02-15-2020, 10:45 AM
There is another way to get a BW drawing to color :
- load the photo
- copy the layer ( name it BW)
- Colours / Desaturate / Desaturate
- copy the layer BW (name it INVERT)
- invert the INVERT layer : Colours / Invert
- set the layer mode on the INVERT layer to 'Hard Mix'
- on the layer INVERT : Filters / Blur / Gaussian Blur (value 3 or 4)
- merge the layer INVERT down withe the layer BW
- delete the photo layer
- use the curves / levels to finetune the result
- use Colours / Brightness-Contrast to finetune more
One remark : I can't use the curve / levels on the result picture. I have to export it to a .jpg file and then load this file back in Gimp. A bug in Gimp 2.10.14 (windows 10) ????? or do I miss something ??????
- load the photo
- copy the layer ( name it BW)
- Colours / Desaturate / Desaturate
- copy the layer BW (name it INVERT)
- invert the INVERT layer : Colours / Invert
- set the layer mode on the INVERT layer to 'Hard Mix'
- on the layer INVERT : Filters / Blur / Gaussian Blur (value 3 or 4)
- merge the layer INVERT down withe the layer BW
- delete the photo layer
- use the curves / levels to finetune the result
- use Colours / Brightness-Contrast to finetune more
One remark : I can't use the curve / levels on the result picture. I have to export it to a .jpg file and then load this file back in Gimp. A bug in Gimp 2.10.14 (windows 10) ????? or do I miss something ??????