Gimp Tutorial Queue


 * Layer effects and Layer groups
 * Scripting Actions
 * Gimp version of http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/how-to/photoshop-and-other-software/enhance-your-landscapes.html
 * Gimp version of http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/how-to/photoshop-and-other-software/your-perfect-b-and-w-print.html
 * Working with channels
 * http://blog.patdavid.net/2011/12/getting-around-in-gimp-skin-retouching.html
 * restroking with pen tool

= Raw Notes = yeh need any others? i have layer effects and layer groups planned because of a question i got on my blog and scripting actions so many times i'm reading outdoor photography with touch up guides using photoshop. some of the tools/options i can find in gimp but some i can't. knowing the comparable actions would be golden. morning mizmo, sorry that I didnt answer but I went to bed yesterday its all good gnokii mizmo: i would like to see one with the manipulating color channels, how all that can be maximized mock, can you link me to a tutorial that shows how it works in photoshop so i can understand what's needed? mizmo: sure, let me find one... you can definitely manipulate color channels in gimp in a lot of different ways, but im not sure which emulates photoshop best mizmo: here are a few links: http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/how-to/photoshop-and-other-software/enhance-your-landscapes.html http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/how-to/photoshop-and-other-software/your-perfect-b-and-w-print.html well, those two are the ones i can find. do you do much photo manipulation? gnokii, actually vanessa has been doing some great character design in inkscape :) like to see that mock, let me take a look at those quick, i was popped away from my desk for a sec mock, i have done quite a bit of photomanip but i do a wide breadth of stuff and no one thing super in-depth i know there are a few installables in the repos designed to generate hdr from multiple shots, but i would like to do them by hand if i knew how to use gimp a little more. gnokii, i had vanessa take a look at the characters on join.fedoraproject.org and make them cooler-looking i think darktable is open source version of adobe's lightroom, correct? mock, yep althoguh there are a couple of other lightroom alternatives too mizmo: I still wondering why I did once the kids character once, thaught they would be for that mock, there's one called photivo (photivo.org) gnokii, oh we should have the website updated for that then, it never got updated gnokii, your characters are really cool, i thoguht the intention was for ambassadors to use them hmm, i'll check that out. i've not seen that one yet the characters are all on my fp.o space mock, shotwell comes default in fedora and has some lightroom-like features but it's lighter-weight. you can do basic photo edits and stuff with it gnokii, can you open a ticket with websites team to have the characters updated? mizmo: i've not been a big shotwell fan, but i'll look at it again. seemed a little memory hoggish last few times i've used it. i'll look at it again, though. mock, the thing thats odd about shotwell is its written in vala so i dont know if maybe some memory issues are related to that all right mock - so in the 'enhance your landscapes' one - mizmo: my fan just went into overdrive... the first photoshop trick he notes is ctrl+alt+shift+E to merge the effects of the layers into a single layer. in gimp, you right-click the layers palette and do 'new layer from visible' to achieve the same the layer styles / gradient overlay is possible using the gimp 'layer effects' plugin from registry.gimp.org i haven't installed any plug ins for gimp. maybe i should explore those. ah okay so i dont see anything else major in that tutorial, i think if you install 'layer effects' plugin and with the 'make new from visible' layer trick you should be able to follow that tutorial step-by-step without too much issue the layer effects palette for gradient layer style in gimp is pretty similar to those screenshots im gonna open up the other tutorial now - mock, so for the general b&w conversion task mock, outside of the PS workflow in this tutorial, you'll want to try the gimpfx-foundry plugin (the package in fedora is gimpfx-foundry). it adds a menu item called 'fx-foundry' to the gimp menus. if you go to Fx foundary > photo > effects > Eg Black and White there are a lot of b&w conversion fine-tuning tools in there ah, ok i do have that installed mock, so there's a minimalist shadows and highlights plugin, http://registry.gimp.org/node/116 and i have it installed and working now, but what it does i usually do via the levels dialog ok, i use the levels or curves to adjust most of my photos when i need to i just looked at the eg b&w photo plugin mock, the adjustments dialog he's got there, you can emulate that going to colors > Components > channel mixer... and turning on monochrome mode (not as many colors though) there many little pieces in gimp that i just am unaware of where he's talking about black point here is the left-most pointer in the levls dialog, and the right-most one is the white point you can modify the levels per channel via a dropdown in the dialog (at least in 2.7.x) i've done that too, for color adjustments on photos i've not tried on b&w for color channels so, what does the color channel tab give me? the second tab on layers/channels/paths window? mock, ah this tutorial uses blend if. that is one photoshop functionality i dont know how to emulate in gimp ok mock, the main way i've used the color channel tab was to select areas of the image via channel so you can say right-click the green color channel, and do 'channel to selection', then pop back over to the image and perform any of the actions in the menus on a selection of just that channel oh! so, for a pic of the beach, you could select the ocean and maybe bring out the blue and maybe green... the canonical thing that workflow achieves is if you've got a photo of a woman with long hair and you're trying to create a mask to cut out the background from between her strands of hair then you could select the sand, highlight some yellow... the green channel usually has the best contrast to work with in developing your mask mock, yeh, the workflow i would use for the beach photo example (i dont know if it's best, it's how i'd do it) is go to the blue channel, right-click it and do add to selection, go back to the image, boost that selection maybe with saturation or maybe create a new layer with the selection and use a layer belnding mode to boost the color then mask my enhancements so they only applied to the water see? these types of tips are gems for more vids. :) im gonna save this chat for some vids :) im excited now, it's so easy to do the screencasts with gnome shell so its gonna be fun gimp is one of the most powerful open source programs out there. with all the features built in and added by the community, it amazes me i can get it preinstalled with fedora. mizmo: does the gnome shell screencast feature now record sound? gnokii, it can but you have to run a script to enable it, after you run the script it works forever gnokii, i put a link to the bugzilla comment with the script in my blogpost cool, have to solve the problems with my graphic card so that I am can have my gnome shell back mock, http://allvishal.com/journal/how-make-stylish-black-white-digital-photos-gimp <= a gimp-specific tutorial for some of the effects from the other one you showd me ok, thanks! mizmo: i should have found you in here during the evening. i would like to sit down and mess with gimp and ask questions as i go, but i can't at the moment. you know, $dayjob. mizmo: and thanks for the feedback on these questions too lol it's all good, i hope it helps it does indeed i haven't googled for a photography/gimp community. most of the world uses photoshop. i want to see some professional photogs who use gimp share their how-tos and experiences online. they might be out there, but i've not looked to hard...yet. mock, rharrison has given some great talks on using a FLOSS workflow for photography - he is a pro. i don't know if he has anything written ooh today is the Kiss Day mock, a really good general floss creative community that focuses on tools, gimp pretty heavily, is libregraphicsworld.com alexandre produkine (sp) is behind it there is also graphicsplanet.org which is a blog planet that has a bunch of floss designers who use gimp and all the rest and talk about their usage yeah but Alexandre forgets to be impartial still its great quality content he isnt in favor of photoshop emulation though which i do understand thats otherwise true this part I would accept nice! mock, check out http://blog.patdavid.net/2011/12/getting-around-in-gimp-skin-retouching.html he's been blogging some gimp tutorials and that one in particular is outstanding. ok you know a sub page of the design or art page on the fedora wiki with links to quality tutorials would be pretty sweet... rharrison, we do have a little howto section, we could totally expand it http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design#HowTos btw mizmo we should, put on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_set_CMYK_color_on_a_design_for_printing the cooler way also yeah, maybe just a Generic tutorials section / page?
 * gnokii have I to produce a screencast for vanessa how cool Inkscape is :D
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 * rharrison needs to do some blog posts on his work flow...
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