Archive for the ‘Friends’ Category
February 1st, 2010 by Rolf
After a lot of work in the last two weeks I went a bit under the weather this (for me long) weekend. I think I’ll be fit again when school starts. Sometimes I think it would be smarter to move the schedule of the down time from free time to school time…. 
But there are two nice places to check out for you in the time until the next show.
GIMPtricks on Youtube are made by Jolie from the Netherlands. I recommend to get a close shave with the healing tool and then check out the rest.
And if you have caught yourself wanting to print a logo on a plain T-Shirt after you made an image from it - here is the solution in Spanish and English made by a young woman in Venezuela. There are 5 more videos to watch. (Thanks to medyr for the tip.)
So, drown them in Clicks!
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November 16th, 2009 by Rolf
Today heathenx published the episode #100 about Inkskape and other graphics software.
Congratulations! 
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November 12th, 2009 by Rolf
Download the Video! (22.6 MB, 11:53)
Download the Torrent!
Sorry – no mobile version yet!
A short one this time – I upgraded to Karmic Koala and did a clean install with new partitions and EXT4 file system. 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 Photocast 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 …….
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.
Tags: cropping, G'MIC
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August 23rd, 2009 by Rolf
Pascal de Bruijn has written up all there is to know about getting good images out of UFRaw. Heavily recommended!
Tags: UFRaw
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August 4th, 2009 by Rolf
Paul has a post on his blog about Black and White Conversion with GEGL’s c2g (color2gray) in GIMP. We had that here too, and way before him (because Joel blogged about it….). But he has looked deep into this and has helpful instructions about when and how to use it. Verdict: Quite useful, but not the tool to make all other monochrome conversion tools useless.
The image is stolen from his site.
Tags: c2g, GEGL
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July 18th, 2009 by Rolf
There is a nice 8 step tutorial about setting up Python for GIMP under Windows at gimpusers.com. We had this question here a lot.
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July 17th, 2009 by Rolf
As reported on gimpusers.com, a new version of the GIMP Animation Package GAP has been released. It’s optimised for interacting with GIMP 2.6.x and has a set of cool new features. A build for Windows is also available.
GAP was featured in Episode 21 of Meet the GIMP – perhaps it is time for a new look into this corner.
Tags: animation, gap
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January 2nd, 2009 by Rolf
heathenx 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!
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December 30th, 2008 by Rolf
Joel 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….. )
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November 22nd, 2008 by Rolf
RIAA is working for YOU!
John Pazdanhas made the music I play in the podcast. It’s a building block like system where I can assemble stuff as I want. As an artist he makes a different kind of music, something where you have to listen a bit more careful than with the podcast silence killer.
He has made a new bunch of music available for free download and use under CC license. You find the RSS feed in the sidebar. Up to now I haven’t heard much of it (I knew this one ) but I really like this video/music combination (Edit: Link changed – I wanted to point to a “pure” artistic video and not the also well done Obama ad). Lot’s of work and a great result.
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