thanks for your podcasts — your work is gold worth. I’m currently learning GIMP with your podcasts and have one question, which might be covered in one of your podcasts: how do you solve the problem of aliasing at downscaling your images? I’ve done a small comparison of aliasing artifacts downscaling one image in GIMP & Photoshop and the latter one wins clearly. More about it in my post: http://e.trasher.biz/entry/406 .

Thanks in advance!

at present I develop a lettering for a rockopera. As one part of the lettering should look like flowing sauce I did these tutorials from Gimpusers but without success.

Links to the tutorials:

http://www.gimpusers.de/tutorials/schmelzen-blut.html
http://www.gimpusers.de/tutorials/wassertropfen.html

Perhaps you can made a tutorial to show these things.

Thank you from near the Chiemsee
Rudl

I’d like to see a description and example of what can be done with the Lighting Effects filter. I know this is used a lot in photoshop, but I just don’t know how to get useful results in GIMP. There are so many options - bump mapping, environment mapping, as well as all the light setups, etc.

Thanks, enjoy the shows.

In addition, i decided to get a graphics tablet (not too expensive). I’ve not really had an opportunity to put it to full use. Perhaps some tips/tricks etc on the use of the tablet. I believe you mention you have a Wacom (?). I didn’t get that particular brand, however, something on the general concept? this may not be too visual or could be included as part of another topic.

Also, how do print if you don’t print from The Gimp?

Whats the best DPI, and format to use in saving them to use in the gimp. Or any other thing I haven’t ask about scanning photos.

@Ger: HDR is on the list.

Making HDR images with opensource programs.
Starting with UfRaw for downloading RAW images.
Saving in Gimp for TIF files en editing with Qtpfsgui
Take a look at:
http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php
Qtpfsui has also a german manual.

For the dutch visitors there’s a sample for creating HDR images.
All software programs are for linux and…!…windows.

Auch…don’t hit me. I’m still a windows user.
Someday I will use Linux.

But I’ll ask around.

It looks like a nice tutorial and should make for a great show?

http://www.duggmirror.com/design/How_to_Airbrush_your_photos_in_Photoshop_/

Windows theme selector

http://www.dealfaro.com/home/code/colortemp.html
http://www.dealfaro.com/home/code/whitebalance.html

I’ve tried the colortemp. It works well

The gimp theme selector works fine. I appreciated other colors and fonts in order to not te be distracted by windowscolor from photo.

I have a couple of colleagues that work as artists/drawers.
They are using photoshop -among other sw- on a regular basis, but both would like to swap to a cheaper/non propietary tool.

I’ve been talking to them about the gimp -and meetthegimp.org of course, wich both of them love :-)- but seems like they are missing some stuff they need on a draw tool. Therefore, I’m not talking here of using the Gimp as a photo editing tool, mind you.

The number one issue for one of them is the CMYK stuff. He says he needs to be able to convert the color map from RGB to CMYK.

I told him I’d be investigating that point.

And, to start with, Gimp happens not to support CMYK natively. But I’ve found that there are several plugins that can be helpful with it: lcms, separate and separate+. But I haven’t been able to use them to generate a jpg file based on cmyk (my colleague sent me 2 jpg’s, the normal one and the cmyk-ed one).

And then, I don’t know if this stuff is also meaningful to us, people that use gimp for photo editing; I think that maybe would be in case of printing pictures to paper.

Rolf, if you find that interesting or you have already fought your way through the cmyk issues, I think it’d be nice to make a show on it. Drawer folks and cmyk issues is just another way of meeting the gimp after all

Saludos

R

I enjoyed your episode on brushes today. I searched for brushes on the internet, and someone had patterns to download. When I designed patterns for knitwear they were usually repeating tiled patterns. Good old Deluxe Paint II Enhanced had that feature (DOS program - am I showing my age?)

Now I want to know how to create a repeating tiled pattern in gimp. Any possibility? I have no idea what I would use it for, but the thirst for knowledge is rearing its head!

Thanks for keeping up the great work. Most appreciated.

Ruth

For all us stuck with crappy camera at night, perhaps a nice tutorial would be how to properly adapt a picture taken with too little light to as much as posible in GIMP.

Thanks for all the tutorials, doing a great job!

http://www.23hq.com/photogroup/meetthegimp/conversation/2710132