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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

[edstrick]

"...How about Photoshop Elements. It's V cheap ( <10% of Photoshop ) and is essentially, Photoshop with the pro stuff taken out..."

Elements is the kiddie-school dumbed-down and stripped version of Photo"slop". It's got some nifty consumer stuff, but it lacks stuff Photoshop 2.5 had under Windoze 3.1. Most catastrophically, from my viewpoint, it has no ability to separate and / or merge color channels.