Overview
Teaches powerful techniques that yield impressive results
A timely book appealing to those who are embracing GIMP as an alternative to Photoshop
Leaves readers with valuable skills in image colorization. Anyone involved in the photograph restoration business will benefit as colorized photographs is a highly requested service. Anyone involved in genealogy can benefit by bringing old family photographs back to life with color
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Getting Familiar with GIMP, Tonal Adjustments, and Basic Colorizing Techniques
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Intermediate and Advanced Color
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Artistic Colorizing Techniques
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About this book
Obtain techniques for adding color to black and white or monochrome photographic images using GIMP. In this book you'll also learn to create a hand-tinted effect to add an element of antiquity. Pro Photo Colorizing with GIMP also teaches techniques that enable you to selectively colorize images, mixing black and white with color. There are also tips to go the opposite way: converting color images into black and white (there's more to it than just removing color).
Written with both beginning and experienced GIMP users in mind, Pro Photo Colorizing with GIMP shows you how to colorize black and white images to achieve a high degree of realism.
What You'll Learn
- Gain a basic overview of the GIMP workspace, tools, color palettes, layers, and layer masks
- Learn how to make the proper tonal adjustments to black and white images before starting the colorizing process
- Complete simple colorizing exercises for beginners and progress to more advanced colorizing techniques
- Colorize skin, teeth, hair, and eyes
- Create a nostalgic hand-tinted look and selectively colorize (mixing color with black and white) to create interesting images
- Use textures and patterns to create artistic colorized images
- Properly convert color images into black and white
- Colorize black and white portraits, and re-colorize old faded color portraits
GIMP users (but users of other photo editing software packages can benefit as well). It is especially useful for those who edit photographs, restore old photographs, or those who want to apply colorizing techniques for artistic effect.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Mr. Whitt has digitally edited countless photos, and served a number of professional clients such as photographers, photo labs, and camera outlets over the years.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pro Photo Colorizing with GIMP
Authors: Phillip Whitt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1949-2
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books
Copyright Information: Phillip Whitt 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-1948-5Published: 08 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-1949-2Published: 08 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 176
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 181 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computer Graphics, Photography