I will probably do some more tutorials in time. I am moving out to vallentuna now and don´t have the time. I am probably one of the on knowing most of Gimp. Still waiting for 2.8 come out.
Gimp is nice and easy to handle, I use it, besides the canon tool which comes with the camera, too. Sometimes it crashes in the middle of work, but most of the time it works quite well.
What you should add to your little b/w tutorial: It is not enough to just put out the color, that is not all you should do when you want a good b/w picture. After desaturation you should go the the colourcurves and change contrasts and brightness so that in every single b/w picture you do you will have at least a small area of pure black and a small area of pure white. The thing is, when you look at b/w pictures, those contain all kinds of greys but are often a not enough contrasted, so to make oit really good, work on the light and the contrasts too.
Alex
You are right that i should do another BW tutorial. I actually use Monomixer from Gegl to do regular BW but this is to check if the photo looks good as BW, but it will not make any good contrast, It will look washed out so all contrast is washed out.
I think i will do one more tutarial as you suggest. Thank you Dictus.
Much better. But what exactly is monomixer and gegl? I have it not in my gimp.
And, sorry for asking, did you do an easy introduction of using different layers in gimp? I always freak out after ten minutes of trying and then I leave it alone...
No problem Gegl is actually the motor that will drive Gimp in 2.8 today at 2.6.6 it is that gimp got two motors. So it is there under Tools now. Later it will be the motor that drives Gimp.
Excellent!
i will be making small screencast about Gimp and you can find almost all info at
http://photoandpictures.com/gimp-free-and-open-source-alternative-to-adobe-photoshop
I also am using Wii you know...looking around at your sites. I am also a user of Linux...
Please keep up the great work!
Gimp is nice and easy to handle, I use it, besides the canon tool which comes with the camera, too. Sometimes it crashes in the middle of work, but most of the time it works quite well.
What you should add to your little b/w tutorial: It is not enough to just put out the color, that is not all you should do when you want a good b/w picture. After desaturation you should go the the colourcurves and change contrasts and brightness so that in every single b/w picture you do you will have at least a small area of pure black and a small area of pure white. The thing is, when you look at b/w pictures, those contain all kinds of greys but are often a not enough contrasted, so to make oit really good, work on the light and the contrasts too.
Alex
I think i will do one more tutarial as you suggest. Thank you Dictus.
And, sorry for asking, did you do an easy introduction of using different layers in gimp? I always freak out after ten minutes of trying and then I leave it alone...
Thank you!
Alex
This is how to vignette http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuR9Yx_7Avs
/Bengt
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