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I have only duplicated layers when creating in GIF format, suppose you have 5 layers and you duplicate the 5th layer, when the GIF is created, the 5th layer will then be viewed for longer...then the cycle begins again ie: 1...2...3...4...5...5..5.....depending on how many times you duplicate the 5th layer will determin the length of viewing time in the GIF.
I hav`nt used ot for anything else.
General Winters: I am missing a step somewhere when trying to use color curves as you suggested. Every time I try to use color curves, it shows colors everywhere in the photo except where I want it to show--in the T-shirt! The T-shirt stays white while everything else turns colors. So finally I thought maybe if I used "invert" that it would reverse the colors so that the shirt was no longer white--but evidently that is not what the invert tool is for. So I discarded that image. Then next I tried to use the original again but this time by using the rectangle tool and using bucket to throw red paint on the T-Shirt. I figured it would not make any difference if I got out of line with the red on the T-shirt because I was going to add/duplicate another original layer over the top of the first layer that I had used paint bucket on and with the second layer I was only going to have to use the erase tool for the white t-shirt and have the red beneath to come through. But when I hit "duplicate" layer, naturally it showed me the same image of the bottom layer that I had just edited with paint bucket. So next I tried dragging the original photo (a duplicate of the original bottom layer) over on top of the first layer and use the erase tool on the white T-shirt of the second layer. But I still missed another step somewhere because when I tried erasing the white T-shirt, instead of seeing red come through, all I could see was a barely pink color. After I finish editing the first layer, (the background layer), what do I do next before importing another layer, such as the photo as it originally looked liked before I edited it? I know this is not making much sense the way I am wording it, but I just wanted to know how to add the same photo back on top of the first layer in the state it was originally. And how do I get it to let me erase to the red color of the bottom layer with the erase tool--not barely pink--so that the red layer shows up in the second layer? I really like the idea of the way you did your color curve, but some where I missed doing something since I could not make it work for me. It would have been so much simpler to me if I could have used that method to change the shirt color. When you said, "then on the top layer, add a layer mask and--how did you add a layer mask, I mean where did you go or what tool did you use to make a layer mask? And when you said "paint out", did you mean paint out using the erase tool and a brush? I think one of the reason I am messing up so badly is because I don't really understand how you duplicate a layer without duplicating the background layer that you have edited. What makes all of this so bad, is I only wanted to edited this one picture of this woman so that I could layer her photo into another photo with all her friends in it. It was her request not to have her wearing a white t-shirt to use in the bigger picture with her friends. So when and if I ever get her photo right, will I have to save it as a JPEG file or gimps extension file so that I can use it again to insert into the other photo? I know this is a lot of questions, but I am so lost and am about ready to give up on GIMP--just so frustrated :mad:!Quote:
"paint out" the area you want to change to reveal the background layer that has had its color changed"
I am about to leave the house to take my husband to work (75 miles from home), so it will be a while before I can get back here to check for any of your answers.
Thanks,
Ok, how to change a white t shirt into another colour t shirt.
Fast and dirty way, ie that takes the least time.
Load an image.
https://discussions.virtualdr.com/im.../2009/08/8.jpg
Make sure the layers window is open, and right click,, duplicate layer. (You want to make a duplicate layer before any editing, infact you can make a second or third or fourth, duplicate layer if you want, as spares, and so you can compare the image you are working on back to the original, you can hide the spare layers by clicking on the eye)
https://discussions.virtualdr.com/im.../2009/08/9.jpg
On the top layer we will add the layer mask, and paint out the tshirt to reveal the bottom layer, the bottom layer will have the changed colour.
You should see this.
https://discussions.virtualdr.com/im...2009/08/10.jpg
Click the eye icon on the top layer to hide it for the moment, then click the bottom layer to make it active.
Select the bucket fill tool, select a colour you like, set opacity down around 40-50%, if you keep it at 100%, the entire layer will be totally filled with opaque colour, set affected area as "fill whole selection", and click in the image to fill with the colour.
Select a reasonable colour to add, its easy to select a really bright colour, that makes the wearer look like they are radioactive !
You will now have a layer washed with the colour.
Right click the top layer, add layer mask (white full opacity)
https://discussions.virtualdr.com/im...2009/08/11.jpg
Hover the mouse over the top layer, where the eye should be, click in the box, to bring back the eye ( to unhide the layer)
Then, using black, paint over the top layer on the t shirt, this will reveal the coloured layer below.
https://discussions.virtualdr.com/im...2009/08/12.jpg
You should end up with an image such as,
https://discussions.virtualdr.com/im.../2009/08/6.jpg
To play around with the colour, select the lower layer, and use the various options such as Colors-Hue and Saturation or Colors-Brightness Contrast.
For example, since i added a blue colour to the shirt, on the Hue/Saturation screen i would click the B radio button to select to adjust blue, and move the sliders below around to adjust.
Infact moving the hue slider around can totally change the colour, allowing you to change radically the colour, ie to green and even pink !
Brightness - contrast is a useful screen, it helps to add "definition" to the colour, when you tweak the contrast, otherwise the colour can be a little flat as per above.
Contrast adjusted.
https://discussions.virtualdr.com/im.../2009/08/7.jpg
This was just a quick run through as its after 130am here, so you can be more careful than i was in the masking ( lots of little white original edges showing above ), plus you can play around with the color options, contrast etc, to made it more realistic.
Thank you for posting such detailed instructions. It is also late here now, not as late as where you are, but time for me to go to bed, but I will start trying out your instructions tomorrow. I have saved them and printed them out so I shouldn't have any more trouble. I spent all day today just on that one image that we have been talking about. I have saved so many messed up photos it is unreal. I still have not found that "eye" that you keep talking about, but will look again tomorrow. I have used GIMP so much today that it kept crashing on me, so I am sure I was using too much memory--all for one simple photo! I will get back to you as soon as I have tried out your instructions.
Appreciatively,
The Eye..Quote:
Originally Posted by gypsy63
https://discussions.virtualdr.com/im.../2009/08/5.jpg
I just came here and found your post about the "eye". I have always known what the eye looked like, I just did not know where to find it. So today I spent hours on Google Images with a search for GIMP's eye icon, hoping it would show me exactly where to find it. But every time I saw anything about it, it was shown in a drop down menu with an eye next to photos. I just wanted to know how you got to this so I could see all the layers listed--and be able to switch back and forth between the layers. So finally, I thought, maybe my Gimp doesn't show the eye listed on my screen, so I learned how to "snip" in Vista to make a screen-shot of my desktop--but first I opened my GIMP with my T-shirt lady in it (and with the 4th layer showing), and I snipped this photo of my GIMP open screen. Then I uploaded the image to Image Shack so I could post the photo here. Been so long since I did this, I only hope I posted the photo correctly in this thread. I wanted to post a better pic than the one I am going to post, but for some reason Image Shack would not let me upload any other shots of my snipped photos. I will ask 2 question after I post this photo about the picture that you posted.
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/3280/gimpsceen.gif
Now for my question about your photo of the eye. Is the way you get to the eye is by going through Layers, Channels, Paths, etc as I saw at the top of your screen? Because if that is the only way you can access it then that is why I have not been able to find it. If it is listed on the screen itself, can you look at my screen shot and tell me exactly where you see it? Also, once I get to the step where the layers are listed, is this when and how you rename them? As you can see by my screen-shot of my lady in the white T-shirt, it would be very hard to make a good photo of her to go onto a public library picture, so my thought was once I got through with editing her photo, it would be a kindness to her to add something in front of her, from waist down, (once I put her on the tree) like a book cart or something. She is not a paid employee of our library, but a volunteer, (and a very nice person), so I guess they can't really say anything to her about dressing professionally for her job. She does have shorts under that T-shirt, you just can't see it in the photo. I have a large photo of a "library tree of books" and I am layering the different employees all through out the tree and then the library is going to print it out and frame it to put on display at the library for all to see. That is one reason I am trying to be so careful with what I am doing with these photos. I am doing this for the library for free, just because I think so much of everyone there--this is not a paid assignment.
Thanks,
Open the layers window.
Either windows- dockable dialogs -layers
Or ctrl-L
You could also check to see if its already open, but hidden behind the toolbox window, you can drag the toolbox around by left clicking and holding the mouse on the title bar of the toolbox window, or if you move the mouse to the edges of the toolbox, you can resize the window.
Recent versions of the gimp automatically have the main window, the toolbox window and a large combined window with the layers, brushes, channels and paths, open at the start.
You could either download a new version, the installer version or a portable version, or check to see if your version of gimp has the combined window, by checking to see if in gimp windows - recently closed docks - there is a choice to enable it.
https://discussions.virtualdr.com/im.../2009/08/3.jpg
This is what the window looks like.
https://discussions.virtualdr.com/im.../2009/08/4.jpg
I was just about to send you a PS. After my last post I looked up your time zone to see what the difference was between where you lived and where I lived and you are 5 hours ahead of me. So I setup my Vista clock to let me know what time it will be where you live so I won't post anything to you too late. I am so sorry if I have kept you late up in the past, answering my questions, so I will check out your time zone from now on before I post you anything.
Now I will get back to studying and trying out all you have tried to teach me about GIMP and let you get a good night's sleep.
Your Friend,
I finally not only finished the lady in the white T-shirt but also finished the whole project once I got through with the T-shirt. I had to use 3 different editing programs to do it, but after much experimenting around with all of the different programs, I think she will like what I did with her T-Shirt--looks almost like a short dress now. I think my 2 problems with making this project, is that it was a big project and I had never used GIMP before trying such a big project--and since I have never used Photo-shop either, everything was very unfamiliar to me. And the second thing is I think I got over saturated from reading so many articles on how to use GIMP and watching dozens of videos about GIMP--it was just too much to take in all at once--I was too overloaded with information and then could not remember half of what I saw and read. I am posting the complete project here so that you can see how it finally all turned out. But just remember when you look at it, this was my first real project using GIMP and I know it is not perfect. I just did my best and hopefully I will learn by all my mistakes when I was completing this project. Here it is:
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/1...friendsmys.jpg
Sorry I some how messed up copying & pasting the code here, but at least you can see it.
Thank you both, General Winters and Jawdeeboy for all your help and your patience with me.
Your Friend,
Corrected the [ missing in front of the URL .
The picture is now clickable.
Excellent work, a nice idea.
I realize that the large photo that I posted did not really give you a good view of what I did with the lady in the T-shirt, so I thought I would post a close up view of her here--my last photo posting.
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/8088/ramonas.th.jpg
You'll have to click on the small picture to see a larger version of it to really see the details better. I have not yet figured out what option to choose in Imageshack to up load the photos to make them look larger on this forum.
Just a few notes about the larger photo I made of the tree. The lady in the blue shirt under the tree, with the hat, did not have a hat on when I took her picture. I did not realize until I transferred her picture to my PC that I had not gotten part of the top of her head. So that was why I stuck a hat on her head (with her permission when I told her the problem). And the woman standing next to the woman in the brown shirt at the bottom of the tree, right side, originally her hand was on the front of her husband's red shirt and her other arm was around the back of her husband. It took a lot of finagling to get her erased out from her husband and implant her hand on her friend's shoulder when I added her to the tree. The woman on the left side of the tree, the blond with the glasses, had something in front of her that was very large and white, like Kleenexes or something, so I put books over the top of the white unidentified object. The older lady in pink at the top of the tree on the right side, was bent over something when I got her picture taken so that left her with no arms showing when I wanted to put her on the tree, so that was why I put a photo copier in front of her--so as not to show her with no arms. The only man who was on the tree was completely my fault why he looked so dark. I made the mistake of having him pose outside where the day was very bright-hence, he was as bright as the clouds that were behind him. No editing program I had would let me fix him right. So I just have to live with that bad photography mistake.
Anyway, just wanted to show you a better photo of the lady that use to have a white T-shirt, and give you a little history on the making of that tree.
Thanks,
Those are plenty big enough and by letting them be clickable like that, all is just fine!
Good work!!