Re: [Gimp-user] Luminosity confusion

[Gene Heskett <gheskett wdtv com>]

On Tuesday 01 December 2015 00:27:57 Jack Denman wrote:

> I am still learning about digital photography. I developed my first
> roll of film in 1946, by hand in my grandmothers bathroom.
>
> Since I am learning masking techniques, I wonder if someone could
> explain the contradiction of these two scripts.
>
>
> This web page has a download link of a script from "Download from:
> Google Drive" at produces a file called
> "patdavid-luminosity-masks-2.scm"
>
> http://blog.patdavid.net/2013/11/getting-around-in-gimp-luminosity-mas
> ks.html
>
>
> This file cannot be used because when copied into .gimp-2.8/scripts/
> the script entry is not visible on the pull-down menus of gimp.

Did you set the execute permissions, and do you have the first 
lines "she-bang" interpreter installed?

> On the other hand the older script called "Luminosity_masks.scm" does
> work from some older web pages and does cause the scripts pull-down
> menu to appear. When the channels menu is invoked from this script the
> other masks disappear.
>
>
>
> Can someone explain this? Any help would be appreciated.


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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