On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 20:55 -0700, Tom Williams wrote:

I have a JPEG that's 846x648 in dimensions taken by a digital camera. The image is rather dark and I'm wanting to lighten up it and enhance it a bit. I've used the Levels and Curves filters to adjust colors and lighten the image but the results aren't turning out as well as I would like.

So, I'm coming to you, the Gimp experts for help. :) Would it be best to post my image to the mailing list (it's about 58k in size) or should I post a link to it on a site where I can host it?

I've been looking at various tutorials but they just don't quite help enough.

Thanks!

Peace...

Tom

Put up a link. Do you have a larger version of the image, that's a pretty small photo.

Stephen

Tom Williams wrote:

Unfortunately, that's the only image I have.

Here is a link:

http://bay-online-media.com/tom/eq02.jpg

This image lacks blue. I think you can have a quite good result in the levels dialogue by touching up the green and blue channels only (mainly the blue). The "log" scale histogram icon on the top-right of the dialogue would also be a good help.

Best regards,

Olivier

Thanks!

Peace...

Tom

A simple method I often try for adjusting the exposure of photos is to duplicate the layer, desaturate and color-invert the duplicate, and then set the Layer Mode of the duplicate to Overlay (or Soft Light, depending on the image). This has the effect of lightening the dark areas and darkening the light areas. The Opacity of the duplicate layer can usually be adjusted to provide a pleasing result.