Gimp Question

Ugly Joe wrote in post #11492674
Yeah, true...I took the bait.

LOL. Nice work Joe.

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Shockey wrote in post #11492847
Cool, somebody turn her skin more blue......

Even more blue? I thought she was already looking a bit down in the mouth...


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mplezia wrote in post #11492887
LOL. Nice work Joe.

Many thanks!
Photoshop, not Gimp.

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Ugly Joe wrote in post #11492674
Yeah, true...I took the bait.

Wow, what a great job, thank you so much!!!!!!!

James Emory
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"Hell is an eternity of getting up at 4am to nothing but decaf coffee..."
A good friend will help you move.
A true friend will help you move a body.
An old friend more than likely will pass on either because of a bad back.

Ugly Joe wrote in post #11493040
Did that do the trick? Was fun to do.

Oh geez Joe, my niece is just tickled to death about it and can't wait to incorporate that pic into her Christmas cards. She is actually an animal lover and is against shark killing. I don't know how to thank you, it certainly wouldn't be by doing something for you on Photoshop, that's for sure. She already put it on Facebook.

James Emory
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"Hell is an eternity of getting up at 4am to nothing but decaf coffee..."
A good friend will help you move.
A true friend will help you move a body.
An old friend more than likely will pass on either because of a bad back.

Better if you can have the lighting and backgrounds matching to start with - makes the editing much easier. Like this shot of me trying to show how my son is looking more and more like me every day:

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com …piggo/517453359​0/lightbox

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Ugly Joe wrote in post #11493098
My pleasure, and I'm certainly getting a chuckle out of her enjoyment of it - it didn't take all that long, and as I said, was fun to do.

Now, this is the reason you really should consider learning Gimp or Photoshop (a bit easier to learn than Gimp, in my opinion) - look at all the fun you can have!

Where do you start, is there a PDF manual that actually guides you as how to do something? As I mentioned earlier, I'm pretty comfortable with DPP and I know Gimp will be a challenge, but I do like challenges up to a point. I guess when you look at something that has a completely different layout kind of scares you away. When I bought my Canon printer they included the Arc Soft program and in the help section, the help was very basic, just identifying the tools but not how to use them. I uninstalled that program. Again Joe, thank you so much for your time and effort.

James Emory
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troypiggo wrote in post #11493213
Better if you can have the lighting and backgrounds matching to start with - makes the editing much easier. Like this shot of me trying to show how my son is looking more and more like me every day:

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com …piggo/517453359​0/lightbox

That's so damn funny, I love it. Did you make that face because you couldn't hold it? :--D

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Actually I was more laughing when editing the photos. Chuckling away to myself on the computer, wife thought I was crazy until she saw the results. Another

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com …piggo/517453414​4/lightbox

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troypiggo wrote in post #11493213
Better if you can have the lighting and backgrounds matching to start with - makes the editing much easier. Like this shot of me trying to show how my son is looking more and more like me every day:

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com …piggo/517453359​0/lightbox

Now, THAT'S fun with Photoshop...yet still disturbing...


(nicely done though!)

"Hell is an eternity of getting up at 4am to nothing but decaf coffee..."
A good friend will help you move.
A true friend will help you move a body.
An old friend more than likely will pass on either because of a bad back.

monty28428 wrote in post #11493287
GIMP has great online help (IMHO).

There are also several books for gimp... i.e. GIMP for Dummies That will get you started.

(Not that you are a dummy or anything)

When at first you are intimidated, you feel like a dummy.

James Emory
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