Editing photos taken by @betelzeus to see if Gimp can make them pop more

in #howto7 years ago

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@betelzeus did a post of some to the macro photos he took of a bee and I asked him if I could edit them a little in Gimp to see if I could make them stand out a little more. Above is the edited version of the photo using gimp. I did an Auto white balance and manual adjustment of the contrast and brightness to bring out more detail and brighten up the subject.

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This is the original photo from @betelzeus with no edits from me.

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Edited in the same fashion as the first photo

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No edits from me

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Final edit and probably my favorite one

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No edit original photo from @betelzeus

I hope this posts shows how easy it is to make your photos stand out a little more using simple features in gimp. If you have questions or comments please feel free to post below.

Thanks to @betelzeus for letting me experiment using his work.

Here is a link to my tutorial on using white Balance https://steemit.com/howto/@azfix/using-auto-white-balance-and-auto-color-enhance-to-make-your-photos-pop-in-gimp

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Whoa! Check that out ... that's awesome and makes a huge difference. Thanks for that :)

Hey and thanks for the link to the tutorial , now I'm all keen to go take more macro shots and try this stuff out in GIMP :)

Just as a side note ... now this is why steemit is such a cool place! People out there like @azfix helping other steemians out and freely giving out info on how to do things better.

Awesome man :)

Glad you like the edits and I am sure you will enjoy Gimp, its a great free alternative to Photoshop and will do most of what you need. I have to use Lightroom for some of my astrophotography edits but Gimp can do just about everything else.

Wow! It's a job well done. Thank you for sharing!

Wow! Nice Post to share! :)
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Thanks will check out your stuff

is animal it?

Just a Bee

Thanks for sharing the tips!

No problem, thanks for stopping by.

Pretty amazing that Gimp has such strong tools in auto, the photos definitely look better.

Yes its a pretty sweet editing tool, the only manual adjustments I did were brightness and contrast