This may help Esper...http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/gimptu ... t-tool.htm

select by color tool also, under colors, you will see the color balance dialogue.

ah! thanks molly, you're the best !

I have to try this! The end results are beautiful!!

PhotoMaster!!! It's soooooooooooo great to see you back!

I agree with you O. Nice to see a lot of familiar names come back to post here. Now don't be a stranger you all.

A combination of oldmangrumpy's Glass Tutorial and alc59's Ice Parrot Tutorial.

Beautiful job dalia

Thank you molly! Have been revisiting some of the older great tutorials.

Dalia, that is very beautiful! Looks like took some time and effort! Very artistic. I too, like to revisit some of the older filters and tutorials. Find some real gems sometimes.

Well done, Dalia.

Thank you for the nice comments Pat and lylejk. It really wasn't hard at all. I really like OMG's glass tutorial and alc59's tutorial allows for some of the original subject to show through. I'm calling it the frosted effect

Dalia, you got a very nice result. I have to try this tut too. I've just seen it thanks to you.

Dalia - beautiful result so I thought I would check this tut out, so I downloased it, but now I am feeling somewhat 'sheepish'

Despite all the references in this thread, I cannot find a 'Selective Color' filter/tool anywhere and it seems to be the key to doing this tut.

Anybody want to help the old guy ouit ...?

Wallace - thanks but I have already been there and the link goes to a Select By Color tutorial... cannot see a 'Selective Color' tool there.

OMG, I was perplexed too and Wallace, you're right, I did the "selection by color" (something I learned from OMG with the Glass tutorial) and then was stumped with the "Selective Color" values. Finally I just looked at the images and tried to emulate the results - I used "brightness and contrast" and curves. Then it was just playing with opacity, blend modes.

Last night I played with another filter on the original. I used FX Foundry, Photo, Effects, Make Wonderful. The first is the original and the second is the FX Foundry; change is subtle but I liked it.

Dalia, you got a very close result at final target. I did my try too but it's impossible without the right tool. You have to guess where it is the ice object.

I see it - I like it Issabella. I bet if you duplicate the eagle layer and fudge with the blend modes, darken your background a bit, your eagle will subtely come to life! Remember, I used a combination of OMG's tutorial (outline, highlights, burn blend mode on one layer) and alc59's.

Dalia - thank you for your help; I tried to do a similar GIMP job on a kookaburra ... and failed miserably. I may try again another day.