Thomas
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09:37:26 am on May 19, 2008 |
I just want to give you a quick tutorial on how to create photos just like the following in GIMP.
I didn’t find it too difficult to just select the parts of the image I wanted to leave colored. But the thing was that there were sharp edges meaning that you could see the pixels. I searched the web and found these instructions very helpful. So here are the whole instructions:
- Open your photo in GIMP
- Right-click on the layer in the “Layers”-Digalog (“Ebenen”) and duplicate (“Ebene duplizieren”) the layer
- Now create a mask around the edge of the object you want to leave colored (the red couch and the red front of the bus) on the top layer. Use the “Free Selection”/”Freie Auswahl” aka “Lasso” for this. Better spend a bit more time on this to have your object(s) properly selected.
- Then go to “Select” (“Auswahl”) in the Menu and switch to quick mask (“Schnellmaske umschalten”)
You can also press Shift+Q or click this small dashed rectangle in the bottom left corner of the image window to do this. - Now in the menu click “Filters” go to “Blur” (“Weichzeichnen”) and select “Gaussian Blur” (“Gaußscher Weichzeichner”).
- In the window that comes up you can select how much the edges of your selection should be blurred (I just left the default settings) and then click OK.
- Now switch back to the normal mask.
- Press STRG+X to remove the selected area.
- In the menu go to “Color” (“Farben”) and click “Desaturate” (“Entsättigen”)
- In the small popup window you can makes some settings for the desaturation and then click OK.
That should be it, at least I didn’t do more for the image above. Now you can try to make your own black/white/color images, I really like this kind of pictures…
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