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Author: | PixLab [ Fri Nov 12, 2021 3:32 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Using Gimp for screen captures |
ofnuts wrote: Hmm. So instead of few steps using the UI, one has to type arcane commands that can backfire. And this is "simpler"? I cannot agree more, this sounds extremely daunting and exhausting just for a screenshot. BTW I'm using Ksnip (sudo apt install ksnip), crossplatform over there -> https://github.com/ksnip/ksnip It has all the tools needed like aut-numbering, arrows, double arrows, rectangle, circle, annotation, highlight, blur, pixelize, and so, and so, also like draw a rectangle to screenshot that part, it recall always your last setting, and so much more like opening a png or jpg independently to put arrows or whatever you want. a screenshot of that screenshot app Attachment: screenshot_20211112-162528.png [ 282.84 KiB | Viewed 1868 times ] |
Author: | Pocholo [ Fri Nov 12, 2021 10:00 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Using Gimp for screen captures |
I use a free version of PhotoScape X for windows.http://x.photoscape.org/ |
Author: | AlSchemist [ Fri Nov 12, 2021 3:06 pm ] |
Post subject: | Reductio ad absurdum |
PixLab wrote: I cannot agree more, this sounds extremely daunting and exhausting just for a screenshot. PixLab, it's not even "just for a screenshot" but for highlighting text with a yellow background, aka annotation. Into the bargain, the subject is "Using Gimp" but not an external tool such as GreenShot. However, according to proof by contradiction, AlSchemist will supply the usage with the external tool GreenShot quoted by IMZvonko for comparison. Let us suppose that "to simplify" the screen capture or any image is already loaded inside Gimp.
Alternatively GreenShot would be able to run Gimp but the loading of Gimp would be too slow. With the Script-Fu HighlightText.scm script in Gimp: AlSchemist wrote:
What was missing in the AlSchemist's very long post is the [spoiler]...[/spoiler] tag to hide the waffles. HighlightText.scm is for beginners who wish to learn not Python but gimpy ana--thema--tized Scheme of course without changing the settings of the |
Author: | ofnuts [ Fri Nov 12, 2021 6:39 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Using Gimp for screen captures |
Ah, that was a script.... Btw, no need to restart Gimp after installing a script-fu, just do "Filters > Script-fu > Refresh scripts" Let us suppose that "to simplify" the screen capture or any image is already loaded inside Gimp Of course not. The deal in that case is that you can do everything without using Gimp. This said to highlight something in yellow in Gimp, set your FG to yellow, your brush to Multiply mode, adjust the size of the brush, then: 1. Click on the start of the highlighted text 2. Depress shift, and move to the end of the text (you can in addition depress Control to make sure the highlighting is horizontal) then click again. Of course, you can save your brush settings as a preset: Attachment: BrushPreset.png [ 14.64 KiB | Viewed 1813 times ] So highlighting is just restoring the preset and a couple of clicks. |
Author: | PixLab [ Sat Nov 13, 2021 2:07 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Reductio ad absurdum |
AlSchemist Video from : www.youtube.com Sorry, I felt I was obliged to do it More seriously (but not so ) let's get back on track. AlSchemist wrote: PixLab wrote: I cannot agree more, this sounds extremely daunting and exhausting just for a screenshot. PixLab, it's not even "just for a screenshot" but for highlighting text with a yellow background, aka annotation. Into the bargain, the subject is "Using Gimp" but not an external tool such as GreenShot. So it's even worse than I thought.... Not only you are cluttering the top menu with a script that needs 1 more click than doing it WITHOUT script, but also that person will not learn GIMP properly nor use the proper tool to do it. AlSchemist wrote: However, according to proof by contradiction, AlSchemist will supply the usage with the external tool GreenShot quoted by IMZvonko for comparison. So to highlight something on a screenshot in GIMP the OP will always be dependent of you? AlSchemist wrote: Let us suppose that "to simplify" the screen capture or any image is already loaded inside Gimp.
Oh my... you're not simplifying, at all! BTW your Click outside the image to merge the "Floating Selection (Pasted Layer) is wrong! clicking outside the image will NOT merge the pasted/floating selection (and happily it does not do this!) Also I just learn that on Windows OS when you hit the "PrintScreen / PrtScr" key, Windows copy it to the clipboard (yeah.. I needed to do some searches -> I'm using only Linux) Attachment: screenshot_20211113-143502.png [ 97.33 KiB | Viewed 1797 times ] In the end why all those copy/paste and back and forth between greenshot and gimp? Why not Highlight directly in GIMP as the OP asked? Hit that "PrintScreen / PrtScr" key = clipboard, then in GIMP > File/Create/From clipboard, then >> New layer in multiply mode >> make your selection >> drag n drop the color from FG or BG >> DONE! and this method can protect from mistakes as well... Or use the brush as suggested by @Ofnuts, big advantage of Ofnuts brush, you got a preset that you just call once and highlight as many time as you need just with a brush, also next time when you re-open GIMP it's there and accessible in just 1 click. AlSchemist wrote: Alternatively GreenShot would be able to run Gimp but the loading of Gimp would be too slow. With the Script-Fu HighlightText.scm script in Gimp:
OK, it's a GIMP native tool AlSchemist wrote: OK, it's a GIMP native tool AlSchemist wrote: No script needed for that >> Just drag n drop the FG or the BG color on the image... Oh you DO NOT EVEN NEED to drop it in the selection as it will fill ONLY the selection and if you use the multiple selection mode (addition/add) it will fill all at once, AlSchemist wrote: What was missing in the AlSchemist's very long post is the [spoiler]...[/spoiler] tag to hide the waffles. HighlightText.scm is for beginners who wish to learn not Python but gimpy ana--thema--tized Scheme of course without changing the settings of the OK that's nice, as an exercise it can be good to learn tiny script, but as a utility script, no, it's not even re-inventing the wheel, it's making things more complex as they should be. |
Author: | AlSchemist [ Sat Nov 13, 2021 9:54 am ] |
Post subject: | Auto-numbering |
It's amazing how around twenty tiny lines of Scheme could generate as secondary effects. PixLab, AlSchemist particularly appreciated the pythonesque quote of the movie! Into the bargain, you mentioned about ksnip the key feature of auto-numbering enough interesting also in GreenShot. Attachment: MarkNbrCirclePathTool.png [ 178.26 KiB | Viewed 1765 times ] Ten years ago, Silas Silva created mark-number-circles.scm in github under GNU license. In the 2021 version, some original "TODO" have been fixed by AlSchemist. Attachment: Usage:
Hereafter enclosed is the process of migration in Gimp 2.10.28 because in the decade, some API were deprecated. The original gimp-path-get-points is "deprecated: Use 'gimp-vectors-stroke-get-points' instead." says PDB aka Gimp Procedure DataBase. The old API generated a longer vector translated into a list, hence: Code: Select all ; Other itens are repetitive for us, so drop it. About the drop function, Silas indicates: Code: Select all ; Quick (and dirty?) implementation of the drop function of SRFI 1 extensions to Scheme, It is the very first time that the abbreviation SRFI 1 standing for Service Request Feature for Implementation is ever written in GimpChat. Hope that AlSchemist will be not burnt alive on the stake for this taboo. That is why the function drop of SRFI 1 has been dropped in the 2021 version of mark-number-circles.scm. After all, for numbers in circle, there is SRFI 14 Unicode Character-Set. Attachment: SRFI14CharSet.png [ 38.14 KiB | Viewed 1765 times ] To be continued. |
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