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08:08:55 05/15/12
Episode 170: Set the Presets!
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A nice feature crept into GIMP 2.7 under my Radar ? presets for the tools in the toolbox. You can store all the settings, give them a name and recall them later. I show how to make some for rotating an image and cropping in different aspect ratios. GIMP 2.7 includes also a system for tagging brushes. A combination of tags and presets allows a big but manageable collection of special brushes. This needs further exploring. Then I have to brag about the low light capabilities my new X100 ? ISO 2000 and nearly no noise. There is no torrent file for the moment, because we still have to resolve these tracker issues. And beware of the companion file ? I think it is only useful for you if you want to tinker with the RAW file or check out an image out of a X100. The TOC 00:30 GIMP Version numbers 02:00 Saving presets with the rotate tool 03:40 Presets for different crop settings 05:35 The Preset dockable dialogue 05:55 Prests for the text tool 07:30 Using preset tools 08:25 Curves tool ? low S-curve 10:00 Bragging about the X100 in low light
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19:00:00 05/13/12
Episode 181: 2.8, 2.9 and Counting!
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A week of news: GIMP 2.8 is out, we have again a modern stable version of GIMP. Gratulation to the developers, this was good and hard work. But instead of relaxing a bit they threw at the same moment Version 2.9 into the world. High bit depth, not only the 16 bits everybody wanted, 32 bits integer and floating point modes are suddenly available. But be aware, this is a field of bugs and crashes, don?t expect any productive results yet. In a first look at 2.8 I show the shiny new brushes, explain how to use the new sliders and the tagging system for brushes, gradients and patterns. For the lazy I add a bit of calculations in input fields. Then nachbarnebenan takes you for a tour through 2.9, presenting the lossless operation of the layer stack and other stuff. But again, this is not for the faint at heart. If you want to compile 2.9 on Debian, here is a How To in our Wiki. 00:20 News about 2.8 and 2.9 04:40 Starting GIMP 2.8.0 05:00 Single Window Mode 05:25 A new brush set ? brush controls 07:10 The new slider controls 08:10 Ressource tagging for brushes, gradients and patterns 10:45 Calculations in input fields 11:45 Goat Invasion! Outlook to 2.9 (nachbarnebenan) 11:50 A layer stack in 2.8 ? 8 Bit depth 14:50 The same in 2.9 ? 32? Bit Floating Point 18:20 Soft Light and Overlay ? the Bug is gone! 19:20 Not all is using GEGL yet 22:30 Final words from Rolf
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14:30:00 04/28/12
Episode 180: Not for Grown Ups!
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Tuxpaint is a painting software for kids between 3 and 100+. Well, the targeted audience ends at an age of 12, but it is still fun to use when you are older. Tuxpaint is available for Linux, Mac OS X and all Windows flavours. Of course it is under the GPL and so free to get and to be shared. The ease of use beats everything I have seen in the professional educational market and I am considering to get it into my school. The user interface and availability of tools in Tuxpaint can be configured to adapt to the skill level of the user and the level of annoyance the environment is willing to tolerate. There are nice sound effects, but how often can you stand ?QUAAAAAAAKQUAAAAAAAKQUAAAAAAAK DUCK?? Also printing can be disabled because space on the fridge and ink cartridges have limits. The configuration is done with a separate program which can be kept outside of the reach of the little end-user. The show starts and ends with some information about the upcoming GIMP Magazine. I am somehow involved in the team now but I promise to keep my priorities on this project here. And then there is an invasion of goats int GIMP and 16 bits and more are in reach. If you want to become a member of the forum, just drop me a mail at info@meetthegimp.org and tell me your intended user name. The TOC 01:00 GIMP Magazine 02:00 Goat Invasion ? GIMP will get a lot of progress soon 03:00 16 and 32 Bit already running in the Goat Invasion branch 05:10 Tuxpaint 05:55 Setting Tuxpaint up 09:00 The Toolset 10:00 Painting and brushes 11:10 Lines 11:45 New canvas 12:20 Shapes 13:35 Stamps 16:40 Text 17:30 Magic! (scripts and filters in a mixed bag) 20:20 Saving and recovering images 20:40 Templates for coloring 22:50 GIMP Magazine
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23:30:00 03/18/12
Episode 179: Corners and Edges
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I am on my way to a class trip an so you get only a short episode about the corners and edges around the canvas. There is a menu button, a zoom mode button, a navigator and the quick mask for selections. And of course there are the rulers with the guides and control points to pull out. All this after a quick update on the histogram from the last show.
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20:00:00 02/21/12
Episode 177: Take 2 and GIMP!
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Nachbarnebenan continues his tutorial from the last episode. He isolated his model from the a bit to vivid background by making two images from his RAW file. One is crisp and colourful ? best for the model. The other one is soft and a bit dull ? this tones the background down. In this episode he combines them to one image with a layer mask. Did you know that there is a filter in GIMP to emulate the look of an image for colour blind people? Nachbarnebenan shows how to use it. It?s no so important for photography ? but think of all the graphics work done with GIMP. By using this filter you can make a difference in accessibility If you want to get into programming plugins for GIMP in Python ? there is link to this great HD video from Gimpusers.com. And for the next episode you?ll need a Trench coat and dark glasses ? we?ll enter the Stasi headquaters at night. Sorry, no TOC up to now, but at around 15:30 is the great segment about GIMP and colour blindness.
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19:00:00 02/11/12
Episode 176: Double Photivo
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It?s time for a guest again. Nachbarnebenan shows how to process a RAW image in the current (well, it was November?) version of Photivo. Photivo has a very different approach to image processing from GIMP and others. It?s more stacking up and tweaking of algorithms instead of making a series of changes one after the other. Fully non destructive and very powerful. To isolate the model from the a bit to vivid background Nachbarnebenan produces two images from his RAW file. One is crisp and colourful ? best for the model. The other one is soft and a bit dull ? this tones the background down. In the next episode he will show how to combine these two images in GIMP into one.
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14:00:00 01/28/12
Episode 175: Polygonal Blob
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After a visit to Libre Graphics World with a report about the state of GIMP 2.8 and a look into the future. I tackle a question I was asked at the 28c3. Is there a way to draw geometric figures in GIMP? Well, I found three. The selection tools provide a variety of ways to make a geometric selection which later can be stroked or filled with a colour or pattern. The paths tool can be handy too, I didn?t cover it in this show. The Gfig plugin allows the construction and editing of such figures, but there are a lot of drawbacks and some risk of fatal crashes. And finally ? is GIMP the right tool? Why not take Inkscape, dabble a bit and export the result to GIMP? Inkscape is easy to use for simple tasks ? they have a really good user interface. For more complicated stuff there are the tutorials at screencasters.com. Long time no show there, but perhaps Richard and heathenx can be pestered into making some more. They haven?t given up but gone into hibernation a bit. And if you are in or around Toronto ? Steve Czajka is holding an interesting course there. The TOC 00:40 State of GIMP 2.8 ? http://libregraphicsworld.org/ 01:55 28c3 in Berlin 02:30 Drawing geometric figures ? a missing feature? 03:30 Select and stroke 03:35 Rectangle, Ellipse and Free Hand selection tool 04:15 Help from Guides and the Grid 05:00 Stroke 05:50 Combining selections 06:20 Subtracting selections 07:10 gfig plugin 07:30 Lines,rectangles, circles, arcs, polygons, stars and more 08:10 Limits and drawbacks 09:00 Editing 11:00 CRASH!!!! 11:30 Don?t use GIMP! Use Inkscape! 15:30 Getting the work back to GIMP. 16:00 Making a colour transparent 17:00 Choose the right tool 18:00 Version control for GIMP ? not yet Meet the GIMP Video Podcast by Rolf Steinort and Philippe Demartin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://meetthegimp.org.
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19:00:00 12/24/11
Episode 174: Wilber in a Can
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To get something festive to drink over the holidays I have ordered a special MTG-Beer from a brewery. It?s finest Pils in a can with Wilber on it! (Why a can and not a bottle ? there is no ?Make a Bottle Filter? in GIMP.) In this episode I explore the Map to Object filter. It can render an image on a plane, a box, a sphere and a cylinder. The default dimensions of the cylinder are that of a beer can. Quite significant insight into the world of programmers. (BTW, the box preset is a cube, not a pizza box?..) The image used in the show is stolen from Steve Czajka. But before that is a look back onto the last show. Saul Goode shows a much easier way to generate patterns with the clipboard and I explain how I got the dots of different sizes in the blog image. For all of you a happy holiday! I hope to be back still in this year, so I?ll keep the new year wishes for later. As a distraction the 28c3 is coming up 10 minutes away from my home. I got no tickets but hope to get in there at night and watch some stream on the day. The TOC 00:30 The Clipboard is a Pattern! 03:45 Create a Layer from a Brush 05:00 Pull things around on the UI 05:10 Pattern with variable dot size 06:55 Gimpressionist ? to be explored later 07:10 Steve Czajka?s Calligraphy 08:00 ?Map to Object? Filter: Plane, Box, Spere and Cylinder 10:50 Light in the Map to Object filter 11:50 Material in the Map to Object filter 14:30 again Light in the Map to Object filter 17:20 Making a second copy of an image by pulling it on the tool box 18:00 Adding a border to the top and bottom
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22:00:00 12/13/11
Episode 173: Lots of Dots
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Meet the GIMP is on Youtube! Mike AKA Eppic has started this channel and is uploading all the old episodes. Thank You! I need some dot patterns for a project with Moir. And so this episode is deveted to building dot patterns out of a grid without grid lines. Misterious? Have a look at the video! The video ends a bit abrupt. Cinelerra went on strike with the last part of the footage. So some stuff is left as an exercise for you! The TOC 00:20 We are on YouTube! 01:00 The Importance of Dots 02:00 The Grid filter makes crosses 03:00 Blurr and Threshold to make circles 04:25 Colour to Alpha making white transparent 04:55 Patterns for the Bucket Fill 05:50 Measurements in the pattern 06:25 Cropping 07:00 Saving as .pat 08:45 Cropping again same but different 10:00 Moiree demo 11:00 Getting smaller dots 11:15 No Threshold Tool on transparency 11:20 Curves tool on Alpha Channel 13:30 Cinelerra on strike
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15:00:00 12/03/11
Episode 172: Chasing Ducks
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In this show I explore the Color Balance tool to get the right mood into an image shot just after sunrise. These sliders push the colors around in the RGB color space. But how to push? Then I compare the Curves and Levels tool and give both o them a shot at the image. Both results are fine on some parts of the image ? just combine the two parts with a layer mask. An finally cloning out a disturbing sign at the edge of the canal. After the recording I decided to do a crop of the image. You can see it on 23 and on flickr. The TOC 00:20 Greetings 01:10 Morning at the Teltow Canal 01:50 Level or not? Measurement and perception 03:50 Mixed lighting by the morning sky 04:15 Colour sample points 06:10 Colour balance tool 12:30 Remove Colour sample points 13:15 Levels or Curves tool? 13:30 Curves applied 15:00 Curves explained 16:10 Levels applied 18:20 Levels explained 20:00 Layer mask for combining the images 22:45 Cloning out a sign 24:30 Good bye
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16:00:00 11/19/11
Episode 171: Nightmare Staircase
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While proofreading a new GIMP book as a ?technical reviewer? I came across an interesting deviation of the presented recipe. Making a nightmarish effect. It?s really easy, very flexible and you can learn a lot about some layer modes while playing around. The original image is from my new Android phone, the quality is really good. So much progress in the last years. You can find it in the companion file and at Google+. ISO 1250, on a phone?.. Sorry, no TOC up to now?.
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21:00:00 10/14/11
Episode 169: Garamond
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And again a reference to Show #167. Pascal wrote in a comment that he didn?t like the font I used and pointed me to a nice free font called EBGaramond. This episode is about getting and using the font. The font goes back into the 16th century. Claude Garamond was a famous typesetter and publisher in Paris. He invented the apostrophe and designed a typeface that is still around. A lot of font designers have derived their fonts from his work. You can be sure to find a Garamond typeface in every word processor font package. Fonts are highly copyrighted and so Georg Duffner and his helpers went to the original source to cut a new, free version of a Garamond. A cursive font is under development too. The font development is done with Font Forge.Just a short look at that program will convince you that type design is a serious business. In the video I show how to install a font and how to use the new text tool in GIMP 2.7 with the on canvas editing.
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12:00:00 10/07/11
Episode 168: ZOOMING IN!
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The blog post image of the last episode was ?recursive?, the image contained the image in it which contained the image in ?? Bert wondered how I did it ? and here is the video about it. For this blog post I decided to make a much more annoying recursive image ? an animation. (Click on the image for a really annoying version ) To do this was way more complicated than I had anticipated before. Details inside. GAP (GIMP Animation Package) would have made the stuff a lot easier, I assume. If you want your image on top of the blog ? make one (1000 288 pixels) and send it to me at info@meetthegimp.org! A big Thank You! goes out to the guys from the Bia?ostocka Grupa U?ytkownikw Linuksa, who are donating the server for the Meet the GIMP video files. The TOC 00:30 Header images 01:40 Making a recursive image 02:55 Start with a screenshot 03:30 Screenshot with GIMP 04:40 Copy the layer and scale down 06:00 repeat until enough.... 08:20 Scaling down 09:15 Animate it - with a plan 12:00 Making layer copies 12:45 Scaling the layers 14:00 Aligning the layers 14:15 Measuring 15:00 Making a grid for adjustments 16:15 Really aligning the layers 18:10 Cropping away the invible parts of the layers 18:45 Scaling down 19:00 Setting the image mode to indexed 19:15 Optimizing for GIF animation 20:00 Exporting as GIF 20:10 Thank you to "Bia?ostocka Grupa U?ytkownikw Linuksa" http://bgul.org/
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20:00:00 09/28/11
Episode 167: Exporting Grumpy Bears
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This Blog needed a header image ? and it still needs a lot of header images to rotate through. So I created one out of an image of a Berlin Subway station. Nothing much new in here ? rotating, cropping to the needed aspect ratio, a bit of curves for better contrast and colours, scaling and sharpening. Finally I added a text layer with the image credits. If you want your image on top of the blog ? make one and send it to me at info@meetthegimp.org! But before that I took a little excursion into Shotwell again and explored the Flickr export function. On the day of the last show, Shotwell released a new version. So it?s no need to compile the trunk code ? just download the full package.
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19:00:00 09/20/11
Episode 166: Shotwell revisited
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Just a short show about the newest version of Shotwell (0.11.1+trunk of September 19, 2011). They got hierarchical tags implemented ? the only feature I really missed in comparison to F-Spot.
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13:00:00 08/08/11
Episode 165: Vertigo
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You?ll get a bit dizzy this time. Nachbarnebenan is showing how to make a vertigo effect. But before that I show off the results of a spending spree and have a link to a great video tutorial by Steve Czajka. He combines GIMP, Inkscape and Calligraphy into one well designed learning package. I hope there will be more! (If you can?t see the videos on his site ? my Chromium shows just black fields, Firefox is working, try his Youtube Channel.) And now a bit of Vertigo. Watch for the scenes where our Hero looks down the staircase. I have a bit of height anxiety and this scene scared me like nothing else the first time I saw this film. To get this on film you need a camera with zoom lens, a dolly (that?s the tripod on rails) and a perfect coordination of focal length, dolly position, focal distance and aperture. Mr. Hitchcock had it perfect. Doing it with a still camera needs only the zoom lens, two shots and some layer magic.
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