New User - Adding snow to a scene ???

[Aswell]

Hi, I am a new user to Gimp because my wife spoke to someone in her art group who said Gimp 2 could be used to add snow to a photo or scanned artwork.


I have looked around Gimp (there's a lot in it!) and cannot find any suggestion to do what she suggests. I have done some tutorials, all very interesting but not addresses what she wants to do.

Is she barking up the wrong tree?
Many thanks, Brian

[rich2005]

You could try the gmic plugin from http://www.gmic.eu If using Gimp 2.8 get the correct version and read the pop up explanation of possible installation issues. eg. https://i.imgur.com/J14oh2w.jpg No such problem with Gimp 2.10

Looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/yHHqNkC.jpg play around with the slider settings

There are others, this one for example creates an anmation https://www.deviantart.com/fence-post/ar...-144814233

Another way is using a brush https://www.deviantart.com/aoarchangel/a...-147509615 these are a pair of animated brushes (the brush varies slightly as you paint), vary the brush size, paint in the image. https://i.imgur.com/HSnQFVm.jpg

[carmen]

There is a 'quick and dirty' way to add/restore an 'it's snowing now' effect to an image:
1. add a layer over your picture and fill it with white
2. put the layer mode to 'dissolve' and decrease the opacity to around 3-8 (almost transparent), and now play with it:
3. shift-click the eye in the layers dialog to make it the only visible layer, Edit-->Copy Visible, undo the change, hide the added white layer and Edit-->Paste as...--> New layer in place. That gives the identical effect in normal mode, so that one can

• blur a little to made the flakes less sharp
  
• apply a motion blur to get a blizzard effect
  
• enlarge the flakes scaling up the whole layer
  
• delete/decrease visibility over people's faces...
  

Quite simple, quick and customisable.

[Aswell]

Thanks for those replies, I will experiment and see if it is what my wife is looking for.

Brian

[Espermaschine]

A very simple way to add snow to a scene for a beginner might be the G'MIC Bokeh filter.
Just change all the colours to white, decrease the Radius and increase Density.