For you, Heather!
My favorite Gimp’s:
Ok so you have noticed there is a TON to do in Gimp and Photoshop. I love Gimp ‘cause its free and have most everything I need. If you have anything you want to specifically do I am sure I can type up directions for you but for now I will stick with the ones I use the most.
Here is an example of a picture taken straight out of the camera. And not my good camera either. This was taken with my Nikon Coolpix (thanks dad!)
The picture is cute but it cool look better. Let’s play with it shall we?
Red Eye:
Sophie has a massive case of red eye in this picture so I am going to remove that.
1- Select your lasso tool
2- Next to “MODE” you will see the picture of 1 box is selected. Go ahead and click the box next to it with the 2 red squares. This will let us lasso both eyes at once.
3- Click the box to put a check mark next to “Feather Edges” and change to 5. This will soften the edges of your selected region so you don’t get harsh lines.
4- Click various spots around the eye pupil. You will see a line appear around the eye were you click. Once you make the whole pupil, reclick the first dot to close off the circle. You should see a dotted line around the pupil now. Do this for both eyes.
5- Go to Color>Desaturate>(box will pop up with LIGHTNESS selected) OK. This will turn the pupil gray.
6- Go to Color>Contrast and you will get a pop up. Move the contrast bar up (positive numbers in the box to the right) until you get the blackness you think looks right.
7- Go to Select>None.
Now, your eyes are no longer red! I prefer this method bc it leaves the light spot in the pupil from the reflective on the flash.
Eye Color Pop:
I like to pop the color of the eyes in some of my pictures. Here is an easy way to do this.
1- Use the same steps as above to select the eyes (if you have trouble selecting, remember you can zoom in close to the eye!)
2- Go to Color> Hue Satuartion> and toggle the saturation bar up. With eyes, a little goes a long way. I usually only move mine up +10
3- Go to Color>Contrast> Move the contract bar up. Again a little goes a long way.
4- Go to Filter> Enhance> Unsharpen Mask- you will see a pop up box with a preview. Adjust all 3 toggles until you have the eyes the way you like them and hit ok. Again- a little goes a long way.
5- Select>None
Dingy Picture fix:
This is a quick way to make the picture brighter. The original wasn’t bad but it was a little yellow. This brightens it up
1- Select the eye dropped tool. Find a place on the picture that should be white (I like eyes or teeth but teeth can be iffy if the subject doesn’t have white teeth to begin with)
2- Once you have the color picked from your white spot (you can see it on the Tool Box window), create a new layer.
a. In the Layers, Channels and Paths window you will see your picture. It is layer. If you go to the bottom of the white box your picture layer is in you will see what looks like a white piece of paper. Click on this and a box will pop up. Make sure “Transparency” is marked and hit ok and it will create a transparent layer over your picture layer.
3- From your tool box window, select the tool that looks like a paint bucket pouring paint. Then click on your picture window. This will fill that transparent window with the color from the color picker (you will only be able to see the color you filled)
4- In the Layers window, right under the word “Layers” at the top you will see “MODE” and it will say Normal and to the right on Normal will be a drop down menu. Might sure your filled layer is selected (not your picture layer), then use the drop down menu to select Divide.
5- You should now see your picture and it should be brighter!
6- If it looks unnatural (some times does), make sure your fill layer is selected then place with the opacity slider on the top of the Layer windows. This will make the top layer more and more translucent the far down you slide it!
Lastly, here is a link to a Gimp Tutorial page where you can find more info!
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