Get it as long the stock isn’t sold downloaded out! As always it’s free, interesting to read and has a beautiful look.
GIMP Magazine Issue 3 is out!
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Don’t Read Patrick David’s Blog!
Patrick runs a Blog about uninteresting things like photography, Open Source programs for photographers and graphics enthusiasts and other boring stuff. A recent five part series about the conversion of digital images into Black & White is especially to be avoided. I want to steal some of that stuff and you are not supposed to notice.
So, please don’t click on these links above and wait patiently for the next episode of Meet the GIMP. Intended release is on Feb 12 2013, it’s recorded and about half way through the editing process.
(The image is based on two images by Patrick David, License CC-BY-SA)
GIMP Magazine is out!
GIMP Magazine launches September 5th!
Great news, just CTRL-C CTRL-V from a mail form Steve:
GIMP Magazine features the amazing works created from this world wide community. Photography, digital arts, graphic arts, web design, tips & tricks, step by step tutorials, master classes, help desk questions, product reviews and so much more are showcased and explored in this quarterly publication. This publication is available for free and is licensed Creative Commons CC-AT-SA 2.5.
GIMP Magazine launches to the world on September 5, 2012 when people can:
- Download the magazine from our website http://gimpmagazine.org
- Attend our Launch Party at 10:00PM EST at http://dyscultured.com/live (0200 UTC or 0400 Berlin time – I’ll pass that one…. R)
We will be hosting a launch party on the popular Canadian Technology and Pop Culture Podcast called Dyscultured. Everyone is invited to attend this event and meet some of the GIMP Magazine team members, ask questions, and provide suggestions for upcoming issues! The event will be LIVE to the world! The GIMP Magazine team and the Dyscultured crew will also be in the chat, powered by none other than the open source Mibbit and IRC. Yeah, the Dyscultured crew is all about the Creative Commons, open source, and all that! So please attend and have some fun with a bunch of Canadians eh!
Starting at Issue #2 we are planning to make the magazine also available in print format, as well as specialized digital formats for tablet devices. We are deep into the creation of Issue #2 that is tentatively scheduled for December 2012. Submissions for Issue #2 will close September 30 2012. Issue #2 is filling up fast so use our new form and get your submissions in soon! http://gimpmagazine.org/submissions
We would greatly appreciate it if you could help spread the word to your community, as I know they would find this free resource invaluable. Posted on our website is our logo and a launch party graphic if you want to include it in a tweet, a blog post, story article, or simply forward this to your team.
Follow the discussions at:
Website http://gimpmagazine.org
Twitter (www.twitter.com/GIMPMagazine)
Google+ (+GIMP Magazine)
Videos from the Libre Graphics Meeting 2012
While I am digging myself out under a pile of paper (grade stuff and tissues …) – have a look here:
Episode 180: Not for Grown Ups!
Download the Video! (23:24 46.4MB)
Tuxpaint is a painting software for kids between 3 and 100+. Well, the targeted audience ends at an age of 12, but it is still fun to use when you are older. Tuxpaint is available for Linux, Mac OS X and all Windows flavours. Of course it is under the GPL and so free to get and to be shared. The ease of use beats everything I have seen in the professional educational market and I am considering to get it into my school.
The user interface and availability of tools in Tuxpaint can be configured to adapt to the skill level of the user and the level of annoyance the environment is willing to tolerate. There are nice sound effects, but how often can you stand
“QUAAAAAAAKQUAAAAAAAKQUAAAAAAAK DUCK”?
Also printing can be disabled because space on the fridge and ink cartridges have limits. The configuration is done with a separate program which can be kept outside of the reach of the little end-user.
The show starts and ends with some information about the upcoming GIMP Magazine. I am somehow involved in the team now but I promise to keep my priorities on this project here.
And then there is an invasion of goats int GIMP and 16 bits and more are in reach.
If you want to become a member of the forum, just drop me a mail at info@meetthegimp.org and tell me your intended user name.
The TOC
01:00 GIMP Magazine
02:00 Goat Invasion – GIMP will get a lot of progress soon
03:00 16 and 32 Bit already running in the Goat Invasion branch
05:10 Tuxpaint
05:55 Setting Tuxpaint up
09:00 The Toolset
10:00 Painting and brushes
11:10 Lines
11:45 New canvas
12:20 Shapes
13:35 Stamps
16:40 Text
17:30 Magic! (scripts and filters in a mixed bag)
20:20 Saving and recovering images
20:40 Templates for coloring
22:50 GIMP Magazine
Meet the GIMP Video Podcast by Rolf Steinort and Philippe Demartin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://meetthegimp.org.
Call for Content – GIMP Magazine is here!
(Steve asked me to publish this – sounds like a very good idea!)
A quarterly magazine for GIMP users to include: next gen software features (and road ahead type articles), tips and tricks, tutorials, and most importantly a magazine to show off your stunning art, photography and graphic design works created in GIMP or related open source software. All of this wrapped in some really cool and professional looking graphic design and layout. Everyone will be able to download this magazine completely free as it should be! Follow us on twitter for details www.twitter.com/GIMPMagazine.
The theme for the first issue is “Next Gen GIMP”
We need your help to contribute to this magazine:
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Episode 177: Take 2 and GIMP!
Download the Video! (22:22 44.6MB)
Download the companion file from Episode 176!
Nachbarnebenan continues his tutorial from the last episode. He isolated his model from the a bit to vivid background by making two images from his RAW file. One is crisp and colourful – best for the model. The other one is soft and a bit dull – this tones the background down.
In this episode he combines them to one image with a layer mask.
Did you know that there is a filter in GIMP to emulate the look of an image for colour blind people? Nachbarnebenan shows how to use it. It’s no so important for photography – but think of all the graphics work done with GIMP. By using this filter you can make a difference in accessibility
If you want to get into programming plugins for GIMP in Python – here is the link to this great HD video from Gimpusers.com.
And for the next episode you’ll need a Trench coat and dark glasses – we’ll enter the Stasi headquaters at night.
Sorry, no TOC up to now, but at around 15:30 is the great segment about GIMP and colour blindness.
Meet the GIMP Video Podcast by Rolf Steinort and Philippe Demartin is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://meetthegimp.org.
Episode 175: Polygonal Blob
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After a visit to Libre Graphics World with a report about the state of GIMP 2.8 and a look into the future.
I tackle a question I was asked at the 28c3. Is there a way to draw geometric figures in GIMP? Well, I found three.
The selection tools provide a variety of ways to make a geometric selection which later can be stroked or filled with a colour or pattern. The paths tool can be handy too, I didn’t cover it in this show.
The Gfig plugin allows the construction and editing of such figures, but there are a lot of drawbacks and some risk of fatal crashes.
And finally – is GIMP the right tool? Why not take Inkscape, dabble a bit and export the result to GIMP? Inkscape is easy to use for simple tasks – they have a really good user interface. For more complicated stuff there are the tutorials at screencasters.com. Long time no show there, but perhaps Richard and heathenx can be pestered into making some more. They haven’t given up but gone into hibernation a bit.
And if you are in or around Toronto – Steve Czajka is holding an interesting course there.
The TOC
00:40 State of GIMP 2.8 – http://libregraphicsworld.org/
01:55 28c3 in Berlin
02:30 Drawing geometric figures – a missing feature?
03:30 Select and stroke
03:35 Rectangle, Ellipse and Free Hand selection tool
04:15 Help from Guides and the Grid
05:00 Stroke
05:50 Combining selections
06:20 Subtracting selections
07:10 gfig plugin
07:30 Lines,rectangles, circles, arcs, polygons, stars and more
08:10 Limits and drawbacks
09:00 Editing
11:00 CRASH!!!!
11:30 Don’t use GIMP! Use Inkscape!
15:30 Getting the work back to GIMP.
16:00 Making a colour transparent
17:00 Choose the right tool
18:00 Version control for GIMP – not yet
Meet the GIMP Video Podcast by Rolf Steinort and Philippe Demartin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://meetthegimp.org.
Hand Craft and Digital Art – Custom Calligraphy for Meet the GIMP
Steve Czajka has made a custom calligraphy for this site – and he has documented the process in a well written tutorial and a video.
Have a look!
The banner on top is also (you may have guessed it 
) from him. It will be there for the holidays. After New Year the rotation of your images will start again.
I wish you all a happy holiday and a good new year! (And there will be at least one more show in 2011…. 
)