Posted on October 2, 2007 by Meet the GIMP Rolf Steinort

Download the Video!

Download the companion file! (…if there is one…. )

Triptychs – and nearly one hour of them. In this episode I’ll show you how to combine three

images to one good looking set and get some frames and borders around them. Again a

layer mask is used to partially edit a picture with the curves tool.

The idea to this show came from this thread at the Tips from the Top Floor forum.

More about triptychs can be found at the Wikipedia here and here. More triptychs can be

found here at google.

And I have a challenge for you. Make a triptych and put it online at the photogroup

“meetthegimp.org” at 23. (23 is a friendly danish image hoster. I am their customer since

flickr.com decided to censor my access to images because I am living in Germany.) I’ll show

all the images in show 16 – so you have time up to October 16 or so to upload your stuff. I

have asked a potential sponsor 23 to donate a bit - so it is possible that I have something as

a price for you. (No, it’s not a license for the full version of the Gimp….. ) – and they have

Video tutorials for GIMP and other free graphics programs

Episode 013: A Triptych and a Challenge for You! | Meet the GIMP! http://blog.meetthegimp.org/episode-13-a-triptych-and-a-challenge-for...

1 of 6 20/11/2014 13:57

Tweet 0 0LikeLike submit 1

given me some codes for getting a year of full service at 23. I’ll choose the winner (if there is

a price…) by random – so equal chances for all.

The TOC

00:24 Welcome to triptychs

04:44 The source images

07:46 Resizing the images

09:25 Make the background

12:40 Placing the images on separate layers

16:36 Set the background colour

17:10 Frame each image using layers

20:45 Frame the triptych by stroking selection

24:50 Fine-tune the images

25:00 Use curves to get part of the image right

28:38 Use layer-mask to isolate other part of image

36:52 Add a caption using the text tool

40:00 Save the file

40:40 Resize for the web

41:05 Sharpen the individual images

43:00 Re-do the caption

44:16 Re-save as JPEG

44:53 23hq.com

46:15 – mtg-triptych tag

47:55 – Add image to Meet The Gimp group

51:42 The End

TOC made by paynekj

Get the files used!

The files from this episode.

Contact me!

You can leave your comments on this blog or write me a mail.

Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany License.

SHARE THIS:

Print Email

Episode 013: A Triptych and a Challenge for You! | Meet the GIMP! http://blog.meetthegimp.org/episode-13-a-triptych-and-a-challenge-for...

2 of 6 20/11/2014 13:57

12 THOUGHTS ON “EPISODE 013: A TRIPTYCH AND A CHALLENGE FOR YOU!”

GOOGLE+

Meet the GIMP Rolf Steinort

0

This entry was posted in Gimp, Gimp video tutorial and tagged border, challenge, curves

tool, frame, layer mask, layers, triptych by Meet the GIMP Rolf Steinort. Bookmark the

permalink [http://blog.meetthegimp.org/episode-13-a-triptych-and-a-challenge-

for-you/] .

Alec Burgess

on October 2, 2007 at 6:04 am said:

Gunnar said in response to MeetTheGimp-11:

>Lightzone is way more than a converter. I think it has some real potential. Check out

this presentation on the future of image editing.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8101654281814261149&q=phototechedu

It looks like there are many other talks about various photo tech subjects:

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=phototechedu

Many look fascinating: I’ll check them out after watch MTG-13

Rolf

on October 2, 2007 at 10:45 am said:

That will take some time…..

Was this show too long? Too much ramblings? Honest answers please!

Rolf

Svetlyak 40wt

on October 3, 2007 at 6:39 am said:

Hello, Rolf!

Episode 013: A Triptych and a Challenge for You! | Meet the GIMP! http://blog.meetthegimp.org/episode-13-a-triptych-and-a-challenge-for...

3 of 6 20/11/2014 13:57