Photography
This section will be a collection of tips and things that I have discovered about taking photos and about editing them later on. I am by no means some big shot photographist, so do feel free to correct my naivete in the comments. My photo gallery has (what I consider to be) some of my better pics. I'm not so keen on sharing the naff ones. Here's a slideshow of some stuff I've put on flickr recently.
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Photography Archives
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Tip: Make a distressed font with GIMP
The other day I had need to make a sort of distressed/grungy/textured looking font using The GIMP. You know the kind of thing. A little googling bought up Grunge texture text from gimp.pixtuts.com, which got me most of the way towards the effect I wanted. This video is my simplified version of that approach. Being lazy I prefer simple. In the video I use this wood texture from textureking. I used a photo of a fence in the mist for my actual project, applying the same technique several times to get just what I was after. Props to nor for suggesting I post about it. There is a high res version if you want to follow along or don't have flash. Read More …
- 2011-11-16 13:08:21
- Published: 2011-11-16 13:08:21
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Tip: Selective Focus Effect with GIMP
As you can see from the pic above, by Vincent Lafore, selective focus tilt/shift photographs can create an amazing toytown feel to them. I've used a lensbaby composer to similar effect, for example in my photo set Toytown, but the true master of the art in my opinion is Olivio Barbieri, whose work is truly stonking.
Well, the thing is that if you're like me you don't always have your trusty lensbaby with you, right? So you gotta fake it. I figured out one way to fake a selective focus using The GIMP, so I made this short howto video for people who want to do the same. My approach was simply to select the region I want to focus on, invert and feather my selection and blur. I used gaussian blur (because its fast!) to save myself some editing down the line. But you could use whatever. Read More …- 2011-08-06 23:57:48
- Published: 2011-08-06 23:57:48
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