no surprises here
I was reading about what an inverted luminosity layer can do to brighten an image, then I read about how the word luminosity gets misused in the world of computer graphics. Then I decided to misuse and misinterpret some graphics fundamentals for GIMP and write about the brightening affect that these new fundamentals have on other layers.
Here is a less inventive and faster method for brightening dark and contrasty images.
Splash. Mr. O.R.I.G.I.N.A.L will be making the real one. I strongly suggest that you just stick with the one they give you.
However, I made some and put them online and you can use them as well.
A very very simple python script that makes templates to assist you when creating the printed things for your DVD or CD.
Apply one little plug-in to the right image and you can make for yourself a blue moon. It is so easy that you don't even have to read this tutorial, just see from the desktop capture of the moment before I clicked with the mouse.
The tutorial exists because to the best of my knowlege, this image is impossible to get with simply film and a telescope; and because I am bored and sad and very out of place.
It took some doing to get the mathmap plug-in working with my gimp-2.3 because of how I have liberated its build from libtool. Then, it took a while to work through the information that is online about how to make these images with this plug-in. Then it took more time than you might first think to get an image that will work.
The nice thing is that the script that makes Mathmap make these Escheresque images was already written before I started. This how to is about how to prepare a desktop image to work with that script and that plug-in. It should be helpful to those attempting to use their photographs for the same type of image.
Other applications windows are not so easy to prepare as a screenshot of your desktop and a GIMP image window for making the image within an image Droste Effect with.
From my point of view as a user of software, there are two ways to put software on your personal computer, one demands that the sources be available and that tools are available to build it and install it and also that the sources you have make sense enough to build with those tools. The other way is to move binaries from one medium to another (like from a cd/dvd or from another computer via a network connection). This simple explanation of the different ways to install software is in reality not so clear cut, but for this how-to it should suffice. Both methods expect that software should be easily & readily available and (the build &) the installation of it should be simple and just work.
In the years since I started to use Linux and also since my developer friends encouraged me to use a specific distribution (if I wanted to work with them), there seems to be a little something going on within that system where the people who are building the Debian binaries do not want their users to build and install their own preferred versions of software. The point where this "something" is occurring is with one of the build tools.
It takes only a little bit of pre-configuring of the environment variables to allow both conditions to exist at the same while on your desktop, in spite of that problematic build tool. Here is what I learned about how to do that....
In my defense, the how-tos were already long and too complicated compared to what I thought they would be when I started this.
There is a choice with the transformation tools, a choice between performing the transformation on layers and/or guides, selections or paths and/or vectors. Shown here in the simplest of circumstances in the flip tool options.
For me, when I start to look at GIMP's animated brush save dialog, the part of my brain which spent so much time studying story problems with guarrenteed endings (mathematics and physics) -- I always wanted to do as much with them (like too much) as I could. For example, I have a stack of svg of a human figure diving. My brain got stuck with the problem, should this be an animated brush or should they instead be used with GAP?
I kept it simple this time and animated GIMP's Pepper Brush.
There were two things I didn't know about GIMP when I first followed this tutorial, which was written for another GIMP from another millenia even. One thing was that this tutorial could be scripted. The other thing was that it had been scripted already.
This layer effect script adjusts the levels to JTL's suggestion in the tutorial.
A GIMP Layer Effect for enhancing clouds.
Script to get GIMP to make your digital sky images prettier.
Turn your rocky landscapes into a dramatic vacation gallery with GIMP.
A Layer Effect that will give a sense of the dramatic to land and sky scapes.
Script to show GIMP how to make what I call an exemplification layer effect
Turn your digital color photographs of people into a contrasty grayscale which is friendly to flesh tones with GIMP.
A Layer Effect for healthy fleshtones.
Script to show GIMP how to make what I call a layer of salubriousness effect.
Make an essay gallery with GIMP.
Named Differentiate because it is a homonym to the word stark and the word unmitigate, a layer effect that multiplies landscape features in color images.
Script to show GIMP how to make what I call a layer of differentiation.
A GIMP python script that will resize the canvas to the active layer size or to the current selection.
When I was growing up, my dad was working with black and white photography, taking the photographs and then developing them in the basement. The first time I had black and white film developed using a locally owned and managed photograph print shop, the prints were like the ones that dad used to make. Lately, I know only the location of color photograph processing and printing and I rarely make prints of my photographs.
Here, I tried to remember everything I learned or heard about filtering the lense for black and white film and see if this works doing digitally the same thing with GIMP.
With GIMP there are several methods to reduce the colors of a digital image into shades of white, gray and black.
With the exception that I am just using GIMP to emulate GIMP....
In the week of October 16-22, 2006 PyGIMP is using a new console.
A script that makes GIMP reduce the canvas size to the selected layer.
Use this layer effect to turn a not so perfect of an image into this easier to visualize version of itself.
I was pointed at this list of instructions about how to make some exclusion layer that photoshop does with GIMP.
A few days later I trying to explain in real life how the message board exchange worked (with the author of the script mentioning that one button effects without some fine tuning per image was never going to be so good and tigerts talent.patch was mentioned again.
As I started to work with that effect, it occured to me that probably I am the one in need of the talent patch....
a companion piece for Sphere Designer Tasks
The original plan had been to use exclusion layer images of both Einstein and of Elvis. Using the instructions from GIMPTalk for Layer Exclusion effects.
I ran into several problems getting the images I needed to write about chauvinists and things my mom said about old crones. This demonstration is not an exception to these problems either.
Let's let Elvis Costello demonstrate this effect.
An interesting layer effect where a difference of a difference has the same effect as doing nothing at all to the image to begin with.
Using either the GIMP Python Layer Effects script or the instructions for the noised layer effect, it is really easy to make your crisp photograph look like a low-grade video capture frame.
A Noise Difference Difference layer effect that makes it look like image was of less resolution than it really is.
How to script GIMP to make the simple difference layer effect.
How to script GIMP to create a difference difference layer effect.
How to script GIMP to make the difference noise difference layer effect.
Sobel Edge Detected layer in Grain Extract Mode.
Laplace Edge Detected layer in Grain Merge Mode.
Script to show GIMP how to make specialized grain merge layer effects.
Script to show GIMP how to make specialized grain merge layer effects.
Script to show GIMP how to emulate the Neon Glow Script-fu using Layer Modes instead.
Using the default color from the old, tried and true Neon Script-Fu Logo, I used a double effect layer to recreate that old Fu.
Four different path layers. Four different stroke widths.
It was more fun to use gimp to draw and fill this toy green volkswagon beetle that Frances Buscemate had delivered to me in Norway at GUADEC in 2004 than it was to find it and figure out if I should remove it from its package or not.
I found this plug-in on the registry and also from its home page Turing Pattern
While in the process of writing an overly complicated script that should resize a GIMP image canvas in a way that will show what a photo print will look like, I remembered this thing that one time I thought would be nice for GIMP to be able to do. Automatically reduce the canvas to fit the current selection.
The Default GIMP is difficult to deal with
One of the problems with a brand new desktop and a brand new bunch of applications is that if you did not save your previous configurations or even if you did and are wondering if you really liked things that way. Or even, maybe you are simply too busy with other things to move or install the old configuration -- you might find yourself changing the configuration slowly because some of the default set up is simply horrible!
One thing I did notice while using the default GIMP was this:
A small change via the Tools Dialog and a nicely balanced toolbox will be yours. This is clever. I wish I had invented this default....This is what happened the third time I used the default GIMP. I decided to allow the irritation to interrupt the laziness and this is what I changed and why.
Changing GIMP GUI (a few steps at a time)
My first task with GIMP on my new computer was to make a set of desktop backgrounds for the new display. The first tool I needed was a color tool and they are not exposed in the toolbox in the default setup. I shut off those Menubars and told it to shrink wrap again at the same time....
Adjust the image window to match your monitor resolution
The first time I used GIMP was on a monitor which could only display 256 colors. If you have never had the pleasure of using a monitor like this to make images with, you have missed quite a bit. For example, if I used text highlighting in the text editor, the computer would steal colors from the rest of the display to use for this. It was really impressive to see it work, actually. From this experience, I learned to trust the numbers of the colors and not what my eyes were seeing.
On such a monitor, square images were never square. Even when I started to use newer displays with more display area and more colors monitors, square images usually drew on the screen taller than they were wide. GIMP image display windows can be adjusted to draw themselves in a way to make up for the difference.
What not to do to make things work for your new LCD Monitor
I used a yardstick because I did not have a piece of 35mm film laying around.
GIMP calls it "windowing system". At the commandline, this information can be found in one line out of perhaps thousands of lines of the spew which is created when you type xwdpyinfo. For all of the CRT I used, it was never correct.
At the same time I was working through this, I saw a movie at a theater which had a display that was almost the same as this new LCD display I am using with this computer (only bigger).
adjusting an image for a specific display area
subtitled: what I did during the heatwave here....
The task is to make several different sizes of images look good on my desktop. I am using a LCD display that is really wide compared to what I am used to seeing. It is really beautiful. Either staring at the CRT screen finally destroyed my eyes enough that LCD seems to look good now or perhaps the technology has improved and it actually does look good now. Whatever is the cause of the beauty of this display, I certainly wanted to dig out some of the images from APOD and use them as my desktop image again and they really needed a little resizing, scaling and other love to look just right.
Then I remembered that I don't have a calculator yet....
Reproducing 'One last look at Uranus' with GIMP
During a recent heatwave here, the image which was on my desktop Voyager 2's final image of Uranus which I had put there to help me concentrate on dealing with the GIMP developers started to annoy me as any sophmoric level pixel rendering software application should be able to make this image. Here are my experiences with Sphere Designer and one last look at Uranus.
Light to Height Plug-in
Twist
I found this plug-in on the registry and also at it has a web page in its source, I dropped it here.
It does more than this.
the information found here
These pages were written by me (Carol Spears) about GNU Image Manipulation Program. Many of them were intended from the beginning to be humorous. Some of them just got that way on their own.
