Re: [Gimp-user] getting colors to match.

2009-11-01 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 10/31/2009 11:13 PM, tess anne wrote: I'm trying to get a print out (onto paper) that matches, in color an original photo that i scanned. Have you looked into doing proper color management with color profiles? / Martin -- My GIMP Blog: http://www.chromecode.com/

[Gimp-user] getting colors to match.

2009-11-01 Thread tessanne
On 10/31/2009 11:13 PM, tess anne wrote: I'm trying to get a print out (onto paper) that matches, in color an original photo that i scanned. Have you looked into doing proper color management with color profiles? / Martin how do I do this... I am a beginner at gimp! tessanne -- tessanne

Re: [Gimp-user] getting colors to match.

2009-11-01 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 11/01/2009 08:52 AM, tessanne wrote: Have you looked into doing proper color management with color profiles? / Martin how do I do this... I am a beginner at gimp! tessanne Color management is not program or device specific, to start you need to learn about color management in general.

[Gimp-user] Font scaling looks choppy

2009-11-01 Thread vr
I'm working with scratchy looking fonts trying to give them something to stand out. I create a transparent canvas about 348x67 then pick a font, select white for the color, and set the font at around 34. Then using the scale tool I stretch the text to fill more of the canvas space. Then I right

Re: [Gimp-user] Font scaling looks choppy

2009-11-01 Thread phanisvara das
On Sunday 01 November 2009 09:30:17 pm vr wrote: I'm working with scratchy looking fonts trying to give them something to stand out. I create a transparent canvas about 348x67 then pick a font, select white for the color, and set the font at around 34. Then using the scale tool I stretch

Re: [Gimp-user] Font scaling looks choppy

2009-11-01 Thread vr
On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 22:18:27 +0530, phanisvara das wrote: On Sunday 01 November 2009 09:30:17 pm vr wrote: I'm working with scratchy looking fonts trying to give them something to stand out. I create a transparent canvas about 348x67 then pick a font, select white for the color, and set

Re: [Gimp-user] Font scaling looks choppy

2009-11-01 Thread phanisvara das
On Sunday 01 November 2009 10:37:33 pm vr wrote: I've been retracing my steps trying different things all morning and it seems (for me) the inner white text gets choppy when scaled to fill the canvas every time. that probably means that you converted the text layer. as long as it remains a

Re: [Gimp-user] Font scaling looks choppy

2009-11-01 Thread phanisvara das
On Sunday 01 November 2009 09:30:17 pm vr wrote: I create a transparent canvas about 348x67 then pick a font, select white for the color, and set the font at around 34. Then using the scale tool I stretch the text to fill more of the canvas space. Then I right click the text layer and alpha to

Re: [Gimp-user] Font scaling looks choppy

2009-11-01 Thread Sven Neumann
On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 11:00 -0500, vr wrote: I'm working with scratchy looking fonts trying to give them something to stand out. I create a transparent canvas about 348x67 then pick a font, select white for the color, and set the font at around 34. Then using the scale tool I stretch the

[Gimp-user] gimp.org website down?

2009-11-01 Thread ahmed
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 7:35 PM, phanisvara das phan...@gmail.com wrote: since yesterday afternoon i've been trying to get to the gimp.org website, but no luck. is this a local network problem (i'm living in india), or is the website down? I cannot reach it either (from the US). Chris and

[Gimp-user] gimp-image-set-unit ineffective on 2.67 for windows

2009-11-01 Thread Alan Campbell
Hi, I'm trying to get a script to generate an image with default units (as displayed in status bar at bottom of image window) to be mm instead of pixels. My script does (gimp-image-set-unit 2) and I've even set default image grid (in preferences) in mm. No joy. Can it be done? Short

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp-image-set-unit ineffective on 2.67 for windows

2009-11-01 Thread Sven Neumann
On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 18:38 +, Alan Campbell wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get a script to generate an image with default units (as displayed in status bar at bottom of image window) to be mm instead of pixels. My script does The units displayed in the status bar are the image's display

[Gimp-user] Glow and lighting Effect.

2009-11-01 Thread day
Does anyone know how to create These lighting and glow effects in these pictures. The designer says that it is a plug in. but i can find no such plug in. is there a way to create this effect in gimp? or do you know the plug in?

[Gimp-user] getting colors to match continued

2009-11-01 Thread tessanne
HI! I recently had two different colors next to each other, and, using the color picker, I found out what these colors were in terms of hue, saturation, value, red green and blue (like when you click on the foreground color. It turns out that one color was quite different from the other in terms

[Gimp-user] Gimp on Windows 7 not Recognising PNG, JPG, etc.

2009-11-01 Thread eXAKR
I recently upgraded from Windows Vista x86 to Windows 7 x64, and am in the process of reinstalling my old programs and restoring my settings. I had reinstalled The GIMP (version 2.6.7, x86 version) and was about to use it when I found that it couldn't handle any image files at all, other than XCF.

[Gimp-user] CR2 opens only bw

2009-11-01 Thread cah
Any CR2 RAW file from my Canon T1i (500D) opens black and white only (iMac/ Gimp 2.6/ UFRAW 0.15). I've spent hours trying to find a solution and may not see the forest for the trees. Any help is appreciated - I am just a user and have no knowledge of codes: please keep it simple. -- cah (via