Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP vs Photoshop

2010-01-12 Thread Jaime Seuma
IMHO, and to cut the long story short: - use the GIMP - learn how to use it by means of the help included, the many excellent tutorials existing, Akkana Peck's book and MeetTheGimp.org video-shows. There are still other resources available. - CMYK: you won't be needing that any time soon, and some

Re: [Gimp-user] Forcing GIMP to use English

2009-11-25 Thread Jaime Seuma
I cannot say about vista, but with xp I have just created a new variable at system level (control panel->system->advanced options->env variables) called 'LANG' with value 'en'. That does the trick. HIH Jaims Deniz Dogan wrote: > I'm running GIMP on a Windows Vista machine which uses a Swedish >

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling and resolution

2009-09-15 Thread Jaime Seuma
Thank you all for the tips and links, I think this is enough info to make me understand the whole thing, and to make me feel comfortable with it. Best regards Jaime David Gowers wrote: > In GIMP (and Photoshop, and some other editing software) > it will make it display differently. If your disp

Re: [Gimp-user] Image resolution bad detection (?)

2009-09-15 Thread Jaime Seuma
Thank you all for the responses, they have been useful to me. Sven Neumann wrote: > Most likely your software embeds the resolution information into the > Exif metadata and fails to update the resolution in the JFIF header. > That's a minor problem as the resolution is really just some arbitrary

[Gimp-user] Image resolution bad detection (?)

2009-09-14 Thread Jaime Seuma
Hello I use The Gimp to edit my photographs, which I shoot with a Canon EOS 50D. I shoot always RAW, and use the propietary Canon software (DPP) to process the pictures a bit before converting them to jpeg (max conversion quality) with a resolution of 350 dpi. But when I open this jpg with the G

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling and resolution

2009-09-14 Thread Jaime Seuma
Hi This is an interesting question also to me. David Gowers wrote: > > No, if you turn off View->Dot for dot then the DPI relative to your > display DPI is used to scale your view of the image. That much I had already found; but still, when I open a file that has been scaled only in resolution

Re: [Gimp-user] Modifying an image...

2009-08-29 Thread Jaime Seuma
zed wrote: > I am very new to The Gimp and, at the moment, floundering :-( > > I want to have some CDs printed with the LinuxMINT logo but the person > printing the CDs for me wants the image modified to remove the 'hole' in the > centre. > > I've copied part of the image in an ellipse to cover t

Re: [Gimp-user] how to use layers

2009-08-25 Thread Jaime Seuma
thomas w. wrote: > > I wanted to use GIMP for my photo manipulation. I had assumed after all these > years that it was usable. I hope I'm not forced to go to Photoshop over > something simple like this. > GIMP is really good for photo post-processing. I use it a lot; even though I bought a lapt

Re: [Gimp-user] Is it really that complicated to make a circle?

2009-06-30 Thread Jaime Seuma
Dotan Cohen wrote: > Please take a look at this guide for making a circle in the Gimp: > http://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/29/linux-tips-create-an-unfilled-circle-in-the-gimp/ > > 7 steps? Really? > There are not really so much steps involved. Step 1. Create an empty image. This is not really an ste

Re: [Gimp-user] not to knock gimp...I love it, BUT I have never has decent prints from it

2009-04-03 Thread Jaime Seuma
In order to get a version of UFRaw for Ubuntu more up-to-date than the one in the repositories (for Hardy) I got the .deb in http://www.getdeb.net/. This way I can denoise pictures using UFRaw in ubuntu. Hope it helps Carusoswi wrote: > To, perhaps, clarify earlier posts, I do run Gimp in both U

Re: [Gimp-user] Clone tool etc.

2009-03-13 Thread Jaime Seuma
Hi Gimp is powerful/wonderful, and sophisticate; which means that learning how to use every tool doesn't come without an effort. Luckily, as you have already been pointed, there is good documentation. Likewise, there is this nice book I'd recommend you to read, Beginning Gimp (Akkana Peck) that is

Re: [Gimp-user] First mail to this list

2009-02-10 Thread Jaime Seuma
Don wrote: > Very new to GIMP. > > I am so frustrated to learn GIMP. > > Tonight, I simply want to create a text and then outline it as a text. > Then I googled. But the thing is, I cannot follow any of the > tutorials I dug out. Not because I didn't follow closely, but because > not all of the m

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp latest version

2009-01-16 Thread Jaime Seuma
Certainly :-) Cheers and keep the good work Daniel Hornung wrote: > On Friday 16 January 2009, Cristian Secară wrote: > >> And then when GIMP goes to 2.7+ will have to upgrade also the OS to >> Ubuntu 8.20+/whatever ? >> > > First of all, there will be no stable GIMP 2.7, since odd minor

[Gimp-user] LANG user's system variable

2008-12-18 Thread Jaime Seuma
For me to have the Gimp UI in English rather than in Spanish (language of WinXP install) the following setting did the trick: I created a new entry for the user variables called 'LANG' and set to 'en' (panel control, system, advanced options, environment variables). Hope it helps denemigen wrote:

Re: [Gimp-user] Text-in-stitches on GIMP

2008-10-20 Thread Jaime Seuma
Peter Saffrey wrote: > I'm a fairly new GIMP user. Be gentle. > > I'd like to duplicate the effect described in this Photoshop tutorial: > > http://pshero.com/archives/text-in-stitches > > The critical part of this is selecting a path from text and using a custom > brush > to draw along this path.

Re: [Gimp-user] [Gimp-announce] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.6.0

2008-10-04 Thread Jaime Seuma
Eric P wrote: > Sven Neumann wrote: > >> Finally we have done it and released version 2.6.0 of the GNU Image >> Manipulation Program. The changes from version 2.4 are best described in >> the release notes on >> >> > Excellent work! Thank you for your tireless effort over the years on this

Re: [Gimp-user] STOP

2008-09-26 Thread Jaime Seuma
Michael Schumacher wrote: >> Von: "Terry Moss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > > >> Please take me off your mailing list.I am getting >> stacks of Emails which are no good to me at all and it's just clogging up my >> PC. >> > > Maybe we should add an auto-unsubscribe for H

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp language

2008-05-13 Thread Jaime Seuma
Hi If I've understood it right, I had this issue solved by simply adding an environment variable as follows: LANG es (in control panel, system, advanced, env variables; I added the variable to both user env variable and system variable) Hope it helps Jaime Markku Jarvinen wrote: Hi,

[Gimp-user] cmyk question part II

2008-03-08 Thread Jaime Seuma
Hi again. I've just read a nice article (http://kde-artists.org/node/355) signed by land0. In this article, t he author explains some state of the art concerning cmyk and 16 b depth color support (the article was written in 2006). I should have started my cmyk previous question stating that I