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Tutorial: starry sky with Gimp

Today we see how create an effect "starry sky"With GIMP. This guide can ever be of assistance to dial one background for pc, but also and especially for greeting cards, Tickets, posters, folding and products for typography in general. If the final destination of the image will be the screen Computer (background, but also web page or web gallery) advice 72,00dpi. In case the requirement was the carta stampata I suggest the 300,00dpi (to maintain high resolution). (more…)

By TheJoe, ago
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Tutorial: guard against unauthorized use of our photos with Gimp

In the previous article we mentioned the technique of quickly '"invisible watermark", a technique that would allow us to prove paternity of a digital photograph. The operation (as already described) is simple. The underlying principle of all is to have a picture "x" (my original photo I just have to keep) and create a picture "and" (the photo that contains the watermark invisible to circulate in internet). To prove to be the author of the photo just to compare a particular procedure by superimposing the two graphics immagni. Magically comparirà il watermark with our name and copyright information. (more…)

By TheJoe, ago
Photography

Resize multiple images in one go

Resize Images, since the photo editing programs have become part of the routine of the average, is a task as simple as trivial. It is used especially for smaller size is available save bandwidth on the transfer of the file: a smaller image will load faster and also to use the pictures on the web is not required high resolution. The problem arises when we have a considerable number of images to be resized, open them one by one can become quite long and tedious. (more…)

By TheJoe, ago
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Released Gimp 2.8

E 'of a couple of weeks ago the news of the release of version 2.8 Gimp. The Gimp development team has decided to release the stable version, alternating with the development version, In fact, the latest version can be used (recommended) for the production was the 2.6. Many readers will surely have installed the 2.7 however,, a beta version on the border between the two stable versions useful to have some of the new preview and test the actual stability. Compared to the latest versions 2.7 the stable no surprises. The most important (or maybe that was waiting for the longest time) is the possibility of processing the images in more than 8bit. This means a color depth greater (16bit e 32bit). The following new features: (more…)

By TheJoe, ago
Photography

Graphics: interpolation to resize images with Gimp

Inspired by the comments to one of my old article, write a short guide to clarify any questions on 'graphic interpolation. The short article today will speak only interpolation from the point of view of the graphic software, but it must be pointed out that the interpolation is first and foremost a method for detecting new points on the Cartesian plane, starting from a set of data points in the hypothesis that all the points can refer to a function f(x) of a given family of functions of a real variable. (more…)

By TheJoe, ago
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Tutorial: mosaic “a pallini” type 70 with Gimp

In today's tutorial we will see how to turn a colored photo in a pixel-art original, useful for creating large prints especially when the quality of the initial image will not let. We begin with an image of your choice. For this tutorial I suggest colored images particularly because many of the details will be lost in the final result. (more…)

By TheJoe, ago
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Tutorial: create “top” and for jeans with Gimp

As announced in the last tutorial, what follows is a quick and easy way to "sewing" toppe e scritte sui jeans. Obviously we will do everything with Gimp, 'm not very good with needle and thread. For this tutorial we will use some resources readily available on the web (or in this site), and in the specific: (more…)

By TheJoe, ago
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Tutorial: create a fabric like jeans from scratch with Gimp

In many works of graphic happen to need to add an "effetto jeans"? It may be for poster, posters, posters. For me so far I've always gone to look for some stock photo, or me the photos are taken by me, but in today's tutorial we see how to get the same effect (nearly photorealistic) with Gimp. First, create a new image file to work. I will use the standard size "640 x 480". The background will be blu (in my case I used the following hex: #393a6e). (more…)

By TheJoe, ago
Photography

Lighting effects to images with Gimp and the pack “Lomo Light Leaks”

Today I report an interesting site from which I often take inspiration for the writing of my tutorials. The site is PhotoShopTutorials.ws, and as you can easily guess from the name of the domain is a site full of resources for PhotoShop, usable for most of the cases even with Gimp. Today we see the "Lomo Light Leaks" pack, a collection of effects to add to their photos to make them look old. In pratica si tratta di 71 different images with the effect "flare" or reflex lenses. To apply the effect to the picture you want, simply open the "Light Leak" as a new layer overlaid on the main and change the mode from "Usual" a "Screen". I also recommend you to resize the "Leak" to be applied to the size of the main image. (more…)

By TheJoe, ago
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Tips: Open an EPS file with Gimp on Windows XP

The version of Gimp for Windows is nothing more than a port of the most complete version for Linux. By itself Gimp on Windows has nothing to envy to the Linux version, it was not for some small additional packages that are enabled natively on Linux. One of these is Ghostscript.

The Wikipedia

Ghostscript is a collection of free programs based on an interpreter of page description languages PostScript and Portable Document Format, both of the Adobe. (more…)

By TheJoe, ago