Since I take a lot of photos and they don’t always look the best, I’ve decided that I’ll start learning GIMP to improve them.
It happens that in some of them, people have red eyes. So the first thing I had to learn was how to solve this problem. I’ve found out, that it is not all that hard to do, if you follow the steps in the Red Eye Removal tutorial. In short they are:
- Open the guilty photo
- Select the Dodge or Burn strokes tool
- Set the tool options (double click on the tool, if they are not shown):
- Brush: circle fuzzy
- Type: burn
- Mode: highlights
- Open the Channels dialog
- Deselect green and blue channel (by clicking on the name and not on the eye)
- Brush away the red colour from the eyes
I watched a short film named Elephants Dream yesterday. It’s about two men, Emo and Proog, who are trapped in a big machine. It is beautifully made and the makers of the film used two free and open source programs - Blender, which is program for 3D modelling and animation, and Gimp for textures and image editing. I can only hope that more projects like this will happen in the future. At the end I invite you to watch the film and truly appreciate the hard work and talent that has been put into the film. If only I could master the tools the same way they do.
My computer broke down about two weeks ago. I’m pleased to say that today, after several complications during the past two weeks, I can finally connect to the digital world again. With the help of my brother we have assembled the new computer. OK, I admit, he did almost all the work. While he was busy as a bee I’ve been taking pictures of every step of the process. So now I have new processor (much faster than the old one), twice as much of memory as before, a new motherboard and a stylish new case that holds everything together. I wanted to upload the photos to Flickr but they have some technical problem so you’ll have to wait until it is fixed. I have to go now because I have some catching up to do.
UPDATE: Well, the problem with Flickr was fixed just a few moments after I published the post. The photos are avalible in the New computer 2006 set.