A ship in the fog -

The third video starts a walk through a postprocessing of an image. It covers anylyzing with the histogram and the colour picker, rotating and cropping it following the Rules of Thirds.

I start with answering the first comment I got Smile and show some ways how to get the GIMP 2.3 for different operating systems.

Then I begin to work at an image of a ship coming down the river Weser on a foggy morning. The image is mostly gray and very low in contrast. As this was shot in RAW, it is possible to get something usuable out of it. You get a lecture about the difference of 256 steps between black and white in JPEG and why the 4096 steps in RAW are better.

(I assume a JPEG out of the camera would be a bit better. The camera does some post processing while saving the image.)

I show how to access the menues of the GIMP in three different ways, how to analyze an image with the histogram tool and the colour picker, how to rotate an image just a little bit and how to crop it using the Rule of Thirds (not a LAW - but a nice rule of thumb) to get an aesthetic result. And I nearly forgot to save the image in GIMP’s native image format - XCF.

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