[Gimp-user] New book on GIMP 2.2

2005-10-02 Thread Julien Pons
Hello,

Yes, another french book on Gimp 2.2, written by...euuh by me :)

http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2746028565/qid=1128247200/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_0_2/402-7029067-7696112

Released on 10th october.

Thanks to the Gimp team for this incredible software...

Hope to see you at GimpCon in Lyon !
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Perception Nouvelle
Atelier numérique d'arts graphiques et sonores
http://www.p-n.fr
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[Gimp-user] old picture

2005-10-02 Thread mgang

Dear Users,
I am a new user to gimp and have a question regarding an old picture.
It is an old picture of my great-grandfather. The quality of the picture is not
so good and his face is not so clear. Is there any way to make this picture
better with gimp?
As I am new to the are of image processing I hope that it is not a too simple
question.

Thanks in Advance,
Michael




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Re: [Gimp-user] old picture

2005-10-02 Thread Axel Wernicke


Am 02.10.2005 um 19:37 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:



Dear Users,
I am a new user to gimp and have a question regarding an old picture.

Welcome in the GIMP community!

It is an old picture of my great-grandfather. The quality of the  
picture is not
so good and his face is not so clear. Is there any way to make this  
picture

better with gimp?
Sure you can enhance the image with GIMP. But to give you an advise  
is pretty difficult without knowing what problems the image has. Is  
there any way you can provide this online at an webpage of your  
choice (please not as attachement to the list)?
In general you can remove noise, add sharpness, restore colors and so  
on.


As I am new to the are of image processing I hope that it is not a  
too simple

question.
No its not - keep asking. By the way please note, that sharpening  
should be the very last step in the chain of enhancements.




Thanks in Advance,
Michael


Greetings, lexA





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Re: [Gimp-user] old picture

2005-10-02 Thread Axel Wernicke


Am 02.10.2005 um 19:37 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:




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Thanks in Advance,
Michael



I forgot something important: have a look at the GIMP tutorial page:  
http://gimp.org/tutorials/index.html#Photo
There are lots of step by step examples which might give you some  
inspiration what you can do with GIMP to enhance your photo.


Greetings, lexA





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Re: [Gimp-user] old picture

2005-10-02 Thread michael chang
On 10/2/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I am a new user to gimp and have a question regarding an old picture.

Welcome!

 It is an old picture of my great-grandfather. The quality of the picture is 
 not
 so good and his face is not so clear. Is there any way to make this picture
 better with gimp?

I believe there are a great many ways of accomplishing this; various
filters and settings have interesting effects that you might want to
play around with.  The kinds of improvements necessary would be
helpful.  Finally, you may wish to note that there are also various
other ways of 'correcting' pictures; IIRC, Google's Picasa (for
Windows) had a pretty simple interface if you simply need really basic
photo correction.

 As I am new to the are of image processing I hope that it is not a too simple
 question.

Nonsense; so long as a question is asked politely and with proper
spelling and grammar, there should be almost no such thing as too
simple of a question.

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Re: [Gimp-user] old picture

2005-10-02 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 08:37:37PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 I am a new user to gimp and have a question regarding an old picture.
 It is an old picture of my great-grandfather. The quality of the picture is 
 not
 so good and his face is not so clear. Is there any way to make this picture
 better with gimp?

for this particular problem, i suggest playing with the levels tool.  i
wrote about the tool here:
http://carol.gimp.org/gimp2/photography/clarity/

i have a question, is the photograph in good condition, just faded with
age?  i ask because repairs can be made with the clone tool can be
invaluable for this sort of repair work.  practice helps to be able to
use it -- select a brush and ctl-click on a similar portion of the image
then use the brush with the clone tool to cover over repairs.  you can
even do this on another layer so that you always have the original
easily within view.  there are other things the clone tool can do, like
cover with different percentages of transparency.  each image needs
different types of repair and there is no set way to fix all images.

be sure to work on a copy and don't be afraid to use the layers.

it sounds like the photograph is in good condition, just faded with age.
the levels tool can be used to make those old color photographs that
acquired the redish cast over time (i think no one knew this would
happen when they first started to take color photographs here in the
united states).  near the upper portion of the levels dialog is a radio
menu that by default works on the Values Levels, but you can opt to work
on Red, Green or Blue (and others) if some color correction is needed.

 As I am new to the are of image processing I hope that it is not a too simple
 question.
 

this actually is one of the more interesting questions i have seen in a
while.  thank you for asking it.

carol

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