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I’ll write more about this in the future, and possibly add some more images to show different effects, but for now, if you wanted to see a variety of Gimp effects applied to one image, I hope these examples have been helpful. This is the “Spatter3” border from Easy Frame:Īs you can see, different frames give the image a different feel or emotion.
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For the rest of the images I’m going to try some different borders with a Mac OS X application named Easy Frame. Borders outside of Gimp (Easy Frame)Īt this point I’m finished demonstrating some of what you can do with Gimp. In this case I prefer the second image, but it doesn’t always work out that way. Both have had the Artistic > Oilify filter applied. The first image has one Smart Color application, the second image has two Smart Color applications. in these next two images you can see what a difference it makes to go back to the Beautify > Smart Color option again. In this next version I take the last image and apply 11th Simple Border effect: Then I do the same thing, but with only two pixels on the canvas:Īrtistic > Oilify > Canvas (2) > Simple Border (11) Artistic > Oilify > Canvas (3)Īs mentioned, I usually like the Oilify effect, so I go back to my last Oilify version, then apply Artistic > Canvas, with three pixels for the canvas: Then I undo that and try the Noise > Pick effect: Out of curiousity I undo that and try the Noise > Spread effect: Now the color really pops, and I apply the Oilify effect again: Blur > Smartcolor (repeat)Īgain I back up to the second Gaussian Blur image and then repeat the Beautify > Smart Color application: In this case I prefer the image without the pixelize effect, but they’re both good. Sometimes it looks better if you do a Blur > Pixelize before Oilify: The way I named the file indicates that I blurred the entire image with Blur > Blur, then applied Artistic > Oilify: Blur > Blur > OilifyĪt this point I undo everything until I’m back to the second Gaussian Blur effect on the background. Then I undo that and check out the Beautify > Art > Life Sketch filter: Next, I undo that last step, then check out the Beautify > Art > Sketch filter: Or in front of Nagleys on MainStreet in Talkeetna:
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Now that you have the selection with a transparent background, you can put it wherever you’d like, such as Homer, Alaska: Then when you choose Edit > Clear to clear the background, you’ll have Zeus alone with a transparent background, like this:īe sure to save that image as a PNG file, as JPG files don’t support transparency. After you select what you want - Zeus, in this case - invert the selection as usual (Select > Invert), choose the Layer menu, then Transparency, then Add Alpha Channel. You can also take that a step further by converting the image to make the background transparent. For instance, when I select Zeus with the Lasso tool, invert the selection, and then clear the background, this is what is left:
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Selecting with the “Lasso” tool (transparent background)įWIW, when I say I use the “Lasso” tool, this is the tool that lets you select something in an image using a single freehand drawing stroke, a series of small lines, or a combination of the two. That can be a really nice effect for some photos. Out of curiousity I de-saturate the background color: Next, I increase the effect by applying the Gaussian Blur effect again: Notice that Zeus is sharp and the background is now blurry. Next, I back up and undo the Oilify filter, select Zeus with the Lasso tool, then invert the selection and apply a Gaussian blur to the background: I like the Artistic > Oilify filter, and usually check it out early:īeautify/(SmartColor+Contrast) + SelectZeus/Invert/GaussianBlurBG You can see that the colors are much better already. I think I did the Smart Color effect at 90% and the Contrast at 10-20%: That image was taken about 10-12 years ago, so I immediately go to the Beautify > Smart Color and Beautify > Contrast filters to make the color a little more accurate. (If you’re interested, you can read much more about Zeus.) Beautify (SmartColor + Contrast)
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Here’s a raw image of a Siberian Husky named Zeus that I knew very well: I don’t have a particular goal in this work, I just want to try out some different filters and effects and see where they lead. In this brief pictorial I’ll share examples of some of my favorite Gimp effects on a favorite image of a favorite dog. In a previous article I shared a catalog of examples of Gimp filter effects.