Ronnie Tucker – Pet, Wildlife & Portrait Artist.

Colour correction on your photographs using GIMP

Apr 10, 2010 GIMP

In this quick tutorial we’ll colour correct a bad photograph. But, first things first:

What on earth is GIMP?

GIMP is a free, open source, image manipulation tool which runs on Windows and Linux. Think of it as a (genuinely!) free version of Adobe Photoshop. Many people think GIMP isn’t as powerful as Photoshop, they’re wrong. If Photoshop can do it, GIMP can do it. Grab GIMP from: http://gimp.org

GIMP is installed, now what?

OK, here’s out starting image:

A purposely bad photograph that we can easily fix. Well, it’s pretty obvious that it’s kinda blurry and it’s not exactly bursting with colour. But we’ll fix that.

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Free Christmas card design to print out and send to friends!

Nov 22, 2009 art, pastel

Who says that nothing in life is free? Well, my Christmas Card design is free!

A preview of my Christmas Card design, which uses my Rockin' Robin pastel painting.

So, here’s the design (click the image below to get the full LARGE image):

My Christmas card design, click the image above to get the full size image for printing.

All you need to do is print one (or two) of the design per A4 page, cut them out, and fold them. Easy peasy!

Tags: card, christmas, cut, design, fold, free, print, robin, xmas