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The Rough Guide to Soft Proofing |
Posted by: rich2005 - 06-03-2021, 02:52 PM - Forum: Tutorials and tips
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...and why you should not worry about it.
You know that your printer uses cyan, magenta, yellow (CMY) and black (K) inks and wonder about converting between the GIMP (and computer) red, green, blue (RGB) and CMYK.
If printing at home, the inkjet printer software does the conversion. Just remember that photographs are typically displayed brighter on the computer, especially with Windows Photo Viewers and will print that bit dimmer.
If sending photographs off to a commercial printer, these days they will generally make the conversion for you, with a warning that colours will become 'more subdued'. They will still do a better job than you can do.
LOGO's and designs that are printed using offset printing where layers of colour are printed on top of each other (a subtractive printing process) are another matter. Your painting / sticker / book cover might come back looking dull and faded.
The best way is to create your design start-to-finish using a CMYK editor such as Krita, however it is possible to use GIMP and see what a print will look like. That is soft-proofing
If you must use Gimp, then pick your colours carefully avoiding those bright greens and blues that will be affected the most.
This little video is about soft-proofing in GIMP. https://youtu.be/jyNz7-QLPLA about 6 minutes duration.
For those that want a CMYK version of their work using Gimp then there is a plugin CYAN see: https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-CMYK-c...3#pid11743
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Toolbars for Visual Studio 2019 |
Posted by: werner - 06-03-2021, 12:58 PM - Forum: General questions
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Hello,
I'm trying to use GIMP 2.10.24 to draw toolbars for MS VS 2019 with Gimp. Although it seems to work fine for icons, none of the BMP parameters seem to produce valid toolbars :
Using these explanations, I can save the BMP file so that it opens in Visual Studio. I also set the mode to RGB and made sure there is no alpha channel.
The app builds OK, but when I run it,
Code:
VERIFY(toolBar->LoadToolBar(nID));
fails with an exception.
Is there anything workaround for this?
Thanks,
Werner
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Bulk export of images for different usage |
Posted by: ViennaDave - 06-03-2021, 12:16 PM - Forum: General questions
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Hi,
Does anyone have any tips to speed up the export of images so they can be used on the web? Nowadays it is good to have multiple versions of images (for web, mobile, different social media etc).
My dream scenario would be an extension, where you could point to a directory - tell it to export all images in that directory and specify the export parameters to export to (with more than one type being possible).
Dave
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Layer mask gradual fade problem |
Posted by: GMP - 06-03-2021, 01:34 AM - Forum: General questions
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I'm doing a face swap and the base layer skin was too dark, so I lightened up the base layer and it worked well for matching the skin on the face's neck and the upper torso of the base layer, But it doesn't look good for the lower part of the base pic's body.
So I then made a duplicate of the base layer and put a layer make on it. I can paint on the layer mask to reveal the lower layer near the neck. It now looks good near the neck, but I can't get the layer mask to have a very gradual fade to the belly button area.
Any suggestions?
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ofn-retime-layers |
Posted by: Ofnuts - 06-02-2021, 08:14 PM - Forum: Extending the GIMP
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This script is a reboot of my old (2012!) retime-linked-layers script, with selection criteria that may be more useful than just the linked status.
Available from the usual place.
Enjoy.
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