Gimp Tutorial: How to brighten shadowed subjects

hello everybody and we're going to go through to fix this image which I want to lighten the subject now by the way this is my brother and we want to lighten this without affecting the background so we want to concentrate on this part and we're going to achieve this in game this is the result I think I went the bit too high with blue here but let's jump to the to the software let's go to him ok game ok now that we have the image here what I'm going to do is grab this layer and duplicate it and we're going to concentrate on this one we're going to go to colors curves and we're going to lighten image around there ok so I'm going to I'm only going to concentrate on the subject and and I think that's pretty good actually so let's just leave it there but I don't want anything else to be affected so I'm going to write me on this and add a layer mask ok I'm going to set it black full transparency so the way this works as you can see is that pretty much nothing happened here because everything is black so whatever is black is not going to apply to the image the curves we already worked and they're not going to apply to this image we have to paint it white as you can see here I'm just going to switch to white the paintbrush and by selecting the layer I'm going to start painting white so it applies what we used it with the with the layer mask with with the curves that we switch the value okay so that's a really quick and fast tip for this how to line it the pictures when you and set the exposure exposure right and well let's let's just go back and forth this is before this is after you can see we don't touch anything else anymore and we have the subject it's already lighten up okay so well that was just a quick tip of how to lighten subjects and I funny exposure situations and I mean you could do it lots of things with this okay and well that's the power of layer mask and I hope that helped you

Channel: Oscar Moreno Fosado

Views: 165,936

Keywords: GIMP (Software), Brighten subject, brigthen people, back lit lighting

Id: XcL7TIolm6Q

Length: 2min 51sec (171 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 10 2014

Reddit Comments

[u/ChewieGriffin]

In Lightroom I just need to drag 2 sliders to get the same result

[u/Nexus_of_Fate87]

Now draw a circle.

[u/Drops_of_dew]

Cant you just select the person with the magic wand tool, and increase the brightness of the selection?

This is a really crappy tutorial.