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Mar 7^th, 2005 at 4:28pm

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I liked this idea. I know the light's not just right, shoulda used the gray repaint, yadda yadda, but I'm happy with this fairly quick edit I did with the GIMP. What say the rest of you (go easy on me- i'm new at this)?

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Reply #1 - Mar 7^th, 2005 at 4:42pm

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WOW, getting the topgun feeling, are you? Very nice work!

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Reply #2 - Mar 7^th, 2005 at 4:44pm

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Well, in the first place I think it's remarkable that you actually figured out how to use the Gimp. Roll Eyes

Very nice work old chap. Wink

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Reply #3 - Mar 7^th, 2005 at 4:58pm

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Wow, that is beautiful mate.

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Reply #4 - Mar 7^th, 2005 at 5:12pm

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Well, in the first place I think it's remarkable that you actually figured out how to use the Gimp. Roll Eyes

LOL, and LOL again! Yeah, it's weird. If you'd like some tips, feel free to ask, but I don't know if I can explain what I do. And God knows I haven't figured it all out yet! But I like what I can do with it. Being able to change perspective on selected areas helped a lot for this one 'cuz in the original picture the plane was a little distorted by perspective. And I always resize my images with the GIMP- it does a nice clean job.

Thanks for the comments- I'll have to have another go at it!

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Reply #5 - Mar 7^th, 2005 at 5:21pm

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Yeah I've got a question about GIMP: Is there a jetwash effect?

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Reply #6 - Mar 7^th, 2005 at 5:41pm

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Yeah I've got a question about GIMP: Is there a jetwash effect?

Not per se (no "jetwash" button)... I've never tried to do that, but there are tons of filters in there, and I bet w/some experimenting, you could make a decent jetwash effect (I assume you mean heat distortion mixed with turbulent exhaust?).

And here's another thing: I just opened GIMP to play with it, and remembered 2.0 doesn't come with any Help files!! Roll Eyes

No wonder I haven't used it for much besides superimposing, sizing, and airbrushing...

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Reply #7 - Mar 7^th, 2005 at 6:51pm

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Very nice job!

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Reply #8 - Mar 8^th, 2005 at 11:29am

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very cool edit!
what's GIMP? never heard of it (well......nah won't go into that Grin

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Reply #9 - Mar 8^th, 2005 at 3:10pm

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very cool edit!
what's GIMP? never heard of it (well......nah won't go into that Grin

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Graphic Image Manipulation Program... free download. Google it. I think they still don't have a Help file ready for the latest version, but it's not that hard to figure out how to use basuc stuff. All I did for this was: cut and paste, resize, change perspective (of cut sections),blur, and airbrush. Pretty standard stuff. But I really like the way it does these things- especially resizing ("scaling"). It holds the aspect ratio if you want, and willresize by pixels, mm, whatever... and with very little data loss. Nice. Free. Try it!

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