GIMP/C2/Triptychs-In-A-New-Way/English-timed

Time	Narration
00:23	Welcome to Meet The GIMP.
00:25	My name is Rolf Steinort and I am recording this in Bremen, Northern Germany.
00:30	I got an e-mail from Jeson in New York and he just stopped the show about Triptychs, to find a different way of doing it, before I started doing triptychs.
00:45	And he found a different way with using layer mask.
00:50	And I think I should show you that in this tutorial.
00:57	I can't show you the image which Jeson used for doing Triptychs because he used images which are not freely available, so I can't use them.
01:10	Using layer mask for doing Triptychs is very easy and I have modified his concept a bit about using a layer mask.
01:21	I wonder why I didn't have that idea.
01:25	And I want to do a triptych with these three shots here.
01:31	I want to have this image on the left side, this 2nd one in the middle and this one on the right side.
01:42	I want to change these square frames to something which suits this image.
01:49	We will see how this works out.
01:53	Now I can start making the Triptychs with these images here and I press tab to bring my toolbox window into the foreground.
02:05	Click on File and select New to create a new image and we get the default value of width as 3400 and 1200 for height.
02:19	So I have three images of 1000 by 1000 and 100 pixels border between them.
02:31	Let's see how that works out.
02:36	For getting this image into the new image, I drag the 'Background' layer of this image from toolbox to my new image here and you get here 'Background copy'.
02:54	This was my left most image, so I rename it as "left" and I press return/Enter after typing.
03:04	So this image should be on the left side.
03:08	And the next image should be on right side, so I pull the image in the same way and name it accordingly "right".
03:32	And this is the third image and this will become my central window, so I pull this image over to the new image and rename this layer as "center".
03:49	I make the "right" and "central" layers invisible and now I want to scale the "left" layer a bit down and when I zoom down a bit to say 10%, you can see the borders of this layer and now the full frame of the image can be seen.
04:16	And now I select the Move tool so that I can move this image and adjust a bit.
04:26	The image is not moving because I have selected the center layer.
04:33	So, I select the left layer and move it and position the bottle.
04:39	I want to scale down this layer a bit, so I select the Scale tool from the toolbox and go to the tool info. and click on aspect ratio and in Preview I choose the Image option.
04:59	And now, I click into the layer, and pull the info window aside and reduce it from the corner.
05:09	I think more or bit less.
05:15	I can grab this image and I can position it where I want to and I think I should have put some guidelines on here.
05:30	So, I zoom into the image by 100% and go to the top left corner.
05:38	Now I pull the rulers down here for guidelines.
05:43	I wondered why I couldn’t move a ruler and here is an option Move the active layer. By selecting it I can move the active layer.
06:01	It's a nice option to protect the layers and I select the size of the frame as 100 on the right side and I go down and I set it 1100 and on right side I set it as 1100.
06:31	This is the frame for my image.
06:34	Shift + Ctrl + E gives me the whole image and now I select the active layer option.
06:43	And in Zoom Ratio, I select 10%.
06:48	I think, I should select 13% and that's enough.
06:59	I click on Scale tool and keep the aspect ratio and pull this Scale window out of the frame.
07:10	Now I scale this image.
07:14	Now I have the frame to look where I want to place this image.
07:21	And I think I should make it a bit smaller because I want to have the shades of glass here, in the image.
07:40	Now I click on Scale and I get my scaled image.
07:49	For getting the frame around the image, I just add a layer mask.
08:01	And I make my layer mask Black i.e full transparency.
08:07	And just click on Add.
08:13	So, now I select a rectangle inside the borders here and fill the rectangle with white.
08:23	I pull the white colour over here and you can see that the bottle becomes visible and for completing the frame here, I just zoom into it.
08:36	And I will paint with white with irregular strokes on the layer mask.
08:44	To do that, I select the Brush tool, go to the dialog here and I select here a soft brush for painting.
09:01	Before painting, I have to de-select my selection by pressing Shift + Ctrl + A and now I can start painting with white.
09:13	White is selected.
09:16	Now I paint with white here around and you see while I am painting white on the layer mask, I am revealing the image below.
09:28	And the painting is irregular but it's ok.
09:40	Now, I am selecting a different brush and I think this is better.
09:49	I get a fuzzy corner.
09:52	I should zoom into the image 100% so that you can see it.
10:04	I get kind of fuzzy border here and I will make it a bit more fuzzy in a moment by painting twice above it.
10:16	And now you can see that the border is getting a little bit more irregular.
10:22	Perhaps this is not the right tool here but you can use different tools and now I want to sharpen this image.
10:35	You can check out that I am still working in the layer mask.
10:41	You can check it here.
10:43	The layer mask is selected with white here.
10:47	So, click on Filters, Blur, Gaussian Blur and I select high blur count here and I think that's ok.
11:03	And now I have really fuzzy border here around.
11:10	So let's look at the full image. Shift + Ctrl + E.
11:17	I have the 1st part of my triptych and I do the others in the same way.
11:26	I have finished with the other images and you can see here I have over painted over the rulers and I can do that here too.
11:39	Now I want to remove the rulers and new way of doing that is to go to the Image, Image Guides and here I can remove all guides.
11:54	And I found out that I can do a New Guide here and select the position numerically.
12:03	Its wonderful to have this options.
12:08	The GIMP has so many options that you cant remember all of them.
12:14	Go to View and de-select Layer Boundary.
12:18	I want to have this bottle a bit more up into the corner.
12:23	I think there is bit more space here and little bit less here.
12:30	I think the "right" and the "center" image are here at the right corner.
12:36	But I think this bottle should go up there.
12:41	So, I will go out of full screen mode,
12:45	I de-select the "center" and the "right" layer and concentrate on the "left" layer.
12:54	Now I need the rulers for guidance.
12:58	So click on Image, Guides, New Guide and type in Horizontal position 100.
13:10	Again go to Image, Guides, New Guide and select vertical position as 100.
13:20	And now I select my Move tool. Go to the options, select Move the active layer and I just move this up here.
13:37	I think I have made a mistake, so I undo the step by pressing Ctrl + z and here you can see that the mask is selected.
13:49	I want to move the layer.
13:51	So, now I select the image and I just pull it up and the mask moves with it.
13:58	I found no way to lock the mask but I can correct that.
14:04	I select the layer mask and pull the layer mask back to my corner here.
14:13	I think this looks better now.
14:19	And now this image is finished with the help from Jeson in New York.
14:28	No, this image isn't finished.
14:32	The thing I normally don't forget but I always forget when I am recording because I have to think about such lot of other things than just making my image.
14:47	I have again forgotten to save it.
14:56	Save it as jaegermeister.xcf, xcf contains all the layer information and i will cut out all the stuff about rescaling for the web.
15:08	You will find a link to this file in the show notes at meetthegimp@org and if you want to leave a comment then please do that.
15:18	This is Hemant Waidande, dubbing for the Spoken Tutorial Project.

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