Calling anyone with mad Gimp skillz

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Here is a photo from the other week:

You can see what’s wrong with it. How can I fix it using The Gimp? It has all manner of tools to smudge it, blur it, change the colours and whatnot but I haven’t found a decent way to just make bits lighter or darker.

In an ideal world I’d go back when it’s sunny and the lighting is more consistent, but as we still appear to be in the middle of a proper British winter (next weekend’s forecast is for more snow! At the end of March! What?!) that isn’t really an option…

Ta muchly

Phil

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is that 4 differnt pics spliced to gether?

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this is my quick effort of fixin it in photoshop

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England has weird weather patterns.

Seriously, why does the picture look splices all around?

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I AM the Gimp

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what is GIMP? is it a program loke photoshop?
if so, where do you get it?
i havre been having trouble getting photoshop for my computer, i have an old and buggy photoshop, and im looking for a new photoshop situation

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its a freeware program a lot like photoshop, its sooo good.
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You need to adjust the individual pics with exposure first,

… then splice them together

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Theoretically yes, but that’s prohibitively time consuming for four photos let alone a shot with more, and even then it’s never going to be perfect if the lighting conditions aren’t very consistent.

I refuse to believe there is no “blend” function or somesuch, but I can’t find it.

Phil

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Next time take the photos with manual exposure so the exposure is the same for all the photos. :wink:

Google for gimp panorama or gimp panorama tutorial. The search results look promising. I don’t actually do Gimp or Photoshop. But I do do Google.

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Yeah, it’s much easier to get the sections to match each other while they are still separate images or layers. Trying to reselect the segments exactly along the seams in the flattened image is a pain. It looks like the adjustments wouldn’t be difficult really; just a bit of basic brightness, contrast and color balance tweaking would probably make the seams almost unnoticeable.

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That relies on having a camera with a manual mode!

Besides, unless the sun was high or hidden using the same exposure for every photo would mean most of them weren’t exposed properly, because one setting probably won’t work all the way round. My brother’s camera has a “panorama mode” that keeps the exposure the same, but when we tried it over Christmas the shots towards the sun were far too bright and the shots away were far too dark.

Phil

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Yay… extremely faint white airbrush set to “value” and hey presto…

I haven’t done the heath on the leftmost join and the hillside on the rightmost one has gone a bit fuzzy but I think it’s good enough to leave it at that.

Phil

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Looks good!

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wow, that is beautiful!

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well i’m pretty good at photoshop, but i use a mac, and gimp is sort of weird on macs. But here i did a little bit, no too much though: