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Geeko This is collection of tips for every day. How to enhance photos: crop, twist in all imaginable ways, sharpen, clean, and whatever comes as a problem. Please share your experience.



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Let we agree about names

It would be nice if we could use all nice words in normal vocabulary to describe what we want to do with photo and what GIMP functions to use, but than it will take long time to write directions. To make it shorter we should use words that graphic trade invented to make conversation short, but then we need to agree what those words mean. GIMP Vocabulary will try to give explanation, but for now we need only few of them. Here is crash course.

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Change size

Problem: You have very large photo that will take forever to send via email. You want to make it smaller.
Solution: Use Image - Resize


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Crop

Problem: Your photo shows a lot more than what you want to present. You want to cut out superficial part of the image that spoil impression.
Solution: Use Image - Crop


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Sharpen

Problem: You scanned your old photos, but some images are not really sharp. You want to improve them.
Solution 1: Use Filter - Enhance - Sharpen
Solution 2: Use Filter - Enhance - Unsharp mask


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Smudge

Problem: You have scanned an image but wish to smudge it.
Solution 1: Use Image - Smudge image


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Fill Image

Problem: You have an image but you want to entirely fill it with colour.
Solution: Use Image - Fill with a colour or pattern


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Zoom

Problem: You have an image and you want to zoom in or out.
Solution 1: Use Image - Zoom In
Solution 2: Use Image - Zoom Out


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