GIMP photo retouching

There’s a whole book of it, Klaus Goelker’s illustrated GIMP 2 for Photographers: Image Editing with Open Source Software. 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)

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.

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.