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www.jgreentree.co.uk
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# Posted: 13 May 08 17:10
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I recently went to my favourite place Derbyshire on a spa weekend but snook my camera in my bag out of sight of my wife.
When i finally owned up to having it i ventured out with it. I forgot my polarising filter but saw this fish a took a picture of it.
Got home uploaded the pictures to my laptop and saw that the light was too bright and that i did not take this into consideration.
But then i uploaded the fish picture in Gimp (freeware) and was amazed when i pulled this image from the original .
Has anyone rescued a photo from the recycle bin with a manipulation tool?
 
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Ruden Fretsbo
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# Posted: 13 May 08 20:09 - Edited by: Ruden Fretsbo
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Hi Jony!
What about GIMP? Do you use it frequently? Could you make a brief comparison with Photoshop?
Any other members using GIMP?
Thank you!
Ruden
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Martin de Rijk
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# Posted: 13 May 08 20:44
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Jonny, I played a bit with clearness and contrasts on PSP
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www.jgreentree.co.uk
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# Posted: 13 May 08 21:00 - Edited by: www.jgreentree.co.uk
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Gimp is a very basic version of Photoshop , alot of programmers are appalled by how these huge companies hold us the consumer to ransom charging us ridiculous prices . Gimp is an image manipulation program with very similar functions to photoshop. This program gets updated quite often by programmers with numerous updates on the main site for you to download and all this is for free but you can give a donation to its founders .
Here's a link http://www.gimp.org/
Hope ive explained it well enough
@Martin looks great what program is that your using
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Martin de Rijk
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# Posted: 13 May 08 21:24
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@ Jonny: Paint Shop Pro 9. The latest version is Paint Shop Pro Photo X2. I used a promo version, it's very good but expensive, so I stick to my #9.
I like to manipulate pictures as less as possible, My goal is, most of the time, to get the colors as natural as possible. That's hard enough. I often see far to much saturation in pictures that ruin nice pictures just to get some harsh colors.
Manipulation is nice, and I do it also, to create a different feel. This is often used in urban photography. One of these, I manipulated a lot, I added here. The manipilation must have a clear function in my opinion.
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TGB
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# Posted: 13 May 08 21:47
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@Martin - an excellent example of recovery on Jonny's picture. You have demonstrated the p0wer of PSP9 very well.
The gritty treatment of the picture of the disused locomotive depot is a tribute to your mastery of the program.
TGB
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Ruden Fretsbo
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# Posted: 13 May 08 22:16
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@Jonny. Thank you for the information. Looks really interesting. Maybe I'll try it. Just something more, is it posssible to edit RAW files with GIMP?
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Martin de Rijk
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# Posted: 13 May 08 22:21
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Ruden you've to be careful with converting Raw files. Not al programs work for all camera's. I've had some bad results and now I only use Digital Phot Pro. from Canon. Works great, for Canon camera's.
I always asumed you were using a fine program for your pictures. What do you use?
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Ruden Fretsbo
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# Posted: 13 May 08 22:36
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Normaly I use Photoshop CS3, but sometimes I also use Picasa 2, when I want a quick result or a first approach to what can be done with a picture. I wonder if, for instance, Gimp gives you the possibility of a fast edition as Picasa... then iit would be useful...
I have a Pentax K10D and I can save two different Raw files: .dng and .pef (this last one original from pentax).
Here you have another exemple of "manipulation". I made a mistake when measuring the light and I did'nt see it until I was at home. I think I could arrange it quite well IMO...
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Martin de Rijk
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# Posted: 13 May 08 22:41
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This one worked out great.
I think we are giving the wrong examples: a bad picture doesn't mind as long as you use a good program 
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Marcos
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# Posted: 14 May 08 01:10
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It is really important to add that GIMP is a GNU software. This means (in very general terms) that it is completely free, that the developers will never charge you and that nobody earns money from that. It also means that you can download the source code to improve it (if you know how) or that you can make your own version of this software.
While Photoshop is an expensive software, GIMP is a similar (in power) software which we can download and if we like it we can colaborate with the mens and womens who has been long nights developing it with the money we had not spent on buying Photoshop.
More info about GNU software here.
Marcos.
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