Fixing a photographic distortion in GIMP
Apr 11, 2010 GIMP
The scene: You’ve taken a photo of your latest masterpiece, you’re quite sure the camera was square on with the painting but, having had a look at the photo, you weren’t square on. The camera never lies! 
But it’s OK, we’ll fix it in GIMP.
Here’s the photo I’m starting with:
Tags: color, crop, distortion, fix, GIMP, perspective, photo, photograph, tool
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.
Tags: adobe, color, colour, corrected, correction, foss, free, GIMP, manipulation, open, open-source, photo, photograph, photoshop, repair, source
Creating a comic style speech bubble/balloon in GIMP
Jan 6, 2010 digital
In this tutorial I’m going to show you the easiest way to create a speech balloon, sometimes called a speech bubble, in GIMP.
Left is the panel I’m going to put a bubble/balloon in. In case you’re wondering, the white area is going to be covered by my balloon.
Tags: art, balloon, border, bubble, cartoon, comic, digital, GIMP, icon, layers, magic, menu, select, selection, speech, text, wand, webcomic
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