Photography – Page 30 – Something Odd!

Saving files per drag-n-drop

When you close newer versions of the GIMP, a small dialog appears showing thumbnails of unsaved images. In the development version you can drag and drop those thumbnails to a “XDS” compatible file manager to save them!
Unfortunately, neither Nautilus or Konqueror support that feature yet, but Rox-Filer does!

Cork City Historical Photographs

Cork Camera Club (pre-1940) contains a wealth of photographs and information about the real capital of Ireland.
Cork City Council has another site with the same content, but with thumbnails. Here’s the origin of the name, Sraid an Chapaill Bhuí, and according to the first link above, an extraordinary photo since it must have been taken only 28 years after the production of the first paper negative!
It’s amazing to see the old St. Fin barres Cathedral and Marina Quay where Ford and Son had their large factory.
If you want to get in touch with other photography types, check out Cork Camera Group or Carrigaline Photographic Society (why do you have so many images when text would do?)

What is a photojournalist?

What is a photojournalist? – Here’s a great article by Mark Hancock. Well worth reading!

A journalist tells stories. A photographer takes pictures of nouns (people, places and things). A photojournalist takes the best of both and locks it into the most powerful medium available–a single frozen image.

Reach

The John Hancock Centre, shrouded in fog.

Chicago Lightning

On our first morning in Chicago a thunderstorm struck! This is the view from the hotel window!

Wilber on a coffee mug

Is it legal to display a GPLed image on a coffee mug? Wilber is the GIMP mascot and someone wants to sell mugs with his image on them.. Legal? Olivier Ripoll replied:

Wilber logo is GPLed. So as long as you provide the source code of your mug and carve the complete GPL licence on the bottom face of the mug, there is no problem.

GIMP: Layer Styles, Panoramas, and transparency

An email to the GIMP User List has a link to a Python layer style plugin. I haven’t tried it yet but an earlier plugin doesn’t work in GIMP 2.x anymore so I’ll try the “proof of concept” Python one.
Stitch Panorama 0.9.2 was announced on the list too. Replies were all positive, and Owen posted manual and automatic examples. I have a vertical panorama of Marshall Fields’ department store to fix up. I may use this to help me!
Ever wonder why you can’t write to a transparent layer? It is possible, you only have to enable it.
Oh, and finally.. if you’re annoyed by the way GIMP uses (or not) windows, then the next revision has much better control.