Handpainted effect

[Natrixx]

Hiya! I have an ordinary, square border in Gimp, that I'd like to give a handpainted touch, something like the attached picture. Not a big problem, I suppose, but I would love to hear your thoughts/tips on how I could achieve that.

bw,

Mike

[Zorba]

(01-10-2019, 07:05 AM)Natrixx Wrote: Hiya! I have an ordinary, square border in Gimp, that I'd like to give a handpainted touch, something like the attached picture. Not a big problem, I suppose, but I would love to hear your thoughts/tips on how I could achieve that.

bw,

Mike

Worth looking at the G'MIC filters, lots of options there which may be of interest with this

[rich2005]

All sorts of ways to make a frame. There are some essentials which apply to most images.

Work on layers. If your frame is on a layer with solid background make a new transparent layer. Create a selection from the solid frame - any number of ways to do this using selection tools.

A couple of screenshots that might help.

https://i.imgur.com/zSHj65g.jpg

1. Selection -> Distort with small values. Depends on your image size to a certain extent. Does what it says.

2. Fill the selection with some pattern, or paint in it. This is what Gimp is best at, User Decides Plenty scripts/plugins will give a result, but it is not your concept. This one click-n-drag a pattern in.

https://i.imgur.com/tToYfQJ.jpg

3. That is a bit too light for my taste so darkened it using 'Colors -> Levels' But could equally coloured it in using Colors -> Colorize

4. That might be sufficient or here a small blur applied Filters -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur Finally kill the selection Selection -> None

Do not limit yourself to this procedure, best way in Gimp is experiment.