#Filter forge watercolor how to#

These images show examples from under the Gimp Filters > Distorts menu: These images show the effects under the Filters > Decor menu: This is an example of an effect under the Gimp Filters > Combine menu:Д¬ombine > filmstrip of several images Decor Gaussian > blur (background blur only) Combine The result in this case is that the trees look sharp, and the background is blurred: This is a really nice technique to use when you have people in the foreground and stuff in the background that you donвЂ™t care about. In the next image I (a) quickly selected the trees, (b) inverted that selection, then did a Gaussian blur on the background. These are examples of the filters you can find under the Filters > Blur menu: These are examples of the filters you can find under Filters > Beautify > Beautify.Д«eautify > smart color (50) + strong contrast (20) These examples show the effects you can find under the Filters > Artistic menu: The original imageД«efore showing all the different Gimp effects, hereвЂ™s the original image: Also, most of these effects have different controls that you can adjust in most cases here I have just used the default values. Note that these are вЂњone at a timeвЂќ effects you can combine filters together to achieve an infinite number of possible effects. I put the name of each filter/effect to the right of each image.

To help with this problem, I created this page as a вЂњ Gimp filters cheat sheetвЂќ to help remind me of what all the filters look like.ДЄs a result, this page shows over 130 examples of Gimp effects that are applied one at a time to a photograph I took of Denali when I lived in Talkeetna, Alaska.

There are so many filters available with Gimp - and no simple way to preview them all - that I forget what they all look like.

#Filter forge watercolor how to#

If you know how to use Gimp and just want a reference page of what the effects look like, I hope these examples are helpful. Summary: This page shows over 130 examples of what you can accomplish with filters and other effects in Gimp.