well, I use picasa mainly to adjust contrast and brightness. And now slowly learning GIMP. This picture was taken more or less as it appears except one of the guys in the background had a bright colour t shirt on, so I used picasa to concentrate colour around the umbrella (pretty amateurish i know) and it seemed to get rid of distracting colours.
Kiran, with GIMP, one can select areas with matching colour, and can also choose the colour tolerance by % (e.g., 'give me all contiguous area within 5% of THIS colour'). That selection can then be manipulated as required (i.e, desaturated, set to different tone/shade/colour, etc).
My recent lesson on Gimp has been to 'add' gaussian noise to achieve some interesting effect. (e.g., getting the 'blur' and 'soft focus' effects for close portraits).
Thanks for your introduction to HDR : I've gone overboard with HDR'ing lot of pictures recently. Most of the results ended up looking weird and unnatural; still learning.
Shreedhar - thanks for regular comments here and links to your pictures. they are wonderful. hdr is tricky even am rusty yet and don't know the pro way of going about it. We should catch up and do some photography together.
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How do you single out one portion as colour and the rest as B/W...?
well, I use picasa mainly to adjust contrast and brightness. And now slowly learning GIMP. This picture was taken more or less as it appears except one of the guys in the background had a bright colour t shirt on, so I used picasa to concentrate colour around the umbrella (pretty amateurish i know) and it seemed to get rid of distracting colours.
nice...ah the little girls with the umbrellas....ah Munich....
Kiran, with GIMP, one can select areas with matching colour, and can also choose the colour tolerance by % (e.g., 'give me all contiguous area within 5% of THIS colour'). That selection can then be manipulated as required (i.e, desaturated, set to different tone/shade/colour, etc).
My recent lesson on Gimp has been to 'add' gaussian noise to achieve some interesting effect. (e.g., getting the 'blur' and 'soft focus' effects for close portraits).
Thanks for your introduction to HDR : I've gone overboard with HDR'ing lot of pictures recently. Most of the results ended up looking weird and unnatural; still learning.
Shreedhar - thanks for regular comments here and links to your pictures. they are wonderful. hdr is tricky even am rusty yet and don't know the pro way of going about it. We should catch up and do some photography together.
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