My first post on this new place and I thought I'd start up a shiny new Gimp Sketchbook on here with some painting studies of ravens - any critique would be appreciated - thanks .

   

Let's see if the forum will allow me to attach a script-fu .scm file

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The time is about 0900 GMT for ofnuts log

The problem with gimp format images is on my installation.
My regular browser, slimjet will download a something.xcf or something.xcfgz but konqueror does give an option. XnView works for most formats including xcf but not for xcfgz / xcfbz2
Would I normally want to open an image in Gimp, while I am browsing probably not, download for later which I suspect most will do.

No-one tried a tif, here goes LZW compressed tif

ahh..
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Caution: 2.3MB animated GIF ahead

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• Take two lucky shots of a passionflower (a windgust made it turn away a bit when I was taking a bunch of closeups).
  
• Load both in Gimp
  
• Set top one to half transparent and adjust position so that they overlap reasonably
  
• Apply my progressive-merge script to progressively blend one image into the other
  
• Apply my mirror-layers script to generate the "back" sequence
  

Processing:

• Horizontal Flip
  
• Crop
  
• Curves Adjustment
  

Testing plain image attachment (PNG)

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Looking forward to all those Gimped images
   

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