Photo editing

[mmcirvin]

I wrote a very basic guide to editing your digital photos with GIMP. This does not tell you how to do anything fancy; it's more on the level of "what can I do to make a crappy picture look sort of OK?"

I hope it is of some use, and that experienced photography buffs do not get too upset that I didn't talk about layers and selection tools and the fancy things you can do with them. There are already tutorials for that sort of thing on the GIMP site; I wanted to fill the gap for beginners who just want to do basic photo improvement.

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[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, you can't fix barrel distortion with a perspective transform, not easily. You can make a stab at fixing it with the "Whirl and Pinch" filter, but it's tricky and not mathematically correct. You need something like the Pano Tools plug-in to do that right, and I've never managed to score a version that will work with Mac GIMP.