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Kexolino
July 28th, 2011, 07:49 AM
I was searching around yesterday for a plugin for GIMP that can basically reduce and enhance shadows and/or highlights, and a I found the shadows & highlights script, which works, kind of, but is very slow, and it being a script, there's no preview.

So has anybody got/found a python plugin for this?
It would be really useful. My solution for quite some time has been to use Picasa. I have actually used Picasa before GIMP a lot, then switched over to GIMP in hope of improving... After quite a while I decided that I need both :mrgreen: I really don't like post processing though, to me that's not the point of it all, though I'm not a pro, or (pro) wedding photographer or something...

ac_d600
July 28th, 2011, 06:11 PM
The best program that I have found for handling shadows and/or highlights is
Lightzone (http://www.lightcrafts.com/lightzone/). Sorta like Picasa on steroids, easy to use, but very powerful. :)

Kexolino
July 28th, 2011, 08:04 PM
The best program that I have found for handling shadows and/or highlights is
Lightzone (http://www.lightcrafts.com/lightzone/). Sorta like Picasa on steroids, easy to use, but very powerful. :)

I tried it out, but didn't like it too much. I find that the color levels tool in GIMP does the same job as Picasa's shadows and highlights, though it's a bit harder to use. I kinda overlooked this, because all the tutorials I have seen make use of it in a specific way. So I guess I have learned to try out things first in depth, then search around.

ac_d600
July 28th, 2011, 08:41 PM
The biggest reason I like using Lightzone or Picasa (which I'm using less and less
of now) is the speed I can go though pictures and quickly fix the ones It think are
worth saving. Gimp is great but its just too much software for my needs.

Kexolino
July 28th, 2011, 08:49 PM
Yes, it can be hassle. I personally use two workspaces for doing the photography stuff: on one of them I put the new photos from the camera on the comp, then look through them in an image viewer. Than the ones I think are worth editing, and uploading, I open with a right click > open with GIMP on the other workspace. Works pretty well if you have GIMP already open. Most likely this doesn't work as good as an all in one program, but I got used to it.

ac_d600
July 28th, 2011, 09:07 PM
I'm just about to install Digikam on my Gnome laptop, not so much for the image
processing but more for the photo management. So I hope I like it enough to justify
the large download. :D

23dornot23d
July 28th, 2011, 09:21 PM
There is a link here that may help a little ..... for a process to use ..... LINK (http://gimps.de/en/tutorials/gimp/picture-photo-image/brighten-lighten/index.htm)