Re: [Gimp-user] cutting objects out of gif
Toggle Quick Mask Shift + Q It is in the lower left hand corner of the image window (Linux + Gimp 2.6). On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Scott for...@gimpusers.com wrote: I would like to know if it is possible to take an ordinary gif pic like a cartoon and cut the cartoon figure out of it? Then I could place it on a transparent layer. If so can someone tell me how? Thanks, Scott -- Scott (via www.gimpusers.com) ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- b h a a l u u at g m a i l dot c o m Gnu/Linux IS user-friendly. It's NOT ignorant-friendly or idiot-friendly. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] scanning
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:04 AM, norman nor...@littletank.org wrote: I am about to put my hand in my pocket and buy a scanner for scanning photographs into GIMP. I am having great difficulty in finding whether or not the scanners I can afford work with XSane. I go to Google, find various lists but there is no indication how up to date they are.Please help a poor old man make a good purchase. I can go up to £100 sterling. Norman I recently found a used flatbed scanner for USD$15.00. It is a CanoScan LiDE 35. I see all sorts of used flatbed scanners at the thrift shops for USD$10-15. It does a good job. The 4 buttons on it don't work in Debian, but that's okay... XSane has all the buttons you'll need! http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html When I was in the used-computer shop, I simply asked the proprietor to look-up the CanoScan LiDE 35 on the Internet and he did. My $15 CanoScan LiDE 35 has the exact same form-factor as the one in the retail store selling for over $100. If it's listed on the above sane-mfgs.html page, it should be good! -- b h a a l u u at g m a i l dot c o m Kid on Bus: What are you gonna do today, Napoleon? Napoleon Dynamite: Whatever I feel like I wanna do. Gosh! ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Making lips
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:24 PM, ShockwaveLover for...@gimpusers.com wrote: Fairly new to GIMP, and I was wondering, what is the easiest way to create a lipstick mark, an outline of lips? -- ShockwaveLover Easiest way? Apply lipstick liberally to your lips. Press your lips against a piece of paper. Photograph or scan the piece of paper. Open the image in The Gimp, and modify it. That's pretty easy. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ( ^ ^ ) -- b h a a l u u at g m a i l dot c o m Kid on Bus: What are you gonna do today, Napoleon? Napoleon Dynamite: Whatever I feel like I wanna do. Gosh! ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Making a .gif file transparent
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just beginning to use GIMP and I am baffled about how to properly transform a .gif file to make it appear transparent when I subsequently add it to a photo. Each method I have tried still has a solid image that blocks out the original photo. Thanks in advance. Gene ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user I'm just learning how to do this myself, using the tutorial at the end of Chapter 3 in Akkana Peck's excellent book Beginning GIMP ISBN 1590595874. I'm using The Gimp 2.2 in Debian 4.0r3 Etch. Make the background of the image transparent: Layer Transparency Add Alpha Channel Tools Selection Tools By Color Select Click on background color. Ctrl-X to delete the background color. File Save For the image you pointed to (roll.gif), I highlighted Frame 9 (in the Layers window) which had a white background, The Add Alpha Channel was already gray, so I did the By Color Select, then clicked on the white Background and pressed Ctrl-X, then saved the GIF image. (Save as Animation!) Do this for each frame that has a white background. I tested it by creating a simple HTML page with a black background that displayed the modified animated GIF image. You may have to click on several places in the background to get isolated spots of white. html !-- roll.html: test transparency of white background -- body bgcolor=black img src=roll.gif /body /html I think I've covered all the details? Happy Happy Joy Joy -- b h a a l u u at g m a i l dot c o m Kid on Bus: What are you gonna do today, Napoleon? Napoleon Dynamite: Whatever I feel like I wanna do. Gosh! ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] GAP Onionskin Question
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some comments on Bhaaluu's onion-skinning tutorial which is included at the end of this message. WOW! Your comments and suggestions are invaluable! This post is a keeper. One other little thing that I did that I found very helpful. Usually a pencil-test that is made into a video doesn't translate very well into an MPEG video because the pencil lines are too light/thin, or something. What I did to make the lines darker was this on each PPM that I saved: Filters Artistic Cartoon... [X] Preview Mask Radius: 23.27 Percent black: 0.500 Now, I really don't know what those things do, so I just played with the sliders until I got what I wanted. What I wanted just turned out to be the above settings. I can't wait to try the new tutorial out! Gimp-GAP tutorials are hard to find, even with Google, so this is a jewel. Thank you ever so much, saulgoode. -- b h a a l u u at g m a i l dot c o m Kid on Bus: What are you gonna do today, Napoleon? Napoleon Dynamite: Whatever I feel like I wanna do. Gosh! Step 9 instructs the user to perform a File-Open the second frame (f_02.xcf). When using GAP, you should not use File-Open to navigate frames; use one of the commands: Video-Go To (which is useful to assign keyboard shortcuts), Video-Playback (which provides some nice scrubbing functionality), or Video-VCR Navigator (which provides easy cut-n-pasting of frames). Not only will the operation take much less time, but some operations depend upon GAP managing the displays. Step 9 should instruct Video-Go To-Next Frame. In Step 8, the Stack Position line should have a 0 in it; specifying that the onionskin layer should be placed at the top of the layerstack. Stack Position: 0 [From Top] In Step 10, the onion-skin layer should appear above the background layer in the layerstack and it should be unnecessary to lower it (if the instructions in the preceding comment are followed). In Steps 11 to 14, it would probably be better to use the Move Tool to align the layers, rather than the Selection Tool. The method that Bhaaluu proposed will only work with older versions (2.2 and earlier) of GIMP, whereas using the Move Tool works with all versions. The Move Tool permits the keyboard cursor keys to be used for moving in single-pixel increments (or SHIFT-cursor for larger steps). This also eliminates the need to make a selection and the need to anchor the layer. Instead of performing Steps 15 and 16, just move on to the next frame. Because the onionskin setup includes the Auto delete before saving, the XCF file which gets saved (before you go to a different frame) will not have the onionskin layer. After you are done with all of your editing, delete the onionskin configuration, and use the Video-Frames Convert... command to save your results as PNM files. In Step 17, again File-Open should not be used. To navigate to the second frame, use one of the methods suggested in my first comment. Finally, the instructions of Step 19 suggest that using onionskin layers is not the best approach for this task. Onionskinning is useful if you want to align frame 2 with frame 1, frame 3 with frame 2, frame 4 with frame 3, and so on. It is not a particularly good method to align frame 2 with frame 1, frame 3 with frame 1, frame 4 with frame 1, etc. I would propose the following approach to accomplish the latter task (the first seven steps are identical to Bhaaluu's tutorial): 1. Create new directory and save all PNM files to the new directory. 2. Change to the new directory, and create a directory: PNM 3. Copy all the PNM files to the PNM directory. This is a backup. 4. Open The Gimp. 5. File Open f_01.pnm 6. Video Frames Convert... Extension: .xcf GAP saves all the PNM files as XCF files, in sequential order. 7. Close f_01.pnm. 8. In f_01.xcf window, perform an Image-Duplicate. A new Untitled image should be displayed. 9. In f_01.xcf window, perform a Video-Move Path. Change the Stepmode to None and change the Opacity to 50% (the From and To frames should be the first and last frames). Press OK. -- this will create a copy of the first frame as the top layer of each of the frames. 10. Perform a Video-Go To-Next frame. (You should assign this command to a keyboard shortcut. I have assigned my F5, F6, F7, and F8 keys to First, Previous, Next, and Last frame commands respectively.) 11. Activate the bottom layer (Layer-Stack-Select Bottom Layer). This is conveniently accomplished with the END key. 12. Activate the Move Tool (keyboard shortcut M). Hold down the SHIFT key and use the mouse to align your registration points (or use the cursor keys) Repeat Steps 10 through 12. This amounts to the following keystrokes: F7, END, cursor keys and should be rather quick to accomplish. If it is necessary to use the Rotate Tool, you will have to anchor the floating layer
Re: [Gimp-user] GAP Onionskin Question
Greetings! Thank you so very much for all the wonderful, fantastic help you provided! My Summary of how I implemented your information is included in this post, below your very helpful post. Perhaps it will serve to help someone else who needs to do something similar? I hope so. On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 8:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would recommend first reading the reference documentation that is included with the source code. Online at: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gimp-gap/trunk/docs/reference/txt/plug-in-gap-onionskin-configuration.txt?revision=470view=markup Next, your scanned files should be named sequentially in the form frame_0001.pnm, frame_0002.pnm, frame_0003.pnm, etc. The frame part can be different, and the extension should match the filetype. The numbering should be consecutive with no gaps. Once your scanned files are named properly, you should open up the first one in GIMP, then perform a Video-Frames convert; specifying an extension of .xcf (you can change the basename and/or the directory path should you wish). You should then close your PNM image window and work with the copy. Yes, you MUST use XCF format for onion-skinning to function properly. Using XCF is also necessary for other useful GAP functionality (masking, selections, etc). As I've mentioned above, I'd like to be able to do two things: 1. Place one drawing over another and see the bottom drawing through the top drawing so I can lasso stuff in the top drawing and 'register' it with the bottom drawing. Use the following Onionskin settings... Reference Mode: Normal Onionskin Layers: 1 Frame Reference: -1 Stack Position: 0 [From Top] Opacity: 50% 100% Select Mode: All visible Auto create after load Auto delete before save should both be checked. All other settings should use their defaults. 2. Place two 'key frame' drawings beneath the top drawing, and be able to do an 'in-between' drawing on the page on top, seeing both the bottom drawings through the top page. Alter the above settings as follows... Reference Mode: Bidirectional (double) Onionskin Layers: 2 This will result in the onion layers appearing ABOVE your frame layer (not underneath it as you specified). This is, in my opinion, preferable so that you don't have to adjust the opacity of your frame layer to see the previous and next frame layers. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user Recently, I asked a question about how to use the Onionskin feature of the Gimp Animation Package. The following is a Summary of what I did to align a series of drawings that had registration crosshairs with the crosshairs on the first drawing, so all the drawings would be registered with each other. The drawings were all scanned into the computer using a flatbed scanner. All the drawings were saved as PNM image files from the scanner. The directions I was given were good for onionskinning a drawing with the one right behind it in numerical order. I slightly modified those instructions to align all 62 drawings with the very first drawing. 1. Create new directory and save all PNM files to the new directory. 2. Change to the new directory, and create a directory: PNM 3. Copy all the PNM files to the PNM directory. This is a backup. 4. Open The Gimp. 5. File Open f_01.pnm 6. Video Frames Convert... Extension: .xcf GAP saves all the PNM files as XCF files, in sequential order. 7. Close f_01.pnm. 8. In f_01.xcf window: Video Onionskin Configuration... Reference Mode: Normal Onionskin Layers: 1 Frame Reference: -1 Stack Position: [X] From Top Opacity: 50.0 / 100.0 Select Mode: All Visible (ignore pattern) [X] Auto create after load [X] Auto delete before save Click [Okay] 9. File Open f_02.xcf 10. In the Layers window, make sure the onionskin_01 layer is above the Background layer otherwise, the onionskin effect can't be seen. I used the down arrow in the Layers window to move the Background down one. That will make the onionskin appear. 11. Lasso both drawings. 12. View Zoom to whatever magnification you need to align the cross- hairs. I used 200%. 13. With the mouse cursor inside the lassoed area, press the mouse button and drag until the crosshairs are aligned. 14. Click outside of the lassed area to anchor the drawing. 15. Right click the onionskin_01 layer in the Layers windows and Delete Layer. Clean up drawing with eraser, or whatever. 16. Save the file. 17. File Open f_02.xcf 18. Move the Background under the onionskin layer in the Layers window. 19. Video Onionskin Configuration... Frame Reference: -2 Click [Okay] What this does is makes the first drawing the reference drawing. On
[Gimp-user] GAP Onionskin Question
to something called Bluebox, which sounds like something I'd like to learn, but that is not a part of THIS question. Thanks in advance, bhaaluu (means 'bear' in Hindi - think Kipling's Jungle Book) -- b h a a l u u at g m a i l dot c o m Kid on Bus: What are you gonna do today, Napoleon? Napoleon Dynamite: Whatever I feel like I wanna do. Gosh! ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] saving brushes
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Helen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I apologize if this gets on the list twice. I mailed the question an hour and a half ago, and think I may have done something wrong, as I don't see it yet.) I'm re-installing my OS (Linux, SuSE11) and I want to make sure I don't lose the Gimp brushes I've created. Can anyone tell me what file I should back up, to make sure I get all the brushes? This is version 2.2.10 of Gimp. Thanks much, Helen -- using Linux, SuSE 10 Hello Helen, I don't think a GIMP install is distro-specific? However, to be on the safe side, why not make and save a tarball of the entire ~/.gimp2.2 directory? [~]$ tar -czvf gimp2.2.tar.gz ~/.gimp2.2/ That command, if executed from your home directory (which is where .gimp2.2 is probably located) should make a tarball of the whole .gimp2.2 directory. Hopefully helpful. -- b h a a l u u at g m a i l dot c o m Kid on Bus: What are you gonna do today, Napoleon? Napoleon Dynamite: Whatever I feel like I wanna do. Gosh! ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Background to transparent
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Rick Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The background to all those frames are transparent? No, they're all white. I need to make them transparent. -- http://dating.blameitonlove.com/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user I'm just learning how to do this myself, using the tutorial at the end of Chapter 3 in Akkana Peck's excellent book Beginning GIMP ISBN 1590595874. I'm using The Gimp 2.2 in Debian 4.0r3 Etch. Make the background of the image transparent: Layer Transparency Add Alpha Channel Tools Selection Tools By Color Select Click on background color. Ctrl-X to delete the background color. File Save For the image you pointed to (roll.gif), I highlighted Frame 9 (in the Layers window) which had a white background, The Add Alpha Channel was already gray, so I did the By Color Select, then clicked on the white Background and pressed Ctrl-X, then saved the GIF image. (Save as Animation!) Do this for each frame that has a white background. I tested it by creating a simple HTML page with a black background that displayed the modified animated GIF image. You may have to click on several places in the background to get isolated spots of white. html !-- roll.html: test transparency of white background -- body bgcolor=black img src=roll.gif /body /html I think I've covered all the details? Happy Happy Joy Joy -- b h a a l u u at g m a i l dot c o m In a world without fences, who needs Gates? Kid on Bus: What are you gonna do today, Napoleon? Napoleon Dynamite: Whatever I feel like I wanna do. Gosh! ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
