Discover a straightforward technique for generating polished-looking mats and frames around your images. Learn how to make your photos take on a matte finish, or other interesting textures.Ĭreating virtual mats and frames. Learn a technique to simulate a subtle lighting effect that draws the viewer’s eye to your subject. Learn a technique for adding realistic looking clouds or fog to your images. Learn a powerful, alternative technique for selectively lightening and bringing out detail in shadow areas (dodging) and toning down highlights (burning). Learn how to simulate the look of photographs taken with black and white infrared film. Learn a fast and effective technique for removing hot pixels (dark current noise) from nighttime and long exposure digital camera images. Removing hot pixels and dark current noise. Learn an interesting method to giving photographs a soft, “dreamy” feel. Learn how to achieve the effect of “artistic” film grain in digital camera-based images. Learn how to simulate traditional sepia toning.See the experiment on the effect of the layer mask on the tinting. Learn an effective technique for reducing excessive contrast. Learn how to tweak images with large underexposed areas to appear to have been properly exposed using an digital analogue of this technique.An article I wrote based on this technique was published in the April 2003 edition of Linux Journal.Ĭreating a contrast mask. Savvy photographers often use a neutral density filter to compress the dynamic range of a scene to allow the film or sensor in their camera to properly expose it. Tutorial LinkĪ “digital” split neutral density filter. If you need an introduction to layers and layer masks I recommend that you start with the digital split neutral density filter article. These tutorials use layers and layer masks. Got a picture with a lot of haze? Scanner giving you dull, lifeless images? Try this simple and effective technique for improving the image. Removing haze using local contrast enhancement. A trivially easy way to do sepia, selenium, platinum, palladium, cyanotype and other classic tonings! Learn a dead simple technique for matching the toning of one image in another. Learn how to ameliorate the problem of sensor noise.Ĭlassic B&W toning by sampling other toned images. Digital cameras are prone to sensor noise, the digital counterpart to traditional film’s grain. There are more ways than you think!Note: this has expands upon and supersedes the older Channel Mixer tutorial. Learn a variety of different ways to convert your RGB color images to black and white. New script available to automate the process!Ĭonverting color images to B&W. Learn how to remove the dreaded “red-eye” effect from candid flash photographs.An article I wrote based on this technique was published in the February 2003 edition of Linux Journal. Here are some tips on ramping up to an effective GIMP workflow. New GIMP users transitioning from other image editing programs find the GIMP’s interface spartan and confusing. These tutorials do not assume much prior knowledge. If you are interested in helping, let me know. As I am extremely busy these days, it may take a while. Thanks for your patience while I update the tutorials. All the 1.x tutorials will work in GIMP 2.x if you look for the commands under different menus. Now GIMP 2.x is out and some menus and keybindings have changed. Many of these tutorials were written when GIMP 1.x was the latest version. Even if you use another image editing program such as Photoshop you will find that tutorials apply to that program with only slight modifications.Ĭlick on the picture thumbnail to view the tutorial. These tutorials show step-by-step techniques for accomplishing a variety of photographic “digital darkroom” tasks using the GIMP image editor. GIMP Image Editing Tutorials for Photographers
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