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Meet the GIMP! – E015: RAW to the rescue! Mini-HDR ;-)

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http://youtu.be/I-ZyPOPARG4

I shot some autumn scenes with a Lensbaby in a very mixed light condition. And I haven’t checked the histogram after this shot. It is the only one with the focus right on spot and a dreamy flair. The leaf in the center was overexposed in the JPG image — blown out highlights ruined the image.

But I had shot in JPG and NEF (Nikon’s RAW) — so I used UFRaw to produce a TIFF file with the right exposure of the leaf and blended it into the image with a layer mask. This is basically the way (pseudo-) HDR works. Take different parts of the image from differntly exposed photographs.

A slight correction with the hue/saturation tool was necessary to adjust the colours. Cropping was done twice — a mistake made a correction necessary. So I covered some advanced options in cropping.

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Meet the GIMP! – E014: Liquid Rescaling, Seam Carving and COWS!

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Liquid Rescaling or Seam Carving — two names for a new way to change the proportions of pictures while keeping the content in shape. The Gimp now has such a plugin and I’ll show you how to use it. COWS? Well, they are important…

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Meet the GIMP! – E013: A Triptych and a Challenge for You!

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Triptychs — and nearly one hour of them. In this episode I’ll show you how to combine three images to one good looking set and get some frames and borders around them. Again a layer mask is used to partially edit a picture with the curves tool.

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