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As the title identifies, I’ll be using the image editor GIMP to demonstrate the Threshold and Color to Alpha tools. If you don’t already have a copy, head over to GIMP.org and download one. it’s free which is why I use it . This is what we’re shooting for: Threshold Last week, I posted about a computer meltdown and a reinstall of software including trying to find the GIMP plugins I was using. After finding them and another cool suite of plugins, a twitter mate of mine @alastair_hm commented that he like the Orton Effect plugin. This plugin is located in the Gimphelp.org suite and [...] I’ve had a computer melt down. My main computer’s power supply turned off the lights and now no one’s home. The laptop had a failing HDD. I replaced the HDD in the laptop but had to leave the big computer with someone else to repair the power supply. After replacing the laptop HDD I’ve had [...] I decided that it had been far too long since I had pulled out the ol’ camera and took some shots. I walked around this morning with my daughter and took a few experimentals. While editing them on my favorite editing software, the GIMP, I accidentally choose the Threshold option. This gives a very stark [...] This was a little project inspired once again by Chica’s Photo Projectz site. The challenge was to “Take a photo you like… and play around with it in your favorite editing program to come up with a heavily filtered look that you feel adds to the image and leaves you with an entirely different (when compared [...] I would like to respectfully acknowledge Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation who are the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land I currently reside. The use of traditional Australian Aboriginal painting techniques and symbols have opened a new vista to artistic expression for me when combined with deep space images. Using traditional symbols, the image depicts [...] I have started experimenting with combining my love of art, especially indigenous art, with my photography. Using the GIMP, I edited one of my old photos of a butterfly garden decoration. I removed the background to the butterfly and tweeks the image curves to produce an image with nice stark contrasting lines and no background. Using [...] I mentioned in my last the GIMP tutorial, Opensource Digital Photo Processing for Novice Photographers, that I’d explore some of the more advanced features of GIMP editing later on. Using the Color>Threshold tool wouldn’t be what I call advanced by it was a tool that I didn’t mention earlier. I neglected to cover it [...] or Makin’ good pictures with little experience and money Camera Any digital camera will work. I have used, and continue to use, a number of digital cameras(Canon A340 Powershot, Canon A640 Powershot and a Canon EOS 400D). I still play around with the first one I bought over four years ago. It’s a boxy [...] |
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