Marcin keeps all this running smoothly and is always thinking about making things better.

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Pascal de Bruijn has made his first Video about Darktable, the free virtual lighttable and darkroom for digital photographers. I gave a short intro here some episodes ago, but didn’t go beyond “Oh – I can click here too!”. Pascal has been actively involved in making Darktable and so I assume he really knows what he is talking about.

Edit: Darktable is available for Linux and other *nixes and Mac (which is a *nix too now…). Sorry, no Windows up to now. Nobody wants to do the work of porting it.

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Developers and users of Free, Libre and Open Source graphics software will meet May 27-30 in Brussels at the fifth annual Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM). The meeting space is truly unique — an historic piano factory, freshly renovated into a lively exhibition and workspace. LGM 2010 gives software developers, artists, designers and other graphics professionals the opportunity to collaborate and learn from each other. LGM emphasizes the sharing of collective creativity, innovation and ideas and is free for everyone to attend.

The above text and the headline are simply stolen from the website of the LGM. These meetings have given a big boost to the development of Open Source graphics software in the past. Up to now face to face conversation in a group of like minded persons has no equivalent in the net.

I will not be able to attend, but I ask you to give some money to them. (I did, BTW and brought the counter just below the 3000 mark. Seems to work….)

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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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Today heathenx published the episode #100 about Inkskape and other graphics software.

Congratulations!

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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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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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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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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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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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