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              <title>&lt;![CDATA[Making your subjects more prominent and stand out in the photos with gimp.]]></title>
              <link>&lt;![CDATA[/2010/09/10/making-subjects-prominent-stand-photos-gimp/]]></link>
              <pubDate>1284130098</pubDate>
              <content>&lt;![CDATA[ Lets first take a picture that we want to modify. We have done the corrections in the photo that are required like the curves, &amp;lt;a class=&amp;quot;zem_slink&amp;quot; title=&amp;quot;Colorfulness&amp;quot; rel=&amp;quot;wikipedia&amp;quot; href=&amp;quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorfulness&amp;quot;&amp;gt;saturation and others. So, here is the photo after the modification. Now we will make the modification to make photo de-saturated other than the subject of interest.
&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/gallery/home/DSC_0018.jpg&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img src=&amp;quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/gallery/home/DSC_0018.jpg&amp;quot; alt=&amp;quot;DSC_0018&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;
Okay, now fire up gimp and open the &amp;lt;a class=&amp;quot;zem_slink&amp;quot; title=&amp;quot;Image&amp;quot; rel=&amp;quot;wikipedia&amp;quot; href=&amp;quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image&amp;quot;&amp;gt;image in gimp.Once the image is open, on the left bottom of the image, you will see a square. Click on the square and the whole image will become red. Now, select eraser tool and erase the color from the subject of interest.
After this step, the image in gimp should look like this.
&amp;lt;img class=&amp;quot;size-medium wp-image-2460&amp;quot; title=&amp;quot;Screenshot GIMP&amp;quot; src=&amp;quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Screenshot-DSC_0018.JPG-4.0-RGB-1-layer-3690x2460-–-GIMP-300x220.png&amp;quot; alt=&amp;quot;Screenshot GIMP&amp;quot; width=&amp;quot;300&amp;quot; height=&amp;quot;220&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;
After this, click on select and then select invert. With this, you have the whole background selected.
Apply de-saturate and you are done. Here is the final output from the above step. (Took me around 5-10 mins only)
&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/gallery/home/DSC_0018-1.jpg&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img src=&amp;quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/gallery/home/DSC_0018-1.jpg&amp;quot; alt=&amp;quot;DSC_0018-1&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;
Hope this helps you too 🙂 to make some of your photos stand out.
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              <title>&lt;![CDATA[Photo Compositing with the GIMP]]></title>
              <link>&lt;![CDATA[/2010/03/25/photo-compositing-with-the-gimp/]]></link>
              <pubDate>1269484885</pubDate>
              <content>&lt;![CDATA[ Basing from my previous &amp;lt;a class=&amp;quot;zem_slink freebase/en/gimp&amp;quot; title=&amp;quot;GIMP&amp;quot; rel=&amp;quot;homepage&amp;quot; href=&amp;quot;http://www.gimp.org/&amp;quot;&amp;gt;GIMP article titled Creating Pseudo-3D Imagery with GIMP, you learned how to do some basic selection manipulation, gradient application, faking &amp;lt;a class=&amp;quot;zem_slink freebase/en/depth_of_field&amp;quot; title=&amp;quot;Depth of field&amp;quot; rel=&amp;quot;wikipedia&amp;quot; href=&amp;quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_of_field&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Depth of Field, etc. In line with that, I’m following it with a new article very much related to the concepts discussed therein but we’ll raise the bar a bit by having a glimpse on &amp;lt;a class=&amp;quot;zem_slink freebase/en/compositing&amp;quot; title=&amp;quot;Compositing&amp;quot; rel=&amp;quot;wikipedia&amp;quot; href=&amp;quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compositing&amp;quot;&amp;gt;compositing, where we’ll use an existing &amp;lt;a class=&amp;quot;zem_slink freebase/en/image&amp;quot; title=&amp;quot;Image&amp;quot; rel=&amp;quot;wikipedia&amp;quot; href=&amp;quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image&amp;quot;&amp;gt;image or &amp;lt;a class=&amp;quot;zem_slink freebase/en/photograph&amp;quot; title=&amp;quot;Photograph&amp;quot; rel=&amp;quot;wikipedia&amp;quot; href=&amp;quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photograph&amp;quot;&amp;gt;photograph and later add in our &amp;lt;a class=&amp;quot;zem_slink freebase/en/dimension&amp;quot; title=&amp;quot;Dimension&amp;quot; rel=&amp;quot;wikipedia&amp;quot; href=&amp;quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2-dimensional element seamlessly with the said picture.
&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://www.packtpub.com/article/photo-compositing-with-the-gimp-1&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Photo Compositing with The GIMP&amp;lt;h6 class=&amp;quot;zemanta-related-title&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Related articles by Zemanta &amp;lt;ul class=&amp;quot;zemanta-article-ul&amp;quot;&amp;gt; &amp;lt;li class=&amp;quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://www.chromecode.com/2010/03/gimp-28-development-still-under-control.html&amp;quot;&amp;gt;GIMP 2.8 development still under control (chromecode.com) &amp;lt;li class=&amp;quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://create.freedesktop.org/w/index.php?title=Writing_GIMP_scripts_and_plug-ins&amp;amp;diff=7325&amp;amp;oldid=prev&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Create Project Wiki: Writing GIMP scripts and plug-ins (create.freedesktop.org) &amp;lt;li class=&amp;quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://journalxtra.com/2010/03/free-gimp-button-brushes/&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Free GIMP Button Brushes (journalxtra.com) &amp;lt;div class=&amp;quot;zemanta-pixie&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a class=&amp;quot;zemanta-pixie-a&amp;quot; title=&amp;quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&amp;quot; href=&amp;quot;http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/08c8a886-f573-4acc-a38a-6d7ab6219bed/&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img class=&amp;quot;zemanta-pixie-img&amp;quot; src=&amp;quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/reblog_b28.png&amp;quot; alt=&amp;quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&amp;quot;zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog&amp;quot;&amp;gt;
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              <title>&lt;![CDATA[Nifty Things to Do with GIMP]]></title>
              <link>&lt;![CDATA[/2009/12/26/nifty-things-to-do-with-gimp/]]></link>
              <pubDate>1261853798</pubDate>
              <content>&lt;![CDATA[ Nifty Things to Do with GIMP Some of us are probably addicted to capturing moments in pictures. I can understand why. It’s one of those things that help us go back to the good old days, so to speak. It’s also something that creates a ‘time machine’ for us because those pictures show us what things looked like, not just remind us of the feeling but give us the atmosphere all over again.
&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://www.everyjoe.com/newlinuxuser/nifty-things-to-do-with-gimp/&amp;quot; target=&amp;quot;_blank&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Read here.&amp;lt;div class=&amp;quot;zemanta-pixie&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a class=&amp;quot;zemanta-pixie-a&amp;quot; title=&amp;quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&amp;quot; href=&amp;quot;http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/39690a19-a4c9-4e7c-aef0-6522d2402dd8/&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img class=&amp;quot;zemanta-pixie-img&amp;quot; style=&amp;quot;border: medium none; float: right;&amp;quot; src=&amp;quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/reblog_e14.png&amp;quot; alt=&amp;quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&amp;quot;zem-script more-related pretty-attribution&amp;quot;&amp;gt;
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