Difference between revisions of "GIMP/C2/Using-Layers-Healing-Cloning-Tools/English-timed"

|And the best way to do this is to work with '''layers'''.

| And now just pull the gray colour into the image and you get a darker image with a dark ship.  

|Coming back to the layer dialog, I can control the intensity of gray colour with the help of opacity slider and by turning the gray layer on and off.  

| For doing that I use a layer mask.  

|I go to the layer named ship and I right click on that layer, and then select the option add layer mask and I select black in Initialize Layer Mask because black helps in hide all the layers & white helps show all the layers.  

|And these other options I’ll explain in future tutorials. Click on add.  

| I can switch the layer on & off, but no effect after adding layer mask.

|To paint into the layer I use white foreground colour & black background colour.  

|I click on the brush tool, go to the option dialog, and select a  brush which is 19 pixels in circle.

| And I again go to the layers dialog to check if the layer mask is selected because I have to paint the layer mask and not the layer.  

| I change the layer mode to normal layer mode & as you see the fore layer in the image is invisible.

|I can undo the unwanted effects simply by pressing ctrl + z and here we are back to paint the layer mask of the ship.  

|I think it’s much easier to paint in normal mode.  

|As we get a gray ship after painting in normal mode, it is easier to differentiate from  background than in Multiply layer mode.  

|To paint into the fine edges of the ship I reduce the brush size.  

|1st is by using the scale to reduce the size of the brush,  

| Open square bracket reduces the brush size and close square bracket increases the size of the brush.

|I want to use the small brush for the details so I press open square bracket.  

|Now I have finish painting the whole ship with a gray layer.  

|And I’ll have to check for the areas where I have overpainted the edge.

| So I switch the layer mode to multiply mode and reduce the opacity slider a bit.

| So I change the foreground colour to black by pressing the x key and start painting into the surface of the river infront of the ship with black colour to make it less darker than the ship.

| I zoom into the image using the zoom mode and I can make the ship a bit darker and brighter just by sliding the opacity slider.

|But I think the colour of the ship is a bit dull and this is possible because the ship layer is above the colour correction layer and they are working before the ship layer so I just drop the ship layer down below the colour correction layers.

| Now I look at the whole image and the shortcut key is Shift+ Ctrl +E.   

|And I think it is a fairly good balance between the background colour, the birds and the ship, perhaps I should slide down a bit with the intensity of the ship.

| When I compare the image ,  without darkening and  the ship layer, the birds and the ship are fairly dark in the ship layer and I think a got a good result by using layer mask for this image.

|For that I select the layer mask to edit it a bit and choose Filter from the tool bar and select blur.

| In blur I choose gaussian blur and go into the part of the ship and I drop down the value of Horizontal radius to 4 and click on ok and blur the layer mask and you can see the effect that the hard edge of the ship is gone and now it looks good.  

|When you look at the image you can see here a bit of wood in the water and on the left side is half a bird which is cut off at the edge and I want to clone them out.  

|So again I choose the zoom tool, and zoom in where the part of wood is and now choose the healing tool.

| Healing tool is bit like the clone tool but it works better in this case here.  

| When I select the healing tool I get a circle with the mouse point but I can’t click into the image & there’s a forbidden sign in the mouse point.

| The forbidden sign is because I haven’t selected the heal source and I can do it with the control and click.

|  I have to select a good heal source and then I have to press Ctrl and click and I think this is a good place as heal source and now click on the wood part.  

|And the problem here is that i am working on the wrong layer.  

|I have to work on the background layer and I was trying to do the edit on the layer mask.  

| Of course I have to choose a background layer and make a copy of that layer because I don’t want to alter the original background layer  

| Now lets try healing tool again.  

| And ofcourse I undo this and select a new source here, alright take that here and just click here and it is gone.

|  For this part I select this part as the source and click and you can see it’s gone.  

|So again I select the healing tool and select the source and clicked on that dots.  

|For this I zoom again into the image here , and  I select the clone tool.  

|Cloning tool is not so complex like healing tools, and I really don’t have a big experience in using this tool as it is new in the GIMP.  

| So I have to follow same procedure like healing tool, I just click here as a source, click on the bird here and I think this works.  

|First I wanted to make this image a bit brighter, but I think I do it as finishing steps andI think it works the way it is now.   

|  And the printer uses an aspect ratio of 3:2 and this image has the aspect ratio 2:1, so now I have to change that.  

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|I can do this with the help of canvas size which is there in image in the tool bar.  

|I select canvas size and see that the image is 1868 pixels wide and the height is 945 and for calculating the ratio I use my calculator.  

|It will fit on top and leave a white strip on the bottom and I don’t resize the layers, just click on OK and now I have an image with little bit of nothing on the bottom.  

|I have to fill the bottom part and for that I choose a '''New Layer''' with '''Layer Fill Type''' White and use this layer as the bottom most layer.