Self portrait made in Inkscape using the bitmap trace tool, with two renders, and a dark cool palette.
Tag: Portrait
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35 of 365 is an improved photo #GIMP
So I had a snapshot that I thought captured my smile nicely, but had some other issues worth fixing. I opened the original in the GIMP, Removed some wayward beard with the smudge tool, tightened focus with the sharpen tool in a few places, removed background noise with the blur tool, brightened and added depth to the photo using the brightness/contrast feature, made the image grayscale using desaturate, and added a color overtone with the colorize feature. I think more than anything, I just wanted to make up for yesterday’s monster.
tags: colorize, blur, sharpen, focus, portrait, lemasney, 365, dailypost2011, gimp, gnu, gpl, open source, cc-sa, creative commons, sharing
Using the technique I’ve focused on lately, and using a photo from my very good friend Sam, here is a portrait of him.
tags: portrait, paint, Sam, snow, GIMP, GNU, GPL, open source, creative commons, cc-sa, daily, 365, lemasney, postaday2011, sharing
So using the same technique that I used for a self-portrait a few sketches back, I decided to do a portrait of one of my favorite songwriters, singers and musicians, Thom Yorke, most famously of Radiohead. Starting with a well-known photograph of Thom, I worked in with various brushes, using samples of color from the photo itself. Holding my Wacom stylus in my right hand, I switched back and forth between sample (O) and paintbrush (P) to first choose a color from an area, then paint into that area with that color. A very fun technique.
tags: radiohead, thom yorke, portrait, painting, sampling, gimp, gnu, gpl, open source, creative commons, cc-sa, postaday2011, lemasney, 365, daily, sharing
Some of you may have seen me in person lately, but I can;t say the same of you. I’ve been diagnosed with rare pre-40 cataracts in both eyes that are slowly forming, but quickly making it hard to read. Surgery is outpatient and in my future, but the cataract needs to get to a certain point of opacity before it makes sense to operate. So, if you thought I was ignoring you, I wasn’t. I just didn’t recognize you through the cloudy formation in my eyes. So, for the first time in my life, I’m wearing glasses, which help but do not eliminate the problem. I like the glasses, but I hate the cataracts.
tags: cataracts, eyes, 40, glasses, portrait, Inkscape, design, 365
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228 of 365 is a self portrait #Inkscape
Yes, Inkscape is primarily a vector based editor, but I use bitmap or raster based images in it all the time. Inkscape gives you the ability to work in a light way with bitmaps but makes it more difficult to paint into, alter, erase, etc. with bitmaps, unless you do a bitmap trace. In this case, I imported my image, and set it in layer one. Then I imported another image of some rust into layer 2, and set that layer to mode: darken, and brought the opacity down a bit. Finally, I imported the third image, a kind of tech looking checkerboard, and applied the same mode, darken, and lowered the opacity. This is one example of how the layers menu can be really useful in Inkscape, where it is essential inside photo manipulation apps like the GIMP.