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GIMP and "surface blur" (from PS) Tadas 14 Nov 20:50
  GIMP and "surface blur" (from PS) Sven Neumann 14 Nov 21:15
   GIMP and "surface blur" (from PS) Tadas 14 Nov 21:52
    GIMP and "surface blur" (from PS) peter kostov 15 Nov 14:39
2009-11-14 20:50:53 UTC (about 15 years ago)
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GIMP and "surface blur" (from PS)

Hello,
Could you tell me if it's possible to make something like blurring image using "surface blur" (in PS4)filter in GIMP? I didn't find anything similar in GIMP filters so maybe there is a plug-in which lets to do it? Surface blur is the filter which I was using in PS4 to automatically blur out of focus areas (it reduces noise much better than other filters for me) and not to blur sharp areas. I liked it because noise reduction filter blurred everything and I wanted to have still sharp image with reduced noise. But now I'm GIMP user. :) Everything is pretty good here, but "surface blur" is the function I miss. So I would be very grateful if you tell me if it's available in GIMP as plug-in or I simply don't find that function in GIMP... Thank you! Tadas

Sven Neumann
2009-11-14 21:15:56 UTC (about 15 years ago)

GIMP and "surface blur" (from PS)

On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 20:50 +0100, Tadas wrote:

Hello,
Could you tell me if it's possible to make something like blurring image using "surface blur" (in PS4)filter in GIMP? I didn't find anything similar in GIMP filters so maybe there is a plug-in which lets to do it? Surface blur is the filter which I was using in PS4 to automatically blur out of focus areas (it reduces noise much better than other filters for me) and not to blur sharp areas. I liked it because noise reduction filter blurred everything and I wanted to have still sharp image with reduced noise. But now I'm GIMP user. :) Everything is pretty good here, but "surface blur" is the function I miss. So I would be very grateful if you tell me if it's available in GIMP as plug-in or I simply don't find that function in GIMP.

The Selective Gaussian Blur plug-in might be able to provide a similar result ( see http://docs.gimp.org/en/filters-blur.html ).

Sven

2009-11-14 21:52:48 UTC (about 15 years ago)
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GIMP and "surface blur" (from PS)

On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 20:50 +0100, Tadas wrote:

Hello,
Could you tell me if it's possible to make something like blurring image using "surface blur" (in PS4)filter in GIMP? I didn't find anything

similar

in GIMP filters so maybe there is a plug-in which lets to do it? Surface blur is the filter which I was using in PS4 to automatically blur

out

of focus areas (it reduces noise much better than other filters for me)

and

not to blur sharp areas. I liked it because noise reduction filter

blurred

everything and I wanted to have still sharp image with reduced noise. But

now

I'm GIMP user. :) Everything is pretty good here, but "surface blur" is

the

function I miss. So I would be very grateful if you tell me if it's

available

in GIMP as plug-in or I simply don't find that function in GIMP.

The Selective Gaussian Blur plug-in might be able to provide a similar result ( see http://docs.gimp.org/en/filters-blur.html ).

Sven

Thanks, it really provides a similar result. However it's more similar to a PS smart blur filter, and surface blur filter provides better result (the difference is that surface blur reduces noise smoother than smart blur or selective blur in GIMP, which (it's about selective or smart blur) simply blurs some pixels so some are left unchanged). Maybe there isn't the same filter available in GIMP, but I hope Selective blur will be a very useful filter for me :)

peter kostov
2009-11-15 14:39:17 UTC (about 15 years ago)

GIMP and "surface blur" (from PS)

Tadas wrote:

On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 20:50 +0100, Tadas wrote:

Hello,
Could you tell me if it's possible to make something like blurring image using "surface blur" (in PS4)filter in GIMP? I didn't find anything

similar

in GIMP filters so maybe there is a plug-in which lets to do it? Surface blur is the filter which I was using in PS4 to automatically blur

out

of focus areas (it reduces noise much better than other filters for me)

and

not to blur sharp areas. I liked it because noise reduction filter

blurred

everything and I wanted to have still sharp image with reduced noise. But

now

I'm GIMP user. :) Everything is pretty good here, but "surface blur" is

the

function I miss. So I would be very grateful if you tell me if it's

available

in GIMP as plug-in or I simply don't find that function in GIMP.

The Selective Gaussian Blur plug-in might be able to provide a similar result ( see http://docs.gimp.org/en/filters-blur.html ).

Sven

Thanks, it really provides a similar result. However it's more similar to a PS smart blur filter, and surface blur filter provides better result (the difference is that surface blur reduces noise smoother than smart blur or selective blur in GIMP, which (it's about selective or smart blur) simply blurs some pixels so some are left unchanged). Maybe there isn't the same filter available in GIMP, but I hope Selective blur will be a very useful filter for me :)

Hi,

I recommend you to look at gmic (http://gmic.sourceforge.net/gimp.shtml) It has very good denoising algorithms that you can probably apply on a selection and get a decent results :)

Greetings, Peter