Re: [Gimp-user] How to do this?

2009-03-03 Thread vicky aur
Thank you everyone. Got almost similar effect by tracing the background layer on an transparent layer with smoother curves (holding shift did the trick). Thanks again. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley

[Gimp-user] Fading to transparency tutorial?

2009-03-03 Thread json
Thanks a bunch guys. thanks, json ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

[Gimp-user] Only part printing

2009-03-03 Thread K J.
With an open jpg, when I go to: print/image settings tab, it shows as complete in the preview window, with paper set to A4, and minimal margins. However on printing all I get is a tiny bit of the top left-hand corner printed to cover the A4 sheet. Even if I set "Scale to fit" on my printer driver i

[Gimp-user] Only part printing

2009-03-03 Thread K J.
Well would you believe it - I just upgraded to 2.6 (was on 2.4.6) and it works OK now! Bug fixed I guess. Sorry for wasting time. > -- K J. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-

[Gimp-user] Photo printing

2009-03-03 Thread A. M.
When I take my 35mm film roll in to my local photo lab for developing, I get a set of prints on CD. Can they print a 5 x 7 inch enlargement of one of these CD prints after I have made some changes with GIMP, or will they only be able to make a print from the negative (which I can't make changes to

Re: [Gimp-user] Photo printing

2009-03-03 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 21:16:40 +0100 (CET), A. M. wrote: > When I take my 35mm film roll in to my local photo lab for developing, I get a > set of prints on CD. Can they print a 5 x 7 inch enlargement of one of these > CD prints after I have made some changes with GIMP, or will they only be able >

[Gimp-user] Photo printing

2009-03-03 Thread A. M.
OK, thanks. I just wondered if the CD photos would have the right information - I read somewhere that the ppi. for photo printing should be about 200, the ppi. for my CD prints is 72. -- A. M. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.

Re: [Gimp-user] Photo printing

2009-03-03 Thread norman
> When I take my 35mm film roll in to my local photo lab for developing, I get a > set of prints on CD. Can they print a 5 x 7 inch enlargement of one of these > CD prints after I have made some changes with GIMP, or will they only be able > to make a print from the negative (which I can't make c

Re: [Gimp-user] Photo printing

2009-03-03 Thread Chris Mohler
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:47 PM, A. M. wrote: > OK, thanks. > I just wondered if the CD photos would have the right information - I read > somewhere that the ppi. for photo printing should be about 200, the ppi. for > my CD prints is 72. It depends on the pixel dimensions - if the CD photos are on

[Gimp-user] Photo printing

2009-03-03 Thread A. M.
>There should be no problem in getting a print but I suggest you ask them >first to find out what they require the Gimp image to be saved on. > >Norman > > OK, thanks. -- A. M. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.X

Re: [Gimp-user] Photo printing

2009-03-03 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
A. M. wrote: > OK, thanks. > I just wondered if the CD photos would have the right information - I read > somewhere that the ppi. for photo printing should be about 200, the ppi. for > my CD prints is 72. You might enquire of the place you take your film for processing whether you can specify t

[Gimp-user] Photo printing

2009-03-03 Thread A. M.
>You might enquire of the place you take your film for processing whether >you can specify the PPI of the processed images, in which case I would >specify a ppi of 300 or more. If you cannot, and you have a scanner, you >might be able to scan the negative on your scanner, and "develop" which >

Re: [Gimp-user] Photo printing

2009-03-03 Thread Dotan Cohen
> It depends on the pixel dimensions - if the CD photos are only 360 px > by 504 px ( which is 5"x7" at 72 DPI), you will not get very high > quality prints.  However, I suspect the CD photos are probably much > larger - so you should resize them to 5x7 with software like GIMP and > see what the re