almost forgot a found a good tutorial using the g'mic plugin but g'mic will not install. anyone have any hints on installing it? You know, actually I got a lot of plugins in ~/gimp2.8/scripts that don't seem to be seen. If I go to filters-scriptfu-refresh I get the errors: GIMP Message: Calling error for procedure 'gimp-image-get-active-layer': Procedure 'gimp-image-get-active-layer' has been called with an invalid ID for argument 'image'. Most likely a plug-in is trying to work on an image that doesn't exist any longer. Refresh Scripts Message Error while loading /home/bmike1/.gimp-2.8/scripts/exposure-blend-1.3c.scm: Error: (/home/bmike1/.gimp-2.8/scripts/exposure-blend-1.3c.scm : 627) Procedure execution of gimp-image-get-active-layer failed on invalid input arguments: Procedure 'gimp-image-get-active-layer' has been called with an invalid ID for argument 'image'. Most likely a plug-in is trying to work on an image that doesn't exist any longer. but I don't even have an image open. On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 7:51 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > thank you so much man. I really appreciate it. I certaainly will devote > 10% of my available brain to these videos tomorrow. Do you know of any > videos or text teaching how to do exposure blending with gimp2.8? all the > tuts I've been finding are incomplete or are how to do it with 2.2! > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 7:37 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: > >> There's a ton of ways to do what you want. The biggest thing you will >> have to worry about is lighting. For instance, if you are putting >> something that was lit from the left into a scene that was lit from the >> right, then there is little you can do. No matter how carefully you add it >> to your scene your brain will always tell you there is something wrong with >> the picture. >> >> I tend to use a couple of different techniques to put one image into >> another. >> If the background is a relatively solid color, I'll use a technique >> similar to this example for cutting out images while preserving fine >> details (hair in this example)... hint, you don't use ANY of the selection >> tools, or copy and past. >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnbxtMCHKV0 >> or >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jle81ofRLok >> or >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quAChCnK_Dk >> >> The other way I like combine image is brushing out the background using >> layer masks as demonstrated in this video with the leg: >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHJAJziWDs0 >> >> I usually use a combination of the 2 techniques since you rarely get >> perfect results with either method. >> >> All these methods ultimately use layer masks, which is a much better way >> to combine photos than cutting and pasting since you can tweak what is >> transparent or not back and both without having to commit to a certain part >> of an image like you do with cutting and pasting. >> >> Brian Cluff >> >> >> On 01/07/2016 02:58 PM, Michael Havens wrote: >> >> I found a way to super impose an image but it looks tacky. >> The method I learned was to open both files and then to select the image >> you want to put on the other with fuzzytool. I found that didn't work so I >> used the path tool. Well I cut the image out but the paste doesn't look >> good. It is out of scale. For the purposes I need WHat ithe best way to cut >> a house out and put it on a blue sky? >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: