Linux for Designers

Phatch a photo batch processor is available as version 0.1.5. At the moment there are now Deb package or release notes published.
Phatch is an standalone alternative with a GUI to David's Batch Processor (DBP works only inside of GIMP). If you looking for a mass renaming utility take a look at pyRenamer.

I found this in my inbox (it seems it is there a little bit longer): "Hi, you have my permission to include the SimpleViewer SWF in your plugin." -this means we will have Flash gallery bling soon in Gimp
So development can start now - thanx Felix!

After my last post about Gimp plugins that looking for fresh blood and new developers, i tried to compile the Gimp Colorize plugin - with success
Here is an overview about the algorythm "Colorization Using Optimization".

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The Smashing Magazine published a new article about retouching photos with Photoshop. I'm sure you can do that with Gimp too

Once i reported about the further development of the Seperate plugin: Seperate+, a nice addon to export Gimp images into the CMYK color space. After my Ubuntu Graphic Workshop i renembered the plugin (many people asked about Gimp & CMYK) and i revisited the site again: Taa-Taa Seperate+ 0.5.1 is available but not longer as a Linux binary .
So i tried to compile it and for the first time i did it successful. Then go step by step of this Deb-Making-List (thanks to Simpsons-Fan) and created a Deb Archive of it:
gimp-seperate+-0.5.1-i386.deb
The plugin can be found at the menu of the image windows: "Image > Seperate".
You can get nice CMYK color profiles by installing the Ubuntu package "icc-profiles" and download color profiles of Adobe (copy them into ~/color/icc).

Ubuntu Berlin Graphics Workshop

UPDATE: Here is a PDF of my talk (in german).

When i looked around what happened in Gimp development i read that the first addition additions to Gimp 2.5.2 has been arrived. Sven Neumann posted in his blog a screeny of the Online Help feature too.

Whoo-hoo Gimp 2.5.1 rocks and is a real good graphical source for CSSdev. Here is a little sneak preview of the layered image in Gimp 2.5.1 and the output off CSSdev 0.5 (just CSS and XHTML, noch graphics, no joke, no recoding after):

Those haven't Gimp 2.5.x running yet grab a Debian/ Ubuntu Deb archive of Gimp 2.5.0 or Gimp 2.5.1 now.

In the evening of the 14th Juli i have a talk about open source graphic software and Ubuntu. The workshop is about web design, print, vector graphics, imageing & photos and 3D. It is organized by Ubuntu Berlin with support of the c-base. If you like we can meet us there!
Update: Here is the official appointment

Who-Hoo i get - CSSdev now supports the CSS property "clip" using Gimp layer masks. This was hard to code to make it working with white or black masks - but it works

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