Meet the GIMP!

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This time I am not in Bremen but in Seefeld near the North Sea. I was there for a weekend training in school management.

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The show starts with a live view at Gimp 2.5.0. Tobias Jakobs sent me a video about some new features and I add another one. This is alpha software, keep away if you are not helping with debugging. And never do “real work” with it.

Tobias Jakobs is well known in the German Gimp community for winning an image manipulation contest ahead of all the Photoshoppers.

Seefeld is in a nice area, as you can see from the aerial view. A lot of fresh air and the sea near by. We had not enough time for long walks but I could grab the shot above. You’ll see how I made that out of a pretty boring original image with a bit of curves and the healing tool. You can download the original and the processed shot in their full size at 23hq.com.

You all know Joseph AKA bluemojo. He covers the Foreground Select Tool and shows all the details. He also has a link covering the SIOX algorithm behind it. For all concerned minds - he dug his three girls out before the tide came in.

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Triptychs - and nearly one hour of them. In this episode I’ll show you how to combine three images to one good looking set and get some frames and borders around them. Again a layer mask is used to partially edit a picture with the curves tool.

The idea to this show came from this thread at the Tips from the Top Floor forum.

More about triptychs can be found at the Wikipedia here and here. More triptychs can be found here at google.

And I have a challenge for you. Make a triptych and put it online at the photogroup “meetthegimp.org” at 23. (23 is a friendly danish image hoster. I am their customer since flickr.com decided to censor my access to images because I am living in Germany.) I’ll show all the images in show 16 - so you have time up to October 16 or so to upload your stuff. I have asked a potential sponsor 23 to donate a bit - so it is possible that I have something as a price for you. (No, it’s not a license for the full version of the Gimp….. ) - and they have given me some codes for getting a year of full service at 23. I’ll choose the winner (if there is a price…) by random - so equal chances for all.

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Norman 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.

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In todays show I cover the curves tool. With curves you can change the brightnes and contrast of an image in a lot of ways. Either finetune the shadows, midtones and highlights or do something very strange as in this picture.

This picture was made by Andra Sommer-Steinort for a workshop we both attend at the moment.

Meet the GIMP! is now listed in iTunes and Podcast Alley. If you like the show please let the people there know.

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