I like some more showas about PS vs GIMP

Everything I know about GIMP I have learned from you. So first off thanks. Bandwidth is a precious thing to me here in Paraguay and sometimes I have to wait hours to download an episode of GIMP. It’s worth it. But my interests lay only in digital post-production, so my preference would be to see the photographic podcasts in another show. Maybe “Camera Man Meets the Gimp”.

The info on photography is very interesting, but for me it is a waist of band width.

No matter, I will still be downloading MTG.

Thanks

The New Segment is good and needed. For any newcomers as well as veterans, there will always be some detail one have forgotten in snapping shots and postprocessing them. So going back to some basic can help understanding certain unsuspecting problems. At the same time these future basic explanations will be a common reference point. I for one haven’t gone this far into analogue contra digital, though I have read a bit about it.
As mac wrote I have also been on Sean McHugh page and found a lot of information there. This is something to keep in mind to future segments when or if you run out of topics.

The ping back is near the borderline to SPAM, but I think it has some value. I don’t really know what to think of Novell and M$, is this hysteria or valid warning?

Anyone fancy a TOC?

http://meetthegimp.org/episode-124-ps-translation-service/
Episode 124: PS Translation Service
00:28 Welcome to PhotoWalkThrough.com from John Arnold
01:05 Welcome to Meet The Gimp from Rolf
02:30 Back to John
02:50 – a curves layer
05:10 – a layer mask
08:20 Back to Rolf
09:00 The original photo
09:20 Make a layer with increased saturation
10:40 Add a gradient layer in soft light mode to alter the sky
12:10 New layer from visible
13:25 Add a layer mask and edit it
15:25 The problem with destructive editing
15:55 But it’s not that big a problem
18:20 New segment – time for lessons
19:55 How film works
24:00 How a sensor works
27:00 Feedback please
28:14 The End

Because learners don’t know what they don’t know, we can only really learn by watching an expert at work. So I – like so many others here – find sitting with you (virtually!) while you edit a photograph always really useful. For myself, I’d be very happy to see more of the sort of thing you did in the first section of this show. (I don’t just mean demonstrating how to do in GIMP what John does in Photoshop – though that’s very useful to see – but demonstrations of more ‘advanced’ techniques in post-processing.)

And do please include more short discussions of fundamentals. Your clear presentations of these quite complex topics are really helpful. As you say, what’s important is to have a useful mental picture of what’s involved, not necessarily a complete understanding of the physics or chemistry. What many of us need is Rolf Steinort’s introductions to and summaries of the sort of stuff Sean McHugh covers in technical detail at http://www.cambridgeincolour.com!

Thanks for another great show.

And thank you for this great episode, I know it will be useful and I am sure to refer to it often. I was
unaware of PhotoWalkThrough but I am glad to have been introduced to the very capable instruction
there. A nice find. The particular item you cover in this episode was a roadblock to me for about six
months, and that was just to work out the basic version! I am very glad to see a better version here.

I like the tech talk at the end; I can see myself watching podcasts I wouldn’t watch otherwise for these
great nuggets alone. It is really good how you have abstracted away all of the not very useful stuff, and it
was just the right length. Grain is something that always confuses me – I feel more grain should be better
(after all, there are tons of scripts to add it) but it never used to be a good thing when it was visible. But
of course if the grain is fine enough, it becomes invisible. All very counter-intuitive. Anyhow, knowledge
of grain is more relevant than ever due to modern technology such as video cards. It is impossible to
evaluate things such as Anti-Aliasing (AA) and Anisotrophic Filtering (AF) without an appreciation of
grain. And of course unwanted grain (in the form of Noise) is as relevant as ever.

You can read more at Joel’s site: http://jcornuz.wordpress.com/2008/12/27/an-exclusive-interview-with-martin-nordholts/

A lot of the way there has already been gone.

good show ,anyways

Yes, I like it. Please keep up your “photographical technologies basics” class as I feel that understanding these things will help me getting better results from my equipment. Or, at least, understand why I did not get the results expected …

Thanks four all the work you put in your shows.

Stefan