On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:46:51 +0100 (CET), mike510 wrote:

after I have upgraded Gimp to 2.6.4 (Windows), it stopped to inport SVG files (neither via File -> Open, nor via Paths Dialog - Import path). In the last case it seems to work but no paths are seen in a picture, only in path layers dialog.

It appears it works fine here.

I have done a small garbage (a few lines) in Inkscape, saved as .svg, the opened in GIMP. My garbage was there, over a transparent background. Both via drag & drop and/or via open dialog.

For the second test I don't know the steps to reproduce.

Cristi

People,

I want to select only the middle tomato and then treat the edges of the single tomato so that the edges are soft like edges of the existing tomatoes on the left and right. I have tried cropping down to one tomato and then various attempts at fixing the edges using smudging and burning etc but the result never looks right - how would the image gurus do it?

Thanks,

Phil.

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:

People,

I want to select only the middle tomato and then treat the edges of the single tomato so that the edges are soft like edges of the existing tomatoes on the left and right. I have tried cropping down to one tomato and then various attempts at fixing the edges using smudging and burning etc but the result never looks right - how would the image gurus do it?

I'd go buy a tomato and shoot it, but that's just me ;)

Chris

Sorry I forgot to point out that I had attached the relevant image . .

Philip Rhoades wrote:

People,

I want to select only the middle tomato and then treat the edges of the single tomato so that the edges are soft like edges of the existing tomatoes on the left and right. I have tried cropping down to one tomato and then various attempts at fixing the edges using smudging and burning etc but the result never looks right - how would the image gurus do it?

Thanks,

Phil.

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People,

I want to select only the middle tomato and then treat the edges of the
single tomato so that the edges are soft like edges of the existing tomatoes on the left and right. I have tried cropping down to one tomato and then various attempts at fixing the edges using smudging and
burning etc but the result never looks right - how would the image gurus
do it?

Use the lasso tool and make a rough selection quickmask it
adjust the selection more precisely
un quickmask it
cut it out
past as a new image on a tranparent layer insert a white layer underneath

Then experiment with various tomato selection, selection shrinks etc, and then blur to make the edges soft

You could use the foreground select tool for step one, but I think the lasso is the better option in this case

Owen

On Friday 16 January 2009, Philip Rhoades wrote:

People,

I want to select only the middle tomato and then treat the edges of the single tomato so that the edges are soft like edges of the existing tomatoes on the left and right. I have tried cropping down to one tomato and then various attempts at fixing the edges using smudging and burning etc but the result never looks right - how would the image gurus do it?

Thanks,

Phil.

you could use one of the selection tools. Or ask google for "gimp select object". That gave me the very nice result here: http://www.ephotozine.com/article/How-to-selectively-colour-an-object-in-Gimp

Daniel

On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 09:59 +1100, Owen wrote:

Use the lasso tool and make a rough selection quickmask it
adjust the selection more precisely
un quickmask it

You might want to feather the selection at this point, to give a soft edge to your cutout.

cut it out
past as a new image on a tranparent layer insert a white layer underneath

Then experiment with various tomato selection, selection shrinks etc, and then blur to make the edges soft

A blur might work. A feathered selection is likely to give a better result over an arbitrary background.

Thanks people!

Michael J. Hammel wrote:

On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 09:59 +1100, Owen wrote:

Use the lasso tool and make a rough selection quickmask it
adjust the selection more precisely
un quickmask it

You might want to feather the selection at this point, to give a soft edge to your cutout.

cut it out
past as a new image on a tranparent layer insert a white layer underneath

Then experiment with various tomato selection, selection shrinks etc, and then blur to make the edges soft

A blur might work. A feathered selection is likely to give a better result over an arbitrary background.

Hi,

On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 16:37 +0100, mike510 wrote:

I have found out that I can open Inkscape examples OK. But my files which were generated bu Gnuplot can not be opened. At the same time Firefox and Inkscape can open them. Previously I was able to open and edit them (I still have some XCF files made out of my SVG ones.)

Could you perhaps show us such a file that can't be opened? The simpler the file the better. Please try to make the most simplest example file that GIMP can't open. We should be able to figure out what's going wrong then.

Sven

mike510 wrote:

after I have upgraded Gimp to 2.6.4 (Windows), it stopped to inport SVG files (neither via File -> Open, nor via Paths Dialog - Import path). In the last case it seems to work but no paths are seen in a picture, only in path layers dialog.
The SVG files were the same which I have already rendered in previous version Gimp.
I always get error message tellig that Microsoft Visual C runtime unexpectedly closed file-svg plugin.

Is it just me or does anybody encountered the same situation?

I am currently using gnuplot in a current project so I took a quick look at this. I was able to reproduce the problem and discovered the SVG file created by gnuplot won't load in either the 2.4.7 or 2.6.1 versions of GIMP.

The error message is:

Could not open '/part2/home/kcozens/Projects/Arbortronics/USP/src/frontend/test.svg' for reading: Error parsing XML data

The method to reproduce the problem (but not always) is to use gnuplot in interactive mode. Generate a plot (ie. "plot sin(x)") using the default terminal of wxt then set terminal to png, set the output file, and replot.

However, this morning, my saved files that wouldn't load yesterday now load. There may be a more subtle problem caused by some interaction between running gnuplot and GIMP. Further investigation is required.

Hi,

On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 11:33 -0500, Kevin Cozens wrote:

The method to reproduce the problem (but not always) is to use gnuplot in interactive mode. Generate a plot (ie. "plot sin(x)") using the default terminal of wxt then set terminal to png, set the output file, and replot.

I think you meant "set the terminal to svg" here. GIMP seems to open the resulting files just fine here. Even importing paths from the SVG works fine.

Sven

Hello,

Has anyone tested this with a more recent version of librsvg? I noticed that in recent releases, rendering of somewhat dodgy/weird paths has been improved. I figure if a newer librsvg works better, then we can reasonably assume that gnuplot is producing dodgy paths.