Archive For The “GIMP” Category
Is it legal to display a GPLed image on a coffee mug? Wilber is the GIMP mascot and someone wants to sell mugs with his image on them.. Legal? Olivier Ripoll replied: Wilber logo is GPLed. So as long as you provide the source code of your mug and carve the complete GPL licence on [...]
An email to the GIMP User List has a link to a Python layer style plugin. I haven’t tried it yet but an earlier plugin doesn’t work in GIMP 2.x anymore so I’ll try the “proof of concept” Python one. Stitch Panorama 0.9.2 was announced on the list too. Replies were all positive, and Owen [...]
The picture above is a panorama made up of 3 hand-held shots taken in Sneem, Co. Kerry. Stitching them together in the GIMP was fairly easy – adjust colours and brightness, line them up using semi-transparent layers and then use a layer mask and a gradient to make the joins mostly invisible. The tree branches [...]
Everyone who’s done any processing of photos will know about the Auto button of their Colour Level tool. It’s something that probably appears in every decent photo manipulation application and it’s invaluable for correcting colour casts on photos. Unfortunately it doesn’t always work very well. The GIMP offers 3 buttons next to the Auto function [...]
Using the in bevel tutorial I created the following logo with the GIMP. Pretty eh? Several other tutorials there too, as on Deviant Art and here’s a tutorial for making A4 posters with the GIMP.
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 [...]
I took one day off and Microsoft are fined (a not so huge amount in terms of their cash-pile, and there could be further ramifications for the Free Software movement.) the previous day, and GIMP 2.0 is released! I’d link to gimp.org but that site’s down and out. Here’s the usual Slashdot discussion on the [...]
