November 2011

Meet the GIMP! – E010: Rescuing the chapel from the rescue

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http://youtu.be/1T8AF6ITiLc

At the last show I made two blunders. I used an untested encoding and killed the sound for a lot of you and I used a layer mask with a lot of gray in it where it didn’t belong. So the sea didn’t look good.

In this episode I correct that mistake and add a bit of burning and dodging to get parts of the image darker or lighter. I don’t use the burn and dodge tool but use again a layer for better control. A bonus tip for the readers of the blog: If you set the foreground colour at start to medium gray and select then “foreground colour” as the layermask, you get around the step of filling the mask.

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Meet the GIMP! – E009: Saving a Chapel (…from underexposure)

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http://youtu.be/i0XdYj9VobA

Norman mailed me two images — the original shot made by his son and what he made 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.

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Meet the GIMP! – E008: Questions and Answers

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http://youtu.be/HoqNnEkcuN0

The sound quality got lost somewhere in the production chain. And I have no time to fix it because I have to finish the schedule for my school first. Next week with better sound….

In this episode I answer a some questions that came up in the last weeks. I discover the colour sample points, explain the colour picker a bit more in depth and give some pointers to ressources about the Gimp.