Francisco Santiago

As for rotating your image, you are correct there were no manmade structures that could be used as a reference for rotation, but they are not always reliable anyways! There was an even more reliable reference right in your image. Right behind your ship is a tall tree. Unless your water is doing something crazy (such as falling over something quickly), your water surface works as a wonderful horizontal mirror, reflecting things vertically. The reflection of your tall tree could be used with either a grid line or a vertical ruler to line up your rotation. Having said that, I didn’t even notice any rotational issues with your original. I’ve used reflections a number of times to help with alignment.

I’ve been frustrated by the heavy Photoshop bias in the industry while trying to learn general digital photography post-processing techniques. The biggest showstoppers so far are 16-bit editting path and adjustment layers, both of which are in the works, but not here yet… I understand Krita has both. I’m still using GIMP (2.6.x at present).

Thanks for a fine set of tutorials, well supported by TOCs and fora for discussion.

If you take the aspect ratio of the intended printing paper, there is no need for cutting it later.

If you want to play safe, you choose the Golden Ratio.

I like 1:1 and 2:3/3:2 most, but that is perhaps because I shot in these formats on film.

Sorry, I can’t say any more helpful.

Thanks again. Looking forward to the fourth

Will go through all these videos from beginning to end.

I’ll change the list with download links.

Sorry for being so late, just too much to do.

I´ve forgot, there are also jpg´s for episode 3.

Rudl

I agree with migue, it would be very helpfull to have the original picture of the ship in the fog.

Vielen Dank südlich vom Weisswurstäquator

Rudl

Is it possible to obtain the original picture? not the XFC (the layer is croped)

I want to practice with the same picture.

Many thanks.

Thanks for the great tutorials. I’ve only seen the first three vids and I’ve learned alot.

dave

I very like them, clear and nice

Thanks!

Please check that h264 stuff out. I have no real clue about video encoding and put this together with trail and error. I “documented” the stuff at http://make.meetthegimp.org

Thanks for getting this stuff on the torrents too!

Do you use Kino for video editing?

I prefer the 2.3 (or now the 2.4RC – release candidates) because they are stable as a lot of commercial programs – perhaps not as rock solid as 2.2 – and have a lot of new and improved features. If you compare the video with Gimp 2.2, you’ll see some differences.

Now, if only I had more spare time…!

So back to the issue: 640×480 is good; when you resize from 800×600 single-pixel line will become a bit blurry but won’t disappear (it could happen if you’ll resize to 400×300 or less). The problem is not with size but with compression artifacts. MP4 encoder that you use now takes an area of pixels (say 10×10) with similar colours and writes in the output file that there are 100 pixels of the same average colour. As a result video becomes ‘pixelated’; there are noticeable tiles instead of smooth gradients.

In some cases it’s not a big deal but in our case it’s a problem. When you edit the picture with a ship in fog there are lots of halftones that make up the fog and compression scheme literally kills them so it’s not possible to see fine adjustments.

I also watch ‘PixelPerfect’ (https://miroguide.com/channels/1558) and ‘Lightroom for Digital Photographers’ (https://miroguide.com/channels/3340) podcasts; I’ve noticed that they use H.264 codec. The video is very clear so I’ve decided to recommend this to you. I didn’t know that it costs money but I’ve found that there is a free x264 implementation and it’s available on linux as Advanced Video Codec (AVC). Here is the article http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9005

[Link editied by Rolf]

Thank you for doing all this! I’ve found the feed via Miro guide and watch using Miro on Mac. Content is great but it would be better to have greater quality because when you do small corrections with images video compression errors render them nearly invisible. Maybe you could try H.264 codec? Anyway keep going!

As mentioned by Alan, looking at the video really makes learning the Gimp (at least for me) so much easier – this is especially true as your shows are geared towards photo manipulation.

A real inspiration to just get into it.

Cheers
Ed

It is obvious that you are a professional teacher. The
material is very well organized, and the explanations are
clear, intelligent and informative.

I have read some of the help documentation from the
GIMP and learned to do simple things. Reading about
more advanced techniques has often left me wondering
exactly how to do them, and even why would one
want to do them. “Looking over the shoulder” of an
advanced user makes all of that much more clear.

Thank you again.