Make A Fake Blue Moon
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.
Exemplified Vacation Photo Gallery
Turn your rocky landscapes into a dramatic vacation gallery with GIMP.
Cameo Photogallery
Turn your digital color photographs of people into a contrasty grayscale which is friendly to flesh tones with GIMP.
Photo Essay Gallery
Make an essay gallery with GIMP.
Emulate Photoshop Desaturate
With the exception that I am just using GIMP to emulate GIMP....
Emulate Video Capture
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.
Canvas to Selection PyGIMP Script
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.
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.
php web pages
Not GIMP related, but still an interesting apache hack.