I had also just downloaded Gimp photo editing software on which I could not find the white balancing -and – voila’ ….
After having spent several frustrating hours last night, God directed me to your photo shoot lesson which I found through a generic search for how to take pics of jewelry – and here you were! And – I never even considered using my scanner. I have just started posting my jewelry on Etsy (gemsb圜onny) and I am having a hard time with taking pictures that look good. The auto white balance thing works beautifully, thanks! My pics look better already. Tried this right away, as I already had Gimp, just wasn’t sure what to do with it.
I checked it out and it looks like you can download it for Mac OS X. Thanks so much for your thorough explanation. Thanks againīefore I download Gimp, can you tell me if it will work on a Mac? I checked the website and the webmaster is composed of volunteers who don’t check their email very often. I have it downloaded, but have not used it as it seemed so diffucult, well you have helped that. Thank you so much for your tips on using GIMP. The ability to make even small changes will be so helpful – thanks for sharing this info! ?Ĭan’t wait to try this out! My little laptop didn’t come with an editing program so all my photos are “as is”. And after I’ve done this about 4 times, my batteries need recharging. After about six, my camera memory is full. Thank you for taking the time to comment. I will try with Gimp 2.6.īrother David and Isabela, I am glad you found my article helpful. I can’t wait to upload the great images that Gimp is letting me make with ease. I had been finding my photo editing softward absolutely inadequate to the task of presenting beautiful pictures. Thanks so much for sharing your Gimp photo editing tutorial with us! You’ve just speeded up the learning curve for a lot of jewelry artists who’d like to improve the quality of their photos. Thanks so much for taking us step by step through your process of image editing, Stephenie! The images in this article were edited just as I described here. Gimp photo editing, done the right way, turns an ok photo into a great photo. Any lower and the photo gets too low on clarity. I usually don’t go below 75 on the scale. Most applications or sites want images sized under 100 kilobytes. It tells you the image size in kilobytes (kb). The greater the quality, the greater the image size. Then you can adjust the scale to show the quality of the image. Then another window will open up called Save as JPEG.Ĭheck the Show Preview In Image Window. Many sites like Etsy will resize the photos into thumbnails for you.
The width should be no smaller than 1000 pixels if you want the viewer to be able to zoom in on it. Up will pop a window with the image width and height in pixels. Go to Image in the toolbar menu at the top of the window and select Scale Image. It also helps the viewer to zoom in visually on the jewelry piece. This helps you to get rid of anything in the photo that is not absolutely beautiful. Anything outside of this rectangle will be cropped away.Īfter selecting the area you want to keep, go to Image in the toolbar menu at the top of the window and go down and select Crop to Selection. You use this to drag and select an area of the photo. It is the very first tool in the toolbox. Next is the rectangle select tool in the toolbox. It gets rid of the bluish or reddish cast on the photo that can occur with inadequate or the wrong light.Įditing can help bring out the beautiful true colors in your jewelry.ĥ. This really helps you to get true and accurate colors in your photos. The Gimp photo editing program does it all for you. You open your photo in the image editor and then select Color from the toolbar menu and then Auto, then White Balance.
One of the easiest tools is the auto white balance in Gimp. You don’t want to over edit the jewelry, as then the photo may look different than the actual jewelry.Ĥ. Remember that photo editing software is used to more clearly and accurately show your jewelry. This is the best way I have found to create beautiful photographs of jewelry.ģ. There are also numerous articles on how best to take photos with a digital camera. You can find articles on how to make a light box. Make sure you have some type of light box for taking photos. This increases the chance of taking a good photo.Ģ. I usually take 20-30 photos of each of my pieces. I try to take two pictures of each angle and with each different prop. Take as many pictures from as many different angles, with as many different props, as you can. Stephenie details how to use Gimp to turn OK jewelry photos into great jewelry photos.