It looks like the name of the font that gimp displays in the font text settings pane doesn't corrospond to the filename of the actual font, so the solution isn't as simple as navigating to my main font directory and grepping for it. Can gimp give me enough information on the font to allow me to find it? No, but the tools that come with fontconfig can. There's the fc-list command-line utility that can list all available fonts with their filenames. Try fc-list : family style file. For details see the fc-list manual page. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.6's Clipboard Brush - disable possible?
On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 09:43 -0400, SilversleevesX wrote: I wanted to know if it were possible to disable the Clipboard Brush feature in GIMP 2.6? Why exactly do you want to turn it off? If you don't need it, then don't use it. What's the point of adding yet another option? Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] batch script help
On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 08:47 -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: hello list, just added my self so i hope this is an active list. im am attempting to batch compress OSM tile images. they are of png format, otherwise i would have used cjpeg. anyhow the script need only open the images in a folder and save them out with a different compression level [9] after reading the [1] batch mode page i have assembled this format: (define (png-compress filename compression) (let* ((filelist (cadr (file-glob pattern 1 (while (not (null? filelist)) (let* ((filename (car filelist)) (image (car (gimp-file-load RUN-NONINTERACTIVE filename filename))) (gimp-file-png-save RUN-NONINTERACTIVE image drawable filename filename)) (gimp-image-delete image)) (set! filelist (cdr filelist) You never assign the drawable variable. Try to use (drawable (car (gimp-image-get-active-drawable image))) Not sure if that's the only problem though. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] script-fu: saving dialog choices
On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 16:53 +, Alan Campbell wrote: On 10 Sep 2010 at 9:35, Rob Antonishen wrote: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572865 Thanks, got that working. Instead of parasites consider using gimp_gimprc_set() and gimp_gimprc_query() which don't seem to have this issue. In Script-fu console (gimp_gimprc_set xxx ) on my win 2.6.10 installation gives Error: eval: unbound variable: gimp_gimprc_set Did I miss something? In Script-Fu it's gimp-gimprc-set. That's really an abuse of the gimprc though. It would be much better to get the parasites problem fixed. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Removing broken scripts.
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 18:02 +0200, Cecil C. wrote: I use Gimp under Ubuntu 10.04. My question is fairly simple. I have been using Gimp since 2.0, and have copied scripts over from release to release. Usually, some of the copied scripts are broken when a new release is available, such as from 2.4 to 2.6. To date, I have not made the effort to remove the broken scripts. When a script is broken, I find out by running the script and getting an error message, such as Error: set!: unbound variable: screen-layer. I know how I invoked the script from the menu, so I can edit all the scripts in my directory to see where they put the script in the menu structure and the name they used. Often, I can narrow the number of scripts I have to edit to find the correct one by using the script name as a starting point. However, there are a significant number of scripts that have a different file name than that used in the menu. Needless to say, this is a tedious and slow process. Is there an easier way to identify a broken script file other than the process I have outlined above? Probably the easiest way to find a script that contains a certain string (as found in the error-message) is to use the grep utility. Try 'man grep'. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How to edit text in both Gimp Photoshop
On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 18:21 -0700, Nikolas Konvalin wrote: Hey guys I am looking at making graphics for graphic river and they only accept .psd files. So is there a way to to make a .psd file in gimp and be able to edit the text layers in photoshop. You can't currently do that. GIMP now provides the API that the PSD plug-in would need to implement this. So we would be very happy if someone picked up work on the PSD plug-in and implemented support for saving GIMP text layers as PS text layers and for loading text layers from PSD files so that they become editable text layers in GIMP. If someone's interested to work on this, please speak up on the gimp-developer mailing-list. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Suppressing the press any character to close this window message in Script-Fu
On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 01:48 -0700, Dillon wrote: Hi all, I've written a series of scripts to automate GIMP's script-fu batch processor. Right now I'm working on starting up multiple asynchronous GIMP processes. The problem I'm having right now is with the interactive press any character to close this window message that appears when GIMP finishes processing a piece of Script-Fu. You get this message because you are running the copy of GIMP that was compiled as an interactive application with UI. If you don't want any UI, then don't start the gimp binary, but use the gimp-console binary instead. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] PDF editing in Gimp
On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 17:39 +, Alek wrote: Text layers? How to I create them? I just enter text in the pertinent areas of the form. I don't see any text layers. If you entered text using the GIMP text tool, then you added text layers. And if you saved this file as XCF, then these text layers would still be editable using the text tool. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP
On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 14:20 +0200, Andre Anckaert wrote: But nevertheless, I meanwhile found out that I have (a lot of) personal GIMP-files, and where they are: http://fotoalbum.seniorennet.be/incl/getimage2.php?imageid=1607079albumid=18832typeid=4 This fortunate discovery, I hope, will help me a lot to better understand GIMP. Below is a line actually copied from my own gimprc-file: (help-locales en) Ok, that explains a lot. You changed your settings so that the English Help is always taken, no matter what your locale is. It would be best to change this back to the default. To do that, just remove that line. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:51 +0200, Andre Anckaert wrote: I tried out my clever (!) idea to change the name of the Windows-folder: C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\share\gimp\2.0\help\nl in which the Help-installer had put the Dutch Help-version from nl to en. And tweaked nothing else than the Preferences - Help panel: http://fotoalbum.seniorennet.be/incl/getimage2.php?imageid=1603575albumid=18832typeid=4 Now the Help-buttons and F1 produce no longer an error. They start a browser-window and display there the Help, in the mixed English/Dutch version it is actually in, that is more or less relevant for the context in which he HELP-button or F1-key was used. Sometimes it seems to be necessary to center the focus on a specific detail. Now it would be good to find out why this was necessary at all. Could you start GIMP from a terminal with the GIMP_DEBUG environment variable set to the value help and send us the output you get when you press the F1 key? Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP
On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 15:28 +0200, Andre Anckaert wrote: Or otherwise, in order to keep as much as possible of the Dutch translation, I might perhaps better just change the name of the existing directory/folder to en instead of nl ?? Would that be enough to lure GIMP into giving its help?? I am not quite sure if I understand what you are reporting here. You installed the Dutch help package, but it installed itself in a folder named en ?? Please note that you should always install the English manual _and_ the localized version. That ensures that the help-browser can use the English manual as a fallback. You could also install other languages as fallback and use the help-locales gimprc variable to tweak the order of locales that the help browser tries to use. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Biggest Frustration
On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 17:55 +0200, yahvuu wrote: On 22.06.2010 00:30, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: Well, it looks like slightly improved existing Move tool to me :) Actually, i was thinking of a pure object selection tool without any manipulation functionality. Just to choose the current paint context without obscuring it, and without having to resort to the layers dialog. Somewhat paradoxically, this would be my favourite tool for color adjustments. And why does the Move tool not work for you then? It allows you to select a layer simply by clicking into the image. Perhaps you missed the Set layer or path as active option in the Preferences dialog? Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Help recovering a bad .xcf file
On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 22:17 +0200, Branko Vukelic wrote: As for myself, I've got 2G RAM, and 1G swap space (big mistake, I know) on a 64-bit linux. I sometimes run out оf memory/swap on a image that is like a little smaller than 3000x3000 when I have more than 20 layers and couple of hours of work on it. Tile cache is at 1024M. Why would you limit your tile-cache size to 1GB if you have 2GB of RAM? You might want to read http://www.gimp.org/unix/howtos/tile_cache.html Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Help recovering a bad .xcf file
On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 22:12 +0200, Branko Vukelic wrote: On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Sven Neumann s...@gimp.org wrote: It is actually a very difficult fix. There are hundreds of save plug-ins and all would have to be fixed. Also GIMP plug-ins may save using a helper plug-in that transparently enables saving to remote locations. It is definitely not trivial to fix this. If this kind of thing cannot be implemented for all formats, then I guess it is a design flaw. How come things like saving a backup copy of the target cannot be implemented in a single place for all file formats? That simply stinks of bad design, sorry. Now, I'll just STFU since I'm not the one to contribute the patch, and hopefully this has been already fixed in the devel branch (I remember reading something about this). Yes, it is a very terrible design and it dates back to the last millenium. But fixing such design flaws in a backward-compatible manner is rather difficult. Doing this correctly is on the list of things to fix if we should ever revamp the file plug-in API. For now we can probably fix it easily for XCF files and with some more effort some of the most often used file plug-ins. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Help recovering a bad .xcf file
On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 03:29 +0200, Branko Vukelic wrote: On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Sven Neumann s...@gimp.org wrote: Hi, Also I was really surprised that an auto backup isn't in GIMP already. I used to use a really old, backwoods photo editor and it automatically made a backup file and autosaved it every ten minutes. What you really need for your case is not an auto-backup feature, but atomic save operations. Instead of writing over the existing file when you save, GIMP should write to a temporary file in the target directory. And only if it succeeds in writing this file completely should it move the temporary file over the existing file. That way you wouldn't have lost your file completely. Please feel free to open a bug report for this. Better way would be to do what most text editors do. Create a backup of the old file (remember those files that end with a tilde '~'?) before overwriting it with the new save. It should be a trivial fix. It is actually a very difficult fix. There are hundreds of save plug-ins and all would have to be fixed. Also GIMP plug-ins may save using a helper plug-in that transparently enables saving to remote locations. It is definitely not trivial to fix this. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Help recovering a bad .xcf file
On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 03:26 +0200, Branko Vukelic wrote: On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Jade for...@gimpusers.com wrote: I'm running the latest Ubuntu and it's probably more of a hardware issue than a software. When I say Gimp crashed, I mean that it froze up and then exited. I don't know what happened besides that. I have a super old computer with three quarters of a gig of ram and it probably was having a hard time processing such a big image and shut it down. I don't really know. I was working with a 3000 x 3000 image with several layers; it was probably too much for the PC to handle, not Gimp. The file's gone, either way. :( Ooh, that _is_ a big image. What you can do is repartition the hard drive to give Linux more swap space. It probably ate up all the swap space and killed itself. Even with the large swap space (say 4 or even 8 G) it will be super-slow (RAM is always faster, obviously), but at least it won't die easily. 3000x3000 is not that large. How much RAM do you have and how is the tile-cache size configured in GIMP? Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Help recovering a bad .xcf file
Hi, Also I was really surprised that an auto backup isn't in GIMP already. I used to use a really old, backwoods photo editor and it automatically made a backup file and autosaved it every ten minutes. What you really need for your case is not an auto-backup feature, but atomic save operations. Instead of writing over the existing file when you save, GIMP should write to a temporary file in the target directory. And only if it succeeds in writing this file completely should it move the temporary file over the existing file. That way you wouldn't have lost your file completely. Please feel free to open a bug report for this. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] script: round-corners
On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 20:04 -0400, John Dey wrote: Thanks for the response. I had added the flatten command today but the script still has an execution error. Here is what I have tried: (define (round-corners filein fileout) (let* ((image (car (gimp-file-load RUN-NONINTERACTIVE filein filein))) (drawable (car (gimp-image-get-active-layer image (set! drawable (gimp-image-flatten image)) (script-fu-round-corners RUN-NONINTERACTIVE image drawable 15 TRUE 8 8 15 TRUE FALSE) (gimp-file-save RUN-NONINTERACTIVE image drawable fileout fileout) (gimp-image-delete image))) You need to flatten the image after you've run the round-corners script of course. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] script: round-corners
On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 10:57 -0400, John Dey wrote: ro...@robo4:~/Desktop$ gimp -i -b '(round-corners test.JPG test2.JPG)' -b '(gimp-quit 0)' batch command executed successfully Comment: test2.JPG is created but the corners are not rounded and there is no drop shadow! (define (round-corners in-filename out-filename) (let* ((image (car (gimp-file-load RUN-NONINTERACTIVE in-filename in-filename))) (drawable (car (gimp-image-get-active-layer image (script-fu-round-corners image drawable 15 TRUE 8 8 15 TRUE FALSE) (gimp-file-save RUN-NONINTERACTIVE image drawable out-filename out-filename) (gimp-image-delete image))) You need to add a call to gimp-image-flatten to your script and make sure that you save the drawable that is created by this call. Sven ___ 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
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 11:22 -0400, Rob Antonishen wrote: 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). Are they? It also works the other way around: GIMP can use SVG gradients. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Fw: Re: toolbox
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 15:58 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 29 April 2010 09:12, Martin Nordholts ense...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/29/2010 04:00 AM, Steve VanSlyck wrote: Is there no way to dock these darn things onto the main drawing window? (When I minimize an app I want the whole think gone, not just the subwindow I'm working on. Not in 2.6, but in 2.8 there will be a single-window mode. Is this available in the 2.7.0 development snapshot? No, this is not available in any released snapshot. Not even the code in git is in a state ready for general consumption yet. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] how to set defaults for printing and so on
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 13:59 +0200, Maggy R. wrote: When I take a screenshot, crop it in the Gimp, send it to my printer, I first have to select page layout orientationportrait, paper source cassette, then I have to go to print, select my default printer from a list, go to printer preferences, select cassette as paper source once again, select portrait printing once again, go back to the Gimp print menu, go to the second tab, lower the DPI settings to fit the image to the paper size, or else I get the screen shot by default as a 300dpi stamp size in the top left corner of the paper. Or I get an error message telling me that there is no paper in the rear tray (it's always empty). And all these actions time and time again, each time that I want to print a screen shot. Unless there is a decent way to set such things as defaults, I'm sorry to say that I find this a very clumsy time consumig way of printing. There are many other things for which I would like to set defaults in the Gimp but I've not yet been able to find where. The settings you choose will be used as default settings the next time you print. If that doesn't work, then there's a bug somewhere or it is due to the fact that you are using the portable version for Windows. Most likely it simply can't write the settings. Printer settings are stored in ~/.gimp-2.6/print-page-setup and ~/.gimp-2.6/print-settings. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Open a file r/o
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 08:19 +0200, Cristian Secară wrote: (opening images by drag and drop is always an easier method for me than to browse for a file via the open dialog each time I want to open something; unfortunately the save by drag and drop is not possible :) It is possible. You can save an image by dragging the image from the image preview in the toolbox or from the image previews in the Quit dialog (there might be more places, I am not sure...) to a file-manager or desktop that is XDS-aware. Works nicely for me on GNOME 2.28. http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/XDS Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Open a file r/o
Hi, On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 16:57 -0400, Jay Smith wrote: However, Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 2.04 refuses to create files using the same methods that every other *nix programs use. This can hardly be true in the general sense that you are putting it. Files are created by GIMP plug-ins and how the files are created depends on the implementation of the plug-in. For many formats the actual creation of the file is performed by a library that deals with this particular format. So can you point out the particular file formats that are problematic for you? Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Open a file r/o
Hi, On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 16:57 -0400, Jay Smith wrote: On *nix Create-file perms should be set by the creating program based on umask / directory perms. If the perms of the directory /somedir/images look like drwsrws--- user me group mygroup then if files are created BY A MEMBER of the group mygroup, files created in /somedir/images should look likerw-rw (actually on my system they end up rw-rw-r-- for some reason). You obviously did not quite understand how file permissions actually work. The setgid bit which is set on your example directory says that new files and subdirectories created within it should inherit the groupID, rather than the primary groupID of the user who created the file. It doesn't say anything about the permission bits of files created in that directory. The permissions are determined by the mode that is used with the call to open(2) modified by the process's umask. The typical default value for the process umask is S_IWGRP | S_IWOTH (octal 022). In the usual case where the mode argument to open(2) is specified as: S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IWGRP | S_IROTH | S_IWOTH (octal 0666) when creating a new file, the permissions on the resulting file will be: S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH (because 0666 ~022 = 0644; i.e., rw-r--r--). Whether the directory has the setgrp bit set or not does not have an effect on the permissions of the resulting file. It only affects the groupID of the resulting file. So please stop spreading misinformation like this. You claimed that the described behavior was confirmed a bug. I doubt that it was confirmed by someone who actually knew what he/she was talking about. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Open a file r/o
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 23:03 +0100, Lennart Svensson wrote: Sven Neumann wrote, On 2010-03-23 21:38: On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 14:19 +0100, Lennart Svensson wrote: When you start gimp from the promptline you got the Application Options: -a, --as-newOpen images as new Why is this not available (as a button) when you open a file inside gimp ? It is considered useful for applications that want to send images to GIMP by means of opening them from a temporary location. We haven't seen any potential use for it in the user interface so far. Sven This button should inhibit the possibility to save the file during editing and destroy the original file. Same as the command line option -a. You can already do that using Save As I see the point of your request of being able to do that decision when opening the file. But adding yet another way of opening a file would also add complexity to the user interface. Not sure if that's worth it. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Open a file r/o
On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 14:19 +0100, Lennart Svensson wrote: When you start gimp from the promptline you got the Application Options: -a, --as-newOpen images as new Why is this not available (as a button) when you open a file inside gimp ? It is considered useful for applications that want to send images to GIMP by means of opening them from a temporary location. We haven't seen any potential use for it in the user interface so far. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] giimp printing incorrectly
On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 12:39 -0400, Helen wrote: I've been without a printer for some time, and I finally bought on Saturday. HP Officejet 7000 wide format. Gimp will print fine on regular letter-size paper, but when I try to print a 9 x 12 photo on 11x17 paper, it prints only a part of the picture, leaving half the page blank. I've set all the page setup features that I can find which might be relevant. Set to centered. But it keeps putting out these expensive sheets of photopaper with the photo only half there, printing only on one (leading edge) of the paper. The print preview feature doesn't work. When I click Print Preview, it flashes quickly, less than a second. Using gimp 2.6.2 on Suse 11.1 You could start by using an updated version. Not sure if there are any relevant fixes, but 2.6.2 is really very very outdated. Try to get your hands on 2.6.8 and a recent version of GTK+. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Installing gegl for gimp-2.7
On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 10:31 +0100, Dan O. wrote: Did you manage to get it to execute? I ran into the same problem, downloaded the bz2 file of 0.1 gegl (feb 2010), and it seemed to resolve the compilation issue as well. However, gimp fails to execute, citing the same problem with avcodec. # ** Message: Module '/opt/gimp-2.7/lib/gegl-0.1/ff-load.so' load error: /opt/gimp-2.7/lib/gegl-0.1/ff-load.so: undefined symbol: avcodec_decode_video2 # Why would that keep GIMP from running? It's just one of the many GEGL operations that doesn't link. That should not be a show-stopper. In any case you can safely remove the ff-load.so file without loosing any functionality in GIMP. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Installing gegl for gimp-2.7
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 14:55 +0100, jhardlin wrote: Finally, I installed babl and gegl-0.1.2 from their bz2 tarball found at http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gimp/, with success. The link in the INSTALL file of the gimp directory is obsolete and misleading. It isn't obsolete or misleading. The gegl.org web-site is just temporarily down. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Edit Zoom ratios?
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 15:28 +0100, Mark wrote: I do a lot of picture rendering and find myself zooming images to ratios of 3:1 and 6:1 (300% and 600%, respectively) for a majority of jobs. Can these be added to the popup menu at the bottom of the window instead of having to manually enter these values each time via View Zoom Other? You can enter the value directly in the entry at the bottom of the image window. And if you do that once, it will add itself to the popup of that image window. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Installing gegl for gimp-2.7
On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 20:24 +0100, jhardlin wrote: I am trying to install gimp-2.7 after cloning the git repository. For that, I must install gegl and babl 0.1.2. I can't reach http://gegl .org that seems broken. So, I cloned the gegl git repository: ./autogen.sh: no problem make : I get this error (translated) make[3]: quitting « /home/xxx/gegl/docs/gallery » directory make[3]: going into « /home/xxx/gegl/docs » directory make[3]: *** No rule to make « gegl.devhelp » target, necessary for « all-am ». Stop. How can I resolve this error? Try to pass --disable-docs to 'autogen.sh' and run make again. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] ?? Status of remembering Layers setting for Canvas Resizing -- in most recent version
Hi, On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 23:50 +0100, yahvuu wrote: For the New Layer dialog, i'd prefer: c) Always create a transparent layer, without showing a dialog. Then let the user fill the new layer if desired (not considering layer size here). Well, layer size is the problem here. It is rather inconvenient to resize layers, so it is somewhat important for many work-flows to have a way to specify the size when the layer is created. This works nicely for a keyboard workflow: CTRL-SHIFT-N, CTRL-. Fast, no confirmation required and no application state has to be remembered. An open question is how to make this fast for a mouse only / tablet user. Easy enough, a mouse user can drag the foreground or background color from the bottom of the Toolbox or from the Colors dockable and drop it either on the image window or on the newly created layer in the Layers dialog. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] ?? Status of remembering Layers setting for Canvas Resizing -- in most recent version
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 21:18 -0500, Frank Gore wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:12 PM, David Gowers 00a...@gmail.com wrote: +1 on this; It jars me momentarily every time I open this dialog and the setting is stuck to None instead of what I last selected. What's unfortunate is that most of the tools in the toolbox have the ability to have their default settings changed, but many of the dialogs do not. It would be nice if the Save tool options on exit feature from the preferences could be expanded to the dialogs too. But where does it stop? I often wish my filters remembered their settings, but I'm pretty sure that's beyond the control of the developers. Not really. It's on the TODO for quite a while already. But it's quite a big task and it might take years before it gets enough priority that someone actually sits down and attacks it. Of course if it bothers you so much, you might want to be the one who fixes it... Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Can the Curves dialog be reversed?
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 14:49 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: The Color Curves dialog has the black in the lower left corner and the white in the upper right corner. This is the opposite of another program that I also have to use. Is there a way to reverse this default? GIMP is Free Software. You are given the source code and the right to modify it according to your needs. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Moving images from point a to b animated
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 23:56 +0100, Scott wrote: Hi all and thanks for oall the comments. I finally figured out how to install the gap into my gimp. Now that I look at the settings I am more confused as ever. Can someone help me get started on this. Have you had a look at the introductory GAP tutorial at the gimp.org web-site? http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Using_GAP/ Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] What is the best way to fade an edge
On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 19:55 +0100, Scott wrote: Hi all I was wondering what would be the best way to fade the edge of a pic so that it fades into nothing. Have you had a look at http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Quickmask/ ? Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] how to select copy a circular part of photo
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 21:25 +0100, Donna B. wrote: I need help with a newbie question (ver 2.6). I need to select a circular part of a photo - the goal is to create a web page with circular photos arranged in a circle. The only way I've found is to draw a circular selection, display the QuickMask to show the outline of the circle and use the bezier tool to click around the circle then select to Path and copy that to a new file. There must be a better way; can anyone describe it? Just omit all the steps between draw a circular selection and copy that to a new file. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] whan means tube button ?
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 13:06 +0100, yahvuu wrote: If so, then it would be better to remove the particular reference to gimp.org from that tooltips ? the old homepage survived on http://classic.gimp.org I think it's best to just change the reference to that address. (unless someone dares to remove these scripts from core GIMP) I think we should drop distribution of these scripts. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] how to invert greyscale values only... leaving colors alone
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 15:27 -0800, Rich Evans wrote: Hello, Is this the right place to ask a question about special filters in GIMP? If so, I'd love some advice on the following task: I have an RGB image that is basically a black background with many colorful objects and white text. --- I'd like to invert the image so that it is a white background with black text but a simple invert inverts the colors in all the colored objects as well. Is there a technique or tool to invert any part of the image that is only a shade of grey? i.e. invert pixeils with a saturation of ~0 (if that is how you say it). I could imagine a filter that does a simple RGB invert for any pixel whose calculated RGB saturation value is below a set threshold. Does this type of tool/script exist? Simple. First create a duplicate of your layer. Then invert the colors on the lower layer and set the layer mode of the upper (unchanged) layer to Colors. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] problem with genius 8x6 tablet and gimp
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 14:02 +0100, Ohad N. wrote: I've just replaced my old AceCad tablet with Genius 8x6 tablet. it works fine in ALL programs I checked except for GIMP . :( The problem is that the x-axis doens't react as it should. for example - if I user a brush tool - I get two cursors - one with a brush where the pen is and another where it actualy draws. I've googled for a few hours with no aparent solution. I'm using gimp 2.6.8 on windows XP home edition. To my best knowledge, the tablet driver is the latest and it seems to work fine. I also get preasure recognition both in gimp and in the tablet utility. Do you know of any solution about this frustrating situation ? Grab the source code (of GTK+) and add support for your tablet to it. Then send a patch to the GTK+ developers. You can also try to ask the tablet vendor to add proper support for their tablet to GTK+. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] problem with genius 8x6 tablet and gimp
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 17:50 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Sven Neumann wrote: Grab the source code (of GTK+) and add support for your tablet to it. Then send a patch to the GTK+ developers. You can also try to ask the tablet vendor to add proper support for their tablet to GTK+. Funnily enough the tablet is reported to work with GIMP just fine on Linux. That is not too surprising. The Windows port of GTK+ does not get as much contributions as the X11/Linux backend. There are probably a lot more GIMP users on Windows than there are on Linux, but still there are almost no code contributions for the Windows specific parts of the code. It's the same for scanners and printing. Windows is a second-class citizen, simply because there is almost no contributions from Windows users. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] JPG file size increases with saving
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 10:40 +0100, yahvuu wrote: Philip Rhoades wrote: It still seems counter intuitive that opening a JPG (even if it is a photo rather than a computer generated image) and immediately saving it with 100% quality increases the size by 2.5 . . That is only non-intuitive because you are making the wrong assumption that the JPEG quality was measured in percent. It isn't, it's just a quality level that happens to have a range of 0 to 100. I suggest that you read the JPEG FAQ, in particular the answer to question 5: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq/part1/ Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] JPG file size increases with saving
Hi, On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 05:27 +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote: I guess what is confusing is this: - there was a loss of information when the first JPG was saved in the digital camera memory from the CCD - when the JPG is uncompressed by GIMP into RAM, there is no loss of information (?) - when GIMP then saves the same image as a new JPG at 100% quality (I would have thought that this meant not losing any more information), that the second JPG would be compressed/created in much the same way as the first and therefore would be about the same size . . Actually, you get almost no further degradation if you save the image again with the same settings that were used for the first save. The JPEG plug-in even stores information in the image when the image is opened and it will use that information to save it in the best possible way when you save it again. Just leave all controls at their default values. Note that I said almost. Of course the image will suffer a little. But you won't get significantly better results if you increase the JPEG quality or change other settings in the save dialog. You just get a larger file. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP's gradients are not smooth?
On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 13:13 -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: My monitor is not a CRT, but I think it's pretty good: it's a Samsung 2253BW LCD, from 2008. Not sure if this tells you much, but on this monitor I can easily distinguish every shade in the color scale from dpreview.com: http://nodivisions.com/stuff/ext_posts/dpreview.com-color-scale.jpg But I don't think this is a monitor issue. Here's an image of a gradient that I found on the web: http://nodivisions.com/stuff/ext_posts/smooth-gradient.jpg On my monitor, that looks extremely smooth: I need to blow it up to ~200% before I see the striations, and even then they're nowhere near as rough looking as in the gradient I created in GIMP. Is that because this is a color gradient whereas my GIMP gradient is in gray? Oh, are you trying to create this gradient on an image in gray-scale mode? If you do that, then you are effectively disabling dithering. Dithering works by introducing errors and the full RGB color-space is needed for such dithering to yield the desired result. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Reading sample point locations from Python-fu
On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 18:19 +0100, Mathias Lindner wrote: is it possible to read the location of sample points from Python? Just as you can e.g. read the anchor points of vectors. No, there is no PDB API to access sample points (yet). If you need one, I suggest that you make an API proposal on the gimp-developer list. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Tip of the Day is not displayed each time
On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 22:06 +0100, Tetsuya Yuasa wrote: Hallo, I know from the online manual: http://docs.gimp.org/pl/gimp-tips-dialog.html The tip of the day is no longer displayed by default each time you start GIMP. There is no problem so far. But I could not find any information how to use Tip dialog like previous version. I want show the dialog each time I start GIMP. Maybe is it no longer possible to use in that way? No, it isn't. We might add it back for GIMP 2.8, if someone finds the time to do that. Until then you can read the tips by accessing the dialog from the Help menu. If you are interested in getting the tips dialog back, you should consider sending us a patch. Please contact us on the gimp-developer mailing-list if you are interested in such a contribution. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Behaviour of gimp-layer-create-mask with channels
On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 11:51 +0100, Gino D wrote:
I need some clarification on how the Script-Fu procedure
gimp-layer-create-mask acts with channels.
Supposing that the current image holds more than one channel, whether
I wanted to call such procedure with its second argument mask-type
set to ADD-CHANNEL-MASK (6) , how would the Script-Fu interpreter
understand which channel to consider? Or rather, with what additional
command should I specify the chosen channel?
If in doubt, read the source code:
layer_cmds.c (layer_create_mask_invoker):
if (mask_type == GIMP_ADD_CHANNEL_MASK)
{
channel = gimp_image_get_active_channel (image);
The procedure will use the active channel. You can set the active
channel using gimp-image-set-active-channel().
Sven
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Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP's gradients are not smooth?
Hi, On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 13:13 -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: http://nodivisions.com/stuff/ext_posts/gimp-unsmooth-gradient.jpg http://nodivisions.com/stuff/ext_posts/smooth-gradient.jpg Not a fair comparison. Your unsmooth gradient has a much smaller range than the image of the smooth gradient you are comparing it too. And you ignore the fact that the smooth gradient is not a grayscale gradient. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP's gradients are not smooth?
On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 13:04 -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: On 01/10/2010 05:22 AM, Sven Neumann wrote: On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 13:13 -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: My monitor is not a CRT, but I think it's pretty good: it's a Samsung 2253BW LCD, from 2008. Not sure if this tells you much, but on this monitor I can easily distinguish every shade in the color scale from dpreview.com: http://nodivisions.com/stuff/ext_posts/dpreview.com-color-scale.jpg But I don't think this is a monitor issue. Here's an image of a gradient that I found on the web: http://nodivisions.com/stuff/ext_posts/smooth-gradient.jpg On my monitor, that looks extremely smooth: I need to blow it up to ~200% before I see the striations, and even then they're nowhere near as rough looking as in the gradient I created in GIMP. Is that because this is a color gradient whereas my GIMP gradient is in gray? Oh, are you trying to create this gradient on an image in gray-scale mode? No, it's an RGB-mode image; it's just that the only colors I'm using in it are white and gray. On 01/10/2010 06:24 AM, Sven Neumann wrote: On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 13:13 -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: http://nodivisions.com/stuff/ext_posts/gimp-unsmooth-gradient.jpg http://nodivisions.com/stuff/ext_posts/smooth-gradient.jpg Not a fair comparison. Your unsmooth gradient has a much smaller range than the image of the smooth gradient you are comparing it too. I don't think that's it either. Here's the smooth one again, along with a new one created in GIMP with the same dimensions as the smooth one: http://nodivisions.com/stuff/ext_posts/smooth-gradient.jpg http://nodivisions.com/stuff/ext_posts/gimp-unsmooth-gradient-smaller.jpg That one's better, but still has more visible striations than the non-GIMP image. Or by range are you referring to white-to-gray vs. white-to-blue? Am I running out of intermediate colors faster because white and gray are more similar than white and blue? Range was referring to the range of colors your gradient goes through. Your start and end colors are very close to each other. So there is only a very limited range of colors between them. That is different in the smooth gradient you are comparing to. Its gradient covers a larger color range. I don't think you can substantially better results than what GIMP will create for you. But if you are not happy about the result, feel free to use different software or to patch GIMP to yield a better result. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP's gradients are not smooth?
Hi, On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 09:32 -0600, mac9416 wrote: Anthony, is it absolutely necessary that you have a whitetransparency gradient layer over a background layer? I was able to eyedrop the center color and outer color and create a one-layer gradient that looks very smooth. I can't articulate why a one-layer gradient looks better than semi-transparent gradient over a background, but it certainly seems to be the case. http://mac9416.keryxproject.org/images/gimp-smooth-gradient.png http://mac9416.keryxproject.org/images/gimp-smooth-gradient.xcf.gz Oh, if Anthony is blending a gradient over a background, then it's absolutely not surprising that he gets visible banding. At least not until GIMP starts to use higher bit-depths than 8bit per channel. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP's gradients are not smooth?
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 22:05 -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: Here are my files: http://nodivisions.com/stuff/ext_posts/gimp-unsmooth-gradient.jpg http://nodivisions.com/stuff/ext_posts/gimp-unsmooth-gradient.xcf.gz As you can see, there are obvious striations there, rather than a smooth gradient. On what display are you viewing these images? Your gradients only use a small subset of the RGB color-space (about a few dozen colors). Most modern displays are not able to render all the 16 million colors of the 24bit RGB color-space. Modern LCD panels, unless you spend a lot of money, are limited to somewhat like 20 or 18 bits. So that will further reduce the amount of colors used to display your gradients. If you enable dithering and look at the results on a good monitor, favorably a well-calibrated CRT, then the gradients should appear reasonably smooth. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] DualCore or QuadCore for Gimp?
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 16:52 -0700, Michael J. Hammel wrote: On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 00:55 +0100, Uwe Haider wrote: Runs Gimp with a quadcore or with an faster DualCore better? The system will run on Linux Gentoo with 64bit. Not sure it matters unless you happen to run a lot of other applications at the same time. GIMP doesn't (to my knowledge) parallelize operations on multiple cores. That is not correct. GIMP does make use of multiple processors for quite a few operations. And this is going to improve further while we migrate to GEGL. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] full-screen mode on Mac OS X - selecting which monitor to use?
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 22:19 -0500, Warren Baird wrote: I was very happy to see that when I recently upgrade to the most current gimp through ports on Mac OS X 10.6, I was able to successfully switch to fullscreen view - something I missed a lot from when I was working on Linux... However, I'm running with two monitors, and the gimp always seems to select my primary monitor for full screen mode, even though I'd rather it be on the secondary monitor, since it's somewhat higher resolution, and then the X11 menu isn't stealing screen space. Shouldn't you be using a GIMP build that uses the native GTK+ Quartz back-end instead of using X11? That might even fix your problem. If you use ports to build GIMP yourself, try to uninstall gtk2 and then 'port install gtk2 +quartz before you build GIMP. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] DualCore or QuadCore for Gimp?
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 15:41 -0700, Michael J. Hammel wrote: On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 23:16 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: Not sure it matters unless you happen to run a lot of other applications at the same time. GIMP doesn't (to my knowledge) parallelize operations on multiple cores. That is not correct. GIMP does make use of multiple processors for quite a few operations. And this is going to improve further while we migrate to GEGL. Very cool. I wasn't aware of that. I learn something new every day. :-) I'll have to look at that when I get home tonight since I've got a quad core there and lots of big project files to try. Is there any info on what types of operations make use of this? If there are no docs on it, is there somewhere in the source I can scan for hints? git grep pixel_regions_process_parallel Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] separate the cursor from brush?
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 14:55 -0500, Gracia M. Littauer wrote: Is it possible in gimp to separate the cursor from brush? It's very hard to edit a photo/graphic with the cursor in the way (on top od the brush). Electronic Arts' Deluxe Paint (the BEST ever draw program IMNSHO) had it... Go to the Preferences dialog and change the cursor style?! Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Thumbnail Images are Larger then Originals
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 14:42 -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: I need to read up on the GIMP documentation regarding PNG quality settings. Mine are apparently too high. PNG is a lossless image format, it doesn't have any quality settings. The only thing you can adjust is the compression factor. A higher compression factor will result in the same image at smaller file size traded in for longer compression and decompression times. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Re : gimp brushes from abr ?
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 22:37 +0100, Cédric Gémy wrote: Just put the .abr file in your $HOME/.gimp-2.6/brushes. Relaunch gimp and it might be OK. Unfortunately, i feel that Gimp is running much slower when such brush set are loaded. It seems to me that gimp loads them all at launch time. That is correct. But this should only affect memory usage and start-up time. So as long as you have enough RAM, more brushes shouldn't slow GIMP down (except for the increased start-up time). Is there any caching that would allow to have them available but not loaded full-res until we need them ? Lazy-loading of brushes and other resource files has been proposed several times, but it was never fully implemented. There's a bug-report about it and we are of course appreciating patches to implement this. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] gimp brushes from abr ?
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 14:56 -0500, Helen wrote: I use gimp version 2.6.2. on linux, suse 11.1 I downloaded a set of free brushes [ from http://www.4shared.com/file/161649638/dc2c1b74/_2__Tree_Brushes_Set-2.html if anyone is interested ] and this gave me two files, one .abr and one .jpg I'm not sure I can recall every step I've tried, but nothing -- unzipping, extracting, etc.,-- has worked. Can someone help me figure out how to use these files as gimp brushes? Just copy the .abr files to your GIMP brushes folder or add the path where they are stored on your disk to the GIMP brushes search path. You can lookup and edit the GIMP brushes search path in the Preferences dialog. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Copy and past between GIMP and external app on Windows
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 17:09 +0100, Monique et Bernard Weill wrote: I am working on Windows XP, GIMP 2.6.7. like this: 1- I scan an image in 300 dpi at his real size: A4 and obtain file in Jpeg and/or Tif. 2- I open the file in GIMP. 3- I select part of the image and copy (Ctrl + C) the selection in the Clipboard. And now my problem: Past (Ctrl V) on: - Gimp: the size of the copied selection is good (equal to the original size). - Microsoft program like Powerpoint or OO program like Draw or Inkscape: the size is around multiply by 3! But that is expected. You are copying the pixels over the clipboard. This doesn't say anything about how these pixels are displayed in other applications. Most applications will look at the print-size meta-data of the image in order to determine at what size the image should be displayed. But you are not copying this meta-information when you copy and paste pixels between applications. It should be fairly easy though to adjust the display size in the target application. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Alpha2 of Separate+ 0.5.6
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 03:38 +0900, Yoshinori Yamakawa wrote: Clipping paths are supported(TIFF, JPEG and PSD). Source: http://sourceforge.jp/projects/separate-plus/releases/45080/ Demonstration video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BogZv7_8_0c Looks nice. I wonder when you will eventually step forward and propose patches to integrate the functionality from the separate plug-in for inclusion in the GIMP source tree. Or would you prefer to keep this development as a third-party plug-in forever? Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Page Setup paper size settings won't stay
On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 14:40 -0800, Michael F Uschold wrote: This is the sequence of events: 1. I enter Page Setup, where the current page size is set to, say Letter 2. I change the paper size to be 6x4 3. I click OK. 4. I enter Page Setup again. The current page size is still Letter. It should have changed to 6x4. If I change the paper size to Legal, or some other size, it works. The margins settings also get saved correctly if I change them. There is something about 6x4 that it is choking on. Any hints? https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505123 Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How I´ve losed a image.
On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 00:42 +0100, Pere Pujal i Carabantes wrote: How can I control the memory usage of The GIMP? See http://www.gimp.org/unix/howtos/tile_cache.html Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How I´ve losed a image.
Hi, On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 00:42 +0100, Pere Pujal i Carabantes wrote: I supose that tweaking the different settings in environmet prefences, but I am not sure how to count it, should I sum max mem for undo to max mem for cache in order to get the maximum of memory I am allowing to The GIMP? First of all, the program is called GNU Image Manipulation Program or short GIMP, but not The GIMP. Then, you need to understand that GIMP will use as much memory as it needs to hold the image data and that includes undo. The amount of memory used for undo can be limited in the Preferences. You can also control how much of the pixel data is actually kept in virtual memory (that's RAM and swap) by setting the size of the tile-cache. Pixel data that doesn't fit into the tile-cache will have to be swapped out to a file. Use of such a swap-file will slow things down dramatically. Up to the point where any operation that needs access to all data (such as saving your images) takes very long. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Is this a bug? Setting image w/corrupted icc profile to sRGB; plugin dies
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 18:09 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: I am afraid I am not 100% following what you are saying. Perhaps I miscommunicated. Or perhaps I am just not filling in assumed knowledge well enough. I want to use Gimp as an image editor. Well, you say that you want to process thousands of images. Then GIMP is the wrong tool for the job. b) I would like to find a method to remove color profile parasites on thousands of images, via the command line. You have suggested trying tifftopnm | pnmtotiff do to this. I will experiment with that, but I have a concern as noted below. Based on your most recent recommendation, I looked at http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/tifftopnm.html and I am not sure how this helps me, unless you are suggesting to ROUNDTRIP using these two programs. But that is exactly the same thing that happens when you open a TIFF file in GIMP and save it again. The pixel data is loaded into GIMP and your file is not any longer a TIFF file then, it is a collection of pixels, let's call it an image. Then when you save it as TIFF again, this collection of pixels is encoded as a TIFF file. Pretty much exactly what tifftopnm | pnmtotiff is doind. However, I noted it said [below] that theoretically you can lose information in certain cases. I have no idea if my images would be affected by that. The PNM output has the same maxval as the Tiff input, except that if the Tiff input is colormapped (which implies a maxval of 65535) the PNM output has a maxval of 255. Though this may result in lost information, such input images hardly ever actually have more color resolution than a maxval of 255 provides and people often cannot deal with PNM files that have maxval 255. By contrast, a non-colormapped Tiff image that doesn't need a maxval 255 doesn't have a maxval 255, so when tifftopnm sees a non-colormapped maxval 255, it takes it seriously and produces a matching output maxval. Another exception is where the TIFF maxval is greater than 65535, which is the maximum allowed by the Netpbm formats. In that case, tifftopnm uses a maxval of 65535, and you lose some information in the conversion. Since GIMP doesn't support a maxval 255, you would more likely lose information if you used GIMP for this. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Preventing selections and such from flagging the image as modified
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 19:48 +0100, Deniz Dogan wrote: Whenever I click with the selection tool in an image GIMP regards the image as edited. I'm assuming there is a reason for this, but is there any way to turn this feature off? No. The selection mask is part of the image and if you modify it, then the image is modified and flagged dirty. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Is this a bug? Setting image w/corrupted icc profile to sRGB; plugin dies
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 11:56 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: I _do_ have a saved sample corrupted image file if anybody needs this for testing purposes. Is this a bug? Is it known? Should I post on the developer list? Should I put it in bugzilla? Your files are corrupt. You can't possibly expect GIMP to fix them. Of course if you really care, you could probably write some code that is capable of dealing with your broken files and that may even be able to fix them. But don't expect this work to be done by someone else for you. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Is this a bug? Setting image w/corrupted icc profile to sRGB; plugin dies
Hi, On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 14:33 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: If I were a developer, with the necessary skills, I would be curious about what was killing off the plugin and why the plugin dieing (especially when it was just trying to open a dialog and had not actually attempted to take action on the image yet) would leave the whole program in a potentially unstable state. The message that tells you about the dying plug-in is just a general dialog. It says that GIMP 'might' have been left in an unstable state. In general this is not the case and there's nothing to worry about here. I have written the plug-in that crashed, and I can tell what's most likely going wrong, without having a look at the code or your broken image. The assumption that the plug-in would not have accessed the image before it opens the dialog is wrong, since the plug-in needs to read the color profile from the image in order to present information about the current color profile to the user. If the attached profile is corrupt, then it may crash at this point. I don't really care about fixing this for all sorts of corrupt input data. Such a fix would most likely introduce regressions and would make the code much more difficult to read and maintain. You can probably get the plug-in to do its job of removing the attached color profile by calling the plug-in procedure non-interactively. Or you could simply remove the icc-profile parasite from the image. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Is this a bug? Setting image w/corrupted icc profile to sRGB; plugin dies
Hi, On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 15:39 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: By the way, if possible, I would like to do this parasite removal on tens of thousands of files. Perhaps as the 'exec' of a 'find' command. I don't understand why you are even considering to use GIMP then. If all you care about is the image data, then a simple tifftopnm | pnmtotiff will probably do the trick. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Coloir picker and colour balance
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 15:51 +, Francesco Scaglioni wrote: Please forgive me if this is a stupid question as am new to the whole colour management thing. I have downloaded what purports to be an sRGB colour checker image in png format along with the list of RGB values that should be represented in each square. If I use the colour picker and its info window then when a given colour patch is clicked the info window reports RGB values that are at most 1 or 2 away from what the table suggests they should be. Is the picker reporting what it expects to find or is it reporting what is actually being displayed by my monitor. The color picker doesn't care about your monitor nor does it make any expectations. It looks at the image pixel values and that's it. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Tip of the day
On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 14:09 +1030, Michaela Baulderstone wrote: What's the chances the tip of the day could come as an automated daily email via this gimp-user list? Just an idea, Well, not such a nice idea, because certainly not everyone subscribed here would want to get such an automated email. But if you want one, there is hardly anything simpler than setting up a script that parses the gimp-tips.xml file as found in the GIMP source tree and sends yourself such an email once a day. Have fun. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Tip of the day
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 16:35 +, Greg Chapman wrote: On 28 Nov 09 15:38 Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org said: To my disappointment, the button to switch the tip on and off is no longer in the tip window. What do I need to do to get the tip to appear each time I activate GIMP, please. I am using GIMP 2.6.7 and Ubuntu 9.10. You are not alone. The same massively retrograde step was taken in the Windows implementation too! There is no such thing as a Windows implementation. The same code is used on all platforms. The Tips of the Day can only be read from the Help menu currently. There is no way to make it appear on startup. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Tip of the day
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 21:15 +, Greg Chapman wrote: The Tips of the Day can only be read from the Help menu currently. There is no way to make it appear on startup. That, indeed is the complaint, along with: # There's no way to stop it appearing on start up (Having turned it on). Sorry, but how do you make it appear on start up? # There's no close button, so that once open you need to use a title bar button. Put together, I'd say that completely breaks all the conventions for how a Tip of the Day should behave, not to mention, a user interface convention. No idea why that had to happen, but it's almost at the stage where I say it might have been better to take it out all together, or just placed all the tips, on a single conventional help page. As you can see in the UI specifications for GIMP 2.6, the tips were supposed to be available prominently from the image window: http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/No_image_open_specification#inside_the_.E2.80.98no_image.E2.80.99_window Unfortunately no one got around to implement this detail of the specification. If it bothers you enough to speak up on this mailing-list, why don't you make a patch that we can use for GIMP 2.8? Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] minimize the main toolbox?
Hi, there are a lot of useful hints in the Tips of the Day dialog, hidden in the Help menu. Perhaps you guys want to enable the Tips of the Day feature and learn some more nice things about GIMP. One of the tips would have been this one: If your screen is too cluttered, you can press Tab in an image window to toggle the visibility of the toolbox and other dialogs. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How do I create smooth diagonal lines
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 04:21 +0100, bob wrote: Hi all. How do I create smooth diagonal lines ? I've been experimenting with creating various aesthetics for an online portfolio. Here is the result of one such experiment: http://imgur.com/e7iaj I created the shape of the navigation container image with the pen tool. I turned the resulting path into a selection, and then applied various fills, gradients and layer effects. Did you try to stroke the path? That gives much better results than converting the path to a selection. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP and surface blur (from PS)
On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 20:50 +0100, Tadas wrote: Hello, Could you tell me if it's possible to make something like blurring image using surface blur (in PS4)filter in GIMP? I didn't find anything similar in GIMP filters so maybe there is a plug-in which lets to do it? Surface blur is the filter which I was using in PS4 to automatically blur out of focus areas (it reduces noise much better than other filters for me) and not to blur sharp areas. I liked it because noise reduction filter blurred everything and I wanted to have still sharp image with reduced noise. But now I'm GIMP user. :) Everything is pretty good here, but surface blur is the function I miss. So I would be very grateful if you tell me if it's available in GIMP as plug-in or I simply don't find that function in GIMP. The Selective Gaussian Blur plug-in might be able to provide a similar result ( see http://docs.gimp.org/en/filters-blur.html ). Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.7 Install on Centos
On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 09:41 +0100, Greg S. wrote: Hi all, The error message below was generated when I tried to configure gegl. I have installed glib-2.22.2 Has anyone got any ideas please. *** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.22.2, but GLIB (2.12.3) *** was found! If pkg-config was correct, Just read the full error messages. It tells you what to do. If you need more help, please read the pkg-config manual page. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Font scaling looks choppy
On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 11:00 -0500, vr wrote: I'm working with scratchy looking fonts trying to give them something to stand out. I create a transparent canvas about 348x67 then pick a font, select white for the color, and set the font at around 34. Then using the scale tool I stretch the text to fill more of the canvas space. Then I right click the text layer and alpha to selection. Then I select - grow selection by 3. Then I use the bucket tool to fill the 3 pixel region with black. It's better to adjust the font size of the text layer using the text tool than to scale it. Adjusting the font size will cause text to be re-rendered at the given size. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] gimp-image-set-unit ineffective on 2.67 for windows
On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 18:38 +, Alan Campbell wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get a script to generate an image with default units (as displayed in status bar at bottom of image window) to be mm instead of pixels. My script does The units displayed in the status bar are the image's display units. The display unit is different from the image unit and it can only be changed by the user, not by a script. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] PNG file gamma again. Bug in png save?
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 12:14 +0200, Juhana Sadeharju wrote: GIMP saves the file gamma 0.4545 even if I uncheck its saving in PNG save dialog. Both checked and unchecked will save the gamma 0.4545. xloadimage shows both saves equally dark, with wrong intensities. Version: GNU Image Manipulation Program version 2.4.5 That is rather old and not any longer maintained. Can you update to 2.6.7 and try again? Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How do I copy a color to the foreground ?
On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 19:04 +0200, petropolis wrote: How do I copy a color in my image to the foreground so I can draw with it? I want to use the brush to cover over a bunch of my image. Thanks. Probably the easiest way is to Ctrl-Click on the image with one of the paint tools. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] File gamma 0.4545? And pnmtopng.
Hi, On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 20:53 +0300, Juhana Sadeharju wrote: What an earth. I found that GIMP has placed file gamma 0.4545 to PNG images without my will. $ xloadimage x.png x.png is 1120x840 PNG image, color type RGB, 8 bit, file gamma 0.4545 As far as I know PNG expects the gamma to be set to the gamma correction of the PNG file based on the screen gamma i.e. the display exponent. That would be 1/gamma then. GIMP sets the gamma value 2.2, which is the gamma value for the sRGB color space. How to configure GIMP to not set the file gamma? Do not check the checkbox labeled Save gamma in the PNG save dialog. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] brush precision
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 12:08 +, Gary Collins wrote: some time ago there was a thread about changing the brush icon between showing the brush size and a precise crosshair. I can't seem to locate that thread, but if I remember rightly it was suggested that the change should happen at mouse-click, or when holding the mouse button down. Now I've just discovered, quite fortuitiously, that in photoshop (at least in Elements 2, so presumably also in PS7, on which the elements code was based) that you can toggle between these icons (i.e. brush outline vs. crosshair) using the caps-lock key. Maybe that might be a good idea for GIMP also? Maybe you should post that suggestion to the gimp-developer list. There was a discussion about the brush outline recently and your suggestion might turn out to be useful for that. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Can't move guides
On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 14:55 -0700, Patrick Horgan wrote: Lately when I'm in move mode and move my cursor over guides they don't get red and I can't move them. Any attempt just moves the layer. I'm assuming a user interface change happened, so, what's the new way to move guides? Look at the Move tool options. Do you have the tool set to Pick a layer or guide ? Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] How do I increase the size of the little preview window ...
On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 10:13 -0700, Ken Warner wrote:
When I use filters like the unsharp mask or other plugins, a little
preview window pops up
and I can see the effect of the settings for that particular filter.
Is there a way to make that preview window bigger? I have a very fast
machine and it can
handle it.
Just put something like this into your gtkrc:
#
# Adjust the size of previews in plug-in dialogs:
#
style gimp-large-preview
{
GimpPreview::size = 400
}
class GimpPreview style gimp-large-preview
Sven
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Re: [Gimp-user] Scaled image larger in file size than original
Hi, I took KSnapshot out of the picture, and took the screenshot with Gimp, saved it as a png. The file size was 35k. I scaled the image by 50% and saved it as a new png. The file size was 44k. I reduced the file by 50% using imageMagick and the file size was 71k. convert file1.png -resize 50% file3.png I did an imagemagick identify on file2 (44k) and file3 (71k), and they both display the dimensions as 340x272. The image is a snapshot of the body of the KDE Kate editor, which is mostly text. Oh, then the answer is simple. The scaled-down version compresses not as good as the original size. PNG uses run-length compression, which works very nicely on graphics that have areas of solid colors. By scaling down the image, you make the image less suitable for this kind of compression. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Scaled image larger in file size than original
Hi, On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 20:13 +, ern...@comcast.net wrote: PNG uses run-length compression, The compression is lossless, but it's not run-length. PNG uses an LZ77 derivative. Thanks for the correction. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
