Lighting and Contrast with GIMP

This week went much more smoothly. For some reason last week every time I clicked a tool it simply wouldn't actually give me that tool. Not sure why, but the last few times I've used GIMP it's worked as it's supposed to, though I haven't changed anything. I realized after the fact that I should have been writing down each thing I did though as now I can't remember step by step what I did.

For this first image I cropped it and then desaturated the entire image. I then adjusted the levels, set the black point, and balanced the hues. After that I used the clone tool to erase the croc. I thought about getting rid of the "green eye" that Toby (the dog) has going on, but in the end I decided I liked the glow. I chose to make these changes in order to bring the focus onto Steven and Toby and best emphasize the effect of the glass table on the right.                                                            

The second image I made the shoe into it's own layer. Next I desaturated the background layer. I then anchored the shoe and used the clone tool to fix the edges where it meets the steps. After that I adjusted the hues until voila. Not sure which of these I actually like more. Mostly I chose this one because it fit what I wanted to play with.

~beth

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