This might be helpful in getting a handle on curves and blending (skin) tones: http://blog.patdavid.net/2012/07/getting-around-in-gimp-more-color.html
If you need an intro, there's also this: http://blog.patdavid.net/2012/06/getting-around-in-gimp-color-curves.html On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Madeleine Fisher <animatrix1...@gmail.com>wrote: > I think one of the first things to check out is the Colors menu on the top > file bar. There are lots of options: > > Color Balance (changes c, m, y in midtones, highlights, and shadows) > Hue-Saturation (you can shift around the colors in a selection) > Colorize (Makes everything different shades of a single color--can create a > sepia effect, for example) > Brightness-Contrast > Threshold (makes everything either black or white) > Levels > Curves > > The last two options are REALLY useful for fine-tuned changes, but they can > be kind of difficult to understand. Just play around with them and you'll > get the hang of it. > > Good luck! > > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:20 PM, pfaoro <for...@gimpusers.com> wrote: > > > My hobby, if it can be called that, is creating comic images of > > individuals by > > combining two unrelated images into one. EXAMPLE: Placing the head of > my > > brother-in-law on the body of Quasimodo (the Hunchback of Notre Dame). > > > > I'm totally new with GIMP and I've figured out a good bit, such as using > > the > > magnetic lasso to copy-paste a selection from one image into another, > but > > I > > can't figure out how to match skin tones and resolutions so the result > > appears > > to be a single image. At best, I can get close but not at all close > > enough. > > > > Can somebody point me in the right direction, at least to identify the > > tools I > > should be using? > > > > I'm by no means a techie, so please be gentle with me :-) > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- > > pfaoro (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) > > _______________________________________________ > > gimp-user-list mailing list > > List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > > > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > -- pat david http://blog.patdavid.net _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
