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Torrent: Download The images used: DownloadNorman mailed me two images – this was the original shot made by his son.
… and he made this out of it.
Quite impressive. I redid his work in the video and added some extras for the sky. You’ll see an other way to rotate an image, two ways to blend different versions of an image with a layer mask and a bit more about curves. I got this as a result.
Edit: Look also at the next show. I made a big blunder in this one and had to fix it in the next.
I promised some links:
Tim Jedlika shares some of his webspace to host the picture files. His gallery can be found here.
The wine.
The TOC
00:23 Welcome
00:33 The original image by Norman
01:33 EXIF information
04:39 Re-sizing (just for the show)
05:18 Rotating by measuring
08:00 Make a layer copy and use the curves tool
10:23 Another layer copy for the sky
10:50 Add a layer mask
11:16 Gradient tool
17:23 Overlay layer
18:27 Cropping to a fixed aspect ratio
20:30 Sharpening
21:50 Save the image as jpg
22:38 Re-size for web
24:52 Thank you and goodbye
25:59 I’m back!
26:39 Fixing the sea
31:52 Closing remarks
34:13 The End
TOC made by paynekj
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Tags: blend images, curves tool, layer mask, rotate
Thanks. Fine tutorial again. I’m looking forward that UfRaw episode. I tried that software a bit before, but never really got very good results out of it. I think you should not worry about your speed of speech. What is important is that you get understood. For example I am Finnish and I understand english better when it is not spoken too fast or with too fancy grammar.
Regarding the sea: I think it would be better to colorize it; add more blue tones. Big area of grey at the left side of the image look dull.
You have a mask for the sea layer – it will hide the land; sky layer will hide the sky of the sea layer. So you may select the sea layer and add blue: Colors->Color Balance; reduce red, increase green and blue.
I’ve downloaded the file and was able to sea the video.
In my case with Km player. But neither Kmplayer nor another player which I have lets hear your voice, Rolf!
Although I have watched your impressing video tutorial I’m curious to you spoken comment and explanation. Maybe you can help me.
Unfortunately the video doesn’t work with iTunes or QuickTime for me.
iTunes will download the video, but it will not add it to the Podcast.
After manually downloading the Video QuickTime Player refuses to open it. (The movie could not be opened. An invalid sample description was found in the movie.)
VLC plays the Video but reports a few errors.
Sorry about the sound – I tried a new encodig and found no problems on my machines.
If you don’t have sound – try to download the episode and play it with vlc player (works on Windows, Mac and Linuxes) directly. I’ll reencode the episode with the old settings and load it on to the server on the weekend.
On Sunday the next 200MB will be available – must wait until then.
Rolf
I’m using Miro on Ubuntu 7.04 to watch your podcasts, but with this episode there is no sound. The sound works fine with mplayer, but I prefer to use Miro for podcasts.
Thank you for your work!
Hi Rolf – great job as usual
FWIW – I’m having no problems watching (and hearing) your video on QuickTime (v 7.2.0.240) (I’m using WinXP SP2)
Your files for this episode are great (and so is Tim’s photo gallery – thx Tim)
Any chance you could go back and do the same for the Ship-in-the-fog (episodes 3, 4 and 5)
A gimp question: I’ve installed and have all available from Quick Launch gimp 2.3.18, gimp 2.3.19 and gimp 2.4.0.rc2 (just today-per one of the links above)
At the end of August I downloaded http://docs.gimp.org/en (the in=process documentation for Gimp 2.4.0)
I asked this on gimp-user list w/o success but thought you or another reader here might know the answer. Is there any way to manually make these help files the target of context sensitive F1-help and have it appear in the built-in Gimp-browser.
I don’t know enough to guess whether there would be a general answer for Unix, Mac and Windows platforms or different answers for each – or no answer in which case I just wait (impatiently) for a window Help-installer toi magically appear on the sourceforge servers
Regards … Alec
Followup …
I said: “Any chance you could go back and do the same for the Ship-in-the-fog (episodes 3, 4 and 5)”
I didn’t realize ’till I followed the links back that you had already done this (on the 23-Photo Sharing site) and also put a link to my “fan-site”
I’ve added mtg-009.zip and the 23-photos-zip (renamed mtg-006.zip) to that page
Links:
the page: http://meetgimp.googlepages.com/meetthegimp
mtg_006: http://meetgimp.googlepages.com/MeetTheGimp-mtg006.zip
mtg_009: http://meetgimp.googlepages.com/MeetTheGimp-mtg009.zip
I won’t continue to update this site unless there is popular request
Regards … Alec (buralex AT gmail DOT com)
RSS feeds (last comment this week- I promise – I’ll go back to playing with my Gimp now)
You appear to have two RSS feeds setup – the main one that delivers the videos with your brief comment on what you are doing this week)
and the one that delivers comments to this individual thread.
This week: http://meetthegimp.org/?feed=rss2&p=38
Have you (or can you) set up a feed that will deliver both the current video with your intro paragraph AND the comments to each week as they get created.
It looks like occasionally some one goes back and posts something to a preceding week – I suspect these will never get seen.
Just a thought …
Regards … Alec
Hi Alec (and all the others)!
Starting at the last posting, because it is still on the screen.
RSS Feeds
There are a lot of feeds…. some of them I wasn’t aware of.
The feed for the video at feedburner.com
The feed for the blog entries
The feed for all the comment on meetthegimp.org. Here you see all comments to all threads in chronological order.
These three seem to be usefull, I think.
Then there seems to be a feed for each comment thread, like the one you mentioned. And I have a “top secret” video feed which feeds feedburner. Some people have found that and tap into the video feed the half an hour, that it takes feedburner to replicate the feed, earlier than the rest of the crowd. No problem with that – they just don’t show up in the statistics as subscribers. There are 682 at the moment – I round that up to 700 including the early birds.
Files for download
I’ll upload the packages for show 1 and the “Fog” series to Tim’s server and include a download link to them in the blog entries. The back episodes get at least two to three visits a day.
I don’t think it will be worth your time to keep the “Fan Page” up to date. Perhaps you just put up a note there that it is dicontinued and send the visitors over to meetthegimp.org. The page generates a hit a day at least – so just leave it standing there. Thanks again for setting that up – a good solution killed by one without capacity problems.
Help files
Your question with the help files. I fear I have no idea how to help there. I read it on the mailing list and would have answered if I could, just to plug the show
. I keep it in mind, would be nice to just press F1…
Hi Rolf,
another great video. I think your delivery as far as speed is just fine. I can’t believe you record these without a script. Your English is just fine for me (I’m English) – I’m just glad you decided to record the videos in English – my German is awful.
I have a question about sharpening. Did you save the xcf file before sharpening, so that the sharpening only applied to the final jpg? Or did you save the sharpened image back as the xcf again?
Is it better not to save the sharpened image back to the xcf files?
Also, when making a change which you can’t do via a layer mask (maybe curves), is there a way to create a new layer which is the sum of all layers below it? (I think photoshop might have something like this). That way you can undo the curves adjustment more easily if you need to.
thanks again for a great set of videos,
Tim
Tim: You have to save XCF file before sharpening. Photoshop gives you something called “adjustment layer” and is one of the features that most of my friends miss in the Gimp (still use photoshop alot). Anyway with Rolf videos I noticed that GIMP is not that bad at all.
Rolf: I don’t think you speak too slow. I like it as I can watch video and play with settings. Usually I had to pause video to keep up. So I think it depends on the level of watcher. I think we should keep it good for beginners as more advanced users will develop own techniques or adapt those used in Pohotoshop as there are hundreds of those out there. Just my 3 cents.
Oh, Tim’s question slipped through my list. Sorry.
Martii is right.
It depends.
Selective sharpening is saved in the xcf. The sharpening for output (after rescaling or so) not. I have no fixed rues for that.
Adjustment layers are in the works. Perhaps in 2.5.15?
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