Getting Around in GIMP - Black and White Conversion (Part 1) This is a long topic, so to keep you from wanting to put your eyes out with a spoon, I've tried to break things up a bit. In this first part, I'll look at using the GIMP Desaturate command to reduce your images to grayscale and to hopefully shed some light on just how the options calculate exactly what level of gray each pixel should be.B&W photography deserves a much longer look than I can afford to bore you with here.
However, there are a few things I would like to focus on in regards to preparing your images for B&W. Aspens (no title), Ansel Adams (© The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust) What you want to keep in mind is that by removing the color information you have effectively left yourself with only tonal data (and composition) to convey your intentions.
This can be both liberating, and confining. By liberating yourself of color data, you can focus much more clearly on the subjects and composition with whats left. Tonality Contrast Dynamic Range The Approach Hello. Or 203, 70, 198. SimulatedDOF « GIMP Guru. SimulatedDOF One of the facts of life of shooting with consumer digicams and their associated small imaging sensors is that it can be difficult to achieve a shallow depth of field. Having large depth of field is usually a good thing, leading to pictures in which all of the important parts of the picture are in focus. But sometimes you really want shallow depth of field to isolate a subject against a blurred background, as is often done in e.g. portraiture. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to simulate a shallow depth of field using image editing techniques.
It is painstaking enough that it is no substitute for having camera equipment that is capable of the job. Nevertheless, it can be useful in rescuing the occasional picture. The Procedure As with many of the other tutorials on this site, the beauty of this method is in the use of layers. Tips You can fine-tune (lessen) the effect of the blur by adjusting the opacity of the blurred layer in the Layers dialog.
For Further Reading Like this: Fix hot dead pixel with Gimp. Remove Noise in a photo or image. This tutorial is a manual for fixing the noise of pixels with Gimp. Some woman are using Gimp to remove, adjust, fix and correct the hot pixel noise in an digital image or photo portrait. Author Moris Garon for Gimps.de with Photo Editing Software Gimp. Translation Ramar Wolfenstein. « Gimp tutorials for photos Pixels make Errors too The Gimps.de definition for pixel defines a graphic pixel as the smallest spot, point or unit of an digital image.
Even the best digital camera can not prevent pixel errors. Dead Pixel Test You can make a dead pixel test by viewing a gray color area on a TFT display, LCD TV or a photo picture from a digital camera. Try to return the TFT monitor, the LCD TV display or the photo camera back to the store, if the digital device has too many defect pixels, because only a lottery winner can repair dead, stuck or defect pixel. Gimp for pixel art Talented woman are using Gimp as a free pixel software, a program and a graphic tool for pixel art. Correct hot pixels manually. HDR photos with the GIMP. A tutorial on making High Dynamic Range photos using the GIMP or similar software. This instructable is aimed at a range of people, so you can skip to the bits relevant to you with the information below. I apologise for the verbosity of the main instructions, but I figure you can skip parts you already understand, and I may as well put in the detail for people who don't.
If you don't know what High Dynamic Range (HDR) is or how it works, read on.If you are comfortable with the concept of HDR and want to know how to do it in photo editing software, go to step 3If you are familiar with the process of making HDR images and just want details of how to do it in the GIMP, go to step 4If you are familiar with the interface of the GIMP and just want a quick set of instructions on how to make HDR (for instance if the theory bores you and you just want to make some HDR images), go to the recap stage in step 10. The details of each step are in... the relevant step. Gimp Tutorial – advanced photo separation | BlackMoon Design.
One of the most common tasks I do with Gimp is to seperate a part of the photograph, so I can use it in my Flash projects later. At first I had problems when it came to a objects with hairs – fortunately I’ve learnt quite easy way how to do it. So – here it is. We’ll use this nice photo to demostrate it. The whole object (I mean the girl and the horse) is pretty easy to cut out with pen or similar tool – but the horses’ tail might be a little tricky.
Let’s start from duplicating the first layer. Then we choose Desaturate option from menu Color, so duplicated layer becomes black&white. Than we change Brightness and Contrast levels. We go back to the orginal layer and choose Add Layer Mask option from right-click menu. Effect is totally opposite to what we really wanted to do;) So we choose Invert option from menu Color. We make another copy of the orginal layer. There’s some grass visible on the bottom – we change this part of mask layer to solid black. Final effect: Gimp tutorials for Photo Editing of images, pictures, photos. Tutorials in this section of Gimps.de may help photographing woman to use the Photo Software Gimp in order to improve, retouch, fix or correct pictures, portraits and images of people, cats, dogs or horses. « back Remove, retouch red eyes with Gimp. Pictures and images with red eyes of people or shining eyes of animals often look scary, demoniacal and unattractive.
This tutorial reveals how to retouch, remove or correct red eyes with Gimp in a picture, image or photo. Retouch red eyes with Gimp » Improve, retouch and correct eyes with Gimp. The eyes are the most important part of the face. Change the natural eye color This tutorial explains how to change the natural eye color with Gimp in an image, photo or picture without to order a free soft colored contact lens by mail or to buy a cheap plastic surgery online. Smooth skin care with Gimp Teeth whitening with Gimp Pictures and photos of faces with bright white teeth smile are looking more attractive to most people. Fix hot pixel noise.