GIMP 2.6 provides a "Color Picker Tool" that samples a small section of your image file. This color sample selected as a foreground or background color can then be copied to another part of the image.

Michael Bates shows us how to use GIMP's Path tool to selectively colour an object. 6 Apr 2012 12:00AM by ePHOTOzine | Gimp ...

FOREGROUND SELECT TOOL While the previous two tools are fully capable of giving us what we need, this Foreground Select tool begins to add some magic sauce.

Change the foreground and background to a dark and light gray, respectively, and draw a line from the bottom to the top of your text with the Blend tool. Now go to Filters>Map>Bump Map.

In The GIMP toolbox, click on the tiny versions of the black and white color swatches to restore the default foreground to black. Now double-click the Blend (Gradient) tool to select it and open the ...

However, now anyone with a copy of The GIMP can do all of this and more with considerable ease. Let me illustrate with the following example: a Utah sunset, shown in Figure 2 loaded into a GIMP window ...

Matching Skin Tones in GIMP. Digital-imaging experts use powerful editing tools to match skin tones in one part of a picture with those in another. Commercial programs such as Photoshop have ...