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[elakdawalla]

I am embarking on teaching myself to use GIMP in the hopes that I can use it to develop tutorials for space image processing for the Society's website, but of course I have questions. Does anybody here use GIMP on a regular basis and have any useful tips? I was happy to see how much of Photoshop's functionality it appears to mimic, but I'm a bit nonplussed to discover that it can't deal with 16-bit images, only 8-bit.

I did find a plugin for opening PDS images (http://registry.gimp.org/node/1627), but it seems to choke on Cassini images (perhaps because of the 8-bit problem, I'm not sure).

I have figured out how to take three grayscale image files and make them into a single RGB image (through Colors > Components > Compose...)

Does anyone know of a good plugin for automatic alignment of images?

Any other tips?

--Emily

[elakdawalla]

Yeah, it's not looking particularly promising. I'm not finding GIMP very intuitive, but that may just be because I'm so used to Photoshop that anywhere that GIMP doesn't work precisely the same, I'm at a loss. Still, I'd like to be able to write tutorials that people who can't afford Photoshop can use. Maybe I should write tutorials first in general terms (but terms specific enough to allow readers to Google for how to do the described operations in their image processing software of choice), and then provide specific versions for more than one piece of image processing software. That sounds like a lot of work though. I'm beginning to think that what I need to do is build a wiki and try to cajole expert users of one piece of software or another to contribute content.

--Emily