Archives for: March 2010
03/30/2010
The WizIQ Wealth Machine Introduction
Don't miss this live class on WizIQ tomorrow. My friend George will give this class and I can really recommend his teaching style. If you are not a member of WizIQ yet, just give it a try. It's free.
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03/29/2010
Fancy 3D eBook Cover (Workflow in progress 3)
Today I spent a few hours on the raw cut. You can find the first raw version on youTube. Next step will be the voice over and I also need to adjust some timing in the video.
03/26/2010
Fancy 3D eBook Cover (Workflow in progress 2)
Video is now recorded. I now need to cut the video.
Until this is finished, here you can watch some screenshots as a slideshow
03/25/2010
Fancy 3D eBook Cover (Workflow in progress)
In my post yesterday, I announced a Gimp tutorial on how to make a fancy 3D e-Book cover. Some people even sell these types of tutorials on the internet, so I decided to let my readers participate in the workflow on how I usually create these tutorial videos.
First of all, I had to find out how it works. After that, I did it at least three or four times to make sure I got all the necessary steps of the process right. After that, I made a step-by-step instruction text that I will use for my voice-over on the video.
Here is this step-by-step description so far:
- Create a new image 300 x 400 pixel
- add a layer make it 300 x 400 pixel and name it "front". This is the front of your book
- fill the front layer with a color, then add some text to it
- merge text layers down to the front layer
- you can make the front layer invisible now
- add a layer make it 120 x 400 pixel and name it "spine", this is the spine - or back of your book
- fill with color, then add some text and rotate the text -90 degree.
- merge text layers down to spine lawer
- make spine layer invisible
- add a layer, make it 300 x 100 and name it "paper", this is the top paper edge of your book
- fill with white, then use the noise filter to add black pixels
- RGB Noise, turn off independent RGB, slider to 0.5
- use motion blur filter to give it the paper structure
- Blur Type Linear, Length: 20, Angle: 0
- use bump map filter to give it a mor 3D like structure
- Bump map: paper, map Type: liniear, compensate for darkening, Azimuth 190, Elevation 45, Depth: 3. other values: 0
- add a transparent layer, make it 300 x 400 pixel and name it "empty".
- make all layers invisible except the front layer
- resize the canvas to 300 x 800 pixel
- duplicate the front layer
- flip the front layer
- place two guides, one horizontal at 400, one vertical at 0
- move the flipped front layer down, it should snap to guides (if not, use View - Snap to Guides)
- add a layer mask to the flipped front layer, initialize with white (full opacity)
- draw a black/white gradient into the layer mask for the mirror effect
- change the layer opacity to 70
- merge down the mirror front with the front layer
- repeat these steps with the spine layer
- when finished, make the background layer the active layer
- choose Layer - Layer to image size (so the layer will be 300 x 800 pixel)
- use Filter - Map - map Object to map the layers to a box
- Map to: Box, transparent background, create new image
- map images to Box Faces: Front: front layer, Back: empty layer, Top: paper layer, Bottom: empty layer, left: empty layer, right: spine layer, change scale x to 0.4 and scale z to 0.2
- use "show preview wireframe to control rotation
- in "orientation" set Rotation x to 20, Rotation y to -25
- Click "ok" to create the image (this may take a while)
- draw a path around the upper box (above the reflection)
- select - select from path
- use filter - perspective shadow: Angle: 145, Relative distance: 5.0, length 1.0, blur radius: 20, opacity 80, allow resizing
- cut out the part of the picture you want to use
Next step will be to create a screen capture using this step-by-step script.
Stay tuned
03/24/2010
Creating a fancy 3D eBook cover with Gimp
I often asked myself how to create a fancy 3D Book cover like this one:
I now found out how to do this and I am now working on a video tutorial to explain how you can create fancy 3D book covers like this with Gimp.
Stay tuned.
03/23/2010
New free Gimp course starts April 5
I’m offering a new free Gimp course that will start on April 5th and runs 4 weeks. Check my entry at secondpresentation.com for details.
03/20/2010
Class request forum on my Moodle site
I have added a new forum "class requests" to the Welcome Lounge here on my Moodle site.
If you want to suggest a class or course that you would like to see here on the site, please add a new thread with your suggestion. You can also discuss existing suggestions with the other students or request admission to one of my free classes.
Have fun
Marian
03/04/2010
EVO2010 Video in the Classroom debrief
Here is a 25 minute video of a debrief to the EVO2010 Video in the Classroom.
What is chat roulette?
Did you ever wonder if it's possible to connect to complete strangers via video chat in no time? Watch this cool video about chat roulette.
03/01/2010
Looking for participating students
Rent-a-tutor is still offering free courses on my Moodle site (see this article for details).
Since my first offer, there was not much response. Most people who requested a free course on Gimp did not log in to the Moodle course or did not participate actively in the course. I'm offering stuff that I usually sell for money on mindbites.com, so what I would like to have are students who are willing to participate actively in the courses.
I have also enabled my Moodle site with the opportunity to request a course (you need to create a free account on the Moodle site first), so if you would like to participate in an interactive learning environment, please fell free to suggest a topic that you would like to learn.
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