Aha, Gimp is back on the menu

[Ocky]

Having read Mrk's Gimp enhancement article http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/gimp-plugins.html, for which many thanks, I feel inspired to share
another fun tutorial viz. Blending two images with Gimp

I tried it a while ago on some old photos I found. When I sent the blended image to the folks concerned they were somewhat confused, but figured out it was 'photoshop' due to the insertion of Tim, our cat.

To illustrate:

Plus

Plus

Equals

[Ocky]

Some selected tutorials. For your perusal

Gimp Burn in tutorial

Drawing Shapes with the Path Tool

Making Images With Transparent Background Using GIMP

Or-quicker:
how to make transparent an image with GIMP

Useful Things to Do With Paths

Adding life into a Flat Photograph

3-D Floating Logo with Gimp

Text to Path

HowTo: Use the Gimp to make an Animated Gif

[Mrkvonic]

Lovely jubbly
Mrk

[m00nbl00d]

Originally Posted by Ocky

Having read Mrk's Gimp enhancement article http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/gimp-plugins.html, for which many thanks, I feel inspired to share
another fun tutorial viz. Blending two images with Gimp

I tried it a while ago on some old photos I found. When I sent the blended image to the folks concerned they were somewhat confused, but figured out it was 'photoshop' due to the insertion of Tim, our cat.

To illustrate:

Attachment 232303 Plus Attachment 232304

Plus Attachment 232305

Equals Attachment 232306

The cat should have a shadow as well.

[Ocky]

Originally Posted by m00nbl00d

The cat should have a shadow as well.

He would love to throw a whopping great shadow, but is too low profile to throw one.

[vasa1]

Originally Posted by Ocky

He would love to throw a whopping great shadow, but is too low profile to throw one.

Looks like reflections are another source of concern

[Ocky]

Anybody tried Hugin ? See site for details.

hugin

fedora repo: http://bugbear.postle.net/~bruno/apt/fedora/linux/
Ubuntu: http://wiki.panotools.org/wiki/index...buntu#Shortcut

I have tried it on SL 6.2 but think I need to disable compiz as I get a segfault after stiching.
Will check later.

[vasa1]

Will some kind person please post a link to a very elementary guide to GIMP?

I found some decent videos to get me started. My needs are really simple (for now). I just want to know how to edit screenshots to draw ellipses around stuff I want to highlight. I got to know how to do it in Pinta but I've decided to remove mono totally and Pinta needs mono.

One doubt has been cleared already: it's an image manipulation program and not a drawing program! That's why I couldn't find drawing tools. Anyway, I need to use the Select, Ellipse tool and go from there.

Settled for GNU Paint

[Ocky]

I have been watching the progress on Photofiltre-LX http://photofiltre-lx.org/index.html
Used Photofiltre in Windows XP - it was (is) a first class program.
Hopefully the porting to Linux won't take too much longer.