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New User - Adding snow to a scene ??? - Aswell - 11-09-2018
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
RE: New User - Adding snow to a scene ??? - rich2005 - 11-09-2018
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/art/GIMP-Animated-Snowfall-Script-144814233
Another way is using a brush https://www.deviantart.com/aoarchangel/art/Snow-Brushes-for-GIMP-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
RE: New User - Adding snow to a scene ??? - carmen - 11-09-2018
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...
RE: New User - Adding snow to a scene ??? - Aswell - 11-10-2018
Thanks for those replies, I will experiment and see if it is what my wife is looking for.
Brian
RE: New User - Adding snow to a scene ??? - Espermaschine - 11-10-2018
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.
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