Meet the GIMP!

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Meet the GIMP! is a weekly videopodcast about the Open Source image manipulation program GIMP. You can read more about the podcast and me here. The newest shows are on the home page, where you find also news aside from the podcast.

This here is a list of the older shows, updated from time to time. You can browse through all the shows or search here with your browser search function or the search option on the side bar for special aspects.

The feed contains only the last ten shows - and the first shows contained stuff especially for beginners. So, be sure to check out Episode 1 with an introduction into Gimp and Episode 2 on how to set up Gimp.

Episodes 3, 4 and 5 cover the full processing of a difficult image, including colour correction with layers, selectively adjusting the curves on different parts of the image and much more.

Selective sharpening is the theme of episode 6. I show you how to sharpen the important parts of an image and not to generate additional noise.

Episode 7 covers the curves tool and shows how to finetune the contrast, brightness and colours.

In episode 8 I answer a some questions that came up in the last weeks. I discover the colour sample points, explain the colour picker a bit more in depth and give some pointers to ressources about the Gimp.

How to save a severyly underexposed image is covered in episode 9 and 10. Forget the stuff about the sea in epsiode 9 - I made a big blunder which is corrected in no. 10.

Episodes 11 and 12 are about RAW converting, image formats and different camera types. Episode 15 gets a bit into “Mini-HDR” by combining two versions of the same shot.

Liquid rescaling is the topic of episode 14.

Borders around images and combining different images into one is covered by the “Triptych” episodes 13 and 16.

Selections are covered in depth in the episodes 17 and 18 (named 17 by error…).

Panoramas are the focus of show 19. Joseph van Pelt gives an introduction into Hugin and I try it too. The challenge is over, but feel free to submit your entries. Up to now the favorite episode of the downloaders.

Easy GIF animations are the focus of episode 20 and 21 gives informations about the iwarp plugin and a brief glimpse into the GAP - the GIMP animation package.

The secrets of the unsharp mask or USM filter are covered in show 22.

A lot of ways to select colours is the topic of episode 23. The next show covers Phatch, a batch processor for images. And I show you the results of the panorama challenge.

An image of a cold winter morning is the topic of a complete walk through the post processing. I start with two different outputs of the same RAW file and end with the image I saw in front of my eye when I shot it.

No. 26 is the New Years Episode. So I covered resolutions - DPI and PPI instead of the typical ones on that date.

Sketching with GIMP and an interview about 8 Bit vs. 16 Bit and cinepaint are the topics of the first two shows in 2008. On a more technical side are the drawing tools and brushes.

Show 31 shows the passing of time in a composition of two portraits made 40 years apart.

The next three shows cover the conversion to monochrome on the easy way, the channel mixer and a way with a maximum of control about the output.

The Filterpack in Episode 35 is a powerful tool for correcting and tweaking colours.

The next episode is somewhat strange. I take a (not so successful) night shot made by a viewer and try to save it with UFRaw and GiMP. I end with something like a 19th century painting from France.

“The Two Minute Holiday Shot Edit” is exactly that: How to edit your holiday snapshots in short time. I took my examples in Berlin.

Python programming is in the view of Episode 38. I write a plugin for GiMP to correct the barrel distortion of my small camera. This is a small introduction into programming in Python for non programmers with an open mind.

Episode 39 covers toning of monochrome images - also duotones and tritones. Of course all done with layers.

In the next episode you learn a bit about Bremen’s history, see myself talking into my camera and explain the cause and correction of falling lines.

Inkscape and not GiMP is in the center of 41. Heathenx from the famous Inkscape Screencast shows how to make the Meet the GIMP logo in Inkscape. I then talk about when to use which tool.

A boring image turns into a dramatic shot with curves and the healing tool. Also Joseph talks about the Foreground Selcet tool with the SIOX algorithm.

Rawstudio’s 1.0 release sits on the lab bench for a test run in show 43. I am impressed by the workflow and the overall appearance. In a lot of discussions and tutorials you read the term “lith” or “lith film”. I found an old box with real lith film and take you back some decades while describing how I have worked with these sheets of plastic. Then I try to rebuild one of the effects that were done with lith film in GIMP.

In episode 44 I am shooting a lot of self portraits and combine them to one shot with several instances of myself interacting. Group shot of a single person. No. 46 covers the opposite: How to get rid of people and cars in a scene. Multiple exposures are the key here also.

I tackle the beginnings of monitor calibration in 45.

…. to be continued ….