Tag Archives: Photography
GIMPshop – A gimp in photoshop's clothing
Here’s GIMPshop, a version of the GIMP that looks like Photoshop. It’s a 40MB download for the Mac OS X version.
I’d hate to have to maintain this beast…
What made this project especially difficult is that there isn’t one file that holds all of Gimp’s tool names and menu structure. I’ve modified hundreds of files and combed thousands of lines of code to make this version of Gimp a reality.
There’s an RPM binary here for Linux users. To be honest I could never find my way around the Photoshop interface as I’m so used to the GIMP one, but whatever brings people into the fold…
Where to get memory cards?
For future reference. My brother asked where he should get memory sticks for his new camera. I asked on #linux.. Here’s a few suggestions if you live in Ireland or the UK.
- PC-Memory-Upgrade.co.uk
- Davoom
- 7dayshop – where I get most of my camera stuff
Later.. I don’t recommend 7dayshop any more. Read my 7dayshop review and please avoid them!
Julian Beever's pavement drawings
Julian Beever’s pavement drawings – great artwork and cool 3D drawing too, such as this coke bottle!
Sony DSC-T3 vs Minolta Dimage z2
My sister’s boyfriend has the rather sexy black version of the Sony DSC-T3 digital camera. It’s got an absolutely huge LCD screen on the back, and it’s awfully slim. 7day shop <a href="http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=777_4_409_40908&products_id=99854"have it for about 359 Euro, but for a bit less I could get the much more capable Konica Minolta Dimage Z2 with it’s 10x optical zoom!
It’ll be a second camera to serve in situations when I don’t want to take an expensive Canon 20D out.
Which to choose? I’m very drawn to the Sony, as it’ll use the memory sticks I already own!
Matt – take a look at the Z2, looks like a good camera for you!
Later.. I don’t recommend 7dayshop any more. Read my 7dayshop review and please avoid them!
Topography of Ireland
Here’s a very large 3293×4168 topographical map of Ireland. It’s huge!
Here’s how they did it.
This is where I live!
How to improve the Google ranking of your portfolio site
The other Martin Taylor provides a short article on how to increase the visibility of your photo portfolio on Google. All basic stuff, but if you don’t know ’em they’re invaluable!
Camerapedia.org
Lovely! Camerapedia.org is a Camera encylopedia! See their page on the Sony F717 (still being repaired – two weeks without a camera, how have I survived?)
Got there via photobloggies and Mark Hancock. BTW – Vote for him in the photojournalism section!
Greycstoration : Fast Anisotropic Smoothing of Multi-Valued Images using Curvature-Preserving PDE's.
Basically, what Greycstoration algorithm does is describe how to do noise reduction and scaling of images very well. It also does a hell of a lot more and the demo page is very impressive!
There’s a GIMP plugin based on the work but I couldn’t get it to compile. He has another demo page too, which leads me to believe that I will spend some time trying to get this to work!
Later.. Note to self, install the development libraries before complaining!
# apt-get install libgimp2.0-dev
Camera Hacks
Camera Hacks – it’s a new WP powered site, but there’s a couple of good posts already.
(via Ryan)