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Comment on Vignetting by Eric Jeschke

Eric Jeschke — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:16:28 +0000

Dear OneHouseMouse,
Did you see a little fuzzy black spot in the layer mask after you drew the radial line in the previous step? if not, then you are not clicking on the right icons in the Layers dialog. There are two icons on the layer with the layer mask: one for the image and one for the mask. You click on the mask (right icon) to work on the mask, and click on the left icon to work on the image in the layer itself. After you have drawn the radial gradient and you can see the fuzzy black spot in the layer mask, click on the *other* icon (on the left) to work on the image. Now bring up levels and adjust the middle slider right. You may have to move it quite a bit right to really see the change.

Comment on Vignetting by onehousemouse

onehousemouse — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:37:17 +0000

I must be doing something wrong. Ive gone through the steps in this tutorial 3 ties now and when I get to:

“In the Layers dialog, select the Vignette layer image by clicking on it (you were working on the layer mask, now we want to work on the image itself).Bring up Levels (Image/Colors/Levels) and move the middle slider right until you see the effect you want.”

I see no effect. Nothing at all changes in the image when I am moving the levels around.

I’m confused.

Comment on SimulatedDOF by Eric Jeschke

Eric Jeschke — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 07:21:15 +0000

Rocky,
Are you saying you don’t know where the Decompose menu item is? Take a look under Colors->Components->Decompose. The GIMP developers are forever shuffling the menus. Makes it hard to write documentation…

Comment on SimulatedDOF by rockycutting

rockycutting — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 03:13:51 +0000

Hi there,
I have followed your instructions on simulating shallow depth of field but cant get past mode as the decompose window with the extract channels dos`nt show!
What should I do, thank you.

Comment on Welcome to GIMPGuru v2 by Eric Jeschke

Eric Jeschke — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:17:54 +0000

It’s a bit more work to maintain a static site, and then you often end up having to implement all kinds of features that are already in a hosted blog-like system: dynamic, rolling-off entries, a comment system, etc.

Comment on Welcome to GIMPGuru v2 by Xander314

Xander314 — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 10:06:17 +0000

Out of interest, what made you switch from a static site to WordPress hosting? My programming tutorial site is currently on WordPress.com, but I was considering switching to a static self hosted site in the future.

Comment on SmartSharpening2 by Xander314

Xander314 — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:13:37 +0000

Great tutorial! And great site in general – I’m sorely in need of an in depth GIMP tutorial site such as this.

One little thing: you say we should go to Image -> Mode -> Decompose. For me, in version 2.6.11, I found this under Colours -> Components -> Decompose.

-Xander

Comment on ReplaceForeground by Eric Jeschke

Eric Jeschke — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:09:55 +0000

I’m not sure what a pucker tool or freeze mask tool is so I can’t help you there, but as to the enlarged image question, look into opening a new view on the image and enlarge the window and/or increase the zoom in it. This function is available as “New View” from the View menu.

Comment on ReplaceForeground by Andrew Plesner

Andrew Plesner — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:21:41 +0000

Hi does gimp have pucker tool and freeze mask tool in photoshop. What is the equivalent…Also is it possible to enlarge the image working with the enlarged image when liquifying/iwarping it?

Comment on SampleToning by Spanish girl – Platinum Palladium | Netherlands Expat

Spanish girl – Platinum Palladium | Netherlands Expat — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:02:04 +0000

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