Re: [Gimp-user] Picking Gray Point in a Photograph and recalling pixel points

2009-06-08 Thread norman
The original tutorial that I was following at http://digital-photography-school.com/precise-color-cast-correction-with-gray-fill-layers had the user add a temporary 50% Gray Layer (7f7f7f), Mode: Difference to find a gray point. I manually picked the point, wrote it down on a piece of

Re: [Gimp-user] Picking Gray Point in a Photograph and recalling pixel points

2009-06-07 Thread laptop
snip Have a look at Sample points dialogue. This looks like it might be it :-) First, I was able to select a sample point per the instructions in the documentation (drag a ruler w/the ctrl key down), but the Sample Points Dialog did not come up. The documentation said it might not,

Re: [Gimp-user] Picking Gray Point in a Photograph and recalling pixel points

2009-06-07 Thread laptop
snip Why would you want to use a sample point for the gray point in the Levels tool? Just click on the Pick gray point eyedropper in the Levels tools and then click on the spot in the image that you want to select as the gray point. This will do what Norman described, just completely

Re: [Gimp-user] Picking Gray Point in a Photograph and recalling pixel points

2009-06-07 Thread DJ
Hi Sven, gimpusers: Second, with the sample point selected, I opened the Levels Tool. I want to use this sample point as the gray point. In the Levels Tool, I clicked the Pick gray point eyedropper, and then went to click on the sample points, but the only thing that happened was the cursor

Re: [Gimp-user] Picking Gray Point in a Photograph and recalling pixel points

2009-06-07 Thread laptop
I think the difficulty is how to decide where the mid-grey point is. Once decided upon then action is easy. I thought the tutorial might have had the answer to that by using the 50% gray layer with Mode: Difference.

Re: [Gimp-user] Picking Gray Point in a Photograph and recalling pixel points

2009-06-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 13:42 -0500, DJ wrote: The original tutorial that I was following at http://digital-photography-school.com/precise-color-cast-correction-with-gray-fill-layers had the user add a temporary 50% Gray Layer (7f7f7f), Mode: Difference to find a gray point. I manually

Re: [Gimp-user] Picking Gray Point in a Photograph and recalling pixel points

2009-06-06 Thread DJ
Hi laptop, gimpusers, I was following this tutorial. http://digital-photography-school.com/precise-color-cast-correction-with-gray-fill-layers I added a 50% Gray Layer (7f7f7f), Mode: Difference. I picked a point that was black, referencing the Pointer Dialog, and jotted down the x/y

Re: [Gimp-user] Picking Gray Point in a Photograph and recalling pixel points

2009-06-05 Thread laptop
I was following this tutorial. http://digital-photography-school.com/precise-color-cast-correction-with-gray-fill-layers I added a 50% Gray Layer (7f7f7f), Mode: Difference. I picked a point that was black, referencing the Pointer Dialog, and jotted down the x/y coordinate found in the

Re: [Gimp-user] Picking Gray Point in a Photograph and recalling pixel points

2009-06-05 Thread laptop
On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 12:24 +0100, laptop wrote: I was following this tutorial. http://digital-photography-school.com/precise-color-cast-correction-with-gray-fill-layers I added a 50% Gray Layer (7f7f7f), Mode: Difference. I picked a point that was black, referencing the Pointer Dialog,

[Gimp-user] Picking Gray Point in a Photograph and recalling pixel points

2009-06-04 Thread DJ
Hi Gimp-user, I was following this tutorial. http://digital-photography-school.com/precise-color-cast-correction-with-gray-fill-layers I added a 50% Gray Layer (7f7f7f), Mode: Difference. I picked a point that was black, referencing the Pointer Dialog, and jotted down the x/y coordinate found in