On Monday 12 April 2004 17:31, Yoni Rabkin Katzenell wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've written up my proposed future lecture titled "Digital Darkroom with
> the GIMP" in slide format.
>
> The abstract: "This lecture first talks about setting up our computer
> for working with digital images using the GIMP and GNU/Linux. Then we
> introduce a number of GIMP tools and editing techniques that we can use
> to improve our digital images."
>
> The download: http://www.rabkin.co.il/~johnr/lectures/lectures.html
>
> I'd be happy for any comments about the slides seeing as I have no real
> lecturing experience.
>
> I can say that it looks a bit long to me. The first half can easily take
> 40 minutes. And that isn't even getting to the real point of the lecture
> which is to present useful and neat GIMP tricks for people to improve
> their digital photographs.
First of all I should note that on my system (Mandrake Linux 10.0) the PDF is
not displayed correctly with either gv or kghostview. xpdf displays them
fine, though and I'm using it now.
In page 4 ("What is GIMP"):
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s!Web site http://www.gimp.org!Web site: http://www.gimp.org/!
(notice the extra slash at the URL's end and the punctuation.
s!This lecture referrers!This lecture refers!
There's an odd blue rectangle around the (a) footnote handle.
In page 7 ("Bit depth cont."):
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Add a trailing slash to the cinepaint URL.
In page 8 ("Setup: Color Balance")
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again - a blue rectangle in the "(a)". (I won't repeat this remark - it is
present in many other pages).
In page 13:
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I think it would be a good idea to tell how much the web photo is
uncompressed, because the comparison with compressed/uncompressed is unfair.
In page 14:
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I strongly recommend that instead of using commas to separate the menu path,
you use a more standard arrow.
Dialogs -> Histogram (with the Unicode or LaTeX character instead of the "->")
It is also a good idea to highlight the menu entries and the arrows each in
different colours that are both different than black.
In page 15:
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Ditto.
In page 16:
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Ditto. Also if you highlight the menu path, then the "Where?" question is
probably redundant.
In page 17:
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subs. "over sharpen" with "over-sharpen" or maybe "oversharpen". (twice) And
you may wish to have a browser or image viewer ready with the Omaha Beach
photo.
In page 18:
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Use arrows for the menu pathes.
In page 19:
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ditto
All in all seems like a very nice and instructive lecture. Very differen from
the one I gave and fills a different niche. Good luck!
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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