Comments on: Episode 044: Splitting myself!

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 24 May 2008 08:09:08 +0000

@ Dejan: Interesting - I too could not get this episode to sync to my ipod. All the others have gone over fine. I don’t know what’s different with this one.

By: Dejan

Dejan — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:43:38 +0000

The post itself is great but I had some trouble loading this post to my Ipod video. I hope this problem will not persist

Keep up the good work

By: LukasT

LukasT — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:42:47 +0000

Hi, great tutorial, i enjoy it a lot. I did it with myself too.

By: kristarella

kristarella — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:04:29 +0000

Oh, awesome idea from FG! I’ve never thought of that

By: kristarella

kristarella — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:02:56 +0000

I haven’t watched the show yet, but look forward to it. I did a similar thing recently that you can see on my photoblog.

By: Rolf

Rolf — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:46:48 +0000

@FG: No way for you to know. Keep on doing it!

By: FG

FG — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:46:54 +0000

opps, sorry

By: Torbjorn

Torbjorn — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:54:37 +0000

(Again, my preference:) I would create a rough selection first and then add the mask with the “Selection”-option. In other words, exactly what you did, only instead of inverting the selection and deleting, I’d add the mask.

By: Rolf

Rolf — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:34:30 +0000

@Serge: I thought about taking a picture of the video camera in the lab clamp. But forgot about that. Filming while filming me taking pictures of myslef would really have been a crazy touch.

@Torbjorn: Layers would have been the better alternative but I wanted to keep one level of complexity out of the process.
With layer masks I would have made the full layer invisible and revealed only the important parts.

@FG: You stole content from the next show! That is indeed a good method to get rid of people and moving traffic. If you do this over a longer period, the moving shadows will make some headache.

By: FG

FG — Wed, 07 May 2008 04:50:03 +0000

Another very enjoyable episode and as always a great tutorial on GIMP itself. I look forward to each episode! I do have a variation of your project. If you trying to take a picture of something like a building that has people constantly in the way you can do the same technique of locking the camera’s exposure and taking multiple images over time as people move in and out of the frame. You can then take the images into GIMP and do the opposite of your video by adding the parts of the picture that do *not* contain the people and create a final image without the people.