On Sunday 26 October 2003 16:59, Giuseppe Ghibò wrote: > Speaking of GIMP, anyone knows how to do a correction of a > backlight exposed photo snapshot with GIMP (or cinepaint)?
I've done a bunch of these. Best results I've come up with have resulted from taking an outline of the shadowed subjects with the "intelligent scissors", feathering by a couple pixels, inverting the selection and darkening the overbright part, then selecting none and gamma correcting the whole photo. Usually after that the saturation needs some tweaking and probably the colors need a little correcting, and most digital cameras seem to introduce diginoise into the overly darkened areas that's visible when you brighten them. This is pretty off-topic so please contact me offlist if you need more tips. Rob
