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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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Gimp 2.6.1 is out!

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Up to now I have only found the source packages but I will post again when compiled packages are around.
What’s new?

Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.6.0 to GIMP 2.6.1
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* Bugs fixed:

555587 – PSD file crashes PSD plug-in
555222 – PSD Load Plugin: unsupported compression mode
555362 – gimp-remote is not working properly
555280 – some gif files will not be open
554890 – JPEG Save Options Dialog does not remember
554966 – Gimp crashes creating a new image using a template
554785 – Compile failure on uri-backend-libcurl
554646 – Opening Help crashes GIMP with lqr-plugin installed
553534 – centering issues after image scaling and setting zoom
554898 – Compile failure on uri-backend-wget.c

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A Message from James Nachtwey

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

My favourite photographer has a message for you:

http://www.xdrtb.org/index.php

And if you haven’t seen “Warphotographer” - get it now!

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Episode 065: Roaring 16 Bit!

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
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Philippe is back and has found a way to implement 16 bit ON Gimp. 16 bit IN Gimp is left for Sven and all his helpers. (EDIT: Note that 2.6 has GEGL integrated, but still works only with 8 bit per channel! This Episode is kind of a joke!)

You see how to change the appearance of a font and give it a 3D chrome look. Then you’ll learn how to simulate a reflection of the surroundings and to repaint your car in a hurry.

Philippe is no teacher - but he gives you homework! Look out for the end of the show!

In case that you are interested in the CV2, Wikipedia has good stuff about it. And from own experience I can tell you that there is not much more frightening than going round a corner with speed in a 2CV. You are sure it will topple on its soft suspension. Perhaps a bit more frightening is to have one in the opposite lane in a curve….

New Python Script for managing brushes!

Philippe has written a script for managing brushes under Gimp. Check it out here in the forum. Perhaps you can help to make it better and to integrate it into GIMP?

The TOC

01:22  Ferrari and 2CV
03:00  Learning from others
10:30  The Background
11:30  Selecting a font
12:30  Modify the writing in a path
19:30  Bumpmapping
23:10  Getting the Chrome on
27:00  Reflection of the surroundings
32:00  Adding some sun glare
36:00  Adjusting the reflections, fine tuning
39:40  Repaint your car in a second!
40:00  Homework for you!

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Looking into the Crytall Ball and seeing 2.6.1

Monday, October 6th, 2008

… or was I reading the Gimp developers mailing list?

  • there will be a bug fix release to 2.6.1 this week
  • after that the work on 2.7 will start
  • definition of goals for 2.8 is starting now
  • on the list are already
    • merge the successful GSoC projects
    • attempt a port of the projection code (and perhaps more) to GEGL
    • change tools to draw using the Cairo library

:-)

You can access the list at https://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer

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Episode 064: First Impressions of GIMP 2.6

Saturday, October 4th, 2008
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Just a quick view on GIMP 2.6 - and a new video format (16:9) for “Meet the GIMP!”. Do you like it? There is a poll on the sidebar….

If you have any problems viewing this on your device, please write a comment here. I would love to have more screen estate, but if this collides with your viewing I’ll stick to the old format.

You find the relese notes for GIMP 2.6 at http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.6.html.

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GIMP 2.6! As promised released in September - on September 31!

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.6.html

Congratulations to Sven, Mitch and all the others!

If you don’t know “Meet the GIMP!”

It’s a weekly video podcast about GIMP, digital photography and graphics. Swings between tutorial and friendly ramblings. Have a look around on the site and into the archive.

Soon you’ll see a video here about setting up GIMP 2.6 and the new stuff I like.

Ubuntu Hardy 32 Bit packages (Ubuntu has the 32 bit, not GIMP….)

I have downloaded them from getdeb.net, zipped them together and put them on this server. One download for you instead of 8 and less load for them.

Unpack in an empty directory and install with “sudo dpkg -i *”.

Have fun - it’s great!

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Episode 063: More Noises in the Dark!

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
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Not so much progress on the noise side - I tried to reduce chroma noise with an option in UFRaw. The result is, well, see yourself in the image above (200% view).

1 - the noisy image

2 - the denoised image

3 - the denoised image with chroma noise reduction

4 - 1 and 3 combined with a mask for the edges.

I’ll explore soe more noise reduction options before I finish this image.

In the main part of this video you’ll see how to register an additional image into the already rotated and cropped  stack of layers.

The TOC:

Reducing Chroma Noise in UFRaw 03:00
Register an additional image into the layer stack 06:00
Moving the layer to a register point 06:30
Setting the center point for rotation 08:40
Cropping the layer to the image size 13:20
Checking the results 14:00
Recap 15:30
Why the Neon Filter? 16:20
When is an image finished? 18:10
Save as a new one layer image 19:40

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Episode 062: Noise in the Dark!

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
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I am through a bad cold and nearly through an iris inflammation and so I loved to talk - you get a double dose of MTG tonight. Philippe helped me out last week - and he will be a regular contributor after that success.

After I solve the mystery behind the menue entry “Edit/Fade” I tackle an old image. Taken 4 years ago with my old camera (Nikon D70) at ISO 1600 and f=1/1.8. It’s noisy.

I use the noise reduction from UFRaw and combine two results of the RAW conversion - one with and one without noise - to one. As with the selective sharpening I left the edges of structures noisy and kept the noise out of the structureless areas. Of course this is done with layers and masks. with this technique you keep the structures crisp and the noise out.

After finishing this video, I found out that UFRaw has a well hidden option for removal of chroma noise. More next week.

This image still needs some work on it - I’ll show that in the next episode.

Joel has a lot to say about noise and I’ll go into some other noise reduction techniques in the future.

The TOC:

03:15 Edit/Fade
09:55 The image in UFRaw
14:45 Noise
16:40 Noise reduction in UFRaw
19:10 Comparing the images
22:50 The Plan
23:35 Making a layer mask with “Edge Detect”
29:40 Recap
30:40 Fine tuning with another layer
38:50 Rotating
41:50 Cropping


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GIMP 2.5.4 released / GIMP 2.6.0 release still in September

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

As ususal, gimpusers.com has the ear on the ground and notices such stuff.

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