PLUG Meeting for February 14th
This month we have
a theme, graphics. We will be getting a preview of some
of talks that will be given at the Southern California
Linux Expo's (SCaLE) libre graphics track which will
happen on March 7th through 10th.
For more info, Meeting time and location see:
Brian Cluff: An introduction to the
Hugin Panorama Stitcher
Hugin is a powerful program to combining multiple overlapping
images into panoramas. It is easy to use, but needs quality input
images to work correctly. This presentation will give an intro to
using Hugin as well as advice on how to take high quality input
images with minimal paralax distortion so that your panoramas will
always turn out perfect.
This presentation will also cover masking out unwanted items in
your panorama, using hugin to create HDR images, rerendering
individual images into architectural projections.
Phillip Waclawski: Krita basics, drawing assistants and G'Mic
Krita is an amazing drawing/painting program. This talk will cover
the basics of Krita, including layers, selections and more. It
will also dive into some of the amazing drawing assistants that
come with Krita, and really help out folks, like myself, that are
artistically impaired.
Additionally, Krita comes with a set of powerful filters and tools
known as G'mic (Greyc's Magic for Image Computing) that is also
available in many other programs (GIMP, Inkscape) and we will
cover several of them during this talk.
The meeting will start at 7pm at The Desert Breeze
Substation. People start arriving as early as 6pm, so if you would
like to help setup and/or chat for a while, arrive a little early.
We will go for food to BJs at the Chandler Fashion Center Mall
after the meeting so we can chat with each other comfortably.
Please feel free to join us. Please come even if you aren't
hungry, the food is not mandatory.
See you there,
Brian Cluff