GIMP - How to Remove Harsh Shadows from a Photo | Photoshop Alternative | #87

GIMP Tutorial #87

Hi Everyone, I'm Daniel, In this Video I'm gonna Show you How to Remove Harsh Shadows from the Person's face using GIMP

Note:
GIMP is the Alternative for Photoshop. Hence you can try this same method in Photoshop as well.

Steps:
1. Open your Imahge in GIMP
2. Windows - Dockable Dialogs - Channels
3. Select Red Channel and Add to Selection
4. Also Select Green and Blue and Add them to selection too
5. Invert the Slection
6. Copy the Selection and Paste as New Layer
7. Change the Pasted Layer Mode to Screen
8. Add Layer Mask with Black
9. With FG as White draw over the Shadows in Layer Mask to get back the effect only on Shadowed Area

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[cosmo]

excellent technique, just one thing to make it better please tell the audience that you must paint with white or it will not work

[kensleylewis]

You took something that is very intimidating "channels" and made it easy to use. Thank you good sir.

[ashleysaechao]

Thanks for sharing! I heard a kid crying in the background which makes this video more relateable :).

[jessicamurphy]

Sun of a gun my teacher took an hour and then some to explain this in a very convoluted way where you did in 3 minutes. THANK YOU

[johnmellor]

Follwed every step but doesn't work for me.

[HumbledBee]

Your info cards are in the way at the end of the video for comparison

[krishnachandrasekhar]

This is so Awessome! Thanks for such as easy technique!

[Akros]

Hi Daniel, great tutorial, I will try that definitely. Thx!

[abhishes]

When I go into channels and click on red and add to selection, green add to selection and blue add to selection it adds almost everything to the selection. in this photo what he has chosen it selects only her face but for me it selects everything else as well.

[diesergeldjunge]

Wow. This was so simple but super effective. You helped me out a lot thank you!

[andand]

Excellent video, loved the method, so useful and easy to do. Many thanks :)

[realityrevolution]

thanks again for your tutorials For some reason my dockable dialog for channels looks different than yours and doesnt show all channel selections at once???? mine includes an alpha layer even if I remove it. ugh

[junyuli]

Can you give a download link of the image you used in the video? Thank you.

[tatucorreia]

which Gimp is this 2.8 or 2.10 please?