5 Tips for Sharper Photos in GIMP

In this GIMP tutorial, I provide 5 tips for sharper photos. I provide in-camera tips for producing a sharper photo BEFORE you import the photos onto your computer and into GIMP. I also show you the best technique when using a sharpening filter inside of this free photo editor to reduce color noise, chromatic aberrations, or other imperfections when sharpening.
This is a great tutorial for beginner photographers and beginner GIMP users. I also show you how to make adjustments to your image (though I have other tutorials better suited for that if you want to get into the details) and also provide the best way to export your image for a sharper final result.
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  • @marcoinvesting5339
    @marcoinvesting53394 жыл бұрын

    I particularly agree with your choice of pictures

  • @icebearreal

    @icebearreal

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hahahahahaha, nice sense of humour.

  • @Windsorsillest
    @Windsorsillest11 ай бұрын

    As always another great video appreciate you so much. Gimp was absolutely alien to me until I found your videos!!!

  • @markgholson9222
    @markgholson922229 күн бұрын

    I use floating dialog boxes. I put a smaller LAB box down below, then I have the bigger Original box above. So when I recompose with LAB I can instantly see the results on the original image.

  • @southernexposure123
    @southernexposure1232 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the video and for explaining about radius and what that adjustment affects.

  • @jeganj
    @jeganj2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much Davies media design for best impact

  • @vickilyn
    @vickilyn4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!! I have always just taken my final image and then used the Sharpen (Unsharp Mask) filter. Unfortunately, as you mentioned, this often affects the edges so on some images I still have to play around with the colors before I am satisfied with it. I often wondered how to use the Decompose option and I plan on using that method more often.

  • @RU-qv3jl
    @RU-qv3jl7 ай бұрын

    Good video. I personally don’t like the global sharpening effect of the USM filter. I prefer to work on various levels of detail. As such I still decompose the image but then I use wavelet decompose on the luminosity layer. I do all my work on the decomposed luminosity layers until I am happy and then copy visible and paste over the luminosity layer. Then I recompose and the original image takes on the sharpness that I wanted. I have found that in that manner I get more control and also fewer unwanted artefacts.

  • @rolliegarcia3713
    @rolliegarcia37132 жыл бұрын

    I'm here for GIMP tricks, promise

  • @SJQuirke
    @SJQuirke2 жыл бұрын

    this was indeed useful - thank you

  • @angelluismillan
    @angelluismillan3 жыл бұрын

    Very clear. I use the well known method with a layer copied in luminance mode, but these ones are better. I prefer the second method: the first slightly increases brightness, not the second.

  • @JackOgden
    @JackOgden Жыл бұрын

    Hi - going the Decompose - Lab route is great - Thanks. I am not sure it was available in pre-2.10 GIMP, but now at least you can shorten the process by copying the image to a new layer then choosing Components > Extract Component> LAB L which gives you the grey-scale LAB layer without having to decompose and copy and paste back the lab component. BTW I find this combined with the G/MIC > Details > Gradient gives me the best sharpening for my purposes. Thanks for all your excellent Tutorials!

  • @cosmo0080
    @cosmo00804 жыл бұрын

    i could see the 2nd method had better results thank you

  • @Twobarpsi
    @Twobarpsi Жыл бұрын

    Great tutorial!

  • @ChessGrandmaster
    @ChessGrandmaster3 жыл бұрын

    Just brilliant

  • @sytitan
    @sytitan4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @AstroDork
    @AstroDork Жыл бұрын

    Great tutorial. In fact I'm working my way through all your GIMP tutorials among others. Who's the young lady... she has a name?

  • @tajongsylvanus2440
    @tajongsylvanus24404 жыл бұрын

    Please do a tutorial on heal tool and fuzzy tool as well🙏

  • @retror.d.1630
    @retror.d.16304 жыл бұрын

    Lol I’ll be the first to comment on those two nice 🤗

  • @gerobokdapur8165
    @gerobokdapur81654 жыл бұрын

    👍👍

  • @MarcEspie
    @MarcEspie3 жыл бұрын

    For the sharpen tip, how about this: do the LCh Luminance filter for the real time preview. Then delete it, do ctrl-f on the decomposed image and recompose ? I expect the parameters are pretty much going to be what you want, and that way you avoid skewing the colors.

  • @shanesterling1983

    @shanesterling1983

    2 жыл бұрын

    exactly

  • @suggestssoyam1914
    @suggestssoyam19143 жыл бұрын

    I CAME TO LEARN GIMP EDITING BUT HIS IMAGES KEEPS ME DISTRACTING. SO BEAUTIFUL GIRLS. JUST WOW GIRLS .. I MEAN EDITING

  • @sprinkles_091
    @sprinkles_0912 жыл бұрын

    my images keep looking really pixelated when i try to bring the into gimp, especially when i try to put the print onto something really small. how to i keep my image quality, but still have an image that is only 100x100 but i need it to look HD. i make decor for the sims 4 and am trying to put a print on a coffee cup. lol

  • @gv9359
    @gv93599 ай бұрын

    Dude. . . that image though

  • @laoschild86
    @laoschild864 жыл бұрын

    Would it lose quality if saved as png format?

  • @minepro1206

    @minepro1206

    4 жыл бұрын

    No, but it's better to use tiff for anything except transparent graphics.

  • @sparkytheguy1220
    @sparkytheguy12203 жыл бұрын

    omg you are so handsome with the beard and your haircut! don't change your look. :)

  • @bigii
    @bigii2 жыл бұрын

    Check The volume of your video bro

  • @Jr8uup
    @Jr8uup2 жыл бұрын

    Aren't you worried that hot chick will find out about taking photos of her with the telephoto lens and sharpening them up for "educational" purposes? JK thanks for your help.

  • @kaleightucker5479
    @kaleightucker54794 жыл бұрын

    What is your advice on exporting an image to upload to Facebook?

  • @DaviesMediaDesign

    @DaviesMediaDesign

    4 жыл бұрын

    Facebook is going to end up compressing the image to whatever size it wants the image to be, and it has size limitations, so you'll want to export to JPEG.

  • @kaleightucker5479

    @kaleightucker5479

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@DaviesMediaDesign, ok. Thank you.

  • @PaigeWhite
    @PaigeWhite4 жыл бұрын

    Why don't you do livestreams anymore?

  • @DaviesMediaDesign

    @DaviesMediaDesign

    4 жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately they weren't performing as well as I would have liked them to.

  • @PaigeWhite

    @PaigeWhite

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@DaviesMediaDesign Well that's too bad because I enjoyed them. 😥

  • @DaviesMediaDesign

    @DaviesMediaDesign

    4 жыл бұрын

    I enjoyed doing them - but sometimes the numbers just don’t work out :/

  • @coldstuff9784
    @coldstuff97842 жыл бұрын

    lol you just had to use an image like that didn't you?

  • @marcus3d
    @marcus3d4 жыл бұрын

    Nonono, do all the edits EXCEPT sharpening before downscaling it, but ALWAYS sharpen last. That's because the resize will introduce softness due to interpolation.

  • @DaviesMediaDesign

    @DaviesMediaDesign

    4 жыл бұрын

    I understand the logic, but I simply disagree that you should wait to sharpen till after you scale. You are going to lose pixels regardless when you scale because of interpolation, but I think the sharpening looks better when it's performed on the original image versus the scaled image. Plus, you can save your original image with the sharpening, and come back to it any time and scale it down for any project or medium. I have run the tests and this is what I prefer. You can still get good results sharpening the scaled image, though. Simply turn down the radius before cranking up the amount.

  • @marcus3d

    @marcus3d

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@DaviesMediaDesign I did some more tests now, too, and found that the best results seem to be when sharpening both before AND after the resize. Do a slightly-less-than-normal sharpening before the resize, and then do another slightly-less-than-normal sharpening after it (with radius

  • @johngilbert3405
    @johngilbert34056 ай бұрын

    YOU TALK TO MUCH