HELP! Cannot get the jpg to change-

Software GIMP
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Hi,
Im hoping someone can help me. I have a color photo I need to turn into a coloring book page.

Im using gimp 2.10.14

I have tried everything I can find about doing this with older versions of gimp but when I use those directions they don’t work as the menu has changed. There doesn’t seem to be any documentation on how to do this in this version. Can anyone do me a favor and walk me thru this? When I try it the old way I just wind up with black and white blobs.

I am starting with a color photo that is a jpg. I turn it into greyscale.
I need to make a duplicate to work on.

now what? It needs to wind up a lined pic suitable to use as a coloring page.

Thanks so much!

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Is it read-only?

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Hi @theweblady ! Welcome to forum!

Here are the steps after de-saturating and duplicating the layer:

  1. Choose duplicate layer and go to Filters - Edge Detect - Edge…:

Edge
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  1. Algorithm: Sobel, Amount: (you have to try out how much fits best), Border behavior: black:

Edge2
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  1. Select Divide as blend mode for the layer:

Edge3
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  1. If the edges are too light or dark, use curves (Colors - Curves) to improve that:

Edge4
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  1. If the edges are very noisy, you can also de-noise them (Filter - Enhance - Noise Reduction):

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I hope this helps. :wink:

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Hi, no, its just a regular jpg of my pals cat that I was using as my test pic.
I have other pics and they turn out awful as well… and I cant find anything for this version of gimp to tell me what to do that matches with whats actually there-its all for old versions.
:frowning:

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@theweblady, example above is only one possibility. There are also other techniques. Can you give us a photo so that we can try out which technique fits best?

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Hi Boris, I was just trying to get my screen to look like yours but no luck yet- I’m on a Mac running os 10.13.6 and my gimp is 2.10.14-
I’d love to get you a few of the pics so you can tell me what Im doing wrong-can you tell me how to upload them here in the forum or?

Thanks!

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Have you used GIMP before?

Maybe you can upload them somewhere online (google drive or dropbox) and give a link here? A small one, as an example, you can upload directly to a post, like I did above.

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Hi,
no this is my first time with Gimp as I’ve always used photoshop before but wanted to try gimp. I have heard such wonderful things and I thought this would be a good project for me to start with. I have uploaded one so maybe you can let me know your thoughts-
thanks for everything!

kaia1
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This is not so easy, because the photo is very noisy and blurred (edge cannot be recognized well) and the cat has a lot of texture.

The best results I could achieve are:

Grain merge

or:

linear light

Is that ok?

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wow! they both look great!! Can u walk me thru step by step starting at step one how do I get either/both of those images?
I also have a person ill upload that might be easier-

thank you so much-you are awesome!!gene2

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Welcome, Sandy,

Er… Boris did just that (see above). He also asked

Have you used GIMP before?

Have fun!
Claes in Lund, Sweden

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Had some fun with the cat here: G'MIC fun with afre - #63 by afre. :rofl:

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@theweblady Do you have an example of what you are looking for?

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He asked me and I answered-below please see my response.
Hi,
no this is my first time with Gimp as I’ve always used photoshop before but wanted to try gimp. I have heard such wonderful things and I thought this would be a good project for me to start with.

I am only trying to learn. I had a few questions how he got both of the designs so I requested info on how he did each one.

Im sorry if somehow I offended you. All I am trying to do is learn how to do something in gimp. I have heard such wonderful things about it and about your user group.

thank you-

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above message is to Claes in Lund, Sweden.

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Hi afre!
thank you so much for your designs-they were quite different but both amazing!

The kind of look I am going for is something similar to what Boris did with his houses design-a coloring book type but still able to see its a person or animal. I uploaded a pic of a drummer if thats easier to work with as its a person.

this is sort of what im looking to learn to do but more clean and crisp like Boris’s houses design

kaia1.pdf
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I don’t have a way ATM but I came up with this using my G’MIC filter (to new layer) and using dodge mode on it over the original layer.

image

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The outline isn’t very strong though and the iris is extra light. Trouble with the G’MIC plugin preview window is that it isn’t accurate at all, so I am fumbling in the dark. Maybe with a few tweaks, it would work.

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wow! that looks great! you are right-just a hair bit darker- I probably didn’t explain it very well but hopefully the pic I uploaded helped…im trying to make a coloring book page from a jpg or png or? so it needs to look somewhat like the original but also allows for coloring fun…

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Closer

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YES!! YOU ARE AWESOME! ITS DEF ALMOST THERE!! :smile:
what else do u think it needs?