(11-19-2023, 07:39 AM)sallyanne Wrote: Going to be pretty hard since the tops of the buildings are the same colour as the sky. I'll give it a try and then let you know how it was done.

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ok I did one and this is what I did.

Before doing the sky go to levels and click on auto input levels. (This will get rid of some of the haziness and boost the colours). Then, I duplicated the layer and used linear burn mode - to make the buildings stand out more. While it was in this mode I selected the sky using scissor select but you can select it anyway you wish. Although fuzzy select will pick up areas you dont want selected this time.  Feather your selection and remove top layer. Make sure your layer mode is back in normal - although it will not matter if you only have one layer now. Then you can add your sky gradient - I have a horizon to sky 'light blue to azure'. The lightest needs to go to the bottom. (I took this gradient from a photo). If you like add a little contrast and that should be all you need unless the photo is blurry and noisy.

(11-19-2023, 01:04 PM)sallyanne Wrote: The intelligent scissors are in the toolbox on the left of the program's screen. Looks like scissors with a line going from it. Is just like the path. Start at a spot and add a node every so often as you go around. When you have finished you need to finish at the first node then hit enter to make the selection active.
Or there are dozens of other ways to make your selection. I don't normally use scissors select but thought I would give it a try this time and it worked well

By the way it could be as simple as selecting your 'sky' with the fuzzy select and then put a gradient in it but as I said the lines are not visible around the top centres of the buildings so the gradient will go in there as well. If Gimp will not do what you want go back to Photoshop

(11-19-2023, 07:30 PM)zeuspaul Wrote: To make the photos clearer experiment with filters/enhance/sharpen followed by filters/enhance/noise reduction.  The attached is with default values.
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(11-20-2023, 12:13 AM)sallyanne Wrote: Looks like you may have your tools in a different area.  Dialogs can be moved to where you want.

I tried to get a pop up by closing all my dialogs but it didn't happen. (Must only be for older versions) Took awhile to get them back too.
If you want a box that looks like a pop-up, left click on the black arrow> then you will have a menu for the current tab, click on detach tab you will have a floating  box like the pop-up box.

Stephen Liu Wrote:It is a very nice toolsbox

(11-20-2023, 11:18 AM)PixLab Wrote:

Stephen Liu Wrote:It is a very nice toolsbox

Top menu Edit > Preferences... in 1,
A window opens go to Interface > Icon Theme in 2 and 3,
then on the right side chose Legacy by clicking on it in 4 (mine is Color) ,
then click on the button in 5 to select Custom icon size,
then increase the size in 6 by moving the slider
and to finish click OK in 7