5 Tips for Sharper Photos in GIMP

[@marcoinvesting5339]

I particularly agree with your choice of pictures

[@icebearreal]

Hahahahahaha, nice sense of humour.

[@Windsorsillest]

As always another great video appreciate you so much. Gimp was absolutely alien to me until I found your videos!!!

[@southernexposure123]

Thank you for the video and for explaining about radius and what that adjustment affects.

[@vickilyn]

Thank you!! I have always just taken my final image and then used the Sharpen (Unsharp Mask) filter. Unfortunately, as you mentioned, this often affects the edges so on some images I still have to play around with the colors before I am satisfied with it. I often wondered how to use the Decompose option and I plan on using that method more often.

[@rolliegarcia3713]

I'm here for GIMP tricks, promise

[@jeganj]

Thank you so much Davies media design for best impact

[@RU-qv3jl]

Good video. I personally don’t like the global sharpening effect of the USM filter. I prefer to work on various levels of detail. As such I still decompose the image but then I use wavelet decompose on the luminosity layer. I do all my work on the decomposed luminosity layers until I am happy and then copy visible and paste over the luminosity layer. Then I recompose and the original image takes on the sharpness that I wanted. I have found that in that manner I get more control and also fewer unwanted artefacts.

[@JackOgden]

Hi - going the Decompose - Lab route is great - Thanks. I am not sure it was available in pre-2.10 GIMP, but now at least you can shorten the process by copying the image to a new layer then choosing Components > Extract Component> LAB L which gives you the grey-scale LAB layer without having to decompose and copy and paste back the lab component. BTW I find this combined with the G/MIC > Details > Gradient gives me the best sharpening for my purposes. Thanks for all your excellent Tutorials!

[@AstroDork]

Great tutorial. In fact I'm working my way through all your GIMP tutorials among others. Who's the young lady... she has a name?

[@angelluismillan]

Very clear. I use the well known method with a layer copied in luminance mode, but these ones are better. I prefer the second method: the first slightly increases brightness, not the second.

[@markgholson9222]

I use floating dialog boxes. I put a smaller LAB box down below, then I have the bigger Original box above. So when I recompose with LAB I can instantly see the results on the original image.

[@Twobarpsi]

Great tutorial!

[@SJQuirke]

this was indeed useful - thank you

[@cosmo0080]

i could see the 2nd method had better results thank you

[@MarcEspie]

For the sharpen tip, how about this: do the LCh Luminance filter for the real time preview. Then delete it, do ctrl-f on the decomposed image and recompose ? I expect the parameters are pretty much going to be what you want, and that way you avoid skewing the colors.

[@shanesterling1983]

exactly

[@gv9359]

Dude. . . that image though

[@tajongsylvanus2440]

Please do a tutorial on heal tool and fuzzy tool as well🙏

[@ChessGrandmaster]

Just brilliant

[@suggestssoyam1914]

I CAME TO LEARN GIMP EDITING BUT HIS IMAGES KEEPS ME DISTRACTING. SO BEAUTIFUL GIRLS. JUST WOW GIRLS .. I MEAN EDITING

[@retror.d.1630]

Lol I’ll be the first to comment on those two nice 🤗

[@sprinkles_091]

my images keep looking really pixelated when i try to bring the into gimp, especially when i try to put the print onto something really small. how to i keep my image quality, but still have an image that is only 100x100 but i need it to look HD. i make decor for the sims 4 and am trying to put a print on a coffee cup. lol

[@sytitan]

Thanks

[@Jr8uup]

Aren't you worried that hot chick will find out about taking photos of her with the telephoto lens and sharpening them up for "educational" purposes? JK thanks for your help.

[@laoschild86]

Would it lose quality if saved as png format?

[@minepro1206]

No, but it's better to use tiff for anything except transparent graphics.

[@sparkytheguy1220]

omg you are so handsome with the beard and your haircut! don't change your look. :)

[@bigii]

Check The volume of your video bro

[@gerobokdapur8165]

👍👍

[@PaigeWhite]

Why don't you do livestreams anymore?

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

Unfortunately they weren't performing as well as I would have liked them to.

[@PaigeWhite]

@@DaviesMediaDesign Well that's too bad because I enjoyed them. 😥

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

I enjoyed doing them - but sometimes the numbers just don’t work out :/

[@coldstuff9784]

lol you just had to use an image like that didn't you?

[@kaleightucker5479]

What is your advice on exporting an image to upload to Facebook?

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

Facebook is going to end up compressing the image to whatever size it wants the image to be, and it has size limitations, so you'll want to export to JPEG.

[@kaleightucker5479]

@@DaviesMediaDesign, ok. Thank you.

[@marcus3d]

Nonono, do all the edits EXCEPT sharpening before downscaling it, but ALWAYS sharpen last. That's because the resize will introduce softness due to interpolation.

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

I understand the logic, but I simply disagree that you should wait to sharpen till after you scale. You are going to lose pixels regardless when you scale because of interpolation, but I think the sharpening looks better when it's performed on the original image versus the scaled image. Plus, you can save your original image with the sharpening, and come back to it any time and scale it down for any project or medium. I have run the tests and this is what I prefer. You can still get good results sharpening the scaled image, though. Simply turn down the radius before cranking up the amount.

[@marcus3d]

@@DaviesMediaDesign I did some more tests now, too, and found that the best results seem to be when sharpening both before AND after the resize. Do a slightly-less-than-normal sharpening before the resize, and then do another slightly-less-than-normal sharpening after it (with radius

[@johngilbert3405]

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