[Gimp-user] Batch mode ?

2012-04-13 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
It appears to me that virtually every photograph I have ever manipulated using GIMP has looked better after applying GIMP's Colors->Levels->Auto to it. Now, I have a batch of about 80+ scans of old family photos that I would like to apply this process to en mass. If I wanted to script this, you

Re: [Gimp-user] Crop to oval?

2012-03-30 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <4f763699.3000...@gmail.com>, Stefan Maerz wrote: >On 03/30/2012 03:19 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> Anyway, a relative just sent me an old old family photo that some nitwit, >> perhaps a generation or two ago, did some seriously violence to with a pai

[Gimp-user] Crop to oval?

2012-03-30 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
I've been using gimp for awhile now and have had great success using it to retouch about a zillion scans of old family photographs. but other than then few things I need in order to do that (paintbrush, clone tool, rotate tool and crop) I am still largely ignorant of how to use gimp. (There's ju

Re: [Gimp-user] Installing new script ?

2012-01-09 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <4f0b705b.2070...@pilobilus.net>, Steve Kinney wrote: >On 01/09/2012 05:15 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> I did that, and actually, yes, the specific image I'm working with seems to >> have benefitted from having the defringer run on it twice. Here&#x

Re: [Gimp-user] Installing new script ?

2012-01-09 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message , Chris Mohler wrote: >On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette > wrote: >> =C2=A0But contrary to the directions on the page listed >> above, this new script _does not_ appear to be showing up underneath >> Filters->Script-Fu > >The menu l

[Gimp-user] Installing new script ?

2012-01-09 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
OK, so now that I've got my image oriantation all sorted out, now I have a different problem... I just took this shot, which I kind-of like, and I've already cropped & reoriented it: ftp://ftp.tristatelogic.com/private/gimp/squirrel-b.jpg Unfortunately, however if you look close you'll see

Re: [Gimp-user] Fix Orientation ?

2012-01-09 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message , Christen Anderson wrote: >Image --> Transform --> Rotate Um, yea! That's what I was looking for. (I knew it had to be there somewhere.) Thanks! ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/li

[Gimp-user] Fix Orientation ?

2012-01-09 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
What is the proper way, using gimp, to correct the orientation of an image? For example, I just took a shot with one of my cameras where I was holding the camera in a vertical (portrait) orientation. But when I transfer the .JPG to my PeeCee and view it with gimp (or ImageMagick) it is laying o

Re: [Gimp-user] Uninstalling Gimp crashes computer

2012-01-06 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <01c30197$7abe94a0$703bbde0$@gmail.com>, "Marci Davis" wrote: >My 11-year old daughter installed Gimp on our laptop. Shortly after, we >started having trouble with speed and resolution. Gimp will not open, nor >can we uninstall it. In fact, when I try, it crashes the computer.

Re: [Gimp-user] Photoshop vs Gimp for mobile dev?

2011-12-31 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message , Frank Gore wrote: >http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/373 > >I've used Digikam for my photo collections for years. Hey! Thanks a bunch! I didn't know about that one at all. ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http:

Re: [Gimp-user] Photoshop vs Gimp for mobile dev?

2011-12-31 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message , Frank Gore wrote: >On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette > wrote: >> >> Anyway, I just now went and resarched it and found that the Lumix cameras >> produce their raw images into something called .RW2 files. > >Might be worth checkin

Re: [Gimp-user] Photoshop vs Gimp for mobile dev?

2011-12-31 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <20111231215523.gt25...@wahoo.no-ip.org>, Patrick Shanahan wrote: >Guess I should do the entire job :^) > >http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/Cameras.html Yes, thanks. I saw that too. But if you will recall, is was just earlier today that Frank Gore wrote: >Yeah, the current version

Re: [Gimp-user] Photoshop vs Gimp for mobile dev?

2011-12-31 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <20111231215357.gs25...@wahoo.no-ip.org>, Patrick Shanahan wrote: >* Ronald F. Guilmette [12-31-11 16:42]: >> I've been planning on buying a Lumix DMC-FZ150 next year, when the prices >> come down some more. > >... > >> I'd just like

Re: [Gimp-user] Photoshop vs Gimp for mobile dev?

2011-12-31 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message , Frank Gore wrote: >On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine > wrote: >> Only if you mean DCRaw. Because UFRaw development pretty much >> stagnated. Two releases in last two years. Compare that to ACR. > >Yeah, the current version of UFraw is pretty far behind. Gimp doe

Re: [Gimp-user] OT: Was: Gimp name-picking

2011-12-29 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <253415241.1190746.1325133986615.javamail.r...@vms228.mailsrvcs.net> , to...@verizon.net wrote: > I didn't have time to read this whole thread, so pardon me if it's >already been >pointed out that the idea of changing the name of GIMP has come up more >than >once in the past. > >My vot

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help repairing image

2011-12-27 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
Many thanks to both Steve Kinney and Daniel Smith for their various suggestions for fixing this damaged color image. I'm not sure that I can do all the thinsg they've suggested, given my limited knowledge of The Gimp at this point, or even that I understand them all, but I'm going to go over all

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help repairing image

2011-12-26 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <4ef8950f.6050...@pilobilus.net>, Steve Kinney wrote: >You won't find a "one tool" or "one filter" solution for this one. :-( >This is a fairly major project. However, rest assured it can be >done; check out the first image on this page: >http://pilobilus.net/photo_rework.html

Re: [Gimp-user] Need help repairing image

2011-12-26 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message , Daniel Smith wrote: >Hey Ronald >From what I understand, slides are open to the same kind >of degradation that any plastic is... Not that it makes any real difference to anything, but I just feel compelled to clarify again that the image I posted a link to was_not_ from a ``slide'

[Gimp-user] Need help repairing image

2011-12-26 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
The following file was generated from a recent scan of a 40 year old 6x7cm color negative: ftp://ftp.tristatelogic.com/private/gimp/img001-b.jpg Despite the fact that the negative in question has been stored for the past 30+ years in a manner that I personally would have judged to be ``safe''