Re: [Gimp-user] Best online guide for photographers
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 17:34, jim feldman wrote: At the risk of being a heretic let me make the following suggestions Tanveer Singh wrote: I use GIMP for image manipulation. though lots of resources are availalbe for photoshop, gimp docs are hard to come by(from a photography point of view). Can somebody link me to a good online guide. I am looking for things like 1. Working with levels and curves, not just how to, but the technique too The book Grokking the Gimp is available online but you really want to buy a paper copy. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Best online guide for photographers
I use GIMP for image manipulation.though lots of resources are availalbe for photoshop, gimp docs are hard to come by(from a photography point of view).Can somebody link me to a good online guide.I am looking for things like 1. Working with levels and curves, not just how to, but the technique too2. Bulk watermarking, resizing3. Using RAW under windows4. Psuedo HDR by superimposing 2-3 imagesI am a newbie, so I apologize if this has been discussed before. In that case can somebody link me to the old thread? regardsTanveer ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Best online guide for photographers
On 11/1/06, Scott Bicknell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 01 November 2006 3:28 am, Tanveer Singh wrote: I use GIMP for image manipulation.[...] 2. Bulk watermarking, resizingThis is easier with ImageMagickhttp://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.phpI do something similar with that package myself. I once wanted to do some bulk image-resizing and tried to work out how to do this with GIMP, however I didn't quite find out how I would have to do that... I ended up looking at ImageMagick and PIL (Python Imaging Library) and came to the conclusion that a custom script in Python best fit my needs; while mass-resizing images I didn't want to change the original aspect-ratio of each image so I needed to find out the original image-size and do some math before actually resizing the image and couldn't work out how to do easily that with the command-line tools provided with ImageMagick (also couldn't find up-to-date windows-installable Python bindings for ImageMagick). I did lose EXIF-information in the process, but I decided that I could live with that loss. (ImageMagick would have kept that EXIF information for me though). [...] --ScottCheers and good luck, --Tim ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Best online guide for photographers
Tim van der Leeuw wrote: I once wanted to do some bulk image-resizing and tried to work out how to do this with GIMP, however I didn't quite find out how I would have to do that... David's Batch Processor, at: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hodsond/dbp.html Unfortunately, I've just been told there's a bug in the latest version. Hope to have it fixed soon. -- David Hodson -- this night wounds time ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Best online guide for photographers
David Hodson wrote: David's Batch Processor, at: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hodsond/dbp.html Unfortunately, I've just been told there's a bug in the latest version. Hope to have it fixed soon. OK, I think it's fixed. You'll want version 1.1.5. -- David Hodson -- this night wounds time ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Best online guide for photographers
Le mercredi 1 novembre 2006 2:33 PM, Scott Bicknell a écrit : On Wednesday 01 November 2006 3:28 am, Tanveer Singh wrote: I use GIMP for image manipulation. though lots of resources are availalbe for photoshop, gimp docs are hard to come by(from a photography point of view). Can somebody link me to a good online guide. I am looking for things like 1. Working with levels and curves, not just how to, but the technique too My website, in french, deals with levels and curves. http://creafab.free.fr/Tut_gimp/Retouche_photo/Retouche_photo_index.html Hope this helps. http://www.gimpguru.org/ has lots of articles detailing advanced photo editing techniques with a gimp specific slant. http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/ Old, but free, and still relevant. 2. Bulk watermarking, resizing This is easier with ImageMagick http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php I do something similar with that package myself. 3. Using RAW under windows 4. Psuedo HDR by superimposing 2-3 images I can't offer much help with the rest of this. You might try http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/ and http://cinepaint.sourceforge.net/ CinePaint is a fork of the Gimp for film editing. UFraw is a Gimp plugin for RAW images. I don't know anything about either one, frankly. -- Fabien3D CREAFab, la création numérique autrement... http://creafab.free.fr ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Best online guide for photographers
At the risk of being a heretic let me make the following suggestions Tanveer Singh wrote: I use GIMP for image manipulation. though lots of resources are availalbe for photoshop, gimp docs are hard to come by(from a photography point of view). Can somebody link me to a good online guide. I am looking for things like 1. Working with levels and curves, not just how to, but the technique too It's been my experience that the gimp tutorials are helpful, but no where near as complete as whats out there for Photoshop. That being said, if you understand the techniques in photoshop, it's not to difficult to map those to the gimp controls to do the same things. 2. Bulk watermarking, resizing ImageMagik is your friend here 3. Using RAW under windows ufraw as a plugin to gimp (install gimp first, then ufraw) works really nicely. At least as well as some of the commercial raw processors out there. You might want to check out noise ninja too. 4. Psuedo HDR by superimposing 2-3 images I seem to remember that the gimp tutorials cover this as will most PS books. Here's the problem. GIMP is only 8 bits of dynamic range per color channel. Better digicams are 12 bits or better in their raw format. Your display screen can handle that dynamic range, but last I looked, your printer probably won't. So basically, what you're really doing is compressing a much wider dynamic range into a smaller one. Sometimes it looks right, and sometimes it doesn't. I think it's most useful for pulling up shadow detail where you really notice digital noise. I am a newbie, so I apologize if this has been discussed before. In that case can somebody link me to the old thread? regards Tanveer ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
