Creating Slide Images
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| 1 | =Notes for Creating Slide Images (Using Gimp)= | |||
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| 3 | These notes describe how to quickly generate slides for the VHub slideshow module (showing on the main page). Note that they use Gimp for processing. | |||
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| 5 | # Obtain source image (free, no copyright restrictions) | |||
| 6 | # Open in Gimp (these instructions refer to menus/options under Gimp 2.6) | |||
| 7 | # Select -> All | |||
| 8 | # Use rectangular selection tool, then "Image -> Crop to Selection" for rough resizing (desired final size is about 650x350 pix) | |||
| 9 | # Image -> Scale Image to get final height (preserving aspect ratio is sometimes desirable) | |||
| 10 | # Filters -> Decor -> Round | |||
| 11 | # Uncheck drop shadow and new layers, keep work on copy if you like | |||
| 12 | # Radius = 25 looks pretty decent | |||
| 13 | # Select -> All in copy | |||
| 14 | # right-click, Select -> Shrink (20 pix is good) | |||
| 15 | # right-click, Select -> Feather (match above size in a.) | |||
| 16 | # right-click, Select -> Invert | |||
| 17 | # right-click, Edit -> Clear | |||
| 18 | # Add text field for caption & attribution in lower left corner (e.g. Sarychev Peak, Kuril Islands 2009-06 (NASA)) | |||
| 19 | # I have been using default 18pt bold Sans font | |||
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| 21 | - | Once the slide is ready you can put it in the slide repository (if you have administrative access to VHub) by logging in to www.vhub.org/administrator and using the file browser in the slideshow folder of Site->Media Manager. |
+ | Once the slide is ready you can put it in the slide repository (if you have administrative access to VHub) by logging in to http://www.vhub.org/administrator and using the file browser in the slideshow folder of Site->Media Manager. |