New to Gimp

wpower · **Joined:** Jun 06, 2013 **Posts:** 2

I'm retired and living in Columbus, GA.
I've bought a scanner and am slowly digitizing my 35 mm slides and color negatives. Some of these are 40 years old and need some TLC and I'm hoping to use Gimp to provide it.

regards
Bill

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Welcome to Gimp Chat wpower, Nice to have you aboard.
That is a very nice capture.

The Warrior · **Joined:** Jun 02, 2013 **Posts:** 2090

Welcome.

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

Welcome to GC!
Pretty amazing quality for a 36-yr old slide.
Good idea to have them digitized, film loses quality over years.
And this one is of Bamiyan Buddha statue that doesn't exists anymore!
Did you do any color corrections to your slides or they are 'as is'?

Oregonian · **Posted:** Thu Jun 06, 2013 6:35 pm **(#5)**

to Gimp Chat, wpower! There are some excellent photography experts here in Gimp Chat that can help you with questions you might have.

That image looks great from an old slide. :bigthup

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16213

Welcome to Gimp Chat.

AnMal · **Posted:** Thu Jun 06, 2013 11:05 pm **(#7)**

wpower: welcome to gimp chat

! wow, that's an impressive picture! good luck with your project, hope you post more of it as you go along. this is a great place if you're learning gimp, lots of good tutorials and tips and tricks and plenty of helpful people to ask if you get stuck with something!

Erisian · **Posted:** Fri Jun 07, 2013 6:08 am **(#8)**

Beautiful photography wpower. Welcome to GC.

wpower · **Joined:** Jun 06, 2013 **Posts:** 2

The quality of these slides are mainly due to Nikon film cameras and lens plus Kodak. Any defects on the slides are due to storage conditions in the countries where I lived. There has been very little deterioration in colors but some tweaking will be necessary. If I can remember when changes are made through Gimp I'll post under the title "Afghanistan 1976 Revised' i must admit that I'm aging and my memory is deteriorating...

I've included a few more slides for your interest and I can only hope you may appreciate what an interesting county this was/is.

Bill

Odinbc · **Posted:** Fri Jun 07, 2013 12:23 pm **(#10)**

It's nice to see an avid photographer on board!