first try at gimp!

[kimkimz]

original- not great- had to take this picture in the middle of day (my neice didn't care- she's in love...

after-

flipped and cropped(obviously)
used the heal tool for a while to fix face, flyaway hair, holes in buildings, and a weird "bald" spot on her fiance's hair
made bw with decompose
selective coloring

Is there anything with layers?

[EagleEyeView]

It's a nice photo, can really see the emotion & love between them. The BW conversion is nice, but i'm not a big fan of the selective coloring. It's brings attention to her foot (one got chopped) & his tie, when you should be looking at their faces. Flipping them puts her wedding ring on her right, is there a reason for the flip? Maybe try to clone out the utility box on the side there, & the piping through her head.

[kimkimz]

thanks! Yeah- I loved some of the others that day, but she picked this one for her announcement (and wanted to emphasize the blue which was the color of the text). She's a fun girl, so I wasn't surprised that she picked this one over the formal pics. I'm super new to photography and even newer to gimp. Since the orginal was light, I have been playing around with filters with not much luck. The pipe bothers me too- I will try to clone it out next. thanks...

[happyme]

I have never used GIMP, but I am sure that light room would have done a better job on this. This picture looks a bit dull.

[Quo Fan]

Originally Posted by happyme

I have never used GIMP, but I am sure that light room would have done a better job on this. This picture looks a bit dull.

Not everybody can afford $300 for Lightroom. GIMP is free.

[High_Speed]

Does this look any better? Just a few minutes in Gimp:




Obviously you could spend a lot more time on it than I did and get even better results.

[TNH]

Originally Posted by kimkimz

original- not great- had to take this picture in the middle of day (my neice didn't care- she's in love...

Awesome edit!

[BK553]

$1000 on Photoshop wouldn't put their feet back on.

[drummingpariah]

Originally Posted by BK553

$1000 on Photoshop wouldn't put their feet back on.

Agreed. The tools you use matter FAR less than how you use them. The colors are already hilighted in the image, but I don't know if I agree with desaturating everything else completely. I'd go a little less extreme on the post-processing (personally, so take that for what it's worth).

Furthermore, I'd leave them with a little space surrounding them. Don't feel obligated to crop all the surrounding space out.

[FocalFrenzy]

GIMP was the first photo-editing program I ever used. I have since purchased Photoshop CS4. I still like the clone tool that GIMP has better than the one in Photoshop, and still do alot of my editing in Gimp prior to finishing up in CS4. The only reason that I bought CS4, is that there are alot more "Actions" and "Brushes" available for download for Photoshop, than there are for Gimp. Now that Iv'e used both, I realise that any brush or action that I like from Photoshop, can easily be created to work in GIMP. Live and learn.
Anyways, I like the editing that you did on this shot. Although I'm not a fan of "Selective Coloring", I understand that your neice is, and since the shot is for her, you had to oblige. You mentioned that you were going to try cloning the pipe out. I would suggest using a "Soft" brush, only slightly wider than the pipe. I would start at the top of the image, on the left side of the pipe. Choose a clone source right next to the pipe and clone all the way to the top of your neice's head in one pass. (This will keep you from having to choose numerous clone sources.) Then repeat the process below her head. You can use a "Hard" round brush (much smaller), to tidy up right next to her head. If you wind up with distortion trails from your cloning, it's easy to re-clone at a lower opacity (80-90%) along the edge of the distortion trail, to hide it. Since it's near the edge of the shot, you may want to add a vignette to help draw focus back to the center of the shot. I hope this has been helpful.