In a lot of the tutorials I’ve done so far, I’ve had you change the blend mode of layers – we’ve used overlay quite a bit, for instance.
There’s a number of different layer blend modes and I’m going to do my best to explain them all here. I do not consider myself an expert. [...]
What’s the first thing you notice about the above picture? I’m guessing it’s either the colors or the texture. Adding a texture to an image can completely change the way it feels – often making an ordinary photo look a bit more vintage or retro.
Adding a texture in Gimp is actually quite easy [...]
I usually try to pick a photo for these Weekend Links that somehow matches one of the links. This has nothing to do with the links, it’s just an old photo of mine that I like for no good reason.
Oh dear. I’m getting later and later in posting these. My first excuse (and [...]
I’ve recently gone through a bit of a rut when it comes to my photography – feeling unmotivated to take pictures, and when I do, just feeling rather “meh” about the results. And so, here’s my list of suggestions on what to do when this happens to you.
1. Look through your old photos
Chances [...]
One of today’s links is about how to get photos of a burning match. While this isn’t a match, it’s definitely burning… and it’s making me miss summer cookouts already.
Well, the weekend is still not over (at least, not here in Ohio), so I’m not exactly late with this post.
Here’s some stuff I read [...]
I recently discovered something really cool in the FX-Foundry plug-in pack for Gimp. Have you ever taken a photo that was exposed properly for the sky, but then everything in the foreground was really dark? Or you exposed properly for your subject but the sky was blown out? Like… say, this photo:
This [...]
As I warned, I’ve been making some changes around here – nothing too major, so hopefully nothing threw you off too much. When I started this website, I knew I was doing a lot of Bad Practices, but I was more interested in getting up and running and didn’t feel like fixing my mistakes, [...]
Hey look! I’m not breaking a promise! I told you I’d write later this week about how to smooth skin using the High Pass Filter – and I AM!
In the last entry, I talked about using either the Unsharp Mask or High Pass Filter to sharpen a photo, which is incredibly useful. [...]
One thing that all photographers really strive for are sharp photos – crisp edges that take your breath way. Obviously things like tripods and fast shutter speeds help give you sharp photos, but sometimes we all need a little help getting a sharper photo after-the-fact.
The most popular way of sharpening photos in Gimp is [...]
This entry isn’t so much about composition “rules” like the last composition entry was, but more about things to keep in mind when composing your shots.
The Background
It’s very easy to concentrate so much on what you’re taking a picture of, that you forget to notice what’s in the background, for instance, this photo of my [...]
