Gimp brings color to black and white photos.

Eliminate color, distort images, black and white photographs einfärben: Even the free software Gimp mastered these functions. As with the free program images can easily aufhübschen explains the second part of our Gimp workshops.

 

Color can be a lovely be. But in most cases they are probably in error happened. As with the
Gimp image editing program that is available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X are unwanted color casts are removed, says the second part of the photo software workshop after it
in the first part to perform basic functions like setting meaningful colors, optimal contrast and sharpness were matching.

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Cause of a color is usually a light is not properly adjusted white balance - because light is not the same light. Although many of our human eye automatically compensates for differences, so we still consider the colors of a substance like even in daylight. The unit of measurement for color temperature is Kelvin (K). The midday sun has a value of perceived neutral 5500K, the time around sunrise or sunset has a value of 2500 K, here is the light red and white color reflects das In autumn, the yellow light a high proportion, therefore, are meadows and forests very gently. The neutral should be white so the camera teach, there is the white balance.

The work can be done automatically or manually. When the automatic white balance the camera is looking for the brightest area and is to be white. Attentive readers recognize now that this is obviously not always pure white can be - it just creates a tint. When you use manual white balance, a black professionals and white-gray card, to which they orient the camera.

Is a picture only made, it is in the free photo editing software Gimp still a fairly simple color corrections. Likewise, recording all the sounds are withdrawn - and the other gray-scale will be colored.