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Focus Ring 14
from Meet the GIMP!
(2008/6/4 14:52)
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It’s not the newest news - but due to the server problem I wasn’t able to post this before. We recorded a new Focus Ring and it was my turn to moderate and edit this time. It was worth the effort, I think. This month John Arnold (PhotoWalkthrough.com), Jeff Curto (Camera Position), Paul Giguere (Thoughts on Photography) and Rolf Steinort (Meet the Gimp) are talking about goal setting and planning photographic projects, taking pictures without a camera and with cameras that aren?t what you?re used to. We also talk about licensing images under the Creative Commons License as opposed to putting them under strict Copyright and the upcoming legislation in the US concerning orphaned works gets an honourable mention. Share This
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Episode 47: Saving for the Web, CYMK or CMYK on a new server
from Meet the GIMP!
(2008/6/2 23:09)
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Just to get you over the gap in the flow of videos here is the last one before the server dies. And it’s the first one on the new server - this posting was not in the backup because the provider killed the server one day early. All your comments are lost too. It covers CYMK modes for printing in a video of Andrew A. Gill. He tells us the why and how and what can be done with GIMP and what not.The discussion with more links is here. I show you how to install and use the ?Save for Web? plugin. Hope to see you again soon! 2 weeks from now on! Share This
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Server problems solved!
from Meet the GIMP!
(2008/6/2 21:58)
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This is the new Meet the GIMP! Server. And your DNS has served the right address. There is still some stuff to do and I have the grades and a one week class trip in front of me. So no new videos in the next two weeks - expect one at June 17, 1700 GMT. No 47 is out there, but the posting with all the nice comments is lost. The server was shut down one day too early - 6 hours before I wanted to do my final backup. So I’ll try to recreate the posting with the right link for the feed. The feed will stay static on Marcin’s server until I produce a new video and the last DNS in the world has noticed the change. 48 hours - pft! Share This
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SEVERE SERVER PROBLEMS!
from Meet the GIMP!
(2008/5/28 14:24)
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T his server will be cut off the grid on Saturday. My provider has to close his shop. Nothing I can do about it. But I am working with Marcin at a really stable solution. It will take some time but I’ll be back with new videos in some weeks. If you want to reach me, use meetthegimp@gmail.com The videos will be still up at http://meetthegimp.podzilla.de/meetthegimp0XX.mp4, the torrents listed at piratebay should be working too. Only the blog will go down. I’ll try to keep up the RSS feed. I’ll make a intermediate page as soon as possible. Rolf Share This
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New in 2.5 (2.6)?hybrid polygon/free select tool?!
from Meet the GIMP!
(2008/5/24 19:17)
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David gowers wrote a comment that I pull to the front page. Another exciting thing that will be in 2.6 (and the next 2.5 release) is the hybrid polygon/free select tool! It is truly a thing of beauty, the way you can edit it as you go, easily rotate or scale any freehand section by moving an endpoint, or edit a polygonal segment just by moving an endpoint ? and no longer requiring the entire selection to be completed in one stroke is also great! It might be an interesting topic to cover as part of a future show. Anyone who is curious, also, I strongly recommend you get a SVN checkout of the latest GIMP and try it! It?s worth the effort. I’ll do that - sometime next week. Share This
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Episode 046: Getting rid of People!
from Meet the GIMP!
(2008/5/20 18:00)
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This week I’ll answer the first search term that led according to the logs someone to ?Meet the GIMP!?. ?Getting rid of people in GIMP? was the question. And here, about 9 months later, is the answer. I took two shots of the same scene with my point and shoot camera to remove some moving cars (the runner shown here was just an accident. But I like the idea and will do a “real” one soon). I used a technique similar to that shown in episode 44 , only this time a bit more sophisticated using layer masks instead of the eraser. But I had no tripod and no beanbag . So unintentionally I moved and rotated the camera between the shots. Registering (adjusting them to a perfect fit) is the largest part of the work to be done. This involves the selection of a point of reference, moving the top layer, setting the centre of rotation and finally rotating the top layer. With more than two layers this has to be repeated for each layer. I hadn’t thought that this would wor ...
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Episode 045: The Right Colours! (nearly?..)
from Meet the GIMP!
(2008/5/13 18:00)
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Today there will be something different for your ears first - thanks to John Pazdan . I like his stuff very much! Inspired by this discussion in the “Meet the GIMP!” Photogroup at 23hq, I tackle the begin- nings of monitor calibration. For an in depth look go to the page of Norman Koren You can use this web page from Cambridge in Colour for a start. Then there are tools like Monica for correcting your display. The DQ tool for getting better prints can be found at the site of the Photo Industrie Verband . Scroll down at the right sidebar and you’ll find it at the bottom. (Have I ever told you how much I like pages without the possibility of a direct link…..) All this can be helpful for the amateur. But keep in mind that it is no replacement for a complete colour managed workflow. If you really need that, then you have to invest in some serious hardware and time for setting that up. Joel Cornuz has a series of articles covering the Linux asp ...
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Episode 044: Splitting myself!
from Meet the GIMP!
(2008/5/6 19:56)
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Video again available - new version. There were problems playing the video on Apple iTunes and iPods. Perhaps the update to 8.04 made more damage…. This week I am absolutely late with the show. I recorded on the weekend and had to find out later, that I had messed up the sound. As an emergency fill in I made this. It’s a project I wanted to do for a long time - and did now without anny planning and preparation. I even forgot to take a tripod for the video camera with me. But the lab provided a clamp for Erlenmeyer flasks. Worked great. I got the idea from Allan J. Ager and Simon Taylor from the Tips from the Top Floor Forum . You can download the four finally used files and a shrinked xcf file as an archive . The full resolution output is here . This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License . Share This
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Episode 043: Brand New and Stone Age
from Meet the GIMP!
(2008/4/29 18:00)
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Brand new tech- nology meets stuff from the Stone Age, ehm… the 70’s. Rawstudio’s 1.0 release sits on the lab bench for a test run. I am impressed by the workflow and the overall appear- ance. The output in the video has some noise in it, but that was my fault. I had my camera set up to store a RAW and a JPEG image and have put both files and the camera profile into the companion file to this episode. Now you can try to get a better image out of the RAW file than the processor of a Nikon D200. In a lot of discussions and tutorials you read the term “lith” or “lith film”. One is running in the meetthegimp.org photogroup at 23.hq. I found an old box with real lith film and take you back some decades while describing how I have worked with these sheets of plastic. Then I try to rebuild one of the effects that were done with lith film in GIMP. I just emulate the effect, but I am working on a process to really simulate the process done w ...
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The Rumor Mill: Gimp 2.6 in July?
from Meet the GIMP!
(2008/4/27 23:12)
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Gimpusers has a bit about it . Keep your fingers crossed or thumbs pressed, depending on cultural background…. Share This
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