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  1. Turn a digital photo into Polaroid with GIMP

    Posted by nicubunu on Feb 14, 2008 into Article

    A tutorial about creating a Polaroid effect from a digital photo involving basic operations like layer and canvas management, drop shadows, selection move and rotation, and distort filters.

  2. Portrait touch-up with GIMP

    Posted by nicubunu on Nov 15, 2007 into Article

    In this tutorial we will explore a few simple techniques to improve a digital photo using GIMP. Among other, we will make use of a couple of new features introduced in the new GIMP 2.4, the Healing Tool and the Red Eye Removal filter. Not all the steps shown here are necessary, depending on the particular picture you may choose to skip some of them.

  4. A fair look at the SIOX tool in Inkscape 0.46 and

    Posted by nicubunu on Sep 4, 2007 into Article

    The foreground extraction tool based on the SIOX algorithm can be found in Inkscape and GIMP, here is a quick but fair look at how it work there.

  5. Jigsaw Puzzle

    Posted by nicubunu on Aug 24, 2007 into Special Effects

    Break a photo in Jigsaw Puzzle pieces, use a bump map filter so create a 3D look for each piece and after this rotate and shuffle them.

  6. Rain animation with GIMP

    Posted by nicubunu on Aug 17, 2007 into Animation

    In this tutorial we will fake a rain animation effect using GIMP using noise and motion blur applied on multiple layers.