Lightening Up Print

jandrewnelson

Please look at: http://www.journeyamerica.org/photos/459079096_4V3no-L-1.jpg

I would like to be able to lighten it up some, yet still retain the "feeling" of dusk. Using GIMP, how would I best (read easily) do this?

Thanks and blessings
Jerry Nelson
Koinonia Farm

pathfinder

Does Gimp offer a Screen Blend Mode, perhaps?

Either that or a curve.

jandrewnelson

pathfinder wrote:

Does Gimp offer a Screen Blend Mode, perhaps?

Either that or a curve.

Don't know what "Screen Blend Mode" is, so I suppose not. Tried it in curves and it works like a champ! Thanks a bunch

Jerry Nelson

pathfinder

Jerry, I have never used Gimp, but I know that lots of folks really like it, and its price. There are some Gimp users on this thread from time to time, so they may respond yet.

In a Screen blend, you duplicate your background layer, so that you have two copies of your original images - one on top of the other - and then use a Screen Blend mode and and opacity slider to adjust the appearance of your image. Screen Blending lightens an image, kind of like showing two images of a slide projector image on a screen, one on top of the other. The result is a lighter, brighter image. I am pretty sure that Gimp can do this, but I do not have a copy that runs on my Mac.

A quick google of "Gimp Tutorials" yielded this page - http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=Gimp+tutorials&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

There are some more specifically for image editing in Gimp here - http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/

There are sources for Gimp for Macs I learned also - http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/

Cool!!