Re: [Gimp-user] drawing a simple rectangle ; drawing an arrow (newbie)

2005-07-10 Thread sam ende
On Saturday 09 July 2005 17:42, Akkana Peck wrote: > As for arrows, I usually draw all the lines by hand (click at one end, > shift-click at the other). I don't know if there's a shortcut for > making good arrowheads. not as far as i know. a simple way to make them is to use the square selection

Re: [Gimp-user] Is there a script to create web page buttons?

2005-07-10 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 08:22:20PM -0400, Jim wrote: > > A bit of background, I'm running Gimp 2.2.6 on FC3. > you should be able to run gimp-1.2 from any current linux distribution. > For the old version of Gimp 1.2 there was a perl script plugin, > btn4ws.pl, that would take a text file that

[Gimp-user] Is there a script to create web page buttons?

2005-07-10 Thread Jim
I've searched the archives and can not find an answer to my questions, in fact, I even downloaded the archive and loaded it into mutt and searched through it to try to find an answer. :-) I've seen that others have asked questions somewhat like this one. A bit of background, I'm running Gimp 2

Re: [Gimp-user] Text on transparent background

2005-07-10 Thread Michael Schumacher
Steve Croteau wrote: > 1)Don't save to jpg because it doesn't support transparency. > 2)Use gif or png instead. > 3)To be polite to Win users, if using a png format - change mode to > indexed. s/Win/IE/, but otherwise correct. Michael -- The GIMP > http://www.gimp.org | IRC:

Re: [Gimp-user] Text on transparent background

2005-07-10 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 03:16:05PM -0700, Steve Croteau wrote: > Greetings, > I'm a Gimp newbie and I'm trying to create my company 'black text' logo on a > transparent background and save it as a jpg to be used on my web site. ?I > would like the black text to "float" above the background images

Re: [Gimp-user] Text on transparent background

2005-07-10 Thread Steve Croteau
On Sunday 10 July 2005 3:25 pm, Andreas Waechter wrote: > > I'm a Gimp newbie and I'm trying to create my company 'black text' logo > > on a transparent background and save it as a jpg to be used on my web > > site. > > Transparency and jpg are (AFAIK) a contradiction - jpg > doesn't support transp

Re: [Gimp-user] Text on transparent background

2005-07-10 Thread Andreas Waechter
I'm a Gimp newbie and I'm trying to create my company 'black text' logo on a transparent background and save it as a jpg to be used on my web site. Transparency and jpg are (AFAIK) a contradiction - jpg doesn't support transparency. I'm doing fine with the whole process except the transpara

[Gimp-user] Text on transparent background

2005-07-10 Thread Steve Croteau
Greetings, I'm a Gimp newbie and I'm trying to create my company 'black text' logo on a transparent background and save it as a jpg to be used on my web site.  I would like the black text to "float" above the background images on my site allowing the background image to show around the text.  

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie Question

2005-07-10 Thread Jonathan Allen
Andreas, > > I have a first-time question. In general terms, how can I change all the > > pixels of one colour within a hand-drawn selection into another colour ? > > Select by color, Fill But that selects all the black text in the guf, not just the one letter I need to colour. That was why I

Re: [Gimp-user] Newbie Question

2005-07-10 Thread Andreas Waechter
Jonathan Allen wrote: I have a first-time question. In general terms, how can I change all the pixels of one colour within a hand-drawn selection into another colour ? Select by color, Fill I tried the colour-to-alpha idea suggested in the first background-colour change tutorial, but colour-

[Gimp-user] Newbie Question

2005-07-10 Thread Jonathan Allen
Hi All, I have a first-time question. In general terms, how can I change all the pixels of one colour within a hand-drawn selection into another colour ? In specific terms, I have a gif file containing some black-on-white text. I want to be able to colour various parts of the black text to be re

Re: [Gimp-user] how to set default units in gimp 2.2?

2005-07-10 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Gabor Istvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I set the default units from inches to centimeters in GIMP 2.2. > 4 (SuSE 9.3)? Whenever I go to Image->Print Size or Image/Scale > Image I have to adjust manually the units in the pull-down menu > which is very inconvenient. Is it possib

Re: [Gimp-user] select rect snap to corner

2005-07-10 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, "Tim E. Jedlicka - wrk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to use the "Select Rectangle" with a fixed aspect > ratio. I would like it to snap to the corner of the image/layer. I > have "snap to guides" set, but apparently the edges of an image > don't have "default" guides. The develop

Re: [Gimp-user] Question about using psd format.

2005-07-10 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Don Rozenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So I do my gimp thing and build an 8.5x11 inches image with a > resolution of 300 px/inch. I then store it as a psd file. > > However, when I open the psd in Photoshop 7, Photoshop declares that > the image is 35.4x45.8 inches with a resolution of 7

[Gimp-user] how to set default units in gimp 2.2?

2005-07-10 Thread Gabor Istvan
Dear List Members? How can I set the default units from inches to centimeters in GIMP 2.2. 4 (SuSE 9.3)? Whenever I go to Image->Print Size or Image/Scale Image I have to adjust manually the units in the pull-down menu which is very inconvenient. Is it possible to have GIMP remember these set

Re: [Gimp-user] select rect snap to corner

2005-07-10 Thread Joe Carsto
On Sunday 10 July 2005 01:06 am, Tim E. Jedlicka - wrk wrote: > I'm trying to use the "Select Rectangle" with a fixed aspect ratio. I would > like it to snap to the corner of the image/layer. I have "snap to guides" > set, but apparently the edges of an image don't have "default" guides. Is > there