Making Skies dramatic in GIMP

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 20, 2010

[ Thanks to Mike for this link.
]

“An easy way to make ordinary white cloud on blue skies
into dramatic significant parts of your photographs. This is a very
simple trick to do in GIMP and the results are great!

“1. Starting

* Open your image up in GIMP – preferably with plenty of
sky!
* Duplicate your Background Layer (set to multiply):
* And go, Colors –> Components –> Channel
Mixer:

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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