Meet the GIMP
Summary: The GIMP is a image manipulation program. It is free (as in speech and in beer), it is open source and it runs on Linux (and other Unixes), Windows and MacOS. It can do nearly all the stuff you can do with Adobe® Photoshop® and more than a lot of other programs. I'll show you in this screencast how to use it for postprocessing digital camera images. There will be a new episode each thursday (european) night.
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Video tutorials for the free graphics software GIMP
Video tutorials for the free graphics software GIMP
Video tutorials for the free graphics software GIMP
Video tutorials for the free graphics software GIMP
Video tutorials for the free graphics software GIMP
Video tutorials for the free graphics software GIMP
Video tutorials for the free graphics software GIMP
Video tutorials for the free graphics software GIMP
You can win a book in our two contests - the exact rules will be published in the next posting. I continue to work on my project "Access Control". My target is a photo book by blurb.com. They accept PDF files for printing - which is important for me because most of the book making software of the printers doesn't work on Linux. Of course there is an Open Source program for making a PDF - Scribus. It is available for all OS, even OS/2. I'll tell you about my experience in one of the next episodes. There are a lot of photobooks to look at for inspiration at SOFOBOMO. Then I start to edit an image. The JPEG image is a bit overblown in the highlights and I have to go back to the RAW file. Cropping turns out to be difficult and the image needs a bit of a contrast boost in some parts. The final steps - sharpening and deciding about a vignette will be made when the layout of the book is clear. For sharpening one needs to kknow the output resolution and size - and I will have to scale the image to 300 DPI before putting it into the book. The vignette depends on the background of the page. The TOC 00:20 The Book Challenge 05:20 A Photo Book as the target for "Access Control" 07:50 Scribus for making PDF files 10:00 Photobooks to look at 10:35 Editing an image for the book 11:15 Blown out pixelss 11:45 RAW to the rescue with UFRaw 16:28 Comparing JPEG and UFRaw output 18:50 Correcting a colour cast in UFRaw 20:45 Straightening the image 23:00 Cropping the image 26:50 Improving contrast with a layer in overlay mode and a mask 33:20 Crooping more 35:00 What's left to do
You can win a book in our two contests - the exact rules will be published in the next posting. I continue to work on my project "Access Control". My target is a photo book by blurb.com. They accept PDF files for printing - which is important for me because most of the book making software of the printers doesn't work on Linux. Of course there is an Open Source program for making a PDF - Scribus. It is available for all OS, even OS/2. I'll tell you about my experience in one of the next episodes. There are a lot of photobooks to look at for inspiration at SOFOBOMO. Then I start to edit an image. The JPEG image is a bit overblown in the highlights and I have to go back to the RAW file. Cropping turns out to be difficult and the image needs a bit of a contrast boost in some parts. The final steps - sharpening and deciding about a vignette will be made when the layout of the book is clear. For sharpening one needs to kknow the output resolution and size - and I will have to scale the image to 300 DPI before putting it into the book. The vignette depends on the background of the page. The TOC 00:20 The Book Challenge 05:20 A Photo Book as the target for "Access Control" 07:50 Scribus for making PDF files 10:00 Photobooks to look at 10:35 Editing an image for the book 11:15 Blown out pixelss 11:45 RAW to the rescue with UFRaw 16:28 Comparing JPEG and UFRaw output 18:50 Correcting a colour cast in UFRaw 20:45 Straightening the image 23:00 Cropping the image 26:50 Improving contrast with a layer in overlay mode and a mask 33:20 Crooping more 35:00 What's left to do
I hope this episode plays well on all computers and programs - the encoding should be supported by Quicktime and iTunes. Thanks to Tavo for figuring this out. There is no GIMP in this episode, there is a bit of F-Spot, but mostly it's about a new photography project I am starting. I want to make a series of images about means of "Access Control" and thought a bit about it in the video. (The content could have been better structured, but I was with my head more in video encoding and work flows than photography.) Is this still on topic of this show? I had requests for more photography centric stuff - but what do you think? Please write a comment here in the blog.
I hope this episode plays well on all computers and programs - the encoding should be supported by Quicktime and iTunes. Thanks to Tavo for figuring this out. There is no GIMP in this episode, there is a bit of F-Spot, but mostly it's about a new photography project I am starting. I want to make a series of images about means of "Access Control" and thought a bit about it in the video. (The content could have been better structured, but I was with my head more in video encoding and work flows than photography.) Is this still on topic of this show? I had requests for more photography centric stuff - but what do you think? Please write a comment here in the blog.
First show in HD! 2 Years Meet the GIMP!
First show in HD! 2 Years Meet the GIMP!
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