On 2008-05-30, Michael Soibelman <in-the@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Ignoramus23731 wrote:
>
>> OK, I am VERY hopeful about GIMP now that I got some guidance on
>> cropping keyboard shortcuts. I can see now how I can very quickly crop
>> and rotate pictures. Great. GIMP has matured a lot in the last 10
>> years or so.
>>
>> Two more questions.
>>
>> 1) How do I adjust white balance? If I photograph darkish oily objects
>> (like machine parts) on light background, the images I get are too
>> dark. I would like to make them lighter.
>>
> -> Colors -> Brightness-Contrast
>> 2) How do I adjust red balance? Sometimes a photograph makes objects
>> with some rust on them, look rustier than they really are. I believe
>> that by adjusting red balance, I could address it.
>>
> ->Colors ->Components ->Channel Mixer
> Also ->Colors->Levels or ->Colors ->Curves using a selected channel in
the
> drop down selection of either of these tools allows you to adjust red,
> blue, green or alpha channels.
>
>> I found a color balance tool, but it controls some weird colors
>> instead of white, red, green and blue. What am I missing?
>>
>
> Open the 'Colors' dialog and look at all the tools to see what can be
> done... Opening all the 'Windows' of the 'Filter Pack' filter gives lots
of
> options as well.. Once you learn a few of these tools you'll then
> understand what those 'weird colors' are in the Hue-Saturation tool.
>
>
>
Worked great! Thanks! The intelligent edge selection and brightness
adjustments, will save my ass many times.
I think that I am ready to give up XV for good and switch to GIMP.
Here's the example of a picture that I could easily fix, and
explanation how.
http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/gimp/001/
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