I have never really worked much with levels (in Gimp or anywhere else such as PS) because I've really never gotten the hang of it. So, I was starting through the 'meet the gimp' tutorials (from session 001!!) and realized that part of my problem is that I need to change the mode in order to see the effects of any changes I make to a level (am I correct in that?).
So, one of my most often used tools is the COLORS --> LEVELS tool where I can make quick adjustments to rid my RAW --> TIFF conversions of the general haze they seem to have out of my camera.Generally, pulling in the little carrots a bit from each edge does this for me. I generally always check the AUTO results, but also generally find that adjustment to radical for my liking. In any event, I'm thinking that a more proper way to do this would be to create a 'levels' layer and make the adjustment on that layer. After watching the tutorial, I thought I had it down, but, adding a layer, then trying to adjust levels on the layer still seems to have no effect. What is it that I'm doing wrong? I tried copying the background layer, tried adding a white layer, ran through all the modes on the copy of the background layer, but I still seem lost. Any advice would be appreciated. If you can direct me to a discussion of this topic (or another tutorial) that would be great, too. Thanks in advance. Caruso -- Carusoswi (via www.gimpusers.com) _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
