Just want to say thank you! I almost gave up trying to learn how to edit photos in GIMP, then Voila your video pops up on my FYP. Appreciate your time and effort.
Second Tutorial I did through you and man as hard as Graphic Design is to pick it up I must compliment you on how well you direct a tutorial and your voice is so positive and upbeat it took away a lot of the stress while following along.
*_Enhancement Techniques 101_* 1) How to use the Color Tools - *Color Channels* and *Color Curves* - *Hue* - *Saturation* - Practice using the *Free Select Tool* in order to adjust specific elements of an image 2) How to define complexion of subject - Practice using *Layer Masks* - Gaussian Blur 3) How to whiten teeth and kiss.. I mean, ENHANCE the lips - *Free Select Tool* - Adjust *Levels* - Increase *Saturation* to kiss.. enhance the lips - Use *Colgate* - *Overlay* effect with white color and increase Opacity 4) How to make your subject *stand out* - Using *Contrast Mask* - *Overlay, Overlay, **_Desaturate_* 5) How to enhance the eyes - Draw out the eye-lids - Select Irises - *Saturation* - *Exposure* _Thanks for watching, and we'll see you next time!_
Thank you for the list, although I couldn't see much difference in the eyelid enhancement part. I usually draw a thin layer of kohl to make the eyes stand out, and slightly adjust the brightness of iris and the cornea.
Although much of this is beyond my knowledge set, you explain it so clearly that it helps me learn something new afterwards... keeping notes and pausing makes it much more productive. Also, there's always room to explain more but you do much more than most to show/tell what it's about-- thanks. Nice job and many thanks for offering these.
Wow, I wish I had learned this sooner. I went for years just using Gimp without any teacher. This is amazing my brain is jumping for joy and doesn't want to sleep anymore before I figured out all the functions. Shhh brain ! lol, thanks so much. I also got your course on Udemy.
Next time, can you explain why you do certain things ? like you are changing colors, but what for is kind of missing to me. Make the gras look greener, the girl cuter, ... you clearly know what you are doing, would be useful if you told :)
I'm working on incorporating a bit more explanation in my tutorials - but you can also take my photo editing course which has much more explanation on why I do what I do. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for these great tutorials, they are awesome! Sometimes it's difficult for me to see the effects of the single steps - it would help me, if you could either explain the effect a little bit more or if you would overdue them a little bit to make the effect more visible. E.g. I could not see any change in the picture when you worked with the layer modes hue and saturation.
Thanks for the tutorial, maybe to help make these easier to make your cursor bigger and to make slower mouse movements. I just slowed down the video to .75 and it helped alot for everyone yet to use this tutorial. Took me several hours. But i can at least say after this video i have learned a lot. Just takes some time and getting a sense for it. Good luck everyone!
Excellent video. A little tip. In min.20:53 to show the before and after, press Shift+left button on the eye of a layer and all others will be turned off. Thank you so much for your help with these videos.
Hi amazing video ! Thank you so much! will you please explain what the HUE and SATURATION layers are for while adding contrast mask? what do they do? You do not touch them after making them , hence asking!
What to do if the eyes are not fully open wide??? Other than that, killer tutorial, as I started playing with the 'Colors' options due to your tips. Thank You!
Hi, I notice you usually combine Darktable with GIMP to (I presume) make a complete photo editing / manipulation suite. Just wondering if that approach would work as well with RAW Therapee instead of Darktable. Or would I be losing out on something important. Thanks.
the skin tone looks kind of flat in the end, but thanks for the video, helped me a lot. now we don't want to say too many compliments to avoid it looking artificial :)
hi this is just what i needed thank you, I'm looking to sell the same image to a potential customer. just wanted to ask you am I best saving the images to PNG or JPG?
Very nice tutorial. I am an Indian - slow to comprehend and understand your dialect, plus beginner. Your speed of speech and mouse movements are very fast. I had to play video at 50% speed to understand. But best place to learn GIMP. Little slow video and more detailed explanation of every move and tab will be of invaluable help to beginners like us. Thanks. I am your fan.
Thank you for the video, it helped a lot! I only have the problem that when I for example change something in color balance and then press OK, the next time I open it, everything is back to zero (while the picture is clearly edited), so I cant reset stuff (except ctrl Z). Any ideas how to fix that?
Well if going for enhancement before creating such things as twitch emotes or other stuff, doing the outlining/dragging doesn't seem to be easy or maybe as easy to do on a TouchScreen Mousepad of a laptop in using gimp whether its the 2.8 version or earlier versions, it seems like it anyways on mine. Anyone else thinks so??
Unfortunately you did not really show where your mouse icon was when telling us what icon you were using and when I could follow it you were moving over several and I lost track.
So since you removed the subject, what was the purpose of adjusting the entire picture before hand? as i just started gimp, iam always one to ask questions as to why? or what was the purpose lol
my query is ,with Gimp 2.80 you are able to scan an image prior to editing ,but with Gimp 2.10 there does not seem to be a method of obtaining an image via the scanner to be edited
Never used gimp. There are so so many “layers” to learning this, that when you fly through it, I cannot find or follow. I can’t tell you how many times I went back in your video to try the same thing over and over
Solid pun. Though I wish it was under better circumstances. I will take your comment into consideration for future tutorials, though. I hope you still found it useful!
Great tutorial! my picture looks great, but after I have finished editing and added my watermark, it's not saving the background. I have tried merging the layers, and it still wont save the layer. I'm working with 2.8.22, what can i do to save the background layer?
I'm not quite sure what you mean - but are you saving the file as a JPEG file? JPEG files will always save the background as long as the background layer isn't hidden before you save. If you are saving the file as a PNG or GIF with the background layer hidden, it won't save your background.
Yes, I am trying to save as a JPEG. After you select the girl in the photo and edit the background, the edited background isnt saving, but the subject of the photo is staying edited into the save. I did nothing more than you did one the tutorial, I followed step by step, but it's just not saving the background layer. I tried starting all over, and redoing the photo edit, but it keeps giving me the same thing.
Thanks for video. Can manual be downloaded? I have couple simple question. I want to examine some photos by switching to b/w and change filtering. Ty I am going to send you a pm. :) Hope you can explain it.
You can always read the GIMP manual online via this link: www.gimp.org/docs/ ... The GIMP team has not made the GIMP 2.10 manual available for download yet.
I am struggling. I followed this tutorial several times. On the second section when I try to fill in the skin tone layer, it only works for me about 20% of the time. O can't figure out what I am doing wrong. I have even gone back and made sure I have followed each step. What can I do?
Just discovered this tool and I have a question: I have some photo images that are in JPEG format. I want to be able to FLIP some of these images, as they are in the wrong orientation. I literally just downloaded GIMP and while I am able to flip image and make other color modifications, I am having a problem saving the modified file as a JPEG. It does not accept my changes. I am sure that this is probably a basic error, or a misunderstanding of the file types that are unique to GIMP. That being said - is there a simple way to do this with GIMP? Thanks!
When you have the tool selected, it is under the "Tool Options" (underneath the tools in the toolbox). At the top of the Tool Options you'll see something called "Mode." There are 4 mode options - the first one is Replace the Current Selection.
I'm getting stuck. 1. After creating the layer mask, I click on the background thumbnail and edit curves. Nothing Happens but I see thumbnail face has changed. I undo. Can't seem to edit background. 2. I click the bottom corner "create quick mask" It's not kinda see through like the video, mine is non see-through and only on the outside of my subject mask. Any ideas what I've done wrong?
Thanks for doing this video. To be honest though, the teaching in the video is way too fast! I'm a beginner and some of the steps are done so quickly i'm lost straight away. It's the same with the udemy video, I just gave up on it.
Yea, like the info is good, but if he just slowed down a tiny bit, like I understand he's not tryin to make this video be suuuuper long and drawn out but some of the shit is like micro machines dude you gotta do this and do this and do this and bam you got that?
It would have been too long IMO Personnaly I found the pace of this tuto to be at a good speed, not to slow - not to fast. In all cases this is a video = you can backward or pause at any moment...
When selecting an area with the lasso and I press enter and the area remains selected, when I try to go around another area and press enter. That first are is no longer selected, where in your tutorial they stay selected. Can anyone help? I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem. Thanks
when i view the edited pictures on my phone, the colors are way off than how i edited them, can you please make a video on how to fix this? I like to post my edits on social media but it just doesn't look as great as it did on my laptop
Hm yeah the color settings are usually different between laptop screens and phones. I'll see if I can look into a way to express this concept in a video. Thanks for the request!
Thanks to everyone who helped this video hit 100,000 views!
How to put color on your tools?
Why can't I click on color balance? what is the very very very very very first step? what do I do?!!!!!!!!!
Didn't see you refocus the subject in this video... When did that happen?
Just want to say thank you! I almost gave up trying to learn how to edit photos in GIMP, then Voila your video pops up on my FYP. Appreciate your time and effort.
Second Tutorial I did through you and man as hard as Graphic Design is to pick it up I must compliment you on how well you direct a tutorial and your voice is so positive and upbeat it took away a lot of the stress while following along.
"How well" he directs...? The man doesn't have a good voice already and keeps "dancing" with the cursor....😂 And also speaks too fast.
One of the best tutorials where you can find different techniques all in one place :)
*_Enhancement Techniques 101_*
1) How to use the Color Tools
- *Color Channels* and *Color Curves*
- *Hue*
- *Saturation*
- Practice using the *Free Select Tool* in order to adjust specific elements of an image
2) How to define complexion of subject
- Practice using *Layer Masks*
- Gaussian Blur
3) How to whiten teeth and kiss.. I mean, ENHANCE the lips
- *Free Select Tool*
- Adjust *Levels*
- Increase *Saturation* to kiss.. enhance the lips
- Use *Colgate*
- *Overlay* effect with white color and increase Opacity
4) How to make your subject *stand out*
- Using *Contrast Mask*
- *Overlay, Overlay, **_Desaturate_*
5) How to enhance the eyes
- Draw out the eye-lids
- Select Irises
- *Saturation*
- *Exposure*
_Thanks for watching, and we'll see you next time!_
Thank you for the list, although I couldn't see much difference in the eyelid enhancement part. I usually draw a thin layer of kohl to make the eyes stand out, and slightly adjust the brightness of iris and the cornea.
use colgate 💀
While using Free select tool if I select wrong area how can I fix that?
He did not tell how to de-select the area if selected my mistake. Because for the first time users it's default to draw correctly.
Legend! Ty
Great vid, thank you. Just starting out in image manipulation; looks like lots to learn
I love your channel. Thank you so much! One day I will absolutely support ya with a contribution for all the help!
Excellent. Repeated viewing necessary but of huge benefit to all. Well done sir.
Thank you!
Very informative. I've not used GIMP yet, so this was a helpful video to get my brain working.
Thank you very for the video,I learnt something new from this video and I practiced it along the video!!
Although much of this is beyond my knowledge set, you explain it so clearly that it helps me learn something new afterwards... keeping notes and pausing makes it much more productive. Also, there's always room to explain more but you do much more than most to show/tell what it's about-- thanks. Nice job and many thanks for offering these.
Thanks for the great comment and for watching. I am glad you found it useful and easy to follow, and were able to learn a few new techniques.
Wow, I wish I had learned this sooner. I went for years just using Gimp without any teacher. This is amazing my brain is jumping for joy and doesn't want to sleep anymore before I figured out all the functions. Shhh brain ! lol, thanks so much. I also got your course on Udemy.
Thanks for signing up for the course, and glad this tutorial was able to help you out!
Thank you for this. The first retouch I did doesn't look the best but I'll keep practicing it.
This was great, I'll be checking out some more of your materials.
Awesome - thanks for watching and I hope you enjoy my other tutorials.
Thanks Dav, another detailed GIMP tut :)
Thank you!
Cheers :)
Just updated Gimp and it's 10. Woo Hoo!
This is still very useful, thanks man.
Next time, can you explain why you do certain things ? like you are changing colors, but what for is kind of missing to me. Make the gras look greener, the girl cuter, ... you clearly know what you are doing, would be useful if you told :)
I'm working on incorporating a bit more explanation in my tutorials - but you can also take my photo editing course which has much more explanation on why I do what I do. Thanks for watching!
I can recommend the course, I did it and learnt a lot. You can go over each section as often as you like until it all clicks.
Thanks.
@@zebbrown1964
Thank you for these great tutorials, they are awesome! Sometimes it's difficult for me to see the effects of the single steps - it would help me, if you could either explain the effect a little bit more or if you would overdue them a little bit to make the effect more visible. E.g. I could not see any change in the picture when you worked with the layer modes hue and saturation.
the layer mask confused me but I still understood the concept. Great tutorial
Great Tutorial - Subscribed - thanks for sharing knowledge :)
This tutorial saved my life today, thank you so much for creating this dude 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Great Tutorial, Gimp made easy! Thanks for sharing!
Gimp will never be described as 'easy'.
Thanks for the tutorial, maybe to help make these easier to make your cursor bigger and to make slower mouse movements. I just slowed down the video to .75 and it helped alot for everyone yet to use this tutorial. Took me several hours. But i can at least say after this video i have learned a lot. Just takes some time and getting a sense for it. Good luck everyone!
Great vidéo!!🖼️👀💯🔥
This is some great stuff thanks
Fantastic. Thank you!
Gonna use these tips for my new online dating profile, thanks!!
Great content, thanks!
OMG U SAVED MY LIFE
Nice tutorial thank you
Amazing. How did you manage to make the image look exactly the same after all those transformations??
Great info, appreciate you.
Thanks for this ❤️
It would be better to have shorter videos focused on one single photo enhancement technique, and explaining why and when to use that technique.
I'm ultra beginner to gimp but I can tell you the easiest thing to accomplish everything what he did cheaply is just gently increase saturation.
Excellent video. A little tip. In min.20:53 to show the before and after, press Shift+left button on the eye of a layer and all others will be turned off. Thank you so much for your help with these videos.
The new update is awesome !
I agree!
The final result looked a little unnatural, specially because of the artificial exposure on the darker areas of the model.
Thanks best GIMP tutorial I've seen so far.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
Hi amazing video ! Thank you so much!
will you please explain what the HUE and SATURATION layers are for while adding contrast mask? what do they do? You do not touch them after making them , hence asking!
Thank you bro 💜
Thanks for your effort. Unfortunately I do not see a huge difference between before and after.
What to do if the eyes are not fully open wide???
Other than that, killer tutorial, as I started playing with the 'Colors' options due to your tips.
Thank You!
HI Michael
I shoot Raw so do a lot of my processing in darktable, I'm guessing I wont need to do a lot of this afterwards?
Hi, I notice you usually combine Darktable with GIMP to (I presume) make a complete photo editing / manipulation suite. Just wondering if that approach would work as well with RAW Therapee instead of Darktable. Or would I be losing out on something important. Thanks.
Thanks.
Hi! Does gimp have activity recording to where you record a sequence and play it back so I can repeat that sequence for every photo?
the skin tone looks kind of flat in the end, but thanks for the video, helped me a lot. now we don't want to say too many compliments to avoid it looking artificial :)
how are you so good with the free select tool? i thought it was new magnet select feature
Thanks
hi this is just what i needed thank you, I'm looking to sell the same image to a potential customer. just wanted to ask you am I best saving the images to PNG or JPG?
Thx 👍
Good video
It would really help if you explain what you're doing and why you're doing it.
It would be a lot easier to learn how to fly a 747!
nah it would be easier to ride a fly into the sun
I felt this but once you get it it's done son
Actually
Pilot here- this is harder.
Is it possible to remove objects and paint in ? For use of painting composition work?
Very nice tutorial. I am an Indian - slow to comprehend and understand your dialect, plus beginner. Your speed of speech and mouse movements are very fast. I had to play video at 50% speed to understand. But best place to learn GIMP. Little slow video and more detailed explanation of every move and tab will be of invaluable help to beginners like us. Thanks. I am your fan.
Thank you for the video, it helped a lot! I only have the problem that when I for example change something in color balance and then press OK, the next time I open it, everything is back to zero (while the picture is clearly edited), so I cant reset stuff (except ctrl Z). Any ideas how to fix that?
Have you tried exporting the image or saving it before you quit GIMP ... Sometimes the solution can really be basic...
Can you do a video of how to add a photo into a digital backdrop?
Well if going for enhancement before creating such things as twitch emotes or other stuff, doing the outlining/dragging doesn't seem to be easy or maybe as easy to do on a TouchScreen Mousepad of a laptop in using gimp whether its the 2.8 version or earlier versions, it seems like it anyways on mine. Anyone else thinks so??
Selecting modes at 6:12 I don't have different modes there. How do i get them there (Gimp 2.10) thanks
GIMP is best
I'm having issues with the brush. It just stays in the recover with showing what section is brushed. I'm not sure if I missed or messed up a step.
thanks.
Great video but definitely not beginner friendly. Too fast (yes I rewinded a thousand times) and not explaining the tools use
Is it possible to "uninvert" an allready existing layermask ?
Unfortunately you did not really show where your mouse icon was when telling us what icon you were using and when I could follow it you were moving over several and I lost track.
At what part? I'm happy to clarify if I can.
Is it funny that I got an “Camera or IPhone ad” before the video started? 😂😂😂
( idk what it was I just skipped the ad.. )
no it isnt
So since you removed the subject, what was the purpose of adjusting the entire picture before hand? as i just started gimp, iam always one to ask questions as to why? or what was the purpose lol
my query is ,with Gimp 2.80 you are able to scan an image prior to editing ,but with Gimp 2.10 there does not seem to be a method of obtaining an image via the scanner to be edited
Hi...how I apply the same editing to multi photos at the same time for for example time lapse
Never used gimp. There are so so many “layers” to learning this, that when you fly through it, I cannot find or follow. I can’t tell you how many times I went back in your video to try the same thing over and over
Solid pun. Though I wish it was under better circumstances. I will take your comment into consideration for future tutorials, though. I hope you still found it useful!
Great tutorial! my picture looks great, but after I have finished editing and added my watermark, it's not saving the background. I have tried merging the layers, and it still wont save the layer. I'm working with 2.8.22, what can i do to save the background layer?
I'm not quite sure what you mean - but are you saving the file as a JPEG file? JPEG files will always save the background as long as the background layer isn't hidden before you save. If you are saving the file as a PNG or GIF with the background layer hidden, it won't save your background.
Yes, I am trying to save as a JPEG. After you select the girl in the photo and edit the background, the edited background isnt saving, but the subject of the photo is staying edited into the save. I did nothing more than you did one the tutorial, I followed step by step, but it's just not saving the background layer. I tried starting all over, and redoing the photo edit, but it keeps giving me the same thing.
You can go to File>Export As to save it as a JPEG, which will save the background layer.
when you said
my name is micheal davies
i heard
micheal babies
Either one works
Thanks for video. Can manual be downloaded? I have couple simple question. I want to examine some photos by switching to b/w and change filtering. Ty I am going to send you a pm. :) Hope you can explain it.
You can always read the GIMP manual online via this link: www.gimp.org/docs/ ... The GIMP team has not made the GIMP 2.10 manual available for download yet.
Sir can u make a video for a plug in calendar of gimp ?
Thank you
I am not quite sure what you mean - would you mind explaining a bit more what you are looking for? Thanks for watching!
Probably she meant for the Calender Maker/Generator plugin on GIMP!
+ShaTer yes ma'am /sir ...a plug in calendar for gimp I tried to install but the language settings is not in english
I am struggling. I followed this tutorial several times. On the second section when I try to fill in the skin tone layer, it only works for me about 20% of the time. O can't figure out what I am doing wrong. I have even gone back and made sure I have followed each step. What can I do?
Great video But how do you get a photo something turned pink when its supposed to be white and the larger item is pink?
You may need to use the selection tools to select the item, then either desaturate the item, change the hue, or adjust the color balance.
Just discovered this tool and I have a question: I have some photo images that are in JPEG format. I want to be able to FLIP some of these images, as they are in the wrong orientation. I literally just downloaded GIMP and while I am able to flip image and make other color modifications, I am having a problem saving the modified file as a JPEG. It does not accept my changes. I am sure that this is probably a basic error, or a misunderstanding of the file types that are unique to GIMP. That being said - is there a simple way to do this with GIMP? Thanks!
Don't click "save" or "save as" instead click "export" and that would be it
@Lynfred Rodgers Thanks!
How to remove noise from images? Plz reply if possible.
Hi the video is a little fast, how do I set the mode to replace the current selection, I cant find it, really appreciated
When you have the tool selected, it is under the "Tool Options" (underneath the tools in the toolbox). At the top of the Tool Options you'll see something called "Mode." There are 4 mode options - the first one is Replace the Current Selection.
Thank you so much for getting back to me, I have found it :) :) :) brilliant content, I am not the best of students.
No problem!
Gee, what have you done to that pretty girl? :-O At least, now I understand what my Sony internally does.
selection becomes really hard when i don't have mouse.
I'm getting stuck.
1. After creating the layer mask, I click on the background thumbnail and edit curves. Nothing Happens but I see thumbnail face has changed. I undo. Can't seem to edit background.
2. I click the bottom corner "create quick mask" It's not kinda see through like the video, mine is non see-through and only on the outside of my subject mask.
Any ideas what I've done wrong?
Video starts at 1:03. No problem.
Plz Affinity tutorials buddy? Thnx
Thanks for doing this video. To be honest though, the teaching in the video is way too fast! I'm a beginner and some of the steps are done so quickly i'm lost straight away. It's the same with the udemy video, I just gave up on it.
Yea, like the info is good, but if he just slowed down a tiny bit, like I understand he's not tryin to make this video be suuuuper long and drawn out but some of the shit is like micro machines dude you gotta do this and do this and do this and bam you got that?
if you want to teach some , please make everything little slow why this much hurry ??
It would have been too long IMO
Personnaly I found the pace of this tuto to be at a good speed, not to slow - not to fast. In all cases this is a video = you can backward or pause at any moment...
change the speed of the video to 0.75
How slow do you need it. The video is already 20 mins long. Hit that pause button if you can't keep up.
This is up to your brain.., you have to teach it to process the information faster.
why do you have to select none before adjusting ?
I currently have the 2.10.8 version, it looks a bit different
There were a few changes made between this version and the latest.
on 7:33 I tried going to red but all the colors wouldn't let me click on them just the value whys that?
What we learn with pleasure we never for get.
I hope you learned with pleasure watching this!
When selecting an area with the lasso and I press enter and the area remains selected, when I try to go around another area and press enter. That first are is no longer selected, where in your tutorial they stay selected. Can anyone help? I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem. Thanks
You just need to change the mode under the Tool Options for the lasso tool to "Add to the Current Selection."
My tools option tab blocks my file tab? I cannot save:/
After selecting the model. And making layer mask. It won't change anything using curves. Please help me
You may just need to click on the original layer and NOT on the layer mask.
when i view the edited pictures on my phone, the colors are way off than how i edited them, can you please make a video on how to fix this? I like to post my edits on social media but it just doesn't look as great as it did on my laptop
Hm yeah the color settings are usually different between laptop screens and phones. I'll see if I can look into a way to express this concept in a video. Thanks for the request!
Went to color and clicked on color balance. Nothing showed up.
Tough program 😊 right
Some tools are not working in 2.10
Do next video with higher version
How do I get the photo up in the first place?
File>Open