Thursday, 27 November 2025

Editing for more SPARKLE

I figured out how to give my drawings more SPARKLE and Breath by accentuating the contrasts in my line drawings.  Before I was trying to do this in Photoshop with "unsharp mask."  However now I have figured out how to do this in the GIMP by adjusting the "Adjust Color Curves" in two dimensions:

Adjusting contrasts in two dimensions --
GIMP>Colors>Curves...


I scanned the original in color mode
(not black and white)

After, with a new GIMP adjustment

  • The two variations above get different results from the reverse image search of Google Lens

I then used this approach on drawings from old blog posts:












































I was editing my drawings in Photoshop Elements until September 6, 2024. Then I switched to editing them in the free GIMP and XnView.

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