From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42171 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill White Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Summer, t-shirts, etc. Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:14:51 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <15429.54121.449425.46018@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <15429.57027.559445.626424@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <15429.60198.247853.963943@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <15431.10022.837204.491200@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <87665zpt61.fsf@paradoxical.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177449 9952 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:17:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:17:29 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 1583 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2002 21:08:07 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 18 Jan 2002 21:08:07 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16RgEb-00088p-00; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:07:37 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:07:31 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA13524 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:07:17 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 1573 invoked by alias); 18 Jan 2002 21:07:18 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 1568 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2002 21:07:17 -0000 Original-Received: from wri-dns0.wolfram.com (HELO wolfram.com) (140.177.205.10) by gnus.org with SMTP; 18 Jan 2002 21:07:17 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (term57.wolfram.com [140.177.117.28]) by wolfram.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g0IL7Fv30018 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:07:15 -0600 Original-Received: (from billw@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA00827; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:14:53 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: billw set sender to billw@wolfram.com using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: $f^q=3W-VRc;w9na5Y.c-Jvu)M";y1O184tHjf@PP26MzCi.}7S^GP;QlJ$A3.PH|-`aQZ! d,*2d|f2z"9y%}r'$nhAO(9h`dv>,Mp\H6jf8AbuG>EZ,{u:cksL#NwCBoF<\;{QO+p32'(1*r"f-l baaB}uoEkv(o864LM@sH X-Liturgical-Date: Weekday: Friday of the First Week of Ordinary Time In-Reply-To: <87665zpt61.fsf@paradoxical.net> (Josh Huber's message of "Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:36:54 -0500") Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.1.50 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42171 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42171 On Fri Jan 18 2002 at 09:36, Josh Huber said: > So, I've been playing in the gimp trying to get a picture turned > into b&w that doesn't look like total crap, and it's hard. Is there > some conversion utility that does a better job, or something in the > gimp that I'm missing? > > I've got it in greyscale, and fiddled with the levels/curves so that > there aren't that many shades and the contrast is pretty high, but > when I convert it to b&w, the gimp turns it to noise. In the gimp I converted the jpg on my homepage to grayscale, fiddled with contrast & brightness, then saved as gif & ran the big hairy shell command. I didn't convert to classic b&w. Cheers - bw -- Bill White . billw@wolfram.com . http://members.wri.com/billw "No ma'am, we're musicians."