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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
You may have noticed that I wrote an entry this week for Digital Photography School entitled 7 Photography Projects to Jumpstart your Creativity. This led to some questions in the comments of that entry, as well as some new visitors here to iffles.com and instead of writing about Curves (again, I’m sorry if anyone [...]
If you remember from last week we left off with the Diffusion Filter. As a reminder, here’s the original image we’re working with:
Also, I took a suggestion from commenter Laura and I’m going to show both the original and the changed in side-by-side so you don’t have to scroll… now the way I did [...]
This week’s gimp plug-in is actually a suite of plug-ins called FX-Foundry. Their website, I felt, was lacking. No screenshots, examples, or how-tos, but it seemed to be a popular tool in the GIMP Users group on flickr, so I thought I’d give it a shot.
Anyway, you can download the suite by clicking [...]
