GIMP photo retouching
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There’s a whole book of it, Klaus Goelker’s illustrated [amazonify]1933952032::text::::GIMP 2 for Photographers: Image Editing with Open Source Software[/amazonify]. Here’s a collection of online GIMP tutorials, articles and sites for retouching and improving digital photographs.
The OSP Wiki is a wikified collection of tutorials on open source photography. [flickr group] [to.org/index.php/GIMP”>tutorials]
torials/ReducingCCDNoise/”>reducing CCD noise (should be always done to reduce noise in images, esp. indoor and low-light shots)
torials/CosmeticRetouch/”>cosmetic retouching [torials/”>more]
to.nicubunu.ro/portraits_touch-up_gimp/”>retouching portraits (using the “healing” tool to fix skin tones and blemishes)
[amazonify]1933952032:right[/amazonify]
tos.org/simple-steps-to-photo-touch-up/”>post-processing an image with curves, giving a “glowing” effect, softening the light (good for portraits & people shots)
“airbrush a pretty girl” tutorial on smoothing skin, removing blemishes, using blurs and changing colors [tography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=171753”>archive]
torials/SampleToning/”>sampling toned images (make your digital images look like great b/w film or with sepia tones)
torials/BlurOverlays/”>gaussian blur overlays
See the Gimp users group on Flickr.
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to.ns.ca/~rakerman/digiphoto.html”>Outline of digital photography techniques.
“A Photographer’s Guide to Image Sizing”
“Snatchify” a photo image.
A high-pass filter torials/Sketch_Effect/”>sketch effect (turn a photo of a person or object into a drawing)
torials/Perlotine/”>Using Perl-O-Tine to slice and cut an image for putting in a web layout.
Use photos to make textured image backgrounds.