Comments on: Episode 079: Shoot the Screen!

By: Nino

Nino — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:55:14 +0000

Hi,
the Gimp screenshot tool seems to be very handy, but I think only, if you want to capture Gimp itself, because normally my Gimp window fills almost my whole screen, so if you want to capture another window, you’d have to resize/move the gimp window first (and when capturing the whole screen, the Gimp window will be visible, unless you minimize it during the countdown), right? A function like “hide Gimp while taking the screenshot” would be really cool.

Btw. on the mac the whole screenshot thing doesn’t work, because of the X11 environment, Gimp runs in. Taking screenshots of gimp windows will create a black image and other windows (which are not running in the X11 environment) simply don’t react to the function.

By: Kevin (paynekj)

Kevin (paynekj) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:26:25 +0000

Here’s a TOC:

Episode 079: Shoot the Screen!
00:19 Welcome
00:33 Greetings to Norman
01:10 Understanding the Convolution Matrix
03:48 – Sharpening
05:18 – Blurring
06:43 The Forum
08:16 Screen shots using Gimp
13:03 the End

By: Ger

Ger — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:20:46 +0000

Rolf, about OOo. To me it’s a kind of kick to have the newest options.
Rarely/Sometimes I do receive a document in a new format. So I can open or ask sender to re-save in another format.
A student version of microsoft office 2007 costs me approx 150euro. OOo is for free and enables me to save in pdf. So sender will always see what I saw on screen and will can’t 1,2,3 change my document.

About CMF (oke no unsharp mask). It’s has my intention. It fascinates me.

By: Mathias

Mathias — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:08:19 +0000

Well, I tried OO 3.0 and it was working well. But the package manager always thought that OO is not installed and wanted to install 2.4 again during updates. I always had to deselect it manually…

By: Rolf

Rolf — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:08:53 +0000

Ger, this was a catchup on the Convolution Matrix Filter, not on unsharp mask. That is way more complicated. But I’ll try to go onto that.

I’ll wait with OO 3 until Ubuntu packs it on my machine – or is it so much advanced that I should take the risk of breaking packages?

By: Ger

Ger — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:28:18 +0000

Good and helpful explanation Rolf!

Unsharp mask gives us three options.
Radial, amount and threshold. Can you explain a little deeper how that works?
Using the spreadsheet I suppose that the threshold is an if…then rule
How does it work using amount and radius.
- By default radius is 5. Does that mean 5 pixels width?
- By default the amount is 0,5. Does that mean 256 multiplied by 0,50?
Usually approx 0,15 – 0,25 is enough.

By the way. You use openoffice 2.4. I’m, 3.x user, curious what this will bring.

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By: Kevin (paynekj)

Kevin (paynekj) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:29:48 +0000

I think it should be pointed out that the Windows version of screen capture doesn’t have the same options – it only has capture a single window, capture the whole screen, and a delay – no options for window decoration and mouse pointer.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:59:25 +0000

Hello,

I wonder why there isn’t any option of capturing the mouse pointer in the german gimp version (2.6.3).