Addendum Sat 09 Jun 2018 12:23:10 PM CEST A Study in Verdure was changed to
A Study in Green were it was possible.
The present system of
Attachments,
Galleries (categories) and
Albums is not transparent enough. I played with my images on these forums and tried solutions aka what I could do best and easy (conveniently). It soon appeared it's not so rosy. What's worse, when I started to post checking
"this or that" I thought I'd be able to change the image names and places later.
Alas! We are encapsulated, or nearly totally Matrix-ed! Of course, the validity of the remarks depend on one's point of view.
Cheers!
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A Study in Verdure is to be never ending story about green subjects, mainly from the Nature itself. I like colors, I like to play with them and it give great pleasure when something emerges from my works with GIMP.
All photos published/placed here on this thread are stored in one album on
Yandex Disk as well, under the same title
A Study in Green
Cheers
P.S. I had to introduce dates. Newest entries will be placed on top of this thread. Every date will be marking new image or a bunch of snapshots.
Addendum Cracow, Poland, 2018-06-06 10:54 CEST
I've changed my mind. There're real reasons for this. New "greenery" shots will be added in comments.
Cheers
Cracow, Poland, 2018-06-05 17:18 CEST
Aliens in one's garden
I do not know the name of this beautiful plant. The Sun was low, the dark background created space under coniferous trees and the green was tinged with yellow rays. As I do not have polarizing filters to get rid of bright spots on leaves the only tool I might change them was GIMP's Highlights option. What emerged from such processing you may check yourselves opening "the green album".
Details now.
1) Unsharp Mask -> 0.5 / .55 / 25
2) Highlights -> -85.00 (foreground leaves were too soft and first of all too much bright)
3) Contrast -> +3
4) Saturation -> a) Overlap = 100%, b) All = -3
5) Highlights -> -25
6) Scale Image -> to any size (here 1024 x 768)
7) Unsharp Mask -> 0.3 / .033 / 0
The data were put down on a card but whether it is about scaled down image or first original one and then only to the diminished one I'm lost. Sorry.
X posted from my post
How to make the best "upload/link" image (this red color is intentional, it will be the leading color of A Study in Red, not Scarlet, I'm not another Conan Doyle or Sherlock Holmes )
Shooting Green Foliage...
This one was published in Users Photo Gallery -> Nature under
the same title
How to make them the best? Here you are...
1) Level -> move left triangle to the right to increase tonal range
2) Unsharp Mask -> 0.7 / 0.77 / 25
3) Saturation Yellow -> +11
4) Usharp Mask -> 0.4 / 0.44 / 25
5) Contrast -> +5 (this time
do not decrease Saturation -5)
6) Shadows -> +50
7) Unsharp Mask -> 0.2 / 0.44 / 0
Always pay attention to the bright line on edges creating stronger sharpness! You must control them every time. Of course it is You who decides but such sharpened images looks different on different monitors. For example - old LCDs creates sparkles when rendering minute details e.g. hairs with horrible effects. old CRTs are much better and I use it. That's why I sharpen photos to my likes. How do they look like on the modern LCDs (TN, VA, IPS,..) or OLEDs or professional monitors for DTP, I do not know.
Meadow's "lonely heart's club"
Common plant but looks so magnificent! It needs a little work on image only, to look like our eyes and brain want (well, we don't need to be fickle as far as true Nature's color, but oh gosh(!) do not go to the extreme, of course!)
Time for work
1) Level -> move left triangle to the right to increase tonal range
2) Unsharp Mask -> 0.7 / 0.77 / 25
3) Midtone Sharp -> then merge all images
4) Shadows -> -40.0
5) Contrast -> +5
6) Saturation: Red -> +17, Yellow -> +11
7) Shadows -> -60
8) Contrast -> +7
9) Unsharp Mask -> 0.4 / 0.44 / 25 (control all the time subject edges!)
10) Saturation Green -> -25
Save as corrected original e.g. full size
11) Scale Image -> 1024 x 768 (or whatever you like)
12) Shadows -> +80
13) Blur Tool -> default applied to background
14) Unsharp Mask -> 0.4 / 0.44 / 15
Last edited by veraser; 06-09-2018 at 03:44 AM.
Reason: new option, better grammar and layout, small change