I've seen a ton of pictures here with a certain "look" that I love. I'd like to play around with it a little but I'm not sure what to search for online to find a tutorial.
I use Gimp quite a bit. I think the term you're after is "Vintage look". There is a plug in for Gimp to do just that. You can download it from here. If you need help with installing the plugin go here.
Lisa above has hit one term, but this is also commonly known as cross processing. You can achieve it a lot of different ways.
One of the easiest is to hop into your Color Balance dialog and start sliding. You'll see some good dramatic effects in the Shadows and Highlights radio buttons.
You can also get similar effects by opening Curves, and changing the value to red/green/blue and adjusting the curve.
Another quick and easy way is to go to your channels panel, choose a specific channel (green for instance) and open up Brightness/Contrast. Crank up the contrast a bit and see the results.
Top it off with a trip to levels for punchy blacks and whites, and you got a winner.
Hi..I use GIMP quite alot to enhance my photos...What you can actually do is go to YOUTUBE and type in what type of enhancement you are looking to learn, along with the word GIMP. There are alot of tutorials here and if you do a little looking, you'll find the one you need.
The main gimp website (go to documentation), gimpusers.com and GimpGuru.org are also really good resources. GimpGuru is currently moving his site over to Wordpress and is having some migration issues so it may be a while before his tutorials are back up and running.
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I use Gimp quite a bit. I think the term you're after is "Vintage look". There is a plug in for Gimp to do just that. You can download it from here. If you need help with installing the plugin go here.
Hope that helps.
Lisa
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One of the easiest is to hop into your Color Balance dialog and start sliding. You'll see some good dramatic effects in the Shadows and Highlights radio buttons.
You can also get similar effects by opening Curves, and changing the value to red/green/blue and adjusting the curve.
Another quick and easy way is to go to your channels panel, choose a specific channel (green for instance) and open up Brightness/Contrast. Crank up the contrast a bit and see the results.
Top it off with a trip to levels for punchy blacks and whites, and you got a winner.