[Gimp-user] Adding threshold to guillotine?
>Guessing you tried divide-scanned-images script. Best I got was 4 >cards. > >You might be able to do it using the Gimp g'mic plugin - the extract >object filter. > >Draw in lines rather than set guides. > >A 2 minute demo https://youtu.be/fQ6zTxDOmaA > >A bit of care and I think you could get a decent result. Rich, thank you for the tutorial again. I combined the extract objects with the fxfoundry rule of thirds grid, which automatically divides into N rectangles based on image information, then thickened it with an offset. The moral of the story is that border space between scans is important. I accidentally clicked the align tool and you can snap gridlines around based on image data, so a bonus solution there for someone like me doing hundreds of error prone scans! Thank you for your help. Attached victory shot. Attachments: * http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/706/original/rich404_cut_scans_into_layers.png -- bolete (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
[Gimp-user] print business card
Hi there, I'm new to Gimp and to this forum, I've been doing Gimp for about a month now and although I didn't understand it in the beginning it's really quite user friendly, BTW. I use 2.8 anyway I ran into a problem making mine own homemade business-cards, and that is that the front and the back do not perfectly overlap when printed. I'm trying to push everything a little bit by chance and then hoping for the best, using a lot of draft paper, but it's still off by about 2 mm on the print. I see one solution would be to make a larger bleeding area, as of now I have zero bleeding area, but I would rather like to understand how to make a perfect overlap. more specifically: Horizontally the overlap seems perfect; Vertically it's off by 2 mm also I discovered that when you print the front and then turn the paper around and put it back in the printer everything turns opposite so that what was printed on the left side of the paper is now printed on the right side. Thanks, :) Wrenchman -- Wrenchman (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
[Gimp-user] Trouble loading and shutting down gimp
New to the forum. Secondly I am a complete computer klutz which is what got me into this problem. I have used Gimp for quite a few years, only for Photo use. I was having a computer problem in windows 8.1. Reading on the internet about going back to a previous retrieval point, being a computer non-compus-mentus I did a Refresh instead and lost my older version of Gimp that was working fine. I had to get help to get a lot of my computer items back and working including a newer version of Gimp. Unfortunately, the newer version takes forever on the LOOKING FOR FONTS, seven plus minutes every time I use Gimp. When I looked on the internet seems like several people had some of the same problem but I did not find any solutions. I called a friend and he said "What does the Task Manager Show"?. Being a klutz he had to tell me how to get into the Task Manager. It pretty much shows 100% CPU usage and max disc use when gimp is loading. It does finally load and is usable just like it always was. He suggested uninstalling Gimp and then walked me through finding any remains of the older version and deleting them and then doing a clean install directly from Gimp which I did. Nothing has changed, same delay every time I load. The next problem is when I try to shut it down. The tool box and anything I have open (like contrast or color correction, etc.) remains on the screen after the main screen closes. Tried closing them using the red X in the corner and windows says the program is not responding and do I want to wait for the program or force it closed. As a experiment I once kept pushing wait for the program to see if it ever worked. After 13 minutes I gave up and forced it closed. Looking on the internet someone suggested using cntrl Q to close. Same results using that. Anyone have any suggestions? Please remember I am a Klutz and may not understand what you are trying to tell me unless you explain. Thanks in advance. -- Debracrow (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
[Gimp-user] Adding color to file
I want to color parts of what has been sent to me as a black-and-white pdf (line drawing, basically). What I usually do in a case like this is to change the original layer to Multiply, then duplicate this and multiply again. Then I select each part of the drawing I want to color and bucket fill it (different colors for each). if I save this as a pdf and open it, all it shows is the colors without the line drawing. if I save it as a png, all is preserved. My question is--should I save the pdf as a png or jpeg first before I start the entire process? It's a very low resolution drawing. Or does it matter? It's a big file (the original is on a 24"x36" sheet and it will probably be printed out at some point). I thank you for your help in advance! -- sl60 (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] Adding color to file
On 10/05/2017 03:02 PM, sl60 wrote: > I want to color parts of what has been sent to me as a black-and-white pdf > (line > drawing, basically). What I usually do in a case like this is to change the > original layer to Multiply, then duplicate this and multiply again. Then I > select each part of the drawing I want to color and bucket fill it (different > colors for each). if I save this as a pdf and open it, all it shows is the > colors without the line drawing. if I save it as a png, all is preserved. > > My question is--should I save the pdf as a png or jpeg first before I start > the > entire process? It's a very low resolution drawing. Or does it matter? It's a > big file (the original is on a 24"x36" sheet and it will probably be printed > out > at some point). I would start by importing the page with the drawing in qustion into the GIMP, after doing a little math to determine what size to make the imported page to obtain about 300 DPI at the expected print size of the finished work, when the page is cropped to the image. Then I would crop the imported page to the image, scale it to its finished size @ 300 DPI, and proceed from there. Your coloring method sounds effective to me. In some cases you might want to use two very similar colors with the Gradient tool to get variable effects within the given boundary, but that may not be relevant to the work at hand. When finished I would (of course!) save the image in XCF format in case it needs any adjustments in the future, then export it to PNG format for delivery, unless another format has been specified. Making the exported image's background transparent assures no problems with matching the background color of the page or etc. when it's printed, or you might want a specific background color. Either way, PNG will do the deed, without noise from lossy compression. :o) ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
