The curves tool is a very basic tool that can be used to improve photos with a few clicks of the mouse. It is used to change the brightness and contrast of an image. It can also modify the separate Red, Green and Blue channels of an image too. The Curves Tool has a histogram [...]
2007Wed06Jun
Children at play
Filed in Canon 20D, Cork, Fermoy, Gimp Tutorials, Ireland, Look up, Photos, Sigma 10-20, Signs, Sky, UrbanChildren at play A sign in Fermoy, Co. Cork warns motorists to watch out for kids playing on the road. I’ve seen so many people speed through built up areas these signs mean absolutely nothing to them. Technique: 1. Original image was flat and plain. Background sky was monotonous so I ran it through auto-levels [...]
2007Sat26May
Adam and his baby soother
Filed in Blarney, Canon 20D, Cork, Gimp Tutorials, Ireland, People, Photos, Sigma 18-200, TutorialsAdam and his baby soother Adam is 5 weeks old today! Last Wednesday we saw his first smile, or perhaps it was trapped wind because he was just after feeding but it was a beautiful sight to behold. He has smiled since too, and was especially cheerful this morning! Adam loves his baby soother though. [...]
2006Tue05Dec
First Draft: Ready to go!
Filed in Abstract, Architecture, California, Candid, Canon 20D, First Draft, Gimp Tutorials, People, Photography, San Francisco, Sigma 10-20, Tutorials, United States, Urban, Vehicles, WordsJohn asked what did he original Ready to go! look like and I’ll oblige now. Showing what the original photo looks like is akin to showing what the first draft of a written essay or post reads like. Sometimes the image comes out perfectly in the camera but that’s rarely the case. At the very [...]
Jakub ‘jimmac’ Steiner has published several demos of the GIMP in action. Subjects such as defining shortcuts, image templates, transformations and paths and more are covered. Use the mirrors, because I haven’t downloaded the videos myself yet!
2005Wed19Oct
Simple steps to photo touch-up
Filed in Gimp, Gimp Tutorials, Photography, Tutorials, WordsIn this post I’m going to show you how to go post-process this image: By the end, we’ll have an image that looks like this: This tutorial was created using the GIMP, but it’s equally applicable to your favourite editing software as long as it has the same tools. Photoshop, and other editing software should [...]
