In the previous article we quickly mentioned the technique of”invisible watermark“, a technique that would allow us to prove paternity of a digital photograph. The operation (as already described) is simple. The principle behind it all is to have an image “x” (my original photo which I only have to keep) Read more…
In today's tutorial we will see how to transform a photo into a colorful pixel-art original, useful for creating large prints, especially when the quality of the initial image does not allow it. We begin with an image of your choice. For this tutorial I suggest particularly colorful images because many of the details will get lost in the Read more…
In today's tutorial we deal with a particular technique, that will make our curious photos. For macro photography (or more simply “macro“) means the photograph of the small details that the eye hardly pays attention to. There will certainly have seen online, or in some magazines of nature some photos Read more…
New tutorial for today. Today's tutorial is very simple, one of the first that I have followed, perhaps one of the most abused. Add the effect to a written “fiery” or the effect “smoke“. First let's create a new image. Hundred of shape 640 x 480 pixel. With the instrument “Text” write Read more…
Today's tutorial is one of those simple tutorials that are exhausted in a passage. More than a tutorial would call it a useful tip to remember. Let's say we have an average image / small, not suitable for printing, that we want to enlarge twice. Until Read more…
I often find myself having to create images that act as a separator contained within the prints, or some simple graphic effects created by the tracks, or with the letters. I'm thinking of something very simple, that surely even in old school books we have been used to seeing Read more…
Who said that always comes before PhotoShop Gimp? The plugin we are talking about today was developed natively for Gimp, was then invented something similar to PhotoShop. Maybe someone does not play the new plugin “Content aware filling” per PhotoShop. Well, “Resynthesizer” is a developed algorithm Read more…
Today we talk about “Highpass filter“, a technique widely used in modern advertising to make “soft” images. Obviously for all the work will adopt Gimp as a program for image manipulation. This tutorial applies to entities, faces, views and, as we shall see, it is perhaps the most used technique in magazines Read more…
I often find myself struggling with screenshots, especially when I write a tutorial, or when I write about a new or little known program. Until recently, I used the internal Gimp utility (“File” – “Create” – “Screenshot“), whose options allow you to choose to “photograph” whole Read more…
The wave of the tutorials for Gimp today, with a simple process but we'll see how effective “give” warm color to any photo with the instrument “Gradient Map“. The knowledge base for this tutorial are minimal, it is sufficient to know the use of the methods of overlapping the levels. I personally think that for Read more…