Re: [Gimp-user] [ANNOUNCE] GIMP 2.10.22

2020-10-08 Thread Tom Williams via gimp-user-list
On 10/8/20 1:57 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine via gimp-user-list wrote: > Hi, > > GIMP 2.10.22 is out. Release highlights: > > - Improved HEIC and newly added AVIF support > - Numerous improvements in the PSP file format support > - Improved multi-layer TIFF exporting > - Better handling of the Exif

Re: [Gimp-user] Orientations, Copyright Notices, metadata, and resized layers

2020-10-02 Thread Tom Williams via gimp-user-list
On 10/2/20 7:15 PM, Ruben Safir wrote: >> Anyway, when I open the original photo in GIMP and choose "rotate", I >> made NO other changes and simply exported the rotated image.  Then, I >> opened that image in Firefox and it appeared correct: >> https://imgur.com/a/tsgEiGF > > Actually, you did

Re: [Gimp-user] Orientations, Copyright Notices, metadata, and resized layers

2020-10-02 Thread Tom Williams via gimp-user-list
On 10/2/20 7:06 PM, Ruben Safir wrote: > On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 06:44:12PM -0700, Tom Williams via gimp-user-list > wrote: >> On 10/2/20 5:57 PM, Ruben Safir wrote: >>> You need to really download them and view them in the gimp and examine >>> the exif because on

Re: [Gimp-user] Orientations, Copyright Notices, metadata, and resized layers

2020-10-02 Thread Tom Williams via gimp-user-list
On 10/2/20 5:57 PM, Ruben Safir wrote: > You need to really download them and view them in the gimp and examine > the exif because on the original images coming out of the camera, SOME > applications, like new firefox, read the camera's orientation data > and display accordingly. Some

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP 2.10.18 released

2020-02-24 Thread Tom Williams via gimp-user-list
On 2/24/20 1:25 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine via gimp-user-list wrote: > Hello, > > A new version of GIMP is out. Release highlights: > > - Tools are now grouped in the toolbox by default > - Sliders now use a compact style with improved user interaction > - Dockable areas now highlighted when a

Re: [Gimp-user] [Gimp-developer] 2019 project report

2020-01-05 Thread Tom Williams via gimp-user-list
On 1/5/20 9:46 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine via gimp-user-list wrote: > On Sun, Jan 5, 2020 at 7:22 PM Christopher Curtis wrote: > >> In that thread from 2012 I proposed a 3-month release cycle. This is, and >> was, >> a slightly slower pace than that used by the Linux kernel. The number is >>

Re: [Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.10.12 released

2019-06-16 Thread Tom Williams via gimp-user-list
On 6/16/19 7:09 AM, Michael Natterer wrote: > Hi, > > A few days late, but... > > We just released GIMP 2.10.12, the sixth bugfix release in > the stable 2.10 series. > > As announced before, stable GIMP 2.10.x is open for new > features that are not too invasive or change the API, > and we got

Re: [Gimp-user] [Gimp-developer] Curious about GIMP-2.10 bugs on Windows

2018-05-11 Thread Tom Williams
On 05/11/2018 07:24 AM, Elle Stone wrote: > On 05/11/2018 09:06 AM, Elle Stone wrote: > >> Are some/many/most of the problems being reported for GIMP-2.10 on >> Windows, only specific to Windows? >> >> Or are these bug reports by Windows users simply bugs that weren't >> detected by various people

Re: [Gimp-user] 32-bit version of 2.10?

2018-05-03 Thread Tom Williams
On 04/30/2018 07:34 AM, Bill Kristy wrote: > I don't see a 32-bit version of 2.10 for Windows at > https://www.gimp.org/downloads/ > > Is GIMP only available for 64-bit OS' now? > ___ > gimp-user-list mailing list > List address:

Re: [Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.10.0 released

2018-04-27 Thread Tom Williams
On 04/27/2018 07:44 AM, Michael Natterer wrote: > Hi, > > After 6 years of development... > > We just released GIMP 2.10.0 \o/ Sweet! Congratulations! Can't wait to try it out :) Peace... Tom -- /When I leave, I don't know what I'm hoping to find, And when I leave, I don't know

Re: [Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.10.0-RC2 released

2018-04-17 Thread Tom Williams
On 04/17/2018 04:26 PM, Michael Natterer wrote: > Hi, > > We just released the second release candidate on the way > to the final GIMP 2.10.0 release. > > This is (still!) an unstable development release and might > crash or do whatever. If you try it for work, please save > your images more

Re: [Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.10.0-RC1 released

2018-03-26 Thread Tom Williams
On 03/26/2018 05:02 PM, Michael Natterer wrote: > Hi, > > we're getting closer to releasing 2.10! > > We just released the first release candidate on the way > to the final GIMP 2.10.0 release. > > This is (still!) an unstable development release and might > crash or do whatever. If you try it for

Re: [Gimp-user] Question about fonts and XCF files

2018-02-24 Thread Tom Williams
On 02/24/2018 01:34 PM, Ofnuts wrote: > On 02/24/18 17:20, Tom Williams wrote: >>> The fonts aren't embedded in the XCF. That won't prevent your friend >>> to see your text as you designed it, but if she wants to change the >>> text she will ned to install the fonts o

Re: [Gimp-user] Question about fonts and XCF files

2018-02-24 Thread Tom Williams
On 02/23/2018 05:36 PM, Ofnuts wrote: > On 02/23/18 03:55, Tom Williams wrote: >> Hi! I created some logo samples for a friend using various Google and >> other free fonts. I saved all of the samples in an XCF file. If I send >> her the XCF file, will the fonts be embedded

[Gimp-user] Question about fonts and XCF files

2018-02-22 Thread Tom Williams
Hi! I created some logo samples for a friend using various Google and other free fonts. I saved all of the samples in an XCF file. If I send her the XCF file, will the fonts be embedded in it, such that she won't have to have the fonts actually installed on her system or will the XCF contain

Re: [Gimp-user] 2017 report

2018-01-05 Thread Tom Williams
On 01/02/2018 02:54 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > Hi, > > Dec 31 was a bit of a busy day, so mentioning the 2017 report here on > the lists was completely forgotten. And yet, here it is: > > https://www.gimp.org/news/2017/12/31/gimp-and-gegl-in-2017/ > > Happy 2018 :) > > Alex Awesome

Re: [Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.8 released

2017-12-17 Thread Tom Williams
On 12/15/2017 06:09 PM, Øyvind Kolås wrote: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 7:18 AM, Tom Williams <tomd...@comcast.net> wrote: >>> - OpenCL is now disabled by default. Depending on graphics cards and >>> drivers, OpenCL acceleration is often slower than multi-thre

Re: [Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.8 released

2017-12-12 Thread Tom Williams
On 12/12/2017 02:41 PM, Michael Natterer wrote: > Hi, > > finally, a new development snapshot! > > We just released the fourth development snapshot in the > GIMP 2.9.x series leading to GIMP 2.10. > > This is an unstable development preview and might crash > or do whatever. If you try it for work,

Re: [Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.8.22 released

2017-10-04 Thread Tom Williams
On 05/12/2017 08:02 AM, Thorsten Stettin wrote: > Am 12.05.17 um 16:50 schrieb Tom Williams: >> On 05/12/2017 07:45 AM, Thorsten Stettin wrote: >>> Am 12.05.17 um 02:29 schrieb Tom Williams: >>>> On 05/11/2017 02:58 PM, Michael Schumacher wrote: >>>>>

Re: [Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.6 released

2017-08-26 Thread Tom Williams
On 08/24/2017 01:32 PM, Michael Natterer wrote: > Hi, > > It took a while, but... > > We just released the third development snapshot in the > GIMP 2.9.x series leading to GIMP 2.10. > > This is an unstable development preview and might crash > or do whatever. If you try it for work, please save

Re: [Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.8.22 released

2017-05-11 Thread Tom Williams
On 05/11/2017 02:58 PM, Michael Schumacher wrote: > Hi, > > we are releasing GIMP 2.8.22 with various bug fixes. Congratulations! I look forward to using this, whenever it's available on Linux Mint! :) Peace... Tom -- /When we dance, you have a way with me, Stay with me... Sway with me.../

Re: [Gimp-user] Feature oriented vs. User Oriented development

2017-02-05 Thread Tom Williams
On 02/05/2017 10:56 AM, Michal Vašut wrote: > I've got an impression, that devs (or Gimp core devs / management - but not > only Gimp ones) has priorities to introduce cool new features, which is not > wrong, but they forget the basics - improve user working quality / make it > easier for user. >

Re: [Gimp-user] Question about RGB to CMYK conversion and print work

2016-11-30 Thread Tom Williams
On 11/18/2016 08:27 PM, Tom Williams wrote: > On 11/16/2016 12:44 AM, Simon Budig wrote: >> Tom Williams (tomd...@comcast.net) wrote: >>> I'm helping a friend of mine create a business card for a new business. >>> I created the card in GIMP and it looks great! The

Re: [Gimp-user] Question about RGB to CMYK conversion and print work

2016-11-18 Thread Tom Williams
On 11/16/2016 12:44 AM, Simon Budig wrote: > Tom Williams (tomd...@comcast.net) wrote: >> I'm helping a friend of mine create a business card for a new business. >> I created the card in GIMP and it looks great! The plan is to order >> cards through VistaPrint

Re: [Gimp-user] Question about RGB to CMYK conversion and print work

2016-11-15 Thread Tom Williams
On 11/15/2016 03:19 PM, Rick Strong wrote: > Try the free online converter: > RGB2CMYK.org > > http://www.rgb2cmyk.org/ > > Rick S. Thanks for the link. Would this service do a better conversion than ImageMagick? Thanks! Peace... Tom > > -Original Message- F

[Gimp-user] Question about RGB to CMYK conversion and print work

2016-11-15 Thread Tom Williams
I'm helping a friend of mine create a business card for a new business. I created the card in GIMP and it looks great! The plan is to order cards through VistaPrint. Anyway, according to the VistaPrint website, they recommend uploading designs in a CMYK mode. Since I created my card in GIMP,

Re: [Gimp-user] Cannot open PSD -CMYK setting

2016-11-14 Thread Tom Williams
On 11/12/2016 09:16 AM, rich2005 wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to open a PSD in GIMP. Although I am aware that not all >> layers of a PSD might open in this case the whole psd is not opening >> due to some CMYK setting error. >> >> Check attachement for the same. >> >> Is there any

Re: [Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.9.2 released

2015-11-26 Thread Tom Williams
On 11/26/2015 11:38 AM, Michael Natterer wrote: > Hi, > > We originally wanted to get this done on GIMP's 20th > birthday last week, but... > > Anyway, here is the first development release in the > GIMP 2.9.x series leading to GIMP 2.10. Thanks for the update and _many_ thanks to those working to

Re: [Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.8.16 released

2015-11-22 Thread Tom Williams
On 11/21/2015 02:47 PM, Michael Natterer wrote: > Hi, > > On GIMP's 20th birthday, we are happy to announce that > GIMP 2.8.16 has been released. Congratulations on turning 20! :) Peace... Tom -- /When we dance, you have a way with me, Stay with me... Sway with me.../

Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2013-08-10 Thread Tom Williams
On 08/10/2013 01:07 AM, Cristian Secară wrote: În data de Fri, 09 Aug 2013 14:41:01 -0700, Tom Williams a scris: A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled upon a similar behavior in MS Word 2010. I had created a document that I wanted to save as a PDF file. I used the Save As function to do so

Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2013-08-09 Thread Tom Williams
On 08/09/2013 01:30 PM, pbft wrote: This thread is like a wound that won't heal - I keep picking the scab even though I know I should just let it be. For me, it seems that there are well-established precedents for this type of situation, and in general it would be better to follow

Re: [Gimp-user] Help needed with Bevel and Emboss layer effect

2013-07-26 Thread Tom Williams
On 07/19/2013 11:06 AM, Tom Williams wrote: On 07/19/2013 10:50 AM, Partha Bagchi wrote: Without actually looking at this plugins, I can say that it expects to work on a layer and you have no layer since you paste your selection not as a layer but a new image. Well, I did some experiments

Re: [Gimp-user] GImp 2.8.4 and PhotoShop CS5 PSD files

2013-07-26 Thread Tom Williams
On 07/26/2013 09:16 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Tom Williams wrote: Hi! Has anyone had any issues opening PhotoShop CS5 PSD files in Gimp 2.8.4? A friend is looking at buying a WordPress theme that comes with PhotoShop CS5 PSD files, so I was wondering

Re: [Gimp-user] HATE the new save vs. export behavior

2013-07-19 Thread Tom Williams
On 07/19/2013 03:12 PM, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: On 07/19/13 17:10, Kasim Ahmic wrote: I could ask you the same thing. Yes, if you SAVE the image, you'll have all the layers intact. However, if you EXPORT the image, all the layers are merged. snip That is a new and unexpected behavior. I

Re: [Gimp-user] A Sad case of regression

2013-06-15 Thread Tom Williams
On 06/15/2013 01:19 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Helen wrote: Exactly! We should not have to keep opening these files! They should stay on my screen until I finish with them. But noone's forcing you to close them. Are you kidding? Nope. When I

Re: [Gimp-user] A Sad case of regression.

2013-06-14 Thread Tom Williams
On 06/14/2013 02:47 PM, Eduard Braun wrote: Actually I know nobody who likes the new distinction between save and export. But the whole discussion seems to be at a point of no return anyway and developers seem to defend the change as a matter of principle rather than aiming for maximum

Re: [Gimp-user] PDF

2013-05-12 Thread Tom Williams
On 05/12/2013 07:48 AM, Janet Little wrote: Recently installed Gimp. Could someone step me through how to change the settings so Gimp no longer opens my pdf files? I see the issue mentioned on the web but the solutions are for a person more computer literate than me. They also seemed to mostly

Re: [Gimp-user] How to make transparency gradiate?

2013-05-04 Thread Tom Williams
On 05/04/2013 01:04 PM, Ofnuts wrote: On 05/04/2013 03:54 PM, Richard Gitschlag wrote: You can also achieve the same result using paint tools. 1 - Eyedrop the background color. 2 - Switch to the Paintbrush and the color erase blending mode. Color erase is also a color-to-alpha transition.

Re: [Gimp-user] How to make transparency gradiate?

2013-05-04 Thread Tom Williams
On 05/04/2013 01:06 PM, Tom Williams wrote: On 05/04/2013 01:04 PM, Ofnuts wrote: On 05/04/2013 03:54 PM, Richard Gitschlag wrote: You can also achieve the same result using paint tools. 1 - Eyedrop the background color. 2 - Switch to the Paintbrush and the color erase blending mode

Re: [Gimp-user] Question about XCF files

2013-04-29 Thread Tom Williams
On 04/28/2013 06:03 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 1:00 AM, Tom Williams wrote: Anyway, when I open this XCF file in Gimp 2.8.4, it opens fine and I can see the layers fine in the layers dialog window. However, when I use the text tool to try to edit one of the text

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP Site Redesign

2013-04-18 Thread Tom Williams
On 04/18/2013 04:31 PM, Kasim Ahmic wrote: Well here's what I managed to get done today: http://kasimahmic.koding.com/works/GIMPB/examples/carousel.html It's basically just a content swap. It still needs to be entirely restyled. Also, I found something out. If I change one of the classes,

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP Site Redesign

2013-04-11 Thread Tom Williams
On 04/11/2013 03:33 AM, Kasim Ahmic wrote: Over at the Web List I've posted this redesign that I made from Mike Finch's mockup. http://kasimahmic.koding.com/works/GIMP/ I like it! Great job! Peace... Tom -- /When we dance, you have a way with me, Stay with me... Sway with me.../

Re: [Gimp-user] Photo protection - transparent foreground

2012-12-17 Thread Tom Williams
On 12/17/2012 12:48 PM, Chris Mohler wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:34 AM, d b dd_besgr...@hotmail.com wrote: I have heard you can protect your photographs on the web by applying a transparent overlay to them. When someone then right clicks and saves the image, all they get is the

Re: [Gimp-user] Photo protection - transparent foreground

2012-12-17 Thread Tom Williams
On 12/17/2012 03:02 PM, Chris Mohler wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Steve Kinney ad...@pilobilus.net wrote: Probably the most effective approach to preventing e-z downloading of an image displayed on a web page, is to slice it into a grid of images Still defeated by the humble PrtScn