I enjoy attending food blog events.. and last Friday when I attended F Restaurant’s Food Tasting event, I did not brought my DSLR with me.. just my plain old point and shoot Sony camera. As expecetd the shots I took was plain.. and lacks some color.. but with the help of GIMP I created really nice photos, that of a quality of a DSLR shot..
Here’s a simple GIMP Tutorial on how to blur the background and adjust the color of your photo.
I used this image, taken from one of our Mann Hann trips:
Step 1: Select the are that will not be blured:
Step 2: Select>> Feather the image by 10
Step 3: Select>> Invert
Step 4: Filter>> Gaussian Blur by 40 (or depends on how much blur you want)
Step 5: Color>> Curve, adjust the curve:
And here is the final image:
The before and after photos
I have not tried GIMP yet. Freeware yan?
yes Mitch free sya
ang laki ng inimprove .parang kuha ng dslr after naretouch.
yup
now hindi na ako magdadala ng DSLR hahaha ang sakit sa balikat eh
nice, I have a GIMP di nmn ako marunong gumamit hehehe, puro photoshop lng gamit ko
not familiar with photoshop
naguguluhan ako sa dami ng buttons haha
Pag may time ako kalikutin ko uli ang gimp
uu OK sya gamitin
I have not tried GIMP yet. Almost same lng ang bluring process nya sa photoshop…
ay talaga? naku subukan ko na nga ang photoshop
wow I also downloaded this before because it was a free software but uninstall because I don’t know how to navigate, I need to install this again before they also change their mind that it wasn’t free anymore
no worries chris, GIMP will be free for life
Meron ako nito dati yun portable kaso di ko naman mas sanay ako sa photoshop kaya tinanggal ko na lang.
I still have to learn photoshop
honga no, mas maganda yung picture ng maging blurred yung background…
nice software…
i love photography but i just hate photo editing… ;( tamad ako e.. hehe. that’s why i dont want to buy photoshop baka masayang lang pera i know i wont be able to utilize it fully.. i tried silkypix too to edit my raw files, tried my hand with GIMP too coz experts said it is even at par with photoshop as long as you have the patience to explore it, kaso i dont have the patience.. hehe. thanks for this post! hope to try GIMP again!! but for now im sticking to my very usuful Picasa…
gosh ang name ko muntik na making voltes five!!
) Violy here..
hahaha
I love gimp kase simpler ung design, sa photoshop parang ang daming buttons nakakahilo.. pero now Ia m more familiar with the tools, siguro susubok na din ako sa photoshop hehe
Wow! Instant DSLR effect.
Parang photoshop effects lang din 