Re: Gimp replacement for Photoshop Sponge Tool

measekite wrote:

> 
> 
> Ricky Rudolph wrote:
>> Arthur T. wrote:
>>> In Message-ID:<zPN%j.2882$jI5.1887@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>> measekite <inkystinky@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> Photoshop has a sponge tool.  Does anyone know if Gimp has a similar
>>>> tool or some work around that does the same thing?
>>>
>>>      If you want to know if GIMP can do something, DESCRIBE that
>>> something.
>>
>> The sponge tool in Photoshop works like the dodge/burn tool in GIMP,
>> except that it increases or decreases the color saturation (as opposed
>> to the lightness) of the area under the brush.
> That is what I wanted to do; increase the color saturation so to speak.
> The photo was cherries hanging from a cherry tree.  The color of the
> cherries was a medium red and I wanted them to be more of a deeper candy
> red.  I could not find a Gimp tool to do this and do not feel like
> rebooting my machine to Windows.

If that's what you want to do then in the hue-saturation dialog pick the
red
channel by clicking  in the circle next to red and then saturate that
color
by sliding the saturation bar to the right until you get the desired
saturation.