On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 17:45:27 +0000 John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Todd Slater wrote: > > >On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 15:05:54 +0000 > >John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <x> > > > >Can't help with regards to Konq, but do you do editing in Gimp? If not, > >convert en masse could save you a lot of clicks. > > > >Todd > > > > > > > Yes, maybe I ought to. I use gimp mainly because these old photos need a > lot of repair work, If scanning from a colour negative, the scanner > automatically > converts the image from the colour negative to a colour positive. Fine. > but in so doing you soon take a look at the result and notice straight > away how the dyes have faded over the years, the yellow pigment goes > first, then red , and the images is week and positively blue hued. Not > to worry gimp has the right handy dandy device , in image - colour - > auto - equalise, and hey presto thecolours are all back, not perfectly > balanced but darn near there, and with the other colour manipulation > devices you put the finishing touches, to the colour balance , hue, > saturation and size of image. Great. > > So you see I need to work on the images a lot. Standardised commands > are fine with new colour photos where everything is just so. > > John John, I use the curves and levels adjustments in Gimp for color correction for my digital camera. The nice thing about it is that you can save the adjustment for later use. I only need to use one, because the color is only bad for indoor flash photos. I open the picture, load the adjustment and done. I've had more luck with this than other adjustments but of course YMMV. Todd -- Todd Slater Mandrake Newbie mailing list help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=help> Got a great Mandrake-Linux tip bookmarked? Send it to me and I'll include it in my newbie tips fortune file!
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