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Today there will be something different for your ears first - thanks to John Pazdan. I like his stuff very much!

Inspired by this discussion in the “Meet the GIMP!” Photogroup at 23hq, I tackle the begin- nings of monitor calibration. For an in depth look go to the page of Norman Koren

You can use this web page from Cambridge in Colour for a start. Then there are tools like Monica for correcting your display.

The DQ tool for getting better prints can be found at the site of the Photo Industrie Verband. Scroll down at the right sidebar and you’ll find it at the bottom. (Have I ever told you how much I like pages without the possibility of a direct link…..)

All this can be helpful for the amateur. But keep in mind that it is no replacement for a complete colour managed workflow. If you really need that, then you have to invest in some serious hardware and time for setting that up. Joel Cornuz has a series of articles covering the Linux aspects of colour management. Perhaps some of you can share links to sites for MacOS and Windows.

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This week I am absolutely late with the show. I recorded on the weekend and had to find out later, that I had messed up the sound.

As an emergency fill in I made this. It’s a project I wanted to do for a long time - and did now without anny planning and preparation. I even forgot to take a tripod for the video camera with me. But the lab provided a clamp for Erlenmeyer flasks. Worked great.

I got the idea from Allan J. Ager and Simon Taylor from the Tips from the Top Floor Forum.

You can download the four finally used files and a shrinked xcf file as an archive. The full resolution output is here.

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Brand new tech- nology meets stuff from the Stone Age, ehm… the 70’s.

Rawstudio’s 1.0 release sits on the lab bench for a test run. I am impressed by the workflow and the overall appear- ance. The output in the video has some noise in it, but that was my fault.

I had my camera set up to store a RAW and a JPEG image and have put both files and the camera profile into the companion file to this episode. Now you can try to get a better image out of the RAW file than the processor of a Nikon D200.

In a lot of discussions and tutorials you read the term “lith” or “lith film”. One is running in the meetthegimp.org photogroup at 23.hq. I found an old box with real lith film and take you back some decades while describing how I have worked with these sheets of plastic.

Then I try to rebuild one of the effects that were done with lith film in GIMP. I just emulate the effect, but I am working on a process to really simulate the process done with film. You can find the file to this part of the podcast also in the companion file.

How did you like the concept of these two last shows? Not one monolithic block but several shorter segments? I want to offer a mix of different topics in each episode, covering different levels of experience and different interests. I have put up a poll for you to vote on the side bar. If you want to give me more input than just a click, write to info@meetthegimp.org or post a comment here in the blog.

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Gimpusers has a bit about it. Keep your fingers crossed or thumbs pressed, depending on cultural background….

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This time I am not in Bremen but in Seefeld near the North Sea. I was there for a weekend training in school management.

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The show starts with a live view at Gimp 2.5.0. Tobias Jakobs sent me a video about some new features and I add another one. This is alpha software, keep away if you are not helping with debugging. And never do “real work” with it.

Tobias Jakobs is well known in the German Gimp community for winning an image manipulation contest ahead of all the Photoshoppers.

Seefeld is in a nice area, as you can see from the aerial view. A lot of fresh air and the sea near by. We had not enough time for long walks but I could grab the shot above. You’ll see how I made that out of a pretty boring original image with a bit of curves and the healing tool. You can download the original and the processed shot in their full size at 23hq.com.

You all know Joseph AKA bluemojo. He covers the Foreground Select Tool and shows all the details. He also has a link covering the SIOX algorithm behind it. For all concerned minds - he dug his three girls out before the tide came in.

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