GIMP Tutorial: Top 5 Photo Enhancement Techniques 

How to put color on your tools?

Why can't I click on color balance? what is the very very very very very first step? what do I do?!!!!!!!!!

Didn't see you refocus the subject in this video... When did that happen?

Thank you for the list, although I couldn't see much difference in the eyelid enhancement part. I usually draw a thin layer of kohl to make the eyes stand out, and slightly adjust the brightness of iris and the cornea.

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While using Free select tool if I select wrong area how can I fix that?

He did not tell how to de-select the area if selected my mistake. Because for the first time users it's default to draw correctly.

Legend! Ty

"How well" he directs...? The man doesn't have a good voice already and keeps "dancing" with the cursor....😂 And also speaks too fast.

Thanks for the great comment and for watching. I am glad you found it useful and easy to follow, and were able to learn a few new techniques.

Thank you!

Thanks for signing up for the course, and glad this tutorial was able to help you out!

Awesome - thanks for watching and I hope you enjoy my other tutorials.

Thank you!

Cheers :)

Gimp will never be described as 'easy'.

I agree!

I'm working on incorporating a bit more explanation in my tutorials - but you can also take my photo editing course which has much more explanation on why I do what I do. Thanks for watching!

I can recommend the course, I did it and learnt a lot. You can go over each section as often as you like until it all clicks.

Thanks. @@zebbrown1964

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.

I'm ultra beginner to gimp but I can tell you the easiest thing to accomplish everything what he did cheaply is just gently increase saturation.

Have you tried exporting the image or saving it before you quit GIMP ... Sometimes the solution can really be basic...

You can always read the GIMP manual online via this link: www.gimp.org/docs/ ... The GIMP team has not made the GIMP 2.10 manual available for download yet.

I'm not quite sure what you mean - but are you saving the file as a JPEG file? JPEG files will always save the background as long as the background layer isn't hidden before you save. If you are saving the file as a PNG or GIF with the background layer hidden, it won't save your background.

Yes, I am trying to save as a JPEG. After you select the girl in the photo and edit the background, the edited background isnt saving, but the subject of the photo is staying edited into the save. I did nothing more than you did one the tutorial, I followed step by step, but it's just not saving the background layer. I tried starting all over, and redoing the photo edit, but it keeps giving me the same thing.

You can go to File>Export As to save it as a JPEG, which will save the background layer.

I am not quite sure what you mean - would you mind explaining a bit more what you are looking for? Thanks for watching!

Probably she meant for the Calender Maker/Generator plugin on GIMP!

+ShaTer yes ma'am /sir ...a plug in calendar for gimp I tried to install but the language settings is not in english

Solid pun. Though I wish it was under better circumstances. I will take your comment into consideration for future tutorials, though. I hope you still found it useful!

At what part? I'm happy to clarify if I can.

nah it would be easier to ride a fly into the sun

I felt this but once you get it it's done son

Actually

Pilot here- this is harder.

no it isnt

Don't click "save" or "save as" instead click "export" and that would be it

@Lynfred Rodgers Thanks!

You may need to use the selection tools to select the item, then either desaturate the item, change the hue, or adjust the color balance.

When you have the tool selected, it is under the "Tool Options" (underneath the tools in the toolbox). At the top of the Tool Options you'll see something called "Mode." There are 4 mode options - the first one is Replace the Current Selection.

Thank you so much for getting back to me, I have found it :) :) :) brilliant content, I am not the best of students.

No problem!

There were a few changes made between this version and the latest.

You just need to change the mode under the Tool Options for the lasso tool to "Add to the Current Selection."

You may just need to click on the original layer and NOT on the layer mask.

I hope you learned with pleasure watching this!

File>Open

Either one works

For answers to that question, I recommend watching these two tutorials: 5 Things You Didn't Know GIMP Could Do: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oxUMtv07Sys.html 10 Photoshop Features Found in GIMP 2.10: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Mpbp1d0JJc4.html

I left Adobe recently (April 2018) because I am a photo hobbyist, opposed to one who makes a living in graphic design/ photography, ect where Adobe products are the industry standard. I wasn't really up for paying monthly (Forever) on a service I used on some weekends, days off, ect, despite it's relatively small cost. It was a nag payment for me. After months of a friend who consistently, irritatingly flouted photos of superior print quality while mocking me because he uses Gimp, he brow beat me into giving Gimp a try. Using Gimp for the first time was upsetting, frustrating because learning curve. Everything looked familiar...but it wasn't. Many RU-vid tutorials later, I now have enough Gimp tricks up my sleeve to create a fairly serviceable photo. I enjoy my finished edited photos more, as Gimp makes you more hands-on to achieve your result. Practice makes perfect, and I am still a novice at this point. I do miss creating/ storing PS actions as opposed to Gimp where it seems I must have knowledge of a computer language to create exactly what I need. I am just a humble, lowly user whose career/ free time is light years away from ever learning Python to create a script. I was a major skeptic of 'Free' software, now I donate to the GNU project because it feels far more satisfying than making Adobe payments and . I salute the gentlemen/ women of Gimp who bring so much to the table simply out of love...for free. That said, depending on what you need, there are some drawbacks operating Gimp compared to Adobe products. But, Gimp makes me more involved in my process, as PS mostly did things for me (And very well). As a photo editor, Gimp is very powerful and an excellent weapon in my quest for photo perfection. Still no non-destructive editing, and RAW support is more than a simple drag-and-drop affair, my only two complaints, but it's free, and they are working on it. You have to try it for at least two months to decide if it's what you need. There are many forums/ tutorials/ videos that can help you transition into a Gimp beast. I still miss my giant collection of PS actions (Free, created, and paid) still sitting on the backup drive. Oh well...

@@stewartdaniels9078, Thank you very much for helping me to understand. Yes, it is very nice to have a program like Gimp that one does not have to pay a monthly fee for. I just use CS6 because it was on my iMac when I bought it. It suits me fine but I am always ready to branch out. Keep up your good work!

There are no keys needed - GIMP is totally free. It's not a free trail - it's just always free.

Hm yeah the color settings are usually different between laptop screens and phones. I'll see if I can look into a way to express this concept in a video. Thanks for the request!