Admin Post: It's poll time

[jana]

I think it's high time to get to know each other a little bit, that is, how you use GIMP and/or Inkscape, how much you know about these tools etc. This makes it also easier for everyone involved to know what you would like to see here. For instance, making a tutorial is always a bit of a shot in the dark if you don't know anything about the people who watch this community. So, don't be shy and talk to us :)

Poll #4107 GiMP Gate - Interests & Experiences

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 46

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What do you use GIMP mostly for?

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I don't use it at all.
1 (2.2%)

Photo edits (cropping, resizing, getting rid of red eyes, etc)
32 (71.1%)

Icon making
33 (73.3%)

Fanart
14 (31.1%)

Digital art
7 (15.6%)

Other (please comment)
3 (6.7%)

What do you use Inkscape mostly for?

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I don't use it at all.
33 (73.3%)

Fanart
3 (6.7%)

Digital art
3 (6.7%)

Geometric objects
5 (11.1%)

3D objects
2 (4.4%)

Other (please comment)
5 (11.1%)

What do you want to see in this community?

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Tutorials
40 (90.9%)

Resources such as fonts, scripts and brushes
34 (77.3%)

Photo editing tricks
30 (68.2%)

Tips about icon making
30 (68.2%)

Challenges
4 (9.1%)

Answers to questions I or others might have about GIMP/Inkscape
37 (84.1%)

Other (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

When it comes to GIMP, you consider yourself

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a beginner
11 (23.9%)

someone who has basic knowledge and skills
27 (58.7%)

someone who has proficient knowledge and skills
8 (17.4%)

an expert
0 (0.0%)

When it comes to Inkscape, you consider yourself

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a beginner
29 (82.9%)

someone who has basic knowledge and skills
5 (14.3%)

someone who has proficient knowledge and skills
1 (2.9%)

an expert
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[melannen]

Blueline is used in various kinds of graphics meant for duplication, when you do your pencils/drafts in blue or cyan and then ink over them in black. (Most art stores sell blue pencils just for this, though these days someone doing that is more likely to scan black pencils, computer manipulate them to blue, and then print a blueline copy to ink on.)

This is traditional because some kinds of early duplication processes made it easy to filter out the blueline and only get the black inks, kind of like greenscreen in film - if you've ever seen original art of old comics, for example, you can usually see the blue pencil lines under the ink, which wouldn't get picked up when they were converted for printing.

In Photoshop there's a method that works pretty well to filter out the blue pencils if you scan in an inked graphic; but there's something about GIMP's equivalents of those filters that just never worked nearly as well, no matter how much I fine-tuned them - it would either leave in too much of the blueline pencils or erase too many of the bluish pixels in the inks, and I never found a good tutorial on it for GIMP. But it's possible that there's a GIMP tool that does it better than PS that I just never found.

[alitalf]

Thanks, that makes sense. Sort of like chroma-key in video (in my youth I designed video equipment).

Without a special tool for it, I think it would be tricky, but gimp may be able to do it in a reasonable way. The first thing I would do is to look at the range of colour values in the line, and take it from there.

Maybe this would be a worthwhile challenge to offer people? You can't be the only person needing this.

Meanwhile, if by some remote chance you are near the same bit of planet that I am, I could repair/replace the dodgy cables so that they stay repaired. I live in Bedfordshire, UK.