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  Resurrecting old color slides
Posted by: fredex - 06-29-2020, 07:25 PM - Forum: Tutorials and tips - Replies (5)

I have a large pile of color slides, most taken 45-50 years ago, on either Ektachrome or Fujichrome.

although they've been stored in boxes that keep them in the dark, the colors of many have faded, the amount seems rather variable. (there is also a good bit of dust/dirt, that I'm not going to mess with unless I can also improve the image's colors to something closer to original.)

I'm looking for ways t try to return at least some of the vitality they had when new, but am sufficiently ignorant of complex photo processing that I haven't a clue where to start.

I've tried messing with curves, contrast, hue/ etc but can't get anything I like the looks of.

Can any of you suggest things I could (learn to) do to retain at least some of the original verve?

I'm attaching an example of one of the slides.

Fredex



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  Custom brushes
Posted by: KesonaFyren - 06-28-2020, 11:19 PM - Forum: Extending the GIMP - Replies (1)

Sorry, super basic question here.

I'm trying to make an animated brush. When I export in Grayscale mode, I'm able to change the color, but it fills in the background so I get a bunch of different-sized squares. When I export in RGB mode, I get my images just fine but of course I can't change the brush color.

All the tutorials I can find cover either animated brushes OR color changing but not both, lol. How do I fix this?


Ach, got it. Background has to be white.



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  Ghost image remains after selecting by color
Posted by: PosWeyb - 06-28-2020, 11:09 PM - Forum: General questions - Replies (3)

Huh I am not sure what I have done here.  I was attempting to remove some very faint graph marks on an image.  I used the select by color.  I then tried to delete what I had selected.  Instead I got this kind of ghost image.  I tried to move it and indeed it appeared to be a outline of what I was trying to get rid of.  But now it won't go away.   I even shut the program completely down, but it is still there.   I have attached a screen shot and the actual file.

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Tongue Change grid pattern units.
Posted by: PosWeyb - 06-28-2020, 04:40 PM - Forum: General questions - Replies (1)

I am new to the forum and to Gimp.  
I am trying to create a printable grid.  I found the pattern grid but its units are only in pixels.  I know that in my drawing an 1/8th inch is 37.5 pixels.  But fractions are not allowed.  Is there a way to create a printable 1/8th inch grid?  I suppose a half of a pixel may not be worth effort, but I'd like to know if there is another way to do this.

Thanks!

Pos Undecided

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Music How to exclude a selection from an action?
Posted by: erw1 - 06-28-2020, 05:11 AM - Forum: General questions - Replies (1)

Say
1. I want to change the area in white to red (the action)
2. *except* the selected square
I know how to do 1. with "By color select", but not 1. and 2. combined. Could someone make a suggestion?

More generally, how can I exclude a selection from an action?



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  CanNotMove object(Mouse Action Blocked)via RotateIcon(Did not ask for)PicWithin
Posted by: ConfusedPenguin - 06-27-2020, 04:47 PM - Forum: Older Gimp versions (2.8, 2.6....) - Replies (1)

CanNot Move object (Mouse Action Blocked)
via mouse cursor
 Rotate Icon
(Did not ask for)
[Image: 8xDc5mF]
OK... see attached file below, then (sigh)

How the heck do I get rid of it?

What did I do (so I do NOT do it again)

Thanks, folks!
PS
Any other gotchyas I need to know,
before I encounter
 & lose my mind?



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  Script-Fu hanging after "Batch command successfully executed"
Posted by: JmurrayGa - 06-26-2020, 10:03 PM - Forum: Extending the GIMP - Replies (2)

So this is a simplified command that is having the same issue 

It runs the gimp-console executable but it does not seem to actually run any of the code inside -b argument.

This line below simply attempts to close the gimp console window but it simply hangs at "batch command executed successfully"

Any help would be appreciated!

Update Below

Code:
C:\Users\james>gimp-console-2.10.exe -idfc -b '(gimp-quit 0)' --console-messages --verbose | quit
'quit' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\james>gimp-console-2.10.exe -idfc -b '(gimp-quit 0)' --console-messages --verbose
Parsing 'C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\etc\gimp\2.0\gimprc' for configured language.
Parsing 'C:\Users\james\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\gimprc' for configured language.
No language property found.
INIT: gimp_load_config
Parsing 'C:\Users\james\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\unitrc'
Parsing 'C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\etc\gimp\2.0\gimprc'
Parsing 'C:\Users\james\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\gimprc'
INIT: gimp_initialize
INIT: gimp_real_initialize
Parsing 'C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\lib\gimp\2.0\interpreters\default.interp'
Parsing 'C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\lib\gimp\2.0\interpreters\pygimp.interp'
Parsing 'C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\lib\gimp\2.0\environ\default.env'
Parsing 'C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\lib\gimp\2.0\environ\pygimp.env'
INIT: gimp_restore
Parsing 'C:\Users\james\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\parasiterc'
Parsing 'C:\Users\james\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\colorrc'
Parsing 'C:\Users\james\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\templaterc'
INIT: gimp_real_restore
Parsing 'C:\Users\james\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\pluginrc'
Querying plug-in: 'C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\file-rawtherapee\file-rawtherapee.exe'
Querying plug-in: 'C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\file-darktable\file-darktable.exe'
Initializing plug-in: 'C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\file-rawtherapee\file-rawtherapee.exe'
Initializing plug-in: 'C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\file-darktable\file-darktable.exe'
Writing 'C:\Users\james\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\pluginrc'
Starting extension: 'extension-script-fu'
Plug-in "script-fu.exe"
(C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\script-fu\script-fu.exe) is installing procedure "flipHorizontal" with a full menu path "<Toolbox>/Xtns/User Scripts/Jmm/flipHorizontal" as menu label, this deprecated and will be an error in GIMP 3.0
Plug-in "script-fu.exe"
(C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\script-fu\script-fu.exe) is installing procedure "MakeStarWarsFigurine" with a full menu path "<Toolbox>/Xtns/User Scripts/Jmm/MakeStarWarsFigurine" as menu label, this deprecated and will be an error in GIMP 3.0
Plug-in "script-fu.exe"
(C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\script-fu\script-fu.exe) is installing procedure "makeTransparentBackground" with a full menu path "<Toolbox>/Xtns/User Scripts/Jmm/makeTransparentBackground" as menu label, this deprecated and will be an error in GIMP 3.0
No batch interpreter specified, using the default 'plug-in-script-fu-eval'.
batch command executed successfully

My issue was the use of single quotes around my code in -b.

I changed them to double quotes and it worked but what do I use to text qualify my function parameters? I was using double quotes but that seems to terminate the script early.

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  Distorted text following path
Posted by: gary742 - 06-26-2020, 07:32 PM - Forum: General questions - Replies (10)

Hi. I'm sorta new using GIMP. I've run into an issue that I was hoping someone with more experience could shed some light on. I am trying to curve text to a circle. This has worked excellent until recently. I am running GIMP 2.10.20 on a Windows 10 64-bit machine. I'm 1) creating a circle, 2) select to path, 3) creating the text (Sans-Serif, 29 px) and 4) text along path. Changing font doesn't seem to help much. Any suggestions or answers as to why this is happening is welcome. 

Thx,
Gary J.

   

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  Create diamond texture
Posted by: meetdilip - 06-26-2020, 07:13 AM - Forum: General questions - Replies (8)

How can we create a Diamond texture like this ? I assume we have to use the Filter > Noise and then do something further. Any tips will be great.

   

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  script-fu - how to refer to the active image?
Posted by: stabilo - 06-26-2020, 04:36 AM - Forum: Extending the GIMP - Replies (10)

Hi, I'm a newbie. I can't figure out how to refer to the active image in a non-interactive script. The example scripts I find all refer to either a new image, or an image loaded from disk, or looping through the image list, or assuming you're working on the rightmost image, or the image comes as a parameter from the dialog (for interactive scripts). I haven't been successful in locating an example that just uses an already opened active image.

So if i have an image open and active, and I want a non-interactive script to reduce opacity of that selected image with a fixed amount and then save the image, how do i refer to the image (and drawable)?


tnx!

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