Quote Originally Posted by Feralspirit View Post
Sorry, palehorse, I actually did lighten up that stone quite a bit from the last post in the WIP Thread. In comparison it seemed positively pale. I took that last image as a single layer and played with the levels dialogue. Is this better?
That's looking more like it! You might try familiarizing yourself with the Curves tool. There's a great tutorial on using it in Photoshop, let me see if I can find it... It should be pretty much identical in GIMP.

Here it is! http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tut...hop-curves.htm

Levels is good for quick and dirty adjustments, and I use it a lot when I'm tweaking individual layers. But when you're adding the finishing touches to your finished image as a whole, Curves is really the way to go.