New Photo Editor Software Experiment by phil_howcroft

New Photo Editor Software Experiment

I've downloaded an 'open source' photo editor...'the gimp'

It's free and is a serious piece of photo editing software that has many features of Photoshop CS

I used to have GIMP on my old laptop, but the user interface was a bit clumsy. The new version is very user friendly and after a few minutes I was creating the image shown above.

I have Photoshop Elements on my laptop but it does not have features such as layer masks.

Anyway here is Ruby, on a slide film, looking pensive and attentive as my wife talks to her ..OK a bit gimmicky ...but the software does seem feature rich and I might try a few more little editing techniques using it !

http://www.gimp.org/


Three Good Things

1) Bolton haven't lost for over a week (the've not played though)

2) Picked 3rd crop of Rhubarb when I finished work .... Rhubarb crumble for pudding ...1 hour from garden to bowl with custard

3) My Tomatoes are ripening
Nice job , great shot of ruby.

Be interested how you get on with it.
Is pse fairly user friendly - have thought about maybe giving it a go at some distant point.,
September 11th, 2012  
@sleepdozer57 cheers Peter. I've had Photoshop Elements (PSE) for a couple of years and it is quite easy to use.

I quite like 'open source' stuff though, developed by the online community..I have 'open office', I use Mozilla Firefox as a browser and so I thought I'd give GIMP a go too. First Impressions of GIMP are that as a freebie it has more features than PSE and is relatively easy too.

You pays yer money (PSE) or if you want a free open source editor go for GIMP
September 11th, 2012  
Beautiful
September 11th, 2012  
Love your man good things we have only had female ones up to now so good to see what a mans good things feature. Mostly gardening & football, there's a surprise!!! Only teasing!!! Love this photo of the lovely Ruby I think it shows all her good points....perky ears, a noble profile, kind eyes & a beautiful white throat. I must look into Gimp!
September 11th, 2012  
Lovely portrait of Ruby. Very nicely done. Lucky you with your ripening tomatoes, all my plants got the Blight!
September 11th, 2012  
Wonderful. Cool capture.
September 11th, 2012  
@tishpics patricia, tumbling tomatoes, grown in tubs / baskets hanging on the wall / trellis, i save some of the pips / seeds each year and recycle them into next years tumbling tomatoes :)
September 11th, 2012  
@happypat thanks Pat, Ruby was shot with the 50mm lens i bought , it's a gr8 portrait lens , very fast , good in low light
September 11th, 2012  
@kerristephens cheers kerri :)
September 11th, 2012  
Cool image of ruby mate ..
September 11th, 2012  
gorgeous shot of Ruby, Phil. Sounds like another good bit of software! quite like hte negative frame too!!
September 11th, 2012  
I hear really good things about the Gimp. I keep meaning to look at it. I love what you've done to Ruby.
September 12th, 2012  
Wow cool, and thanks for the info
September 12th, 2012  
Well, clever you!! I downloaded Gimp about 2 months ago, haven't the foggiest what to do!! ha ha techno idiot me!! Gorgeous shot of Ruby, she looks so sharp and alert........I'm with you on the tomatoes though have never ever had so many, did mine in big pots this year, just fab!!
September 12th, 2012  
Hi Ruby. Nice to see you are being as the model for this new software!
September 12th, 2012  
Cool capture.
September 12th, 2012  
cool, love the processing!
September 12th, 2012  
You've got your name on the film too Phil! Looks really sharp, now I'm wondering about my rhubarb - I picked some in August but it was woody - I noticed it had had another flurry so if I pick the new stalks they should be ok??
September 12th, 2012  
@judithg yes judith , we've had 3 crops , we regularly get 3 or 4 crops from the same clump every year !
September 12th, 2012  
cool - I downloaded it once, then deleted after 10 minutes as looked far too tricky... might go and take another look,
September 13th, 2012  
@andycoleborn thanks Andy, I made some minor adjustments to my footie picture with GIMP.....there's a lot of help online and I'm very impressed so far
September 13th, 2012  
Ruby looks like a champion. A fav for sure.
September 14th, 2012  
beautiful shot
September 15th, 2012  
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