Re: [Gimp-user] black & white

[Tim Jedlicka]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:24 PM, norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to gather information on how to convert from colour to black
>  & white. In my searches I came across the following which is in
>  photoshop:-

You might also want to take a look at:
http://meetthegimp.org/episode-034-full-control-monochrome-conversion-3/


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Re: [Gimp-user] trick for red eye??

[Tim Jedlicka]

Select the "red" eye. Then Filters->Enhance->Red Eye Removal

I often use Colors->Filter Pack. Depends how bad the redeye is.

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Re: [Gimp-user] Getting RGB information in GIMP 2,4

[Tim Jedlicka]

On 11/16/07, Peter Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  I cannot find
> a way to display the RGB brightness information under the cursor.
>

Try Dialog->Pointer
You might also find Dialog->Sample Points (to set a sample point hold down
CTRL and drag the cursor from the measurement bar (like you're setting a
guide but hold down CTRL) to be useful.

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Re: [Gimp-user] Feathered selections

[Tim Jedlicka]

On 11/14/07, Leon Brooks GIMP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> then drop that on her. She likes painting & doing similar
> artwork, so I suspect that QM mode will appeal to her
> instincts.
>

In that case you might want to point her towards the attached brush
"repository" as well. I reposted the note here because it looks like it only
went to the developer list and this looks to be of interest to users as
well.
The original is at:
https://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/lists/gimp-developer/2007-September/018665.html

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Máirí­n Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to gimp-developer
> show details
>  Sep 11
> Hey folks!!
>
> I know it must be terribly, horribly, ridiculously, and extremely late
> to suggest this at this point in the 2.4 cycle but -
>
> I recently got in contact with a very talented Gimp brush artist on
> deviantart.com; she's made a number of brushes that seem to be the sort
> that would be generally useful in a default Gimp install. She told me
> she is willing to license them under the GPL (they are currently
> Creative Commons BY-NC-ND) if they would be considered for inclusion
> into the Gimp. Links to the brushes are here:
>
> Watercolor Paint:
> http://iceytina.deviantart.com/art/GIMP-PaintBrushes-Watercolors-31117244
>
> Waxy Pencils:
> http://iceytina.deviantart.com/art/Gimp-PaintBrushes-Pencils-31116570
>
> Oil Pastels:
> http://iceytina.deviantart.com/art/GIMP-PaintBrushes-Oil-Pastels-31115517
>
> Crayons:
> http://iceytina.deviantart.com/art/GIMP-PaintBrushes-Crayons-31087987
>
> Airbrushes:
> http://iceytina.deviantart.com/art/GIMP-PaintBrushes-Airbrushes-31029257
>
> Brushes:
> http://iceytina.deviantart.com/art/GIMP-PaintBrushes-Artist-31030053
>
> If these seems like they'd be valuable to include, I can get you in
> touch with her.
>
> Thanks for listening!
> ~m
>
> p.s. BTW, AWESOME work on 2.4 so far, I've been using RC 1 for a while
> now and I have to say it feels a lot more comfortable to use - it's
> gotten me really excited about the Gimp all over again. :)
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Re: [Gimp-user] Bit-depth Processing

[Tim Jedlicka]

On 10/3/07, gimp_user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> [lots of stuff]
>

David,
I've read all your posts. Carol has shared some of her "art" images with us
so I know what she's after, and although this isn't directly relevant to
GIMP, can you point us towards a website with some of your images? I
understand they will have been modified using PS, just curious what kind of
work you are doing so I have a better sense of where your comments are
coming from. i.e. A landscape photographer has a different perspective than
a commercial photographer. I tried, but the http://www.atf4.com site is
really boring. Thanks.
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Re: [Gimp-user] captcha

[Tim Jedlicka]

On 3 Oct 2007 01:23:24 -, mike reqavey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> greetings
> please point me in the direction of how I could make a captcha around 8.5x
> 11.0 inches.
>

Closest I could come up with was the Filters->Animation->Rippling
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Re: [Gimp-user] gimp and ufraw

[Tim Jedlicka]

On 9/16/07, norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have recently downloaded and installed the latest version of ufraw by
> following the instructions on the ufraw web site.


 Which instructions did you follow? i.e. Exactly how did you install ufraw?
Did you do make install as root or did you do the gimp-tool install as the
user using gimp? It has always worked for me when I do a
sudo make install
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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.4.0rc1 Sample Points tab - what is it?

[Tim Jedlicka]

On 8/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The Sample Points tab was (I believe) added somewhere in the 2.3.x
> journey to 2.4.
> When added as a tab all options appear to grayed out.


Sample points are created similar to guides except you hold down the CTRL
key.
You can create a sample point by placing the cursor in the measurement
bar(?) and holding down CTRL while you drag to the point you want to sample.


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Re: [Gimp-user] wacom: line quality

[Tim Jedlicka]

On 8/20/07, Konstantin Svist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to ask why the lines drawn with a Wacom tablet look so
> different when drawn in gimp vs. when they're drawn in Photoshop or
> OpenCanvas.


 This has been discussed before (or similar). I don't know the details, but
I do know it makes a difference if you use the paintbrush tool versus the
pencil tool - might try the other tool and see if that helps. Might also be
a linuxwacom issue instead of a gimp issue.




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Re: [Gimp-user] Failure of installing gimp-2.3.17 and gimp-2.3.18

[Tim Jedlicka]

On 7/20/07, julien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


I tried to install gimp-2.3.18 then, after unistalling it, gimp-2.317.
In both cases,
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
#make install
ran to the end without crashing.

I have an executable gimp-2.3.x in /usr/bin/.



Did you follow the instructions at:
http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.3.html

Sounds like you kind of followed them since you added a --prefix (although I
would have made it /usr/gimp-2.3 or something like that as recommended, but
I would think your prefix would work also.

You then need to create the "tiny wrapper script" as described in the given
readme link.

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Re: [Gimp-user] Changing hair colour

[Tim Jedlicka]

On 5/23/07, Victor Domingos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


What is, in your oppinion,  the best method to make dark hair look
like blond hair?



I don't know if it would work, but I'd suggest playing with the
Filters->Colors->Filter Pack

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Re: [Gimp-user] straight line selection (arbitrary angle)

[Tim Jedlicka]

On 3/7/07, James Lockie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


I want to select an area that has one straight edge.
Basically to use the freehand select tool to cut out pieces of an image
that the fuzzy select won't work on.
One side is straight and the other part I can delete.



Not sure I understand - is it like you want to cut off someone's nose with
the straight line being where their nose used to be attached? I'd use the
free hand (lasso) tool to select the part of the image you want - so you
have a rough outline of the nose (plus some cheek), then select the
rectangle select tool and hold CTRL (to subtract the selection) along the
straight edge.

There is probably a better way to do this, but the above is my first guess
at a way. Also, if you straight selection is not vertical or horizontal, I
suppose you could rotate the image/layer first, then rotate it back.

Checking out paths is probably another option.
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Re: [Gimp-user] need some help or direction on printing

[Tim Jedlicka]

On 3/5/07, Rick Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


I'm a inexperienced GIMP user and need some help or direction on
printing using Ubuntu Linux with CUPS.
I'm trying to printing a rendered PDF form with text that I've added.
The image starts printing about an inch from the top of the page and the
bottom is lost, no second page. All the margins are set to 0.



You might try the program -pdftk-, it will split a PDF document into
multiple pages. You might be able to edit each page individually and print
one page at a time. I don't know if it will solve your problem, but worth a
try.

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Re: [Gimp-user] Version 2.4

[Tim Jedlicka]

On 2/26/07, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Take a look at http://developer.gimp.org/ to get more information on

how to obtain a recent development build of the GIMP.  If you do not
finsd your way straight from there to teh download binarys , read
some of the information there,



Just to emphasize - READ the Release Notes so you don't mess up your Gimp
2.2 version...



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Re: [Gimp-user] How to use a fixed bug?

[Tim Jedlicka]

On 2/25/07, Roberto Gorjão <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


I'm interested in the application of the thirds rule and the golden
section proportions to photos and other images... I've found this
excellent "bug report"
<http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323669> on this subject and
it seems to indicate that the problem has a very handy solution now.
Nevertheless I'm not sure whether I can use it right now or not?... I'm
using GIMP 2.2.13 on Windows XP and the proposed solution seems
something planned to work with a newer version (2.2.8?)? Any suggestions?



This feature is being worked on in the next full release of Gimp. The
development version is getting close to being released (I'm not a developer
so won't guess at a release date). The new crop tool handles golden and
thirds quite nicely in my opinion.

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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.3.13 & UFRaw 0.10

[Tim Jedlicka]

On 1/6/07, Stuart Grimshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Has anyone managed to install the above 2 things such that Gimp will
open RAW photos?

Both apps are installed in their default locations, default paths for libs
etc.



I have gimp 2.3.13 and Ufraw 0.10 - they both work fine for me. I suspect
your problem may be installing the dev. version in the "default" location.
If you have Gimp2.2 also installed this could cause problems. I'd suggest
following the recommendation at:

http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.3.html


You install the new version into a separate prefix, say /opt/gimp-2.3 by
passing --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.3 to the configure script.



I then set the following prior to compiling ufraw:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=:/opt/gimp-2.3/lib/pkgconfig/:/opt/gimp-2.3
/lib/pkgconfig/

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Re: [Gimp-user] Help !!!

[Tim Jedlicka]

On 1/3/07, Alf Strandgard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


* want to move the text………*


In the Layer dialogue (it should be on the screen, but you can also get to
it via Ctrl-L or Dialogs->Layers), make sure your text layer is
active/highlighted. It should have a big "T" as an icon and have some of
your text. Then click on the "Move tool" - looks like a plus sign with
arrows on each end (or "m"), then in that tool's dialog select the "Move the
Current Layer" radio button - this will make it easier to move the text
layer.


*or edit the text……  *



Double click on the "T" in the layers dialog. A separate box with all your
text should appear. This is where you can edit the text.

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Re: [Gimp-user] Faking "Miniature" environments in GIMP from existing photographs?

[Tim Jedlicka]

On 12/24/06, Jon Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Hi, Saw this on Digg last night:
http://forums.livingwithstyle.com/showthread.php?t=342065

Anyone know how to do a gradient selection in GIMP? I've seen various
mentions of it, but I cant find it in the docs:



I just scanned the PS tutorial - but not too much different in GIMP. Here
are the keys to get you going (I hope):

Select-All of the image (CTRL-A)
Click on the Quick-Mask box in the lower left corner of the image (or Ctrl-Q
??)
You will now have a mask layer -  it will be the ACTIVE layer (your main
image is no longer active). You can go to the "Channel" dialog to confirm.
Now just as in the tutorial you want to fill the mask with a gradient - use
the gradient fill tool also known as "Blend" tool. (Tools->Paint
Tools->Blend in gimp 2.3, can't get to the current version of gimp at the
moment - sorry). If you use the default gradient of black to white you
should be able to get a gradient similar to the tutorial.

Hope this helps - if not let us know and I'll add more details.



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Re: [Gimp-user] problems

[Tim Jedlicka]

On 11/21/06, glenda wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


...


I downloaded it howerer when I go in to (Text) to edit a llayer it says

Microsoft has encountered a problem , send or not send. Either way it
shuts
Gimp down.



Where specifically did you download gimp from? http://www.gimp.org/windows/?
I assume you installed the GTK+ package as well?
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html

Do other functions within gimp work? Does it only crash when you try to add
text? If so perhaps there is a font problem of some sort.

Sorry, not much help - just some guesses of what may be happening.
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Re: [Gimp-user] how to break down a photo into printing colors and newsprint shading

[Tim Jedlicka]

- Original Message From: rob <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDUSent: Monday, November 6, 2006 4:25:48 PM
Subject: [Gimp-user] how to break down a photo into
 printing colors and newsprint shadingIs there a way in GIMP to take any JPG image and have GIMP output4 color seperated  images as individual CYGK or RGB or choosable colors?
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Re: [Gimp-user] Larger paintbrush size

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On 10/26/06, Michael Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is there a way to make the paint brush size much larger than 20 pixels?In the Brush Dialogue (Dialogue -> Brushes or Shift-Ctrl-B ) select "new" at the bottom. You can then define the brush size you want. In the next version of gimp brackets [ ] will make your brush larger and smaller. 
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Re: [Gimp-user] lightening

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On 10/6/06, Alan Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:







    Is there a way to lighten up a 
map (i.e., fade it a bit into a background) in GIMP?  
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Re: [Gimp-user] Re: How damaged photos my camera takes?

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Juhana,These images are much more workable - good job practicing and learning with your camera. The "correct" way to take this image is with a Graduated Neutral Density filter (GND) - however, since you are using a point and shoot this isn't practical.
As for how I would approach fixing this in GIMP is to open both images.* from the layer dialogue, drag 7748 onto the 7749 image (bright image now on top of dark image)* Create a quick-mask (the box at the lower left corner of your image) - you should get a red-mask overlayed on your image
* go to the channel editor (within the layer dialogue) - note that the mask channel is selected* select the gradient fill tool, with the default gradient (black to white) start just below the tree line and drag to just above the tree line.
  This will erase part of the mask* now in channel dialogue, select the "mask to selection" box (second from right on my version of GIMP)* (while in channel dialogue, click on mask eyeball to hide the red mask)
* Go back to the Layer dialogue and do a cut (CTRL-X) - if everything worked right the tree line should have a nice gradient from bright to the darker sky. Good luck - difficult instructions to follow, but worth playing with layer masks. google for some gimp tutorial on using masks.
By the way - nice job of using the road to lead the eye into the photo. A good compositional techinque.
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Re: [Gimp-user] Please Change the Derogatory Name

[Tim Jedlicka]

If you can't beat 'em, join 'emHere in the USA  there is a term for photographers looking at their LCD after a photo. It is known as "CHIMPING"  - 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimping
All of us "GIMPers" should work on changing the term from CHIMPing to GIMPing - this will solve both problems. GIMPing will be associated with digital photography AND make the term "GIMP" even more acceptable than it already is - I don't recall who said it (Martin Luther King Jr.?) but "...embrace the word and it loses its power to hurt". 
If this doesn't work I'd suggest the new name of, dogwaffle..oh damn! it's already taken!For those of you claiming the name "GIMP" is holding back adoption, please include what other open source products your company HAS adopted - surely they have readily embraced OpenOffice, MrProject, Inkscape, Evolution (although in my backwards country this term is more offensive than GIMP these days) ... I contend people refuse to adopt due to ignorance not insult (that goes for evolution as well as GIMP by the way).


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Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.3.11 work with GTK+ 2.6?

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On 9/14/06, Darren Govoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:







Hi,
   Apparently my GAIM does not work with 
GTK+ 2.8 when I upgraded to it for
gimp 2.3.11. Any chance Gimp 2.3.11 will work with 
GTK+ 2.6?For what it is worth, my gaim is working with gtk+ and gimp 2.3.11 (I know you may not be using ubuntu - but letting you know it is possible): Package: gaim  Version: 1:
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Re: [Gimp-user] How damaged photos my camera takes?

[Tim Jedlicka]

Others have covered this but maybe I can add a little bit. 3922 (and parts of 3893) can't be fixed in Gimp (or any way image
processor) - over exposure means no information was able to be captured
- Gimp can't do anything with no information. 3923, because it is underexposed, can be fixed a bit in Gimp. I would suggest using the Levels tool. slide the end pointers to the edge of where the histogram starts to rise. Then slide the middle pointer around until you get some detail in the trees.
More importantly - it is much easier to fix when you shoot the photo. Your point-n-shoot has some limitations, but you can work around them with some practice (and manual reading). Here are some more gorey details. Let me know off-list if you need/want more help or explanation.
Learn to use your whitebalance. Especially if you are shooting a shot like the flowers with ALL that green. Your best bet would be to (read your manual) set a custom white balance (WB) using that white card of yours. Use this WB as long as the lighting doesn't change. When you go inside and shoot people sitting around those tungsten lights you'll want to change your WB.
If you don't want to spend the time to do a custom WB, then pick the appropriate built in WB (daylight, cloudy,...). On a sunny day (daylight) you have all this blue in your photos from the big blue sky, so the camera takes a little blue out of your photo. Also your flash "blew out" the flowers - it made those light blue(?) flowers look white. Turn off your flash.
The problem with the other photos is mostly exposure problems. That might be a little bit harder to fix with your particular camera (or any point-n-shoot). In 3922 the meter saw all those dark green trees and tried to make them a nice neutral light grey (all cameras do this) so it let too much light in leading to over exposure and trees that are too bright and a sky that is all white. 3923 has the opposite problem. Saw all that bright blue sky, tried to make it a nice light grey (tried to darken the sky) which it did, so you get a nice dark blue sky, but trees that are too dark and loose all their detail. Your best bet is to either read up on Exposure Compensation (EV Compensation) and AE Lock (Auto Exposure Lock) - especially if you are trying to do panoramas. Also change your metering mode to spot in these cases.


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Re: [Gimp-user] rawphoto plugin not listed

[Tim Jedlicka]

On 8/22/06, Gracia M. Littauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yo Tim,installed ufcraw from SuSE 10.1 DVD in opt/gnome/lib/gimp/2.2/plug-ins.My quick search of suse and ufraw was that  SuSE was on 0.6 or so of ufraw. It is at 0.9.1I could be wrong - but worth checking out. It is pretty easy to configure-make-make install
and you will get the latest and greatest. ufraw and dcraw both seem to be pretty active developments and I personally like the improvements both are making (ufraw seems to incorporate the latest dcraw pretty quickly as well. Put them together with Gimp and it is pretty sweet.
I hope you don't mind my jaunty salutation, makes me feel young & list
email is too informal for the usual one.no prob-- Tim Jedlicka, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.galifree.com
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Re: [Gimp-user] rawphoto plugin not listed

[Tim Jedlicka]

On 8/19/06, Patrick Shanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* Gracia M. Littauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08-19-06 22:33]:>> I originally had 'rawphoto' in /opt/gnome/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins and> 'dcraw' in  /usr/bin
I don't believe that it is necessary in 10.1 to have ufraw listed ineither of the gimp plug-ins directories.  I do not!> I went back to that, with the older rawphoto & at last got something to> open, but not what I would call an improvement.
>> UFraw seems to be either a rawphoto plugin (front end?)I've been using ufraw for the past several months and like it quite a bit. I would recommend the newest version. It is fairly easy to download the tarball and compile it yourself. If you do the "make install" as root, it will install the ufraw plugin for all users, then simply open a raw file and it opens ufraw as a frontend.
http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/Install.html-- Tim Jedlicka, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 
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Re: [Gimp-user] newbie

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On 8/17/06, ajtiM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And finally my question: Is it possible to correct tilted horizon,moire...with Gimp, please?I think next step will be buy a book about Gimp.The easiest way is to use the rotate tool. A great plugin (additional software for Gimp) that includes as part of its tutorial straightening a horizon is the "Resynthesizer" see:
http://www.schwarzvogel.de/resynth-tut-en.shtmlYou may also want to check out:http://www.dojoe.net/tutorials/linear-pano/
Can't help on the moire issue.-- Tim Jedlicka, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.galifree.com

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Re: [Gimp-user] Selecting all pixels with a certain color or below

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On 6/26/06, Mohamed El Dawy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,   Is there a way to select all pixels in an image that are below certain color value, even if they are not adjacent?I would think "Select Regions By Color" (next to the magic wand) with the appropriate threshold would do it but perhaps I'm missing a nuance.

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Re: [Gimp-user] Website idea and comments on Gimp vrs photoshop

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On 6/22/06, Joey Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Now for my suggestion on the website. I think it would be very helpfulfor have a section that would be like a cross between an FAQ and ahelp desk.I like this idea. I've seen faq-o-matics that have worked well.
http://faqomatic.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/1.html
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Re: [Gimp-user] Removing unwanted objects in photos

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On 5/30/06, Dan Giel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,I am new to gimp and am having trouble removing unwanted objects fromdigital photos.  I have tried CLONE, Erasure etc, but to no avail.Where can I go to find information to remove unwanted objects from
pictures. Hope someone can help.There are lots of different ways of doing this. I would suggest learning all about masks. Using a mask makes it easy to recover a detail if you  mask off more than you intended. I would also highly recommend a graphics tablet for this kind of work. Here are some tutorials - you can search for 
"gimp mask tutorial"  to find more.http://www.gimpguru.org/Tutorials/ReplaceForeground/
http://www.gimpguru.org/Tutorials/SimulatedDOF/ 
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Re: [Gimp-user] Suggestions for RAW workflows

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On 5/25/06, Shawn Willden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
First, the ufraw plugin, and the dcraw program, seem to fall down in onerespect:  my converted images are often much noisier than the JPEGs producedI've been happy with dcraw and ufraw, however I haven't noticed or had noise problems. I have been running the latest version (ufraw 
0.8.1). So my only suggestion is to make sure you are running the latest and greatest.Thanks to Stephen's suggestion I did take a look at Bibble. Nice to see a Linux app. It also appears to encourage GPL plugins. 

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Re: [Gimp-user] what causes platform color differences

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They both look pale on my Linux driven monitor. It sounds like you are hitting a gamma issue. I -think- the Mac uses a gamma of 1.8 where as Linux and Windows is usually set to a gamma of 2.2.You might check out this site and see if it helps:
http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints1A.html#gammachartOn 5/22/06, Never you mind
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 and<
http://www.australiantoyweekly.com.au/images/fun-bg-10.gif>.The image is very pale. It displays nicely on my Mac and my FreeBSD boxbut on the Windows machine the reds and yellows are completely washed
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Re: [Gimp-user] Adding a watermark and copyright info...

[Tim Jedlicka]

On 5/15/06, Mirageii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just have a simple question on how to add a watermark to an image?I'm sure there are tutorials someplace on this, but here is my quick overview.Several ways of doing this. If you just want a copyright on one image then in Gimp
open the text tool (a big T). The tricky part is the (C) symbol. Presumably there are keystrokes to get a (C) to appear but it has never worked for me so I use gucharmap and select a (C) from there. You may want to knock down the opacity of the text layer (from the layer dialogue).
If you have several images to copyright I use imagemagick's composite. Once I've created a file that just has my copyright statement in it (copyd.png) I do:composite -gravity SouthEast -geometry +100+100 /home/bonzo/photos/copyd.png 
orig.jpg new.jpgI'm no lawyer, but I read that to be "legal" a copyright must have the symbol, (C) is not good enough, the date, and an identifing "name".
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Re: [Gimp-user] darkening a grey-scale drawing

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> My aim is to increase the grey scale range from 000 199> to 000 to 255.More specifically use levels and slide the left hand and right hand sliders in towards where your histogram starts.

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Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Multicolor pinwheel effect.

[Tim Jedlicka]

Might want to check out Filter->Render->Clouds->PlasmaFollowed by Filter->Distort->Whirl and Pinchhttp://www.galifree.com/misc/whirl.jpg to see a sample.
I use the Plasma filter (in greyscale) for background replacements occasionally. 
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Re: [Gimp-user] lcd or crt monitor

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On 3/18/06, Gracia M. Littauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
which is preferred for graphics? I've heard that lcd is not good.The Shootsmarter site has a decent article on comparing CRTs to LCDs. 
http://www.shootsmarter.com/infocenter/wc041.html
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Re: [Gimp-user] Help with creating banner

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Try Image->Scale. Click the little chain link so the vertical and horizontal dimensions are not linked. If your image looks strange after scaling, then you can try stretching just the edges with the Shear tool. Might want to first change the canvas size (Image->Canvas), then Layer-to-ImageSize, then select part of the edge of the image and shear it to fill in the white space.
On 1/3/06, AJ *** <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm attempting to create a 468x60 banner for a website I'm designing.I'm attempting to use GIMP to do the graphics, however I am new toGIMP and don't understand fully the concepts.  I have an image that Iam trying to use that would compose the background of the banner
basically.  My current problem is in attempting to stretch/elogate theimage to meet the 468x60 dimensions.  Can someone please direct me onhow I can do this or what tool would be most appropriate.  My 1stlayer is the blank 468x60 background, my 2nd layer is the image..I
just can't seem to stretch it the way it needs to be stretched.Any & all assistance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!AJ___Gimp-user mailing list
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