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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
The Gimp is a very powerful piece of software and it can take quite some time to figure out all the little things it can do for you to help make your photo editing routine easier. I know some of these things might seem a bit obvious, but I didn’t notice them all at [...]
This photo was taken on a trail that you can find using the last link below
Here’s the weekend round-up of links!
All the tutorials I write on this site are for The Gimp, but if you use Photoshop, you might be interested in this: A-Z of Free Photoshop Plugins and Filters
If you are using Gimp, you [...]
One of the hardest things to take a picture of, in my opinion, is anything with parallel lines. Why? Because it’s so hard to get them to stay parallel in your photos. This is really obvious in photos of one of my favorite things: brick walls. There’s something so simple and [...]
I take all my photos in color. But I’m in love with a good black and white photo now and then.
You might be thinking, “oh, c’mon iffles, I’m not that stupid, I saw the Desaturate in the Colors menu. I know that makes it black and white! I don’t need your help!” And, [...]
