Episode 124: PS Translation Service

There are a lot of tutorials out there for ?The Other Program?, also called Adobe(R) Photoshop(R). (I hope I got the Rs right, can?t find the page where Adobe(R) told the world how to call this program.) A lot of that stuff is easily translated to GIMP, but there are some serious differences. One are the ?Adjustment(R) Layers(R)?. This is a way of applying a curve, gradient, hue or saturation change?.. without changing the real image. You can come back later and tweak the curve or the slider ? non destructive editing.

There is an easy way to work around this: make a new layer of the visible image and work on that. You have to redo that, if you decide to change something in the lower layers.

To show how to do this I have ripped out a part of John Arnold?s Photowalkthrough podcast and redone the same in GIMP. Photowalktrough is a really good resource for everybody who is into the digital darkroom ? independent from the program used. And John has his #100 out! Congratulations!

GIMP will have non destructive editing in a year or two ? it?s the main reason for getting GEGL into GIMP and making this big effort of writing a lot of the program again.

In the second part of the show I get the blackboard out and start a new segment in the show. I try to explain how film and sensors are working. I?ll expose you to some of these lessons for about 5 to 190 minutes and will then decide upon your reaction if I should keep this on. I?ll have them at the end of the show ? if you are bored you can just skip the rest.

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