Thar Posted August 23, 2014 Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 Been a while since I made something in GIMP. Went down the photomanipulation path and made this: ------ Original: Orange hue (for "sunset" feel): Unsaturated: ------ CnC, please. .xcf is available if you need it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Rai Posted August 23, 2014 Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 It's not massively helpful that all the original stocks are seriously LQ. I'd do some good sourcing of high quality stocks and renders before.You've got to be very careful with colorisation. Do it badly, and you get a very cheap effect. The colours are usually not so saturated, and there should be a spectrum of them: from red to yellow for good tonal interest.obviously from a scientific point of view this kinda makes absolutely no sense so its very difficult to judge either way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thar Posted August 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 It's not massively helpful that all the original stocks are seriously LQ. I'd do some good sourcing of high quality stocks and renders before. How many bytes are we talking about? Cause the Earth and space background stocks were at least 1.5 megs each (Earth was 4.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Rai Posted August 23, 2014 Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 How many bytes are we talking about? Cause the Earth and space background stocks were at least 1.5 megs each (Earth was 4.)Really? Somewhat difficult to remedy, mostly because it's hard to get high quality space photography, especially after having being uploaded on the Internet turned into artifact-filled jpgs. The Earth is fine, but that's partially because it's blurred.Normally, I pass a Surface Blur filter (I'm not sure if there's a GIMP equivalent, someone can tell me) over a stock to smooth out some of the noise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thar Posted August 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 Normally, I pass a Surface Blur filter (I'm not sure if there's a GIMP equivalent, someone can tell me) over a stock to smooth out some of the noise. So it's the noise that makes it LQ. That's understandable, and I believe the GIMP equivalent is "Selective Gaussian Blur." I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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