GIMP 2.10 Advanced Color Correction with Levels Tool

[@MykeHawke-r9r]

I have been binge-watching your tutorials like Netflix. Stop You're addicting

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

If you want to skip the first few edits I make before getting to the color balance tool, go to 4:04 If you want to skip straight to the Levels tool, go to 5:45

[@toadmeadow862]

Great video! I'm so glad there's finally someone out there explaining the more advanced features in GIMP. You're a good explainer.

[@donlim772]

Wow, its only, I start to understand the color correction. Thank you Michael Davies for your great tutorial.

[@VirtueAly]

This guy's the best. Gets right to it, moves briskly, but knows which points will be confusing and stops to clarify. Thank you.

Excelente clase, lo que necesitaba, estoy haciendo los ejercicios de corrección fotográfica, uno cada día debido a mis ocupaciones, durante media hora al día, y estoy tomando notas. En la noche repetiré el ejercicio con más fotos, media hora al día en la noche. Gracias, maestro. Saludos desde Guatemala.

[@nondefan1232]

The color > levels tool is SO MUCH SHARPER than the color > balance tool! Thank you for showing us the difference! And, as always, thank you for the step-by-step instruction without assumption of previous knowledge!

[@ThatOneGuyEmblem]

gonna be honest. I followed this, adjusting things according to the image quality I was looking for, and then once you were done, I realized... I used both color correction tools on the same image instead of one on the first image, and the other tool on the duplicate. BUT IT LOOKS GREAT ANYWAYS.

[@wanderingquestions7501]

Thank you! Great lesson as I’ve hammered out my 1st astrophotography projects your lesson proved very helpful

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

Glad to hear it!

[@killerqueendopamine]

Best explanation of a histogram I've seen

[@certoglenn4840]

Excellent primer on understanding and using the histogram. Thank you.

[@darrellpidgeon6440]

I'm glad this tutorial popped up. It may solve a problem I noticed the other day. I like to compose a pic using a variety of source images. I noticed that when using "color to alpha" to make the white background transparent, sometimes the result makes the remaining image slightly transparent. I am guessing that is because of more white pixels in the source image. I will try using the histogram to adjust the levels before applying "color to alpha". Thanks.

[@tiamatandall]

I was beginning to ask myself about the output slider and you just explained it. :)

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

Nice! Glad I could get an answer up for you.

[@xalau5270]

This tools are fantastic when trying to restore old reddish photos

[@fabianriechers195]

I appreciate your thorough and detailed explanation. My only question is: Why not skip "levels" and go straight for the "curves tool" instead?

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

I guess the most obvious answer is that this is a Levels tool tutorial...

[@fabianriechers195]

@@DaviesMediaDesign Hi! I get that. Anyway, isn't the curves tool even more powerful than levels? You're the pro, please let me know if I'm mistaken.

[@rekhareddy967]

Thanks for the great explanation

[@bayouboyarts]

This is still doing it by eye. How about doing one on using a gray card, and maybe a white card, in the photo, then using the All Channels tools in Levels. Something to use in a studio, for photographing artwork, for instance.

[@The.blessedbee]

well explained, thank you!

[@suvosstudio]

Awesome video! Learnt a lot. Thank You

[@fragmaka]

Awesome Channel/video

[@luigimike146]

Gracias , muy buenos videos ¡¡

[@cosmo0080]

thank you for going into the detail you did

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

My pleasure!

[@timsortet7136]

Does it matter that the pallet size doesn't change when the image is cropped? The yellow dashed line stays the same size as the original image.

[@TheCocoaDaddy]

Excellent tutorial! How does the Levels tool in GIMP compare with the one in PhotoShop? Based on your tutorial, the GIMP Levels tool looks powerful. Thanks for posting the great tutorial!

[@trishfoster9102]

Thank you for your videos. Photography is a hobby and I am fairly new to editing, very new to Gimp. I have learned how to select my foreground, how do I change the saturation of the foreground only? Thank you.

[@gatzetech3079]

If you have something selected than the actions you will do only apply to the selection. If I select a foreground, then I use a path, you can alway put a path to a selection later on.

[@pspk560]

Thanks ❤️

[@tutacat]

It is better to delay crop/scale to preserve quality.

[@sam.mankar]

Please make a vid on Gold skin tones ❤️🌟

[@ltmittens]

Hey, my color options don't work anymore. temperature, saturation, intensity.,... every slider doesn't change a thing in my image when altered. The mode is already in RGB. I selected them in the channels. I'm 100% sure I selected the right layer. It still doesn't work anymore. Any ideas what could be the problem here? The levels tool works fine most of the time. Thanks for the tutorials!

[@JamesBond-lj6ms]

How do you get the interface to look like that? Mine looks completely different

[@dalea8792]

I notice on my Gimp the level numbers go up to 255, but yours go up to a 100. Where do I change that?

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

What version of GIMP are you using?

[@dalea8792]

2.10.8

[@big_bad_cat]

@@dalea8792 I think level numbers up to 255 appear only when you on 8-bit integer precision. On other precision levels, there are 100 levels.

[@Yanthungbemo]

I don't understand why there is a clamp output option.

[@helenchilcott6024]

G'day from Oz. I'm need help, please. I'm not good with things like this so if you do respond, please keep it simple. I've an older version of gimp. I need to darken the red in images of cotton flowers. Photographed several times in foldio light box but the red keeps washing out too light/pinkish. Main image colours...grey background, red flowers with orange centres, brown wood & gumnuts. Using colour tools (hue, saturation, lightness) I've only managed to make the red brighter red or pinkish red. I don't want to darken the whole image, just make the red darker, from lipstick red to blood red. This is for Etsy store so colour needs to be as accurate as possible. Can you please please help me... :-(

[@jonthandavid2410]

Thank you

[@zakariachahboun]

THANKS

[@ganapathym3664]

Your Studio Background is different and interesting

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

You like, or no?

[@ganapathym3664]

@@DaviesMediaDesign Yes, I like it

[@metathinking]

Once again, what you do does not match what gimp does on my screen. I went to colors and then shadows highlights and clicked. Nothing happened. Probably great tutorial if my screen looked like yours.

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

What version of GIMP are you using and on what operating system?

[@anzal5993]

i want to edit my photo will you please help me to edit

[@sambhrantthapa8829]

He looks like Vincent Van Gough

[@WJS774]

I'm pretty sure that your explanation of what exactly it is that the levels tool is doing is completely wrong, though it works out OK in the end result.

[@Eigil_Skovgaard]

Based on your library in the foreground you are very literary with focus on the officially certified science. Has it anything to do with Gimp? What is your idea with this staging? If anything of Stephen Hawkin's nonsense was true, cows would fly. The phenomenon is a construct - along with Einstein, who in real life was an embarrasment to contemporary science. The major part of what they allegedly have written and said is the product of later ghost writers. So, why not rest on your own solid foundation in stead of distributing propaganda?