BestTechVideos: Videos Tagged with 'Design' http://www.bestechvideos.com/tag/design/rss Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:53:07 GMT BestTechVideos: Recently Posted Videos with short descriptions SOA as an Architectural Pattern: Best Practices in Software Architecture http://www.bestechvideos.com/2010/02/04/soa-as-an-architectural-pattern-best-practices-in-software-architecture

SOA as an Architectural Pattern: Best Practices in Software Architecture

Summary
For Grady Booch the foundation of a good architecture is patterns, SOA being just one of many patterns. In this Second Life presentation, Booch attempts to bring more clarity to some basic concepts: enterprise, patterns, frameworks, architecture, SOA, development, architecture lifecycle, best practices, what they are and what the aren’t, emphasizing the role and importance of patterns.

Bio
Grady Booch was Chief Scientist at Rational until its acquisition by IBM in 2003. He now is Chief Scientist for Software Engineering at IBM. He is the author of six books including UML Users Guide and Object-Oriented Analysis with Applications. An IBM Fellow, Booch is also member of ACM, IEEE, AAAS and CPSR having received Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming award as well as three Jolt Awards.

About the conference
The International SOA Symposium is a yearly event that features the top SOA experts and authors from around the world, providing a series of keynotes, talks, demonstrations, panels, and SOA training and certification workshops - all with an emphasis on realizing SOA in the real world.

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Screencasters Episode 103 – Ice Pop

In this tutorial I will draw a rather simple ice pop (or popsicle) in Inkscape v0.47.

A very special thank-you goes to Christian (of Chrisdesign) for providing me with this tutorial. Again, he has done all of the hard work for me. How nice is that? ;)

Here’s the color palette for the tutorial.

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Screencasters Episode 104 -Trendy Circle Wallpaper

In this screencast I hope to make a relatively easy wallpaper using trendy circles in Inkscape 0.47.

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Screencasters Episode 105 – Chrome Filter

In this episode I will take another stab at illustrating chrome using a pre-defined filter effect found in Inkscape 0.47.

I recommend checking out other chrome effect tutorials for Gimp and Inkscape. MeetTheGimp Episode 065 and Troy Sobotka’s Inkscape tutorial. Of course those two are not the only ones found on the Net but they are rather inspirational.

Incidentally, there is a little video glitch at about the 1:50 mark. It’s only there for a few seconds. ;)

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Screencasters Episode 106 – The CMYK Episode

In this screencast I demonstrate how to use a couple of utilities to convert an RGB image created in Inkscape to CMYK. I used Inkscape version 0.47.

There are several applications and utilities to choose from in order to convert an RGB image to a CMYK image (Gimp w/Separate+ plugin, Scribus, and tifficc deserve mention) . In this screencast I show just two: Imagemagick and CMYKTool. For Imagemagick I have provided a text file with the commands that I used. Currently, my personal favorite is CMYKTool due to its simplicity with drag-n-drop. :)

NOTE: I made a mistake during the screencast when I converted the CMYK TIF to CMYK PDF with Imagemagick. I included an input sRGB color profile when that was absolutely unnecessary. I think I was paying more attention to the output color profile then what I had for the rest of the command. I believe it converted just fine but it might have confused a bunch of you. Whoops! I fixed this in the provide text file.

If anyone would like to post their current workflow for CMYK (if they have one) then please do.

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Adobe CS: Perfect group shots using Photoshop CS4's Auto Align

In this episode we take a look at a method of getting the perfect group shot using Photoshop CS4's Auto Align and Masking features.

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Adobe CS: Combining multiple PDFs into one

In this episode we'll take a look a various ways of combining multiple files into a single PDF.

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Adobe CS: Be more efficient with Graphic Styles in Illustrator

In this episode you'll see how to take your workflow to the next level by learning some tricks with Transofrmations and graphic styles.

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Adobe CS: Create a Scrolling Text Panel in Adobe Flash Catalyst

In this episode I'll show you how to create a srolling text panel in Flash Catalyst starting with a Photoshop layered file. Don't have Flash Catalyst? Head over to labs.adobe.com and download the public beta now!

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Adobe CS: Sneak Peek at upcoming Adobe Premiere Pro Technology

In this episode special guest Dave Helmly is back to give us a sneak peek at some new technology for an upcoming release of Adobe Premiere Pro.

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Adobe CS: Time to Say Goodbye to those Photos in Lightroom

In this episode you'll learn how to create a Smart Collection that identifies the photos in your Library that can be deleted.

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Adobe CS: Getting Started with Flash Catalyst

In this episode I'll show walk you through Adobe's brand NEW Flash Catalyst product and we'll build the "What's On Terry's iPhone" web application from start to finish.

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Adobe CS: Foldrite Plugins for InDesign make setting up your folds a breeze

In this episode special guest Trish from FoldFactory.com shows off the FoldRite plug-ins for InDesign.

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PhotoshopUser TV #206: Captivating Episode

The countdown to the new set is winding down. In the meantime, check out this interview with Adobe's Julieanne Kost.

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PhotoshopUser TV #208: Editor's Pick

New episodes are on the way but this week, the editors have picked some of their favorite tutorials from the past few months.

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PhotoshopUser TV #213: Trans-Siberian Episode

Dave shares a collection of his favorite keyboard shortcuts. Scott has a a couple of tips for using Lightroom. Matt's tutorial is about adding design elements to those holiday greeting cards. Plus, Part 2 of the Gonzo Holiday Gift Guide.

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PhotoshopUser TV #223: Incandescent Episode

Scott has a Lightroom tip for comparing a before and after view of your black and white conversion. Dave talks about using Photoshop Extended to make a color adjustment to video. Matt's tutorial deals with copying and saving layer styles and Rick Sammon shares a tip for adding dramatic lighting effects with Photoshop.

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PhotoshopUser TV #194: Photo Walk Week!

Scott's second annual Worldwide Photo Walk is this week. The Photoshop Guys have their normal allotment of quality tutorials and jokes.

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VideoCopilot #113: Light Glow

  • Create an illuminating title with color casting in 3D
  • Use built-in effects to achieve a nice chromatic glow

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VideoCopilot #107: Green Smoke

  • Create a wispy smoke title with real footage
  • Combine video elements with a particle system

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VideoCopilot #108: Particle Shadows

  • Cast realistic shadows from a 3D Particle System
  • Includes work-flow tips and setup for custom sprites

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VideoCopilot #109: Advanced Time Freeze

  • Composite suspended 3D glass into a live action shot
  • Use 3D Max to create a particle system and refractions

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VideoCopilot #110: Depth Charge

  • Combine multiple explosions to create a Depth Charge
  • Build volumetric light and shadows with 3D passes

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VideoCopilot #111: Blast Wave

  • Build a realistic explosion using Action Essentials 2
  • Create a powerful shockwave and track using Mocha AE

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VideoCopilot #112: Magic Tracking

  • Create 3D depth from 2D planar tracking with Preset
  • Transform corner pin data from Mocha to Null Objects

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VideoCopilot #102: Smoke Trails

  • Create realistic smoke trails with Particular particles
  • Randomize the look of a cloud texture with 3d turbulence

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VideoCopilot #103: 3D Ball Dispersion

  • Create a ball transition effect with CC Ball Action
  • Use multiple layers to cascade the effect sequentially

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VideoCopilot #104: Shatterize

  • Create a progressive shatter effect in After Effects
  • Composite with Glows and add subtle camera shake

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VideoCopilot #105: 3D Ledge

  • Integrate 3D with Live Action footage using 2D tracking
  • Includes steps for 3D Max & Cinema 4D or use AE only

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VideoCopilot #106: Animating a Still

  • Add fake movement to a still and animate moving smoke
  • Create a real camera movement with a rack focus

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VideoCopilot #101: Sure Target 2

  • Sure Target 2 is a plug-in for controlling the AE Camera
  • Features Inertia, Auto-focus, Camera Roll and more!

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Google I/O 2010 - Optimize your site with Page Speed

Google I/O 2010 - Optimize every bit of your site serving and web pages with Page Speed

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Richard Rabbat, Bryan McQuade

Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them. Learn about the latest rules of web development we've added, updated optimizations, go over a new refreshed UI, see how to collect data through beacons to track progress over time, cut and paste fixes, and how to work with 3rd party libraries more effectively, including Google Analytics.

For all I/O 2010 sessions, please go to code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions.html

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Google I/O 2010 - Creating positive user experiences

Google I/O 2010 - Beyond design: Creating positive user experiences

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John Zeratsky, Matt Shobe

Good user experience isn't just about good design. Learn how to create a positive user experience by being fast, open, engaged, surprising, polite, and, well... being yourself. Chock full of examples from the web and beyond, this talk is a practical introduction for developers who are passionate about user experience but may not have a background in design.

For all I/O 2010 sessions, please go to http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions.html

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Google I/O 2010 - Optimize your site with Page Speed

Google I/O 2010 - Optimize every bit of your site serving and web pages with Page Speed

Tech Talks

Richard Rabbat, Bryan McQuade

Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them. Learn about the latest rules of web development we've added, updated optimizations, go over a new refreshed UI, see how to collect data through beacons to track progress over time, cut and paste fixes, and how to work with 3rd party libraries more effectively, including Google Analytics.

For all I/O 2010 sessions, please go to code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions.html

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Google I/O 2010 - Creating positive user experiences

Google I/O 2010 - Beyond design: Creating positive user experiences

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John Zeratsky, Matt Shobe

Good user experience isn't just about good design. Learn how to create a positive user experience by being fast, open, engaged, surprising, polite, and, well... being yourself. Chock full of examples from the web and beyond, this talk is a practical introduction for developers who are passionate about user experience but may not have a background in design.

For all I/O 2010 sessions, please go to http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions.html

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CSS-Tricks #73: Building a Website (3 of 3): WordPress Theme

In part 3 of this series, we take the HTML and CSS that we have already created for this design, and convert it into a WordPress theme. We start with a completely “blank” WordPress theme, then take different parts of the HTML and put them where they need to be in the theme. We are careful to keep as much dynamic WordPress stuff in there as possible, for example, dynamically creating the menu, loading jQuery the smart way, and more.

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Google I/O 2008 - Design Patterns in an Expressive Language

Design Patterns in an Expressive Language
Dustin Diaz (Google)

In Dustin's book, Pro JavaScript Design Pattern, he applies the original Gang of Four (GoF) Software Design Pattern principles into the JavaScript programming language. In
this session you'll find out the why, how, and when to apply some of these patterns and the flexibility JavaScript offers that enables us to include these techniques in your code.

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Google I/O 2008 - Design Patterns in an Expressive Language

Design Patterns in an Expressive Language
Dustin Diaz (Google)

In Dustin's book, Pro JavaScript Design Pattern, he applies the original Gang of Four (GoF) Software Design Pattern principles into the JavaScript programming language. In
this session you'll find out the why, how, and when to apply some of these patterns and the flexibility JavaScript offers that enables us to include these techniques in your code.

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Google Science Communication Fellows Workshop: Crafting Your Story in the Digital World

Google Science Communication Fellows Workshop
Crafting Your Story in the Digital World
Presented by Adam Baker, Sean Askay, Bing Chen, Natalie Villalobos, Will Luers
June 13, 2011

About the Speakers:

Adam Baker, User Experience Strategist
Adam is a user experience designer at Google, which he joined in late 2007. After some time working in Search, he spent nearly two years at Google.org, working on projects related to public health, climate change, and "big data." Presently, he teaches design to engineers and product managers. Before Google, Adam worked with startups, RIM, and Apple. Adam studied art, design, psychology, and languages in his native Canada.

Sean Askay, Google Earth KML Outreach Evangelist
Sean is a Developer Advocate on the Google Earth Outreach team, aimed at helping non-profits use mapping technology. He specializes in the creation of innovative data visualizations using in Google Earth. Sean studied Biology as a undergraduate and has a Masters degree in Environmental Science.

Bing Chen, YouTube Creator Initiatives & Platform Marketing
Bing is part of YouTube's new YouTube Next team, charted with identifying, cultivating, and promoting aspiring content creators and new media companies--whether they be filmmakers, musicians, sportscasters or cooking show hosts. He leads and co-leads initiatives such as the organization's individual creator investment arm, content creator thought leadership efforts, and the YouTube Creator Institute. Bing spent his previous life at the Walt Disney Company in Creative Development for feature films and Production Management for the Networks.

Natalie Villalobos, Community Manager
Natalie is a Community Manager at Google where she advocates for users, develops online and offline communities, and is the voice of Google products. Last year she founded 300acres.com, a project that successfully saved 300 acres of the Amazon rainforest in 60 days. Prior to Google she was at the Seasteading Institute, The Institute for the Future, Digg, and Yahoo!. She's passionate about open science, collaborative art, and tea.

Will Luers, Visiting Professor, Creative Media & Digital Culture, Washington State University
Will Luers is a visiting professor in the Creative Media & Digital Culture program at Washington State University, Vancouver where he teaches multimedia authoring, video production and mobile app design. His current research and artistic interest is in the design of "rich-media books" as mobile apps. In general, his interests are in the proliferating forms and expressive possibilities of web-based and digital cinema, including database documentaries, networked video and locative storytelling. In 2010, he was awarded the The Vectors-NEH Summer Fellowship to work on his database documentary, The Father Divine Project. His video art has been selected for the Media Arts Show at the 2010 and 2008 ELO Conferences. In 2005, he won Nantucket Film Festival and Tony Cox Award for Best Screenplay. Will has over twenty years experience making and teaching about digital media and the moving image. An early adopter of social media, he was named a pioneer in videoblogging in the Forbes.com Top Technology Trends (2004) and in The New York Times (2006).

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Meet the GIMP #160: Photivo

Processed with Photivo

Basically it’s an image processing assembly line. You set the parameters, throw your RAW file in on top, wait for a moment and catch your image when it falls out of the machine.

Today I give it a try and rescue an image of a kite with it. It’s an impressive tool with a quite unique but understandable user interface. I’ll explore this further, perhaps it will enter my workflow.

The companion file contains both used RAW files and all the setting files created by Photivo.

Sorry, there is no TOC up to now.

JPEG out of camera

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Meet the GIMP #161: Playing with Wavelets

The human skin isn’t as smooth and even as it used to be. At least if you are older than 12 or so. One way to keep up the illusion of eternal youth is image manipulation. Today I explore one way to smooth skin and keep it looking natural. That’s the problem with overly done make up and postprocessing – if you overdo it, faces look like made out of plastic.
There is a difference in size between “good” and “bad” skin structures. The Wavelet Decompose plugin can divide an image into “scales” and a “residual”. Each scale contains a part of the image with structures of a similar size. If you work on one of these scales, you are changing only these structures, not the smaller and larger ones. The plugin website does a better job of explaining this.

The show starts with a look back at Photivo and some comments I got in their Flickr group. “What’s wrong with some people?” – Well, some people haven’t read the Nettiquette……

The TOC

00:20 Photivo revisited
01:25 GUI setup of Photivo
03:00 Right mouse button everywhere!
03:00 Detail curve depending on colour
05:20 Portrait “Make up”
06:40 Smoothing skin with Gaussian Blur
07:40 Masking out the eyes of the blur
08:20 Wavelet decompose
09:35 Plugin registry
11:35 Decomposing the image
13:20 A lot of ways to proceed
14:00 Painting with gray to hide details
14:40 Changing the opacity of some of the scales
15:15 Adding a layer mask
17:00 Looking at the scales in normal mode
17:25 Increasing contrast with a curve …
18:50 …sharpens the image
19:00 There is much more!

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Meet the GIMP #158: Three kinds of Particles

There was a question left open in the last show: How to create a random pattern of particles that follow a gradient in density.

I got three answers. One from Benton – just use a brush with absurdly high jitter. Then I got the help that I asked for from Philippe and finally thought about a way myself. I started with Philippe’s tutorial for making a starfield.

The TOC

Sorry, not here up to now.

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Meet the GIMP #159: EMERGENCY!

I go through the whole image processing with cropping and changing the colours in several layers. Nothing new technically, but the basics about layer masks explained again.

The TOC

00:20 Hi! And some comments about the state of this project.
03:25 Cropping inside out
07:50 Automatic white balance
08:40 Adding a layer group
09:50 Curves to make weird colours
11:25 A second layer for colour adjustments
12:10 Generating a layer mask out of a colour channel and basic use of layer masks
20:05 More strange colours with the curves tool colour channels
22:00 New layer, same layer mask
23:50 Adjusting colours again with the curves tool …
25:20 .. but the threshold tool is better here
27:10 Add red to the writing
29:00 Clearing up

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Meet the GIMP #156: Chandra

This time we are off into space, but still sitting in front of the monitor. I take X-Ray data from the Chandra Satellite and make a false colour image out of them. All I needed to know for that (and much much more) is on their album page.

The files I have used and the tutorial I was inspired by are also on the Chandra website.

While I was editing this show I thought about some different ways to process such an image. Feel free to comment if you also find something better. I’ll update this posting during the week.

All images used in this posting and the video are made by: NASA/CXC/Penn State/S. Park et al .

The TOC

00:30 Chandra
0?:?? Electromagnetic spectrum
05:10 Data visualisation
09:38 FITS file format
10:30 Getting the data and opening the data files in GIMP as layers
13:00 Setting the image mode to RGB
13:20 Curves tool for adjusting the contrast in the layers
17:00 Smoothing with Gaussian Blur
18:30 Choosing colours from the colour wheel
19:30 Colorize tool
21:40 Changing the opacity of the layers
22:30 Duplicate a layer for enhancing it’s effect
23:00 Hue explained
23:40 Colorize Tool
24:40 Layer modes

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Meet the GIMP #157: Floating in the Air

I am doing some homework for school this time. Getting a balloon up into the air and making air molecules visible. All with GIMP.

We have a new interactive white board at school. And I try to make a series of images of a balloon for a physics lesson. I am using layers, paths, selections and more – a lot of stuff for some simple drawings. Philippe could have done this better, I fear.

The TOC

01:20 Setting up the UI in GIMP 2.7
03:10 Homework for my school
04:05 TOC
04:20+x New image
04:55 Freehand selection filled with colour
06:05 Naming layers
06:45 Drawing a circle
07:30 Combining selections
08:20 Storing a selection as a path
08:35 Filling a selection with a gradient
09:30 Drawing with the pen tool (straigt lines too)
12:00 Layers and layer groups
13:00 Cropping a layer group
13:55 Restoring a selection from a path
13:55 Outline for a path or selection
16:50 Painting air molecules (trying…)
19:35 Fuzzy brush with hard outline ….
22:10 …because of the missing alpha channel
23:30 Filling a layer with a pattern
24:20 The clipboard as a pattern
25:20 A bit of physics
26:20 Moving a selection or path
29:15 Making several images out of a pack of layers
29:30 Balloon physics
31:15 Saving the image – way too late!

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Meet the GIMP #154: Compile!

This episode is mostly about Linux and competition. We look at our challenge and the winning image and we have a look at the challenge at gimpusers.com. There you have to design a new splash screen for GIMP.

I mention Linux Outlaws who ranted about Ubuntu and were quite right on the points I would make too. I tried PCLinuxOS, liked it and am now trying Debian Squeeze, the old fashioned Linux Dinosaur. Quite lively for such a beast.

On this Debian installation I try (successfully ) to compile and install GIMP 2.7.2 from the current sources. It is a single user
installation, a recipe for a system wide installation can be found in the wiki. The wiki page I created in the video has been moved already
in the wiki to the right location.

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Meet the GIMP #155: Favicon

Just a short (it’s grading hell….) episode about the little icons in your browser window and the bookmarks. It was a Microsoft™ invention (yes, they invented something ) and so the most compatible file format is the Windows™ icon .ico file.

The TOC

00:40 Favicons
01:50 Getting a favicon file into GIMP
02:45 Image properties dialogue
04:20 Adding transparency
05:02 Looking at the work of others
06:50 How to 3D
08:20 Exporting to .ico

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Meet the GIMP #152: Meditations about too much Light

In March I got some images from Peter in Thailand. He lives there in a country full of photogenic sites and has often only the time to take a quick shot with his P&S camera without being able to work around some of the obstacles. Specially for the show he made some with the typical problems. In this case it is to much light – or better, too much dynamic range. The difference between tropical sun and deep shadows in this temple is too big.

The blown out areas are not repairable, all the information is lost. I try to get more of the temple mood into the image (forget that I have not been there…….) by turning the overexposure into a glow on top of the Buddhas. If you can’t get rid of it, try more of it.

A special “curtain vignette” improves the image a bit further.

Of course one can take the puristic stand and say “Don’t rescue an image, do your photography properly!”. But often you’ll have no image then. Some things can be done in a hurry too: underexpose in such a situation. You’ll loose details in the shadows but gain them in the light. A good trade off in most cases. Be familiar with that button on the camera.

The show starts with a look at the level in the donations hat, which is quite high after one and a half week. To get the concept of DONATE FOR MEET THE GIMP! even further into your heads I show how I made the gauge with Wilber slowly filling up. Wolfram Alpha is used to calculate the day of the death of the server.

Then I get a bit into setting up the toolbox in GIMP 2.7 and show how to manage the docks after the “landing zones” have become invisible. And of course there is the challenge!

Again there is no TOC up to now.

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Meet the GIMP #153: Brocade

Again a trip to Thailand with a wonderful candid shot made by Peter at a school festival. There is not much to enhance, just a crop, a bit of curves and the mutation of a blue trash bag into a gray one.

Before that I talk about bracketing and “dedicated” vs. “drive by” photography. And I present the next addition to our poor webserver – a Wiki for the collected wisdom of you all. Link sits in the menu box on the top of the right sidebar. Give it a try – reading and writing.

The TOC

01:50 Bracketing to get the right exposure
04:30 Photo Session or Drive by Shooting
06:55 The MTG Wiki
14:15 School in Thailand
15:05 Decisions about blurring the background
16:20 Inside out crop
20:25 Copy the layer for backup
20:30 Curves adjusted
22:25 Removing colour with a saturation layer
25:30 Adjusting brightness with a value layer
26:50 Recap

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Meet the GIMP #150: Saturate!

Finally a new episode – I never had one with more obstacles! But here it is. (And now I even have no time for a proper blog post, because I am going on a class trip tomorrow.)

I explore two new features of GIMP 2.7.2 – I am amazed at the progress.

Then I adapt the often used (and often shown here) technique of dodging and burning with a layer mask to fiddeling with the saturation of an image. I don’t recall to have seen this described anywhere – but I am sure I am not the first one to use this. Has someone a link?

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