[Gimp-user] resizing images to fit the canvas

2012-08-13 Thread Misty Day
I can size the canvas perfectly, but when I add an image as a layer and try to resize the image, it will not resize to fit the canvas. How is this done?___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org

Re: [Gimp-user] Layers in reverse

2012-08-13 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Misty Day wrote: Is there a way to take a flattened image and reverse that so you can manipulate the layers? You mean, an already saved image? No. Of course, if you mean undoing flattening while the project is still open, it's perfectly doable via Undo

Re: [Gimp-user] Layers in reverse

2012-08-13 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Misty Day wrote: Is there a way to take a flattened image and reverse that so you can manipulate the layers? You mean, an already saved image? No. Of course, if you

[Gimp-user] Timeline for sequenced layers - a hybrid compositor

2012-08-13 Thread Aditia A. Pratama
Hello guys, I don't know if this topic already on the feature list or not, but I think this feature, wheter it'll come as plugin or built-in are very much appreciate. Currently I'm working for personal project (as my training as well) for vfx shot. After done keying for premultiply plate in

Re: [Gimp-user] Timeline for sequenced layers - a hybrid compositor

2012-08-13 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Aditia A. Pratama wrote: 2. With sequence images, you'll work with a lot of layers. So the first time you open them, they'll overlap each other. The pain is there's no button for select all layers, or toggle visibility off for all layers, etc. Actually you

Re: [Gimp-user] Timeline for sequenced layers - a hybrid compositor

2012-08-13 Thread Aditia A. Pratama
OMG, I just know this trick. Thanks a million for that Alexander. But I think, for some new users they still need that toggle :-D On Aug 13, 2012 3:09 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Aditia A. Pratama wrote: 2. With sequence

Re: [Gimp-user] Extreme newby needs some help please!

2012-08-13 Thread Greg Chapman
Hi Jessica, On 13 Aug 12 01:04 Jessica Tomlinson jtsoundtec...@yahoo.com said: I've attached this question mark which is a test that I've been playing with.  I want to make it transparent, like a regular GIF image, so you can set it against color and not have a tacky white square.  I've

[Gimp-user] GIMP-2.8, SAVE and SAVE AS : why complicate things so that everything could be simpler ?

2012-08-13 Thread maderios
Hi This thread supplements Gimp-2.8_Save and save as bad behavior discussion As I explained, I want to keep choice with save and save as, that's why I left gimp-2.8 and went back in Gimp-2.6 Comparison Gimp-2.8 Krita Photoshop is interesting.

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP-2.8, SAVE and SAVE AS : why complicate things so that everything could be simpler ?

2012-08-13 Thread Daniel Hauck
Someone will have to write a patch or eventually a fork to make this happen. The argument is dead. The implementation and behaviors are somewhat inconsistent. You can open any format you want, you just can save any format you want. It has to be export. Why not have the only way to get

Re: [Gimp-user] Timeline for sequenced layers - a hybrid compositor

2012-08-13 Thread Aditia A. Pratama
Hi Daniel, Yes, the latest open movie project by blender foundation known as mango project or Tears of Steel will about to release by the next couple of week. You can follow their progress in their official website http://mango.blender.org or http://tearsofsteel.com. Most of vfx movies nowadays

Re: [Gimp-user] Timeline for sequenced layers - a hybrid compositor

2012-08-13 Thread Daniel Smith
Thanks so much, Aditia. That's awesome stuff. The last I was involved with such things was when I ran Lightwave on a Dec Alpha machine, way back when Star Trek Next Generation was animated by Industrial Light and Magic. What general part of the world do you live in? Just wondering. Have a great

Re: [Gimp-user] operating system, installing help

2012-08-13 Thread The Visioning Oracle
Please tell me how to install help for GIMP 2.8 For what operating system? -- Olivier Lecarme Windows XP. Thanks. - Original Message - From: gimp-user-list-requ...@gnome.org To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org Sent: 2012-08-12 23:55 Subject: gimp-user-list Digest, Vol 11, Issue 27 Send

Re: [Gimp-user] operating system, installing help

2012-08-13 Thread Olivier
2012/8/13 The Visioning Oracle visionora...@att.net: Please tell me how to install help for GIMP 2.8 For what operating system? -- Olivier Lecarme Windows XP. Thanks. On http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html you'll find links for installing the help files. -- Olivier Lecarme

Re: [Gimp-user] operating system, installing help

2012-08-13 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Olivier wrote: On http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html you'll find links for installing the help files. That's for 2.6.0. There are no builds of the docs for 2.8.0. In fact, we haven't even officially announed the release yet. Alexandre Prokoudine

Re: [Gimp-user] Extreme newby needs some help please!

2012-08-13 Thread Jessica Tomlinson
I'd like to thank all of you for your helpful ideas and support. Daniel, thanks for your nice words. ;)   I'm a bit clearer on most points now, but am still quite foggy on this whole selecting with a layer mask thing.  Why would one want some pixels to be partially selected, or partially

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.8_Save and save as bad behavior

2012-08-13 Thread Jim Clark
Are you saying you would like to see the thousands/millions of contented users say so? Please don't encourage that! (Though I am one.) My mail box is already full to overflowing with this discussion that is clearly going nowhere. Remember the serenity prayer--there are some things that just are

Re: [Gimp-user] operating system, installing help

2012-08-13 Thread Marco Ciampa
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 05:44:50PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Olivier wrote: On http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html you'll find links for installing the help files. That's for 2.6.0. There are no builds of the docs for 2.8.0. In fact,

Re: [Gimp-user] Extreme newby needs some help please!

2012-08-13 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Jessica Tomlinson wrote: am still quite foggy on this whole selecting with a layer mask thing. Why would one want some pixels to be partially selected, or partially transparent? Jessica, There are many uses for that. In general, this way you can make gradual

Re: [Gimp-user] Timeline for sequenced layers - a hybrid compositor

2012-08-13 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Aditia A. Pratama wrote: At that time I also looking for best vfx stuff which run under linux, I found out that there's ramenfx but I dunno the progress up until now. Ramen has a slightly frightening story. The project started as free software, but the

Re: [Gimp-user] Timeline for sequenced layers - a hybrid compositor

2012-08-13 Thread Daniel Smith
Aditia, Indonesia. Man, the power of the internet. Wonderful. Just my two cents, you probably already know, but it looks like the Lightworks is almost ready for Ubuntu: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTEyMjE God, I remember the days of like Mac 8500 being state of the art.

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.8_Save and save as bad behavior

2012-08-13 Thread bruno
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 08:55:05 -0500, Jim Clark wrote: Are you saying you would like to see the thousands/millions of contented users say so? Please don't encourage that! (Though I am one.) My mail box is already full to overflowing with this discussion that is clearly going nowhere. Remember

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP is GREAT!

2012-08-13 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 09:27:36AM -0700, Archie Arevalo wrote: Dear Alexandre Prokoudine and all those who appreciate GIMP, GIMP is a great tool. It is not that hard to adapt to the changes made in 2.8. It is easy to reform habits if the community would just stop yapping about it and

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.8_Save and save as bad behavior

2012-08-13 Thread maderios
On 08/13/2012 03:55 PM, Jim Clark wrote: I have just downloaded a sound processing program called Audacity. Putzed around, hit save and was told This will save in Audacity's native format; for wave files use 'Export'. I was telling my son about the grief the developers were taking and,

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.8_Save and save as bad behavior

2012-08-13 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 8:58 PM, maderios wrote: On 08/13/2012 03:55 PM, Jim Clark wrote: You confuse professional and amateur work. I'm Audacity user. It works well for amateurs, not for professionnal people. I hate to tell you, but Audacity is extensively used in the professional

Re: [Gimp-user] Timeline for sequenced layers - a hybrid compositor

2012-08-13 Thread Richard Gitschlag
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:08:56 +0400 From: alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Timeline for sequenced layers - a hybrid compositor On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Aditia A. Pratama wrote: 2. With sequence images, you'll work with a

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.8_Save and save as bad behavior

2012-08-13 Thread Archie Arevalo
On Monday 13 August 2012 18:58:24 maderios wrote: On 08/13/2012 03:55 PM, Jim Clark wrote: I have just downloaded a sound processing program called Audacity. Putzed around, hit save and was told This will save in Audacity's native format; for wave files use 'Export'. I was telling my son

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.8_Save and save as bad behavior

2012-08-13 Thread Archie Arevalo
On Monday 13 August 2012 21:05:23 Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 8:58 PM, maderios wrote: On 08/13/2012 03:55 PM, Jim Clark wrote: You confuse professional and amateur work. I'm Audacity user. It works well for amateurs, not for professionnal people.

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.8_Save and save as bad behavior

2012-08-13 Thread maderios
On 08/13/2012 07:43 PM, Archie Arevalo wrote: On Monday 13 August 2012 18:58:24 maderios wrote: On 08/13/2012 03:55 PM, Jim Clark wrote: I have just downloaded a sound processing program called Audacity. Putzed around, hit save and was told This will save in Audacity's native format;

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.8_Save and save as bad behavior

2012-08-13 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:09 PM, maderios wrote: LibreOffice is another good example. If you open a .doc and Save, it will ask you if you want to save it in native Open Document format. Libreoffice doesnt ask you... Oh, but it does ask you whether you really want to save to .doc instead of

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.8_Save and save as bad behavior

2012-08-13 Thread Ken Warner
But, continuing to *argue* here is fruitless. This is most certainly and sadly true. On 8/13/2012 11:20 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * maderiosmader...@gmail.com [08-13-12 14:09]: ... Libreoffice doesnt ask you, you choose or write what you want. When you want to save with Libreoffice, or

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.8_Save and save as bad behavior

2012-08-13 Thread Archie Arevalo
On Monday 13 August 2012 11:35:38 Ken Warner wrote: But, continuing to *argue* here is fruitless. This is most certainly and sadly true. How about looking at it this way... We see the reasons behind the change, we were able to adapt to it. Stating that GIMP that the changes are a

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP is GREAT!

2012-08-13 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Stephen Allen wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 09:27:36AM -0700, Archie Arevalo wrote: Dear Alexandre Prokoudine and all those who appreciate GIMP, GIMP is a great tool. It is not that hard to adapt to the changes made in 2.8. It is easy to reform habits if

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.8_Save and save as bad behavior

2012-08-13 Thread maderios
On 08/13/2012 09:00 PM, Archie Arevalo wrote: On Monday 13 August 2012 11:35:38 Ken Warner wrote: But, continuing to *argue* here is fruitless. This is most certainly and sadly true. How about looking at it this way... We see the reasons behind the change May you explain here the

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.8_Save and save as bad behavior

2012-08-13 Thread Ofnuts
On 08/13/2012 09:09 PM, maderios wrote: On 08/13/2012 09:00 PM, Archie Arevalo wrote: On Monday 13 August 2012 11:35:38 Ken Warner wrote: But, continuing to *argue* here is fruitless. This is most certainly and sadly true. How about looking at it this way... We see the reasons behind

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.8_Save and save as bad behavior

2012-08-13 Thread Archie Arevalo
On Monday 13 August 2012 21:09:33 maderios wrote: On 08/13/2012 09:00 PM, Archie Arevalo wrote: On Monday 13 August 2012 11:35:38 Ken Warner wrote: But, continuing to *argue* here is fruitless. This is most certainly and sadly true. How about looking at it this way...

Re: [Gimp-user] Timeline for sequenced layers - a hybrid compositor

2012-08-13 Thread Burnie West
On 08/13/2012 02:05 PM, Aditia A. Pratama wrote: Thanks ofnuts for notifying us about link icon :) Just addendum, it'll be more efficient if we can apply filters or color balancing/correction to all layers. I thought at first using layer group will solve the issue, but afaik it only work