Thank you very much for these tutorials. I just discovered them, and went through five of them today! I will finish the rest soon. I’ve been using the Gimp for several years, but I have learned a lot of tricks and tips from watching your tutorials that I didn’t know about. Thank you again.

Bob Barber

It’s not perfect, I know. I am doing this in my spare time and I am also no expert neither in GIMP nor in video making. But I’ll keep on unless a better expert steps in.

(BTW, I need expert who do one or the other video for me.)

I am following all comments in a RSS stream – so I know also about the ones on the past episodes. And you are not the only one, who downloads the old stuff – there are more than 15 a day for most of the old shows. Makes me a bit proud about this thing…..

EDIT: Now I know – look at Episode 8 or just select the option “Sample Merged”.

The .xcf.bz2 or xcf.gz trick works wonderfull on Linux machines. I use it a lot. I am not so shure about Windows and Macs. I’ll mention it in a show – and then we’ll see.

A question: if i want to determine the resulting color, e.g. the sky color too see if there is a color cast or it is a quite pure shade of grey, after i have added the 2 layer, what can i do?
If i choose color picker it shows the color of the pixel of the selected layer, not the color i see with the 2 top layers turned on.

As a last point, the image, like almost all camera images, is a bit noisy… I’ll be interested in a noise reduction video

Thank you.

p.s. If you use .xcf.bz2 the size of the example file is about 50%, and gimp opens it without troules.

http://senduit.com/a9c8a1

You’ll get the xcf file I used in the show. The layer “Background” is the one out my raw converter. (Except for the crop.) Just copy that layer into a new file in Gimp (click the layer, click into the image, ctrl-a to select everything, ctrl-c for copy and then Edit/Paste as/New Image).

I’ll look for a more permanent solution.

The link you provided is very interesting. I’ll check that out – it seems to be the “contact print” system I was thinking about but haven’t found it up to now. As a free raw converter I use ufraw ( http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/ ). I’ll cover that before show 10.

Rolf

Would you consider making the original ship photo RAW and JPG and possibly some of your intermediate XCF files available for download?

I’d like to replay lessons 3 thru 5 and follow along doing it myself.

In lesson 3 you mentioned RAW to JPG conversion. I googled “raw2jpg win32″ and got one hit: http://www.ktverkko.fi/~msmakela/software/photomolo/

Is that the one you were thinking of?

regards … Alec (from Aurora, Ontario)

Clone does exactly what it says, simply copy from the source. As long as you keep the mouse button down the source follows the movement of the clone tool. This way you can clone bigger areas or complicated forms. Whne you release the mouse button the source returns to its origin. So you can clone the same source to different targets in the image.

The healing tool does the same – but with a bit more intelligence. I have not looke into that in depth up to now (realized that while recording the show ) but will do that.