Re: New tutorial at CubicDesign.com
This new tutorial teaches how to apply a photographic quality smoothing to a person's body. All comments welcome... First of all the tutorial result is nice. I don't quite get the sense of creating a layer mask and then appliyng the filter on the whole image. Maybe the procedure is not that well explained. I'd use the mask generated using the threshold filter as a quickmask and then change it to selection and then apply the selective gaussian filter. Otherwise the whole process of creating the mask is kinda redundant. Or am I missing something? Jakub Steiner -- -[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-[ http://hideout.musichall.cz ]- "even a stopped clock gives a right time twice a day"
Re: New tutorial at CubicDesign.com
Jon Winters wrote: James Smaby wrote: Is it just me, or are these CubicDesign tutorials a little too close to porn howtos? If you've ever done any portrait work you appriciate any and all techniques that can be used to smooth out skin, reduce wrinkles, remove unwanted hair and blemishes. Look at the covers of the magazines next time you're at the store... I know models have pores in real life... But you wouldn't know it looking at the magazines. No, but you'd have more to work with when the object is a 95 year old man. :) Must the object of the image touchup be a large breasted model? I've got no comment on that point. Seems like the author of the tutorial chose tasteful images that work well for the techniques being covered. There is nothing obscene about women in bikinis. How about some balance. I enjoy an atractive female as much as the next guy, but in all fairness, how about some buffed up men in the next set of tutorials? Better yet, a cute baby. I don't know about most people, but I don't really want people thinking I'm looking at porn when I'm really reading about one of these tutorials. I'm confident that nobody in my office would mistake those tutorials for pornography. Folks in my office also know its rude to snoop over each others shoulders trying to spy whats on screen. Hmm, don't have much concern here either, then again, my office is across the hall from my bedroom. Then again, my wife would probably do a second take at these images if I had them on my screen, followed by: "work? yeah right." :) If folks in your office make a habit of scoping your monitor I suggest you invest in a pair of mirrors: Well, depends on the country you're in, but companies are well within their rights to look at what you display on THEIR hardware. Whether that's right or wrong, is not a discussion for here. Granted, someone spotting any of these images on your monitor might well question how it's related to your work, just as they might seeing an image of the lastest World Series game. http://www.thinkgeek.com/brain/bazaar/mart/cart.cgi?action=viewtype=itemitemid=2940at=desktoys Perhaps somthing a little safer next time, like a bowl of fruit or a house. How exactly were those images dangerous? One generally would not be expected to explain why they are viewing a basket of fruit on work hardware, verses a woman in a bikini. Surely you would agree to that. Am I too nieve to think that half-naked pictures are not the best thing to use as examples? Um... Yes. If you find yourself becoming aroused and uncomfortable by those images you should shut down your browser. (avoid internet surfing, watching television and looking directly at the magazine rack in the grocery store) If a person is necessary (like when flesh tones are required as in the latest tutorial), a closeup shot of Clinton or Gates might make a better picture (no, I do not want to see them in a bikini (although that might make for a funny tutorial), I mean a closeup of thier face). No matter where you're at in the world you're entitled to your opinion and I'm certain you have your reasons but given the choice I would choose a beautiful woman in a bikini over an ugly old man. According to a slashdot observation, apache is the http server of choice of the porn industry; is the gimp the image editor of choice? WTF does that have to do with anything? You could replicate the effects demonstrated in those tutorials any decent image editor. I thought the tutorials were great and I will use the stuff I learned when photographing my family and friends. -- Jon Winters http://www.obscurasite.com/jon/ "Everybody Loves The GIMP!" http://www.gimp.org/ -- Until later: Geoffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft != Innovation
Re: New tutorial at CubicDesign.com
Anyone hear me complaining about the breasts? Scott Durrant On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, James Smaby wrote: Is it just me, or are these CubicDesign tutorials a little too close to porn howtos? Must the object of the image touchup be a large breasted model?
New Gimp Tutorial
Whomever the moron is that responded about the newest Gimp tutorial on CubicDesign.com being porn needs to move out of his Mom and Dad's house and get a life... There, I got that out. As far as the new tutorial is concerned, I like the smoothing effect that the new filter has on the sample photograph's subject. However, it seems to me that the swimsuit now looks faked as a result. Is there any way to fix that so that the swimsuit looks as good as the skin and does not look like an afterthought? Michael
Re: New tutorial at CubicDesign.com
Microsoft != Innovation Now that's what I call 'dangerous'. Maarten.
Re: New tutorial at CubicDesign.com
Wandered Inn: guy, but in all fairness, how about some buffed up men in the next set of tutorials? Better yet, a cute baby. i want a plant. nice and green. or an atomic one! clemens
Re: New tutorial at CubicDesign.com
You can view this stuff at home... hmm... Are you a true computer geek if you don't do stuff at home? Are there not other Gimp tutorial sites? Just a few questions... - Original Message - From: "Chetan Dhavse" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Gautam N. Lad" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "GIMP List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 1:04 AM Subject: Re: New tutorial at CubicDesign.com On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Gautam N. Lad wrote: Hi, I have added another tutorial, on CubicDesign.com, in the GIMP-Photographic Effects section. This new tutorial teaches how to apply a photographic quality smoothing to a person's body. All comments welcome... Bye! -- Gautam N. Lad http://www.cubicdesign.com Only reason I am not going to visit your site is because of the photos I would not like to risk my job because of some stupid misunderstandings and belive me there are more like me so your so called marketing trick might backfire be careful Chet
Re: New tutorial at CubicDesign.com
At 06:06 AM 8/17/2000 -0400, you wrote: guy, but in all fairness, how about some buffed up men in the next set of tutorials? Better yet, a cute baby. No, in America, that would be considered child pornography. It's ridiculous, but the same people that screech about women in bikinis would kill you, especially if seen in an office (at least one that isn't in the baby clothes/strollers/diaper biz.) I'd guess inanimate objects are the least offensive, but that art (for me, anyway) should never be about doing the "safe" thing, or self-censoring. Take care, Dave David Moisan, N1KGH ARES/SKYWARN[EMAIL PROTECTED] Invisible Disability: http://www1.shore.net/~dmoisan/invisible_disability.html ATS-909 FAQ: http://www1.shore.net/~dmoisan/faqs/sangean/ats909faq.html
Re: New tutorial at CubicDesign.com
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, David Moisan wrote: At 06:06 AM 8/17/2000 -0400, you wrote: guy, but in all fairness, how about some buffed up men in the next set of tutorials? Better yet, a cute baby. No, in America, that would be considered child pornography. Gentlemen, I believe I've discovered the solution to this apparently contraversial issue about suitable, nude, subject material. I won't tell you from where I stole it, so, be my guest. http://www.katewerk.com/images/forthetutorial.jpg -- Kate http://www.katewerk.com
Re: New tutorial at CubicDesign.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, David Moisan wrote: At 06:06 AM 8/17/2000 -0400, you wrote: guy, but in all fairness, how about some buffed up men in the next set of tutorials? Better yet, a cute baby. No, in America, that would be considered child pornography. Gentlemen, I believe I've discovered the solution to this apparently contraversial issue about suitable, nude, subject material. I won't tell you from where I stole it, so, be my guest. http://www.katewerk.com/images/forthetutorial.jpg That is too good. Looks like the cross between a rat and a human brain.. -- Kate http://www.katewerk.com -- Until later: Geoffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft != Innovation
Re: The pics on the tutorial
Ok.. so, reguardless of the women on the list being offended by the sole use of busty women in tiny scraps of cloth and having perfect bodies; you're going to continue to use only those pictures? Why? Tell me what is wrong with a chubby baby in a diaper? a not so perfectly built woman in a one piece swimsuit? A man, even a not so buff one, in shorts of some kind? An old man? An old woman? A dog, a cat, the hairless mounse? A bowl of fruit, a picture of landscapes? Each one offers different challenges to the user. Each one brings out a new function of GIMP. Yes I know.. most of them fail to create the situation in which men are no longer able to rise from their chair, but this is /not/ a bad thing. You shouldn't have to lure men to the tutorial with the images. You should be luring them there with the information!
Re: [ANNOUNCE] Script-Fu Tutorial
Carl-Johan Sveningsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. Would it be ok if this was maybe translated into Swedish some day and mirrored at a gimp-page? Maybe GUG will want it too. Sure, take it, hack it, translate it, whatever you want. 2. How widely-used should script-fu still be? I recall hearing a discussion that SF would (should?) die in favour of perl-fu and c-plugins? It'd be great fun to know how to code my own plugin in C...but already knowing some SF, should this knowledge be considered old and obsolete? For example Script-Fu and Python-Fu are very similar. Learning script programming with Gimp is IMHO more an issue of learing how Gimp and the PDB works. One's you are handy with that, it shouldn't be a great problem to translate to Python-Fu or Perl-Fu. Even C-Plugin's are very similar, only a bit more complicated. -- ICQ: 59461927 http://www.pingus.cx | Ingo Ruhnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.pages.de/~grumbel/ | '
Re: New Gimp Tutorial
George Crary: However, it seems to me that the swimsuit now looks faked as a result. Is there any way to fix that so that the swimsuit looks as good as the skin and does not look like an afterthought? Remove it, ... ?8-) naa! make her hide behind a power plant! clemens
re: New Tutorial at CubicDesign.com
At 19:36 17/08/00 -0400, Gautam N. Lad wrote: Hi, Hm...it seems that some people are against my idea, while others seem supportive... Don't let any of this get to you, maybe some of the more technical replys make sense, the others are just jokes, or simply nonsense. next time when you use a picture of a whale you'll probably get people of GreenPeace at your throat. You use a picture of a steak, and it's the vegetarians, you use a picture of glass of milk, and it's the veganists, and so on. Just keep up the good work. :-) Regards, Eric.
