Re: Create fainted image for background

On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:24:50 -0800, Fred Weinhaus wrote:

> Sorry, I really don't follow this or understand what you need?  Can you
> provide and example?

OK, let me try again. 

>>This dark star-track background is what I imagine of shifting the
>>narrowed spectrum to the dark side 

Let me use lena.jpg as the example instead.

>>I don't know if I've describe it
>>clearly enough because I don't know which exact photograph term to use,
>>but please think of the spectrum? diagram (that you can get from some
>>advanced digital cameras) -- that's what I'm talking about. 

OK, it's called input level in gimp. 

This is original input level,
http://imagebin.ca/view/Ra9wwv.html

>>I actually was thinking to squeeze the contract to a very narrow
>>brand, and then shift it to one side. 

This is narrowed input level (shifting to the dark side), 
http://imagebin.ca/view/L_sFdsn.html

>>And I *think* my trick can give me the desired effect.

This is how the narrowed input level looks,
http://imagebin.ca/view/G8zsxBr.html

This is how the narrowed input level looks when shifting to the light 
side,
http://imagebin.ca/view/XU_HYqT.html

Hope it's clearer this time. 

Thanks

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