Initiation GIMP & Inkscape, Ghent, autumn 2019
03 December 2019
General context
Following software will be used:
- GIMP 2.10 (http://www.gimp.org/downloads/)
- Inkscape 0.92 (https://inkscape.org/en/download/)
A laptop will be provided to each participant.
- This course is free for VIB participants
- Registration fee for non-VIB academics is 50 euro.
- This course is not open for industry.
- Note that upon no show without valid justification you will be blacklisted for the VIB training program for 1 year. Click here for more information.
- This course is also organized in Leuven, click here for more information.
Trainers
Christof De Bo
Program
Introduction
During this introduction you learn the basics about images and figures; what is the difference between bitmap and vector, what is resolution, what is pixel density. The most popular image file types are explained and when/how to use compression. VIB (like many others) has a guideline document about scientific image manipulations and ethical concepts.
GIMP (prepare images for publication)
- Open image files
- Image Properties
- Using selections
- Cropping
- Transforming
- Using Layers
- Contrast & brightness
- Saving/Exporting/compressing images
- Video tutorials on YouTube
- Exercises
Inkscape (annotate plots and images, create figures, diagrams, schemes, ...)
- Open/Import image files
- Drawing/Editing lines
- Path propeties (nodes, segments)
- Arrows
- Fill/stroke properties
- Undo/redo
- Aligning and distributing objects
- Z-order
- Text and text options
- Live path effects
- Saving/Exporting drawings
- Video tutorials on YouTube (infographics)
- Exercises
Practical info
Bio-Accelerator Meeting Center Ghent
Technologiepark 21
9052 Zwijnaarde
Belgium
Bio-Accelerator Meeting Center Ghent
At Gent St Pieters station you can take the following city buses: Buses 70, 71 and 72 ("Tramstraat"). You get off at the stop marked "Bollebergen" (on the Grote Steenweg Noord). The Technology Park is straight in front of you on the other side of the soft verge.
There is also a shuttle bus from Gent-Sint-Pieters, more information can be found here.
Bio-Accelerator Meeting Center Ghent
There is free parking available in front of the building.
Bio-Accelerator Meeting Center Ghent
+32 9 328 19 02
info@bio-accelerator.com