hallo,

thank you all those who suggsted how to convert rgb into cmyk. i would have replied but then i noticed that hitting 'reply' on my reader (knode) would send the reply to the individual and not the list. ack. why ?, i can't find a way of changing this either. i think that's annoying.

as an aside, i have read that photoshop has a function that allows you to go back and undo selected parts of images. i think that's neat, because sometimes, especially with layering you like some changes an additional layer makes but you lose other parts you liked (iyswim), hence with this tool you can just select the bits you would like retain by selecting that part and undoing the change just for that part. is there anything similar in the gimp ? if not is it possible to do ?

i seem to be the only person on rederosity who uses gimp :)))) and i am telling people it is free :))) (and good, of course)

sammi

as an aside, i have read that photoshop has a function that allows you to go back and undo selected parts of images. i think that's neat, because sometimes, especially with layering you like some changes an additional layer makes but you lose other parts you liked (iyswim), hence with this tool you can just select the bits you would like retain by selecting that part and undoing the change just for that part. is there anything similar in the gimp ? if not is it possible to do ?

In GIMP, you can do what you describe with a layer mask. Last I saw, that's how you did it in Photoshop, too. Here's a short run-down of the process:

1) Pick the layer you want to change. Duplicate it (this choice is in the layers, channels and paths dialog, both as a right-click menu on the layer and one of the buttosn on the bottom).

2) On the layer copy, make the change you want to make.

3) Right click the layer copy and choose "Add Layer Mask". Pick "Full Opacity".

4) In the layers menu, you'll see a white rectangle next to the copy layer. Click on it. You're now editing the layer mask.

5) Now you can edit the image with any of the paint tools. Black will undo whatever change you made on the layer copy. White will show the changes on the layer copy. Grey will show a combination of the two.

6) When the you're happy about the appearance of the change, right-click the layer copy and choose 'Merge Down'.

i seem to be the only person on rederosity who uses gimp :)))) and i am telling people it is free :))) (and good, of course)

Good work. I'm spreading the word myself.

First of all, I'm very please with the quality of the gimp. I'm new to image manipulation tools but am an old unix hack so it was more intuitive to me than most windoz-original programs.

A few questions:

The online man pages are not very helpful for doing searches on functionality. Is there a good book/web site anyone can recommend that covers gimp functionality at a medium technical level.

For text: I've used the script-fu to bring ASCII text into an image but I was wondering if there was a way to bring rich text format in. How about bringing it in with different justifications?

Thanks, Keith

On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 17:45, Keith Athey wrote:

The online man pages are not very helpful for doing searches on functionality. Is there a good book/web site anyone can recommend that covers gimp functionality at a medium technical level.

Here's a few of my favorite websites about The GIMP: http://manual.gimp.org/
http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/
http://gug.sunsite.dk/?page=tutorials

Tigert lists some good books about GIMP on his website. You can also find some very nice tutorials there: http://tigert.gimp.org/gimp/

Sincerely, ./Brix

On Wednesday 08 January 2003 16:29, you wrote:

as an aside, i have read that photoshop has a function that allows you to go back and undo selected parts of images. i think that's neat, because sometimes, especially with layering you like some changes an additional layer makes but you lose other parts you liked (iyswim), hence with this tool you can just select the bits you would like retain by selecting that part and undoing the change just for that part. is there anything similar in the gimp ? if not is it possible to do ?

In GIMP, you can do what you describe with a layer mask. Last I saw, that's how you did it in Photoshop, too. Here's a short run-down of the process:

yes, and thanks for showing how to do it but psp actually has a tool that does that, took me ages to find the refernce again, but its mentioned here, its called a history brush
http://www.liv.ac.uk/abe/students/photoshop/05b_palettes.shtml

now that is really nifty isn't it ?:)) the history palette is good too. i find increasing the undo levels in gimp is impractical on large images; it slows down the machine too much, even at a tile cache size of 256, and 10 levels of undo are nothing if painting small strokes, so its a bit awkward and i think a history palette would sort that out ?

sammi

On Wednesday 08 January 2003 21:08, you wrote:

sam@sende.freeserve.co.uk (2003-01-08 at 1522.21 +0000):

thank you all those who suggsted how to convert rgb into cmyk. i would have replied but then i noticed that hitting 'reply' on my reader (knode) would send the reply to the individual and not the list. ack. why ?, i can't find a way of changing this either. i think that's annoying.

The list owner decided changing reply-to is bad. Others think changing is good. In any case, the best is to get a mailer that can do normal reply, group reply and list reply.

thank you for your response.
but the links are about munging ? the addresses aren't munged, it is just set up so i can't reply to the list automatically, plus i get two mails when someone replies, one on the list and one privately. i have to then not only type in gimp adress but also delete duplicates. i am on several lists where i do not have to do this.
as to changing mailer, this is a linux based mailer. i do not like netscape and mutt i find annoying, having to edit mails in vi and view html in other windows, etc etc.

sammi

Keith Athey wrote:

The online man pages are not very helpful for doing searches on functionality. Is there a good book/web site anyone can recommend that covers gimp functionality at a medium technical level.

The entire large gimp manual is downloadable from:

http://manual.gimp.org/