I am poor. So poor that I made a white card for color balancing by taping two pieces of white printer paper together! lol Now I am going to print a gray card. So I open GIMP and open a new project and open the Bucket Fill Tool. So I click in the new project and it is solid black. I then hit cntrl-c and reduce the opacity to 80% and click in the project. Still a little dark.... I could go on but you get the point of the process. I'm figuring the neutral gray color is 50% They want 18% but 18% is almost the color of the Gimp window which is a kind of beige. So the question I pose to you all is what is the proper opacity for my purposes?
And while we're on the topic of white balance I rear that the whe you take the white balance image you want it to be a little out of focus. Is that an accurate statement?
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