* 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.
As others have hinted, I would copy the layer, increase the
saturation or whatever of the whole new layer, add a layer mask
with full transparency, then using whatever brush you want bring
out the cherries by going over them with white (opacity) in the
layer mask. Hope that makes sense.
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