This episode of the Photocast Network – Focus Ring Podcast features Jeff Curto (Camera Position and the History of Photography podcasts), Martin Bailey (Martin Bailey Photoraphy podcast), Ibarionex Perello (The Candid Frame: A Photography podcast) and Benoit Marchal (Declencheur podcast). They gather to discuss finding a working digital workflow, the importance of the awareness of light and a tie in to great literature, embracing challenges and the use of a camera’s LiveView functionality.
New Focus Ring Podcast
January 5th, 2009“Microsodes” about Inkscape
January 2nd, 2009heathenx and Richard Querin have introduced a new kind of screencasts at their site - “Microsodes”. A microsode is a (relatively) short video about one aspect of Inkscape without the usual context of making a complete drawing. The target audience are Inkscape beginners. A longer Blog entry explains the details.
In the end this can develop into a audiovisual FAQ. Check it out!
“Happy New Year” and 2.6.4 from Sven Neumann
January 1st, 2009This just went through the mailing list:
Happy New Year!
The GIMP developers welcome you in the new year with the fourth bug-fix
release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series. The source can be downloaded from
ftp.gimp.org. Binary packages for the various supported platforms should
become available soon; please check at http://gimp.org/downloads/Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.6.3 to GIMP 2.6.4
======================================* Bugs fixed:
565223 – Perspective transformation jagged edges / comb effect
563985 – jpg save dialog: “cancel” is treated like “commit”
for settings
564087 – Using clone tool on a layer with a part out of canvas
causes crashes
564593 – crash when the drawable is changed while a color tool
is active
564869 – GIMP crashes on selecting Tools->GEGL operation
565138 – python-fu-foggify does not check if image is in rgb mode
563130 – Hue selection mode does not cross the 0-360 degrees line
563179 – Scrollbars not resized when we extend the canvas size
562459 – PF_PALETTE: ‘TypeError’ when used in a plugin that is
registered in <Image>
562427 – Compilation with –as-needed
562386 – PF_SLIDER and PF_SPINNER ‘Step’ values do not change
consistently…
562366 – Default image dimensions are not correctly
transferred in the file/new dialog box
561899 – GIMP can’t save to mounted filesystem if file exists* Updated translations:
Greek (el)
Hindi (hi)
Hungarian (hu)
Italian (it)
Japanese (ja)
Korean (ko)
Slovenian (sl)
Swedish (sv)
Tamil (ta)
Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)Users and distributors are also encouraged to update GEGL to version
0.0.22, which has been released yesterday. The new GEGL release not only
provides some nice speedups, it also features a new vector path
representation infrastructure. This will eventually become used in GIMP
to provide support for editable vector objects.Sven
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I hope packages will follow soon. And a Happy New Year from me too!
Last notes in 2008
December 30th, 2008Joel has a cool interview with Martin Nordholts, one of the GIMP core developers, on his website. Martin is very careful to avoid saying anything that could be interpreted as a time frame, but high bit deptch and non destructive editing is in the pipeline.
Pascal has a new version of UFRaw with Lensfun for Ubuntu out. And he has changed the URL of his repository, update it if you have it in your sources.lst.
I am just going through my 5th Iritis in 2 years, now on the left eye. I can stand daylight again, so I am on my way out of it. But I want to limit my time in front of the LCD until all is clear again.I am now down from London Fog to Gym Shower. 
No promises when I’ll bring the next episode out - but there will be one.
As much as this illness has bothered me - without my first Iritis I wouldn’t have started this project. I did all the planning, first experiments and even the first Blog entry while I was recovering.
A big thank you to all who have helped with contributing work, ideas or money and all the best wishes for you all in the year 2009!
(2009? The promised me a Flying Car for 2000. A shame that I threw these books from the 60’s away…… Could sue them now….. ;-) )
Episode 081: Winter!
December 24th, 2008
This show has a new encoding, so it may not be playable on every device. I wanted to test this thoroughly before rolling it out, but the old converter program has some problems. If you run into problems - it should be playable on any computer with the program VLC.
After a short visit to the Schnoor in Bremen and a Christmas Equipment Shop that is open all year Max makes a winter theme wallpaper.
He constructs a snowflake brush and then makes a multi layerd wallpaper for his computer.
This was the last show for 2008 - I need a bit of a break. Have nice holidays and a happy new year!
Show will be out tomorrow
December 23rd, 2008… a part of it doesn’t render.
Are you late with your cards?
December 22nd, 2008
Card frem Sarah
You can always send an e-card and still be in time.
Max pointed me to this tutorial made by one of his contacts. Nice Work and a nice site to look at.
Video testing help needed
December 20th, 2008I found a ne recipe for encoding the video. I think it’s much better in quality - but is it playing on your device? Please download the new encoded version of Episode 80, test it, compare and leave a comment. I can say it plays on Ubuntu, so no Ubuntu testers needed.
Episode 080: Hi Bert! (Ernie not included)
December 18th, 2008
Podcast Video (36.2MB) [31:37m]: Play in Popup | Download (4593)
Torrent: Download (144) The files used in this video - see also Episode 079: Download (220)
This show is two days late - lots of work and again some eye trouble. This time the other one - but it is working out.
Bert (Ray Adagio on the Forum) is the star of this episode. He has written some great scripts and enhanced others, the Zone Adjustment script for example. And now he has tackled rotation. You just have to mark two points on a vertical or horizontal line and click - the rotation starts. Ok, the tool from the toolbox has way more options, but usually you don’t need them.
Bert has also started a discussion about sharpening in different colour modes. Sharpeneing the “L” of LAB should be the best way, but this involves a lot of lossy math in 8 bit mode. Forget about it. But sharpening the “V” of HSV can be an alternative.
The animation in this post has a lot of artifacts due to the 256 colours of the GIF image. The real ones are better. All the example images are in the companion file of episode 79, not 78 as I said in the video. Only the one with selective sharpening is in the ZIP file for this episode.
I add a way to do a selective or high pass filtering in HSV. Perhaps in a script on a server near you in the future.
Sharpening is a topic that has to covered in later episodes. On can sharpen a colour channel (gree is best most of the time) or use different values for the USM (unsharp mask) algorithm. How that thing really works would be interesting too.
Information about the DOCMA Award 2009 can be found in the forum. I’ll update that tomorrow.
The TOC
00:30 DOCMA Award Challenge
02:30 Subscribe and donate
04:20 Writing scripts
05:00 Rotation script
06:20 Install a script
08:00 Missing folders - no problem
08:45 Using the Rotation script
11:25 Sharpening in LAB?
12:30 HSV and LAB
14:45 Differences between RGB, HSV and LAB sharpening
20:40 Conclusion
21:15 Decompose
22:00 Unsharp mask
23:30 Adding a layer mask for selective sharpening
24:00 Edge detection
25:30 Temporary layer for controlling the effect
27:30 Recompose the image
29:00 Adding an image into a new layer
30:00 Conclusion - there are more ways….
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License.
Image faking challenge - DOCMA Award 2009
December 15th, 2008The German tech magazine c’t will start a challenge. You give them a set of news images of events with a short story explaining what is shown. Not all of your images have to be faked.
They’ll try to find the fakes and give prices for the best ones. Details are not fixed yet.
The article is in German, but I think we will find enough help with translations when this starts. Perhaps an international approach….
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Fotowettbewerb-Geschickt-gefaelscht-ist-halb-gewonnen–/meldung/120436
