gimp scrollbar colors

2008-09-17 Thread Barry Marchant
Hi all, Can anyone tell me how to change the scrollbar colors so that the are readily visible? Tried gimp 2.3.14, & 2.4.0-rc2. No response to changes in kde or icewm changes google no help. TIA Barry

Re: Any Gimp Experts in the house?

2008-05-12 Thread Don Gould
John Rye wrote: On Tue, 13 May 2008 00:39:59 +1200 Don Gould wrote: In Photoshop there's a 'magic lasoo' tool that attaches 'selection' to the outline of an object. It's really useful for clear tracing something. I can't find it in GIMP. Does anyon

Re: Any Gimp Experts in the house?

2008-05-12 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 13 May 2008 00:39:59 +1200 Don Gould wrote: > In Photoshop there's a 'magic lasoo' tool that attaches 'selection' to > the outline of an object. It's really useful for clear tracing something. > > I can't find it in GIMP. Does anyone kn

Any Gimp Experts in the house?

2008-05-12 Thread Don Gould
In Photoshop there's a 'magic lasoo' tool that attaches 'selection' to the outline of an object. It's really useful for clear tracing something. I can't find it in GIMP. Does anyone know if there's a control plug in that does it? Cheers Don

Re: gimp - make colour transparent

2007-04-13 Thread Roger Searle
thanks for all the replies, i have got this sorted now and in the process got quite a bit more of a grasp on using the gimp. Cheers, Vik Olliver wrote: > On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 09:40 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > >>> erases pixels of any colour. How can I limit th

Re: gimp - make colour transparent

2007-04-13 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Saturday 14 April 2007 13:07:34 Vik Olliver wrote: > On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 09:40 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > > erases pixels of any colour. How can I limit the effect of the > > > > eraser to > > > > > just one specified colour? > > > > Make an intelligent colour-based selection, press ^X?

Re: gimp - make colour transparent

2007-04-13 Thread Vik Olliver
On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 09:40 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > erases pixels of any colour. How can I limit the effect of the > eraser to > > just one specified colour? > > Make an intelligent colour-based selection, press ^X? Then you can tidy things up using Ctrl-select to take out the areas you

Re: gimp - make colour transparent

2007-04-13 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Sat 14 Apr 2007 09:26:07 NZST +1200, Roger Searle wrote: > I have addd an alpha channel (though this may be off track), No, it is essential! Transparency isn't part of the colour channels (you can't have 8 bits pers colour plus transparency in 3 bytes, though gif and png use a different format

gimp - make colour transparent

2007-04-13 Thread Roger Searle
Hi, hopefully a simple gimp question? Having used kim to convert and compress a jpg into a gif (works really well) we find that the white background of the image comes up a little "dirty" against the white webpage background. So we thought that erasing the white (and make transparent

Re: Calling GIMP gurus...

2007-03-22 Thread Nick Rout
Barry, you are transmitting from the Tardis again, or else your time (or timezone) is out on your computer. By 1 hour, so I suspect you have not properly set the timezone and daylight savings has not been taken into account. Computers in NZ should be set to Pacific/Auckland.

Re: Calling GIMP gurus...

2007-03-22 Thread Barry
sed redefinition of the word 'fun' Steve That looks more like self torture to me. Slight variation on Volker's suggestion... load the file into gimp. immediately save it under a new name to protect the original Select the bottom portion which you want to keep use the cursor keys

Re: Calling GIMP gurus...

2007-03-19 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Tue 20 Mar 2007 17:28:53 NZST +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > Is there a way of shortening a rectangular image by removing a small > number row of pixels from the middle of it. A command or gui, either's > good. So's anything imagemagicky! gimp: select bottom part, move it

Re: Calling GIMP gurus...

2007-03-19 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:46:12 +1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > Is there a way of shortening a rectangular image by removing a small number > > row of pixels from the middle of it. A command or gui, either's good. So's > > anything

Re: Calling GIMP gurus...

2007-03-19 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Steve Holdoway wrote: > Is there a way of shortening a rectangular image by removing a small number > row of pixels from the middle of it. A command or gui, either's good. So's > anything imagemagicky! > > It's doin my 'ead in! Think around the other way. Open existing image fi

Calling GIMP gurus...

2007-03-19 Thread Steve Holdoway
Is there a way of shortening a rectangular image by removing a small number row of pixels from the middle of it. A command or gui, either's good. So's anything imagemagicky! It's doin my 'ead in! Steve

Gimp Scripting

2006-07-16 Thread Nick Rout
There were questions at Volker's photography talk about gimp and scripting. I just had a play with gimp and noticed a menu I hadn't seen before - Python-Fu. It appears that there are python bindings for gimp functionality. I had a look at one of the python plugins and found that

Re: any gimp gurus out there???

2005-08-24 Thread Steve Holdoway
company website at the moment, and am having a >> few problems getting decent images at a decent size out of gimp. >> >> I'm using .png format as I want a transparent background, and don't want >> to use .gif on principle. To generate the images in the fisst place

Re: any gimp gurus out there???

2005-08-22 Thread Roy Britten
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 18:00 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > I'm trying to build up my company website at the moment, and am having a > few problems getting decent images at a decent size out of gimp. > > I'm using .png format as I want a transparent background, and don&#

Re: any gimp gurus out there???

2005-08-22 Thread Vik Olliver
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 18:00 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > I now have two problems... the background image is 160kB, which is really > large for a watermark!, and the logo shows up a different background. (If > you want a look, go to http://www.greengecko.co.nz ). > > Can anyone point me to what I

any gimp gurus out there???

2005-08-21 Thread Steve Holdoway
I'm trying to build up my company website at the moment, and am having a few problems getting decent images at a decent size out of gimp. I'm using .png format as I want a transparent background, and don't want to use .gif on principle. To generate the images in the fisst place, I

Re: OT - gentoo was Re: gimp

2005-05-25 Thread Gareth Williams
[whoops, forgot to say "beware gmail reply-to", sorry :) does anyone know if there's a reliable fix for that yet?] On 5/25/05, Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it's probably the fact that you did it at an installfest, where > all those 'what do I do here' questions are instantl

RE: gimp

2005-05-25 Thread Maurice Butler (Like Magic)
Sent: Wednesday, 25 May 2005 7:09 p.m. To: CLUG Subject: RE: gimp On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 17:16 +1200, Maurice Butler (Like Magic) wrote: > The > documentation is a shambles in regard to networking aprdon? in what respect? > - I have managed to get > part of it changed and are currently w

Re: gimp

2005-05-25 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> > "Grokking the GIMP" is in fact that book. It's good, it's in the Chch > > Public Library, and it's available for free on-line (free beer)! > > In Debian Sarge, non-free Yes guys, we all know where to get it. It still doesn't change the fact th

Re: gimp

2005-05-25 Thread Philip Charles
On Wed, 25 May 2005, Douglas Royds wrote: > "Grokking the GIMP" is in fact that book. It's good, it's in the Chch > Public Library, and it's available for free on-line (free beer)! In Debian Sarge, non-free Package: grokking-the-gimp Priority: optional Section: n

RE: gimp

2005-05-25 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 17:16 +1200, Maurice Butler (Like Magic) wrote: > The > documentation is a shambles in regard to networking aprdon? in what respect? > - I have managed to get > part of it changed and are currently working on getting some more > cleaned > up. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: gimp

2005-05-24 Thread Maurice Butler (Like Magic)
. Maurice -Original Message- From: Douglas Royds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 25 May 2005 4:02 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: gimp Nick Rout wrote: > One thing people perhaps have to get used to with open source software > is not only the dif

RE: gimp

2005-05-24 Thread Maurice Butler (Like Magic)
- From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 25 May 2005 4:32 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: gimp Robert Fisher wrote: >On Wed, 25 May 2005 13:53, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > >>I think that's a bit harsh, Douglas. I think of gimp

Re: gimp

2005-05-24 Thread Douglas Royds
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: By the way, I'd also quite like a decent red-eye plug-in, while you're at it. There's a tutorial on that on gimpguru.org, which at first glance seems a superb teaching site. Just took a look at that tutorial: http://gimpguru.org/Tutorials/RedEye2/ It uses a different

Re: gimp

2005-05-24 Thread Gareth Williams
> About 6 months ago, I sat down to install gentoo using only the > resources available on that site. Even ardent admirers like Nick agreed > that this is impossible to do. The docs missed out too many really > important things - just took them for granted. ( and pointing out > alternative third pa

Re: gimp

2005-05-24 Thread Steve Holdoway
Robert Fisher wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2005 13:53, Steve Holdoway wrote: I think that's a bit harsh, Douglas. I think of gimp as the gentoo of the imageing arena. = I think that is a bit harsh Steve. I think that the Gentoo Docs are probably amongs

Re: gimp

2005-05-24 Thread Douglas Royds
g. "Grokking the GIMP" is in fact that book. It's good, it's in the Chch Public Library, and it's available for free on-line (free beer)! Volker Kuhlmann wrote: You appear to be unhappy because there is no working point-and-shoot solution for colour temperature. You ar

Re: gimp

2005-05-24 Thread Nick Rout
I think the gimp used to be without good docs, and a lot of people struggled to work it. Now with version 2.0 the interface has improved, but with time there is now a lot more online documentation. And have you ever tried to read the photoshop windows help file? blech! The book Douglas pointed

Re: gimp

2005-05-24 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> You appear to be unhappy because there is no working point-and-shoot > solution for colour temperature. You are very likely right. I have equally > not found a working point-and-shoot red-eye reduction, or certainly, none > that satisfies me. So I just use the GIMP to do both

Re: gimp

2005-05-24 Thread Robert Fisher
On Wed, 25 May 2005 13:53, Steve Holdoway wrote: > I think that's a bit harsh, Douglas. I think of gimp as the gentoo of the > imageing arena. = I think that is a bit harsh Steve. I think that the Gentoo Docs are probably amongst the best of

Re: gimp

2005-05-24 Thread Steve Holdoway
I think that's a bit harsh, Douglas. I think of gimp as the gentoo of the imageing arena. I know it can do it, but I know it'll be a struggle to do it the firt time because of the lack of / poor quality documentation. I also expect those who love one to love the other... maybe somet

Re: gimp

2005-05-24 Thread Douglas Royds
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: The gimp help keeps on mentioning how gimp can correct digital camera photos, yet gimp can't even change a colour temperature or correct a white balance (*very* common problem). You appear to be unhappy because there is no working point-and-shoot solution for c

Re: gimp

2005-05-24 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Mon 16 May 2005 18:11:33 NZST +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > flag-ship graphics program (gimp) can't even correct a white balance or > > change a colour temperature, at least I haven't found it looking through > > all the menues. > > Total poppycock.

Re: gimp

2005-05-16 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> > That's unfortunate, one more area where Linux is dead, leaving the field > > to Billy and Apple. Shame really, wouldn't take that much effort to make > > gimp do the job. > Not much effort, but Pantone being non-free is a rather enormous hurdle > to overcom

Re: gimp

2005-05-16 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 23:12 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > That's unfortunate, one more area where Linux is dead, leaving the field > to Billy and Apple. Shame really, wouldn't take that much effort to make > gimp do the job. Not much effort, but Pantone being non-free is a rat

Re: gimp

2005-05-16 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> >You don't "hunt around the Internet" in order to install the extentions. > >You go to the defined repository. It's at: http://registry.gimp.org Funny there isn't an easy pointer to that in the gimp menues... > >There are many hundreds of

Re: gimp

2005-05-16 Thread Steve Holdoway
le you'd be whinging about bloated downloads. The major disadvantages are that gimp has is that the colours are only 8 bits per channel. This puts it out of contention for high quality pre-press work. See, also not good enough for professionals ;) It all depends on what the p

Re: gimp Re: Configuring USB ADSL modem in SUSE

2005-05-16 Thread Christopher Sawtell
ution file you'd be whinging about bloated downloads. > > The major disadvantages are that gimp has is that the colours are only 8 > > bits per channel. This puts it out of contention for high quality > > pre-press work. > > See, also not good enough for professionals ;) It all

gimp Re: Configuring USB ADSL modem in SUSE

2005-05-15 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> Total poppycock. What you write? ;) > That, like hundreds of other facilities, is available as an external plugin. Having to hunt around the internet to add basic functionality to a core work tool is unprofessional. > The major disadvantages are that gimp has is that the colours a

Gimp (was Re: Configuring USB ADSL modem in SUSE )

2005-05-15 Thread Andy Leach
Christopher Sawtell wrote: The other is that gimp is not PhotoShop. By which I mean that it has a completely different user interface which I understand seasoned PhotoShop users find extremely difficult to get used to. but now there is Gimpshop! (http://plasticbugs.com/index.php?p=241) I

Re: gimp batch format conversion

2005-04-08 Thread Robert Himmelmann
ducing the quality of jpgs. It reduces their size by up to 90% without much loss in quality. Given a pile of image files, is there a way with gimp to convert them into a different image format, **WITHOUT** requiring any interactive stuff? It needs to go into a shell for loop and work. No X11!

Re: gimp batch format conversion

2005-04-07 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> http://www.lemur.com/dmm/culch/scriptsfu/ Thanks! I like the comparison with ImageMagick. Gimp scripting doesn't look so easy though. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not

RE: gimp batch format conversion

2005-04-07 Thread djc
Some scripts here Volker http://www.lemur.com/dmm/culch/scriptsfu/ Don't know about your fits files however. Dan Coe -Original Message- From: Volker Kuhlmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 8 April 2005 12:51 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: gimp

Re: gimp batch format conversion

2005-04-07 Thread Steve Holdoway
Robert Fisher wrote: On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 23:32, Steve Holdoway wrote: convert -sizeWxH file1.jpg -resize WxH resized.jpg for example. Has worked every daylight minute for me for the last year. But Volker wants to convrt to different image formats. Would this be helpful ? http://www.cit.gu.

Re: gimp batch format conversion

2005-04-07 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> Dunno what your hangups are about imagemagick... convert will do the job > for you without problem. I know ImageMagick well. If convert was working I wouldn't have asked about gimp (I thought I'd mentioned that). There's a bunch of fits images here which display shows as

Re: gimp batch format conversion

2005-04-07 Thread Ross Drummond
Try script-fu a scripting language for gimp. Never used it myself so I do not know if it will do what you require. If you have gimp installed look for *.scm files. Looking at the scm files I guess you would need a text editor capable of matching opening and closing brackets Read more at

Re: gimp batch format conversion

2005-04-07 Thread Robert Fisher
On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 23:32, Steve Holdoway wrote: > convert -sizeWxH file1.jpg -resize WxH resized.jpg > > for example. Has worked every daylight minute for me for the last year. > But Volker wants to convrt to different image formats. Would this be helpful ? http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/gra

Re: gimp batch format conversion

2005-04-07 Thread Steve Holdoway
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Given a pile of image files, is there a way with gimp to convert them into a different image format, **WITHOUT** requiring any interactive stuff? It needs to go into a shell for loop and work. No X11! Yes I know about ImageMagick, and I wouldn't ask about gimp if I

gimp batch format conversion

2005-04-07 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Given a pile of image files, is there a way with gimp to convert them into a different image format, **WITHOUT** requiring any interactive stuff? It needs to go into a shell for loop and work. No X11! Yes I know about ImageMagick, and I wouldn't ask about gimp if IM had fewer than a gazi

Re: fighting with gimp (again!)

2005-02-27 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:50, Steve Holdoway wrote: > I'm using gimp 2.2 on Fedora 3 to stitch together a number of images to > form a panorama. I've got to the stage where they're all lined up nicely > in separate layers, but I now need to change the brightness of a load of

fighting with gimp (again!)

2005-02-26 Thread Steve Holdoway
I'm using gimp 2.2 on Fedora 3 to stitch together a number of images to form a panorama. I've got to the stage where they're all lined up nicely in separate layers, but I now need to change the brightness of a load of the layers to get them all about the same. There's an op

Re: Gimp question - how to make a white(ish) background transparent?

2004-11-17 Thread Phill Coxon
On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 10:39, Alasdair Tennant wrote: > Scan the image again, using a 'line-art' setting, and a fine resolution. Good suggestion - but I did want the colour as I want it to look like it really was written with a blue pen. > (b) No anti-alias problems at the edges of the line.

Re: Gimp question - how to make a white(ish) background transparent?

2004-11-17 Thread Alasdair Tennant
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:13:18 +1300 Phill Coxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (1) Although the scanned background is pretty good, it's still made up > of various shades of white. Scan the image again, using a 'line-art' setting, and a fine resolution. This will force the image to black-and-white

Re: Gimp question - how to make a white(ish) background transparent?

2004-11-16 Thread Roy Britten
On 17/11/04 14:08, Jim Cheetham wrote: > His page comes with a set of alternative stylesheets - if you're using > Firefox, you'll see an "artists' pallette" icon at the bottom (left?), > which which you can shoose between his supplied stylesheets. I recall seeing this in earlier (~0.8?) Firefox re

Re: [OT]Gimp question - how to make a white(ish) background transparent?

2004-11-16 Thread Roger Searle
Where are the 3 dots? I can't see them at top left... Michael JasonSmith wrote: On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 14:44 +1300, Zane Gilmore wrote: The reason I couldn't see it before was that I was looking in Epiphany. Sorry, I forgot that Epiphany does not allow you to change stylesheets. I should wo

Re: [OT]Gimp question - how to make a white(ish) background transparent?

2004-11-16 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 14:44 +1300, Zane Gilmore wrote: > The reason I couldn't see it before was that I was looking in Epiphany. Sorry, I forgot that Epiphany does not allow you to change stylesheets. I should work in Firefox, Konqueror, and Opera, however :) -- Michael JasonSmith

Re: Gimp question - how to make a white(ish) background transparent?

2004-11-16 Thread David Kirk
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:17:42 +1300, Steve Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using Firefox on OS X, and I can't seem to suss it out either. I'm > quite interested in seeing this scalable png transparency thing though... In Firefox 1.0 on my Windows PC, I just have to click on View -> Page Styl

Re: [OT]Gimp question - how to make a white(ish) background transparent?

2004-11-16 Thread Zane Gilmore
Jim Cheetham wrote: Zane Gilmore wrote: change the stylesheet to Ginga huh? I don't understand. His page comes with a set of alternative stylesheets - if you're using Firefox, you'll see an "artists' pallette" icon at the bottom (left?), which which you can shoose between his supplied stylesheet

Re: Gimp question - how to make a white(ish) background transparent?

2004-11-16 Thread Andy Leach
Should also be able to get there via View | Page Style | Ginga very nice (: Steve Bell wrote: I'm using Firefox on OS X, and I can't seem to suss it out either. I'm quite interested in seeing this scalable png transparency thing though... Jim Cheetham wrote: Zane Gilmore wrote: change the styl

Re: Gimp question - how to make a white(ish) background transparent?

2004-11-16 Thread Steve Bell
I'm using Firefox on OS X, and I can't seem to suss it out either. I'm quite interested in seeing this scalable png transparency thing though... Jim Cheetham wrote: Zane Gilmore wrote: change the stylesheet to Ginga huh? I don't understand. His page comes with a set of alternative stylesheets -

Re: Gimp question - how to make a white(ish) background transparent?

2004-11-16 Thread Jim Cheetham
Zane Gilmore wrote: change the stylesheet to Ginga huh? I don't understand. His page comes with a set of alternative stylesheets - if you're using Firefox, you'll see an "artists' pallette" icon at the bottom (left?), which which you can shoose between his supplied stylesheets. Go for it! -jim

Re: Gimp question - how to make a white(ish) background transparent?

2004-11-16 Thread Zane Gilmore
Michael JasonSmith wrote: change the stylesheet to Ginga huh? I don't understand. -- Zane Gilmore, Analyst / Programmer Information Services Section, Information Technology Dept, University of Canterbury - Te Whare Waananga o Waitaha Private Bag 4800, Christchurch New Zealand Phone +64-3-364 2987

Re: Gimp question - how to make a white(ish) background transparent?

2004-11-16 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 13:11 +1300, Zane Gilmore wrote: > png will also do transparency. > I'm pretty sure all the browsers will handle png transarency nowadays. You are almost correct, Zane :) IE will render PNG images, but it does not do the transparency properly. This is not surprising because it

Re: Gimp question - how to make a white(ish) background transparent?

2004-11-16 Thread Roy Britten
On 17/11/04 13:11, Zane Gilmore wrote: > png will also do transparency. > I'm pretty sure all the browsers will handle png transarency nowadays. >From what I've seen, IE does recognise transparency in PNGs but often renders it incorrectly. GIFs appear to render correctly in IE5.5+ Cheers, Roy.

png transparency [was Re: Gimp question - how to make a white(ish) background transparent?]

2004-11-16 Thread Hadley Rich
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:11, Zane Gilmore wrote: > png will also do transparency. > I'm pretty sure all the browsers will handle png transparency > nowadays. Good ole IE still doesn't support alpha transparency. For public sites I use the !important css rule (which IE doesn't understand either) an

Re: Gimp question - how to make a white(ish) background transparent?

2004-11-16 Thread Zane Gilmore
Steve Bell wrote: I'm sure you know this already, but on the off-chance you don't, you have to save as a transparent gif to get it to sit transparently over any colour in your web page. You'll get the transparency options as you save as .gif. png will also do transparency. I'm pretty sure all t

Re: Gimp question - how to make a white(ish) background transparent?

2004-11-16 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 09:43 +1300, Michael Pearce wrote: > Select the varous whiteish areas you need. > > Hit Delete key. Unfortunately that will not work for the Background layer, which is the one that the image is on by default :( But you are correct, if you have another layer already, you jus

Re: Gimp question - how to make a white(ish) background transparent?

2004-11-16 Thread Phill Coxon
Thanks guys! That's awesome.

Re: Gimp question - how to make a white(ish) background transparent?

2004-11-16 Thread Steve Bell
I'm sure you know this already, but on the off-chance you don't, you have to save as a transparent gif to get it to sit transparently over any colour in your web page. You'll get the transparency options as you save as .gif. So do what Michael said in Gimp to get a transpa

Re: Gimp question - how to make a white(ish) background transparent?

2004-11-16 Thread Michael Pearce
Hi Phill, In GIMP 2: Open the image you want: Right Click on the image and select: Select->By Color On the Main Toolbar there are 4 Mode Options, Select "Add to current selection" Select the varous whiteish areas you need. Hit Delete key. You can also Play with the

Re: Gimp question - how to make a white(ish) background transparent?

2004-11-16 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 09:13 +1300, Phill Coxon wrote: > (1) Although the scanned background is pretty good, it's still made up > of various shades of white. > > How can I use gimp (or gimp-2.0) to select a colour range (pure white to > offwhite) and remap it pure white #fff

Gimp question - how to make a white(ish) background transparent?

2004-11-16 Thread Phill Coxon
Hi guys. Quick gimp question. I'm putting up a website with an image of my "signature" (no, not my real signature). I've scanned the signature and have a nice image with a white background. Now I want to convert the white background to transparent so that the signa

Re: New Keyboard (Was: Gimp versus PhotoShop)

2004-07-28 Thread Carl Cerecke
Williams, Olwen - SAL wrote: From what I remember about mechanical typewriters letters together on the same row do not have their hammers together. The letters in the rows were staggered and had linkages. The hammers probably go "q" "a" "z" "w" "s" "x" "e" "d" "c" Yes. Now that you mention it, I

Re: New Keyboard (Was: Gimp versus PhotoShop)

2004-07-28 Thread Nick Rout
yeah ok i have read the wiki entry now, i was closeish... On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:50:00 +1200 Carl Cerecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > > qwerty was invented to slow down typists so that their typwriters did > > not jam so often, or so i was told once. it may be an urban lege

Re: New Keyboard (Was: Gimp versus PhotoShop)

2004-07-28 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> qwerty was invented to slow down typists so that their typwriters did > not jam so often Sounds plausible, but so do a lot of urban legends. The story of keyboards is a long one with a lot of suck in it... (I'm currently having usability arguments with KDE & Co about bilingual users.) Volker

RE: New Keyboard (Was: Gimp versus PhotoShop)

2004-07-28 Thread Williams, Olwen - SAL
e" "d" "c" Olwen Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Carl Cerecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 11:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Keyboard (Was: Gimp versus PhotoShop) Not really. It was designed so that c

Re: New Keyboard (Was: Gimp versus PhotoShop)

2004-07-28 Thread Carl Cerecke
Nick Rout wrote: qwerty was invented to slow down typists so that their typwriters did not jam so often, or so i was told once. it may be an urban legend, i have no authority for that proposition ither than remebering being told it. Not really. It was designed so that common letter pairs were far a

Re: New Keyboard (Was: Gimp versus PhotoShop)

2004-07-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:33:24 +1200 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Go Dvorak. Not only can you be 1337, no-one else wants to use your computer > > (or they give up after a couple of minutes) > > > > http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/ > > "... Dvorak keymap is carefully adapted to

Re: New Keyboard (Was: Gimp versus PhotoShop)

2004-07-28 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 11:33, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Which country came up with querty? United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwerty -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/

Re: New Keyboard (Was: Gimp versus PhotoShop)

2004-07-28 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> Go Dvorak. Not only can you be 1337, no-one else wants to use your computer > (or they give up after a couple of minutes) > > http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/ "... Dvorak keymap is carefully adapted to the English language..." Possibly why I haven't heard much of it in Europe. Then again, the

Re: New Keyboard (Was: Gimp versus PhotoShop)

2004-07-28 Thread Wayne Rooney
On Wednesday 28 July 2004 16:55, Michael JasonSmith wrote: > Oh, and using a non-standard keyboard is l337 as you well > know :P Go Dvorak. Not only can you be 1337, no-one else wants to use your computer (or they give up after a couple of minutes) http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/

Re: Gimp versus PhotoShop

2004-07-28 Thread Sascha Beaumont
Zane Gilmore wrote: > In the GIMP picture menu: > Image->Mode->Decompose There is a choice ther for CMYK > > And it seems to produce four images that might be tcolour separations. > Isn't this what is being talked about? > > (IANA printer but isn't this CMYK

Re: Gimp versus PhotoShop

2004-07-28 Thread Zane Gilmore
There is something puzzling me... Christopher Sawtell wrote: CMYK is coming. In the GIMP picture menu: Image->Mode->Decompose There is a choice ther for CMYK And it seems to produce four images that might be tcolour separations. Isn't this what is being talked about? (IANA printer but

Re: Gimp versus PhotoShop

2004-07-28 Thread steve
Carl Cerecke wrote: Carl Cerecke wrote: Mind you, I'm not a lawyer or colour expert. Just a programmer who sees a nifty opportunity :- grr. My zero/left paren key is broken. I also don't know my left from my right. That should be right-paren, for the smiley... ...depends if you're left handed o

Re: New Keyboard (Was: Gimp versus PhotoShop)

2004-07-27 Thread Jim Cheetham
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/pfuca-store/ Seriously the best keyboard to have around. Small form factor makes it an ideal kbd to plug in to that spare PC you're building, not necessarily the best for long-term use but always the best 'second kbd' :-) -jim, hhkbd since 1998

Re: New Keyboard (Was: Gimp versus PhotoShop)

2004-07-27 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 16:50, Carl Cerecke wrote: > Not paying $100 for a keyboard unless it's made from gold. I am sure there are some gold components. I first balked at the price, then I looked at how much Microsoft keyboards cost, and I figured the extra function keys, the good three-button mous

Re: New Keyboard (Was: Gimp versus PhotoShop)

2004-07-27 Thread Carl Cerecke
Michael JasonSmith wrote: On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 16:24, Carl Cerecke wrote: Who said these IBM Model M keybopards are indestructible :- So is the nine/left paren. Time for a "Type 6 USB Country kit Australian" http://makeashorterlink.com/?C287139E8 [au.sun.com] Not paying $100 for a keyboar

New Keyboard (Was: Gimp versus PhotoShop)

2004-07-27 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 16:24, Carl Cerecke wrote: > Who said these IBM Model M keybopards are indestructible :- So is the > nine/left paren. Time for a "Type 6 USB Country kit Australian" http://makeashorterlink.com/?C287139E8 [au.sun.com] -- Michael JasonSmith

Re: Gimp versus PhotoShop

2004-07-27 Thread Carl Cerecke
Carl Cerecke wrote: Mind you, I'm not a lawyer or colour expert. Just a programmer who sees a nifty opportunity :- grr. My zero/left paren key is broken. I also don't know my left from my right. That should be right-paren, for the smiley... Who said these IBM Model M keybopards are indestructib

Re: Gimp versus PhotoShop

2004-07-27 Thread Carl Cerecke
r Pantone Color Support requires paying a licence fee. You offered a good work-around for Pantone Color Support, but it is a work-around, rather than supported :( I'm sure one could write a script to download the PDF, and extract the necessary information, and pass it to the gimp. That might w

Re: Gimp versus PhotoShop

2004-07-27 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 16:02, Carl Cerecke wrote: > Useful for "building" color swatches > inside applications that do not offer > PANTONE Color Support but do > support CMYK color space." Unfortunately building and distributing an application that *does* offer Pantone Color Support requires paying

Re: Gimp versus PhotoShop

2004-07-27 Thread Carl Cerecke
Carl Cerecke wrote: You can download their colours in various formats: http://www.pantone.com/support/support.asp?idArticle=73&platform=PC Don't know if this helps or not... Carl. Specifically, this one; the "PDF Value list": "Text document listing all 1,089 PANTONE Colors, together with CMYK data.

Re: Gimp versus PhotoShop

2004-07-27 Thread Carl Cerecke
Michael JasonSmith wrote: On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 14:47, Christopher Sawtell wrote: CMYK is coming. But Pantone is not :( You can download their colours in various formats: http://www.pantone.com/support/support.asp?idArticle=73&platform=PC Don't know if this helps or not... Carl.

Re: Gimp versus PhotoShop

2004-07-27 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 14:47, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > CMYK is coming. But Pantone is not :( -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/

Re: Gimp versus PhotoShop

2004-07-27 Thread Nick Rout
ar old black and white photos of genealogical interest only, but they > do give an indication of what is possible with gimp. so the question is, Is that you in front Chris? -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Gimp versus PhotoShop

2004-07-27 Thread Christopher Sawtell
Quoting Sascha Beaumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Chris Wilkinson wrote: > > A few things. Photoshop might also be seen to be missing a few > > things too. > > > > The biggest thing missing about Gimp is a well researched and > objective > >

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