First Time Editing an Image with Gimp

I'm rather proud of my first atempt using The Gimp for actual photo editing (I've used it to crop and resize before but thats it...) the original was a nice image but the leaf in the top left corner was bright yellow and distracted from the flower (Primula elatior ssp. meyeri) and then there were brown flecks on the petals (pigeon damage)

What do you think?

 

Very good. Gimp seems pretty powerful to me, but I'm not a graphics expert. My mate who is, reckons that it doesn't compare to Photoshop, but I can't say either way.

Regardless of software choice, your pic is good. My only criticism is that the flower almost looks superimposed on the background. Did you tone down the background?

 

Yes I basically just de-saturated the entire image and then picked out the flower... I was thinking of ways to blend the flower in better =/ it would be nice to have a mouse instead of using a trackpad

 

Years and years ago when I was at Uni (in a previous life) and forced to do graphics as part of my computing course, Photoshop had a tool called feather or something, that was designed to take the sharpness of the edges off an image (not the same as blur which chucks all the detail away) the feather tool was used to ease the contrast between effects along the edges.

 

A very nice touch of editing, particularly for a first try!
Paintshop Pro and Adobe Photoshop both have feather options which are very effective when copying and merging images.
Paintshop isn't too expensive particularly if you look on Ebay and go for the last but one version.
Photoshop CS5 costs an arm and a leg but as a student you'd qualify for a very substantial discount - £163 as opposed to £935! Might be worth thinking about while you are still a student.

See -
http://www.software4students.co.uk/

 

Aesculus


A very good
first try, we all stated somewhere, editing a photo is another learning curve,
like photography it tacks time and plenty of practise making mistakes and more mistake
is how we learn and with help of others, aesculus there are sum very good editing
tutorials on utube and they are free worth looking at, Iv been using photoshop
for some time now and still learning, currently Using Photoshop CS5 exsdended
wow a powerful programme, but your shot well dun


Hugh