Archive for the ‘Gimp video tutorial’ Category
October 9th, 2009 by Rolf
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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
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Tags: challenge
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October 2nd, 2009 by Rolf
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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.
The TOC
03:00 Grabbing images from the web
04:30 Elipse select tool
05:00 Copy and paste between images
05:30 Shrink (scale) a layer
07:25 Blurring with a layer mask and the blend tool
09:45 Copy and paste between images
10:35 Don’t work on the layer mask
11:25 Move the layer
11:55 Scale the layer
14:10 Rotate the layer
15:30 Revealing parts of a layer with a mask
17:30 Cropping to a square
18:20 Scale the image
18:40 Exporting to png
19:45 The GOOGLE logo in GIMP
22:10 Analysis
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Tags: transform tools
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September 25th, 2009 by Rolf
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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.
Tags: challenge, gimp book
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September 18th, 2009 by Rolf
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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.
There is a sound problem with this video. I had massive clicking in the sound file. I got a fair amount of it removed, but now I sound like I had recorded it in an empty trash can.
David Gowers made some very good comments about this show below. I pull them up here:
“That ‘new color from FG’ button you use is good for something (i’m not sure what). However I have to say, in the context in which you were using it, it would have been more appropriate IMO to use the ‘add to palette’ option of the eyedropper (then you just click with the eyedropper once to add a color to the active palette. If you have selected a color in the palette, the new color will get added to the right of that color (and will become the new active color).
Dragging rather than clicking will update the color as you move the cursor, and you can release the mouse button when you are happy with the color you have (which will be the one now stored in the palette).
AFAIK, the reason you cannot edit the color name is because you have not selected a palette entry by clicking on it.”
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Tags: palette
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September 8th, 2009 by Rolf
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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.
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August 27th, 2009 by Rolf
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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!”
If you are a Linux Geek living in the UK, you may be tempted to attend the Ogg Camp, organized by the Ubuntu UK Podcast and Linux Outlaws.
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Tags: blend tool, Filter, GND, layer mask
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August 20th, 2009 by Rolf
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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!
The TOC
00:20 The feed for small players
01:55 A new camera
04:10 The Color Info Menu
04:20 The histogram
04:25 Stats
05:50 Log or Linear
07:50 Value and RGB
09:30 Border average
14:30 Color cube analysis
15:05 Smooth palette
16:55 Challenge reminder
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Tags: colour, colour information, histogram
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August 13th, 2009 by Rolf
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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. As reported by Torbjorn below Jahshaka has been given a new name, CineFX: http://www.cinefx.org/ Is this a fork?
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.
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Tags: animation, gap, jahshaka
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July 24th, 2009 by Rolf
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It’s just a bit after Midnight here in Germany – and so at least for nearly half the world still Friday, July 24th. And that is the second birthday of Meet the GIMP.
I cover two questions for this is the first HD show – and it took ages to render. I will have to adjust my workflow. I start with a problem of Ivo, the producer of Autozine – an online car magazine made with GIMP. He wants to change reality a bit and move letters around in an image.His images are in the companion file.
Then I tackle selective sharpening again after I got a question about how to further control the sharpened area. In episode 6 I constrained the sharpening to the edges in the image – here I reduce it to parts of the image.
In case that you wonder why there is no sharpening while I paint the antenna – have a look at the “eyes” in the layers dialog box…..
This post will be updated tomorrow – then there will be also a mobile version and the companion file. Good night!
Mobile version of the vido is in the making is ready – I hope it will play everywhere.
There are comments about problems with iTunes and this episode. Is there anybody who can play this in iTunes?
The Mobile Version is a quick and dirty build with Handbrake. Does it play? Where? Where not? And why is it so large? Update: newer version in a bit larger and different encoding. Please check!
Tags: clone tool, selective sharpening
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July 21st, 2009 by Rolf
The align tool is not very visible in the toolbox, but can be very handy for arranging text or several layers. I use it for example to tile map snippets that I have copied from the web.
Before you despair while using this tool, think about where you align to. What is you anchor and how do you want to place your snippets. Then you’ll find a sequence of steps to get to your result. This needs a bit thinking but beats moving with the move tool any time.
If you watch these videos with a mobile device you should consider to switch the feed to the new MOBILE feed. And I still need help with iTunes! Apple locks Linux users out of the system – and I will not install Windows here.
If you are a photographer, you have to go over to WTF WTD – What the Duck! A daily comic about photography. It’s a must.
The TOC
00:19 Welcome
00:25 The new mobile feed
03:17 The Align tool
03:49 Create some layers to try the tool on
06:00 Moving layers using the move tool
06:40 Centering a layer using the align tool
08:00 Aligning layers to each other
08:50 Distributing layers
09:30 Selecting layers using the rubber-band select
11:00 Summary
13:19 Reminder about the mobile feed
14:46 The End
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Tags: align, alignment tool
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