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Black and White photography is a big topic that deserves entire books devoted to the subject. In this article we are going to explore some of the most common methods for converting a color digital image into monochrome in GIMP. There are a few things you should focus on in regards to preparing your images for a B&W conversion.

B&W negatives.

Apologies if this is all too obvious (except for me?), but is there a way to convert a black & white negative (scanned) to a positive, in Gimp (now, alas, using Windows 8, for the moment). I thought there was (perhaps it was distant memories of my Photoshop days, using Mac? :))?

Thanks in advance for any pointers.

Henry

B&W negatives.

On 13-08-13 02:39 PM, Henry W. Peters wrote:

Apologies if this is all too obvious (except for me?), but is there a way toconvert a black & white negative (scanned) to a positive, in Gimp

Right click the image -> Colors -> Invert

B&W negatives.

On 8/13/2013 6:27 PM, Kevin Cozens wrote:

On 13-08-13 02:39 PM, Henry W. Peters wrote:

Apologies if this is all too obvious (except for me?), but is there a way to
convert a black & white negative (scanned) to a positive, in Gimp

Right click the image -> Colors -> Invert

Thanks Kevin, live & learn!

Henry

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Black and White photos

Black and White Yearbook pictures that people have signed their name across their face. Wondering if there is a way to remove whatever they wrote on the picture? have tried using various tools such as the healing tool but; writing across the face especially over the eyes prove to be problematic. Does anyone know a method that works to remove the writing and leave the face intact?

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Hi,

On 29.1.2016 at 8:52 AM Oulefty wrote:

Black and White Yearbook pictures that people have signed their name acrosstheir face. Wondering if there is a way to remove whatever they wrote on thepicture? have tried using various tools such as the healing tool but; writingacross the face especially over the eyes prove to be problematic. Does anyoneknow a method that works to remove the writing and leave the face intact?

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I would try the Clone brush first, then the Healing brush.Another option is
1. select the writing, feather the selection's edges,2. desaturate with the Hue-Saturation-Tool or the Colorize-Tool,3. brighten/darken (or dodge/burn) to match the surrounding areas.Also the Resynthesizer plug-in is a choice, tho I think as thebackground is homogeneous, the former tools with some practice aresufficient.

Greetings

Sven

Black and White photos

On Fri, 2016-01-29 at 08:52 +0100, oulefty wrote:

Black and White Yearbook pictures that people have signed their nameacross their face. Wondering if there is a way to remove whateverthey wrote on the picture?

It's difficult. Or at least it takes practice and patience.

Tricks like coying an eye and using flip and perspective and curves andmaybe a gradient fill over it in Darken mode (or dodge/burn with alarge brush) to match the 'damaged' eye as much as possible, and alayer mask to show the replacement 'eye' as little as possible. In theexample you showed this isn't necessary though.

If it came from print, scan the picture at a reasonably high resolution- at least 300dpi but maybe 1200 - so you can get closer to the penstrokes and so the jpeg artifacts won't be a problem. Ideally scan topng and not jpeg.

You can select by colour to get all of the green pen and then usecolour balance curves, etc on the feathered selection. First copy andpaste as new layer, or duplicate the whole layer, so you can stillaccess the original.

It's almost always best to start with tools that will affect largeareas, e.g. all the green, at the same time.

There are actually books on restoring photos, e.g. 'Digital restorationfrom start to finish' although they tend to assume you're using AdobePhotoShop.

Liam

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El sáb, 30-01-2016 a las 15:53 -0500, Liam R. E. Quin escribió:

On Fri, 2016-01-29 at 08:52 +0100, oulefty wrote:

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Black and White Yearbook pictures that people have signed theirname
across their face. Wondering if there is a way to remove whateverthey wrote on the picture?

Painting a selection over the signatures and using resynthesize toreconstruct the pixels behind the strokes could work, at leastpartially, then some manual healing/cloning.

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Gez.