Comments on: Episode 125: Crop it! But how?

By: mramshaw

mramshaw — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:22:36 +0000

Another excellent show. I miss the tech talk, but this episode helped me a lot to understand ISO.

I still have trouble deciding what ISO to shoot at but now I have a better idea of what it all means.

Very creative use of the Blend tool. This totally explained ISO Noise to me in a visual way.

By: Ger

Ger — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:53:42 +0000

Perhaps, this is worth reading:
http://www.diagonalmethod.info/
A lot of people do crop using Rule of Thirds. New insights, worth to investigate.
I’ve read an article in a dutch magazine Zoom.
Dutch people can read this:
http://www.diagonaalmethode.nl/

By: Straighten and Crop with the GIMP

Straighten and Crop with the GIMP — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:57:59 +0000

[...] and simple and has worked on the couple of images I tried it on. (via) Category: Gimp, Photography, Words Tags: Gimp, irishblogs, linux, Photography, [...]

By: Bert

Bert — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:24:00 +0000

@ Rolf: Das kann man wohl mit Fug und Recht behaupten!
Translation: Yes!

By: Rolf

Rolf — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:10:51 +0000

@Bert: You have a user interface problem there?

By: Bert

Bert — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:32:56 +0000

Click the script button with right mouse button and save target. This should work.

By: diego

diego — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:25:24 +0000

the scripts are not down-loadable! anyone knows where to get them from another site maybe? thanks

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:12:47 +0000

Have a TOC:

http://meetthegimp.org/episode-125-crop-it-but-how/
Episode 125: Crop it! But how?
00:24 Welcome
00:35 Discussion on the forum
01:47 Image of a leaf
02:30 35mm format aspect ratio
04:15 Image of rivets
05:12 Rotate the image
06:40 Crop based on including the wanted features
08:40 Image on a foggy morning
09:08 Adding guides by percent
10:00 Where 4 by 3 aspect ratio comes from
11:00 Examine the image
12:00 Crop to a fixed aspect ratio
12:40 Cropping guide-lines
15:15 How to crop to fit a paper size
16:27 Set canvas size
18:00 Add a background layer
19:00 Add colour and contrast strips
20:20 How to fit image to a specific print aspect ratio
23:20 Digital photography – ISO settings
29:05 Why noise increases with ISO
31:35 Why the web-site goes slowly sometimes
33:05 Donations for 2010 please
34:40 The End

By: Rolf

Rolf — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:29:02 +0000

The chalk is the smallest of these animated pencil sketch brushes, scaled down a bit and with a bit of jitter. I’ll show it next time.

By: Merijn Vogel

Merijn Vogel — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:19:39 +0000

You are using quite a nice virtual gimp blackboard, I could recreate that easily by creating a grid (Filter->Render->Pattern->Grid), and I also tried to mimic your chalk.
The trick seems to be in the ‘jitter’, setting of the paintbrush or pencil.
I actually used a paintbrush, so that the pressure on my wacom influences the hardness and size.
Maybe you can explain your settings for chalk to us, your fans

By: Rolf

Rolf — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:49:55 +0000

I have added the link to Bert’s script in the show notes above.

By: dogwatcher

dogwatcher — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:16:07 +0000

You did mention a script to rotate the image… I would like to know which one you’re talking about, thank you in advance!

… and: Nice show, as always!