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I found a new feature in GIMP, no idea how long it has been hidden in the files menue. One can import a whole web page in one image! Better than a screen shot, because you don’t need to scroll down. The web site of the GIMP Magazine results in an image of 1024×16037 pixels, quite an extreme portrait format. It doesn’t work with all sites and sometimes results in render errors. But it is a nice tool.
The GIMP Magazine will have it’s launch in some days on September 5, you should know this by now. 
I helped a bit publishing a book, working as a Technical Reviewer. I got the drafts of all the chapters as a Libre Office File and worked through it, filling it up with nasty comments. So I can claim that I have read every word in Michael J. Hammel’s book “Artist’s Guide to GIMP, 2nd Edition” that I have on the lab bench in the second part of the video.
It is not a text book but a collection of small and medium sized projects. You learn by doing stuff.
Of course I am a little bit biased, got some money, fun and a box of books, but I would also have recommended the first edition of this book. And the second one is better!
The TOC
Not really needed here – the show starts with creating an image from a web site and switches over to the book review at 7:40. Nothing more in it.
Meet the GIMP Video Podcast by Rolf Steinort and Philippe Demartin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License.
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If you want to see all the GIMP error messages, then you can have the error console open (Windows>>Dockable Dialogs>>Error Console) and you also don’t get the popup dialog box.
Thanks! One of these days I’ll go through all the menue entries…
Hi Rolf. In the RSS xml feed, every episode since #118 is missing a date, which screws up podcast aggregators. Also in that same feed, episode 177 is still pointing to the video for 178.
Cheers!
I fixed the video number and added a colon after the weekdays in the feed. There was a “pubdate” in the posts, but it missed the colon to confirm to the standards. Most podcatchers didn’t seem to care and feedburner didn’t complain.
Thanks for getting this into my eye!
I hope this doesn’t trigger an avalanche of downloads…..