How to Intensify Colors in GIMP
You’ve taken a wonderful photo with a dazzling composition, and it looked great in the camera’s LCD screen. But after getting home, downloading the image from your camera and viewing it on your computer, the shot seems lifeless and drab. The colors are muted, and the shadows and highlights are weak. Use GIMP’s levels tool to pump up dull colors, boost the contrast and rescue your snapshot from mediocrity.
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Instructions
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Click “Image,” select “Colors” and click “Levels.” The “Adjust Color Levels” tool dialog appears.
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Select the color channel you want to intensify from the “Channel” menu. For example, if you wish to boost ocean or sky colors, select “Blue.” Additionally, you can select “Value” to modify the exposure level of an under- or over-exposed composition.
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Drag the leftmost slider in the “Input Levels” histogram to the right, until the dark tones of the color have deepened.
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Drag the rightmost slider to the left, to tighten the highlight tones of the image.
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Adjust the middle slider, if the tones are overly dark or light.
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Repeat Steps 2 to 5 for each color channel you wish to intensify.
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Click “OK” to apply the levels change to the image, and close the tool dialog.
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Tips & Warnings
Work on a copy of the image, in case you don’t like the modifications and wish to revert back to the original image.
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- Photo Credit Goodshoot/Goodshoot/Getty Images
