I've learned 2 new things today in GIMP

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

Today I learned to do 2 new things in GIMP. I knew I could do them with PSE but wanted to see if I could using GIMP. The first thing was desaturating a background bringing out the subject in colour...here is my try at it...not perfect but worked...thats the important thing.

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

the second thing was a complete change of colour...I ratted round and found something under color/map which put me in the right place with this.....like I said...not perfect but found how to do it. Thanks for looking at these

Odinbc · **Posted:** Sun Sep 09, 2012 11:00 pm **(#3)**

Nice akky, I'll take the blue one

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16169

Nicely done Akky!

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

Thanks folks!! I'm pretty pleased with myself for wanting to do this and figuring it out myself

GnuTux · **Posted:** Mon Sep 10, 2012 1:24 am **(#6)**

Great progress! I always feel that if I don't learn at least one new thing, the day has been wasted. :cool

Erisian · **Posted:** Mon Sep 10, 2012 5:24 am **(#7)**

Nice Work Pauline.

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

Nicely done, really like the car may I ask how you did it.

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

go to colour/map/colour change and you will get a kind of negative of the original pic and click on the areas you want to change colour...I just followed my nose until it happened really...but thats where I found what I was looking for which is similar to the Photoshop method but not as complicated as that

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

sorry had to edit there

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

akky wrote:

go to colour/map/colour change and you will get a kind of negative of the original pic and click on the areas you want to change colour...I just followed my nose until it happened really...but thats where I found what I was looking for which is similar to the Photoshop method but not as complicated as that

Thought that's what you done, really impressive.

mariawendt · **Joined:** Sep 03, 2012 **Posts:** 171

GnuTux wrote:

Great progress! I always feel that if I don't learn at least one new thing, the day has been wasted. :cool

That's something awesome, GnuTux. Very inspiring!

AnMal · **Posted:** Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:56 am **(#13)**

good work, akky

! i've always like the colour map menu, there's lots of fun things you can do with those filters.

Oregonian · **Posted:** Mon Sep 10, 2012 11:04 am **(#14)**

Excellent, Akky! Gimp is like that. You go in, start working on something and something pops up that you weren't aware of and, Voila!, you've learned something new ... even if it wasn't always something you really wanted to experience. Keep up the good work! :gimp

GimpinMommy · **Joined:** Sep 06, 2012 **Posts:** 28

Wow! That's really good! Anyone care to share how to change colors like that? I still haven't figured it out yet.

ETA: Found it in replies! Lol.