Taken with my Sony Alpha 200 DSLR with a Vivitar close up filters. 1/13 of a second exposure; f/5.6 aperture; 70 mm; ISO speed was 200. Edited in GIMP.
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Taken with my Sony Alpha 200 DSLR with a Vivitar close up filters. 1/13 of a second exposure; f/5.6 aperture; 70 mm; ISO speed was 200. Edited in GIMP.
]]>Jika anda ingin mengedit foto dan tidak mahu membayar untuk program atau applikasi tersebut, jawapannya adalah GIMP. Ianya adalah percuma dan tidak sukar untuk belajar menggunakannya selagi anda sanggup membaca tutorial.
Dibawah ini adalah senarai-senarai website tutorial yang mengajar bagaimana menggunakan GIMP:
Jika anda ingin one-stop-shop untuk mempelajari beberapa kesan khas pada gambar dengan GIMP, laman tutorial GIMP GURU adalah tempatnya.Anda boleh pelajari bagaimana melakukan red-eye removal, converting to black and white plus reducing noise atau haze semua disesuatu tempat.
Laman web ini sebenarnya versi HTML dari sebuah buku yang ditulis semua tentang GIMP. Anda boleh menempah buku fizikal yang sebenarnya atau anda boleh menggunakan versi online secara percuma.Ianya terpulang pada anda sama ada mahu berbayar? atau percuma? buku ini sangat teliti tentang bagaimana mengunakan GIMP sehingga boleh menjadi panduan untuk sekarang atau dimasa hadapan.
Selain Tutorial secara lisan atau bertulis, kadang-kadang screencasts video jugak boleh memperkuat untuk belajar tentang cara mengedit foto di GIMP.Tempat balik baik untuk mencari screencasts iaitu di Youtube channel Malgalin, selain channel ini anda jugak boleh membuat carian depat di Youtube secara umumnya akan muncul segala macam-macam tutorial GIMP.
Internet merupakan tempat yang paling baik untuk mencari bagaimana cara mempelajari banyak hal yang berbeza dan GIMP jugak tidak terkecuali.
]]>I’ve been browsing through Flickr’s “World of Disturbia” group over the past few days and thought I’d have a go and creating my own disturbing image. The face below is what I came up with.
It is a simple composite of three images, layered and manipulated in the GIMP – an unwashed baking tray, an art store white plastic face mask and a close up of my own eye with my eyelids pulled open, which is disturbing in itself.
Hope you like it.
Speaking of GIMP, I think way more exciting to me is development version 2.7.1, which doesn’t seem to be available as a Windows installer at this time. The 2.7.x releases are the unstable versions that will eventually lead to GIMP 2.8, the next major stable version (see, the 2.odd releases are unstable, and the 2.even releases are stable!)
2.8 will have significant changes to the user interface, many of which align a little more closely to Photoshop, but I guess more generally they align with most recent programs. Some of these changes include:
Aw, hell. Why not just watch the video that GIMPMan1972 posted on Youtube? It shows all of the above in moving pictures?
I remember there were some fairly strong philosophical reasons in the past why the GIMP developers didn’t want to implement a single-window interface. I wonder what happened to change their minds?
Needless to say, since I’m familiar and comfortable with Photoshop, I’m pretty excited about the changes. Unlike projects like Ubuntu, I don’t think GIMP has a regular release schedule, and I’m not sure when 2.8 is expected to launch, but needless to say, I’ll be installing it when it’s available.
A month after the release of GIMP 2.6.9 comes GIMP 2.6.10.
GIMP (the GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free alternative to the likes of Photoshop. Version 2.7.10 brings:
Read all about it in the release news.
Doodle 525 - Mucha - Face in the Clouds
Today is the birthday of Alphonse Mucha, the father of Art Nouveau. A friend of mine had asked me how I would go about putting a face in a cloud using The GIMP so I thought I would combine the two in four easy steps.
Step 1: Find a cloud.
Step 2: Find a good picture (grayscale) and put it on a separate layer above the cloud.
Step 3: Frame the picture
Step 4: Set the layer to “soft light” and then mess with the opacity (this is about 70%)
Doodle 525 - Moucha - Face in the Clouds
Not my best work, but I think it will get him started in the right direction…
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No washing machines, stoves, fridges, no Polstermöbel. And no stairs, there is a lift. Two or three people would be great. I know there are some of you around in Berlin!
If you want to help or have a tip where I can get some hands, please mail me at info@meetthegimp.org.
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Steve Czajka blogs about calligraphy in GIMP. Once a week he shows his newest work (like the one here) and writes a tutorial about what he has done. I have just skimmed this site – and I am impressed. The combination of manual skill with pen and paper and the processing with GIMP and Inkscape give really impressive results. The image on the right has another important quality. Several elements in it come from different artists who have licensed their work under Creative Commons. By sharing their work they enable others to use it further and in new combinations.
Next week I’ll post another little bit here. It will be a challenge for you and you will need a tie.
It had to happen – organizations are starting to warm up to stable free applications like GIMP. In fact CISCO notice boards (aka active LCD displays) has started asking employees whether they are using the free apps. Once this trend takes hold, we might at last see the uptake FSF hoped to see, in Free (Free as in Free beer) applications and other GNU apps ….
The significance of this move is the implication that companies like CISCO are ready to provide internal support and has made resources available to support free apps like GIMP, or are paying someone else to do this, which basically means the same thing. This is really cool.
The loss of social stigma against uptake of free applications is the most important win here for the software development community as a whole. wow !! I guess we shall now see lots of small startups come up to support the free software and hopefully this would mean more volunteers to add features and fix issues in free software.
FSF rocks !!!
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Here are 2 renders of an apartment complex. This originally started out as a small little exercise, but I ended up working on it a little longer than expected. I was originally going for an evening shot like the one above, however while doing some post proccessing in Gimp, I accidentally came out with what looked like morning lighting. In light of this discovery, I went back into Blender and did a render with some of the lights off, so I can create this morning shot. Realistically these two images don’t work together on account of the sun being in the same spot for both dawn and dusk, however, this was never ment to be two seperate images. I just happend uppon a helpful accident. I honestly like the morning shot better.
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This is a “mouse” POV of one of the naves ot the Saint Bavo church in Haarlem. the shiny floor from centuries of walking people, reflecting the lights.
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Green Nails~
I’ve had my camera for long enough to be over the “get used to” phase, so I thought I should start trying out different functions, meaning those where I set the shutter speed, aperture and other various camera functions my self. And yes, the camera told me those words on it’s screen.
I quickly learned that I could take widescreen pictures, and felt quite stupid for not learning it sooner – duh, it films in widescreen… Anycake, I’ve always wanted wider pictures for my blog~ I don’t like it when they’re to square.
So yes this is how boredom on widescreen looks, I was bored enough to take pictures of my had and edit them. Just to bad I’m not much of a friend of Gimp. Guess that’s why I’m also trying to get used to it.
Now the fun is over, and after I’ve posted this I’m back to being way to tired to do something special – and being bored…
Naoki-chan
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I can?t remember when it happened but at some point, I lost the ?Edit with GIMP? context menu for image files after I started using Windows 7 about a year ago. I just installed the GIMP 2.6.10 x64 version and I noticed that the issue wasn?t fixed. (I had a further problem because the Open With shell magic was broken because the 2.6.10 installer uses a different directory than the 2.6.9 x64 installer did.)
With my context menus thoroughly busted for images, I had a look in the registry. For every sort of image file, there were shell verbs configured. For example, here?s jpeg:
jpegfile\shell\Edit with GIMP]@="Edit with GIMP"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\jpegfile\shell\Edit with GIMP\command]@="\"C:\\Program Files\\GIMP 2\\bin\\gimp-2.6.exe\" \"%1\""
This all looks fine. It?s a custom shell verb called ?Edit with GIMP? with the menu label ?Edit with GIMP? that invokes the gimp-2.6.1.exe executable, passing the argument of the file name.
Except it doesn?t do anything in Windows 7.
I channeled Mark Russinovich and fired up Sysinternals ProcMon and had a look at what the explorer.exe process is accessing in the registry when I right-click on a jpeg.
It turns out that Explorer isn?t looking at jpegfile or pngfile or giffile et al. It is looking at ?image files" as a class via HKCR\SystemFileAssociations\image. Therefore, the solution is to add a custom shell verb there:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\shell\Edit with GIMP]@="Edit with GIMP"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\shell\Edit with GIMP\command]@="\"C:\\Program Files\\GIMP 2\\bin\\gimp-2.6.exe\" \"%1\""
And success.
I’ve not mastered the art of photography and I’ve only had a dSLR for just a few days, but already I can’t seem to get enough of it! Sunday was my first day out with my “new” dSLR, and although I didn’t have enough time to play with setting and use the tips I’ve read, I was able to get a few interesting shots of statues and flowers at our cemetery. Apparently that was all I needed to get hooked.
I’ve probably wasted most of my work day staring out my window at the patch of beautiful, green grass. All I can think of is how I wish I had my camera with me so that I could take some shots of it and see if I can make an interesting picture out of it. Well, that and how I need to learn to use Gimp or Photoshop so that I can edit some of my pictures.
Well, I’m off to do a little more reading…
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Yoda
So this is an answer to Erika Bredahl’s picture submission of her dog Yoda. After bitmap tracing the image a few times to get some various levels of shadow and detail, I overlapped the paths and colored them using the eyedropper tool and a vidcap of Yoda from ESB. I then used another vidcap of Yoda in the Swamp scene, took it into the GIMP and used the stamp tool to remove Yoda, then brought the resulting image into Inkscape and bitmap traced it, then gave it some blur. Fun times!
Apart from ending up having to recover a painting by creating something completely different from it (see previous), I recently decided to play around digitally again as I haven’t done so since the end of last year… of course if you’d been following me on twitter you’ll already know this. The choice for this return to “digital painting” (or “digital portraits” as I have dubbed it before) was to be myself, and why not.
This is how I roll
As usual it’s been created totally by hand by myself, with a mouse and not a graphics tablet (I don’t own one, although I have been tempted in the past to buy one), in GIMP. There’s not trickery going on, I haven’t just run a photo of myself through some filter to get the end result. It’s all hard graft, if you can call it that, and the majority is done free hand.
The final outcome can be seen on my artwork page.
Anyway, not much else has happened recently. I’ve taken a small break to cool off and allow new ideas to be formed or old ideas to be refined. Although I must admit I’ve been drawn to my interest with horror and the macabre, so I have been tempted to do some dark art, however what form this will take will be discovered in due course.
I have recently ordered Left 4 Dead 2, the zombie apocalypse game by Valve, and today it arrived. So I’ve played it quickly in single player mode, and I have to say I am very happy with my purchase (loose term as it’s in effect a freebie). It’s surprisingly good in single player mode despite many complaints about the AI. Quite frankly they probably behave better than real humans as people can be idiots at times. I’m inclined to review some things soon so there may be new additions to that page in a few days time.
I was disappointed that our (Liverpool FC) pre-season friendly against Al-Hilal was called off due to a waterlogged pitch on the weekend, I was looking forward to that game (Who says you can have too much football?). I will have to wait until Wednesday now to see us play Grasshoppers (or Grasshopper Club Zürich to give them their full name), and hopefully Lucas will be given the armband again. I really think Lucas deserves it as reward after the performances of his in the season gone, he was one of the few who actually performed (Reina and Kyrgiakos amongst a few others).
Of course, we will also get a chance to see our new signing Milan Jovanovic get a run out on Wednesday. We won’t see todays signing, Joe Cole, until a later date, but everything is looking up for the time being. All we need now is a left back and that’s basically us sorted, the funny thing being of course that we are still basically the same team that almost (and probably should’ve) won the league the other season.
I do expect Mascherano to leave though, and fair play to him even though he wanted out last season, he has always played his heart out for the team. This may open up an opportunity for some youngsters to take his place, or a new trade for a player such as Agger (who I think could perform that role quite well). Only time will tell what happens next in the drama that is Liverpool FC.
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