http://odeo.com/channels/2119560-Meet-the-GIMP no Video tutorials for the free graphics software GIMP Video tutorials for the free graphics software GIMP Postprocessing digital photos with the GIMP - it's free and powerfull en 40 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:58:50 -0800 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:58:50 -0800 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License photography Software How-To photography http://odeo.com/episodes/25442901-Episode-126-Quick-Karmic-Frames A short one this time – I upgraded to Karmic Koala and did a clean install with new partitions and EXT4 filesystem. And now I am getting the important stuff back on the disk and leave the cruft out. This meant that a lot of the files needed for a proper podcast are still on the external disks. I take a look a the new Folio by Jeff Curto at Lenswork – because it’s an example of printing an image on paper with a different aspect ratio, the images are really good and Jeff is a friend and I hope he sells a lot of them. Jeff does two podcasts in the Photocas Network, Camera Position and The History of Photography. The last is the only podcast where I have experienced a coffee break. I use an image from “wbool63? from the forum to make some nice frames with G’MIC, the Swiss Knife plugin from France. And I have done…. The TOC 00:20 Greetings and Jeff Curto at lenswork 02:30 Using a white frame and text 03:10 Cropping an image 05:50 Getting a square crop 06:20 Eyes out of focus – no problem... A short one this time – I upgraded to Karmic Koala and did a clean install with new partitions and EXT4 filesystem. And now I am getting the important stuff back on the disk and leave the cruft out. This meant that a lot of the files needed for a proper podcast are still on the external disks. I take a look a the new Folio by Jeff Curto at Lenswork – because it’s an example of printing an image on paper with a different aspect ratio, the images are really good and Jeff is a friend and I hope he sells a lot of them. Jeff does two podcasts in the Photocas Network, Camera Position and The History of Photography. The last is the only podcast where I have experienced a coffee break. I use an image from “wbool63? from the forum to make some nice frames with G’MIC, the Swiss Knife plugin from France. And I have done…. The TOC 00:20 Greetings and Jeff Curto at lenswork 02:30 Using a white frame and text 03:10 Cropping an image 05:50 Getting a square crop 06:20 Eyes out of focus – no problem here 07:10 G’MIC plugin and frames No blackboard this time – and no mobile version yet. The upgrade broke the toolchain, I have to compile ffmpeg to get it running again. Software patents are really ……. A short one this time – I upgraded to Karmic Koala and did a clean install with new partitions and EXT4 filesystem. And now I am getting the important stuff back on the disk and leave the cruft out. This meant that a lot of the files needed for a proper podcast are still on the external disks. I take a look a the new Folio by Jeff Curto at Lenswork – because it’s an example of printing an image on paper with a different aspect ratio, the images are really good and Jeff is a friend and I hope he sells a lot of them. Jeff does two podcasts in the Photocas Network, Camera Position and The History of Photography. The last is the only podcast where I have experienced a coffee break. I use an image from “wbool63? from the forum to make some nice frames with G’MIC, the Swiss Knife plugin from France. And I have done…. The TOC 00:20 Greetings and Jeff Curto at lenswork 02:30 Using a white frame and text 03:10 Cropping an image 05:50 Getting a square crop 06:20 Eyes out of focus – no problem here 07:10 G’MIC plugin and frames No blackboard this time – and no mobile version yet. The upgrade broke the toolchain, I have to compile ffmpeg to get it running again. Software patents are really ……. tag:odeo.com,2009-11-12,25442901 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:58:50 -0800 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial photography http://odeo.com/episodes/25388910-Episode-125-Crop-it-But-How Where to crop and which format to use. What to do with different image and paper formats. What happens in the camera when you change the ISO? Full text will follow tomorrow - it's too late now. Where to crop and which format to use. What to do with different image and paper formats. What happens in the camera when you change the ISO? Full text will follow tomorrow - it's too late now. Where to crop and which format to use. What to do with different image and paper formats. What happens in the camera when you change the ISO? Full text will follow tomorrow - it's too late now. tag:odeo.com,2009-11-04,25388910 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:32:33 -0800 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial photography http://odeo.com/episodes/25364497-Episode-124-PS-Translation-Service There are a lot of tutorials out there for “The Other Program”, also called Adobe(R) Photoshop(R). (I hope I got the Rs right, can’t find the page where Adobe(R) told the world how to call this program.) A lot of that stuff is easily translated to GIMP, but there are some serious differences. One are the “Adjustment(R) Layers(R)”. This is a way of applying a curve, gradient, hue or saturation change….. without changing the real image. You can come back later and tweak the curve or the slider – non destructive editing. There is an easy way to work around this: make a new layer of the visible image and work on that. You have to redo that, if you decide to change something in the lower layers. To show how to do this I have ripped out a part of John Arnold’s Photowalkthrough podcast and redone the same in GIMP. Photowalktrough is a really good resource for everybody who is into the digital darkroom – independent from the program used. And John has his #100 out! Congratulations! GIMP wil... There are a lot of tutorials out there for “The Other Program”, also called Adobe(R) Photoshop(R). (I hope I got the Rs right, can’t find the page where Adobe(R) told the world how to call this program.) A lot of that stuff is easily translated to GIMP, but there are some serious differences. One are the “Adjustment(R) Layers(R)”. This is a way of applying a curve, gradient, hue or saturation change….. without changing the real image. You can come back later and tweak the curve or the slider – non destructive editing. There is an easy way to work around this: make a new layer of the visible image and work on that. You have to redo that, if you decide to change something in the lower layers. To show how to do this I have ripped out a part of John Arnold’s Photowalkthrough podcast and redone the same in GIMP. Photowalktrough is a really good resource for everybody who is into the digital darkroom – independent from the program used. And John has his #100 out! Congratulations! GIMP will have non destructive editing in a year or two – it’s the main reason for getting GEGL into GIMP and making this big effort of writing a lot of the program again. In the second part of the show I get the blackboard out and start a new segment in the show. I try to explain how film and sensors are working. I’ll expose you to some of these lessons for about 5 to 190 minutes and will then decide upon your reaction if I should keep this on. I’ll have them at the end of the show – if you are bored you can just skip the rest. Sorry, there is no TOC up to now. There are a lot of tutorials out there for “The Other Program”, also called Adobe(R) Photoshop(R). (I hope I got the Rs right, can’t find the page where Adobe(R) told the world how to call this program.) A lot of that stuff is easily translated to GIMP, but there are some serious differences. One are the “Adjustment(R) Layers(R)”. This is a way of applying a curve, gradient, hue or saturation change….. without changing the real image. You can come back later and tweak the curve or the slider – non destructive editing. There is an easy way to work around this: make a new layer of the visible image and work on that. You have to redo that, if you decide to change something in the lower layers. To show how to do this I have ripped out a part of John Arnold’s Photowalkthrough podcast and redone the same in GIMP. Photowalktrough is a really good resource for everybody who is into the digital darkroom – independent from the program used. And John has his #100 out! Congratulations! GIMP will have non destructive editing in a year or two – it’s the main reason for getting GEGL into GIMP and making this big effort of writing a lot of the program again. In the second part of the show I get the blackboard out and start a new segment in the show. I try to explain how film and sensors are working. I’ll expose you to some of these lessons for about 5 to 190 minutes and will then decide upon your reaction if I should keep this on. I’ll have them at the end of the show – if you are bored you can just skip the rest. Sorry, there is no TOC up to now. tag:odeo.com,2009-10-24,25364497 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:22:27 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial photography http://odeo.com/episodes/25289921-Episode-123-Pimp-my-Photo-2 The results of the Book Challenge have been so interesting that I have made two shows out of them. This is the second part. If you want to buy Akkana Peck's book from amazon.com in the US, go to her website and use her link. She gets a bit more money out of it and you pay the same. It's worth to keep an eye on John Arnold's Photowalkthrough, perhaps something special is coming up there. ;-) The TOC 00:50 Threshold tool revisited 02:40 Ityker’s image 04:00 Selective decolorisation 05:00 Layer mask for selective decolorisation 05:00 Layer mask shortcuts 06:00 Duotone 08:45 Sample points 10:00 Preventing tonal change of the colorisation layer 11:10 Sharpening layer 12:50 Fake view cam cassete shadow 14:30 Mathias’ image 15:50 Image sources 17:00 Layers for ressources 18:40 Combining different exposures 19:25 Healing spots and bra straps 20:30 Layers for sculpting the hair 22:40 The sky – overlay mode 23:50 The sign 24:00 Layer groups 25:00 Dodge and burn on a layer in soft light mode 2... The results of the Book Challenge have been so interesting that I have made two shows out of them. This is the second part. If you want to buy Akkana Peck's book from amazon.com in the US, go to her website and use her link. She gets a bit more money out of it and you pay the same. It's worth to keep an eye on John Arnold's Photowalkthrough, perhaps something special is coming up there. ;-) The TOC 00:50 Threshold tool revisited 02:40 Ityker’s image 04:00 Selective decolorisation 05:00 Layer mask for selective decolorisation 05:00 Layer mask shortcuts 06:00 Duotone 08:45 Sample points 10:00 Preventing tonal change of the colorisation layer 11:10 Sharpening layer 12:50 Fake view cam cassete shadow 14:30 Mathias’ image 15:50 Image sources 17:00 Layers for ressources 18:40 Combining different exposures 19:25 Healing spots and bra straps 20:30 Layers for sculpting the hair 22:40 The sky – overlay mode 23:50 The sign 24:00 Layer groups 25:00 Dodge and burn on a layer in soft light mode 26:00 Unsharp mask for enhancing local and global contrast 27:20 The John Arnold Style Vignette(R) ;-) The results of the Book Challenge have been so interesting that I have made two shows out of them. This is the second part. If you want to buy Akkana Peck's book from amazon.com in the US, go to her website and use her link. She gets a bit more money out of it and you pay the same. It's worth to keep an eye on John Arnold's Photowalkthrough, perhaps something special is coming up there. ;-) The TOC 00:50 Threshold tool revisited 02:40 Ityker’s image 04:00 Selective decolorisation 05:00 Layer mask for selective decolorisation 05:00 Layer mask shortcuts 06:00 Duotone 08:45 Sample points 10:00 Preventing tonal change of the colorisation layer 11:10 Sharpening layer 12:50 Fake view cam cassete shadow 14:30 Mathias’ image 15:50 Image sources 17:00 Layers for ressources 18:40 Combining different exposures 19:25 Healing spots and bra straps 20:30 Layers for sculpting the hair 22:40 The sky – overlay mode 23:50 The sign 24:00 Layer groups 25:00 Dodge and burn on a layer in soft light mode 26:00 Unsharp mask for enhancing local and global contrast 27:20 The John Arnold Style Vignette(R) ;-) tag:odeo.com,2009-10-15,25289921 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:15:27 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial photography http://odeo.com/episodes/25259488-Episode-122-Pimp-my-Photo-1 The results of the Book Challenge have been so interesting that I have made two shows out of them. This is the first part. If you want to buy Akkana Peck's book from amazon.com in the US, go to her website and use her link. She get's a bit more money out of it and you pay the same. It's worth to keep an eye on John Arnold's Photowalkthrough, perhaps something special is coming up there. ;-) The TOC 03:30 Kevin's image 04:00 Bracketing 05:30 Darkening parts of the image with curves and layer mask 06:30 Combining different images from the bracketed shots 09:00 image composition 10:00 Spray paint 10:10 Notes in a separate layer 12:00 jd24w9's image 12:00 Combining background and foreground from different shots 12:50 Don't merge your layers - keep them! 13:45 Better use a different shot for the sky - fake but easier 14:25 Ted's image 14:40 Tab toggles the toolbox on and off the screen 15:00 Divide the image in several parts and process them differently 16:30 Overlay Mode for enhancing b... The results of the Book Challenge have been so interesting that I have made two shows out of them. This is the first part. If you want to buy Akkana Peck's book from amazon.com in the US, go to her website and use her link. She get's a bit more money out of it and you pay the same. It's worth to keep an eye on John Arnold's Photowalkthrough, perhaps something special is coming up there. ;-) The TOC 03:30 Kevin's image 04:00 Bracketing 05:30 Darkening parts of the image with curves and layer mask 06:30 Combining different images from the bracketed shots 09:00 image composition 10:00 Spray paint 10:10 Notes in a separate layer 12:00 jd24w9's image 12:00 Combining background and foreground from different shots 12:50 Don't merge your layers - keep them! 13:45 Better use a different shot for the sky - fake but easier 14:25 Ted's image 14:40 Tab toggles the toolbox on and off the screen 15:00 Divide the image in several parts and process them differently 16:30 Overlay Mode for enhancing brickwork 17:15 Making a surreal sky with multiply mode 18:45 Gimpel's image 20:00 Threshold tool for black and white 21:15 painting over the image 22:00 Wrapping up 22:35 Server problems and PCN The results of the Book Challenge have been so interesting that I have made two shows out of them. This is the first part. If you want to buy Akkana Peck's book from amazon.com in the US, go to her website and use her link. She get's a bit more money out of it and you pay the same. It's worth to keep an eye on John Arnold's Photowalkthrough, perhaps something special is coming up there. ;-) The TOC 03:30 Kevin's image 04:00 Bracketing 05:30 Darkening parts of the image with curves and layer mask 06:30 Combining different images from the bracketed shots 09:00 image composition 10:00 Spray paint 10:10 Notes in a separate layer 12:00 jd24w9's image 12:00 Combining background and foreground from different shots 12:50 Don't merge your layers - keep them! 13:45 Better use a different shot for the sky - fake but easier 14:25 Ted's image 14:40 Tab toggles the toolbox on and off the screen 15:00 Divide the image in several parts and process them differently 16:30 Overlay Mode for enhancing brickwork 17:15 Making a surreal sky with multiply mode 18:45 Gimpel's image 20:00 Threshold tool for black and white 21:15 painting over the image 22:00 Wrapping up 22:35 Server problems and PCN tag:odeo.com,2009-10-09,25259488 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:56:32 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial photography http://odeo.com/episodes/25223592-Episode-121-Transparent-Transformations-and-Getting-Rich-with-GIMP I had not enough time this week to make a proper show about the results of my challenge. (Next week I'll have no school! :-) ) Instead I make the blog image for the next show in this one. You'll see a bit about the transform tools (rotate, scale, sheer and perspective) which have picked up a transparency slider somewhere since the show I made about them. Very nice to have! I was pointed to that by Jan Kardel's video. If you want to make an incredible amount of money it is a good idea to learn GIMP. Sergey Brin did that, created the logo of his startup and got rich. I downloaded the xcf and peeked under the hood. Just standard stuff - as you have seen by Philippe. ;-) I had not enough time this week to make a proper show about the results of my challenge. (Next week I'll have no school! :-) ) Instead I make the blog image for the next show in this one. You'll see a bit about the transform tools (rotate, scale, sheer and perspective) which have picked up a transparency slider somewhere since the show I made about them. Very nice to have! I was pointed to that by Jan Kardel's video. If you want to make an incredible amount of money it is a good idea to learn GIMP. Sergey Brin did that, created the logo of his startup and got rich. I downloaded the xcf and peeked under the hood. Just standard stuff - as you have seen by Philippe. ;-) I had not enough time this week to make a proper show about the results of my challenge. (Next week I'll have no school! :-) ) Instead I make the blog image for the next show in this one. You'll see a bit about the transform tools (rotate, scale, sheer and perspective) which have picked up a transparency slider somewhere since the show I made about them. Very nice to have! I was pointed to that by Jan Kardel's video. If you want to make an incredible amount of money it is a good idea to learn GIMP. Sergey Brin did that, created the logo of his startup and got rich. I downloaded the xcf and peeked under the hood. Just standard stuff - as you have seen by Philippe. ;-) tag:odeo.com,2009-10-02,25223592 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:40:18 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial photography http://odeo.com/episodes/25183066-Episode-120-Two-funny-Accents-in-one-Show This week you’ll get both hosts of the show in one package. Philippe (southern France) and I (northern Germany) discuss the results of the Double Book Challenge in the “From Scratch” section. We use Skype and the connection is not as good as we were used to it between Chile and Germany. So expect some funny noises added to the accents. At the end of the show we both come up with a random number and calculate in a highly scientific way who wins the two books. I’ll give you all a chance to find out in the video if you have won and contact the winners later next week. And IF YOU have won, send me your contact data so that I can forward them to APRESS, who sponsor the prizes. All the images we talked about are in the companion file. This week you’ll get both hosts of the show in one package. Philippe (southern France) and I (northern Germany) discuss the results of the Double Book Challenge in the “From Scratch” section. We use Skype and the connection is not as good as we were used to it between Chile and Germany. So expect some funny noises added to the accents. At the end of the show we both come up with a random number and calculate in a highly scientific way who wins the two books. I’ll give you all a chance to find out in the video if you have won and contact the winners later next week. And IF YOU have won, send me your contact data so that I can forward them to APRESS, who sponsor the prizes. All the images we talked about are in the companion file. This week you’ll get both hosts of the show in one package. Philippe (southern France) and I (northern Germany) discuss the results of the Double Book Challenge in the “From Scratch” section. We use Skype and the connection is not as good as we were used to it between Chile and Germany. So expect some funny noises added to the accents. At the end of the show we both come up with a random number and calculate in a highly scientific way who wins the two books. I’ll give you all a chance to find out in the video if you have won and contact the winners later next week. And IF YOU have won, send me your contact data so that I can forward them to APRESS, who sponsor the prizes. All the images we talked about are in the companion file. tag:odeo.com,2009-09-25,25183066 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:24:06 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial photography http://odeo.com/episodes/25145124-Episode-119-Get-your-Palette This is a short show about how to extract the colours out of an image and put them into a palette. The next version of GIMP will allow the export of the palettes in a lot of designer and programmer friendly ways. This is a short show about how to extract the colours out of an image and put them into a palette. The next version of GIMP will allow the export of the palettes in a lot of designer and programmer friendly ways. This is a short show about how to extract the colours out of an image and put them into a palette. The next version of GIMP will allow the export of the palettes in a lot of designer and programmer friendly ways. tag:odeo.com,2009-09-18,25145124 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:06:53 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial photography http://odeo.com/episodes/25092012-Episode-118-Looking-in-the-Crystal-Ball-at-GIMP-2-8 I take my big soft lens polishing cloth out of the cupboard and give my crystal ball a good rub. Usually I use it for writing reports about kids, but today I look at the upcoming GIMP 2.8. With the publication of version 2.7.1 and some mails from the developers mailing list one can predict fairly good what will be in 2.8. I have compiled version 2.7.1 and try the stuff that was described in the posting at gimpusers.com. I am looking forward to the publication of 2.8, even if it is not the “big step” and “16 Bit”. But it is the last stepping stone into that direction. I had only little time to make this episode. There are probably some editing glitches and I had no chance to make a TOC. Too late in the evening. I take my big soft lens polishing cloth out of the cupboard and give my crystal ball a good rub. Usually I use it for writing reports about kids, but today I look at the upcoming GIMP 2.8. With the publication of version 2.7.1 and some mails from the developers mailing list one can predict fairly good what will be in 2.8. I have compiled version 2.7.1 and try the stuff that was described in the posting at gimpusers.com. I am looking forward to the publication of 2.8, even if it is not the “big step” and “16 Bit”. But it is the last stepping stone into that direction. I had only little time to make this episode. There are probably some editing glitches and I had no chance to make a TOC. Too late in the evening. I take my big soft lens polishing cloth out of the cupboard and give my crystal ball a good rub. Usually I use it for writing reports about kids, but today I look at the upcoming GIMP 2.8. With the publication of version 2.7.1 and some mails from the developers mailing list one can predict fairly good what will be in 2.8. I have compiled version 2.7.1 and try the stuff that was described in the posting at gimpusers.com. I am looking forward to the publication of 2.8, even if it is not the “big step” and “16 Bit”. But it is the last stepping stone into that direction. I had only little time to make this episode. There are probably some editing glitches and I had no chance to make a TOC. Too late in the evening. tag:odeo.com,2009-09-08,25092012 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:45:17 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial photography http://odeo.com/episodes/25032755-Episode-117-Digital-GND This week I show you how to simulate a Graduated Neutral Density Filter with GIMP. This was started by a thread in the forum. And as I now need more time between recording and publishing, the thread has grown considerably and Bert has already made a script for this. So check it out in the forum! While trying to create a filter for the image I stole from Bert I tell you a bit about the Blend Tool and give (again) an introduction into layer masks. “White reveals and black conceals!” ;-) This week I show you how to simulate a Graduated Neutral Density Filter with GIMP. This was started by a thread in the forum. And as I now need more time between recording and publishing, the thread has grown considerably and Bert has already made a script for this. So check it out in the forum! While trying to create a filter for the image I stole from Bert I tell you a bit about the Blend Tool and give (again) an introduction into layer masks. “White reveals and black conceals!” ;-) This week I show you how to simulate a Graduated Neutral Density Filter with GIMP. This was started by a thread in the forum. And as I now need more time between recording and publishing, the thread has grown considerably and Bert has already made a script for this. So check it out in the forum! While trying to create a filter for the image I stole from Bert I tell you a bit about the Blend Tool and give (again) an introduction into layer masks. “White reveals and black conceals!” ;-) tag:odeo.com,2009-08-27,25032755 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:00:00 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24998609-Episode-116-_Color-I_nfo Today I explore the information that GIMP provides about colour. It’s the always helpful histogram, the border average which gives you a nice colour for a background for your image, the colour cube analysis and the smooth palette. The last two are quite exotic and I can think of no way to use them for me. As I have avoided to discuss Median, Mean and Standard Deviation, help yourself! ;-) And of course I remind you that the challenge is still open! Today I explore the information that GIMP provides about colour. It’s the always helpful histogram, the border average which gives you a nice colour for a background for your image, the colour cube analysis and the smooth palette. The last two are quite exotic and I can think of no way to use them for me. As I have avoided to discuss Median, Mean and Standard Deviation, help yourself! ;-) And of course I remind you that the challenge is still open! Today I explore the information that GIMP provides about colour. It’s the always helpful histogram, the border average which gives you a nice colour for a background for your image, the colour cube analysis and the smooth palette. The last two are quite exotic and I can think of no way to use them for me. As I have avoided to discuss Median, Mean and Standard Deviation, help yourself! ;-) And of course I remind you that the challenge is still open! tag:odeo.com,2009-08-20,24998609 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:00:00 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24955579-Episode-115-Jahshaka-and-a-GAP You may have noticed the new intro at the top of the show since we turned HD. It was made by Philippe with a combination of GIMP, Jahshaka and GAP, the GIMP Animation Package. Jahshaka is a video editing and special effects tool. I looked into it as an editor when I planned this podcast and preferred then Cinelerra instead. Jahshaka has matured a lot in the last two years but is still a pain to install under most Linuxes, but it seems to be fine with Windows and OS X. Philippe asked me to write here that this is just a short look into Jahshaka – no in depth tutorial. But I liked it a lot while I was editing the video. And think about our two challenges! We have already some entries for the photography department – but the “from scratch” area is still an empty canvas. Well, it takes more time dto do something from scratch and the challenge is open up to September 9th. You may have noticed the new intro at the top of the show since we turned HD. It was made by Philippe with a combination of GIMP, Jahshaka and GAP, the GIMP Animation Package. Jahshaka is a video editing and special effects tool. I looked into it as an editor when I planned this podcast and preferred then Cinelerra instead. Jahshaka has matured a lot in the last two years but is still a pain to install under most Linuxes, but it seems to be fine with Windows and OS X. Philippe asked me to write here that this is just a short look into Jahshaka – no in depth tutorial. But I liked it a lot while I was editing the video. And think about our two challenges! We have already some entries for the photography department – but the “from scratch” area is still an empty canvas. Well, it takes more time dto do something from scratch and the challenge is open up to September 9th. You may have noticed the new intro at the top of the show since we turned HD. It was made by Philippe with a combination of GIMP, Jahshaka and GAP, the GIMP Animation Package. Jahshaka is a video editing and special effects tool. I looked into it as an editor when I planned this podcast and preferred then Cinelerra instead. Jahshaka has matured a lot in the last two years but is still a pain to install under most Linuxes, but it seems to be fine with Windows and OS X. Philippe asked me to write here that this is just a short look into Jahshaka – no in depth tutorial. But I liked it a lot while I was editing the video. And think about our two challenges! We have already some entries for the photography department – but the “from scratch” area is still an empty canvas. Well, it takes more time dto do something from scratch and the challenge is open up to September 9th. tag:odeo.com,2009-08-13,24955579 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:00:00 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24920180-Episode-114-Secrets-of-a-Portaloo You can win a book in our two contests - the exact rules will be published in the next posting. I continue to work on my project "Access Control". My target is a photo book by blurb.com. They accept PDF files for printing - which is important for me because most of the book making software of the printers doesn't work on Linux. Of course there is an Open Source program for making a PDF - Scribus. It is available for all OS, even OS/2. I'll tell you about my experience in one of the next episodes. There are a lot of photobooks to look at for inspiration at SOFOBOMO. Then I start to edit an image. The JPEG image is a bit overblown in the highlights and I have to go back to the RAW file. Cropping turns out to be difficult and the image needs a bit of a contrast boost in some parts. The final steps - sharpening and deciding about a vignette will be made when the layout of the book is clear. For sharpening one needs to kknow the output resolution and size - and I will have to scale the i... You can win a book in our two contests - the exact rules will be published in the next posting. I continue to work on my project "Access Control". My target is a photo book by blurb.com. They accept PDF files for printing - which is important for me because most of the book making software of the printers doesn't work on Linux. Of course there is an Open Source program for making a PDF - Scribus. It is available for all OS, even OS/2. I'll tell you about my experience in one of the next episodes. There are a lot of photobooks to look at for inspiration at SOFOBOMO. Then I start to edit an image. The JPEG image is a bit overblown in the highlights and I have to go back to the RAW file. Cropping turns out to be difficult and the image needs a bit of a contrast boost in some parts. The final steps - sharpening and deciding about a vignette will be made when the layout of the book is clear. For sharpening one needs to kknow the output resolution and size - and I will have to scale the image to 300 DPI before putting it into the book. The vignette depends on the background of the page. The TOC 00:20 The Book Challenge 05:20 A Photo Book as the target for "Access Control" 07:50 Scribus for making PDF files 10:00 Photobooks to look at 10:35 Editing an image for the book 11:15 Blown out pixelss 11:45 RAW to the rescue with UFRaw 16:28 Comparing JPEG and UFRaw output 18:50 Correcting a colour cast in UFRaw 20:45 Straightening the image 23:00 Cropping the image 26:50 Improving contrast with a layer in overlay mode and a mask 33:20 Crooping more 35:00 What's left to do You can win a book in our two contests - the exact rules will be published in the next posting. I continue to work on my project "Access Control". My target is a photo book by blurb.com. They accept PDF files for printing - which is important for me because most of the book making software of the printers doesn't work on Linux. Of course there is an Open Source program for making a PDF - Scribus. It is available for all OS, even OS/2. I'll tell you about my experience in one of the next episodes. There are a lot of photobooks to look at for inspiration at SOFOBOMO. Then I start to edit an image. The JPEG image is a bit overblown in the highlights and I have to go back to the RAW file. Cropping turns out to be difficult and the image needs a bit of a contrast boost in some parts. The final steps - sharpening and deciding about a vignette will be made when the layout of the book is clear. For sharpening one needs to kknow the output resolution and size - and I will have to scale the image to 300 DPI before putting it into the book. The vignette depends on the background of the page. The TOC 00:20 The Book Challenge 05:20 A Photo Book as the target for "Access Control" 07:50 Scribus for making PDF files 10:00 Photobooks to look at 10:35 Editing an image for the book 11:15 Blown out pixelss 11:45 RAW to the rescue with UFRaw 16:28 Comparing JPEG and UFRaw output 18:50 Correcting a colour cast in UFRaw 20:45 Straightening the image 23:00 Cropping the image 26:50 Improving contrast with a layer in overlay mode and a mask 33:20 Crooping more 35:00 What's left to do tag:odeo.com,2009-08-06,24920180 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:00:00 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24885271-Episode-113-Access-Control I hope this episode plays well on all computers and programs - the encoding should be supported by Quicktime and iTunes. Thanks to Tavo for figuring this out. There is no GIMP in this episode, there is a bit of F-Spot, but mostly it's about a new photography project I am starting. I want to make a series of images about means of "Access Control" and thought a bit about it in the video. (The content could have been better structured, but I was with my head more in video encoding and work flows than photography.) Is this still on topic of this show? I had requests for more photography centric stuff - but what do you think? Please write a comment here in the blog. I hope this episode plays well on all computers and programs - the encoding should be supported by Quicktime and iTunes. Thanks to Tavo for figuring this out. There is no GIMP in this episode, there is a bit of F-Spot, but mostly it's about a new photography project I am starting. I want to make a series of images about means of "Access Control" and thought a bit about it in the video. (The content could have been better structured, but I was with my head more in video encoding and work flows than photography.) Is this still on topic of this show? I had requests for more photography centric stuff - but what do you think? Please write a comment here in the blog. I hope this episode plays well on all computers and programs - the encoding should be supported by Quicktime and iTunes. Thanks to Tavo for figuring this out. There is no GIMP in this episode, there is a bit of F-Spot, but mostly it's about a new photography project I am starting. I want to make a series of images about means of "Access Control" and thought a bit about it in the video. (The content could have been better structured, but I was with my head more in video encoding and work flows than photography.) Is this still on topic of this show? I had requests for more photography centric stuff - but what do you think? Please write a comment here in the blog. tag:odeo.com,2009-07-30,24885271 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24859535-Episode-112-Two-Candles First show in HD! 2 Years Meet the GIMP! First show in HD! 2 Years Meet the GIMP! First show in HD! 2 Years Meet the GIMP! tag:odeo.com,2009-07-24,24859535 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:59:59 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24838938-Episode-111-All-Ducks-in-a-Row The align tool The align tool The align tool tag:odeo.com,2009-07-21,24838938 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:00:00 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24800573-Episode-110-Some-new-Paths-2 Today I go into the details of the path tool. It has a real lot of different modes and states – so one gets easily confused. I try to sort that out – but you’ll have to train yourself to master this. Seth aka W_Nightshade has made a video about making ambigrams with paths. You see the one he did here on the side. I couldn’t make a show out of his video – but you’ll get a fast version of it with music in the video and if you are interested can download the whole package in the companion file. The music is from John Pazdan, the composer of the podcast music. I start with a book review. Akkana Peck’s book “Beginning GIMP – from Novice to Professional” is gone into a second edition. And now it’s even better than before. If you are looking for a book about GIMP – this would be my first choice. Apress has given me the second edition book – I bought the first one before starting with this project. And I have two ... Today I go into the details of the path tool. It has a real lot of different modes and states – so one gets easily confused. I try to sort that out – but you’ll have to train yourself to master this. Seth aka W_Nightshade has made a video about making ambigrams with paths. You see the one he did here on the side. I couldn’t make a show out of his video – but you’ll get a fast version of it with music in the video and if you are interested can download the whole package in the companion file. The music is from John Pazdan, the composer of the podcast music. I start with a book review. Akkana Peck’s book “Beginning GIMP – from Novice to Professional” is gone into a second edition. And now it’s even better than before. If you are looking for a book about GIMP – this would be my first choice. Apress has given me the second edition book – I bought the first one before starting with this project. And I have two of the books to give away. To you. We’ll make two challenges, one from Philippe, one from me. And Apress will send a book to each of the winners. The TOC 01:00 Switch to HD 02:30 Ubuntu script for Wacom Tablets 03:45 Book review: Akkana Peck: 10:30 Path tool: Design mode 11:00 Adding nodes and moving them 12:30 Close a path 12:50 Add a second component to the path 13:45 Expanding a path 14:30 Selecting nodes and moving them together 15:00 Delete a node 15:30 Move a component 15:50 Tweak a segment 16:15 Move a segment 17:40 Interlude: Ambigrams by Seth (Video) and John Pazdan (Music: Solistice) 21:45 Edit mode with paths 22:15 Adding nodes 22:30 Pulling out handles 23:30 Removing handles and segemnts 24:40 Joining components of the path 25:10 Straightening out the curve at the node 26:30 Read the documentation at docs.gimp.org 27:50 What does Akkane Peck write about the path tool? 29:40 iTunes help needed Meet the GIMP Video Podcast by Rolf Steinort and Philippe Demartin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://meetthegimp.org. Today I go into the details of the path tool. It has a real lot of different modes and states – so one gets easily confused. I try to sort that out – but you’ll have to train yourself to master this. Seth aka W_Nightshade has made a video about making ambigrams with paths. You see the one he did here on the side. I couldn’t make a show out of his video – but you’ll get a fast version of it with music in the video and if you are interested can download the whole package in the companion file. The music is from John Pazdan, the composer of the podcast music. I start with a book review. Akkana Peck’s book “Beginning GIMP – from Novice to Professional” is gone into a second edition. And now it’s even better than before. If you are looking for a book about GIMP – this would be my first choice. Apress has given me the second edition book – I bought the first one before starting with this project. And I have two of the books to give away. To you. We’ll make two challenges, one from Philippe, one from me. And Apress will send a book to each of the winners. The TOC 01:00 Switch to HD 02:30 Ubuntu script for Wacom Tablets 03:45 Book review: Akkana Peck: 10:30 Path tool: Design mode 11:00 Adding nodes and moving them 12:30 Close a path 12:50 Add a second component to the path 13:45 Expanding a path 14:30 Selecting nodes and moving them together 15:00 Delete a node 15:30 Move a component 15:50 Tweak a segment 16:15 Move a segment 17:40 Interlude: Ambigrams by Seth (Video) and John Pazdan (Music: Solistice) 21:45 Edit mode with paths 22:15 Adding nodes 22:30 Pulling out handles 23:30 Removing handles and segemnts 24:40 Joining components of the path 25:10 Straightening out the curve at the node 26:30 Read the documentation at docs.gimp.org 27:50 What does Akkane Peck write about the path tool? 29:40 iTunes help needed Meet the GIMP Video Podcast by Rolf Steinort and Philippe Demartin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://meetthegimp.org. tag:odeo.com,2009-07-14,24800573 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:36:59 -0700 no Meet the GIMP path, GIMP, Gimp video tutorial, path tool, gimp book photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24766160-Episode-109-Make-Money-with-GIMP-1 You challenged Philippe to make a bill of a currency from scratch. It is a lot more complicated than it looks at the first glance – of course – otherwise I would print some Euro notes at the beginning of the week instead of going into the school for earning my pay. Bills have a complicated background for discouraging counterfeiters. Philippe analyses the background of a 10 SFR bill from his home country and then combines two images from an analysis of Linux filesystems to the intricate pattern on the right. The  foreground of the note will be finished in his next show. The TOC 00:20 Philippe looks at a 10 SFR bill and tells a bit about his home country 04:00 Looking for a motive for the bill – Visual expedition into the Linux file system 06:50 Draging an image from the Web into GIMP 07:00 Two ways of cropping a layer 09:30 Scale the layer to the final size 10:15 Flipping the layer (mirror it) 11:20 Duplicating the layer 12:20 More volume with “self bumping&#8... You challenged Philippe to make a bill of a currency from scratch. It is a lot more complicated than it looks at the first glance – of course – otherwise I would print some Euro notes at the beginning of the week instead of going into the school for earning my pay. Bills have a complicated background for discouraging counterfeiters. Philippe analyses the background of a 10 SFR bill from his home country and then combines two images from an analysis of Linux filesystems to the intricate pattern on the right. The  foreground of the note will be finished in his next show. The TOC 00:20 Philippe looks at a 10 SFR bill and tells a bit about his home country 04:00 Looking for a motive for the bill – Visual expedition into the Linux file system 06:50 Draging an image from the Web into GIMP 07:00 Two ways of cropping a layer 09:30 Scale the layer to the final size 10:15 Flipping the layer (mirror it) 11:20 Duplicating the layer 12:20 More volume with “self bumping” (bump map explained) 17:00 Texture with Gimppressionist? 18:00 another texture from the web 19:20 Scaling to adjust to the rest of the image – get out the calculator 22:00 Duplicate and adjust 25:20 Reduce to image size 26:00 Making paper structure with Gimpressionist 27:15 Clipping out the dots out of the texture 28:30 Bumping the dots 30:30 A place fot the water mark 32:20 Filling the layer mask with a gradient (blend tool) 35:00 Room for text (bilinear blend) 37:00 Good bye Meet the GIMP Video Podcast by Rolf Steinort and Philippe Demartin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://meetthegimp.org. You challenged Philippe to make a bill of a currency from scratch. It is a lot more complicated than it looks at the first glance – of course – otherwise I would print some Euro notes at the beginning of the week instead of going into the school for earning my pay. Bills have a complicated background for discouraging counterfeiters. Philippe analyses the background of a 10 SFR bill from his home country and then combines two images from an analysis of Linux filesystems to the intricate pattern on the right. The  foreground of the note will be finished in his next show. The TOC 00:20 Philippe looks at a 10 SFR bill and tells a bit about his home country 04:00 Looking for a motive for the bill – Visual expedition into the Linux file system 06:50 Draging an image from the Web into GIMP 07:00 Two ways of cropping a layer 09:30 Scale the layer to the final size 10:15 Flipping the layer (mirror it) 11:20 Duplicating the layer 12:20 More volume with “self bumping” (bump map explained) 17:00 Texture with Gimppressionist? 18:00 another texture from the web 19:20 Scaling to adjust to the rest of the image – get out the calculator 22:00 Duplicate and adjust 25:20 Reduce to image size 26:00 Making paper structure with Gimpressionist 27:15 Clipping out the dots out of the texture 28:30 Bumping the dots 30:30 A place fot the water mark 32:20 Filling the layer mask with a gradient (blend tool) 35:00 Room for text (bilinear blend) 37:00 Good bye Meet the GIMP Video Podcast by Rolf Steinort and Philippe Demartin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://meetthegimp.org. tag:odeo.com,2009-07-07,24766160 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:35:38 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial, bump map, from scratch, layer cropping, blend tool, scaling layers, gimpressionist photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24744930-Episode-108-A-lot-of-Paths Paths are a powerful tool in GIMP – and not so easy to understand. So I’ll make a two part series out of them. Paths are Bezier curves and are controlled by anchor points and handles.With enough time and determination you can give them any form you want. A path can be generated with the path tool, from a selection and from a text in GIMP. And it can be stored and even exported as a SVG file. So they do fit more into a vector based program like Inkscape. If you use them for drawing something, ask yourself if you are using the right tool. Gimp has a good documentation about path basics , the paths tool, the dialog and the paths menu. The last part of the video is edited in a hurry – you’ll notice some blunders. The TOC 01:10 Path concept 03:05 Adding the Path dialog in GIMP 04:20 Adding a path with the Path tool 05:50 The Paths dialog 06:40 Turn a path into a selection 07:20 Stroke the path 07:50 Path context menue 08:40 Turn a selection into a path 09:40 Turn ... Paths are a powerful tool in GIMP – and not so easy to understand. So I’ll make a two part series out of them. Paths are Bezier curves and are controlled by anchor points and handles.With enough time and determination you can give them any form you want. A path can be generated with the path tool, from a selection and from a text in GIMP. And it can be stored and even exported as a SVG file. So they do fit more into a vector based program like Inkscape. If you use them for drawing something, ask yourself if you are using the right tool. Gimp has a good documentation about path basics , the paths tool, the dialog and the paths menu. The last part of the video is edited in a hurry – you’ll notice some blunders. The TOC 01:10 Path concept 03:05 Adding the Path dialog in GIMP 04:20 Adding a path with the Path tool 05:50 The Paths dialog 06:40 Turn a path into a selection 07:20 Stroke the path 07:50 Path context menue 08:40 Turn a selection into a path 09:40 Turn a text into a path and back 11:50 Put a text on a path 14:30 Don’t use GIMP for vector graphics 15:00 Wrapping up Meet the GIMP Video Podcast by Rolf Steinort and Philippe Demartin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://meetthegimp.org. Paths are a powerful tool in GIMP – and not so easy to understand. So I’ll make a two part series out of them. Paths are Bezier curves and are controlled by anchor points and handles.With enough time and determination you can give them any form you want. A path can be generated with the path tool, from a selection and from a text in GIMP. And it can be stored and even exported as a SVG file. So they do fit more into a vector based program like Inkscape. If you use them for drawing something, ask yourself if you are using the right tool. Gimp has a good documentation about path basics , the paths tool, the dialog and the paths menu. The last part of the video is edited in a hurry – you’ll notice some blunders. The TOC 01:10 Path concept 03:05 Adding the Path dialog in GIMP 04:20 Adding a path with the Path tool 05:50 The Paths dialog 06:40 Turn a path into a selection 07:20 Stroke the path 07:50 Path context menue 08:40 Turn a selection into a path 09:40 Turn a text into a path and back 11:50 Put a text on a path 14:30 Don’t use GIMP for vector graphics 15:00 Wrapping up Meet the GIMP Video Podcast by Rolf Steinort and Philippe Demartin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://meetthegimp.org. tag:odeo.com,2009-06-30,24744930 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:07:10 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24744931-Episode-107-Orton%E2%80%99s-Sandwich A bit late, but finally here! You find more about the Orton Effect in Wikipedia and a lot of other places.The one I show in the video is from Nature Photographer. Michael Orton’s homepage is not working at the moment, but you can fnd a review of his book. I haven’t found it in our library system yet – has one of you read it? PCIN.net has a detailed description of the analog workflow. After reading that I would change my approach a bit. Stay tuned. Even Wolfram Mathematica has Orton, I never thought of that program as a graphics software. But if you think about it – it has everything it needs built in. The TOC 00:20 The show is late 01:40 The Orton effect 03:20 Michael Orton and his book 04:40 Cropping the image 06:00 Making bright an blurred layers 07:00 Blurring 08:40 Multiply mode set 09:20 Compare the result 09:25 Playing with the opacity sliders 10:15 Points for variation 11:35 Recap with a different image 15:00 Script? 15:30 Wolfram Mathematica Orton Eff... A bit late, but finally here! You find more about the Orton Effect in Wikipedia and a lot of other places.The one I show in the video is from Nature Photographer. Michael Orton’s homepage is not working at the moment, but you can fnd a review of his book. I haven’t found it in our library system yet – has one of you read it? PCIN.net has a detailed description of the analog workflow. After reading that I would change my approach a bit. Stay tuned. Even Wolfram Mathematica has Orton, I never thought of that program as a graphics software. But if you think about it – it has everything it needs built in. The TOC 00:20 The show is late 01:40 The Orton effect 03:20 Michael Orton and his book 04:40 Cropping the image 06:00 Making bright an blurred layers 07:00 Blurring 08:40 Multiply mode set 09:20 Compare the result 09:25 Playing with the opacity sliders 10:15 Points for variation 11:35 Recap with a different image 15:00 Script? 15:30 Wolfram Mathematica Orton Effect Plugin Meet the GIMP Video Podcast by Rolf Steinort and Philippe Demartin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://meetthegimp.org. A bit late, but finally here! You find more about the Orton Effect in Wikipedia and a lot of other places.The one I show in the video is from Nature Photographer. Michael Orton’s homepage is not working at the moment, but you can fnd a review of his book. I haven’t found it in our library system yet – has one of you read it? PCIN.net has a detailed description of the analog workflow. After reading that I would change my approach a bit. Stay tuned. Even Wolfram Mathematica has Orton, I never thought of that program as a graphics software. But if you think about it – it has everything it needs built in. The TOC 00:20 The show is late 01:40 The Orton effect 03:20 Michael Orton and his book 04:40 Cropping the image 06:00 Making bright an blurred layers 07:00 Blurring 08:40 Multiply mode set 09:20 Compare the result 09:25 Playing with the opacity sliders 10:15 Points for variation 11:35 Recap with a different image 15:00 Script? 15:30 Wolfram Mathematica Orton Effect Plugin Meet the GIMP Video Podcast by Rolf Steinort and Philippe Demartin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://meetthegimp.org. tag:odeo.com,2009-06-26,24744931 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:05:03 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24713609-Episode-106-Colours-and-Values It’s toning time again. Toning is done do black and white images to increase their “volume”, the perceived contrast range. We only have 256 values on the screen, so a bit of colour can be good. In #39 I had shown how to make a Duotone or Tritone out of a monochrome image. And then Paul Weller Bou showed in his Blog an easier way to do this. It’s working, but why? To answer that, I look into the HSV colour model and try to explain the effects of the different layer modes. A little bit about sharpening in an extra layer with “value” as the mode and a pointer to faking analog camera frames in digital images with a script and an original Hasselblad frame made by Marcus Ranum are at the end of the episode. The TOC 01:00 Toning images 02:00 Toning enhances the visual volume 03:50 The recipe for a duotone 04:30 Adding a layer in colour mode and adding a layer mask from an image copy 07:00 Doing the same for the second tone 08:00 Inverting the mask 09:20 ... It’s toning time again. Toning is done do black and white images to increase their “volume”, the perceived contrast range. We only have 256 values on the screen, so a bit of colour can be good. In #39 I had shown how to make a Duotone or Tritone out of a monochrome image. And then Paul Weller Bou showed in his Blog an easier way to do this. It’s working, but why? To answer that, I look into the HSV colour model and try to explain the effects of the different layer modes. A little bit about sharpening in an extra layer with “value” as the mode and a pointer to faking analog camera frames in digital images with a script and an original Hasselblad frame made by Marcus Ranum are at the end of the episode. The TOC 01:00 Toning images 02:00 Toning enhances the visual volume 03:50 The recipe for a duotone 04:30 Adding a layer in colour mode and adding a layer mask from an image copy 07:00 Doing the same for the second tone 08:00 Inverting the mask 09:20 Switching layers on and off 10:30 Sharpening in Value mode 12:20 Unsharp mask 15:10 Explanation of Colour and Value mode 17:10 HSV colour model 20:00 A fake view camera frame 22:20 Multiply mode 23:40 A real Hasselblad frame Meet the GIMP Video Podcast by Rolf Steinort and Philippe Demartin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://meetthegimp.org. It’s toning time again. Toning is done do black and white images to increase their “volume”, the perceived contrast range. We only have 256 values on the screen, so a bit of colour can be good. In #39 I had shown how to make a Duotone or Tritone out of a monochrome image. And then Paul Weller Bou showed in his Blog an easier way to do this. It’s working, but why? To answer that, I look into the HSV colour model and try to explain the effects of the different layer modes. A little bit about sharpening in an extra layer with “value” as the mode and a pointer to faking analog camera frames in digital images with a script and an original Hasselblad frame made by Marcus Ranum are at the end of the episode. The TOC 01:00 Toning images 02:00 Toning enhances the visual volume 03:50 The recipe for a duotone 04:30 Adding a layer in colour mode and adding a layer mask from an image copy 07:00 Doing the same for the second tone 08:00 Inverting the mask 09:20 Switching layers on and off 10:30 Sharpening in Value mode 12:20 Unsharp mask 15:10 Explanation of Colour and Value mode 17:10 HSV colour model 20:00 A fake view camera frame 22:20 Multiply mode 23:40 A real Hasselblad frame Meet the GIMP Video Podcast by Rolf Steinort and Philippe Demartin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://meetthegimp.org. tag:odeo.com,2009-06-16,24713609 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:00:12 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, frame, toning, Gimp video tutorial, layer mask, colour mode, value mode, layer mode, duotone, hasselblad, color mode photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24677125-Episode-105-Another-Bowl-of-Soup Philippe was working on bank notes - but it turned out to be a too big task for the available time. The designers of these notes have one thing on top of their minds - make it difficult to copy. With the money being on the back burner, Philippe made us a bowl of soup - absolutely low on calories and from scratch. You’ll see how to get a textured plane into the shape of the soup, create reflections and steam and to control the light. Meet the GIMP Video Podcast by Rolf Steinort and Philippe Demartin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://meetthegimp.org. Philippe was working on bank notes - but it turned out to be a too big task for the available time. The designers of these notes have one thing on top of their minds - make it difficult to copy. With the money being on the back burner, Philippe made us a bowl of soup - absolutely low on calories and from scratch. You’ll see how to get a textured plane into the shape of the soup, create reflections and steam and to control the light. Meet the GIMP Video Podcast by Rolf Steinort and Philippe Demartin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://meetthegimp.org. Philippe was working on bank notes - but it turned out to be a too big task for the available time. The designers of these notes have one thing on top of their minds - make it difficult to copy. With the money being on the back burner, Philippe made us a bowl of soup - absolutely low on calories and from scratch. You’ll see how to get a textured plane into the shape of the soup, create reflections and steam and to control the light. Meet the GIMP Video Podcast by Rolf Steinort and Philippe Demartin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://meetthegimp.org. tag:odeo.com,2009-06-09,24677125 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:04:32 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial, from scratch, From scatch photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24641031-Episode-104-Filling-the-Gap-with-Bamboo This weeks show starts with some additional talk about tablets. After Episode 101 there still was the question if a Wacom Bamboo tablet is “good enough”. Matthias visited me with his tablet and we sat in a street cafe and compared. (Sorry, the sound in this segment is not very good and out of sync.) The Bamboo is as good as the Intuos if you don’t need diffenrent pens. I would buy one. (Too bad that I don’t get money from W….) Then I follow a comment from Steinar and explore the Device Status dialog. It gives you all information you need about your row of input devices. Even if they are plugged in too late. In the image I tackled last week were some really big damages. And I tried to fix them with the Resynthesis plugin and G’MIC. Both did well with small defects and considerably good with the big ones. The were only at loss where knowledge about the world was needed - like in the back of the chair. We know that the wood goes on - the computer doe... This weeks show starts with some additional talk about tablets. After Episode 101 there still was the question if a Wacom Bamboo tablet is “good enough”. Matthias visited me with his tablet and we sat in a street cafe and compared. (Sorry, the sound in this segment is not very good and out of sync.) The Bamboo is as good as the Intuos if you don’t need diffenrent pens. I would buy one. (Too bad that I don’t get money from W….) Then I follow a comment from Steinar and explore the Device Status dialog. It gives you all information you need about your row of input devices. Even if they are plugged in too late. In the image I tackled last week were some really big damages. And I tried to fix them with the Resynthesis plugin and G’MIC. Both did well with small defects and considerably good with the big ones. The were only at loss where knowledge about the world was needed - like in the back of the chair. We know that the wood goes on - the computer does not.Perhaps the result would have been better with the first plugin if I had followed Tobias’ tip thouroughly. Both plugins are not easy to use and need ore time to explore than I was motivated to invest.I found no way to “automagically” select the damged parts of the image. Perhaps a scan in full colour mode would have been better. Ther may be a colour difference between dirt and image that can be exploited for a selection. So, scan in RGB! There is a an other plugin perhaps usable for such work. It’s the Wavelet decomposer. I’ll try that in a later show. At the end of the show I tell you a bit more about this young man, show Norman’s version of the reconstructed image and propose a different approach with an oval “matte”, like it must have been in the original. The TOC 00:30 Comparing the Wacom Bamboo with the Intuos 05:40 2 tablets, 1 machine 06:30 The “Device Status” dialog 13:30 Going back to the “Portrait of a Young Man” 14:00 Resyntesizer and Wavelet Decompose 16:15 G’MIC 17:30 Comparing G’MIC and Resynthesizer 18:00 Please scan in RGB even if the image is monochrome! 19:20 Take care with the eyes! 20:30 Preparing a mask for the plugins 24:40 Using a colour for the mask 28:30 The G’MIC plugin at work 32:40 Resynthesizer at work 34:40 Comparing the results 36:00 Conclusion 37:00 Who is in the image? 39:00 Norman’s version of the image 39:40 Making an oval frame 43:40 Good bye! Meet the GIMP Video Podcast by Rolf Steinort and Philippe Demartin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://meetthegimp.org. This weeks show starts with some additional talk about tablets. After Episode 101 there still was the question if a Wacom Bamboo tablet is “good enough”. Matthias visited me with his tablet and we sat in a street cafe and compared. (Sorry, the sound in this segment is not very good and out of sync.) The Bamboo is as good as the Intuos if you don’t need diffenrent pens. I would buy one. (Too bad that I don’t get money from W….) Then I follow a comment from Steinar and explore the Device Status dialog. It gives you all information you need about your row of input devices. Even if they are plugged in too late. In the image I tackled last week were some really big damages. And I tried to fix them with the Resynthesis plugin and G’MIC. Both did well with small defects and considerably good with the big ones. The were only at loss where knowledge about the world was needed - like in the back of the chair. We know that the wood goes on - the computer does not.Perhaps the result would have been better with the first plugin if I had followed Tobias’ tip thouroughly. Both plugins are not easy to use and need ore time to explore than I was motivated to invest.I found no way to “automagically” select the damged parts of the image. Perhaps a scan in full colour mode would have been better. Ther may be a colour difference between dirt and image that can be exploited for a selection. So, scan in RGB! There is a an other plugin perhaps usable for such work. It’s the Wavelet decomposer. I’ll try that in a later show. At the end of the show I tell you a bit more about this young man, show Norman’s version of the reconstructed image and propose a different approach with an oval “matte”, like it must have been in the original. The TOC 00:30 Comparing the Wacom Bamboo with the Intuos 05:40 2 tablets, 1 machine 06:30 The “Device Status” dialog 13:30 Going back to the “Portrait of a Young Man” 14:00 Resyntesizer and Wavelet Decompose 16:15 G’MIC 17:30 Comparing G’MIC and Resynthesizer 18:00 Please scan in RGB even if the image is monochrome! 19:20 Take care with the eyes! 20:30 Preparing a mask for the plugins 24:40 Using a colour for the mask 28:30 The G’MIC plugin at work 32:40 Resynthesizer at work 34:40 Comparing the results 36:00 Conclusion 37:00 Who is in the image? 39:00 Norman’s version of the image 39:40 Making an oval frame 43:40 Good bye! Meet the GIMP Video Podcast by Rolf Steinort and Philippe Demartin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://meetthegimp.org. tag:odeo.com,2009-06-02,24641031 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:11:41 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, tablet, Gimp video tutorial, restore old images, G'MIC, wavelet decompose, Resynthesizer photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24610281-Episode-103-Portrait-of-a-Young-Man Again Norman has an interesting task for me - restoring old images. John Edwin Frewer was photographed in London around 1866/7 - of course not digital. I’ll tell you a bit more about him in the next episode. His image was on a glass plate negative and was then copied as a contact print to photographic paper. The guys who took the image were a bit sloppy and left some lint and marks on the image. And then came 140 years of storage and handling. Norman has offered to restore the images and I’ll try to help him with this and the next episode. In this one I revisit the clone tool and explore the heal tool. It’s the right tool for tackling all the spots in the image. The show starts with greeting to Russia, A lot of visits to the site are from there and comments in Cyrillic are getting more. Google translate helps not a lot and so we are looking for some help from Russia. You speak Russian? Become an Editor for this blog and decide what’s real and what’s SPA... Again Norman has an interesting task for me - restoring old images. John Edwin Frewer was photographed in London around 1866/7 - of course not digital. I’ll tell you a bit more about him in the next episode. His image was on a glass plate negative and was then copied as a contact print to photographic paper. The guys who took the image were a bit sloppy and left some lint and marks on the image. And then came 140 years of storage and handling. Norman has offered to restore the images and I’ll try to help him with this and the next episode. In this one I revisit the clone tool and explore the heal tool. It’s the right tool for tackling all the spots in the image. The show starts with greeting to Russia, A lot of visits to the site are from there and comments in Cyrillic are getting more. Google translate helps not a lot and so we are looking for some help from Russia. You speak Russian? Become an Editor for this blog and decide what’s real and what’s SPAM. And to all the Russian visitors here - please try to write in English, even if you think it’s not good enough. We will understand you better than Google translate - or ask. Then I show a plugin that turns dull screenshots into nice reflecting 3-D product shot. This plugin was written by Fabian A. Scherschel, the German part of the Linux Outlaws podcast. Fabian is drinking beer and talking with Dan Lynch (several cups of tea) about Linux, Open Source news, politics and more. I think you’ll hear about a really good video podcast about GIMP there soon, so check them out. The TOC 00:30 Greetings to Russia 02:48 Linuxoutlaws and screenshot plugin 08:25 Norman has a new problem 09:00 What’s wrong with this image from 1870? 14:10 How much to correct 15:10 Make a backup layer 15:30 Clone tool 17:30 Heal tool 22:10 Undo a whole area 23:20 Working on the face 25:30 Verschlimmbessern 26:50 Comparison of clone and heal tool 29:10 Keep the pattern of the suit 31:00 Tedious work ahead, but…. 31:20 perhaps a G’MIC can help? 32:50 Wrap up Meet the GIMP Video Podcast by Rolf Steinort and Philippe Demartin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://meetthegimp.org. Again Norman has an interesting task for me - restoring old images. John Edwin Frewer was photographed in London around 1866/7 - of course not digital. I’ll tell you a bit more about him in the next episode. His image was on a glass plate negative and was then copied as a contact print to photographic paper. The guys who took the image were a bit sloppy and left some lint and marks on the image. And then came 140 years of storage and handling. Norman has offered to restore the images and I’ll try to help him with this and the next episode. In this one I revisit the clone tool and explore the heal tool. It’s the right tool for tackling all the spots in the image. The show starts with greeting to Russia, A lot of visits to the site are from there and comments in Cyrillic are getting more. Google translate helps not a lot and so we are looking for some help from Russia. You speak Russian? Become an Editor for this blog and decide what’s real and what’s SPAM. And to all the Russian visitors here - please try to write in English, even if you think it’s not good enough. We will understand you better than Google translate - or ask. Then I show a plugin that turns dull screenshots into nice reflecting 3-D product shot. This plugin was written by Fabian A. Scherschel, the German part of the Linux Outlaws podcast. Fabian is drinking beer and talking with Dan Lynch (several cups of tea) about Linux, Open Source news, politics and more. I think you’ll hear about a really good video podcast about GIMP there soon, so check them out. The TOC 00:30 Greetings to Russia 02:48 Linuxoutlaws and screenshot plugin 08:25 Norman has a new problem 09:00 What’s wrong with this image from 1870? 14:10 How much to correct 15:10 Make a backup layer 15:30 Clone tool 17:30 Heal tool 22:10 Undo a whole area 23:20 Working on the face 25:30 Verschlimmbessern 26:50 Comparison of clone and heal tool 29:10 Keep the pattern of the suit 31:00 Tedious work ahead, but…. 31:20 perhaps a G’MIC can help? 32:50 Wrap up Meet the GIMP Video Podcast by Rolf Steinort and Philippe Demartin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://meetthegimp.org. tag:odeo.com,2009-05-26,24610281 Tue, 26 May 2009 09:00:18 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial, clone tool, heal tool, restore old images photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24581601-Episode-102-Ancient-Wisdom-Rusting-Away A metal sign has been sitting on a wooden wall for decades, rusting away in the weather.Nobody really cared. But in reality this sign was made from scratch by Philippe, with a generous amout of bump mapping and applying plasma. Every time I watch one of these shows I am stunned by the ease of making a three dimensional effect with some simple shadows. Do you have any ideas for future “From Scratch” shows? Post them here in the comments or go to the forum! It’s not that we are running out of ideas really soon, but a little input from you would be very appreciated. The TOC will follow Meet the GIMP Video Podcast by Rolf Steinort and Philippe Demartin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://meetthegimp.org. A metal sign has been sitting on a wooden wall for decades, rusting away in the weather.Nobody really cared. But in reality this sign was made from scratch by Philippe, with a generous amout of bump mapping and applying plasma. Every time I watch one of these shows I am stunned by the ease of making a three dimensional effect with some simple shadows. Do you have any ideas for future “From Scratch” shows? Post them here in the comments or go to the forum! It’s not that we are running out of ideas really soon, but a little input from you would be very appreciated. The TOC will follow Meet the GIMP Video Podcast by Rolf Steinort and Philippe Demartin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://meetthegimp.org. A metal sign has been sitting on a wooden wall for decades, rusting away in the weather.Nobody really cared. But in reality this sign was made from scratch by Philippe, with a generous amout of bump mapping and applying plasma. Every time I watch one of these shows I am stunned by the ease of making a three dimensional effect with some simple shadows. Do you have any ideas for future “From Scratch” shows? Post them here in the comments or go to the forum! It’s not that we are running out of ideas really soon, but a little input from you would be very appreciated. The TOC will follow Meet the GIMP Video Podcast by Rolf Steinort and Philippe Demartin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://meetthegimp.org. tag:odeo.com,2009-05-19,24581601 Tue, 19 May 2009 08:05:01 -0700 no Meet the GIMP Plasma, GIMP, rust, sign, Gimp video tutorial, bump map, from scratch, From scatch photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24559256-Episode-101-Tablets A Graphics Tablet is a great input device for working with GIMP. You’ll see what to look for (pressure sensitivity and size) and how to integate them into GIMP. My tablet is from Wacom, the market leader. But a lot of other good ones are around too. At the end of the show I have a essage for the German speaking audience. There is no German Meet the GIMP, but Berhnhard Stockmann (devvv) from Gimpusers.de and Gimpusers.com has made a nice video DVD about GIMP. Also a DVD about building WEB sites. Both are available for 29.95€ in book stores and online. I gave the GIMP DVD to Boris form Happy Shooting, a German language podcast about photography. Boris (nsonic) and Chris (Tips from the Top Floor) are well known podcasters and as a team they are simply great. Useful information and a lot of “dumme Sprüche”. Just now there are no shows, Chris is trecking in the Himalaya and the SatPhone broke down. The TOC 00:30 The Wacom Intuos Tablet on stage 07:30 GIMP and the tablet... A Graphics Tablet is a great input device for working with GIMP. You’ll see what to look for (pressure sensitivity and size) and how to integate them into GIMP. My tablet is from Wacom, the market leader. But a lot of other good ones are around too. At the end of the show I have a essage for the German speaking audience. There is no German Meet the GIMP, but Berhnhard Stockmann (devvv) from Gimpusers.de and Gimpusers.com has made a nice video DVD about GIMP. Also a DVD about building WEB sites. Both are available for 29.95€ in book stores and online. I gave the GIMP DVD to Boris form Happy Shooting, a German language podcast about photography. Boris (nsonic) and Chris (Tips from the Top Floor) are well known podcasters and as a team they are simply great. Useful information and a lot of “dumme Sprüche”. Just now there are no shows, Chris is trecking in the Himalaya and the SatPhone broke down. The TOC 00:30 The Wacom Intuos Tablet on stage 07:30 GIMP and the tablet 11:20 Using the tablet 12:35 Brush dynamics 16:00 Advantages over the mouse 17:40 Good bye to all non German speakers 18:20 Promotion for devvv’s GIMP DVD 21:30 Second end of the show This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. A Graphics Tablet is a great input device for working with GIMP. You’ll see what to look for (pressure sensitivity and size) and how to integate them into GIMP. My tablet is from Wacom, the market leader. But a lot of other good ones are around too. At the end of the show I have a essage for the German speaking audience. There is no German Meet the GIMP, but Berhnhard Stockmann (devvv) from Gimpusers.de and Gimpusers.com has made a nice video DVD about GIMP. Also a DVD about building WEB sites. Both are available for 29.95€ in book stores and online. I gave the GIMP DVD to Boris form Happy Shooting, a German language podcast about photography. Boris (nsonic) and Chris (Tips from the Top Floor) are well known podcasters and as a team they are simply great. Useful information and a lot of “dumme Sprüche”. Just now there are no shows, Chris is trecking in the Himalaya and the SatPhone broke down. The TOC 00:30 The Wacom Intuos Tablet on stage 07:30 GIMP and the tablet 11:20 Using the tablet 12:35 Brush dynamics 16:00 Advantages over the mouse 17:40 Good bye to all non German speakers 18:20 Promotion for devvv’s GIMP DVD 21:30 Second end of the show This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. tag:odeo.com,2009-05-12,24559256 Tue, 12 May 2009 09:10:07 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, tablet, Wacom photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24541858-Episode-100-Windtunnels-and-Tonal-Ranges This is Show 100! Exactly 2 years after I put the first posting on the blog. I wanted to do something special - for example an interview with Sven Neumann. But he has had no time - you’ll hear about it in the video. But I could help out a bit with a scientific project - finding out how much a airplane wing bends in a wind tunnel. This is still work in progress, you can follow it here. You can find the cross stitch script in the forum. And then we have a new script out of our secret Script Writers Guild. It’s the tonal range relection script and it can do some very weird stuff. And either Bert has bugged my computer or can read minds - he included the stuff I wanted to have without having seen the video. The TOC 00:20 Show 100! 01:00 Congratulations to Sven Neumann! 04:10 The problem - measure wing deformation 06:20 The images 07:00 Stacking images in layers 07:30 Aligning the images 12:20 Cropping 12:50 Saving as XCF 13:20 Calibrating the setup 14:30 Measurement tool 15:... This is Show 100! Exactly 2 years after I put the first posting on the blog. I wanted to do something special - for example an interview with Sven Neumann. But he has had no time - you’ll hear about it in the video. But I could help out a bit with a scientific project - finding out how much a airplane wing bends in a wind tunnel. This is still work in progress, you can follow it here. You can find the cross stitch script in the forum. And then we have a new script out of our secret Script Writers Guild. It’s the tonal range relection script and it can do some very weird stuff. And either Bert has bugged my computer or can read minds - he included the stuff I wanted to have without having seen the video. The TOC 00:20 Show 100! 01:00 Congratulations to Sven Neumann! 04:10 The problem - measure wing deformation 06:20 The images 07:00 Stacking images in layers 07:30 Aligning the images 12:20 Cropping 12:50 Saving as XCF 13:20 Calibrating the setup 14:30 Measurement tool 15:20 Making a grid 17:00 Putting lines on the wing tips 19:30 Making a grid with horizontal lines 20:30 Turning the grid into a ruler 21:10 Beware of wrong selections 22:10 Pintin straigth lines 24:30 Save each layer as JPEG 26:20 Recap 28:00 Happy Birthday! 29:30 Cross stich script 30:30 Tonal range selection script 32:20 Simple DRI/HDR with the script 33:10 Installing the script 34:50 Testing the script 43:20 Wrapping up the script 44:50 Selection instead of new layer 46:00 Good bye and spread the word! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. This is Show 100! Exactly 2 years after I put the first posting on the blog. I wanted to do something special - for example an interview with Sven Neumann. But he has had no time - you’ll hear about it in the video. But I could help out a bit with a scientific project - finding out how much a airplane wing bends in a wind tunnel. This is still work in progress, you can follow it here. You can find the cross stitch script in the forum. And then we have a new script out of our secret Script Writers Guild. It’s the tonal range relection script and it can do some very weird stuff. And either Bert has bugged my computer or can read minds - he included the stuff I wanted to have without having seen the video. The TOC 00:20 Show 100! 01:00 Congratulations to Sven Neumann! 04:10 The problem - measure wing deformation 06:20 The images 07:00 Stacking images in layers 07:30 Aligning the images 12:20 Cropping 12:50 Saving as XCF 13:20 Calibrating the setup 14:30 Measurement tool 15:20 Making a grid 17:00 Putting lines on the wing tips 19:30 Making a grid with horizontal lines 20:30 Turning the grid into a ruler 21:10 Beware of wrong selections 22:10 Pintin straigth lines 24:30 Save each layer as JPEG 26:20 Recap 28:00 Happy Birthday! 29:30 Cross stich script 30:30 Tonal range selection script 32:20 Simple DRI/HDR with the script 33:10 Installing the script 34:50 Testing the script 43:20 Wrapping up the script 44:50 Selection instead of new layer 46:00 Good bye and spread the word! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. tag:odeo.com,2009-05-05,24541858 Tue, 05 May 2009 10:03:32 -0700 no Meet the GIMP measurement, GIMP, Gimp video tutorial, #100 photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24516043-Episode-099-GIMP-goes-Acrylic This is the last episode where I have to look out for the leading zero in the episode number! Philippe is doing it from scratch again, this time unscratched acrylic glass, cut with a laser and mounted on a brushed steel plate. Acrylic glass panes (or other kinds of glass panes) are not only transparent. They reflect externally and internally, distort, cast shadows and more. So it’s a lot to think about to get a believable image. In the companion file there are also two scripts from Philippe for making such glass panes with letters cut into them. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. This is the last episode where I have to look out for the leading zero in the episode number! Philippe is doing it from scratch again, this time unscratched acrylic glass, cut with a laser and mounted on a brushed steel plate. Acrylic glass panes (or other kinds of glass panes) are not only transparent. They reflect externally and internally, distort, cast shadows and more. So it’s a lot to think about to get a believable image. In the companion file there are also two scripts from Philippe for making such glass panes with letters cut into them. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. This is the last episode where I have to look out for the leading zero in the episode number! Philippe is doing it from scratch again, this time unscratched acrylic glass, cut with a laser and mounted on a brushed steel plate. Acrylic glass panes (or other kinds of glass panes) are not only transparent. They reflect externally and internally, distort, cast shadows and more. So it’s a lot to think about to get a believable image. In the companion file there are also two scripts from Philippe for making such glass panes with letters cut into them. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. tag:odeo.com,2009-04-28,24516043 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:29:17 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP photography http://odeo.com/episodes/25364498-Episode-098-How-much-GIMP What is the right amount of manipulating forging post processing a photograph? Is there “enough”? Too much? In this epsiode I try to get into these questions – but don’t expect an answer. I start with a snap shot with a bad composition. A crop, a bit of curves and sharpening and the snap shot turned into a better snap shot. The image to the right is not made with GIMP – it’s shot with a “Subjektiv” and had only it’s curve tweaked a bit. The Subjektiv is a lens with exchangable optics. I used an acrylic lens, like in the Holga. There is also a glas lens which even can be stopped down with an aperture, a pinhole and a zone plate. So this image is a “real” photography – would there be a difference if I had shot it with a good lens and made it look like this in GIMP? I was inspired to this topic by these two discussions in the forum. And I have started a third about the question I posted here. Got an opinion? Join u... What is the right amount of manipulating forging post processing a photograph? Is there “enough”? Too much? In this epsiode I try to get into these questions – but don’t expect an answer. I start with a snap shot with a bad composition. A crop, a bit of curves and sharpening and the snap shot turned into a better snap shot. The image to the right is not made with GIMP – it’s shot with a “Subjektiv” and had only it’s curve tweaked a bit. The Subjektiv is a lens with exchangable optics. I used an acrylic lens, like in the Holga. There is also a glas lens which even can be stopped down with an aperture, a pinhole and a zone plate. So this image is a “real” photography – would there be a difference if I had shot it with a good lens and made it look like this in GIMP? I was inspired to this topic by these two discussions in the forum. And I have started a third about the question I posted here. Got an opinion? Join us there or post your comments here in the show blog. There will probably no show next week. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. What is the right amount of manipulating forging post processing a photograph? Is there “enough”? Too much? In this epsiode I try to get into these questions – but don’t expect an answer. I start with a snap shot with a bad composition. A crop, a bit of curves and sharpening and the snap shot turned into a better snap shot. The image to the right is not made with GIMP – it’s shot with a “Subjektiv” and had only it’s curve tweaked a bit. The Subjektiv is a lens with exchangable optics. I used an acrylic lens, like in the Holga. There is also a glas lens which even can be stopped down with an aperture, a pinhole and a zone plate. So this image is a “real” photography – would there be a difference if I had shot it with a good lens and made it look like this in GIMP? I was inspired to this topic by these two discussions in the forum. And I have started a third about the question I posted here. Got an opinion? Join us there or post your comments here in the show blog. There will probably no show next week. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. tag:odeo.com,2009-04-14,25364498 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:15:40 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24448842-Episode-098-How-much-GIMP What is the right amount of manipulating forging post processing a photograph? Is there “enough”? Too much? In this epsiode I try to get into these questions - but don’t expect an answer. I start with a snap shot with a bad composition. A crop, a bit of curves and sharpening and the snap shot turned into a better snap shot. The image to the right is not made with GIMP - it’s shot with a “Subjektiv” and had only it’s curve tweaked a bit. The Subjektiv is a lens with exchangable optics. I used an acrylic lens, like in the Holga. There is also a glas lens which even can be stopped down with an aperture, a pinhole and a zone plate. So this image is a “real” photography - would there be a difference if I had shot it with a good lens and made it look like this in GIMP? I was inspired to this topic by these two discussions in the forum. And I have started a third about the question I posted here. Got an opinion? Join us there or post yo... What is the right amount of manipulating forging post processing a photograph? Is there “enough”? Too much? In this epsiode I try to get into these questions - but don’t expect an answer. I start with a snap shot with a bad composition. A crop, a bit of curves and sharpening and the snap shot turned into a better snap shot. The image to the right is not made with GIMP - it’s shot with a “Subjektiv” and had only it’s curve tweaked a bit. The Subjektiv is a lens with exchangable optics. I used an acrylic lens, like in the Holga. There is also a glas lens which even can be stopped down with an aperture, a pinhole and a zone plate. So this image is a “real” photography - would there be a difference if I had shot it with a good lens and made it look like this in GIMP? I was inspired to this topic by these two discussions in the forum. And I have started a third about the question I posted here. Got an opinion? Join us there or post your comments here in the show blog. There will probably no show next week. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. What is the right amount of manipulating forging post processing a photograph? Is there “enough”? Too much? In this epsiode I try to get into these questions - but don’t expect an answer. I start with a snap shot with a bad composition. A crop, a bit of curves and sharpening and the snap shot turned into a better snap shot. The image to the right is not made with GIMP - it’s shot with a “Subjektiv” and had only it’s curve tweaked a bit. The Subjektiv is a lens with exchangable optics. I used an acrylic lens, like in the Holga. There is also a glas lens which even can be stopped down with an aperture, a pinhole and a zone plate. So this image is a “real” photography - would there be a difference if I had shot it with a good lens and made it look like this in GIMP? I was inspired to this topic by these two discussions in the forum. And I have started a third about the question I posted here. Got an opinion? Join us there or post your comments here in the show blog. There will probably no show next week. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. tag:odeo.com,2009-04-14,24448842 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:15:40 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial photography http://odeo.com/episodes/25364499-Episode-097-Shrinking-2 After a welcome to the (hopefully) lots of new viewers from the Miro Guide, I continue to shrink a real building site to a model train scale. An important tool for this is the Focus Blur plugin. The homepage needs some assistance in translation from Japanese to English – are you able to help? The Focus Blur plugin needs a “Depth Map”, a grayscale image which defines the amount of blur  in each part of the image. Rob A has made a tutorial about making a believable depth map. It’s not enough to make a simple gradient, you have to keep things with the same distance to the focal plane on the same level of gray and make the gradients follow the planes in the image. And here my subect turned out to be too complicated. My result is not as good as I wanted. If I wanted to do this again I would choose a different subject and camera position. Higher up and farther away and so including more stuff. And I would look out for regular shapes in the area to make building a d... After a welcome to the (hopefully) lots of new viewers from the Miro Guide, I continue to shrink a real building site to a model train scale. An important tool for this is the Focus Blur plugin. The homepage needs some assistance in translation from Japanese to English – are you able to help? The Focus Blur plugin needs a “Depth Map”, a grayscale image which defines the amount of blur  in each part of the image. Rob A has made a tutorial about making a believable depth map. It’s not enough to make a simple gradient, you have to keep things with the same distance to the focal plane on the same level of gray and make the gradients follow the planes in the image. And here my subect turned out to be too complicated. My result is not as good as I wanted. If I wanted to do this again I would choose a different subject and camera position. Higher up and farther away and so including more stuff. And I would look out for regular shapes in the area to make building a depth map easier. (EDIT 04/03/09) A much better example than I was able to produce was made by the above mentioned Rob A. He describes his process in the forum thread. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. After a welcome to the (hopefully) lots of new viewers from the Miro Guide, I continue to shrink a real building site to a model train scale. An important tool for this is the Focus Blur plugin. The homepage needs some assistance in translation from Japanese to English – are you able to help? The Focus Blur plugin needs a “Depth Map”, a grayscale image which defines the amount of blur  in each part of the image. Rob A has made a tutorial about making a believable depth map. It’s not enough to make a simple gradient, you have to keep things with the same distance to the focal plane on the same level of gray and make the gradients follow the planes in the image. And here my subect turned out to be too complicated. My result is not as good as I wanted. If I wanted to do this again I would choose a different subject and camera position. Higher up and farther away and so including more stuff. And I would look out for regular shapes in the area to make building a depth map easier. (EDIT 04/03/09) A much better example than I was able to produce was made by the above mentioned Rob A. He describes his process in the forum thread. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. tag:odeo.com,2009-04-07,25364499 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:31:52 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial, tilt shift, focus blur, miniaturisation photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24422866-Episode-097-Shrinking-2 After a welcome to the (hopefully) lots of new viewers from the Miro Guide, I continue to shrink a real building site to a model train scale. An important tool for this is the Focus Blur plugin. The homepage needs some assistance in translation from Japanese to English - are you able to help? The Focus Blur plugin needs a “Depth Map”, a grayscale image which defines the amount of blur  in each part of the image. Rob A has made a tutorial about making a believable depth map. It’s not enough to make a simple gradient, you have to keep things with the same distance to the focal plane on the same level of gray and make the gradients follow the planes in the image. And here my subect turned out to be too complicated. My result is not as good as I wanted. If I wanted to do this again I would choose a different subject and camera position. Higher up and farther away and so including more stuff. And I would look out for regular shapes in the area to make building a depth m... After a welcome to the (hopefully) lots of new viewers from the Miro Guide, I continue to shrink a real building site to a model train scale. An important tool for this is the Focus Blur plugin. The homepage needs some assistance in translation from Japanese to English - are you able to help? The Focus Blur plugin needs a “Depth Map”, a grayscale image which defines the amount of blur  in each part of the image. Rob A has made a tutorial about making a believable depth map. It’s not enough to make a simple gradient, you have to keep things with the same distance to the focal plane on the same level of gray and make the gradients follow the planes in the image. And here my subect turned out to be too complicated. My result is not as good as I wanted. If I wanted to do this again I would choose a different subject and camera position. Higher up and farther away and so including more stuff. And I would look out for regular shapes in the area to make building a depth map easier. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. After a welcome to the (hopefully) lots of new viewers from the Miro Guide, I continue to shrink a real building site to a model train scale. An important tool for this is the Focus Blur plugin. The homepage needs some assistance in translation from Japanese to English - are you able to help? The Focus Blur plugin needs a “Depth Map”, a grayscale image which defines the amount of blur  in each part of the image. Rob A has made a tutorial about making a believable depth map. It’s not enough to make a simple gradient, you have to keep things with the same distance to the focal plane on the same level of gray and make the gradients follow the planes in the image. And here my subect turned out to be too complicated. My result is not as good as I wanted. If I wanted to do this again I would choose a different subject and camera position. Higher up and farther away and so including more stuff. And I would look out for regular shapes in the area to make building a depth map easier. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. tag:odeo.com,2009-04-07,24422866 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:31:52 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial, tilt shift, focus blur, miniaturisation photography http://odeo.com/episodes/25364500-Episode-096-Carved-in-Stone Philippe has a problem with Software Patents – and so he makes a headstone for them. Todays topic is simulating a stone carving. Again Philippe starts with an analysis of the real world: how do we perceive the depth of a carving? It’s not only a drop shadow, like in so many illustrations. For “believability” additional highlights and some effects from dirt and imperfections are also important. Then he constructs these details in a very convincing way. From the forum discussion about this episode: Regarding the theme of software-patents I want to bring in the link to the petition against software-patents here: http://www.stopsoftwarepatents.eu/ Please read the information and sign the petition… …and spread the word, please! Softwarepatents are absolutely contarily to free software, and even commercial (and also closed source software) vendors can get problems by them. But for open source they are extremely unhealthy. For Software there is the copyr... Philippe has a problem with Software Patents – and so he makes a headstone for them. Todays topic is simulating a stone carving. Again Philippe starts with an analysis of the real world: how do we perceive the depth of a carving? It’s not only a drop shadow, like in so many illustrations. For “believability” additional highlights and some effects from dirt and imperfections are also important. Then he constructs these details in a very convincing way. From the forum discussion about this episode: Regarding the theme of software-patents I want to bring in the link to the petition against software-patents here: http://www.stopsoftwarepatents.eu/ Please read the information and sign the petition… …and spread the word, please! Softwarepatents are absolutely contarily to free software, and even commercial (and also closed source software) vendors can get problems by them. But for open source they are extremely unhealthy. For Software there is the copyright law, and it’s well suited. Software-patents are… well, how to say it… they are… hmhhhh, they are …. evil.(GIMPel) Nothing to add! Sign the petition, they are not dead yet. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. Philippe has a problem with Software Patents – and so he makes a headstone for them. Todays topic is simulating a stone carving. Again Philippe starts with an analysis of the real world: how do we perceive the depth of a carving? It’s not only a drop shadow, like in so many illustrations. For “believability” additional highlights and some effects from dirt and imperfections are also important. Then he constructs these details in a very convincing way. From the forum discussion about this episode: Regarding the theme of software-patents I want to bring in the link to the petition against software-patents here: http://www.stopsoftwarepatents.eu/ Please read the information and sign the petition… …and spread the word, please! Softwarepatents are absolutely contarily to free software, and even commercial (and also closed source software) vendors can get problems by them. But for open source they are extremely unhealthy. For Software there is the copyright law, and it’s well suited. Software-patents are… well, how to say it… they are… hmhhhh, they are …. evil.(GIMPel) Nothing to add! Sign the petition, they are not dead yet. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. tag:odeo.com,2009-04-02,25364500 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:49:55 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial, depth, from scratch, stone carving photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24396901-Episode-096-Carved-in-Stone Philippe has a problem with Software Patents - and so he makes a headstone for them. Todays topic is simulating a stone carving. Again Philippe starts with an analysis of the real world: how do we perceive the depth of a carving? It’s not only a drop shadow, like in so many illustrations. For “believability” additional highlights and some effects from dirt and imperfections are also important. Then he constructs these details in a very convincing way. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. Philippe has a problem with Software Patents - and so he makes a headstone for them. Todays topic is simulating a stone carving. Again Philippe starts with an analysis of the real world: how do we perceive the depth of a carving? It’s not only a drop shadow, like in so many illustrations. For “believability” additional highlights and some effects from dirt and imperfections are also important. Then he constructs these details in a very convincing way. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. Philippe has a problem with Software Patents - and so he makes a headstone for them. Todays topic is simulating a stone carving. Again Philippe starts with an analysis of the real world: how do we perceive the depth of a carving? It’s not only a drop shadow, like in so many illustrations. For “believability” additional highlights and some effects from dirt and imperfections are also important. Then he constructs these details in a very convincing way. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. tag:odeo.com,2009-04-02,24396901 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:49:55 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial, depth, from scratch, stone carving photography http://odeo.com/episodes/25364501-Episode-095-Shrinking-1 Again I steal an idea from the forum. It’s making fake tilt shift images. They look like images of model railway landscapes but are made from reality. Have a look at the forum for links to images by Bert and others. I do half of the work in this podcast – planning the image and give the real world a plastic look. Next week I’ll add the focus blur that is so typical for macro shots. But at the start I show that I have learned something from Philippe: Look carefully at an original. The image on the right is a H0 scale model in the sand on the Weser beach – real plastic. The companion file contains the original shots – the xcf will follow next week. The TOC 00:30 Fake tilt shift images 01:50 Analyzing a macro shot of a toy 05:30 The real image 06:30 What shall be in the focus? 13:00 Rotate before crop and resize 16:00 Inside out crop 17:30 Scaling down 18:00 Analyze the plastic look 19:30 Selective sharpening 24:30 Unsharp mask for getting the plastic look... Again I steal an idea from the forum. It’s making fake tilt shift images. They look like images of model railway landscapes but are made from reality. Have a look at the forum for links to images by Bert and others. I do half of the work in this podcast – planning the image and give the real world a plastic look. Next week I’ll add the focus blur that is so typical for macro shots. But at the start I show that I have learned something from Philippe: Look carefully at an original. The image on the right is a H0 scale model in the sand on the Weser beach – real plastic. The companion file contains the original shots – the xcf will follow next week. The TOC 00:30 Fake tilt shift images 01:50 Analyzing a macro shot of a toy 05:30 The real image 06:30 What shall be in the focus? 13:00 Rotate before crop and resize 16:00 Inside out crop 17:30 Scaling down 18:00 Analyze the plastic look 19:30 Selective sharpening 24:30 Unsharp mask for getting the plastic look 28:50 Specular highlights This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. Again I steal an idea from the forum. It’s making fake tilt shift images. They look like images of model railway landscapes but are made from reality. Have a look at the forum for links to images by Bert and others. I do half of the work in this podcast – planning the image and give the real world a plastic look. Next week I’ll add the focus blur that is so typical for macro shots. But at the start I show that I have learned something from Philippe: Look carefully at an original. The image on the right is a H0 scale model in the sand on the Weser beach – real plastic. The companion file contains the original shots – the xcf will follow next week. The TOC 00:30 Fake tilt shift images 01:50 Analyzing a macro shot of a toy 05:30 The real image 06:30 What shall be in the focus? 13:00 Rotate before crop and resize 16:00 Inside out crop 17:30 Scaling down 18:00 Analyze the plastic look 19:30 Selective sharpening 24:30 Unsharp mask for getting the plastic look 28:50 Specular highlights This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. tag:odeo.com,2009-03-31,25364501 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:46:51 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, sharpening, Gimp video tutorial, tilt shift, inside out crop, unsharp mask, selective sharpening photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24390727-Episode-095-Shrinking-1 Again I steal an idea from the forum. It’s making fake tilt shift images. They look like images of model railway landscapes but are made from reality. Have a look at the forum for links to images by Bert and others. I do half of the work in this podcast - planning the image and give the real world a plastic look. Next week I’ll add the focus blur that is so typical for macro shots. But at the start I show that I have learned something from Philippe: Look carefully at an original. The image on the right is a H0 scale model in the sand on the Weser beach - real plastic. The companion file contains the original shots - the xcf will follow next week. The TOC 00:30 Fake tilt shift images 01:50 Analyzing a macro shot of a toy 05:30 The real image 06:30 What shall be in the focus? 13:00 Rotate before crop and resize 16:00 Inside out crop 17:30 Scaling down 18:00 Analyze the plastic look 19:30 Selective sharpening 24:30 Unsharp mask for getting the plastic look 28:50 Specular hi... Again I steal an idea from the forum. It’s making fake tilt shift images. They look like images of model railway landscapes but are made from reality. Have a look at the forum for links to images by Bert and others. I do half of the work in this podcast - planning the image and give the real world a plastic look. Next week I’ll add the focus blur that is so typical for macro shots. But at the start I show that I have learned something from Philippe: Look carefully at an original. The image on the right is a H0 scale model in the sand on the Weser beach - real plastic. The companion file contains the original shots - the xcf will follow next week. The TOC 00:30 Fake tilt shift images 01:50 Analyzing a macro shot of a toy 05:30 The real image 06:30 What shall be in the focus? 13:00 Rotate before crop and resize 16:00 Inside out crop 17:30 Scaling down 18:00 Analyze the plastic look 19:30 Selective sharpening 24:30 Unsharp mask for getting the plastic look 28:50 Specular highlights This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. Again I steal an idea from the forum. It’s making fake tilt shift images. They look like images of model railway landscapes but are made from reality. Have a look at the forum for links to images by Bert and others. I do half of the work in this podcast - planning the image and give the real world a plastic look. Next week I’ll add the focus blur that is so typical for macro shots. But at the start I show that I have learned something from Philippe: Look carefully at an original. The image on the right is a H0 scale model in the sand on the Weser beach - real plastic. The companion file contains the original shots - the xcf will follow next week. The TOC 00:30 Fake tilt shift images 01:50 Analyzing a macro shot of a toy 05:30 The real image 06:30 What shall be in the focus? 13:00 Rotate before crop and resize 16:00 Inside out crop 17:30 Scaling down 18:00 Analyze the plastic look 19:30 Selective sharpening 24:30 Unsharp mask for getting the plastic look 28:50 Specular highlights This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. tag:odeo.com,2009-03-31,24390727 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:46:51 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, sharpening, Gimp video tutorial, tilt shift, inside out crop, unsharp mask, selective sharpening photography http://odeo.com/episodes/25364502-Episode-094-Wine-and-Curves It’s curves time again. This powerful tool is in the centre of the stage and I try to explain it’s nearly unlimited power over colours, contrasts and brightness. Worth to learn. This week I visit a vineyard in Missouri (too bad – only via HTTP) and discuss the dangers of blowing out the highlights under overcast sky. Just underexpose a bit when in doubt, you can get detail out of dark areas but 255 white has nothing to save in it. The overexposed sky has killed all the details in a tree that looked over the horizon. I use the curves tool on a layer copy to get the details back and integrate the fixed tree with a layer mask into the original shot. Then I adjust the black and white points and give a little more contrast to the image – of course with the curves tool. Finally I have some fun with – of course – the curves tool and come to an image that is not suitable for a vineyard but for a LSD factory. But they don’t have websites…. The ... It’s curves time again. This powerful tool is in the centre of the stage and I try to explain it’s nearly unlimited power over colours, contrasts and brightness. Worth to learn. This week I visit a vineyard in Missouri (too bad – only via HTTP) and discuss the dangers of blowing out the highlights under overcast sky. Just underexpose a bit when in doubt, you can get detail out of dark areas but 255 white has nothing to save in it. The overexposed sky has killed all the details in a tree that looked over the horizon. I use the curves tool on a layer copy to get the details back and integrate the fixed tree with a layer mask into the original shot. Then I adjust the black and white points and give a little more contrast to the image – of course with the curves tool. Finally I have some fun with – of course – the curves tool and come to an image that is not suitable for a vineyard but for a LSD factory. But they don’t have websites…. The TOC (Kevin, I made one! ) 00:20 Wine, Missouri and the Church 02:50 One image – two views 04:30 The histogram 06:40 Diagnosing overexposure 07:30 DO NOT BLOW OUT THE HIGHLIGHTS!!! 09:25 Histogram details 09:40 Linear and logarithmic 13:50 Blown out tree branches 14:30 Curves tool sight seeing 15:10 The translation line/curve 15:40 Black point 17:50 Set contrast in the curve 18:40 Bend the curve 20:30 Inspector – eye dropper 22:30 Repairing the tree 25:30 Get the blue cast out of the twigs 25:40 Adding a layer mask 29:30 Copy visible in new layer 33:00 “HDR” in a very cheap way 34:30 Power of the curve This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. It’s curves time again. This powerful tool is in the centre of the stage and I try to explain it’s nearly unlimited power over colours, contrasts and brightness. Worth to learn. This week I visit a vineyard in Missouri (too bad – only via HTTP) and discuss the dangers of blowing out the highlights under overcast sky. Just underexpose a bit when in doubt, you can get detail out of dark areas but 255 white has nothing to save in it. The overexposed sky has killed all the details in a tree that looked over the horizon. I use the curves tool on a layer copy to get the details back and integrate the fixed tree with a layer mask into the original shot. Then I adjust the black and white points and give a little more contrast to the image – of course with the curves tool. Finally I have some fun with – of course – the curves tool and come to an image that is not suitable for a vineyard but for a LSD factory. But they don’t have websites…. The TOC (Kevin, I made one! ) 00:20 Wine, Missouri and the Church 02:50 One image – two views 04:30 The histogram 06:40 Diagnosing overexposure 07:30 DO NOT BLOW OUT THE HIGHLIGHTS!!! 09:25 Histogram details 09:40 Linear and logarithmic 13:50 Blown out tree branches 14:30 Curves tool sight seeing 15:10 The translation line/curve 15:40 Black point 17:50 Set contrast in the curve 18:40 Bend the curve 20:30 Inspector – eye dropper 22:30 Repairing the tree 25:30 Get the blue cast out of the twigs 25:40 Adding a layer mask 29:30 Copy visible in new layer 33:00 “HDR” in a very cheap way 34:30 Power of the curve This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. tag:odeo.com,2009-03-24,25364502 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:13:40 -0700 no Meet the GIMP beginner, GIMP, exposure, Gimp video tutorial, meetthegimp, Photocast Network, curves, curves tool photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24354014-Episode-94-Wine-and-Curves It’s curves time again. This powerful tool is in the centre of the stage and I try to explain it’s nearly unlimited power over colours, contrasts and brightness. Worth to learn. This week I visit a vineyard in Missouri (too bad - only via HTTP) and discuss the dangers of blowing out the highlights under overcast sky. Just underexpose a bit when in doubt, you can get detail out of dark areas but 255 white has nothing to save in it. The overexposed sky has killed all the details in a tree that looked over the horizon. I use the curves tool on a layer copy to get the details back and integrate the fixed tree with a layer mask into the original shot. Then I adjust the black and white points and give a little more contrast to the image - of course with the curves tool. Finally I have some fun with - of course - the curves tool and come to an image that is not suitable for a vineyard but for a LSD factory. But they don’t have websites…. The TOC (Kevin, I made one! ... It’s curves time again. This powerful tool is in the centre of the stage and I try to explain it’s nearly unlimited power over colours, contrasts and brightness. Worth to learn. This week I visit a vineyard in Missouri (too bad - only via HTTP) and discuss the dangers of blowing out the highlights under overcast sky. Just underexpose a bit when in doubt, you can get detail out of dark areas but 255 white has nothing to save in it. The overexposed sky has killed all the details in a tree that looked over the horizon. I use the curves tool on a layer copy to get the details back and integrate the fixed tree with a layer mask into the original shot. Then I adjust the black and white points and give a little more contrast to the image - of course with the curves tool. Finally I have some fun with - of course - the curves tool and come to an image that is not suitable for a vineyard but for a LSD factory. But they don’t have websites…. The TOC (Kevin, I made one! ) 00:20 Wine, Missouri and the Church 02:50 One image - two views 04:30 The histogram 06:40 Diagnosing overexposure 07:30 DO NOT BLOW OUT THE HIGHLIGHTS!!! 09:25 Histogram details 09:40 Linear and logarithmic 13:50 Blown out tree branches 14:30 Curves tool sight seeing 15:10 The translation line/curve 15:40 Black point 17:50 Set contrast in the curve 18:40 Bend the curve 20:30 Inspector - eye dropper 22:30 Repairing the tree 25:30 Get the blue cast out of the twigs 25:40 Adding a layer mask 29:30 Copy visible in new layer 33:00 “HDR” in a very cheap way 34:30 Power of the curve This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. It’s curves time again. This powerful tool is in the centre of the stage and I try to explain it’s nearly unlimited power over colours, contrasts and brightness. Worth to learn. This week I visit a vineyard in Missouri (too bad - only via HTTP) and discuss the dangers of blowing out the highlights under overcast sky. Just underexpose a bit when in doubt, you can get detail out of dark areas but 255 white has nothing to save in it. The overexposed sky has killed all the details in a tree that looked over the horizon. I use the curves tool on a layer copy to get the details back and integrate the fixed tree with a layer mask into the original shot. Then I adjust the black and white points and give a little more contrast to the image - of course with the curves tool. Finally I have some fun with - of course - the curves tool and come to an image that is not suitable for a vineyard but for a LSD factory. But they don’t have websites…. The TOC (Kevin, I made one! ) 00:20 Wine, Missouri and the Church 02:50 One image - two views 04:30 The histogram 06:40 Diagnosing overexposure 07:30 DO NOT BLOW OUT THE HIGHLIGHTS!!! 09:25 Histogram details 09:40 Linear and logarithmic 13:50 Blown out tree branches 14:30 Curves tool sight seeing 15:10 The translation line/curve 15:40 Black point 17:50 Set contrast in the curve 18:40 Bend the curve 20:30 Inspector - eye dropper 22:30 Repairing the tree 25:30 Get the blue cast out of the twigs 25:40 Adding a layer mask 29:30 Copy visible in new layer 33:00 “HDR” in a very cheap way 34:30 Power of the curve This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. tag:odeo.com,2009-03-24,24354014 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:13:40 -0700 no Meet the GIMP beginner, GIMP, exposure, Gimp video tutorial, meetthegimp, Photocast Network, curves, curves tool photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24415732-Episode-094-Wine-and-Curves It’s curves time again. This powerful tool is in the centre of the stage and I try to explain it’s nearly unlimited power over colours, contrasts and brightness. Worth to learn. This week I visit a vineyard in Missouri (too bad - only via HTTP) and discuss the dangers of blowing out the highlights under overcast sky. Just underexpose a bit when in doubt, you can get detail out of dark areas but 255 white has nothing to save in it. The overexposed sky has killed all the details in a tree that looked over the horizon. I use the curves tool on a layer copy to get the details back and integrate the fixed tree with a layer mask into the original shot. Then I adjust the black and white points and give a little more contrast to the image - of course with the curves tool. Finally I have some fun with - of course - the curves tool and come to an image that is not suitable for a vineyard but for a LSD factory. But they don’t have websites…. The TOC (Kevin, I made one! ... It’s curves time again. This powerful tool is in the centre of the stage and I try to explain it’s nearly unlimited power over colours, contrasts and brightness. Worth to learn. This week I visit a vineyard in Missouri (too bad - only via HTTP) and discuss the dangers of blowing out the highlights under overcast sky. Just underexpose a bit when in doubt, you can get detail out of dark areas but 255 white has nothing to save in it. The overexposed sky has killed all the details in a tree that looked over the horizon. I use the curves tool on a layer copy to get the details back and integrate the fixed tree with a layer mask into the original shot. Then I adjust the black and white points and give a little more contrast to the image - of course with the curves tool. Finally I have some fun with - of course - the curves tool and come to an image that is not suitable for a vineyard but for a LSD factory. But they don’t have websites…. The TOC (Kevin, I made one! ) 00:20 Wine, Missouri and the Church 02:50 One image - two views 04:30 The histogram 06:40 Diagnosing overexposure 07:30 DO NOT BLOW OUT THE HIGHLIGHTS!!! 09:25 Histogram details 09:40 Linear and logarithmic 13:50 Blown out tree branches 14:30 Curves tool sight seeing 15:10 The translation line/curve 15:40 Black point 17:50 Set contrast in the curve 18:40 Bend the curve 20:30 Inspector - eye dropper 22:30 Repairing the tree 25:30 Get the blue cast out of the twigs 25:40 Adding a layer mask 29:30 Copy visible in new layer 33:00 “HDR” in a very cheap way 34:30 Power of the curve This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. It’s curves time again. This powerful tool is in the centre of the stage and I try to explain it’s nearly unlimited power over colours, contrasts and brightness. Worth to learn. This week I visit a vineyard in Missouri (too bad - only via HTTP) and discuss the dangers of blowing out the highlights under overcast sky. Just underexpose a bit when in doubt, you can get detail out of dark areas but 255 white has nothing to save in it. The overexposed sky has killed all the details in a tree that looked over the horizon. I use the curves tool on a layer copy to get the details back and integrate the fixed tree with a layer mask into the original shot. Then I adjust the black and white points and give a little more contrast to the image - of course with the curves tool. Finally I have some fun with - of course - the curves tool and come to an image that is not suitable for a vineyard but for a LSD factory. But they don’t have websites…. The TOC (Kevin, I made one! ) 00:20 Wine, Missouri and the Church 02:50 One image - two views 04:30 The histogram 06:40 Diagnosing overexposure 07:30 DO NOT BLOW OUT THE HIGHLIGHTS!!! 09:25 Histogram details 09:40 Linear and logarithmic 13:50 Blown out tree branches 14:30 Curves tool sight seeing 15:10 The translation line/curve 15:40 Black point 17:50 Set contrast in the curve 18:40 Bend the curve 20:30 Inspector - eye dropper 22:30 Repairing the tree 25:30 Get the blue cast out of the twigs 25:40 Adding a layer mask 29:30 Copy visible in new layer 33:00 “HDR” in a very cheap way 34:30 Power of the curve This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. tag:odeo.com,2009-03-24,24415732 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:13:40 -0700 no Meet the GIMP beginner, GIMP, exposure, Gimp video tutorial, meetthegimp, Photocast Network, curves, curves tool photography http://odeo.com/episodes/25364503-Episode-093-Isolation In this episode I try to isolate a subject from the background. There are a lot of ways to do this – I chose to make a layer mask with the threshold tool. Selecting with the path tool is an other option – see the comments to this post. To get rid of the artificial look I feathered (blurred) the edge of the mask a bit. This gives a soft edge. The subject of this image is the logo of the Weltladen in Bremen. This is a shop with fair trade products. In the past these products were often bad in quality and high in price, but this has changed. Now the goal of a lot of fair trade organisations is to get the producers to good quality for a competitive price and make them fit for competing in the regular markets. By going mostly organic they can get more money for the products. We buy there all our chocolate (in the box with a bulk discount ) , wine, orange and other juices, rice and even a honey from southern Chile. Philippe considers this type of honey as the best from Chile a... In this episode I try to isolate a subject from the background. There are a lot of ways to do this – I chose to make a layer mask with the threshold tool. Selecting with the path tool is an other option – see the comments to this post. To get rid of the artificial look I feathered (blurred) the edge of the mask a bit. This gives a soft edge. The subject of this image is the logo of the Weltladen in Bremen. This is a shop with fair trade products. In the past these products were often bad in quality and high in price, but this has changed. Now the goal of a lot of fair trade organisations is to get the producers to good quality for a competitive price and make them fit for competing in the regular markets. By going mostly organic they can get more money for the products. We buy there all our chocolate (in the box with a bulk discount ) , wine, orange and other juices, rice and even a honey from southern Chile. Philippe considers this type of honey as the best from Chile and recommended mixing it with yoghurt. Exellent! TOC 00:20 Fairtrade shop 01:42 The initial image 02:05 Create a layer to be used later as a layer-mask 02:50 The problem with using the threshold tool 03:45 Try doing it in peices 04:40 Use the selection tool to keep the part we want 06:15 Repeat for the next zone 08:20 Join the parts together with merge visible layers 09:00 Fine-tuning 09:47 – trying to find the biggest contrast using the channels 12:00 – paint in the missing parts 14:40 – invert colours to tidy-up the edges 16:00 Make the layer mask 17:30 More fine tuning 18:25 Smooth the edges 18:30 – select the wanted area 20:00 – feather the edges 21:00 – fill the unwanted areas to make them transparent 22:00 More fine tuning 23:53 Brighten the catch-lights in the eyes 26:52 The End TOC kindly made by Kevin In this episode I try to isolate a subject from the background. There are a lot of ways to do this – I chose to make a layer mask with the threshold tool. Selecting with the path tool is an other option – see the comments to this post. To get rid of the artificial look I feathered (blurred) the edge of the mask a bit. This gives a soft edge. The subject of this image is the logo of the Weltladen in Bremen. This is a shop with fair trade products. In the past these products were often bad in quality and high in price, but this has changed. Now the goal of a lot of fair trade organisations is to get the producers to good quality for a competitive price and make them fit for competing in the regular markets. By going mostly organic they can get more money for the products. We buy there all our chocolate (in the box with a bulk discount ) , wine, orange and other juices, rice and even a honey from southern Chile. Philippe considers this type of honey as the best from Chile and recommended mixing it with yoghurt. Exellent! TOC 00:20 Fairtrade shop 01:42 The initial image 02:05 Create a layer to be used later as a layer-mask 02:50 The problem with using the threshold tool 03:45 Try doing it in peices 04:40 Use the selection tool to keep the part we want 06:15 Repeat for the next zone 08:20 Join the parts together with merge visible layers 09:00 Fine-tuning 09:47 – trying to find the biggest contrast using the channels 12:00 – paint in the missing parts 14:40 – invert colours to tidy-up the edges 16:00 Make the layer mask 17:30 More fine tuning 18:25 Smooth the edges 18:30 – select the wanted area 20:00 – feather the edges 21:00 – fill the unwanted areas to make them transparent 22:00 More fine tuning 23:53 Brighten the catch-lights in the eyes 26:52 The End TOC kindly made by Kevin tag:odeo.com,2009-03-18,25364503 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:21:42 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, background, Gimp video tutorial, isolate photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24324606-Episode-093-Isolation In this episode I try to isolate a subject from the background. Blog post will be updated - I have no time at the moment. In this episode I try to isolate a subject from the background. Blog post will be updated - I have no time at the moment. In this episode I try to isolate a subject from the background. Blog post will be updated - I have no time at the moment. tag:odeo.com,2009-03-18,24324606 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:21:42 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, background, Gimp video tutorial, isolate photography http://odeo.com/episodes/25364504-Episode-092-DAVID-for-President Note: Use “right click” and “Save as” to download the image file. Somehow Podpress doesn’t get it…. It’s Philippe’s turn again. Today he starts with an image of his son David and turns it into a poster like the ones made by Shephard Fairey. We had a show about this topic by Andrew A. Gill, who made a USSR propaganda style poster out of a portrait of President Roosevelt. Philippe uses basically the same technique but has some aditional tricks in his sleeve, as separating zones with details that have to be preserved from others that should turn into flat areas and clear lines. And he shows how to get some fine lines into the image to get a half tone shade. The result really looks like a serigraph. As always he starts with carefull watching and planning – a thing I too often forget. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. Note: Use “right click” and “Save as” to download the image file. Somehow Podpress doesn’t get it…. It’s Philippe’s turn again. Today he starts with an image of his son David and turns it into a poster like the ones made by Shephard Fairey. We had a show about this topic by Andrew A. Gill, who made a USSR propaganda style poster out of a portrait of President Roosevelt. Philippe uses basically the same technique but has some aditional tricks in his sleeve, as separating zones with details that have to be preserved from others that should turn into flat areas and clear lines. And he shows how to get some fine lines into the image to get a half tone shade. The result really looks like a serigraph. As always he starts with carefull watching and planning – a thing I too often forget. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. Note: Use “right click” and “Save as” to download the image file. Somehow Podpress doesn’t get it…. It’s Philippe’s turn again. Today he starts with an image of his son David and turns it into a poster like the ones made by Shephard Fairey. We had a show about this topic by Andrew A. Gill, who made a USSR propaganda style poster out of a portrait of President Roosevelt. Philippe uses basically the same technique but has some aditional tricks in his sleeve, as separating zones with details that have to be preserved from others that should turn into flat areas and clear lines. And he shows how to get some fine lines into the image to get a half tone shade. The result really looks like a serigraph. As always he starts with carefull watching and planning – a thing I too often forget. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. tag:odeo.com,2009-03-12,25364504 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:00:14 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, poster, Gimp video tutorial, serigraph photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24295208-Episode-092-DAVID-for-President It’s Philippe’s turn again. Today he starts with an image of his son David and turns it into a poster like the ones made by Shephard Fairey. We had a show about this topic by Andrew A. Gill, who made a USSR propaganda style poster out of a portrait of President Roosevelt. Philippe uses basically the same technique but has some aditional tricks in his sleeve, as separating zones with details that have to be preserved from others that should turn into flat areas and clear lines. And he shows how to get some fine lines into the image to get a half tone shade. The result really looks like a serigraph. As always he starts with carefull watching and planning - a thing I too often forget. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. It’s Philippe’s turn again. Today he starts with an image of his son David and turns it into a poster like the ones made by Shephard Fairey. We had a show about this topic by Andrew A. Gill, who made a USSR propaganda style poster out of a portrait of President Roosevelt. Philippe uses basically the same technique but has some aditional tricks in his sleeve, as separating zones with details that have to be preserved from others that should turn into flat areas and clear lines. And he shows how to get some fine lines into the image to get a half tone shade. The result really looks like a serigraph. As always he starts with carefull watching and planning - a thing I too often forget. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. It’s Philippe’s turn again. Today he starts with an image of his son David and turns it into a poster like the ones made by Shephard Fairey. We had a show about this topic by Andrew A. Gill, who made a USSR propaganda style poster out of a portrait of President Roosevelt. Philippe uses basically the same technique but has some aditional tricks in his sleeve, as separating zones with details that have to be preserved from others that should turn into flat areas and clear lines. And he shows how to get some fine lines into the image to get a half tone shade. The result really looks like a serigraph. As always he starts with carefull watching and planning - a thing I too often forget. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. tag:odeo.com,2009-03-12,24295208 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:00:14 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, poster, Gimp video tutorial, serigraph photography http://odeo.com/episodes/25364505-Episode-091-Growing-Feathers There was a question in the forum about how to desaturate and blur the surroundings of a figure. The blur and desaturation should follow the shape of the figure. I give an answer here – making a selection, storing it in a channel and then grow and feather it according to the needs of the task. More information about selections, feathering. growing and shrinking them is in the outstanding GIMP documentation. The image on the right is not made with this technique. I just tweaked the curve madly and used an insanely amount of unsharp mask. Before all that I’ll take you to the work of Bert, who has combined images of the past and today. The results are stunning, have a look in this thread in the forum. And at the end I’ll go back to the last show and finish the image that I made for selling a twin vacuum gauge. I left out the downscaling and sharpening. This gives the last kick for the image. The gauges are in the science collection of my school now – not on sale... There was a question in the forum about how to desaturate and blur the surroundings of a figure. The blur and desaturation should follow the shape of the figure. I give an answer here – making a selection, storing it in a channel and then grow and feather it according to the needs of the task. More information about selections, feathering. growing and shrinking them is in the outstanding GIMP documentation. The image on the right is not made with this technique. I just tweaked the curve madly and used an insanely amount of unsharp mask. Before all that I’ll take you to the work of Bert, who has combined images of the past and today. The results are stunning, have a look in this thread in the forum. And at the end I’ll go back to the last show and finish the image that I made for selling a twin vacuum gauge. I left out the downscaling and sharpening. This gives the last kick for the image. The gauges are in the science collection of my school now – not on sale. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. There was a question in the forum about how to desaturate and blur the surroundings of a figure. The blur and desaturation should follow the shape of the figure. I give an answer here – making a selection, storing it in a channel and then grow and feather it according to the needs of the task. More information about selections, feathering. growing and shrinking them is in the outstanding GIMP documentation. The image on the right is not made with this technique. I just tweaked the curve madly and used an insanely amount of unsharp mask. Before all that I’ll take you to the work of Bert, who has combined images of the past and today. The results are stunning, have a look in this thread in the forum. And at the end I’ll go back to the last show and finish the image that I made for selling a twin vacuum gauge. I left out the downscaling and sharpening. This gives the last kick for the image. The gauges are in the science collection of my school now – not on sale. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. tag:odeo.com,2009-03-10,25364505 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:37:41 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, grow, feather, selection, Gimp video tutorial photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24284670-Episode-091-Growing-Feathers There was a question in the forum about how to desaturate and blur the surroundings of a figure. The blur and desaturation should follow the shape of the figure. I give an answer here - making a selection, storing it in a channel and then grow and feather it according to the needs of the task. More information about selections, feathering. growing and shrinking them is in the outstanding GIMP documentation. The image on the right is not made with this technique. I just tweaked the curve madly and used an insanely amount of unsharp mask. Before all that I’ll take you to the work of Bert, who has combined images of the past and today. The results are stunning, have a look in this thread in the forum. And at the end I’ll go back to the last show and finish the image that I made for selling a twin vacuum gauge. I left out the downscaling and sharpening. This gives the last kick for the image. The gauges are in the science collection of my school now - not on sale. This work ... There was a question in the forum about how to desaturate and blur the surroundings of a figure. The blur and desaturation should follow the shape of the figure. I give an answer here - making a selection, storing it in a channel and then grow and feather it according to the needs of the task. More information about selections, feathering. growing and shrinking them is in the outstanding GIMP documentation. The image on the right is not made with this technique. I just tweaked the curve madly and used an insanely amount of unsharp mask. Before all that I’ll take you to the work of Bert, who has combined images of the past and today. The results are stunning, have a look in this thread in the forum. And at the end I’ll go back to the last show and finish the image that I made for selling a twin vacuum gauge. I left out the downscaling and sharpening. This gives the last kick for the image. The gauges are in the science collection of my school now - not on sale. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. There was a question in the forum about how to desaturate and blur the surroundings of a figure. The blur and desaturation should follow the shape of the figure. I give an answer here - making a selection, storing it in a channel and then grow and feather it according to the needs of the task. More information about selections, feathering. growing and shrinking them is in the outstanding GIMP documentation. The image on the right is not made with this technique. I just tweaked the curve madly and used an insanely amount of unsharp mask. Before all that I’ll take you to the work of Bert, who has combined images of the past and today. The results are stunning, have a look in this thread in the forum. And at the end I’ll go back to the last show and finish the image that I made for selling a twin vacuum gauge. I left out the downscaling and sharpening. This gives the last kick for the image. The gauges are in the science collection of my school now - not on sale. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. tag:odeo.com,2009-03-10,24284670 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:37:41 -0700 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, grow, feather, selection, Gimp video tutorial photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24242731-Episode-090-Selling-the-Past-on-eBay I want to sell some stuff on eBay and of course I know that it will sell better with a good image. So I set up my “Production Shot Home Studio”, consisting out of a special height adjustable table, a light tent, reflector and flash. EDIT: See the comments for additional tips about IKEA and other suppliers of high grade photographic equipment. After that I edited the image in GIMP to get a nice appearance like in a catalogue. Now I see that the white balance is off….. But I am already thinking about putting this thing into our science lab in school istead of putting it into an auction. We don’t have such low pressure measurement devices. The TOC 00:40 Setting up the shot 02:45 Opening the image in GIMP 04:25 Making a copy 04:40 Levels tool explained (forgot to cut some stuff away) 07:30 Getting the image brighter 08:40 Switching to curves for finetuning 10:50 Ímproving contrast with copy in overlay mode and layer mask 14:20 Getting the background white 17:50 W... I want to sell some stuff on eBay and of course I know that it will sell better with a good image. So I set up my “Production Shot Home Studio”, consisting out of a special height adjustable table, a light tent, reflector and flash. EDIT: See the comments for additional tips about IKEA and other suppliers of high grade photographic equipment. After that I edited the image in GIMP to get a nice appearance like in a catalogue. Now I see that the white balance is off….. But I am already thinking about putting this thing into our science lab in school istead of putting it into an auction. We don’t have such low pressure measurement devices. The TOC 00:40 Setting up the shot 02:45 Opening the image in GIMP 04:25 Making a copy 04:40 Levels tool explained (forgot to cut some stuff away) 07:30 Getting the image brighter 08:40 Switching to curves for finetuning 10:50 Ímproving contrast with copy in overlay mode and layer mask 14:20 Getting the background white 17:50 Wrapping up 19:50 Cropping This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. I want to sell some stuff on eBay and of course I know that it will sell better with a good image. So I set up my “Production Shot Home Studio”, consisting out of a special height adjustable table, a light tent, reflector and flash. EDIT: See the comments for additional tips about IKEA and other suppliers of high grade photographic equipment. After that I edited the image in GIMP to get a nice appearance like in a catalogue. Now I see that the white balance is off….. But I am already thinking about putting this thing into our science lab in school istead of putting it into an auction. We don’t have such low pressure measurement devices. The TOC 00:40 Setting up the shot 02:45 Opening the image in GIMP 04:25 Making a copy 04:40 Levels tool explained (forgot to cut some stuff away) 07:30 Getting the image brighter 08:40 Switching to curves for finetuning 10:50 Ímproving contrast with copy in overlay mode and layer mask 14:20 Getting the background white 17:50 Wrapping up 19:50 Cropping This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. tag:odeo.com,2009-03-03,24242731 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:11:35 -0800 no Meet the GIMP eBay, GIMP, auction, Gimp video tutorial, light tent, product shot photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24192305-Episode-089-Transparency Today I talk about the Eraser Tool, Alpha Channels and Layer Masks - in short: about transparency. Jim got me onto this topic with an email. Jim, consider this the answer. Norman sent me another mail about F-Spot and using RAW and  XCF files. Up to the inclusion of XCF files in the database and an option to get images out of UFRaw in XCF or TIFF, just copy the path of the JPEG with a right click. Store your XCF in the same directory as the F-Spot images and add the tag “HasXCF” So you know that there is a XCF and can search for it. Show 100 is coming up. What shall be in it? I know about the intro, but nothing more. Discuss it in the forum or in the comments. (Sorry, not enough time today for an image and a TOC) Today I talk about the Eraser Tool, Alpha Channels and Layer Masks - in short: about transparency. Jim got me onto this topic with an email. Jim, consider this the answer. Norman sent me another mail about F-Spot and using RAW and  XCF files. Up to the inclusion of XCF files in the database and an option to get images out of UFRaw in XCF or TIFF, just copy the path of the JPEG with a right click. Store your XCF in the same directory as the F-Spot images and add the tag “HasXCF” So you know that there is a XCF and can search for it. Show 100 is coming up. What shall be in it? I know about the intro, but nothing more. Discuss it in the forum or in the comments. (Sorry, not enough time today for an image and a TOC) Today I talk about the Eraser Tool, Alpha Channels and Layer Masks - in short: about transparency. Jim got me onto this topic with an email. Jim, consider this the answer. Norman sent me another mail about F-Spot and using RAW and  XCF files. Up to the inclusion of XCF files in the database and an option to get images out of UFRaw in XCF or TIFF, just copy the path of the JPEG with a right click. Store your XCF in the same directory as the F-Spot images and add the tag “HasXCF” So you know that there is a XCF and can search for it. Show 100 is coming up. What shall be in it? I know about the intro, but nothing more. Discuss it in the forum or in the comments. (Sorry, not enough time today for an image and a TOC) tag:odeo.com,2009-02-24,24192305 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:52:49 -0800 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, eraser, transparency, Gimp video tutorial, meetthegimp, Photocast Network, f-spot, alpha channel, opacity photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24151848-Episode-088-Chile-instead-of-China After reading all your comments to this post and tracing back the origin of the mail I found out that this upcoming device is not from China but Chile. It’s only two letters difference…. OK, it’s a fake - but you should have seen this at one glance. Which device for nerds is shown with a bearded guy and not with someone female and near 20? Thank you to the people who recognized Philippe and kept their fingers away from the keyboard. Philippe shows today how to make a mock up of a device with buttons and more and to combine it with a photograph. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. After reading all your comments to this post and tracing back the origin of the mail I found out that this upcoming device is not from China but Chile. It’s only two letters difference…. OK, it’s a fake - but you should have seen this at one glance. Which device for nerds is shown with a bearded guy and not with someone female and near 20? Thank you to the people who recognized Philippe and kept their fingers away from the keyboard. Philippe shows today how to make a mock up of a device with buttons and more and to combine it with a photograph. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. After reading all your comments to this post and tracing back the origin of the mail I found out that this upcoming device is not from China but Chile. It’s only two letters difference…. OK, it’s a fake - but you should have seen this at one glance. Which device for nerds is shown with a bearded guy and not with someone female and near 20? Thank you to the people who recognized Philippe and kept their fingers away from the keyboard. Philippe shows today how to make a mock up of a device with buttons and more and to combine it with a photograph. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. tag:odeo.com,2009-02-21,24151848 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:17:43 -0800 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial, from scratch photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24119709-Episode-087-The-second-Spot-of-F-Spot-2 This is the second show about F-Spot - one week late because of sound problems. It’s about editing images and exporting them into image sharing sites or into folders. Even a gallery creation function is provided, see the image on the right. The editing is only suitable for simple, quick edits. But you can call GIMP or UFRaw to help with heavier stuff. The images produced by these programs are also stored in the database of F-Spot. Only XCF files are not known to F-Spot - a real drawback in my eyes. Perhaps a later version will include them. At version 0.5 there is still room for an other feature. F-Spot is expandable. You can get a lot of plugins on the F-Spot homepage or write your own. I’ll use F-Spot from now on as my image database solution. F-Spot stores the images in a system of folders (year/month/day), so backup or access with other programs is not a problem. While backing up you should include the F-Spot database, or all your tags will be gone. I shy away from t... This is the second show about F-Spot - one week late because of sound problems. It’s about editing images and exporting them into image sharing sites or into folders. Even a gallery creation function is provided, see the image on the right. The editing is only suitable for simple, quick edits. But you can call GIMP or UFRaw to help with heavier stuff. The images produced by these programs are also stored in the database of F-Spot. Only XCF files are not known to F-Spot - a real drawback in my eyes. Perhaps a later version will include them. At version 0.5 there is still room for an other feature. F-Spot is expandable. You can get a lot of plugins on the F-Spot homepage or write your own. I’ll use F-Spot from now on as my image database solution. F-Spot stores the images in a system of folders (year/month/day), so backup or access with other programs is not a problem. While backing up you should include the F-Spot database, or all your tags will be gone. I shy away from the option to include the metadata in the original files - perhaps I am paranoid. The TOC 02:45 Copy images with drag and drop 03:24 Why I shot in manual mode 04:30 Adjusting colours with F-Spot edit mode 06:15 F-Spot makes new versions of the images 06:30 Export to 23hq, flickr and more sites 09:40 Exporting to GIMP 12:00 Sorry, no XCF supported 13:00 Develop in UFRaw 14:50 More export filters 14:40 Making a Web gallery in seconds 18:00 Adding a tag from the keyboard 18:36 Managing extensions for export and editing This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. This is the second show about F-Spot - one week late because of sound problems. It’s about editing images and exporting them into image sharing sites or into folders. Even a gallery creation function is provided, see the image on the right. The editing is only suitable for simple, quick edits. But you can call GIMP or UFRaw to help with heavier stuff. The images produced by these programs are also stored in the database of F-Spot. Only XCF files are not known to F-Spot - a real drawback in my eyes. Perhaps a later version will include them. At version 0.5 there is still room for an other feature. F-Spot is expandable. You can get a lot of plugins on the F-Spot homepage or write your own. I’ll use F-Spot from now on as my image database solution. F-Spot stores the images in a system of folders (year/month/day), so backup or access with other programs is not a problem. While backing up you should include the F-Spot database, or all your tags will be gone. I shy away from the option to include the metadata in the original files - perhaps I am paranoid. The TOC 02:45 Copy images with drag and drop 03:24 Why I shot in manual mode 04:30 Adjusting colours with F-Spot edit mode 06:15 F-Spot makes new versions of the images 06:30 Export to 23hq, flickr and more sites 09:40 Exporting to GIMP 12:00 Sorry, no XCF supported 13:00 Develop in UFRaw 14:50 More export filters 14:40 Making a Web gallery in seconds 18:00 Adding a tag from the keyboard 18:36 Managing extensions for export and editing This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License. tag:odeo.com,2009-02-17,24119709 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:55:50 -0800 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, Gimp video tutorial, f-spot photography http://odeo.com/episodes/24029247-Episode-086-A-Spot-of-F-Spot-1 Today I explore the program F-Spot. It’s an image multi-tool - you can rate, tag and index your images, store or export them and even do some editing with it. You find the F-Spot homepage at f-spot.org. F-Spot is a program for Linux and the Gnome desktop environment. But there are more programs out there for other Linux flavours and operating systems. For some you can even pay money. I hope that I concentrated enough on the work flow  and not the specialities of this program. The work flow should be the same under all programs. Import, rate, delete the bad stuff, tag and store or post process further. Open Street Map provided the map of Bremen. In the forum we are planning a new design for this web site. More specific, we plan and Daniel does the work. A big thank you to you, Daniel! Please check out the progress at our playground and give us some tips here in the comments or in the forum. If you have registered in the forum and got no mail - please send me an eMail at info@me... Today I explore the program F-Spot. It’s an image multi-tool - you can rate, tag and index your images, store or export them and even do some editing with it. You find the F-Spot homepage at f-spot.org. F-Spot is a program for Linux and the Gnome desktop environment. But there are more programs out there for other Linux flavours and operating systems. For some you can even pay money. I hope that I concentrated enough on the work flow  and not the specialities of this program. The work flow should be the same under all programs. Import, rate, delete the bad stuff, tag and store or post process further. Open Street Map provided the map of Bremen. In the forum we are planning a new design for this web site. More specific, we plan and Daniel does the work. A big thank you to you, Daniel! Please check out the progress at our playground and give us some tips here in the comments or in the forum. If you have registered in the forum and got no mail - please send me an eMail at info@meetthegimp.org. There is a problem with the mail on some servers. Today I explore the program F-Spot. It’s an image multi-tool - you can rate, tag and index your images, store or export them and even do some editing with it. You find the F-Spot homepage at f-spot.org. F-Spot is a program for Linux and the Gnome desktop environment. But there are more programs out there for other Linux flavours and operating systems. For some you can even pay money. I hope that I concentrated enough on the work flow  and not the specialities of this program. The work flow should be the same under all programs. Import, rate, delete the bad stuff, tag and store or post process further. Open Street Map provided the map of Bremen. In the forum we are planning a new design for this web site. More specific, we plan and Daniel does the work. A big thank you to you, Daniel! Please check out the progress at our playground and give us some tips here in the comments or in the forum. If you have registered in the forum and got no mail - please send me an eMail at info@meetthegimp.org. There is a problem with the mail on some servers. tag:odeo.com,2009-02-03,24029247 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:35:45 -0800 no Meet the GIMP GIMP, tagging, Gimp video tutorial, f-spot photography