November 2011

Meet the GIMP! – E016: And the Winner is… / Frames and Tryptichs in a new Way

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http://youtu.be/-Wt1c5ifTYc

In this show John Arnold from Photowalkthrough draws the winner of the triptych contest. Before that we talk about why you should also listen to his podcast and about a really nice workshop. I have to work at that time (May 5th to 7th), but otherwise I would have shelled out the money and gone there.

Then I’ll show you a new way to make a frame around an image or to do a triptych. It works with layer masks. The tip to do it that way was sent by Jason from New York.

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Meet the GIMP! – E015: RAW to the rescue! Mini-HDR ;-)

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http://youtu.be/I-ZyPOPARG4

I shot some autumn scenes with a Lensbaby in a very mixed light condition. And I haven’t checked the histogram after this shot. It is the only one with the focus right on spot and a dreamy flair. The leaf in the center was overexposed in the JPG image — blown out highlights ruined the image.

But I had shot in JPG and NEF (Nikon’s RAW) — so I used UFRaw to produce a TIFF file with the right exposure of the leaf and blended it into the image with a layer mask. This is basically the way (pseudo-) HDR works. Take different parts of the image from differntly exposed photographs.

A slight correction with the hue/saturation tool was necessary to adjust the colours. Cropping was done twice — a mistake made a correction necessary. So I covered some advanced options in cropping.

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Meet the GIMP! – E014: Liquid Rescaling, Seam Carving and COWS!

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http://youtu.be/rtUn4eD3X_I

Liquid Rescaling or Seam Carving — two names for a new way to change the proportions of pictures while keeping the content in shape. The Gimp now has such a plugin and I’ll show you how to use it. COWS? Well, they are important…

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