So pretty on your pictures.

Anyone who wants more than rotate and crop photos, comes with Linux not to gimp around. That as a free Photoshop-killer vowed program is a little unusual to use, but a true all-rounder in terms of image. A few tips to facilitate entry.

 

Only rarely succeed at once perfect pictures with digital camera: Some are too dark and flat, others slightly blurred and the red eyes make Aunt Hilde also not pretty. For exact Feinkorrekturen is the right tool, however, after the Ubuntu installation on the hard drive ready: The
Gimp free image, which is also available for Windows and Mac OS X gives, brings all the tools to take photos albumreif program.

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The only obstacle: Who yet another image-editing software, you must train only once. Automatic correction functions, there are few, and for really good results you have to get the most value manually.

Guidance to the desktop

Also, the user interface of the program differs from other applications: Gimp opens when you first start the program three separate windows, which moved freely on the desktop is. The first window, the tool kit, provides all the tools such as brush, eraser and attitudes about the foreground and background color.

In the middle of the desktop opens the picture window, right next to it called the Dock. In its place are several tabs. By default, there are seven tabs: In the upper section you can find the tabs layers, channels, paths, and the minutes of the undo function, the bottom three tabs contain dialogues brush shapes, patterns and gradients. Each of the tabs can drag & drop onto the desktop in a separate window outsource. Gimp offers a full toolbox, which allows a variety of image manipulation.

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Three windows on the desktop: On startup Gimp opens the toolbox (left), the image window (middle) and the dock (right)

Even the most expensive camera does not automatically produce perfect pictures: An incorrect aperture, adverse weather conditions or poor lighting conditions can negatively affect the image quality. With a little polish in Gimp can also be used such images to spice it up.

So fresh you through redistribution of tonal values, increase the contrast and a bit of re-sharpening on matte shots and get rich, colorful images - and in just three very simple steps.