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New Releases: Hugin 0.7.0 and GIMP 2.6.2

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Hugin has changed enormously in the two years since the 0.6.1 release, hardly any part of the code has remained untouched. There have been many many bug-fixes, improvements to the interface and lots of new features. We had a show about this panorama building software way back - seems to be time for a new one.

There is a new help system, new assistants, improved handling of images and correction of exposure. HDR is integrated and a lot more. Get the full thing here.

GIMP has released 2.6.2 - a lot of bugs have been killed. The version from Getdeb doesn’t install on Ubuntu Hardy - but I’ll switch to the Ibex soon.

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Episode 070: It’s dripping drops

Thursday, October 30th, 2008
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If you have already downloaded this episode before October 31 3:30 PM GMT, you’ll have noticed a black border around the too small image. It’s fixed now, so if you want to look again at some details I would consider a new download.

This week you see how to create drops of water while staying dry at your computer. Again starting with a view on nature Philippe shows what a drop of water does to the light and emulates this from scratch with GIMP.

At the end you are in for a surprise gift - it costs you just a download.

You can discuss this techniques and more in our Forum post your achievement here or write a comment here in the blog.

The TOC:

00:50 Studying nature

04:50 Setting up background and texture

07:00 Setting ilumination

07:50 Giving a shape to the drops

10:10 Creating new layers

11:50 Selecting alpha channel

12:20 Filling and blurring the effects layers

15:40 Moving and cutting highlights and shadows

18:20 Displacing the background texture

20:35 Over sharping  texture

22:30 Tuning highlight and specular reflection

34:05 Bonus (The file in question is in the companion zip archive)

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Episode 069: Burn and Dodge

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
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I had talked bad about the Burn and Dodge tool in episode 66. Here I try to use it and show my method in comparison.

[This was added on Oct 30:]

And I still think my method of putting a transparent layer in overlay mode on top and painting on that in white or gray is better than this tool.

My method can even be adapted to work only on shadows, highlights or midtones - just like the Dodge and Burn tool. It’s a bit more complicated….  ;-)

You can see a very good result of this technique from Xavier at Retouche Libre.

The show starts with a call for help. We need more people on this project who can give input, coordinate and organize. And I am really not looking for people that I can push around - I do that all day at school with the kids. ;-)

The TOC

00:20 Hello from Rolf and requesting assistance with Meet The Gimp
06:00 The dodge and burn tool
06:34 - the origin of dodge and burn
08:00 - using an overlay layer instead (Episode 10)
09:49 - the built-in tool
12:50 - it’s destructive
14:23 Dodge and burn using overlay layers
14:49 - make the layers
16:33 - set up the layer masks
22:08 What’s coming in future episodes
23:24 The End
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Plugins for CYMK and PDF conversion

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

CMYK color space is a field where GIMP is a bit behind. But on the site “Linux for Designers” of Eckhard M. Jäger you can find two plugins and information how to use them. They are called separate+ and cmyk-tiff-2-cmyk-pdf.

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Episode 068: CRASH! (Follow up to the “Set Up 2.6″ Episode)

Friday, October 24th, 2008
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Cinelerra is back running - I found a working configuration. Now the GUI is stuck every time I set a edit marker….. I’ll look into Blender.

This show is answering some of the comments of Episode 066 and shows a little gem from the rectangular and elliptical selection tools.

Sorry, no TOC and other gadgets, because I have a new gadget as my Birthday present - a Samsung P2 MP4 player. :-)

The TOC

00:18 Apologies for the delay
01:37 Answers to comments
04:31 - Adding and locking tool tabs
06:50 - Manual page for gimprc file
08:13 - Portable Gimp
09:24 - Instalation problems
11:20 - GEGL
14:10 Selection tool options
16:13 The End
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Blender Video Editing someone?

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

As you can see in the comments to the last posting I am quitting with Cinelerra. I’ll use Blender from now on.

Has anyone pointers to a good tutorial for a quick start? I don’t need anything fancy for the begin, only the basics for cutting parts out of a video and glueing snippets together. The rest will follow.

I found the Wiki http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Video_Sequence_Editing. But before I go into this I’ll go and play Billiard! :-)

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No show today :-(

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

After my new install the toolchain for converting the videos is not working. Perhaps tomorrow…..

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Episode 067: Look into my Eyes!

Thursday, October 16th, 2008
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Philippe is on with his first biweekly show!

He makes an iris from scratch and explains the new features of brush dynamics in Gimp 2.6. If you didn’t knew that you paint a circular iris into a rectangle, then this show is for you! Painting the skin and modelling the face is left for a later episode.

The TOC:

01:15 Making a new image and preparing it
01:35 Selecting and choosing colours
02:20 Introduction to brush dynamics
10:40 Preparing the texture
12:20 Applying wind
13:40 Distortion with Iwarp
15:55 Readying the texture and applying Polar Coordinate
17:30 Dodging and Burning
19:05 Inserting in face image and final adjustments

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Episode 066: Setting up GIMP 2.6 and looking into the future

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
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This is basically Episode 002 - but with a really new GIMP (and a more experienced screen caster). But before that I have some news for you about the future of the “Meet the GIMP” project and about the development of GIMP 2.7 and 2.8. I’ll try to explain why we will NOT have 16 bit in 2.8 - and that the developers are not to blame for it. The comments from David Gowers are here and here.
The future of this project is brighter than ever. Philippe will be a regular contributor with his own show track. The forum is really getting off. I never had to interfere there because everybody is friendly and behaves. On the other hand nobody steps around on his toes. And a lot of answers are there before I come to read the question.

The show will go wide screen as in Episode 64, but we’ll have a separate feed for mobile devices.
The funding is secure. In Episode 49 I had asked for donations. They are still coming in. I just paid the demorecorder license for Philippe from that money and have left enough to pay my 20€/month for the server well into January. If the funds are running out I’ll give notice.
BTW, I don’t publish donor names and amounts. I feel that such lists, especially sorted by amount, are humiliating. An amount easily spent by e.g. a German teacher with tenure is a high investment for people in other parts of the geographical or social map. Each donor gets a thank you mail from me as a receipt.
And there are more ways to donate to this project. Time for example. Spread the word about this on your blog or in forums where appropriate. Write comments or go to the forum. Or become a correspondent for the blog if you are stumbling over newsworthy stuff while surfing around on all the other graphics web sites.

The TOC

00:20 Housekeeping - New shows, file formats, feeds and so on
04:40 Look at 2.7, 2.8 and further
11:50 Why not 16 bit in 2.8
12:40 Setting up 2.6
14:20 Preferences dialogue
14:30 Environment
15:30 User interface, previews and keyboard shortcuts
16:00 Theme - Big or small icons
16:40 Help system
17:20 Tool options
18:55 Toolbox
19:10 Default image
19:30 Image window
20:10 Display
20:50 Input devices - activating a Wacom tablet
24:10 Tweaking gimprc for getting rid of the drop space in the toolbox
28:00 Configuring the dockable dialogs
30:30 Selecting tools for the Toolbox
34:00 Recap

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Download GIMP 2.6.1

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

Windows packets can be found at http://gimpusers.com and here http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html.

Mac users go over to http://gimp.lisanet.de (German) or https://sourceforge.net. This is just being ported to “Tiger” - so look again if you haven’t found what you were looking for.

Ubuntu has packages at http://getdeb.net, but there is a conflict with gimp-python. This package was included into gimp-data, but ubuntu-desktop depends on gimp-python. :-( EDIT: If you have messed up your installation while trying - just install 2.6.0 over it like described here.

If you get complaints about gimp-python, then you have messed up your installation with doing something else as “dpkg -i *” in  terminal. Just deinstall “gimp”, reinstall ubuntu-desktop (no harm done) and install 2.6.1 with dpkg. Worked for me.

From PhotoComix comment to the last posting:

…and for Ubuntu a short but updated how to compile guide is here
http://www.gimpusers.com/news/2008-10-07/compile-gimp-260-for-ubuntu-804.html..is for 2.6 but for 2.6.1 nothing change except the source code to download

For windows i suggest to avoid to try to use the help with the web browser, that may crash gimp, (on my 2 PC that always crash gimp )

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