On 22 Apr 2022, Dumas Walker said the following...

Glad I could help! I'm a video editor by trade, and I happen to use GIMP on my Mac (and Linux machines also). It's a very capable program.

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Also very bloated as well.

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On 23 Apr 2022, The Millionaire said the following...

Also very bloated as well.

How so? I don't use it often enough to know it that well -- mainly because more than 20 years of Photoshop use has created some muscle memory for certain workflows. But GIMP launches in about two seconds on my machine, so I never felt like it was bloated, just kind of messy in some areas, like a lot of open source stuff unfortunately.

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The Millionaire wrote to Zero Reader <=-

Glad I could help! I'm a video editor by trade, and I happen to use GIMP on my Mac (and Linux machines also). It's a very capable program.

Also very bloated as well.

What, specifically, makes you think it is bloated?

Also, using "also" and "as well" in the same sentence is redundant.



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Also very bloated as well.

What, specifically, makes you think it is bloated?

Also, using "also" and "as well" in the same sentence is redundant.

Using "also" and "as well" in the sentence makes that sentence bloated.

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boraxman wrote to Gamgee <=-

> TM> Also very bloated as well.

Ga> What, specifically, makes you think it is bloated?
Ga> Also, using "also" and "as well" in the same sentence is redundant.

Using "also" and "as well" in the sentence makes that sentence
bloated.

Haha! Good point.


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On 23 Apr 2022, The Millionaire said the following...

How so? I don't use it often enough to know it that well -- mainly because more than 20 years of Photoshop use has created some muscle memory for certain workflows. But GIMP launches in about two seconds on my machine, so I never felt like it was bloated, just kind of messy in some areas, like a lot of open source stuff unfortunately.

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I had the minimum memory installed on my computer and would eat up a lot of resources for me. :-(

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On 24 Apr 2022, The Millionaire said the following...

I had the minimum memory installed on my computer and would eat up a lot of resources for me. :-(

I could see where that would get annoying. I remember running it back about 20 years ago on a PC with 128 megs of RAM. I wonder how much larger it's grown since then? It doesn't look much different, lol.

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On 24 Apr 2022, The Millionaire said the following...

I could see where that would get annoying. I remember running it back about 20 years ago on a PC with 128 megs of RAM. I wonder how much larger it's grown since then? It doesn't look much different, lol.

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GIMP is a pretty big program with a similarities to Windows Paint but open sourced.

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The Millionaire wrote to Zero Reader <=-

GIMP is a pretty big program with a similarities to Windows Paint
but open sourced.

Similarities to Windows Paint...?

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! LOL

You're comparing a Ferrari to a Yugo.



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Gamgee wrote to The Millionaire <=-

Also, using "also" and "as well" in the same sentence is redundant.

LITERALLY Redundant.

(I have a 12 year-old daughter that takes everything, literally, literally.)




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GIMP is a pretty big program with a similarities to Windows Paint
but open sourced.

Similarities to Windows Paint...?

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! LOL

You're comparing a Ferrari to a Yugo.

A Yugo *is* similar to a Ferrari, in that they are both cars. You're acting as if he's comparing a Yugo to, say, a Boeing. So, here's some

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! LOL

at you! (o_O)

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Re: Re: The GIMP question
By: The Millionaire to Zero Reader on Sun Apr 24 2022 06:13 pm

GIMP is a pretty big program with a similarities to Windows Paint but open sourced.

I think GIMP is more comparable to Photoshop than Windows Paint. Windoes Paint is a very simplistic and minimalistic drawing/editing program, whereas Photoshop and GIMP are more sophisticated photo editing programs.

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Also, using "also" and "as well" in the same sentence is redundant.

LITERALLY Redundant.

(I have a 12 year-old daughter that takes everything, literally, literally.)

My daughter also uses "literally" for emphasis. It drives me nuts, because I am pedantic about using words correctly.

I used to have a similar problem when I was <7. I took things literally (literally), which often confused me. When they said Madonna was the "material girl", I thought somehow she was a girl made of material, which didn't make sense because she appeared to be a real person.

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How so? I don't use it often enough to know it that well -- mainly
because more than 20 years of Photoshop use has created some muscle
memory for certain workflows. But GIMP launches in about two seconds on
my machine, so I never felt like it was bloated, just kind of messy in some areas, like a lot of open source stuff unfortunately.

there is an add for gimp that makes it look and act like photoshop.

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boraxman wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

My daughter also uses "literally" for emphasis. It drives me nuts, because I am pedantic about using words correctly.

Except, now we've given up the battle. Literally is now defined in Merriam- Webster as literally and not literally.


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I use The GIMP for most of my photo manipulation. I have an image that I would like to use as a watermark on a video project. So, I would like to make this currently solid image somewhat see-through, so that whatever is in the background will at least somewhat be visible.

If I do it in the video editor, Openshot, I can reduce the alpha for the track that the solid image is a part of, and that will make it more transparent. However, as I plan to use the image often, I would like to be able to add transparency to the image when I save it in The Gimp, so that I only have to remember to do it once.

I have not been able to determine yet which tool in The Gimp corresponds to the alpha property in Openshot. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!

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Re: The GIMP question
By: Dumas Walker to All on Thu Apr 21 2022 02:59 pm

I use The GIMP for most of my photo manipulation. I have an image that I wo like to use as a watermark on a video project. So, I would like to make thi currently solid image somewhat see-through, so that whatever is in the background will at least somewhat be visible.

If I do it in the video editor, Openshot, I can reduce the alpha for the tra that the solid image is a part of, and that will make it more transparent. However, as I plan to use the image often, I would like to be able to add transparency to the image when I save it in The Gimp, so that I only have to remember to do it once.

I have not been able to determine yet which tool in The Gimp corresponds to alpha property in Openshot. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!

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I am not a gimp guru, but try this:

Open your image and go to Edit-> Select All

Then go to Colors->Color to Alpha

Make any changes you want and save the image as an .xfc file.

Everytime you want to watermark some image, create a layer over the image you are working with and paste the watermark on such layer.

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I have not been able to determine yet which tool in The Gimp corresponds to the alpha property in Openshot. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Set your opacity for the graphic on the layer palette in GIMP using the opacity slider. Then export the file out as a PNG (File > Export As, type a filename with a ".png" extension). You'll get a pop-up box with some options -- I unchecked "Save background" but it doesn't seem to matter.

To test, I just dragged my graphic into Final Cut Pro and it maintained the opacity. Hopefully it does the same in OpenShot also.

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If I do it in the video editor, Openshot, I can reduce the alpha for the track that the solid image is a part of, and that will make it more transparent. However, as I plan to use the image often, I would

You lost me a bit, but I'm there on using an image as a watermark. Erm for
the life of me...I can't remember what it is... video processing on linux... V2L or something... I was using it for streaming from a webcam, but you could feed it a file and add a watermark to it...

If you're capturing the video live, then OBS will do it quite happily... just put the image over the camera view and turn the transparency down/up.. works
a treat.

None of this helps you directly with OpenShot though...

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Set your opacity for the graphic on the layer palette in GIMP using the opacit
slider. Then export the file out as a PNG (File > Export As, type a filename w
h a ".png" extension). You'll get a pop-up box with some options -- I unchecke
"Save background" but it doesn't seem to matter.

To test, I just dragged my graphic into Final Cut Pro and it maintained the op
ity. Hopefully it does the same in OpenShot also.

Yes, it does. thanks!


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I am not a gimp guru, but try this:

Open your image and go to Edit-> Select All

Then go to Colors->Color to Alpha

Make any changes you want and save the image as an .xfc file.

Everytime you want to watermark some image, create a layer over the image you are working with and paste the watermark on such layer.

Thanks, I will try that also!


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You lost me a bit, but I'm there on using an image as a watermark. Erm for the life of me...I can't remember what it is... video processing on linux... V2L or something... I was using it for streaming from a webcam, but you could feed it a file and add a watermark to it...

If you're capturing the video live, then OBS will do it quite happily... just put the image over the camera view and turn the transparency down/up.. works a treat.

None of this helps you directly with OpenShot though...

No but it does give me some options if I ever need to capture video live
and/or do streaming. :) Thanks!


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On 22 Apr 2022, Dumas Walker said the following...

ity. Hopefully it does the same in OpenShot also.

Yes, it does. thanks!

Glad I could help! I'm a video editor by trade, and I happen to use GIMP on my Mac (and Linux machines also). It's a very capable program.

-zr

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