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Need help changing photo-cant make this work - theweblady - 02-15-2020 Hi, Im hoping someone can help me. I have a color photo I need to turn into a coloring book page. Im using gimp 2.10.14 I have tried everything I can find about doing this with older versions of gimp but when I use those directions they don't work as the menu has changed. There doesn't seem to be any documentation on how to do this in this version. Can anyone do me a favor and walk me thru this? When I try it the old way I just wind up with black and white blobs. I am starting with a color photo that is a jpg. I turn it into greyscale. I need to make a duplicate to work on. now what? It needs to wind up a lined pic suitable to use as a coloring page. Thanks so much! RE: Need help changing photo-cant make this work - denzjos - 02-15-2020 Try on a color photo 'Filters / Artistic / Photocopy' and use 'Colour / Curves' or 'Colour / Levels' to finetune. [attachment=3906] [attachment=3907] RE: Need help changing photo-cant make this work - denzjos - 02-15-2020 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 ?????? [attachment=3909] RE: Need help changing photo-cant make this work - rich2005 - 02-15-2020 No curve ? I think it is because that part of the procedure the image is black / white. [attachment=3910] For a colouring book ? Image choice is going to be important. For me the cat, while a lovely subject is a bit too 'busy'. Might be better leaving the background as is, simplify down to outlines, some handwork perhaps. Needs more time devoted to it https://i.imgur.com/nxn5vR2.jpg RE: Need help changing photo-cant make this work - denzjos - 02-15-2020 Ok rich2005, I've zoomed in on the picture and there was only pure black and white. Learned something again. What I want to do was to get rid of some 'noise' pixels to make the picture more clean to color in (I know, it's not the best photo to convert to a drawing). I've blurred the result to get some grey and then used the curve tool, result : [attachment=3911] rich2005, thank you for the clarification RE: Need help changing photo-cant make this work - rich2005 - 02-15-2020 theweblady has posted an image of the cat on gimpusers.com https://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/1360/original/kaia1.jpeg?1581731273 A larger image, easier to tweak but I think needs a different edge detect than Gimp provides. Using the gimp_gmic plugin. Get it from http://www.gmic.eu The windows installer works very well. @theweblady There is a MacOSX version there as well, but when it comes to OSX you lose me I might do it something like: (1) Make it lighter, Colors -> Levels and reduce the max value (2) Desaturate the image Colors -> Desaturate -> Desaturate [attachment=3912] This is where I deviate from basics and use the gmic plugin. (3) In gmic contours -> edges with small-ish values. (please experiment, nothing ever set in stone) The preview does not look promising but with a larger image. (4) Gives this, which I think is more colouring book style...but all depends on the image used, some will be easier than others. [attachment=3913] RE: Need help changing photo-cant make this work - theweblady - 02-16-2020 Thank you so much! They look wonderful! I feel like there is actually a chance that I can make this work- I cannot thank you all enough for all your hard work and advice- Gimp is challenging but I think with the help I have received that I might be able to do this- YOU ROCK!! |