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| Welcome to Meet the GIMP.  
 
| Welcome to Meet the GIMP.  
  
 
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| My name is Rolf Steinort and I am recording this in Bremen, Northern Germany.  
 
| My name is Rolf Steinort and I am recording this in Bremen, Northern Germany.  
  
 
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| The GIMP is the very powerful image manipulation program.  
 
| The GIMP is the very powerful image manipulation program.  
  
 
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|In this first tutorial I want to give  you a small tour of GIMP and its features
 
|In this first tutorial I want to give  you a small tour of GIMP and its features
  
 
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| I will briefly demonstrate you  how to prepare an image for the web
 
| I will briefly demonstrate you  how to prepare an image for the web
  
 
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|I will give detailed explanation in future tutorials
 
|I will give detailed explanation in future tutorials
  
 
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|To open an image, I will just drag and drop the image on to the tool box.  
 
|To open an image, I will just drag and drop the image on to the tool box.  
  
 
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|And here it is!  
 
|And here it is!  
  
 
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| Let’s have a look at this image.  
 
| Let’s have a look at this image.  
  
 
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|I want to make this image ready for the web.   
 
|I want to make this image ready for the web.   
  
 
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|Lets see what I can do with it.  
 
|Lets see what I can do with it.  
 
 
  
 
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|First the image is tilted so I have to rotate it a bit.  
 
|First the image is tilted so I have to rotate it a bit.  
  
 
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|Then I want to crop it to remove this part - the back of a person.  
 
|Then I want to crop it to remove this part - the back of a person.  
  
 
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|The 3rd thing I want to do is to bring in more colors and contrast.  
 
|The 3rd thing I want to do is to bring in more colors and contrast.  
  
 
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|I also want to re-size the image because now its nearly 4000 pixels wide, which is far too much.  
 
|I also want to re-size the image because now its nearly 4000 pixels wide, which is far too much.  
  
 
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|And then I want to sharpen it and save it as a JPEG image.  
 
|And then I want to sharpen it and save it as a JPEG image.  
  
 
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|Let’s start with rotating.  
 
|Let’s start with rotating.  
 
  
 
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|I zoom into the part of the image where it is most obvious that the image is tilted. You can see it here.  
 
|I zoom into the part of the image where it is most obvious that the image is tilted. You can see it here.  
  
 
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| By the way, you can move around in the image by pressing Space and just moving the cursor.  
 
| By the way, you can move around in the image by pressing Space and just moving the cursor.  
  
 
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|And now I choose the Rotate tool by clicking here.  
 
|And now I choose the Rotate tool by clicking here.  
  
 
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|In the Rotate tool, there are some options set by default to values suited for graphical work and not for photographic work.   
 
|In the Rotate tool, there are some options set by default to values suited for graphical work and not for photographic work.   
  
 
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|So here Direction is set to Normal(Forward) but I will set it to Corrective(Backward).  
 
|So here Direction is set to Normal(Forward) but I will set it to Corrective(Backward).  
  
 
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|I check if I have the best Interpolation. So that's fine.  
 
|I check if I have the best Interpolation. So that's fine.  
 
 
  
 
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| And in the Preview  I choose Grid instead of the Image.   
 
| And in the Preview  I choose Grid instead of the Image.   
  
 
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|I shall increase the no. of grid lines by moving the slider. You will see it soon.  
 
|I shall increase the no. of grid lines by moving the slider. You will see it soon.  
  
 
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|Now I will click on the image and get a grid overlaid on the image.  
 
|Now I will click on the image and get a grid overlaid on the image.  
  
 
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|This grid is straight.   
 
|This grid is straight.   
  
 
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|And I can rotate it and GIMP will rotate the image in the same direction in the Corrective mode so that the grid is straight again.   
 
|And I can rotate it and GIMP will rotate the image in the same direction in the Corrective mode so that the grid is straight again.   
  
 
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|Let me demonstrate. I will rotate the grid like this.  
 
|Let me demonstrate. I will rotate the grid like this.  
  
 
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|I will check the other part of the image to make sure.  
 
|I will check the other part of the image to make sure.  
  
 
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|Looks good to me.
 
|Looks good to me.
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| Now I will click on the Rotate button.     
 
| Now I will click on the Rotate button.     
  
 
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|This will take some time since the image is about 10 mega-pixels  
 
|This will take some time since the image is about 10 mega-pixels  
  
 
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| And it is done!  
 
| And it is done!  
  
 
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| The image has rotated.
 
| The image has rotated.
  
 
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| Lets have a look at the whole picture. Shift + Ctrl + E brings us back to the image.
 
| Lets have a look at the whole picture. Shift + Ctrl + E brings us back to the image.
  
 
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| Next step is Cropping.   
 
| Next step is Cropping.   
  
 
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|I chose the Crop tool by clicking here.  
 
|I chose the Crop tool by clicking here.  
  
 
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|I want to keep the aspect ratio of the image as 3:2.   
 
|I want to keep the aspect ratio of the image as 3:2.   
  
 
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|For that I check Fixed Aspect ratio here and type in 3:2.  
 
|For that I check Fixed Aspect ratio here and type in 3:2.  
  
 
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| Just clicking to come out of that box.  
 
| Just clicking to come out of that box.  
  
 
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| And now, I can start cropping.  
 
| And now, I can start cropping.  
  
 
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|I want to include the feet of this person here but exclude this part of the image.  
 
|I want to include the feet of this person here but exclude this part of the image.  
  
 
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|So I start here at this point and pressing the left mouse button, I drag upward towards the left to select the area.  
 
|So I start here at this point and pressing the left mouse button, I drag upward towards the left to select the area.  
 
   
 
   
 
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| Note that the aspect ratio is constant.   
 
| Note that the aspect ratio is constant.   
  
 
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|  And now I have to decide how far to drag.  
 
|  And now I have to decide how far to drag.  
  
 
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|I think this is quite good.  
 
|I think this is quite good.  
  
 
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|Let’s checks the borders.  
 
|Let’s checks the borders.  
  
 
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|We have excluded this part. There is a person sitting here.  
 
|We have excluded this part. There is a person sitting here.  
 
  
 
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|I think there is enough room here for the person to be in the picture.   
 
|I think there is enough room here for the person to be in the picture.   
  
 
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| So I will leave it that way since it looks nice.   
 
| So I will leave it that way since it looks nice.   
  
 
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|There are windows here on the top.  
 
|There are windows here on the top.  
  
 
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|And there is enough of them in the image to see them as windows.  
 
|And there is enough of them in the image to see them as windows.  
  
 
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|But I think there is not enough room around here at the feet
 
|But I think there is not enough room around here at the feet
 
   
 
   
 
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|So I'll just click on the image, and drag it a bit down.  
 
|So I'll just click on the image, and drag it a bit down.  
  
 
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| I think this is good now.  
 
| I think this is good now.  
  
 
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|But now there is not enough windows seen here and the person seated here is very near to the border.  
 
|But now there is not enough windows seen here and the person seated here is very near to the border.  
  
 
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|So lets make the image a bit larger.  
 
|So lets make the image a bit larger.  
  
 
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|We are running into a problem here. Perhaps you can see it.
 
|We are running into a problem here. Perhaps you can see it.
  
 
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|This happened during the rotation
 
|This happened during the rotation
  
 
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|There is a small part here which is transparent now.  
 
|There is a small part here which is transparent now.  
 
  
 
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| I don’t want to include that,
 
| I don’t want to include that,
  
 
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| so lets go back to Crop tool.   
 
| so lets go back to Crop tool.   
  
 
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|I want a bit more room here; so I am dragging this up.   
 
|I want a bit more room here; so I am dragging this up.   
  
 
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|Not so far.   
 
|Not so far.   
  
 
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|I think this is quite good.
 
|I think this is quite good.
  
 
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|Now just click on the image and here we have the cropped & rotated image.
 
|Now just click on the image and here we have the cropped & rotated image.
  
 
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| Shift + Ctrl + E brings us back to the full view.  
 
| Shift + Ctrl + E brings us back to the full view.  
  
 
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| Next step is to boost the colors & contrast a bit.  
 
| Next step is to boost the colors & contrast a bit.  
  
 
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|There are several ways here. I could use the color levels - here it is, the curves or some sliders.   
 
|There are several ways here. I could use the color levels - here it is, the curves or some sliders.   
  
 
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|But I will try doing this with layers.  
 
|But I will try doing this with layers.  
  
 
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|I simply make a copy of this layer here.   
 
|I simply make a copy of this layer here.   
 
 
 
  
 
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| And change the layer mode to Overlay.  
 
| And change the layer mode to Overlay.  
  
 
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|And you can see its a very strong effect. I don’t want to have it that much.  
 
|And you can see its a very strong effect. I don’t want to have it that much.  
 
  
 
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|So I slide the opacity slider down to a value where I think its looking good.  
 
|So I slide the opacity slider down to a value where I think its looking good.  
  
 
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| Little more perhaps.  
 
| Little more perhaps.  
  
 
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|Ok, I think this is good enough.  
 
|Ok, I think this is good enough.  
  
 
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|I can always change that unless I right click the mouse here to go to the channel list and say 'Flatten image' or 'Merge visible layers'.  
 
|I can always change that unless I right click the mouse here to go to the channel list and say 'Flatten image' or 'Merge visible layers'.  
  
 
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|Then all the changes become permanent.  
 
|Then all the changes become permanent.  
  
 
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|Except if I go into History here and go back and undo the history.  
 
|Except if I go into History here and go back and undo the history.  
  
 
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|But we’ll cover that later.  
 
|But we’ll cover that later.  
  
 
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|Next step is Resizing.  
 
|Next step is Resizing.  
  
 
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|I will click on the Image menu & select Scale Image option.  
 
|I will click on the Image menu & select Scale Image option.  
  
 
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|Here I will just type in 800 pixels.  
 
|Here I will just type in 800 pixels.  
 
  
 
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|And I get the value for the height automatically.  
 
|And I get the value for the height automatically.  
  
 
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|When I unlock this link here, I could distort the image while re-sizing it.   
 
|When I unlock this link here, I could distort the image while re-sizing it.   
 
  
 
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|Interpolation  
 
|Interpolation  
  
 
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|I think I will choose Cubic. I found that the highest layer here gives some art effects with brick buildings. Its strange and I will have to check that out.
 
|I think I will choose Cubic. I found that the highest layer here gives some art effects with brick buildings. Its strange and I will have to check that out.
  
 
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|  Now, Click on Scale
 
|  Now, Click on Scale
  
 
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| And we’ll look at the result  
 
| And we’ll look at the result  
  
 
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|Shift + Ctrl + E gets us the whole image
 
|Shift + Ctrl + E gets us the whole image
  
 
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|And when I press 1, I get 100% zoom.  
 
|And when I press 1, I get 100% zoom.  
  
 
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|Now we can look around in the image to see if we have any really disturbing or distracting stuff. But I personally think it worked out well.  
 
|Now we can look around in the image to see if we have any really disturbing or distracting stuff. But I personally think it worked out well.  
  
 
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|Next step is Sharpening.  
 
|Next step is Sharpening.  
  
 
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|My lens is quite good and my camera too. But we have manipulated the image. So it has to be sharpened a bit.  
 
|My lens is quite good and my camera too. But we have manipulated the image. So it has to be sharpened a bit.  
  
 
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|I will select Filters  
 
|I will select Filters  
  
 
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| and click on Enhance and here is Sharpening. I could also use the Unsharp mask which is very powerful sharpening tool. But for now, Sharpening is enough.  
 
| and click on Enhance and here is Sharpening. I could also use the Unsharp mask which is very powerful sharpening tool. But for now, Sharpening is enough.  
 
   
 
   
 
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|This tool has basically only one option which is the sharpness slider. It can be adjusted and its enough for such an image.   
 
|This tool has basically only one option which is the sharpness slider. It can be adjusted and its enough for such an image.   
  
 
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|This is the unsharpened image and when I drag this slider, the image gets sharpened more and more. You get a very funny effect if you slide it too far.  
 
|This is the unsharpened image and when I drag this slider, the image gets sharpened more and more. You get a very funny effect if you slide it too far.  
  
 
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|I think for this image this value is good.  
 
|I think for this image this value is good.  
 
  
 
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|The hair looks clearer now but here you can see some blending or distortion.  
 
|The hair looks clearer now but here you can see some blending or distortion.  
  
 
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|So we will slide it down and this is better.  
 
|So we will slide it down and this is better.  
  
 
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|I would like to go for soft effects rather than have any distortion in the image.  
 
|I would like to go for soft effects rather than have any distortion in the image.  
 
  
 
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|They are the proof that you have manipulated the image.   
 
|They are the proof that you have manipulated the image.   
  
 
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|So lets look at the result.  
 
|So lets look at the result.  
  
 
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|It looks quite good.  
 
|It looks quite good.  
 
  
 
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|And now the last step is Saving this image.  
 
|And now the last step is Saving this image.  
  
 
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|I will go to File and click on Save As and just change the original file extension ‘tif’ to ‘jpg’  
 
|I will go to File and click on Save As and just change the original file extension ‘tif’ to ‘jpg’  
  
 
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|and Click on the Save button.  
 
|and Click on the Save button.  
  
 
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|I get a warning that the JPEG can't handle images with multiple layers. Ok. So we have to export them.  
 
|I get a warning that the JPEG can't handle images with multiple layers. Ok. So we have to export them.  
  
 
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|I think 85%is a good standard value for this image.  
 
|I think 85%is a good standard value for this image.  
  
 
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|So I have saved this image as JPEG image here.   
 
|So I have saved this image as JPEG image here.   
  
 
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| You can look at it in full screen.  
 
| You can look at it in full screen.  
  
 
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|  This is it.The first tutorial of Meet the GIMP. In future tutorials, I will cover topics like how to set up GIMP, how to draw, convert, etc. and tools and many more.   
 
|  This is it.The first tutorial of Meet the GIMP. In future tutorials, I will cover topics like how to set up GIMP, how to draw, convert, etc. and tools and many more.   
  
 
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| If you want to send a comment, please write to info@meetthegimp.org  
 
| If you want to send a comment, please write to info@meetthegimp.org  
  
 
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|More information is available at http://meetthegimp.org
 
|More information is available at http://meetthegimp.org
 
  
 
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|I would like to hear from you. Tell me what you liked, what I could have made better, what you want to see in the future.  
 
|I would like to hear from you. Tell me what you liked, what I could have made better, what you want to see in the future.  
  
 
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|This is Hemant Waidande dubbing for the Spoken Tutorial project
 
|This is Hemant Waidande dubbing for the Spoken Tutorial project

Revision as of 12:11, 9 July 2014

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.
00:31 The GIMP is the very powerful image manipulation program.
00:35 In this first tutorial I want to give you a small tour of GIMP and its features
00:39 I will briefly demonstrate you how to prepare an image for the web
00:43 I will give detailed explanation in future tutorials
00:48 To open an image, I will just drag and drop the image on to the tool box.
00:53 And here it is!
00:55 Let’s have a look at this image.
00:57 I want to make this image ready for the web.
01:02 Lets see what I can do with it.
01:04 First the image is tilted so I have to rotate it a bit.
01:09 Then I want to crop it to remove this part - the back of a person.
01:16 The 3rd thing I want to do is to bring in more colors and contrast.
01:22 I also want to re-size the image because now its nearly 4000 pixels wide, which is far too much.
01:31 And then I want to sharpen it and save it as a JPEG image.
01:38 Let’s start with rotating.
01:40 I zoom into the part of the image where it is most obvious that the image is tilted. You can see it here.
01:49 By the way, you can move around in the image by pressing Space and just moving the cursor.
01:56 And now I choose the Rotate tool by clicking here.
02:00 In the Rotate tool, there are some options set by default to values suited for graphical work and not for photographic work.
02:09 So here Direction is set to Normal(Forward) but I will set it to Corrective(Backward).
02:14 I check if I have the best Interpolation. So that's fine.
02:17 And in the Preview I choose Grid instead of the Image.
02:22 I shall increase the no. of grid lines by moving the slider. You will see it soon.
02:30 Now I will click on the image and get a grid overlaid on the image.
02:36 This grid is straight.
02:38 And I can rotate it and GIMP will rotate the image in the same direction in the Corrective mode so that the grid is straight again.
02:51 Let me demonstrate. I will rotate the grid like this.
02:56 I will check the other part of the image to make sure.
03:00 Looks good to me.
03:02 Now I will click on the Rotate button.
03:06 This will take some time since the image is about 10 mega-pixels
03:13 And it is done!
03:14 The image has rotated.
03:16 Lets have a look at the whole picture. Shift + Ctrl + E brings us back to the image.
03:22 Next step is Cropping.
03:25 I chose the Crop tool by clicking here.
03:28 I want to keep the aspect ratio of the image as 3:2.
03:33 For that I check Fixed Aspect ratio here and type in 3:2.
03:39 Just clicking to come out of that box.
03:43 And now, I can start cropping.
03:45 I want to include the feet of this person here but exclude this part of the image.
03:52 So I start here at this point and pressing the left mouse button, I drag upward towards the left to select the area.
04:01 Note that the aspect ratio is constant.
04:06 And now I have to decide how far to drag.
04:12 I think this is quite good.
04:18 Let’s checks the borders.
04:21 We have excluded this part. There is a person sitting here.
04:28 I think there is enough room here for the person to be in the picture.
04:35 So I will leave it that way since it looks nice.
04:41 There are windows here on the top.
04:44 And there is enough of them in the image to see them as windows.
04:50 But I think there is not enough room around here at the feet
04:54 So I'll just click on the image, and drag it a bit down.
04:58 I think this is good now.
05:01 But now there is not enough windows seen here and the person seated here is very near to the border.
05:08 So lets make the image a bit larger.
05:11 We are running into a problem here. Perhaps you can see it.
05:18 This happened during the rotation
05:21 There is a small part here which is transparent now.
05:25 I don’t want to include that,
05:33 so lets go back to Crop tool.
05:35 I want a bit more room here; so I am dragging this up.
05:38 Not so far.
05:40 I think this is quite good.
05:44 Now just click on the image and here we have the cropped & rotated image.
05:50 Shift + Ctrl + E brings us back to the full view.
05:56 Next step is to boost the colors & contrast a bit.
06:02 There are several ways here. I could use the color levels - here it is, the curves or some sliders.
06:11 But I will try doing this with layers.
06:18 I simply make a copy of this layer here.
06:23 And change the layer mode to Overlay.
06:30 And you can see its a very strong effect. I don’t want to have it that much.
06:36 So I slide the opacity slider down to a value where I think its looking good.
06:42 Little more perhaps.
06:46 Ok, I think this is good enough.
06:50 I can always change that unless I right click the mouse here to go to the channel list and say 'Flatten image' or 'Merge visible layers'.
07:01 Then all the changes become permanent.
07:03 Except if I go into History here and go back and undo the history.
07:10 But we’ll cover that later.
07:13 Next step is Resizing.
07:16 I will click on the Image menu & select Scale Image option.
07:27 Here I will just type in 800 pixels.
07:32 And I get the value for the height automatically.
07:36 When I unlock this link here, I could distort the image while re-sizing it.
07:44 Interpolation
07:45 I think I will choose Cubic. I found that the highest layer here gives some art effects with brick buildings. Its strange and I will have to check that out.
08:02 Now, Click on Scale
08:04 And we’ll look at the result
08:08 Shift + Ctrl + E gets us the whole image
08:13 And when I press 1, I get 100% zoom.
08:19 Now we can look around in the image to see if we have any really disturbing or distracting stuff. But I personally think it worked out well.
08:32 Next step is Sharpening.
08:35 My lens is quite good and my camera too. But we have manipulated the image. So it has to be sharpened a bit.
08:49 I will select Filters
08:53 and click on Enhance and here is Sharpening. I could also use the Unsharp mask which is very powerful sharpening tool. But for now, Sharpening is enough.
09:06 This tool has basically only one option which is the sharpness slider. It can be adjusted and its enough for such an image.
09:16 This is the unsharpened image and when I drag this slider, the image gets sharpened more and more. You get a very funny effect if you slide it too far.
09:31 I think for this image this value is good.
09:38 The hair looks clearer now but here you can see some blending or distortion.
09:46 So we will slide it down and this is better.
09:52 I would like to go for soft effects rather than have any distortion in the image.
10:00 They are the proof that you have manipulated the image.
10:06 So lets look at the result.
10:09 It looks quite good.
10:11 And now the last step is Saving this image.
10:15 I will go to File and click on Save As and just change the original file extension ‘tif’ to ‘jpg’
10:29 and Click on the Save button.
10:32 I get a warning that the JPEG can't handle images with multiple layers. Ok. So we have to export them.
10:44 I think 85%is a good standard value for this image.
10:53 So I have saved this image as JPEG image here.
11:01 You can look at it in full screen.
11:04 This is it.The first tutorial of Meet the GIMP. In future tutorials, I will cover topics like how to set up GIMP, how to draw, convert, etc. and tools and many more.
11:17 If you want to send a comment, please write to info@meetthegimp.org
11:25 More information is available at http://meetthegimp.org
11:31 I would like to hear from you. Tell me what you liked, what I could have made better, what you want to see in the future.
11:41 This is Hemant Waidande dubbing for the Spoken Tutorial project

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