Re: [Gimp-developer] Proposal for 2.6 splash screen.

2008-08-29 Thread Henk Boom
2008/8/29 Alexia Death <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > After an idea on IRC (thanks Martin!) the text on it got reworked into this: > http://a.death.pri.ee/gimp-splash3.png that seems better. That looks really nice! One thing I suggest is to make the GIMP logo a bit brighter, I don't think it stands out qu

Re: [Gimp-developer] Proposal for 2.6 splash screen.

2008-08-29 Thread Alexia Death
After an idea on IRC (thanks Martin!) the text on it got reworked into this: http://a.death.pri.ee/gimp-splash3.png that seems better. On Friday 29 August 2008 23:26:57 Alexia Death wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that there was a lack of splashes for 2.6 so I made one for an > option. Here it is for

[Gimp-developer] Proposal for 2.6 splash screen.

2008-08-29 Thread Alexia Death
Hi, I noticed that there was a lack of splashes for 2.6 so I made one for an option. Here it is for your appraisal: http://a.death.pri.ee/gimp-splash2.png Best, Alexia PS: This is a photo manipulation, not a painting. The base image is a photo of a sand sculpture altered with some processing a

Re: [Gimp-developer] patch for scale-region.c

2008-08-29 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 14:15 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > I also started to play with some enhancements on top of the patch we are > discussing here. Using a steep gaussian filter instead of the plain box > filter seems to be a good compromise. It's better at suppressing Moire > patterns, at t

Re: [Gimp-developer] patch for scale-region.c

2008-08-29 Thread Geert Jordaens
Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 22:38 +0200, Geert Jordaens wrote: > > >> What are your doubts with the new code? Why would a simple box-filter be >> better for decimating? >> > > My doubts with the current approach are manifold: > > The current code has decimation

Re: [Gimp-developer] patch for scale-region.c

2008-08-29 Thread Geert Jordaens
Alastair M. Robinson wrote: > Hi > > Sven Neumann wrote: > > >> As already explained in my previous mail, the decimation routines are >> only used for the pre-scaling steps. As soon as the image is close >> enough to the final size, the chosen interpolation routine is used. This >> gives continu

Re: [Gimp-developer] patch for scale-region.c

2008-08-29 Thread Alastair M. Robinson
Hi Sven Neumann wrote: > As already explained in my previous mail, the decimation routines are > only used for the pre-scaling steps. As soon as the image is close > enough to the final size, the chosen interpolation routine is used. This > gives continuous results for all scale factors as there

Re: [Gimp-developer] patch for scale-region.c

2008-08-29 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, I also started to play with some enhancements on top of the patch we are discussing here. Using a steep gaussian filter instead of the plain box filter seems to be a good compromise. It's better at suppressing Moire patterns, at the cost of introducing a little blur. I have not yet finished th

Re: [Gimp-developer] patch for scale-region.c

2008-08-29 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 22:38 +0200, Geert Jordaens wrote: > What are your doubts with the new code? Why would a simple box-filter be > better for decimating? My doubts with the current approach are manifold: The current code has decimation routines, but they are only suited for the speci