Re: [Gimp-user] Windows XP - Service Pack?

2011-01-30 Thread Jay Smith
On 01/30/2011 02:11 PM, Chris Mohler wrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:54 PM, jack whitejbw9...@hotmail.com wrote: Thank you, but that's not installing it with no SP's installed though (as the question was). I'm not sure why you would want to skip the service packs - I use an XP VM for

Re: [Gimp-user] Windows XP - Service Pack?

2011-01-30 Thread Jay Smith
On 01/30/2011 05:17 PM, jc wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 14:57:14 -0500, Jay Smithj...@jaysmith.com wrote: I'm not sure why you would want to skip the service packs - I use an XP VM for legacy apps and testing, but the first thing I did when setting it up was to install SP3. Why not install

Re: [Gimp-user] LZW Compression - Image rendition advice

2011-01-22 Thread Jay Smith
On 01/22/2011 01:04 PM, Chris Mohler wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Ralph Zerbonia ra...@universecentral.com wrote: My question is whether or not anyone knows of any image disadvantages, is there anything about LZW that would allow a loss of any visual fidelity? LZW is indeed

Re: [Gimp-user] OT - Having Problems Displaying Image Thumbnails

2010-10-23 Thread Jay Smith
On 10/23/2010 02:27 PM, Frank Gore wrote: On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz wrote: My apologies for this OT post, but I need some help from an image expert, and I thought the Gimp list might have one or two. When I upload images from a friend's digital

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing Problem

2010-10-15 Thread Jay Smith
On 10/15/2010 09:30 AM, John Culleton wrote: On Thursday 14 October 2010 18:09:18 ChadBJX wrote: Chad, Can you print _anything_ from Gimp? If you can print a very tiny image, maybe it is a printer memory problem. Sorry, I can't help further. I don't have Vista and I am sitting here

Re: [Gimp-user] fuzzy around text

2010-09-28 Thread Jay Smith
On 09/28/2010 05:11 PM, John Mills wrote: Finally - one I may be able to answer .. Try scaling the image close to the size and resolution you expect to print _before_ you add the text. I believe the text is essentially bitmapped onto your image when you add it. If your printing implies a

Re: [Gimp-user] batch script help

2010-09-13 Thread Jay Smith
On 09/13/2010 11:47 AM, jeremy jozwik wrote: hello list, just added my self so i hope this is an active list. im am attempting to batch compress OSM tile images. they are of png format, otherwise i would have used cjpeg. anyhow the script need only open the images in a folder and save them

Re: [Gimp-user] Rear page of scanned image visible when printing

2010-09-12 Thread Jay Smith
On 09/12/2010 05:41 AM, Andreas Moroder wrote: Hello, I have scanned page from a book. On the screen all looks ok. Near the images I wanted to scan I see only light shades on the white background, but when I print the page this shades becomes much darker and visible and show the back side of

[Gimp-user] Create From Clipboard -- Pasted Layer -- Problems Printing

2010-09-01 Thread Jay Smith
Hi, Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 Linux. Minimum 2GB of memory. Used to editing (but not printing) images to 200 MB. I am running into some strangeness that I don't know is a an error in my actions, a general workflow problem, or a bug (or feature) in Gimp. Starting with a (color) JPEG image

Re: [Gimp-user] logo manipulation

2010-08-29 Thread Jay Smith
up looking so poor? Many thanks Leon -- Jay Smith e-mail: j...@jaysmith.com mailto:j...@jaysmith.com website: http://www.JaySmith.com Jay Smith Associates P.O. Box 650 Snow Camp, NC 27349 USA Phone: Int+US+336-376-9991 Toll-Free Phone in US Canada: 1-800-447-8267 Fax: Int+US

Re: [Gimp-user] Standard text in picture.

2010-07-28 Thread Jay Smith
On 07/28/2010 10:27 AM, Jimmi L. Hansen wrote: Is it possible to make a standard text in every picture feks. ©Jimmi L. Hansen? So i dont have to make it manual every time. Sincerely jimmi Jimmi, In the past I have used ImageMagick for this, processing thousands of image files at a time

Re: [Gimp-user] obscure portions of images automatically?

2010-05-16 Thread Jay Smith
On 05/16/2010 05:52 AM, Dave wrote: Hi, I take a lot of photos at car shows and the like, but it's a pain going through them manually afterwards and pixellating the number plates. Is there a way I can define a mask or something that I can then apply to a folder of images, which will

Re: [Gimp-user] A sequence of actions

2010-03-30 Thread Jay Smith
On 03/30/2010 01:22 PM, Michael J. Hammel wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 22:31 +0530, Tarun Samvedi wrote: Is there any way of defining a sequence of actions that could be used later? for instance, if I apply auto-color, auto-contrast and cartoon filter to a lot of images, is there a way of

Re: [Gimp-user] Open a file r/o

2010-03-25 Thread Jay Smith
On 03/25/2010 04:33 PM, Programmer In Training wrote: snip P.S. More importantly, please let's be sure that all the file create PERMISSIONS are being created correctly. I already posted a bug on this, but I sure am getting tired of files being created with rw- r-- r-- even though the umask,

Re: [Gimp-user] Open a file r/o

2010-03-25 Thread Jay Smith
On 03/25/2010 05:39 PM, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 16:57 -0400, Jay Smith wrote: However, Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 2.04 refuses to create files using the same methods that every other *nix programs use. This can hardly be true in the general sense that you are putting

Re: [Gimp-user] Removing Matte Texture

2010-03-10 Thread Jay Smith
On 03/10/2010 08:48 AM, Sandi P. wrote: I appreciate you having a look at these. They are unedited, right from the scanner. You can see them at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/37318...@n04/ Img137 is a sample of matte finish processing that even with Gaussian Blur and Unsharpening can't

Re: [Gimp-user] ?? Status of remembering Layers setting for Canvas Resizing -- in most recent version

2010-03-10 Thread Jay Smith
On 03/10/2010 03:27 PM, yahvuu wrote: Martin Nordholts wrote: 2010/3/10 yahvuu yah...@gmail.com: Each of these dialog options points at a potential interaction problem. If the dialog remembers an option, the user also has to remember that option. In general, this amounts to additional

[Gimp-user] Can the Curves dialog be reversed?

2010-03-09 Thread Jay Smith
The Color Curves dialog has the black in the lower left corner and the white in the upper right corner. This is the opposite of another program that I also have to use. Is there a way to reverse this default? I am using Gimp 2.6.6 on Linux, Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy. Thanks. Jay -- Jay Smith e

[Gimp-user] ?? Status of remembering Layers setting for Canvas Resizing -- in most recent version

2010-03-09 Thread Jay Smith
If this issue has not been addressed yet and if I can't find anything in Bugzilla on it, I want to make an Enhancement Suggestion, first on the Gimp-Developer list, then Bugzilla. However, I don't have the quick or convenient ability to check the current status of this issue in the most recent

Re: [Gimp-user] ?? Status of remembering Layers setting for Canvas Resizing -- in most recent version

2010-03-09 Thread Jay Smith
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Jay Smith j...@jaysmith.com mailto:j...@jaysmith.com wrote: If this issue has not been addressed yet and if I can't find anything in Bugzilla on it, I want to make an Enhancement Suggestion, first on the Gimp-Developer list, then Bugzilla

[Gimp-user] Use of tifftopnm and pnmtotiff to strip images -- ?? meaning of

2010-03-09 Thread Jay Smith
I hope it's okay to ask this here. The use of tifftopnm and pnmtotiff was suggested in an earlier thread about stripping color profiles from TIFF images. Below I show tiffinfo before and after processing, as well as the tifftopnm and the pnmtotiff processes. ?? On the pnmtotiff, it said:

Re: [Gimp-user] how to select copy a circular part of photo

2010-02-10 Thread Jay Smith
On 02/10/2010 03:33 PM, Deniz Dogan wrote: 2010/2/10 Donna B. for...@gimpusers.com: I need help with a newbie question (ver 2.6). I need to select a circular part of a photo - the goal is to create a web page with circular photos arranged in a circle. The only way I've found is to draw a

Re: [Gimp-user] Complaint

2010-01-22 Thread Jay Smith
On 01/22/2010 09:58 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On 1/22/10, BGP wrote: I'm sure you folks are all experts at GIMP but I've found it to be a very hard to learn how to use. But how many hundreds of hours did it take you to learn how to use it? Learning is something you never stop to do.

[Gimp-user] Gimp Documentation in the future... (from Re: Complaint)

2010-01-22 Thread Jay Smith
On 01/22/2010 10:57 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On 1/22/10, Jay Smith wrote: SNIP As an aside, I really think that the documentation issue is going to become critical in the next couple of years. As I understand it (and please correct me if I am wrong), anybody can contribute

Re: [Gimp-user] Pixelation of text

2010-01-14 Thread Jay Smith
At one point, the OP said something about it printing out too small but it was an okay size on screen, just pixilated. Did I understand that correctly. It sounds like the OP simply has an image that is too small in terms of X by Y pixels. You can blow something up on screen, and increase the

[Gimp-user] Is this a bug? Setting image w/corrupted icc profile to sRGB; plugin dies

2009-12-18 Thread Jay Smith
Hi, GIMP 2.6.6 running on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Linux. In the archives I found information that to delete a color profile, you just set the color space (Image, Mode, Assign Color Profile...) to sRGB which apparently is a color space without color profile. There were three TIFF images which

[Gimp-user] Image - Flatten Image not available on newly created image with pasted in layer (floating selection)

2009-12-18 Thread Jay Smith
GIMP 2.6.6 running on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Linux. Is this a bug? Should I post this on the developer list instead? Am I doing this incorrectly? At a minimum, I think there is some GUI confusion... at least it is not logical to my way of thinking. This is a little complicated, so please read

Re: [Gimp-user] Image - Flatten Image not available on newly created image with pasted in layer (floating selection)

2009-12-18 Thread Jay Smith
On 12/18/2009 01:03 PM, Michael J. Hammel wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 12:26 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: Procedure: - Select all in old image - Copy - Paste into the new image. This now results in a Background and a Floating Selection. It says Floating Selection it does *NOT* say ... Layer

Re: [Gimp-user] Is this a bug? Setting image w/corrupted icc profile to sRGB; plugin dies

2009-12-18 Thread Jay Smith
On 12/18/2009 02:02 PM, Sven Neumann wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 11:56 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: I _do_ have a saved sample corrupted image file if anybody needs this for testing purposes. Is this a bug? Is it known? Should I post on the developer list? Should I put it in bugzilla

Re: [Gimp-user] Image - Flatten Image not available on newly created image with pasted in layer (floating selection)

2009-12-18 Thread Jay Smith
On 12/18/2009 01:41 PM, Michael J. Hammel wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 13:15 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: Thank you very much for the procedure suggestion. Really Cool!! I will experiment with that. How would I have known that? Maybe I should RTFM? But. Maybe the manual mentions

Re: [Gimp-user] Is this a bug? Setting image w/corrupted icc profile to sRGB; plugin dies

2009-12-18 Thread Jay Smith
On 12/18/2009 03:16 PM, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 14:33 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: If I were a developer, with the necessary skills, I would be curious about what was killing off the plugin and why the plugin dieing (especially when it was just trying to open a dialog

Re: [Gimp-user] Is this a bug? Setting image w/corrupted icc profile to sRGB; plugin dies

2009-12-18 Thread Jay Smith
On 12/18/2009 05:48 PM, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 15:39 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: By the way, if possible, I would like to do this parasite removal on tens of thousands of files. Perhaps as the 'exec' of a 'find' command. I don't understand why you are even

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

2009-11-18 Thread Jay Smith
If you don't like absolutely on-point discussion, please delete this email now. Sometimes there is more to the situation than can be said in 20 words. Thank you. I am glad to see some mention of this subject: color Background: We are on an extended migration from Windows with mixed platforms

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling a foto

2009-08-17 Thread Jay Smith
On 08/17/2009 11:33 AM, Monika Himpelmann wrote: Dear all, I have a question and maybe it is easy to answer and has been answered before although I didn't find it in the FAQ's. When I try to scale a foto in order to get it passport photo size it looses quality. The fotos I want to scale are

Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling a foto

2009-08-17 Thread Jay Smith
On 08/17/2009 06:38 PM, Patrick Horgan wrote: Jay Smith wrote: Monika, I agree that it does not make sense to loose quality when scaling smaller. I'm confused I think. Isn't scaling smaller an inherently lossy process? If there's information in a section that's 20 bits across

Re: [Gimp-user] Please ,check this image

2009-08-01 Thread Jay Smith
On 08/01/2009 08:37 AM, Martin Nordholts wrote: On 08/01/2009 01:05 PM, photocomix wrote: i never noticed a similar bug, even if i used Gimp to save as copy thousands of jpeg, and i would never believed this possible, but i have to face evidence to the point image dimensions: 90x116

Re: [Gimp-user] batch mode in gimp, add alpha, change color

2009-07-27 Thread Jay Smith
On 07/27/2009 11:10 AM, Marc T. wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 16:30 +0200, Marc T. wrote: i am on a similar problem, i have to build a batch script that slices over 6000 images very big images into seven pieces. David's Batch Processor should be able to do the job, not by slicing but by

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp Manual format.

2009-06-18 Thread Jay Smith
-Original Message- From: gimp-user-boun...@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu [mailto:gimp-user-boun...@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of John Culleton Sent: Thursday, 18 June 2009 11:36 PM To: Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: [Gimp-user] Gimp Manual format. Is the Gimp online

Re: [Gimp-user] How do I effectively use a blue screen scanning method with gimp

2009-06-15 Thread Jay Smith
On 06/13/2009 02:46 PM, Chris Mohler wrote: On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Jay Smithj...@jaysmith.com wrote: [big snip] So I am hoping for suggestions as to a) how to avoid the color shadow of using a colored background and b) if it cannot be avoided, how to fix it in gimp without a

[Gimp-user] How do I effectively use a blue screen scanning method with gimp

2009-06-13 Thread Jay Smith
Using Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux. (Working great, NO crashes as some people complain of.) The answer to this question is not as straight-forward as it sounds. Problem: - Scanning (xsane from within gimp) images of canceled postage stamps. (Also tried with Photoshop/Windows using

[Gimp-user] How do I use measure tool in mm

2009-05-28 Thread Jay Smith
Using Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux. I can't seem to figure out how to get the measure tool to show results in mm. So far the only way I have been able to figure out how to measure in mm is to: select the region I wish to measure, copy, create from clipboard, and then use one of the

Re: [Gimp-user] How do I use measure tool in mm

2009-05-28 Thread Jay Smith
On 05/28/2009 10:59 AM, Olivier Lecarme wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Jay Smith j...@jaysmith.com wrote: Using Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux. I can't seem to figure out how to get the measure tool to show results in mm. So far the only way I have been able to figure out

Re: [Gimp-user] Are these bugs? Missing/duped menu mnemonics non-working keystrokes (per menus)

2009-05-06 Thread Jay Smith
On 05/06/2009 12:01 PM, Nathan Lane wrote: As an update, I don't see that any keyboard shortcuts are set to Alt+E in my keyboard shortcuts default list. Naturally because the Edit menu has the mnemonic E and Alt refers directly to the menu system in Windows (I don't know what OS you are

[Gimp-user] Are these bugs? Missing/duped menu mnemonics non-working keystrokes (per menus)

2009-05-05 Thread Jay Smith
Using Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux. on K Desktop Environment 3.5.10 I would like to check with others whether or not these issues are unique to me, my installation, or my desktop environment If they are bugs, I will report them or others are welcome to do so (but please tell me

Re: [Gimp-user] Are these bugs? Missing/duped menu mnemonics non-working keystrokes (per menus)

2009-05-05 Thread Jay Smith
On 05/05/2009 09:35 PM, Owen wrote: Using Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux. on K Desktop Environment 3.5.10 I would like to check with others whether or not these issues are unique to me, my installation, or my desktop environment If they are bugs, I will report them or others

Re: [Gimp-user] Are these bugs? Missing/duped menu mnemonics non-working keystrokes (per menus)

2009-05-05 Thread Jay Smith
On 05/05/2009 09:36 PM, bgw wrote: I'm using Fedora 10; GIMP 2.6.6. Jay Smith wrote: Using Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux. on K Desktop Environment 3.5.10 I would like to check with others whether or not these issues are unique to me, my installation, or my desktop environment

[Gimp-user] How do I avoid error message _windows_ when opening tif files created in Photoshop? (MaxSampleValue, MinSampleValue)

2009-04-23 Thread Jay Smith
I am using Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux. We have recently started using Gimp. We have to edit many (thousands) of TIF image files originally created with Photoshop 5.0.2 or 5.5.x on Windows. These files open just fine in Gimp, though Gimp does not seem to utilize the embedded preview

Re: [Gimp-user] How do I avoid error message _windows_ when opening tif files created in Photoshop? (MaxSampleValue, MinSampleValue)

2009-04-23 Thread Jay Smith
On 04/23/2009 10:04 AM, David Gowers wrote: Hi Jay, On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Jay Smith j...@jaysmith.com wrote: I am using Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux. ... How can I tell Gimp to suppress reporting such errors and/or direct all such errors to stderr instead of Gimp

Re: [Gimp-user] Annoying Windows Layering

2009-04-10 Thread Jay Smith
Xsane installed]. When the scanned image comes in, as the above poster says, it is behind, underneath, etc. I have to go fishing for it. It is mildly annoying the first hundred times. By the 20,000th time (a realistic figure for us) I think it will be _really_ annoying. Jay Smith

Re: [Gimp-user] On Close, the Save / Don't Save dialog is not paying attention to keyboard

2009-04-08 Thread Jay Smith
On 04/08/2009 12:36 AM, Owen wrote: Using Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux. If I have a newly created untitled image and I Close it, I naturally, and correctly, get a dialog asking me if I wish to save it or not save it. In that dialog, pneumonic letters are underlined, meaning that

Re: [Gimp-user] On Close, the Save / Don't Save dialog is not paying attention to keyboard

2009-04-08 Thread Jay Smith
On 04/08/2009 05:57 AM, David Gowers wrote: On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Jay Smith j...@jaysmith.com wrote: Using Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux. If I have a newly created untitled image and I Close it, I naturally, and correctly, get a dialog asking me if I wish to save

Re: [Gimp-user] Snap to Guides by default

2009-04-08 Thread Jay Smith
On 04/08/2009 10:04 AM, malefico wrote: David Gowers wrote: On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:52 PM, malefico malef...@malefico3d.org wrote: Hi, two rather noob questions here: I wonder if there is any way to turn off the Snap to Guides option which is on by default (Gimp 2.4), I look in

Re: [Gimp-user] pixels to dpi

2009-04-07 Thread Jay Smith
Norman, I hope I have not misconstrued your question / wording. You used the word scan in conjunction with your camera. Your camera is not a scanner. It has a very different dpi/ppi than a scanner. Scanners use A x B dots/pixels maximum per square inch. However, what you get from your

[Gimp-user] On Close, the Save / Don't Save dialog is not paying attention to keyboard

2009-04-07 Thread Jay Smith
Using Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux. If I have a newly created untitled image and I Close it, I naturally, and correctly, get a dialog asking me if I wish to save it or not save it. In that dialog, pneumonic letters are underlined, meaning that I _should_ simply be able to type that

Re: [Gimp-user] How to rotate part of an image without getting white triangles at the corners ?

2009-04-02 Thread Jay Smith
to 150,000 (?? maybe more) rotations, but still I think the ctrl-shift-l is a lot faster. Thanks very much for your help! Jay On 04/01/2009 09:03 PM, David Gowers wrote: Hi Jay, On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Jay Smith j...@jaysmith.com wrote: Hi David, If convenient, please advise me

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp Printouts

2009-04-02 Thread Jay Smith
Walter, There are multiple issues involved. For example: - Since you did not mention anything about calibration, consider that the scanner, the monitor, and the printer are three different devices, each of which has to be properly calibrated (starting at the beginning with the scanner, then the

[Gimp-user] How to cause Image... Canvas Size... Layers... to _always_ be All Layers instead of None ?

2009-04-01 Thread Jay Smith
Using Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux. For the vast majority of my work, every time I enlarge the canvas (which I have to do a _lot_ ), I want _all_ the Layers to enlarge as well. However, the dialog box Image... Canvas Size... Layers... _always_ seems to default to None instead of

Re: [Gimp-user] How to rotate part of an image without getting white triangles at the corners ?

2009-04-01 Thread Jay Smith
Hi David, If convenient, please advise me of the bug number on this so that I can track it. Thank you very much. Related to the bug, I hope you also noted the problem that there is no Preferences option of using black as the default for newly created images. You said... BTW, floating before

Re: [Gimp-user] How to cause Image... Canvas Size... Layers... to _always_ be All Layers instead of None ?

2009-04-01 Thread Jay Smith
of the dimensions of the canvas. Again, is there a way to get Gimp to remember this setting (either permanently or per-session)? I would have assumed that there is an rc file(s) somewhere that contains every conceivable dialog box setting/value. Jay On 04/01/2009 12:27 PM, Jay Smith wrote: Using Gimp

[Gimp-user] File Creation Permission Problem ONLY for TIF files: Creating as 644 (rw-r--r--) when should be 664 (rw-rw-r--)

2009-04-01 Thread Jay Smith
Using Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux. TIFF ONLY This problem seems *only* to be happening when creating/saving TIFF (.tif) files. If the filetype is something else, then the problem is not happening. On two different workstations, being run by two different login users, creating

[Gimp-user] How to rotate part of an image without getting white triangles at the corners ?

2009-03-31 Thread Jay Smith
Using Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux. We are testing using Gimp to replace Photoshop on Windoze. However, we are hitting one problem/feature we have not been able to resolve. We scan images of postage stamps (using xsane from inside gimp). There are multiple postage stamps are on a

Re: [Gimp-user] How to rotate part of an image without getting white triangles at the corners ?

2009-03-31 Thread Jay Smith
Andrew, Thanks for your suggestion, but... I must not be understanding something critically important. I _think_ I did as you described, but after rotation the object I just rotated seems to disappear under the transparent (checkerboard) alpha channel, never to be seen again. If I have the

Re: [Gimp-user] How to rotate part of an image without getting white triangles at the corners ?

2009-03-31 Thread Jay Smith
Partial Oops... I had most recently responded to Andrew ... I _think_ I did as you described, but after rotation the object I just rotated seems to disappear under the transparent (checkerboard) alpha channel, never to be seen again. If I have the black layer underneath, then the rotated