Tag Archives: Photography

Walking the streets in the ra …

Walking the streets in the rain: the Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, viewing flood damage in Millmount Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin, in the early hours of yesterday morning. (Irish Times)
No doubt this photo will get dragged up again and again when the Taoiseach is in hot water!
Irish Times Article – Anti-flooding measures may cost ‘hundreds of millions’

Using the technique described …

Using the technique described below for joining two images.

I went out and took 2 photos:

To create the following larger photo.


icable distortion where the two photos meet, I wasn’t very careful editing as this is more a proof of concept for myself than anything else.

The original xcf format photo is also available for download. (Warning, it’s over 900K!)

Plug-In: User Filter – use Pho …

Plug-In: User Filter – use Photoshop filters in the GIMP. Here’s some filters that worked.
If you try to compile the User Filter on Red Hat 8.0 (and maybe other modern distributions of Linux) you’ll probably get an error message in the file uf_file.c
Change line 44 from
fpos_t ofs;
to
long ofs;
The program should compile now if you run make.

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