Archive For October 1st, 2004
This Wired article explores the oft-asked question, “what do I do with all my photos?” The guys at the Bettmann Archive have a much harder job than I do at sorting their photos!
Jenny Drake wrote an illustrated tutorial on Changing sky colour with the Gimp. She does a great job of explaining her technique but I think she had a tough job as the sky was really washed out, – compositing two images, one for the landscape, one for the sky would have resulted in a better [...]
Top 10 Secrets They Don’t Want You to Know About the Debates – fairly damning if they’re all true, but then did anyone expect a non-controlled debate that wasn’t orchestrated? Of course, at least the US gets to choose who they want to be president. (via Matt) Garret has a well written summary of the [...]
This is fun! After reading this tutorial on making cartoons from photos I tried to emulate his technique in the GIMP. The dialogs are slightly different but here’s what I did.. Layer->Duplicate Layer Select the new layer, Filters->Edge-Detect->Edge, select Sobel, Amount should be 2.0, and Black should be checked. Invert the edge-mask layer, it’s in [...]
