Sun, 18/05/2008 - 09:16 — delboy
Rolf Steinort - Meet The Gimp Video Podcast
SoSLUG are now taking orders for Rolf Steinort fine collection of videos covering tutorials around the application known as the GIMP! Orders can be made directly via PayPal to derek@techsys.co.uk each video is £5 plus £1.50 postage and packing to anywhere in the UK. You are required along with your payment to give full details of the address the DVD is to be sent. Due to unforeseen circumstances orders have been suspended.
A few days ago we at SoSLUG sent a request to Rolf Steinort in Bremen Germany to ask permission to produce a DVD covering some 45 videopodcast's on a single disk to those that want it, all video's are in the English language. To be honest all the videos we obtained are available on line anyway, but as a single resource it is readily available without having to download first. Rolf Steinort has readily agreed to allow such publication of his works, provided that we abide by the Creative Commons License, which we have no problem with. We are not stealing any of his credit for his videos all of which are intact as they where downloaded from the main site, we are working with him to distribute his video's to an alternative audience and further the cause of Open Source Software.
Gimp has always been one of the greatest major applications available for the various Linux distributions available today, and without much exception almost every Linux Desktop distribution includes in it a release version of the Gimp. The GIMP is without question an extremely powerful graphics tool but more importantly it is Open Source Software at its best and it is free.
It does however have some drawbacks in its native format "xcf" it can only cope with 8bit graphics and for most this is fine. However for high end graphics it does not compare favourably with it's competitor Adobe Photoshop which can handle 12 and 16bit graphics, this is something that Gimp developers will one day need to address. For the like's of you and I though we have an example of an extremely well written and stable graphics application package which can do most of the things Photoshop can do and perhaps a few that it can't.
SoSLUG has agreed with Rolf Steinort to produce these videos for only £6.50 each which will include postage and packing to anywhere within the UK and only £5.00 if you collect, we will be ready to take orders soon. The only reason the DVD is this price is because Rolf has decided not to take any royalties for the selling of his video collection, which allows us to only charge for the production and administrative cost plus a very small profit to help the club expenses. Each video lasts I would guess, and it is a guess approximately 15-20 Mins each, so worse case you have something like 11 hours of video tutorial available on a single DVD that convey most aspects of the Gimp application to get you started on this excellent package.
Learn The Gimp with the Video Podcasts available from SoSLUG |
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| Episode No | Length | Filesize | Title | Description |
| 046 | 00:24:57m | 41.3Mb | Getting rid of People! | “Getting rid of people in GIMP“ was the question. And here, about 9 months later, is the answer. |
| 045 | 00:19:45m | 24.5Mb | The Right Colours! (Nearly.....) | Inspired by this discussion in the “Meet the GIMP!” Photogroup at 23hq, I tackle the beginnings of monitor calibration. |
| 044 | 00:28:45m | 114Mb | Splitting Myself! | As an emergency fill in I made this. It’s a project I wanted to do for a long time - and did now without any planning and preparation. |
| 043 | 00:32:14m | 63.2Mb | Brand New and Stone Age | Brand new technology meets stuff from the Stone Age, ehm… the 70’s. |
| 042 | 00:22:12m | 60.5Mb | Don't Panic! | This time not in Bremen but in Seefeld near the North Sea. I was there for a weekend training in school management. |
| 041 | 00:33:00m | 47.3Mb | Is it a Hammer! | Even more exploiting him, I asked for a vector based SVG version of the “Meet the GIMP!” logo. I made the original logo with GIMP, thinking it was the right tool. I found out, that I had used a screwdriver to hit a nail. In this case Inkscape is the tool of choice. |
| 040 | 00:21:59m | 126.6Mb | Talking Head! | Drawing the Winner of the Monchrome Challenge with help from the BSAG and risk my life on the tracks of the tram to show you the difference between the distortions made by faults imperfections of the lens and the unavoidable effects of falling lines. In between you learn something about the nasty symbolic of swords in the hands of old statues. |
| 039 | 00:22:00m | 27.1Mb | Different Tones and a View into the NEAR Future | The rest of the show covers toning monochrome images and includes a new feature - the Blunder Alert Overlay. The image here is a tritone of blue in the shadows, red in the midtones and orange in the highlights. |
| 038 | 00:36:09m | 48.1Mb | A Python in a Barrel | The barrel distortion that gave me such problems last week is removed by using a built in filter for correcting (or simulating) lens distortions. You can find it in the image menu at Filters/Distorts/Lens Distortion. |
| 037 | 00:24:59m | 39.6Mb | The Two Minute Holiday Shot Edit | In Berlin for four days last week. Only took a point and shoot digital camera with me. So this episode covers quick editing of holiday pictures, done in two minutes. |
| 036 | 00:33:20m | 59.0Mb | Nightvision on a lazy Sunday Afternoon | This week you are in for a strange show. I try to make an image out of a not so good night shot by Stuart Martin from New Zealand. Stuart had his camera for three days and was experimenting with it. He shot the Christmas decora- tion of his neigh- bour but only got a dark and a bit blurry image. With no specific goal in mind I just played around with UFRaw and layers in GIMP and got a quite nice result. The 100% crop you see here is a bit like a painting, the full image looks like seen through night vision goggles. |
| 035 | 00:14:30m | 19.6Mb | A Pack of Filters | A show you how to change the colour, lightness and saturation of an image with the Filter Pack. You can do it in any order, undo every step and the best thing: you have a preview of every possible change at the same time that gets constantly updated. |
| 034 | 00:24:50m | 37.8Mb | Full Control! - Monochrome conversion (3) | In this last episode (for now…) about monochrome conversion I show you a way to get full control over the process of making a monochrome image. |
| 033 | 00:27:00m | 33.5Mb | The Channel Mixer - Monochrome conversion (2) | Promised a better way to convert coloured images to monochrome. And here is the Channel Mixer. It allows you to mix the amount of the red, green and blue channel of an RGB image and change the appearance dramatically. The image to the left is an example that I stole from a terrific website Cambridge in Colour. You see the original (in colour) and some outputs of the channel mixer. |
| 032 | 00:19:59m | 22.4Mb | Fade to Gray - Monochrome conversion (1) | Today I’ll start a series about mono- chrome or black and white conversion of digital images. It’s a new topic for me - so I start with a bit of background, some images from the Masters and a bit about the easy ways to make a quick conversion by desaturation and tweaking the curves a bit. |
| 031 | 00:15:30m | 21.0Mb | A double face and more selections | Torsten Kunkel made a video about the image on the left side. He had two passport images of a person taken 40 years apart. One with age 17, the other now. And he combined them in one image, showing what changes and what stays constant. I added some tips about an easier way to paint the dividing line and about ways to further improve this image. |
| 030 | 00:24:30m | 29.4Mb | Brushes | Last week I covered the painting tools, today I tackle the brushes that are needed for the paint tools. |
| 029 | 00:17:32m | 20.8Mb | Drawing Tools | This week I show you some stuff about the Pencil and Brush tools. They share common options with a lot of other tools and I cover them in detail. Ever wondered how to draw a straight line? Or how to pick a new colour without changing the tool you are using just now? I’ll tell you about it. |
| 028 | 00:25:25m | 39.1Mb | Are 8 Bits enough? | This is a new thing on Meet the GIMP!, an interview. I talk to Joel Cornuz from the Linux Photography Blog about the differences in 8 and 16 Bit postprocessing. |
| 027 | 00:19:30m | 32.5 Mb | Sketching | It’s again time for a video by Joseph. He has explored a way to let photographies look like sketches. |
| 026 | 00:06:59m | 7.6Mb | New Year Resolutions | Today I talk about resolutions in GIMP, not about the ones for the New Year. An insightful discussion about this is at the Tips from the Top Floor Forum. Wikipedia has this about DPI. |
| 025 | 00:29:40m | 40.6Mb | A Winter Morning | A walk through the post processing of a calm and cold winter morning image is perhaps right for this time of the year. |
| 024 | 00:32:34m | 38.7Mb | Lots of Panoramas and a Phat Batch | In this show you’ll see all the panorama shots you sent in for the Panorama Challenge in Episode 019 in a slideshow with music from ccmixter.org. I play “Samurai Story” from shockshadow. I have asked Chris Marquardt from Tips from the Top Floor, Happy Shooting, Photocast Network and other stuff to give me a random number for drawing the winner. |
| 023 | 00:26:28m | 32.2Mb | Colours, Colors and Dialogs | GIMP offers you 9 different ways to select a colour for foreground and background. I try to make sense of them. Perhaps it’s a bit too long winded? Please comment on that here or write me a mail. I need YOUR input for thinking about where to go in the next year. |
| 022 | 00:30:00m | 42.0Mb | The Secrets of the Unsharp Mask | This week I go out of my comfort zone and cover the Unsharp Mask. I never found time to get into that thing. Black Art I thought - and well, it is a bit. |
| 021 | 00:12:46m | 26.3Mb | Warp and more fun with animations | This week I go out of my comfort zone and cover the Unsharp Mask. I never found time to get into that thing. Black Art I thought - and well, it is a bit. |
| 020 | 00:21:03m | 43.0Mb | Easy Animation | Gimp can produce animated GIF files. It’s easy, if you understand that each layer is one image in a stack. It is shown for a short time and then replaced by the next one. |
| 019 | 00:16:30m | 67.0Mb | Paaanoooraaamaaa! and a Challenge for You! | Joseph, also known as BlueMojo, has made a screenrecording about the panorama software Hugin. And of course I had to try it too! |
| 018 | 00:22:39m | 37.5Mb | Selecting Selections (Part 2) | Joseph, also known as BlueMojo, has made a screenrecording about the panorama software Hugin. And of course I had to try it too! |
| 017 | 00:35:14m | 59.6Mb | Selecting Selections (Part 1) | Selections are widely used in Gimp. Select something to work only on that, to cut or copy it, to move it around….. |
| 016 | 00:33:12m | 49.2Mb | And the Winner is…. / Frames and Tryptichs in a new Way | In this show John Arnold from Photowalkthrough draws the winner of the triptych contest. Before that we talk about why you should also listen to his podcast and about a really nice workshop. I have to work at that time (May 5th to 7th), but otherwise I would have shelled out the money and gone there. |
| 015 | 00:42:23m | 56.2Mb | RAW to the rescue! Mini-HDR ;-) | I shot some autumn scenes with a Lensbaby in a very mixed light condition. And I haven’t checked the histogram after this shot. It is the only one with the focus right on spot and a dreamy flair. The leaf in the center was overexposed in the JPG image - blown out highlights ruined the image. |
| 014 | 00:24:13m | 28.9Mb | Liquid Rescaling, Seam Carving and COWS! | Liquid Rescaling or Seam Carving - two names for a new way to change the proportions of pictures while keeping the content in shape. The Gimp now has such a plugin and I’ll show you how to use it. COWS? Well, they are important….. |
| 013 | 00:51:42m | 76.9Mb | A Triptych and a Challenge for You! | Triptychs - and nearly one hour of them. In this episode I’ll show you how to combine three images to one good looking set and get some frames and borders around them. Again a layer mask is used to partially edit a picture with the curves tool. |
| 012 | 00:21:07m | 21.9Mb | RAW, JPEG, TIFF????? What? When? Why? | I try to explain the stuff that influences the quality of your images. File formats, compression, sensor size. Each solution has pro and cons - you have to decide what you need and want. |
| 011 | 00:31:00m | 26.4Mb | RAW converting with UFRaw | RAW conversion was a thing a lot of you wanted to know something about. And in this show I tell you how to use the program UFRaw to get RAW images into the Gimp. My job was coming a bit into the way - I had to build the schedule for my school. So this show contains some ’should be’ outtakes and perhaps I have overlooked some stuff. Please feel free to ask - I will be glad to answer all your questions in a follow up show. |
| 010 | 00:19:52m | 22.2Mb | Rescuing the chapel from the rescue | In the last show two blunders were made. I used an untested encoding and killed the sound for a lot of you and I used a layer mask with a lot of gray in it where it didn’t belong. So the sea didn’t look good. |
| 009 | 00:34:13m | 39.6Mb | Saving a Chapel (…..from underexposure) | Norman mailed me two images - this was the original shot made by his son. |
| 008 | 00:16:28m | 28.2Mb | Questions and Answers | In this episode I answer a some questions that came up in the last weeks. I discover the colour sample points, explain the colour picker a bit more in depth and give some pointers to ressources about the Gimp. |
| 007 | 00:12:46m | 16.3Mb | The Curves tool | In todays show I cover the curves tool. With curves you can change the brightnes and contrast of an image in a lot of ways. Either finetune the shadows, midtones and highlights or do something very strange as in this picture. |
| 006 | 00:18:26m | 38.7Mb | Selective sharpening | Every digital image needs sharpening. But sharpening increases the noise in the image. In this episode I show a way to sharpen only the areas that need to be sharpened - the edges between different colours or levels of brightness. All the other parts of the image are left alone and so the noise stays down. |
| 005 | 00:22:27m | 30.0Mb | A ship in the fog (3) - off to the print shop! | In this episode I’ll finish the editing of the image that kept me busy in the last shows. There was a lot to do - darkening the ship with a selective layer mask, cloning out some driftwood and half a bird, correcting the aspect ratio to something the printer will be happy with and giving him a hint how to print the image with a gray and colour gradient. |
| 004 | 00:08:07m | 12.5Mb | A Ship in the Fog (2) - Correcting Colours | In this episode of my video podcast I show how to correct colours with layers in the GIMP. |
| 003 | 00:20:40m | 28.9Mb | A Ship in the Fog - Part 1 | I start with answering the first comment I got :-) and show some ways how to get the GIMP 2.3 for different operating systems. |
| 002 | 00:08:58m | 14.3Mb | Setting up the GIMP | The GIMP is different from other Windows or Macintosh programs and so a bit different to set up. With this video I show how to move the dialogs into the main window, how to set up the tools and which preferences to change. |
| 001 | 00:15:07m | 21.8Mb | Preparing an image for the web | In this first episode I show how to get an image ready for the web. |
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