It's here to stay and it's not only fun, it really does have a serious use. If you're already familiar with it, or if you'd like to be, this is a not a bad place to start asking and telling what you know, or would like to know.
Encouragement for newbies into this fast moving area will boost the chances and support for a dedicated place on A4A to show that talent and skill. Those of you asking for a contest for such photographs, well, here's a place to see who and what and how many we have.
Who's first off...?
oooh ooooh! i'll go first!
i love doing selective colour and such, for example......
(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d27/colliewoman1/owlafter.jpg)
but however, i cannot afford such things as paintshop pro and the like.
so i use gimpshop!
http://gimpshopdotnet.blogspot.com/
as far as i can make out, its virtually the same as psp but tis free! and legal! WOOOO!!!
Oh-wow-oh...................bunjies..................how stunning...........how beautiful............how the hell...............do you do that??
I will look at your link tomorrow, I have heard of it, but it seemed far too professional for the likes of me.
Aw Im going to see that pic in my dreams tonight!
aww thank you hun!
its done using layers and the opaque mask brush thingy in gimpshop. let me know if/when you download it and i will see if i can find the tutorial liny for you.
thats the other fab thing about gimp.... free online tutorials ;)
What an incredible picture! Wow wow and wow!!
I will do that bunjies........thanx ;D
I have just looked at the link........... ??? ??? :'( :'( ???
Told you I was fik......it a lot of info and I dont quite know where to start, plus I need permission to download stuff. (after I once brought in a virus, doh)
I'll be back with permission granted........else his dinner'll be in the dog ;D ;D!!
when you get permission(lol!)
clicky the link, look at the bottom on the right and it says
for windows 98 +
for linux
etc
whatever you machine runs, choose that link clicky it and follow the instructions.
i have windows xp so i clicked the 1st one ;)
Hehe....he was hungry....I knew I'd get round it AND I made cake as an extra insurance ;D ;D
Will be downloading tonight then....thanks for the link BTW ;)
I'm looking forward to seeing the photographic results of what you two devious people have cooked up!... ;)
;D ;D Dont hold your breath Ken......Im a numpty when it comes down to all this stuff, but could be good for a laff nontheless ;)
i wouldnt hold your breath too much for my efforts!
i can do selective colour and make sheep disappear but thats about it!
count the sheepies...
(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d27/colliewoman1/sheepcarnival007.jpg)
now count em again, tis magic see?
(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d27/colliewoman1/balwenewe.jpg)
all hail the gimp ;)
Pretty good...Impressive.
I just dug my very first effort out....had to follow the instructions, mind you.
cool!
did you use the clone brush fing or a healing jobber?
(i know ALL the techincal terms me ;))
Na! I used the plokipici and the geruppinit and shook it wiv the autoclump.
;D ;D ;D
i dont think the gimp has those!
Swearing on site tch tch...... ::)!!
Strewth cobba.......I got frit at the first hurdle and cancelled it till tues till tova harf can sort it :'(
Its no wonder he dont like me doing stuff, I am crap and scary with it.
That is really cool what you can do with pics....is that what they call cropping? Uh, soz yeah just re read clone brush fing, healing jobber, plokipki, gerrupinit and autoclump......eeewww sounds complicated. I wont give up though, Ive always wanted a fing and plokipici, just not too sure about havin a jobber and autoclump is it painful?
Me gerrupinit.... gorrup and wennit
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Na! This is cropping and zooming...a simple first step.
Ah I see, I would certainly like to learn more about all this....
You'll find quite a lot of things to do with your pic's using nothing more than what comes with windows. Practice with that before you go out buying expensive software.
I use the Gimp, which as you say is free, but I've never mastered it. I only use it for brightening up pics and sorting coin scans, but there's one thing I've never twigged. How do I clone a small bit of colour lifted off another part of the pic? I sometimes get irritating bits of dust on coin pics, and I really need to be able to get rid of them.
Quote from: kenkew on October 20, 2007, 23:18:44
You'll find quite a lot of things to do with your pic's using nothing more than what comes with windows. Practice with that before you go out buying expensive software.
Expensive software is not an option......I just have not explored windows for enhancement of pics, guess what I will be doing tomorrow ;)
Not used 'Gimp', Robert. I'm told it's quite a goody for the money! But I'm sure there's others on here who will come back on your querie.
Ken.
The Gimp's Clone tool is explained here
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/15037.html
Thats in bookmarks as well.....thanks ;)
Thanks.
A plant I grew this year :) :)
That's a cracker, dc2. I'd suggest putting it in 'The Gallery'.
Very nice.
Ken.
Quote from: kenkew on November 21, 2008, 13:54:37
That's a cracker, dc2. I'd suggest putting it in 'The Gallery'.
Very nice.
Ken.
Thank you :)
If anyone would like a challenge - Ive been unsuccesfully trying to turn the picture below into something I can give the wife for her Birthday.
http://www.dsf.co.uk/test/Lucy-in-snow.jpg (http://www.dsf.co.uk/test/Lucy-in-snow.jpg)
its a picture of one of her rescue dogs that was too old and unwell to rehome so we let her see out the rest of her time with us (anticipated 6 months but she dragged it out for nearly 3 years!) Possibly the most well behaved and likeable dog we have ever rescued.
If anyone could turn it into a realistic setch or painting I'd be eternally grateful all my attempts just look artificial and photoshopped. Only down side is the picture needs to be good enough to print at a reasonable picture frame size eg 8"+ high.
Failing that i'm going to have to find an artist who could draw from the photo but dont know if i can afford this
Glow
Glow777 not sure if you will like it but if you do I made so you can fold it in half and make a xmas card or trim as a photo :)
Here's a couple of 'paintings' Glow.
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Want some more attempts?
Ken.
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This is your original.
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thanks all i like KK's B best any chance of a larger file ;)
it looks a lot better than my over computerized files.
Was it gimped or photo shopped?
the one I did was enlarged to 8 inch high
it looks great on screen dc2 but pixelates badly when printed at size, more than likely because of my small original image (either that or the forum software resizes) - i was hoping that the image could be enlarged for printing and then the conversion would hide the pixelation with interpolation.
this is a weird one for me - as for one of my jobs i design websites - i have a degree in computing but i cant get this one imagine to look how i want it too! Ontop of that I think ive just broke a toe playing badmington :-[
looking closer at your image it is good tho, what pckage/filter/settings did you use?
Quote from: kenkew on October 20, 2007, 23:38:36
Not used 'Gimp', Robert. I'm told it's quite a goody for the money! But I'm sure there's others on here who will come back on your querie.
Ken.
For a good series on using The Gimp, download Full Circle Magazine issues 12 - 19
http://fullcirclemagazine.org (http://fullcirclemagazine.org)
The magazine is free as is The Gimp.
Hi All,
I'm completely new to this, but having read this forum I downloaded Gimpshop for use on a PC running Windows XP. My problem is that I can't even find how to load an image. There doesn't seem to be anything in the menu. I tried opening a jpeg using Gimpshop and just got a message that libgimpui-2.0.0.dll was not found. Anybody else having trouble even starting?
Thanks
Sorry for the late reply.
I use The Gimp (not GimpShop), with that you go the usual way, [File], [Open], you then navigate to where the picture file is and click it.