Re: [Gimp-user] Sinc(Lanczos3) interpolation making patterns like artifacts when scaling.

2010-08-16 Thread Ernie Wright
Aliet wrote: > I noticed on some of the finished pictures some sort of pattern like > artifacts and pixels with offending colors whenever there was > transparent gray or black over white o clear backgrounds, I also > noticed that these were downscaled using Sinc(Lanczos3) > interpolation. I've bee

Re: [Gimp-user] Large file size on TIFF to JPEG conversion

2009-05-30 Thread Ernie Wright
James Cobban wrote: > I am just astonished that I have to set such extreme quality values to > get a reasonable sized file. Very likely the TIFF files are 1 bit per pixel (only black or white, with no gray). JPEG supports a minimum of 8 bits per pixel, so right away, with equivalently efficient

Re: [Gimp-user] Before I file a bug report

2009-04-26 Thread Ernie Wright
David Gowers wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: >> >> on my system (WIN XP Home SP3; Gimp 2.6.6) when I enter the "Alt +" >> code for a special character, nothing happens, that is, the character >> does not appear, and the cursor does not advance. > > Yes, this has

Re: [Gimp-user] Problem loading BMP; invalid BMP or bug in GIMP?

2008-12-30 Thread Ernie Wright
Roel Schroeven wrote: > I can easily convert the bitmap to 24 bits, and then the image looks > good in GIMP, which is to be expected since it doesn't contain any > alpha information anymore. And it has the added benefit that the image > files are smaller. > > Either way it's no big deal to me. I

Re: [Gimp-user] stroke selection not antialiased

2008-10-27 Thread Ernie Wright
Simon Budig wrote: > Nathan Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>So why not convert your selection to a path then stroke the path? This is a >>good work around, and even in my mind now, this makes sense. The stroked >>path is antialiased. > > This is a good workaround if you know what you're doin

Re: [Gimp-user] stroke selection not antialiased

2008-10-27 Thread Ernie Wright
Sven Neumann wrote: > On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 18:14 -0400, Ernie Wright wrote: > >>"Does something the user does not expect" is the definition of a design >>flaw > > It's more like "technically it does the right thing, but the user > expects a di

Re: [Gimp-user] stroke selection not antialiased

2008-10-26 Thread Ernie Wright
Simon Budig wrote: > Ernie Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> I don't get *any* antialiasing when I stroke elliptical selections. > > You're not doing anything wrong and we know about this effect. Gimp > doesn't do anything wrong either, it just does som

[Gimp-user] stroke selection not antialiased

2008-10-26 Thread Ernie Wright
I don't get *any* antialiasing when I stroke elliptical selections. Antialiasing is checked in the tool attributes of the Ellipse Select tool. It's also checked in the Choose Stroke Style dialog. Fills antialias just fine. I also get an antialiased line if I convert the selection to a path and