Re: correcting lighting of photos

2000-07-27 Thread Ingo Ruhnke
"clemensF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > how can i "lighten up" the dark parts, leave the good parts alone > and not have it show so much? Have a look at Image->Colors->FilterPack, then select "Value" and select "Shadows" in the "Affected Range" frame. You can then highlight the darker parts of

Re: correcting lighting of photos

2000-07-26 Thread Prasanna Subash
Hi I've tried something before that gave me pretty good results. I had a picture with an over exposed sky. I created an additional layer. Use the gradient tool and made a linear gradient such that it was gray on the top and white on the bottom of the pic. Then I choose "DIVIDE" as the operation

Re: correcting lighting of photos

2000-07-26 Thread Alex Harford
James Smaby wrote: > > Have you tried playing with 'levels'? And especially when it is set to 'shadows' Alex Harford Author of "GIMP Essential Reference" http://www.dowco.com/~alexh

Re: correcting lighting of photos

2000-07-26 Thread Jon Winters
Try adjusting curves! -- Jon Winters http://www.obscurasite.com/ "Everybody loves the GIMP!" http://www.gimp.org/

Re: correcting lighting of photos

2000-07-26 Thread James Smaby
Have you tried playing with 'levels'?

correcting lighting of photos

2000-07-26 Thread clemensF
hi. my father took a picture of a technical device he built, but the lighting was poor and he can't try again. we have a good color digital image, but no negatives, because he borrowed a digital camera to do it. i tried to give the dark parts more light, but it shows too much. i would post an