Gimp Plug-in Review: Vintage Photos

A flickr friend of mine (AndYaDontStop – inspiring!) saw the following one of my photos on flickr:

And he, having been obsessed with a Vintage Film action he found recently, tried it on my photo and showed it to me. Because he said “action”, I’m assuming he uses photoshop, but inspired by the image he [...]


Using the Clone Tool in Gimp

I apologize again for the lack of posts, but now that we’re back from vacation and starting to get back into the swing of things, things should get back to normal soon.
A few weeks ago, I posted this photo on my flickr account and mentioned that, among other things, I had cloned out some power [...]


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Things I Learned Shooting a Sunrise

I just got back from our vacation – we had a wonderful time. I’ve barely had time to get my photos off the camera, let alone edit them, so to the three photos you see in this entry are SOOC (Straight Out of Camera), with the exception of converting them from RAW.
On Thursday, I [...]


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Weekend Links

I trusted my point-and-shoot for this photo. And this is probably relatively SOOC, as I know I didn’t even use Gimp at the time, either, though I do remember cropping it.

Autumn is right around the corner – check out DPS’s article on how to capture the colors of autumn.
Speaking of summer being over, Photodoto [...]


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Gimp Plug-in Review: Urban Acid

This week we’re going to look at the Urban Acid plug-in that you can find here. If you don’t remember how to install the plug-ins, go back to this entry for a refresher.
I was curious about this plug-in because I’ve seen a lot of Photoshop users on flickr talk about using an Urban Acid [...]


Gimp 101: Curves II

Ok, I wondered if I went from moving the white point to getting the S-Curve in the previous post too fast.
According to Karyn, I did. So, let’s back track, shall we?
Remember we already moved our black point so our curves looked like this:

And we decided that moving the white point blew out the highlights [...]


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Gimp 101: Curves I

Remember when I talked about Levels? and how you can use it to increase the contrast in your photos?
Well. Get ready to do even more. With Curves!
Remember with Levels, we could adjust the black point, white point and mid-point? With Curves we have the ability to adjust up to 15 points, [...]


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Weekend Links

In honor of John – the only pair of shoes he ever wears
I apologize (again) for the lack of entries this week. John (the boyfriend) got pretty sick this week, and a lot of time has gone into making him feel better. The good news is that he seems to be getting better [...]


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RAW vs Jpg

The very first photo I edited from a RAW file. Looking back, I’d change a lot about it now – mostly the tilted horizon. *shudder* I apologize. This is why looking back to see how much you’ve changed in a year is a good thing.
In a recent entry, Chrisitine asked about shooting in [...]


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Weekend Links

Not quite the magnitude of the fires in California, this fire would give you some great Labor Day food!
Well, I’m sure a lot of you noticed that iffles.com was down from Friday afternoon to Saturday afternoon. I was not geared up for the number of hits I was going to get with the DPS [...]


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