Gimp Decor Filters Revisit Tutorial
Today we return to the wonderful, marvellous and stupendous Gimp image editor and examine some more of its filters, following up on concepts last discussed with Gimp Decor Border Filters Primer Tutorial in the “Decor” category, namely …
- Fuzzy Border
- Coffee Stain
- Old Photo … in the tutorial picture … plus below …
- Add Bevel
- Add Border
- Slide
- Rounded Corners
… which create quite good effects we feel, especially the Fuzzy Border filter, as it is quite difficult, otherwise to create a “smudged” border effect, perhaps for vignetting purposes, without this filter. We imagine an old map photo could be glamourized using “Coffee Stain” (for the accident prone) or “Old Photo”.
These “Decor” filters are available off Gimp’s Filter menu as a submenu containing these and some other effects. They use “Script-Fu” based on the Scheme interpretive language. These “Script-Fu” filters are not only powerful and useful for what they are, but also for how you can introduce predictability with your effects, in that you can record settings you use, make them public, as necessary, to help create a unified creative but predictable set of effects in the photographs you are applying filters to.
So we’ll leave you with a photo of our house …
… with …
- Fuzzy Border …
- Coffee Stain (“Darken only” unchecked) … probably not so apt for this image’s subject matter …
- Old Photo (“Defocus”, “Sepia”, “Mottle” all checked) …
- Add Bevel (30, “Keep bump layer” checked) …
- Add Border (37 x and 37 y width, 85 delta value on default blue colour) …
- Slide (62) …
- Rounded Corners (Edge radius 30, Shadow x offset 15, y 15, Blur radius 25) …
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