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A long time ago (2006) the German weekly news magazine "Der Spiegel" had an photo editing competition. According to The Economist, Der Spiegel is one of continental Europe's most influential magazines. The contest was to edit on of four images with Photoshop: https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/fotofaelscher-wettbewerb-wenn-tony-blair-brueste-wachsen-a-438042.html And then I won the contest with GIMP: https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/faelscher-wettbewerb-wie-der-wuestenmann-risse-bekam-a-442309.html Sadly all the images are removed from the original articles, even archive.org has not all the images archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20140111104015/https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/faelscher-wettbewerb-wie-der-wuestenmann-risse-bekam-a-442309.html Luckily I found the images on my hard disk. This was the photo, provides by "Der Spiegel", I chose to manipulate: This was the base image  for my manipulation: ...

Hello my latest little project is a 3D low polygon map. I used Blender and Gimp to create this map: I've started with an elevation map of Europe I found on the website from "The European Environment Agency" (EEA). Thank you EU for this image: http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/elevation-map-of-europe Then I had to cut of the black border with Gimp and created a second image as height map: For this step I converted the image to black and white and then used the curve tool to make the mountains darker. This will make the mountains in the final image higher and easier to discover. Then I used this tutorial to create the 3D image in Blender: http://johnflower.org/tutorial/make-mountains-blender-height-maps But I didn't  subdivide in as many parts than the tutorial ans I haven't smoothed, because I wanted a low polygon look of my image and not a realistic one. After this step I gave the plane the original colour image as textur...

(You can find a English version of the text below.) Ich habe mich beim Libre Graphics Meeting 2014 mit Timelapse Tiltshift Video beschäftigt. Das Ergebnis könnt ihr hier sehen: Für das Video habe ich erst mit meiner Kamera alle 5 Sekunden ein Foto machen lassen. Danach bin ich weitesgehend nach diesem Tutorial vogegangen, um daraus ein Video zu machen: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2022316 Allerdings habe ich nach dem Ändern der Größe der Bilder mit darktable bearbeitet um den tiltshift effect zu bekommen. Hier vielen Dank an houz für dieses Tutorial: https://houz.org/posts/2014/03/13/fake-miniatures-in-darktable/ Nachträglich habe ich noch Musik, und den Titel am Anfang und den Abspan mit Kdenlive hinzugefügt. Die Musik habe ich übrigens von opengoldbergvariations.org . English version: On the  Libre Graphics Meeting 2014 I've discovered how to create a timelapse tiltshift video. You can see the result here:  Fi...

Today I discovered the wonderful videos from Makoto Yabuki . For me it looks like he is trying to bring the Sculptures from Jen Stark to live. The video from Makoto Yabuki: < White Box from makoto yabuki on Vimeo . And a sculpture from Jen Stark:

Sometimes, thinks like this just happens here in old Germany:

An real artist can make art with everything: Elvis Presley Painting with Cheese Puffs on Velvet