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Using GIMP for processing planetary images
elakdawalla
post May 6 2008, 04:40 PM
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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?

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jamescanvin
post May 8 2008, 03:08 PM
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No, not really, but to be honest I only really do finishing touches in GIMP/Photoshop.

Nearly all my MER image processing is done using home grown routines, within those I'm storing data at 32-bit depth. tongue.gif I wouldn't want to do any serious processing of images at 8-bit.

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- elakdawalla   Using GIMP for processing planetary images   May 6 2008, 04:40 PM
- - ectoterrestrial   I use GIMP fairly frequently but I'm not doing...   May 6 2008, 11:10 PM
|- - imipak   QUOTE (ectoterrestrial @ May 7 2008, 12:1...   May 7 2008, 06:38 PM
|- - Ryan Balfanz   QUOTE (ectoterrestrial @ May 6 2008, 06:1...   Jun 17 2009, 09:07 PM
- - elakdawalla   Yeah, it's not looking particularly promising....   May 7 2008, 08:22 PM
|- - jamescanvin   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ May 7 2008, 09:22 PM...   May 8 2008, 09:22 AM
|- - elakdawalla   QUOTE (jamescanvin @ May 8 2008, 01:22 AM...   May 8 2008, 02:49 PM
- - slinted   Having never spent much time in Photoshop, Gimp ha...   May 7 2008, 10:18 PM
- - djellison   How about Photoshop Elements. It's V cheap ( ...   May 8 2008, 07:09 AM
- - edstrick   "...How about Photoshop Elements. It's V ...   May 8 2008, 08:36 AM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (edstrick @ May 8 2008, 09:36 AM) i...   May 8 2008, 09:52 AM
- - Stu   I use Elements and love it, but t'is true, it ...   May 8 2008, 11:38 AM
- - jamescanvin   No, not really, but to be honest I only really do ...   May 8 2008, 03:08 PM
|- - tedstryk   I tried GIMP, but I quickly returned to Photoshop....   May 8 2008, 03:49 PM
- - elakdawalla   That's what I figured; I couldn't imagine ...   May 8 2008, 03:54 PM
- - algorimancer   ImageJ is a free NIH application which will allow ...   May 8 2008, 04:53 PM
- - Paolo Amoroso   This book is a bit old, but provides a lot of usef...   May 30 2008, 09:31 PM
- - Paolo Amoroso   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ May 6 2008, 06:40 PM...   Oct 2 2008, 07:55 PM
- - elakdawalla   That's great news, thanks for the heads up. I...   Oct 2 2008, 08:01 PM
- - imipak   w00t!!! imipak: does a little jig of d...   Oct 2 2008, 08:03 PM
- - Ant103   For Macintosh users, there is a .dmg compiled here...   Oct 24 2008, 06:34 PM
- - Randall SHelaga   I am late in the game, but have read the posts wit...   Aug 28 2012, 07:42 PM
- - elakdawalla   I didn't know that GIMP had finally implemente...   Aug 28 2012, 08:30 PM
- - JohnVV   gimp2.6,2.8 DOSE NOT YET have 16 bit support howe...   Aug 29 2012, 06:54 PM
- - Randall SHelaga   Apologies, I misread the article, they do have 16 ...   Aug 31 2012, 02:39 AM
- - elakdawalla   While I support the idea, I'm afraid you won...   Aug 31 2012, 03:55 AM
- - galileo   For those that might be having a problem installin...   Sep 3 2012, 01:15 PM

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