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This week I have outsourced the show again! Philippe will take us all along to a ride to the stars - building an image like this one from scratch.
The TOC will follow when I have seen the video again - I was so absorbed that I forgot to make notes.
I promised a link for the “User Filter”, which allows to use Photoshop filters in GIMP.
Do you like this kind of GIMP usage in the show? I come from the photographic side and made this podcast according to the stuff that I can do. But with Phillippe’s help a lot more is possible. What do you think? Post your comments here!
Tags: starfield
I think photo-improvement should be the main part of the show, but occasionally some other stuff would be interesting.
By the way, this video is really great. If I knew that before, I wouldn’t have searched the web for tutorials, just asked in the forum
Hi!
Phillippe’s planet had a sharp seam in it, this came because the texture was only motion blurred to one side, and the right part was completely un-blurred.
This doesn’t happen if you use the tileable blur filter. Put the value to maximum and deactivate vertical blurring. But this method can still create artifacts because of the scaling.
The best way that’s coming to my mind now is to copy the planet texture (while it is still small) and put two copies right next to each other. Then scale and blur it (now you can use the normal motion blur). Then take a square part right out of the middle of this rectangle and use this as the texture for the planet.
Now the right and left ends of the texture should connect seamlessly.
The rings have the same problem - when drawing them, you have to be careful so that the left and right ends match when you convert them to polar coordinates. I would recommend make the rings at a much higher resolution, like 5000*5000 pixels, so you won’t see any pixels after the perspective transformation.
I have just finished watching the video which kept me entranced from start to the end. Having more than a passing interest in astronomy it was really interesting to see some idealised, cosmic objects appearing on the screen. Although, like Rolf, I come from photography it was most instructive to see Gimp being used in this way, especially the use of layers. More of this from time to time would be most welcome and my thanks go to Phillippe.
For the tillable problem on the planet texture, I noticed it to late :(, You hare right, , it need some more work to be perfect, the symmetrical texture or “make seamless” way is an option, however, it would be better if we could put the jointures of the texture on the back of the sphere, but in gimp, now, it’s not posible :(, any way, making a biger textur and cutting it after the bluring would have been a good first step.
I enjoyed this video, and would like to see more like it in the future.
Just to be clear, I would not wish to displace any _major_ fraction of photo-editing tutorials — I want it all!
One of the things that I have always been puzzled about is the value and use of some of the filters/effects. Philippe seems to have a good handle on that, and I do enjoy seeing demos of the creative possibilities.
..jim
My preference is for the main focus to be on photo enhancement/modifications. I have learned a lot from all that you have covered to date.
Occasional diversions are good though.
I’d like to see more videos from different people. This protects the show from getting boring. Different voices and different topics makes your show even better.
Very nice tutorial, Phillipe! I enjoy both the made-from-scratch & photo-editing types of shows. I would definitely like to see more of both.
I think this is an excellent show! I would not mind in the least for a few more of this.
One could even consider making one week a photo week and the next something like this.
Thanks for the show. It was great, like all others.
I play with function “Map object” and I found something. When you zoom out the preview window (approximately 4 steps), you will see a blue dot. This dot represents light source. You can simply drag the dot, instead of adjusting x/y coordinates. (Im useing GIMP 2.4.4 on windows).
Sorry for my bad English.
I love it!
Anything demonstrating creative work using GIMP is a good thing in my mind. Of course, I’m biased toward space scenes because I work in a planetarium.
Dear Rolf
Please have a look at the title of your show: MeetTheGimp it’s called, not meet-an-enthusiastic-photographer-who-happens-to-use-linux! Therefore, I strongly feel that all Gimp related subjects are appropriate for your show, not only the photographic related ones.
Of course, it is your show, and so the decision is yours. You can be sure that I will devour every one of them, as long as they are related to [photo]graphic or linux related subjects.
Thank you very much for your work, your enthusiasm and the time and money you spend for making this really outstanding screencast!
The information Phillippe presented does have some application to the photography end of Gimp. I took an old flower picture (a flower with pedals) and used his technique for creating galaxy’s and created a very interesting swirled flower.
I could also see enhancing photos with stars and clouds – these are great techniques to have in the digital darkroom toolkit.
In future shows of this type it might be interesting to see the application of one or two of these techniques to photography.
Rolf – great show. I have been using Gimp for many years but my knowledge and enthusiasm for this software has increased many times over since I started watching Meet the GIMP. Keep up the great work.
I enjoyed the show. Thanks Philippe, it was cool.
I would like to see more, but in addition to the normal photography direction that Rolf does.
Phillippe’s technique are eye opening. Very nice.
I enjoyed this show very mutch! I think it would be an enrichment for meetthegimp.org if we could get some made-from-scratch-stuff here. 2 reasons:
1) A wider scope of techniques covered would also result in a wider audience and therefore more creative input to the show and the community.
2) Division of labour: resulting in either more often appearing shows or less work for Rolf. BtW i would prefer the first option
Anyway I would love to see more of these community contributions in the show. That’s what opensource is all about, isn’t it? And I’m curious to see what else GIMP is capable of.
A spin-off!! cool idea, 2 videos in one week, one from Rolf (photo enhancement and manipulation) and another from Phillipe or another person.
Rolf - I’m still getting the problem that the downloaded files say they are mp3. (And it still works as a workaround to just change the file extension to mp4 after download.)
Ian
I know this is still an issue. But I have found no way around it. I don’t know enough about video codecs and so on.
Anyone an idea?
I really think that it was great, I really enjoyed it. I am more into graphics than photography. MTG is great given me some strunning ideas. Thanks
Ali
———–Rolf - I’m still getting the problem that the downloaded files say they are mp3. (And it still works as a workaround to just change the file extension to mp4 after download.)————–
Hi Ian
Questions,
1 The file you hare downloading have an mp3 extension, or the system detect them as mp3 ?
2 How do you download them
3 On witch tipe of link ? rss, itune, Miro, Torrent …. ?
I know this really doesn’t have to much to do with this episode but I thought I was shot you a question anyways. Recently I overheard some people talking about GIMP and Photo shop and making custom desktop icons for their programs. They wandered off before I could get all the information, besides, I was snooping. Anyhow, How would one go about doing so?
Hi
I’m a first-time viewer and I think this video simply rocked!
I’m so impressed with the image and the video explained it clearly and elequently. Please make more of them.
In the meantime I’m going to go watch the other videos!
Cheers
The Enthusiastic Student
This was an awesome video. Phillippe does a great job explaining everything, and the subject is just fascinating. I’ve done a bit of graphics in GIMP, and in some ways I enjoy it more than touching up photos. There’s a lot here that I didn’t even know was in GIMP, let alone had ever used. I would love to see more of these videos, whether interspersed within the main show, or as a spinoff show.
This was good. I found it very educational in terms of creative use with filters, thanks Phillippe.
I use GIMP both on postprocessing and drawing, and I don’t dislike one way to an other. I find it very usefull to show both side to inspire more users and at the same time encourage to experiment with GIMP. The main idea is to show the powerfulness of GIMP.
Rolf, I think that contributions form others will give you time to cover some in depth topics an vice versa.
Hi Rolf,
I stumbled upon your site coming from sreencasters.heathenx.org when heathenx pointed to the “hammer” episode he once did for you. Since then I subsribed your podcast and like it very much. However, to be honest, I underestimated GIMP so far in the sense “Ok, nice tool if you want to do some photo tuning, but for real drawing you’d better use Inkscape”. This episode changed my mind — I don’t know how I could achive this result with the same ease in Inkscape.
So please go ahead and let us meet the *whole* power of Gimp. I would even encourage you to compare Gimp and Inkscape if it makes sense. Questions: When is it better to use Gimp, when is it better to use Inkscape and in which project would I best use both tools in combination.
Thanks for the good work.
pyralf
I have subcontracted some work to Philippe, he is busy recording just now. You’ll see something about the 16 bit engine of GIMP soon.
Inkscape and GIMP. I think, heathenx and I have said nearly all there can be said about the differences in both programs. If you are working in bitmaps. GIMP is the right tool. You have way more options than in Inkscape (I think….). But if you want to be able to scale, rotate, shear…. your images, take Inkscape. Every of these operation degrades the image in GIMP. Inkscape just recalculates it with new parameters.
I really like that!
Just dropping in to say that I would love to see more podcasts with Phillippe. I really liked making an image from scratch.
Philippe Demartin Says:
In the Map to Object dialog, go to the Orientation tab. Under rotation set Y to either +90 or -90.
” it would be better if we could put the jointures of the texture on the back of the sphere, ”
This is possible.
Really nice tutorial, I enjoyed a lot. And I would definitely like to see more this kind of stuff (”From scratch”).
Philippe’S and my agent are still talking about the fine print, but we’ll have him in the show on a regular base.
My main interest with the Gimp is to play with the pictures I shoot; but I think that the stuff Philippe teach us is simply great.
I do like it, and I do like the amazing capabilities of the Gimp.
Still, I don’t mind learning new tricks and to know the Gimp deeper overall.
It’s my tool of choice when it comes to photography, and stuff suitable for drawing is also welcome.
Therefore, I feel I must say ‘thank you Philippe for your wonderful stuff’. Just great.