[Courses][gimp] Sources for more GIMP information

[Patricia Peck]

Akkana Peck wrote:
> This week, we'll take a week off from lessons.  Instead of a formal
> lesson with homework, I'll tell you about some good sources for GIMP
> related information, tutorials, and fun.


I'm going to agree with Julie here.  I've fallen behind, too, and will 
be very glad of an extra week or even two.  You have some great 
information in this GIMP information post, and just checking out all of 
that is going to take as long as a lesson.  It really looks like fun, at 
a cursory glance, but I'm going to exercise a little self-control and do 
the two lessons I've missed before playing with Wilber and other such 
fun stuff.


> I'd like to hear from
> the students in the course!  What do you want to hear about?  Are the
> lessons so far enough to keep you busy for a while, and maybe it's
> time for a break?  Or is there anything in particular you'd like to
> learn how to do?  

As mentioned above, I could use a little break to good advantage.  There 
was one thing I wanted to ask how to do, but now that I've become an 
expert in image manipulation (joke!) thanks to this course, I can see 
what they did, and might try a little of the same myself.

What it was:  Some time ago (pre-gimplessons), our town put out a 
brochure on "Art in Public Places", with photos and addresses.  A couple 
of friends and I did a tour of most of the examples.  It was amazing how 
the photos had made some pretty pedestrian art look really good.  What 
they did, generally speaking, was to use two or three angles of the same 
subject, manipulate one or two to be a somewhat washed-out background, 
with the other(s) sharper and in the foreground.  After the lessons 
we've had and after taking another look at the photos, it looks pretty 
simple, with the main requirement being to get good angles and decide 
which should be the in-focus one.

I think I'll take a run at doing a few of these myself, since there are 
a few pieces of pedestrian art around here that they didn't cover.  :-)

I'll be interested in what other students want to hear about, and will 
give it a little more thought myself.  I'm such a neophyte at this that 
I don't even know what I want to know.

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	...Pat