GIMP: remove flash reflections in photos

Hello friends! I haven't published anything for a while. Today I bring you a small tutorial on how to improve images with reflections produced by the flash of our camera.

Periodically I take photos of some crafts for a blog and sometimes they come out a bit shiny because of the flash, so making use of GIMP I manage to improve them a bit. I clarify that I am not an expert in image editing and surely this that I present today can be done in other ways.

The version I use is 2.6.10, some things may have changed with the new version of GIMP

Initial analysis

This is the original image quite clearly and bright on the doll's face and his shoes. Here we see the areas that I want to fix, marked with circles.

analysis

Let's do it

1. The first thing I always do with images is use the «Levels»Which allows me to lighten or darken the image and change the contrast among other things.

menu-levels

niveles

2. Then we use the «Pick-color»And select an area close to the one we want to edit, where the image colors do not have the excess brightness that we are going to remove.

dropper-tool

dropper

3.1. Once the new color is obtained, we choose the tool «Mixture». In this case I use the mode normal with an opacity of 53%. For the gradient I chose versus transparent and the way radial.

tool-mix

3.2. We select an area with the pointer and while we hold down the left mouse button, we drag to where we want the tool to act. As I use the radial shape, then a sphere of the chosen color is created that dissolves from the center outwards.

mixture

4. We repeat steps 2 and 3 until we complete the task.

finished

Completed work

pre-post

That's it. It can also be done with different brushes instead of using the blend tool, it all depends on the image. Thanks for reading and I hope you liked my work. Until next time!


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  1.   elav said

    Great! Thanks for the tip

    1.    Joaquin said

      You're welcome Thank you!

  2.   eliotime3000 said

    Very good. What I can't understand is why the hell GIMP editing icons when retouching an image are so big.

    1.    Joaquin said

      Hello how are you.
      If you refer to the icons in the "Toolbox", these can be changed to smaller ones in the preferences.

      They are on the menu:
      Edit -> Preferences -> Theme
      From there you can choose two: "Default" and "Small" which are smaller icons.

      Now, if you mean the pointer that changes shape according to the tool, there are also some options in the preferences, but I think the size cannot be changed. They are not visible in the images because when capturing the screen, the original pointer is captured, not the one modified by each application.

  3.   st0rmt4il said

    Added to favorites!

    Thank you!

  4.   Diego Campos said

    GIMP in KDE?
    I like it 😀 thanks for the tip

    Cheers(:

    1.    pandev92 said

      why not? xd if it can also be used on Windows and osx.

    2.    Joaquin said

      Hi. Sorry I fooled you but it's not KDE.
      It is a theme for Xfce KDE-44-Oxygen
      and also the cursor theme oxygen neon

  5.   Angel_Le_Blanc said

    good tips, suddenly there are such good tricks for the GIMP, Thanks!

    1.    Joaquin said

      Yes, that's the idea: contribute what little we know for those who don't know 😉

  6.   Nonamed said

    interesting, thanks

    1.    Nonamed said

      by the way, I'm using the hurd kernel in a virtual machine and it recognizes me as mac os 😛

  7.   Joaquin said

    Thank you all for your comments!