On 12/24/2011 11:29 AM, phanisvara das wrote: > > thanks, that's useful. i've never thought much about this > vignetting stuff. just was something we did routinely with larger > prints, because the lenses tended to loose light toward the edges. > > the way you describe it, it can be used as a creative tool, not > just subtle final polishing.
Yup, in some photos where the composition is weak and the eye is not naturally drawn to the subject, vignetting can save the image. Other times, a photo that naturally looks like it has already had the effect applied, can be made to "pop out and say WOW" by pushing that effect a tiny bit further. Other times you have to break out the clone and smudge tools and start removing distracting objects... a last resort in most cases. Rarely as I use it, thank God and the developers for the perspective clone tool. And thank Robert A. Heinlein for teaching me that the objective is not a "perfectly accurate" image, but rather, to "fool the eye." :o) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
