Any GIMP users out there? Editing advice...

Anyone out there ever use GIMP? Or even if you don't, can someone tell me me if there is a name to this style of photo? (Great photographer by the way). I assume a large part of this is just desaturating the colors and making them warmer tones, however in GIMP I haven't been able to find a good way to do this. When I go into the hue saturation controls and turn down the lightness to create deeper colors, I end up getting odd artifacts along the way. I would love any advice on this people could give me. I've attached a photo to show the artifacts (you can really see them along her face and arms).

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Permalink Reply by Cassie Marshall on June 29, 2009 at 8:02pm
Sorry the photo is a bit smaller than intended. Let me know if you need me to post a larger one.
Permalink Reply by Ceece on June 29, 2009 at 8:26pm
I use GIMP but mostly for cloning and that type of editing, for colors and tones I use Lightroom.
Permalink Reply by Ryan Armbrust on June 29, 2009 at 10:56pm
LIGHTROOM can crank that style of pic out in a split second!
Find a student to order it from the ADOBE link in the sidebar of LPC. I think it is only $99.
Permalink Reply by Ryan Armbrust on June 29, 2009 at 11:04pm


Here are 5 super quick edits. Note the time between my last post and this one. That was the time it took to open lightroom, save your pic, edit it 5 times, upload the 5 pics to LPC and write this post.
Permalink Reply by Cassie Marshall on June 29, 2009 at 11:07pm
Wow...Lightroom it is! This looks like it will save me a ton of time editing! Thanks to both of you. Luckily I'm getting my degree this summer, so I'm technically still a student. Hooray! You can't imagine how happy this just made me. Haha
Permalink Reply by Ryan Armbrust on June 30, 2009 at 12:34am
Oh, I could have posted hundreds of edits!
These were just presets.
Permalink Reply by Shane E. on June 30, 2009 at 4:37pm
In any software that allows curves adjustments and gives the option to move the settings by channel, you can create that type of effect. Generally, if you adjust red, green, or blue separately in Curves, you can create some of the trendy effects that keep popping up.
Permalink Reply by Shane E. on June 30, 2009 at 5:03pm
Here are some examples of effects that I wouldn't give to clients, but it illustrates what I said. This is no artistic achievement. You lower the contrast with the main slider as shown and then work each channel separately.




I believe its good to learn how an effect is accomplished before learning the fast way to do it. These might not be the best examples but it gives you an idea of how to work some unique effects.
Permalink Reply by Cassie Marshall on June 30, 2009 at 6:42pm
Thanks so much! I have played around with the individual colors in curves a bit, but I tend to use levels and forget that those specific color channels exist. I'll definitely fool around with that as well.

Shane E. said:
Here are some examples of effects that I wouldn't give to clients, but it illustrates what I said. This is no artistic achievement. You lower the contrast with the main slider as shown and then work each channel separately.




I believe its good to learn how an effect is accomplished before learning the fast way to do it. These might not be the best examples but it gives you an idea of how to work some unique effects.
Permalink Reply by Ryan Armbrust on July 1, 2009 at 11:41am
I also love to use split toning!

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