21st meeting
From BLUG
Topic: Graphics applications for Linux
Presenter: Mark Krenz
Date: Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
Time: 7-9pm
Location: Monroe County Public Library room 1B
Attendance: 7
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Synopsis
Mark Krenz will be giving a presentation on graphics software under Linux, including the following
- Gimp
- Workspace philosophy (or, why isn't Gimp like Photoshop)
- How to improve photos
- Auto levels
- Sharpen
- Selecting regions to affect
- Color curves
- Scale image
- Control jpeg compression
- Making a montage
- Loading multiple images
- Clone tool
- Layers
- Plugins overview
- Logos -> Basic II
- Logos -> Blended
- Logos -> Cool metal
- Logos -> Glowing
- Patterns -> Render Map
- Buttons -> Simple Beveled Button
- Filters -> Decor -> Old Photo
- Other plugins
- http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/resynthesizer (Remove objects from images, etc)
- http://flam3.com/ (Create flames and animations of flames)
- http://nbenoit.tuxfamily.org/projects.php?rq=gimp-plugin-formulas (Use mathmatical forumulas to create images)
- Inkscape
- Make some symbols
- Making a logo
- Make a cartoon (if there is time)
- Dia
- Flowcharts
- Database diagram
- Network diagram
- ImageMagick
- Convertion of files
- Making a mosaic image
- How I made the Monroe County mosaic
- Gnumeric charts and graphs
- Simple statistics
- Making charts look nice
And if there is time:
- How 3d raytracing works (very brief overview)
- Povray
- Let's make a reflective sphere on a checkerboard
- Programatically rendering scenes
- Animations
- Blender
- Make something simple.
- Maybe show part of Elephant's Dream again to show what is possible.
This is a great oppurtunity to bring your friends who haven't seen what you can do in Linux. The BLUG Live DVDs will be available again for those that haven't picked one up yet.
