Red eye reduction - the quickest and most effective is select the red area of the eyes and desaturation (remove the colour). This leaves the eye very close to natural - last 20 years in the photo lab we had a fine tipped green felt pen (indelible) that we when over the red eyes with on the prints.
Maurice -----Original Message----- From: Douglas Royds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 25 May 2005 4:02 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: gimp Nick Rout wrote: > One thing people perhaps have to get used to with open source software > is not only the different programming and distribution models, but the > vastly different support models. You won't just pop into Paper Plus and > buy a "Dummies" book for anything and everything. "Grokking the GIMP" is in fact that book. It's good, it's in the Chch Public Library, and it's available for free on-line (free beer)! Volker Kuhlmann wrote: >>You appear to be unhappy because there is no working point-and-shoot >>solution for colour temperature. You are very likely right. I have equally >>not found a working point-and-shoot red-eye reduction, or certainly, none >>that satisfies me. So I just use the GIMP to do both red-eye and colour >>correction myself. It isn't difficult. > > I would expect a functional "pick white"-type colour correction function > without any question in any decent photo editor. Using the existing > colour correction tools isn't difficult, but somehow the results are not > good. Probably part of it is my fault, but I didn't find a set of > operations which gibe acceptible results, after several tries. I agree. Better scripts - more point-and-shoot - would certainly help the GIMP a lot. >>By the way, I'd also quite like a decent red-eye plug-in, while you're at >>it. > > There's a tutorial on that on gimpguru.org, which at first glance seems > a superb teaching site. However you can't compare a white balance > correction (simple algorithm taking about 2 simple parameters) with red > eye removal (more complicated algorithm with a select-region problem), > which I therefore wouldn't lump under basic functionality. Mightily > handy though if it was there and worked... I'd really just like a point-and-shoot script that sets up the channels and brushes for the user, so that they can wave the brush over the affected eyes. No need for complete automation. Such a script wouldn't be complicated, but is currently at position #649 on my list of things to do. ======================================================================= This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or lost by reason of this transmission. If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no other act on the email. Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been altered or corrupted during transmission. =======================================================================
