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5 GIMP Tricks Everyone Should Know

Heather — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:37:46 +0000

“Having used both GIMP and Adobe Photoshop I must say I personally believe GIMP is much better for common folks like you and me who need a relatively simpler set of tools to make quick edits to our Vacation pictures. Photoshop is undoubtedly more useful graphic designers, however for making quick tweaks, nothing beats GIMP. Recently GIMP 2.6 was released, so I decided to make this tutorial for those who still haven’t discovered the magic of GIMP and don’t know how to use GIMP productively.

1. Rounded Corners
2. Crop an Image
3. Red Eye Removal
4. Change the size of an image
5. Reduce the file size of images”
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100 in 100, Part III – AIRC

Heather — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:01:44 +0000

100 Photography Tips in 100 Days Join the million-plus photographers who’ve visited the original two seasons of 100 in 100 and have learned and improved their photography. These tips are mostly short, all informative, and designed to help any photographer improve their skills…one day at a time. And be sure to catch up on the previous 200 tips here.

DIYPhotography Contest

Heather — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:38:00 +0000

“A little while back, Alasdair Townsend, one of the makers of Portrait Professional, sent [Udi] a copy of Portrait Professional 8 to play with. Apart from the great fun that [he] had with the software, Alasdair also suggested to give three copies of the studio high end version of Portrait Professional 8 (Valued at $239.95 USD) as contest prizes.”

[via DIYPhotography.net]

I downloaded the trial version of Portrait Professional, and it’s super simple to use and produces pretty cool results.

Here are my contest submissions:
My B&W submision:

My color submission:

my tip:
I like to capture kids (but it works the same for adults) at really natural moments for personally meaningful images. So, I join them in their environment where they are most comfortable and take tons of photos of them playing with their favorite toy, making their typical cute faces, capturing the look of wonder when investigating…

Thanks for the cool opportunity, Udi!