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Luminosity Masking: The Light & Dark Side
Posted by kasrak on Feb 25, 2007 into RetouchingThis tutorial will show you how to use luminosity masking to recover lost highlight and shadow detail in your photographs.
Basic Photo Retouching
Posted by kasrak on Feb 17, 2007 into RetouchingA few pointers on how you can enhance and retouch just about any photo using the GIMP.
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Cosmetic Retouching
Posted by kasrak on Jan 7, 2007 into RetouchingIn this tutorial I'll show you some general techniques for cosmetic retouching. In particular: adjusting skin tone (removing redness), whitening teeth, removing blemishes, removing dark circles under the eyes, removing or smoothing lines and wrinkles and smoothing skin texture (e.g. pores, bumps, etc.)
Soft Focus Portraiture
Posted by kasrak on Jan 7, 2007 into RetouchingI'm sure you've seen examples of "soft focus" portraiture, used to lend a soft, slightly hazy, "dreamy" feel to a photograph. In this tutorial I'll show you how to accomplish this easily with the GIMP.
Removing Dark Noise
Posted by kasrak on Jan 7, 2007 into RetouchingLearn a fast and effective technique for removing hot pixels (dark current noise) from nighttime and long exposure digital camera images.
Creating a Neutral Density Filter
Posted by kasrak on Jan 7, 2007 into RetouchingIn this tutorial I'll show you how to create a "digital" neutral density (ND) filter for your image in The GIMP. These filters have the effect of reducing the exposure over part of the image being taken in either a graduated or abruptly graduated (split) way.
Removing Haze
Posted by kasrak on Jan 7, 2007 into RetouchingHere's a simple technique you can use to improve (if not eliminate) problem haze of both varieties in your photographs.
Smart Sharpening
Posted by kasrak on Jan 6, 2007 into RetouchingThis technique does two "smart" things to avoid sharpening noise: sharpens only the luminosity data in the image, thus avoiding shifts to the hue and saturation components (which affect color), and targets only the edges in the image, avoiding large smooth areas that may contain noise.
Reducing CCD Noise
Posted by kasrak on Jan 6, 2007 into RetouchingImages captured by a CCD or CMOS imaging chip will often have some noise present. This noise typically can be seen as RGB "flecks", especially noticable in the in the shadow areas of an image.This tutorial will help you improve the image.
Red Eye Removal Using Channels
Posted by kasrak on Dec 28, 2006 into RetouchingA method to somewhat get rid of red eye in your photographs by using channels and the Dodge and Burn tool.
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