Ignoramus23731 wrote:
> 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/
>
I just can't get used to Gimp. I like PSP 9, does about everything I
will ever need and is easy to use. The stuff shown in these posts can be
accomplished using any of the medium to high end packages.
Dave Cohen
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