Re: [Gimp-user] Help needed looking for a plug-in

2011-03-15 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:10:32AM -0700, Tom Williams wrote: > Hi! Sometime last year, I used a Gimp 2.6 plugin which took an image > and put vertical photo sprockets on the left and right sides of the > image, with the text "1A" printed on it. This plugin was similar to the > "filmstrip" plugin

Re: [Gimp-user] Speeding up GIMP

2011-03-02 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 03:19:01PM +0200, M@thew Green wrote: > Let's not argue semantics here - you know what I mean :) > > There should be a degree of "the obvious" when interacting with an > interface. In other words, it should, as far as possible, be obvious as what > to click on, in order to

Re: [Gimp-user] Speeding up GIMP

2011-03-02 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 03:23:51PM +0200, Jeremy Nell wrote: > Simple comparison: An A4 page, 300DPI, open in both applications.  > Grab a paint brush and and increase its size considerably.  Paint > across the canvas and watch how much GIMP lags; the rendering of > the stro

Re: [Gimp-user] Speeding up GIMP

2011-03-02 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 01:01:33PM +0100, Szabolcs Hideg wrote: > If the generated brush outline is too complex, turning it off for that brush > only, or somehow simplify more complex brush outlines would be a better > solution than disabling it altogether in the program settings. > I have created

Re: [Gimp-user] Speeding up GIMP

2011-03-02 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 02:51:08PM +0200, M@thew Green wrote: > I didn't even know you could turn off brush outlines. I took it as a > mini-challenge to see if I could work it out. BTW, to create some context > for my experience I have been using GIMP since 2003, and designing / > "architecting" we

Re: [Gimp-user] Speeding up GIMP

2011-03-02 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 03:02:30AM -0800, Carol Spears wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 09:30:30AM +0200, Jeremy Nell wrote: > > What ways or tips will help speed up GIMP and maximise performance? > > Obviously, loads of RAM is a start, I guess. And a decent graphics card >

Re: [Gimp-user] Speeding up GIMP

2011-03-02 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 09:30:30AM +0200, Jeremy Nell wrote: > What ways or tips will help speed up GIMP and maximise performance? > Obviously, loads of RAM is a start, I guess. And a decent graphics card > (for rendering), yes? > > What other tips or tricks does anyone have? brush outline ca

Re: [Gimp-user] locked up file selection screen

2011-02-08 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 05:12:22PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:58:27 -0800 > Carol Spears wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 04:48:16PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > > > I am running GIMP 2.6.10 under Ubuntu Maverick...and

Re: [Gimp-user] locked up file selection screen

2011-02-08 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 04:48:16PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > I am running GIMP 2.6.10 under Ubuntu Maverick...and lately > have been having an intermittent problem with the file > selector. > It pops up seemingly locked-up so I can't change directories > or disks, matter of fact can't do a

Re: [Gimp-user] Grey Mask for Lenticular Images

2006-10-20 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 02:51:17PM -0700, Jerry Dunn wrote: > The Help File tells how to do this in PhotoShop in three steps: > > 1) Load an image > 2) Split the Red, Green and Blue Channels > 3) Save the Green channel as a grey mask. Use Auto Contrast. > in gimp-2.2 use the plug-

Re: [Gimp-user] multi-line text control

2006-10-10 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 02:38:32PM -0700, Mark Harris wrote: > I'm using a windows version of Gimp, 2.2.1.3. I notice I don't have the > capability for multiline text, which I believe is provided by the > gdyntext plug in. I've been unable to find a windows version of this > plug in, and canno

Re: [Gimp-user] gimpui.pc

2006-10-02 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 05:32:07AM -0600, Alex Feldman wrote: > OK, is there a place I can get more information on this? Google showed > up surprisingly little for libgimp2.0-dev, and most of it was either for > Debian or not in English (which I prefer). Can I just download the > package from

Re: [Gimp-user] gimpui.pc

2006-10-01 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 08:11:43PM -0600, Alex Feldman wrote: > I just installed FC5, which comes with Gimp, but there is no gimpui.pc file. > > Gutenprint looks for it before it makes the print plugin for Gimp, which > is what I am after. So do I need to find this file somewhere and put it > i

Re: [Gimp-user] Please Change the Derogatory Name

2006-09-30 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:39:46AM +0100, Alan Horkan wrote: > > As I said before offering to accept patches which made it possible to > rebrand the gimp in a clean maintainable way without the need to fork > could bring this dicussion to screeching halt until someone shows some > code. Isn't tha

Re: [Gimp-user] Please Change the Derogatory Name

2006-09-30 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 06:54:48AM -0600, Roland Hordos wrote: > > While all other credible opensource projects are gaining ground in a > professional IT setting, the GIMP is being held back because of the > instant derogatory impact of the name. If someone who can champion this > task reads this

Re: [Gimp-user] adjustment layer

2006-09-29 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 08:50:12PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Very clear. > Thanks for a so clear and energizing answer Simon ! > It's full of good things even if you warn us about the time it can take. > Topic almost closed for me... > > Sincerely. > > > What happens *after* Gimp 2.4 has

Re: [Gimp-user] adjustment layer

2006-09-29 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 05:02:43PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Selon Simon Budig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Thanks for your cool answer Simon...mine to Carol was almost sarcastic. > sorry for your misunderstanding. this is what i would say to a friend. an example would be a situation where t

Re: [Gimp-user] adjustment layer

2006-09-29 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 11:51:38AM +0200, Daniel Barna wrote: > Hi, > I have searched a lot about adjustment layers in the gimp, but only found > complaining messages about their absence (in contrast to Photoshop). > I am a newbie, and I was advised by an expert friend to use Photoshop due > to s

Re: [Gimp-user] Time Lapse

2006-09-27 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:25:31AM +0530, Krishna Kumar wrote: > > Has anyone tried to stitch time-lapsed photos using gimp? I am > planning such a project and wondering how if gimp can animate a set > photos into a .mov or .avi > the gimp animation plug-in (GAP) can do this. if you can get it i

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP newbie can't blur

2006-09-16 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 04:04:49PM +0300, Alexandru GHERMAN wrote: > > I'm using Gimp in Windows, and I'm (very) newbie. I have an image and I > wanted to Blur/Sharpen it, but whenever I load it and I select the region or > the entire image, when I go to Filters/Blur, all the filters are not > ac

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.3.11 work with GTK+ 2.6?

2006-09-14 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 06:31:36PM -0400, Darren Govoni wrote: > Hi, >Apparently my GAIM does not work with GTK+ 2.8 when I upgraded to it for > gimp 2.3.11. Any chance Gimp 2.3.11 will work with GTK+ 2.6? > the last i knew, they were anxious to begin to depend on GTK+ 2.12 carol ___

Re: [Gimp-user] drop shadow text

2006-09-11 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:15:59PM -0400, Harry G Osoff wrote: > It sure would be great to get some of the > Type Tools that Adobe has in theri products. > > I realize that's what made Adobe Adobe. > But i sure do miss have such elegant type control. > > That alone makes PS a great tool. > if i

Re: [Gimp-user] drop shadow text

2006-09-11 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:00:11PM -0400, John R. Culleton wrote: > I have on my desk "The Basics tutorial" By JTL dated 2002. Is > there a newer and easier way to create three dimensional text > with a drop shadow? > there was at one time a script-fu that seemed to be based solely on the tutoria

Re: [Gimp-user] Font help

2006-09-05 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 01:51:58PM -0400, Owen Berry wrote: > I'm using The Gimp to try to recreate some images containing only text > for a web site that I maintain for my company. The site was originally > created by a web design company using Dreamweaver and some other > tools. Unfortunately all

Re: [Gimp-user] SIOX and Gimp 2.3.10

2006-08-27 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 10:50:46AM -0700, Tom Williams wrote: > Is the SIOX tool still part of Gimp 2.3? I didn't see the icon for it > in the toolbox in 2.3.10. > it is still there. i wrote a little thingie about how clever (in my opinion) the default layout is for gimp-2.3's toolbox here: htt

Re: [Gimp-user] Question about Gimp 2.3.10 and "auto" level adjustment

2006-08-26 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 04:57:26PM -0700, Tom Williams wrote: > Hi! I took a photo using a Canon PowerShot A75 while driving at approx > 65 mph. The shot came out ok and I didn't get into an accident. :) > very fun when there are no injuries or damage to vehicles :) > Anywho, when I do an "au

Re: [Gimp-user] Giant Art Tutorials Link List

2006-08-01 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 02:44:00PM +0200, "J?rgen Hubert" wrote: > In the last few weeks, I've collected a huge number of online art tutorial > links. And now I've finally found a wiki where I could dump all those links - > a gaming wiki, of all things. > > The tutorials are mostly biased to the

Re: [Gimp-user] Postcards with gimp

2006-07-28 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:00:39AM -0700, Tanveer Singh wrote: > Long Long time ago, tourists used to send postcards to their loved > ones containing a nice image from the place. Now I have a good digital > image I want to make a email postcard sorta thing to send. Any > tutorials and tips for that

Re: [Gimp-user] Problems building with printing and missing GimpFu in stable cvs?

2006-07-28 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 07:47:58PM +0200, Rikard Johnels wrote: > > gimp compiles fine, and installs nicely. > But as i try to run the centerguide.py script i get a error stating > module gimpfu is missing. > > Where can i find the ginpfu stuff? > I tried googling but to no avail. I dont understa

Re: [Gimp-user] Errors compiling gimp-perl.

2006-07-17 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 08:22:56PM +0200, Rikard Johnels wrote: > Trying to compile gimp-perl. > But it fails with: > > > /usr/bin/perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/ExtUtils/xsubpp > -typemap /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/ExtUtils/typemap > -typemap /home/rikjoh/Build/gimp-perl/typemap Lib.xs > Lib.xsc && mv

Re: [Gimp-user] Question about scripting

2006-07-12 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 08:43:35AM -0500, Kent Tenney wrote: > > A good start in this direction would be if I could automatically > save curves and levels files when applying these edits. I could > then script associating the color transforms with the image. > > Questions: > Is it possible to scr

Re: [Gimp-user] guys, carol's joking

2006-06-24 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 09:33:55PM +0200, michael beijer wrote: > perhaps read a little more inbetween her lines > define joke as you are using it here. carol ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/m

Re: [Gimp-user] Website idea and comments on Gimp vrs photoshop

2006-06-24 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 01:13:56PM -0400, Joey Marshall wrote: > >> > >do not mention the acronym php. > > Is 'py' better? :) > I use django and turbogears. They make web development a lot easier. > I came from php about 7 or 8 months ago... never to return. > if py means python, it seems to be e

Re: [Gimp-user] Website idea and comments on Gimp vrs photoshop

2006-06-24 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 12:18:35PM -0400, Joey Marshall wrote: > On 6/24/06, Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >It doesn't have to be *versus*, both can be useful for different things. > > no, I'm not arguing one better than the other... > that actually could be funny though. actually i h

Re: [Gimp-user] Website idea and comments on Gimp vrs photoshop

2006-06-23 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 09:39:57PM -0400, Joey Marshall wrote: > I don't know if this would be better going to a different list... so > sorry if this is going to the wrong place! > eh, the list isn't being used as often as it used to be and this is more like the gimp-user list of the old days that

Re: [Gimp-user] Workaround for Styled Text?

2006-06-22 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 02:28:10PM -0700, Sarah wrote: > > I noticed that the the text tool cannot create multi-styled text... and > apparently several bugs and/or enhancement requests have been filed asking > for this feature. > when you ask for multi-styled text, what is it that you want? GIM

Re: [Gimp-user] Dynamic Brushes

2006-06-21 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 07:17:07PM +0200, Stefan Andersson wrote: > > Brushes. You can dynamicly change them... but only certain ones? If I > use some brushes which I made I can't resize them dynamicly? or do I > need to resave them in each pixel size that I want them? > you can tell the editable

Re: [Gimp-user] crop menu

2006-06-18 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 06:34:30PM +0100, Adrian Speich wrote: > Hi, > > My crop button in in the image menu is disabled (greyed out), I have > tried to crop loads of different files (jpg, bmp, gif), made sure I have > write permissions on them all, and same thing. > > Any ideas? > in the imag

Re: [Gimp-user] Am I stupid!? Changing color does not work

2006-06-14 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 02:13:34AM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi all! > > I have an image and I want to change all colors into a different one. So > what did I do: > * Select region by color > * switch to pencil tool > opacity 100 > mode normal > circle big > color t

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: How to animate a transition effect?

2006-06-02 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 09:27:22AM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > > Cheers, > Dave. > what is wrong with hof's how-to? carol ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: How to animate a transition effect?

2006-06-01 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 06:42:33PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: > David Neary wrote: > > > >You need GAP, the GIMP Animation Package. > > > >There's a tutorial that jimmac did ... > > I'll have another look, but--not to put too fine a point on it--without > any computer animation background (vocabular

Re: [Gimp-user] gif/avi in gap

2006-05-28 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 03:07:08AM -0400, adly mabro wrote: > Do I have to convert my gif animation to avi in order to get my layers into > frames using "Split Video into Frames", or is there another way in gap, > that is still automated? > an animated gif is a image with color restrictions and

Re: [Gimp-user] plugin which will center a layer horizontally and/or vertically

2006-05-21 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 07:35:18AM -0500, John Minson wrote: > Here is Joao S. O. Bueno plugin which will center a layer horizontally > and/or vertically . > Many thanks to Joao . > > > register( > "center_layer", > "Centers Current Layer on Canvas", > "enters Current Lay

Re: [Gimp-user] testing GAP with our latest GIMP author

2006-05-19 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 05:40:14PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Carol Spears wrote: > > > well, the book is out now and interestingly enough, the GIMP Animation > > Plug-in is in need of testing before its release. > > I am not really sure what this means but if yo

[Gimp-user] testing GAP with our latest GIMP author

2006-05-19 Thread Carol Spears
hi, i am in an interesting situation here. i live in the same area as the latest gimp author http://gimpbook.com/ this area is Mountain View, California. it is very much to my dismay that i have not *seen* akkana since we celebrated her birthday in 2004. i humbly submit that i also did not pres

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp-help-2-0.10 - failed install

2006-05-11 Thread Carol Spears
hi axel, On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 07:39:07AM +0200, Axel Wernicke wrote: > > Am 12.05.2006 um 05:58 schrieb Carol Spears: > > Hi Carol, Roman is still on vacation for a week or so. But why you > don't share your thoughts with us on the gimp-docs list? > good for roman!

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp-help-2-0.10 - failed install

2006-05-11 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 07:09:28AM +1000, Felix Karpfen wrote: > > It looked to me as though this step should have been done while I am > online. > > If this is the case, then is the following entry in the INSTALL file of > gimp-help-2-0.10 relevant: > > | By default we do not allow the XSLT pro

Re: [Gimp-user] layers

2006-05-07 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 11:28:15AM -0400, adly mabro wrote: > I have small animated gifs of about 30 to 90 frames. I need to make > identical changes to some or all of the layers, such as delete,change the > timing attribute, adding and applying the same mask to each layer, etc. > Until now I ha

Re: [Gimp-user] Image Enhancement

2006-05-05 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 02:00:01PM -0500, Wade Smart wrote: > 05052006 1358 GMT-6 > > I have a not so good image that I need to clear up. This is probably way > beyond my ability to be truthful. What I need to do is zoom in a bit and > enhance the picture so you can see it better. Can I do this

Re: [Gimp-user] where is gimpguru.org?

2006-04-26 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 06:33:04PM +0200, Colin Brace wrote: > gimpguru.org has been down for a number of days now. I hope this is > just temporary glitch; gimp.org/tutorials/ mirrors many but not all of > Eric's tutorials... > gimp.org hosts only those tutorials that we were given permission to r

Re: [Gimp-user] removing backgrounds

2006-04-24 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 05:30:56PM +0200, Colin Brace wrote: > On 4/24/06, C. DeBerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can someone explain to me the process of removing the background color > > from my logo? It has this nasty white box around it, and looks horrible on > > colored paper/background

Re: [Gimp-user] darkening a grey-scale drawing

2006-04-12 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 11:41:27AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:57:08PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > > I have a simple line drawing that is in shades of light grey against a > > > white ground. My aim is to increase the grey scale range from 000 199 > > > to 000 to 25

Re: [Gimp-user] Does Gimp have CHOP like ImageMagick

2006-04-11 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 01:19:59AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:12:37PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Does Gimp have a CHOP tool similar > > > to ImageMagick? Magick CHOP chops > > > a vertical or horizontal bar from > > > an image. > > > > > does

Re: [Gimp-user] Does Gimp have CHOP like ImageMagick

2006-04-11 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:12:37PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > SuSE 8.2, 9.3 > Gimp 1.2.3, 2.2.4 > > Does Gimp have a CHOP tool similar > to ImageMagick? Magick CHOP chops > a vertical or horizontal bar from > an image. > does it make two or several images or does it leave a big transparen

Re: [Gimp-user] darkening a grey-scale drawing

2006-04-11 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:57:08PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I have a simple line drawing that is in shades of light grey against a > white ground. My aim is to increase the grey scale range from 000 199 > to 000 to 255. > > Grokking the Gimp suggests I should use the Threshold Tool, but this

Re: [Gimp-user] lines with arrow

2006-04-10 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:33:36PM -0500, Haibo Yu wrote: > > Could anyone tell me how to make a line with arrow in gimp? > I have been browsing through the website, but could not find. > typically, the suggestion is to use inkscape as it is a vector drawing application. however, to do this in g

Re: [Gimp-user] important GIMP features for the future ?

2006-04-08 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 11:14:22PM +0200, devvv wrote: > Hello, > > I gave a course today about GIMP/2.2 at a local college for some > teachers that decided to switch over to GIMP instead of using Adobe > Photoshop because they don't want to support proprietary software and > because they want to

Re: [Gimp-user] batch convert

2006-04-07 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 06:31:19AM +0200, Stephan Hegel wrote: > Does ImageMagick support the xcf file format ? > last i knew it could read them and convert from them but not make them. gimp can do this. it is somewhere on my website, i think the page is very broken right now, but it should be s

Re: [Gimp-user] Clipping Paths

2006-04-07 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 02:04:01PM -0700, kenquad wrote: > > Actually I've never used Photoshop, but I hear from a DTP expert that it has > a function called "clipping paths" which can be used with an EPS (sorry I > said TIFF in error) to tell your layout software (e.g. Quark, Scribus) which > ar

Re: [Gimp-user] Clipping Paths

2006-04-07 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 11:43:21AM -0700, kenquad wrote: > > Quick question: can I do TIFF clipping paths in GIMP like you can in > Photoshop - or something equivalent? Thanks a bunch, > Photoshop is unable to run on my os without a lot of help which basically means it does not run on my os. gi

Re: [Gimp-user] where is gimp tips?

2006-04-07 Thread Carol Spears
hello Pan, On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 11:37:42PM +0800, Pan Yongzhi wrote: > > My first post here. :) Can you tell me where is the Tip of the Day file > located? I want to make a bilingual tip file so that it displays English > and French tip at the same time? I suppose the tip file is like a > fo

Re: [Gimp-user] Startup values

2006-04-05 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 01:03:58PM -0700, Akkana Peck wrote: > Carol Spears writes: > > On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:49:52PM -0700, Akkana Peck wrote: > > > That works for me, but if it doesn't work for you, try the > > > "Input Devices" category of Prefere

Re: [Gimp-user] gap story board

2006-04-05 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 07:11:47PM +0100, sam ende wrote: > hi, > does anyone know or can point me to a tutorial on how the storyboard works > in the gap filter, carol perhaps ? thanks :) > if you hadn't mentioned my name, i would have waited quietly for an answer to your question. my theory abo

Re: [Gimp-user] Window decorations

2006-04-05 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:34:33AM +, Roy Sanderson wrote: > Hello > > I've recently upgraded from RHL 7.3 to Fedora, and hence from Gimp version > 1.2.3 to version 2.2.10 One thing that has puzzled us is that when doing a > 'grab' of a single window (via File->Aquire->Screenshot), there is n

Re: [Gimp-user] Startup values

2006-04-05 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:49:52PM -0700, Akkana Peck wrote: > Carol Spears writes: > > On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 09:01:18AM -0400, John R. Culleton wrote: > > > When I start Gimp 2.3.7 it starts with a paintbrush. I would rather > > > it started with the rectangula

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with Open Image box

2006-04-04 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:35:28PM -0400, Gracia M. Littauer wrote: > Yo Carol, > > > i think you are trying to bookmark a file and not a directory (or > > "Folder" is what they call them now). > > I am trying to bookmark a dir...I don't have files in my Nikon > dir...only dirs & like the other

Re: [Gimp-user] Startup values

2006-04-04 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 09:01:18AM -0400, John R. Culleton wrote: > When I start Gimp 2.3.7 it starts with a paintbrush. I would rather > it started with the rectangular select tool. Somewhere in > .gimp-2.3 is a value that sets this option I suspect. But I > haven't found it yet. > > Someone ple

Re: [Gimp-user] Trouble with Open Image box

2006-04-04 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 06:49:00PM -0600, Judy Wilson wrote: > > I get an error when I try to add a Bookmark to the left window on the > Open Image window. It says "Error Could not make a bookmarkBookmark > saving failed: Could not change file mode: waitpid() failed: No child > processes"

Re: [Gimp-user] recompiling 2.3.7 for FC5: config can't find libtiff

2006-03-23 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:08:14AM +0100, Colin Brace wrote: > I just finished the compile (with python support this time!), but alas > no tiff support. So, something definitely got munged. > > > well, this really has the smell of a bug report. > > > > have you ever filed one before? > > Yes, jus

Re: [Gimp-user] recompiling 2.3.7 for FC5: config can't find libtiff

2006-03-23 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 10:39:10PM +0100, Colin Brace wrote: > On 3/23/06, Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > i am wondering if you configure --without-libtiff what happens? > > How bizarre: > > $ ./configure --prefix=/opt/gimp-2.3.7 --without-libtif

Re: [Gimp-user] recompiling 2.3.7 for FC5: config can't find libtiff

2006-03-23 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 07:31:09PM +0100, Colin Brace wrote: > I installed Fedora Core 5 yesterday and am recompiling 2.3.7. Alas, > configure returns an error message: > [...] > checking for TIFFReadScanline in -ltiff... no > checking for TIFFWriteScanline in -ltiff... no > checking for TI

Re: [Gimp-user] gradient lighten

2006-03-10 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:07:46AM -0800, Bill W. wrote: > Hi all, > Quick newbie question. I have a photo that is full bright on one side, the > left; and subdued light on the right. It seems to be an excellent job for > gradient and layers but I'm not sure how to go about getting started. > I c

Re: [Gimp-user] Fill transparent?

2006-03-10 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 09:49:00AM -0800, Simon Roberts wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm really sorry this is probably a dumb/rtfm type question but I guess > I don't know enough to know what to look for. > > I simply want to make a selection transparent. I can make the selection > OK, but when I click t

Re: [Gimp-user] no raw in 2.2.7?

2006-03-04 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 08:30:20PM -0500, Gracia M. Littauer wrote: > I have the right raw files that worked w/previous versions, but no > banana with 2.2.7 > > gimp is kind of useless if I can't open my pix files ;^(. > i think that this plug-in is third party which means you need to get it and

Re: [Gimp-user] Tiling a picture

2006-03-03 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 01:48:55PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > I would like to make a poster out of a picture, but not in one piece. I have > many small frames hanging on a wall and I would like to place one part of the > original image in each frame, in such a way that when all the

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Open Save dialog

2006-03-03 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 02:53:11PM +0100, Jakub Steiner wrote: > > There is no key combo to access file completion. Just start typing. > this can bite you though. here is the case where it fails miserably: the dialog shows up and the name in the location area is highlighted. expand the twisty

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp scripting/automating howto

2006-02-28 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:21:15AM +0800, jed mallen wrote: > Hello, > > Can anyone recommend a nice howto on automating batch jobs on gimp > (ie: resizing, border, etc.)? > i have put some stuff on my site. the old (gimp-2.0-2.2) stuff should be at http://carol.gimp.org/gimp2/resources/python/

[Gimp-user] GIMP, OSS and things called forums

2006-02-28 Thread Carol Spears
while i am not interested in excluding GIMP from collections of software that people call *OSS, there is certainly a lot of confusion involving *OSS advocates when it comes to the expectations of them about what gimp developers and volunteers will do. here is one point. people coming here from OS

Re: [Gimp-user] blue + yellow = green

2006-02-27 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 09:01:30PM -0800, Carol Spears wrote: > > > gimp (the way it was made) is a much better way to learn image > manipulation. one more time, if changing from photoshop to gimp is a > problem and changing from gimp to photoshop is a problem -- wherein are &g

Re: [Gimp-user] blue + yellow = green

2006-02-27 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 10:19:46PM -0600, Robert Citek wrote: > On Feb 25, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Carol Spears wrote: > >first thing. in keeping with the spirit of how gimpshop came to be, i > >am curious if there are separate online resources for this > >application. > &

Re: [Gimp-user] Animations with translucent layers?

2006-02-25 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 07:58:35PM +0100, RalfGesellensetter wrote: > Hello all, > > for several times I managed to create animations witb Gimp 2.2. > Especially nice are web animations (GIF) which are easily done with > GIMP. > > Now, for the first time, GIMP's outcome is different from what I

Re: [Gimp-user] blue + yellow = green

2006-02-25 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 10:44:52AM -0600, Robert Citek wrote: > > I'm slowing getting familiar with gimp/gimpshop. And so I thought I > would try a couple of toy problems. One toy problem is to create a > venn diagram. The resulting image would look something like a Visa > logo, except th

Re: [Gimp-user] Building multicolor gradients.

2006-02-25 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 11:40:45AM -0500, John R. Culleton wrote: > I want to build a gradient with three (or more) colors. Under > 2.3.7 the "new gradient" routine only allows or a start and an > end color. > > What am I missing? > i think you are missing an idea. first add new segments. ri

Re: [Gimp-user] // gimp and dotfiles //

2006-02-24 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 12:02:29AM +0100, Julian Oliver wrote: > > it appears the file-open dialog doesn't seem to have support for dotdirs. > is their any intention to support this with a "Show Hidden" button or > similar? > by dotdirs i mean 'hidden' directories like ~/.somegame or > ~/.mywin

Re: [Gimp-user] Python and Windows XP

2006-02-21 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:56:24PM -0800, Demetrius Jones wrote: > I was wondering if someone could point out how I am supposed to get the Gimp > 2.3.6 to recognize that I have python installed on the computer so that I may > be able to use py fu scripts > python loads modules. gi

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Logarithmic gradient

2006-02-14 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 05:01:24PM +0200, Vytautas P. wrote: > And where all these gradients stored? ~/.gimp-2.2/gradients contains no files > at all. copy any existing gradient (use the button on the Gradients Dialog) and the gradient editor should appear. in the gradient editor dialog, right

Re: [Gimp-user] Problems compiling GIMP

2006-02-11 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 07:42:12AM +0100, Axel Wernicke wrote: > > Am 11.02.2006 um 00:41 schrieb Carol Spears: > >could you assume for a moment that i was being nice and friendly? > > > >after a while, when people suggest that you are not being nice and not > >be

Re: [Gimp-user] Default settings for scaling images: high quality?

2006-02-11 Thread Carol Spears
hi, the goal was edited from this email thread, so i am putting it back here. back when the berkeley computers also shared an archive of the mail list, emails like this were useful to people. with the strong desire that this might one day be the case again, we can all make sure that the emails

Re: [Gimp-user] Problems compiling GIMP

2006-02-11 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:43:55PM -0500, Scott wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 02:27:42PM -0500, Scott wrote: > >> > >> gimp-composite-sse.c: In function > >> 'gimp_composite_scale_rgba8_rgba8_rgba8_sse': > >> gimp-composite-sse.c:786: error: PIC register '%ebx' clobbered in 'asm' > >> make[3]:

Re: [Gimp-user] Problems compiling GIMP

2006-02-10 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:49:09PM +0100, Axel Wernicke wrote: > > Am 10.02.2006 um 23:32 schrieb Carol Spears: > > > >if you are using apple products, you probably are not interested in > >speed so probably building without that stuff will not seem to hurt > >per

Re: [Gimp-user] One stupid thing

2006-02-10 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 05:27:23PM -0500, John R. Culleton wrote: > On Friday 10 February 2006 04:46 pm, Michael Schumacher wrote: > > John R. Culleton wrote: > > > Not at all. I was noting that on two different flavors of linux > > > it is necessary to download and install material beyond that > >

Re: [Gimp-user] Problems compiling GIMP

2006-02-10 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 02:27:42PM -0500, Scott wrote: > > gimp-composite-sse.c: In function > 'gimp_composite_scale_rgba8_rgba8_rgba8_sse': > gimp-composite-sse.c:786: error: PIC register '%ebx' clobbered in 'asm' > make[3]: *** [libcompositesse_a-gimp-composite-sse.o] Error 1 > make[2]: *** [all

Re: [Gimp-user] One stupid thing

2006-02-09 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 05:15:17PM -0500, John R. Culleton wrote: > > Heh. I set up Debian sarge, downloaded Gimp 2.3.8? and tried to > compile. Now I am back to the missing XML::Parser problem again. > This is a fresh compile on a new partion with a different version > of linux. I suggest that th

Re: [Gimp-user] Paths dialog

2006-02-06 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 08:03:19PM -0700, Alex Feldman wrote: > > But it seems as if the paths don't just live in one layer. Isn't > normally the case than when you do something (like create a path), you > do it in the active layer, and then you can not only toggle visibility > of whatever you cr

Re: [Gimp-user] One stupid thing

2006-02-03 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:53:03PM -0800, Tom Williams wrote: > I'm also a Slackware user and have the latest glib and gtk+ libraries > installed. Feel free to e-mail me if you need help getting everything > straightened out. I've had similar problems with other apps and got > them resolved once

Re: [Gimp-user] One stupid thing

2006-02-03 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 07:58:24PM -0500, John R. Culleton wrote: > On Friday 03 February 2006 02:57 pm, Carol Spears wrote: > > Now I have a problem with GLIB. Versions up thorugh gimp 2.3.3 > don't have the problem.. Versions newer than that complain about an obsolete > GLI

Re: [Gimp-user] One stupid thing

2006-02-03 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 09:34:10AM -0500, John R. Culleton wrote: > I cannot compile the unstable Gimp because of one stupid thing. > the ./configure always blows up on this message: > > checking for perl... /usr/local/bin/perl > checking for XML::Parser

Re: [Gimp-user] Batch or Macro with frames

2006-02-02 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 02:57:35PM +0100, Peter Diks wrote: > Dear Gimp-Userlist, > > I am having a good time with Gimp 2.2.9 > At the moment i would like to add a Gflare in batch so that i don't have to > edit some 200 frames the same way. There is the "video" plug-in but a macro > option or cu

Re: [Gimp-user] Paths dialog

2006-02-01 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:17:19PM -0700, Alex Feldman wrote: > > That is, it was useful until I got to section 3.4, The Paths Dialog. > Now nothing seems to work. > the pathtool is probably the most changed tool since gimp-1.2. personally, i would have a difficult time writing how to use the new

Re: [Gimp-user] Re: GIMP is Great

2006-02-01 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:13:08PM +0200, Joe Schaffner wrote: > Fun with email. > some times email is fun. > Just curious, are you a Gimp user, a graphical designer, a programmer, > do you work for gimp.org, or all of the above? > loyal hobbiest? i actually do not want to define myself. it fe

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