GIMP Version: 2.8.4
Operating System: Windows
GIMP Experience: Beginner Level

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So the last 3 days i had the opportunity to use photoshop elements 10 the entire time. I was helping my sister in law learn how to use it for her new business. She is a photographer and is 17 years of age and all her friends want to do fun things and what not. Ok so in PSE10, i noticed something kind of useful i really liked and im wondering if it is as easy in gimp as it is in PSE10

If you click on edit quick, it brings up 3 slider bars, saturation, midtones, and highlights. Depending on where you slide them depicts how much of the effect goes on the photo. IE, put saturation to the 1/3 mark and its somewhat black and white with some dull colors coming threw.

the coolest part of it i thought was the midtones slider. First we slid saturation all the way to the right so it was all black and white then used the midtones to somewhat darken the image.

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ill give that a shot and see if that creates what i am looking for. I know PSE10 is for beginers and not in the professional world so im thinking the terminology for the beginer user is different than what the pro version of PS is.

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Is there anyway to make certain tools such as the adjust color a tab on the side? So its always open? Im trying to learn how to take a single photo from a camera and under expose it and over expose it then somehow let all 3 exposures come together. Haha. And im trying to make black and white photos look amazing in gimp. Thanks

ok i tried what you mentioned and it did not do what i was looking for. i converted the picture to black and white via the saturation command. Now im looking for a way to make the shadows more deep and the picture more vivid. in PSE10 thats what the midtones slider does is makes the picture darker and vivid

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try levels or curves under the colors tab on your b & w pic.

you have a whole bunch of tools in Gimp for that
fluffy already mentioned the Adjust Color Balance
2-ton Levels and Curves
there is also Hue/Saturation/Brightness and Threshold

the most advanced tool is probably Curves, but also hard to master

you can put all those tools in your toolbox under Edit -> Preference -> Toolbox

OMG thank you. i just discovered the curves and levels. It is doing what im liking. just need to add them to toolbox. thanks guys.

all these tools are also in the menu under 'Colours', you dont have to put them in your toolbox

There are fully equivalent command in gimp (under Colors )
To make the picture more vivid , often is sufficient raise saturation and increase contrast , but modern camera tend already to ...boost saturation and contrast so may be easy overdo

then are many filters that try to do in a more sophisticated way as example allowing to modify contrast saturation and luminosity independently for each color channel, but are also a bit more complex .