Re: [Gimp-user] GaGa GIMP example - someone make for demo, by tomorrow, Fri Feb 12 before 4PM, quickly?
Here's number of royalty-free images the person in question could use: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lady_Gaga Claus giovanni_re wrote: Hi Akkana, gimp list people, (I don't have time to post to the "gimp images yahoo group) (but that would be a great place to forward this message, I think) (& all) - you probably won't remember me, but we've met, probably at svlug or some other linux related event. [sending two copies of this message, one to sv...@lists.svlug.org, one to gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU, to avoid crossposting.] [Hey - gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU - berkeley, cool - oh yeah, now I remember, the guy who started GIMP was a berkeley student? & then that the source of GNOME] IIRC, you wrote a book about gimp. Last year, when I made a presentation at the BIL conference, I met a lady who uses the Adobe sw for image processing - shes a photographer & graphic artist, maybe using a mac. She was interested in learning about free sw, linux, & the gimp, I think I emailed you about her, or her about your book. == Anyway, _tomorrow_, Friday Feb 12, at 4pm, I'm making an intro talk to BIL people, basically about why they _should_ _want_ to be using GNU(Linux). http://m.bilconference.com/ http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tCP0tLUYhz-yPFyv0g5fzNg&single=true&gid=0&output=html My talk is titled "GaGa for GNU(Linux)", because GNU(Linux) is great, & something to be gaga about, & cause Lady Gaga is topical. ;) I have a picture up on the BIL website with me & a friend in it. http://2010.bilconference.com/2010/02/giovanni-re-gaga-for-gnulinux/ http://2010.bilconference.com/category/speakers/ Here's were you come in: It would be a great demo of the capability of not only the GNU(Linux) software GIMP, but of the community ability also, if that photo could be gimped to add in a picture of Lady Gaga. That is beyond my capabilities (artistically, & learning curve to learn gimp). I know you wrote a book, so you are a writer. Maybe you are also a gimp artist. Or, maybe you _know_ a gimp artist. Could you, or someone you know, gimp my photo, add in Lady Gaga - it doesn't even have to be "artistic", or "highly realistic" - practically cut & paste would be fine & wonderfully acceptable, but if someone wanted to make it look nice - so much the better. :) The __Primary__ factor is: it _has_ to be done & available to me before 4PM Friday Feb 12, tomorrow, before my talk. <8-O ;) :) == There are 2 sources for lady Gaga images I know of: 1) google images, & 2) there's a video on youtube that the image portion is merely a large # of still pictures of lady gaga. "Lady Gaga-Poker Face (Original Version)" (that's the file name I have, 3:59 min/sec, vlc video player plays it fine, "Flashgot" (iirc) Firefox plugin used to download it) Since this is merely for non commercial, fair use, to demo the capabilities of both the GIMP sw (and also the GNU(Linux) free sw community) 's capabilities, I suspect it is fair use to use a commercial photo for this purpose. Could you gimp that up? If not, surely someone (artistically/technical capable) in the gimp community could. Would you mind gimping that, so I could show it at my talk as an example for people who are _not_ technical sw people, but are artists, or creative people, to show them an example of the high capability of GNU(Linux) sw for people who aren't technical, but are artists/creative type people? If you couldn't do that, could you pass this request on to a gimp mailing list, in case someone there could put this example together so I could present it to the BIL attendees interested in learning what GNU(Linux) can do for "real people"?? == What comments, questions do you have for me? Thanks very much for any thoughts, suggestions, advice you have! :) PS, I'll cc this to svlug, where you gave your talk last year, iirc, in case there is someone there who knows about this & could do it. == PS to anyone else who'd like to do this, to help demo the capabilities of both the GIMP sw, & community: I invite/encourage you to do this if you like, & email me the result, so I can demo it at the BIL conference. I might even see if it can get put onto the BIL website as a replacement for the picture up there now. BTW, that's me in the picture - the person with the beard ;) . == Suggestion for GIMPing Lady Gaga into that image: About 10-25?% of still images in the video on youtube "Lady Gaga-Poker Face (Original Version)" (that's the file name I have, 3:59 min/sec, vlc video player plays it fine, "Flashgot" (iirc) Firefox plugin used to download it), might be appropriate for this, IMO. A good pic would be one with not a lot of exposed flesh [ ;) ], nicely dressed, like my friend in the pic on the BIL speakers site. Not a "provocative" picture (for this audience), just something "nice". Maybe even an older pic of Stefani Germanotta with dark hair, not blond, so it matches the hair color of my friend. Maybe somethin
[Gimp-user] GaGa GIMP example - someone make for demo, by tomorrow, Fri Feb 12 before 4PM, quickly?
Hi Akkana, gimp list people, (I don't have time to post to the "gimp images yahoo group) (but that would be a great place to forward this message, I think) (& all) - you probably won't remember me, but we've met, probably at svlug or some other linux related event. [sending two copies of this message, one to sv...@lists.svlug.org, one to gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU, to avoid crossposting.] [Hey - gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU - berkeley, cool - oh yeah, now I remember, the guy who started GIMP was a berkeley student? & then that the source of GNOME] IIRC, you wrote a book about gimp. Last year, when I made a presentation at the BIL conference, I met a lady who uses the Adobe sw for image processing - shes a photographer & graphic artist, maybe using a mac. She was interested in learning about free sw, linux, & the gimp, I think I emailed you about her, or her about your book. == Anyway, _tomorrow_, Friday Feb 12, at 4pm, I'm making an intro talk to BIL people, basically about why they _should_ _want_ to be using GNU(Linux). http://m.bilconference.com/ http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tCP0tLUYhz-yPFyv0g5fzNg&single=true&gid=0&output=html My talk is titled "GaGa for GNU(Linux)", because GNU(Linux) is great, & something to be gaga about, & cause Lady Gaga is topical. ;) I have a picture up on the BIL website with me & a friend in it. http://2010.bilconference.com/2010/02/giovanni-re-gaga-for-gnulinux/ http://2010.bilconference.com/category/speakers/ Here's were you come in: It would be a great demo of the capability of not only the GNU(Linux) software GIMP, but of the community ability also, if that photo could be gimped to add in a picture of Lady Gaga. That is beyond my capabilities (artistically, & learning curve to learn gimp). I know you wrote a book, so you are a writer. Maybe you are also a gimp artist. Or, maybe you _know_ a gimp artist. Could you, or someone you know, gimp my photo, add in Lady Gaga - it doesn't even have to be "artistic", or "highly realistic" - practically cut & paste would be fine & wonderfully acceptable, but if someone wanted to make it look nice - so much the better. :) The __Primary__ factor is: it _has_ to be done & available to me before 4PM Friday Feb 12, tomorrow, before my talk. <8-O ;) :) == There are 2 sources for lady Gaga images I know of: 1) google images, & 2) there's a video on youtube that the image portion is merely a large # of still pictures of lady gaga. "Lady Gaga-Poker Face (Original Version)" (that's the file name I have, 3:59 min/sec, vlc video player plays it fine, "Flashgot" (iirc) Firefox plugin used to download it) Since this is merely for non commercial, fair use, to demo the capabilities of both the GIMP sw (and also the GNU(Linux) free sw community) 's capabilities, I suspect it is fair use to use a commercial photo for this purpose. Could you gimp that up? If not, surely someone (artistically/technical capable) in the gimp community could. Would you mind gimping that, so I could show it at my talk as an example for people who are _not_ technical sw people, but are artists, or creative people, to show them an example of the high capability of GNU(Linux) sw for people who aren't technical, but are artists/creative type people? If you couldn't do that, could you pass this request on to a gimp mailing list, in case someone there could put this example together so I could present it to the BIL attendees interested in learning what GNU(Linux) can do for "real people"?? == What comments, questions do you have for me? Thanks very much for any thoughts, suggestions, advice you have! :) PS, I'll cc this to svlug, where you gave your talk last year, iirc, in case there is someone there who knows about this & could do it. == PS to anyone else who'd like to do this, to help demo the capabilities of both the GIMP sw, & community: I invite/encourage you to do this if you like, & email me the result, so I can demo it at the BIL conference. I might even see if it can get put onto the BIL website as a replacement for the picture up there now. BTW, that's me in the picture - the person with the beard ;) . == Suggestion for GIMPing Lady Gaga into that image: About 10-25?% of still images in the video on youtube "Lady Gaga-Poker Face (Original Version)" (that's the file name I have, 3:59 min/sec, vlc video player plays it fine, "Flashgot" (iirc) Firefox plugin used to download it), might be appropriate for this, IMO. A good pic would be one with not a lot of exposed flesh [ ;) ], nicely dressed, like my friend in the pic on the BIL speakers site. Not a "provocative" picture (for this audience), just something "nice". Maybe even an older pic of Stefani Germanotta with dark hair, not blond, so it matches the hair color of my friend. Maybe something with her facing to the viewer's left. Preferable a "smile" picture (like my friend in the picture so it is "matching/symmetric"), not a fashion "aloof/di
