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    Levels and Curves with GIMP
    Levels and Curves with GIMP
    Levels and Curves with GIMP
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    Levels and Curves with GIMP

    By Alberto García Briz

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    Learn how to use these two powerful tools with one of the best free image and photography editors.
    Second edition with added contents.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlberto García Briz
    Release dateNov 24, 2014
    ISBN9781502281272
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      Levels and Curves with GIMP - Alberto García Briz

      Introduction

      Since a few years now, I am editing a couple of blogs on image edition – mostly, with GIMP, a free application with Open Source license. I even published a book (you can see the details at the end of this one) on the conversion to black and white with that program.

      During the preparation of these publications I realized the importance and power of curves adjustment in photographic edition. Maybe as important as to dedicate a whole book on this… if you can read this, it means I was right.

      Of course, curves adjustment is closely related to how digital information is created, calculated and stored. And there is a relationship to information tools such as the histogram. As a consequence, these concepts have also been incorporated here, in order to provide a global overview of the tool…

      Maybe you have a too complex book in your hands? Not needed? I hope some people will find it useful… Anyway, I tried to use plain language, with down-to-earth expressions, introducing the concepts in a logical line of thought, to reach that global view of the presented tools.

      Some of the texts presented here are adapted both from my book and blogs (if you have time, just check http://albertog.over-blog.es and http://albertogblog.blogspot.com). But of course, different sources were also used from the Internet, such as the great blog by Petteri Sulonen (http://www.prime-junta.net, check the How to section).

      I tried to keep a simple layout towards the publication as eBook and PDF document. But you might be reading the paper version, with some more details for those who still prefer real hardware…

      About this edition

      One of the topics I referred to in the first edition of this book, which was not really explained, was the use of masks; even when they are not strictly needed, they can help in simplifying the edition process, by limiting the areas affected by our curves or levels edition.

      With this in mind, I prepared (for the second edition of this book, in Spanish) a new specific section. This forced me to treat is as a fully new book, since it was an important edition and the number of pages (and so the ISBN) was also affected. Little by little, I achieved to remove the original book from the market.

      Regarding physical format, the second Spanish edition was produced in a slightly smaller size that the original version, to facilitate handing and postage.

      However, this new format (five by eight inches) was not a standard for colour books in bookshops. This reduced strongly the commercial possibilities. So I decide to go back to the Statement format (5.5 by 8.5 inches) of the current paperback version. In parallel, I made some style and writing correction.

      By reducing font sizes, the increase in contents did not affect the number of pages in the paperback version, so that final price was also not affected (which is good: this book is printed on demand).

      Digital images

      Nowadays, we can find digital cameras almost everywhere. What just a decade ago was limited to computer work, has been universalized by the Internet and the possibility of printing onto almost any desired support.

      You could also say that everyone in a developed country has access to a digital camera (with better or poorer quality…), at least to the ones included in most modern cell phones. So the possibility of creating digital images is there, for good or for bad.

      But, in many cases, the limitations on the camera or the captured scene will result in images that do not match our expectations. In many cases, we may want to improve them, to share them with our online contacts, or rather to prepare collages or specific documents.

      Above: A modern cell phone can generate files with some kinds of edition, such as cropping and colouring (here, a sepia tint)

      Of course, many smart phones do include edition apps that allow you to modify your pictures on the fly, so that basic edition can be applied on the very handset: change to black and white or sepia, simulation of old film pictures…

      And many edition programs such as GIMP, used in this book, include automated functions for quick edition, developed to avoid many headaches – but also a share of creative possibilities.

      In this book we will see how to handle digital information in order to produce results closer to our expectations, closer to the planned scene we wanted to capture – or rather, more spectacular and appealing.

      We will also see the way to automate (up to some extent) our personal editions, so that we can recall and apply them in a later edition to the same picture – or to a different one.

      Points and pixels

      Main concept that we need to understand is that digital images are made of points with a single colour. Those points are referred to as pixels (from PICture ELement). They are defined by their colour, and they are the smallest information piece possible in a picture.

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      Above: Any digital image is made of square points with a single colour (pixel). We can always see them, by zooming in to the maximum…

      Notice: a very useful keyboard shortcut in GIMP is the zoom tool, which allows for zooming-in (by pressing +)

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