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
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
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.php?title=Hugin_Compiling_Ubuntu#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.
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
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.