{"id":21761,"date":"2016-07-16T03:01:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T17:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=21761"},"modified":"2016-07-16T05:31:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T19:31:44","slug":"gimp-decor-filters-revisit-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/gimp-decor-filters-revisit-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Gimp Decor Filters Revisit Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/GIMP\/gimp_decor.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Gimp Decor Filters Revisit Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/GIMP\/gimp_decor.jpg\" title=\"Gimp Decor Filters Revisit Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gimp Decor Filters Revisit Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today we return to the wonderful, marvellous and stupendous <a target=_blank title='Gimp image editor' href='http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/'>Gimp<\/a> image editor and examine some more of its filters, following up on concepts last discussed with <a target=_blank title='Gimp Decor Border Filters Primer Tutorial' href='https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/gimp-decor-border-filters-primer-tutorial\/'>Gimp Decor Border Filters Primer Tutorial<\/a> in the &#8220;Decor&#8221; category, namely &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fuzzy Border<\/li>\n<li>Coffee Stain<\/li>\n<li>Old Photo &#8230; in the tutorial picture &#8230; plus below &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Add Bevel<\/li>\n<li>Add Border<\/li>\n<li>Slide<\/li>\n<li>Rounded Corners<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; which create quite good effects we feel, especially the Fuzzy Border filter, as it is quite difficult, otherwise to create a &#8220;smudged&#8221; border effect, perhaps for vignetting purposes, without this filter.  We imagine an old map photo could be glamourized using &#8220;Coffee Stain&#8221; (for the accident prone) or &#8220;Old Photo&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>These &#8220;Decor&#8221; filters are available off Gimp&#8217;s Filter menu as a submenu containing these and some other effects.  They use <a target=_blank title='Gimp Script-Fu' href='https:\/\/docs.gimp.org\/en\/gimp-concepts-script-fu.html'>&#8220;Script-Fu&#8221;<\/a> based on the Scheme interpretive language.  These &#8220;Script-Fu&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;ll leave you with a photo of our house &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/GIMP\/house.jpg' title='Our house, in the middle of our street'><\/img><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; with &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fuzzy Border &#8230;<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/GIMP\/house_fb.jpg' title='Our house, in Fuzzy Border'><\/img>\n<\/li>\n<li>Coffee Stain (&#8220;Darken only&#8221; unchecked) &#8230; probably not so apt for this image&#8217;s subject matter &#8230;<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/GIMP\/house_cs.jpg' title='Our house, in Coffee Stain'><\/img>\n<\/li>\n<li>Old Photo (&#8220;Defocus&#8221;, &#8220;Sepia&#8221;, &#8220;Mottle&#8221; all checked) &#8230;<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/GIMP\/house_op.jpg' title='Our house, in Old Photo'><\/img>\n<\/li>\n<li>Add Bevel (30, &#8220;Keep bump layer&#8221; checked) &#8230;<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/GIMP\/house_abev.jpg' title='Our house, in Add Bevel'><\/img>\n<\/li>\n<li>Add Border (37 x and 37 y width, 85 delta value on default blue colour) &#8230;<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/GIMP\/house_abdr.jpg' title='Our house, in Add Border'><\/img>\n<\/li>\n<li>Slide (62) &#8230;<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/GIMP\/house_slide.jpg' title='Our house, in Slide'><\/img>\n<\/li>\n<li>Rounded Corners (Edge radius 30, Shadow x offset 15, y 15, Blur radius 25) &#8230;<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/GIMP\/house_rc.jpg' title='Our house, in Rounded Corners'><\/img>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d21761' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d21761\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/gimp\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d21761' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;Decor&#8221; category, namely &#8230; Fuzzy Border &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/gimp-decor-filters-revisit-tutorial\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,37],"tags":[1870,431,491,590,1738,929,1319],"class_list":["post-21761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elearning","category-gimp","category-tutorials","tag-effect","tag-filter","tag-gimp","tag-image","tag-photo","tag-photograph","tag-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21761"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23328,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21761\/revisions\/23328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}