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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

[galileo]

For those that might be having a problem installing G'MIC plug-in in GIMP, I hope that this might help.
After hours of trying to install G'MIC in GIMP I found out the problem that I was having was using the wrong path.
My operating systemt : O/S Win 7 64-bit
Download G'MIC Win 7 64-bit (zip file).....I downloaded to desktop
Unzip file
Copy all files and folders and place in C:Users\yourname\.gimp-2.8\plug-ins
Open GIMP and under filters and at the bottom should be G'MIC
Hope this helps