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dreamy look Milos Prudek 11 Aug 15:02
  dreamy look Sven Neumann 11 Aug 16:13
   dreamy look Milos Prudek 11 Aug 19:23
  dreamy look ivanova 11 Aug 17:01
   dreamy look Milos Prudek 11 Aug 19:22
dreamy look William Skaggs 11 Aug 21:27
Milos Prudek
2004-08-11 15:02:25 UTC (over 20 years ago)

dreamy look

I want to achieve a certain effect. For lack of better description I'll call it "a dreamy look".

I found a perfect, very short howto for Photoshop here:

http://www.photoserver.cz/tutorials_show.asp?ID=20

Description is in Czech, but it's easy to follow the howto thanks to numerous screenshots.

Now the problem: Gimp has exactly the same tools as used in this tutorial. The end result is quite disappointing though.

Basicaly the Gimp-processed image lost much detail in the grandma's hair and it looks much more out of focus than the Photoshop version.

How can I achieve this "dreamy look" in the Gimp?

Sven Neumann
2004-08-11 16:13:10 UTC (over 20 years ago)

dreamy look

Hi,

Milos Prudek writes:

I want to achieve a certain effect. For lack of better description I'll call it "a dreamy look".

I found a perfect, very short howto for Photoshop here:

http://www.photoserver.cz/tutorials_show.asp?ID=20

Description is in Czech, but it's easy to follow the howto thanks to numerous screenshots.

Now the problem: Gimp has exactly the same tools as used in this tutorial. The end result is quite disappointing though.

Basicaly the Gimp-processed image lost much detail in the grandma's hair and it looks much more out of focus than the Photoshop version.

How can I achieve this "dreamy look" in the Gimp?

I am guessing only but I'd say the tutorial forgets to mention that the upper layer (the blurry one) needs to be set to Screen mode. I can get a result that comes very close by following the tutorial and changing the layer mode to "Screen".

Sven

ivanova
2004-08-11 17:01:16 UTC (over 20 years ago)

dreamy look

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 15:02:25 +0200 Milos Prudek wrote:

I want to achieve a certain effect. For lack of better description I'll call it "a dreamy look".

I found a perfect, very short howto for Photoshop here:

http://www.photoserver.cz/tutorials_show.asp?ID=20

Description is in Czech, but it's easy to follow the howto thanks to numerous screenshots.

Now the problem: Gimp has exactly the same tools as used in this tutorial. The end result is quite disappointing though.

Basicaly the Gimp-processed image lost much detail in the grandma's hair and it looks much more out of focus than the Photoshop version.

How can I achieve this "dreamy look" in the Gimp?

Also look here:
http://www.gimpguru.org/Tutorials/BlurOverlays/

Milos Prudek
2004-08-11 19:22:49 UTC (over 20 years ago)

dreamy look

How can I achieve this "dreamy look" in the Gimp?

Also look here:
http://www.gimpguru.org/Tutorials/BlurOverlays/

Thanks, that's a cool resource.

Milos Prudek
2004-08-11 19:23:08 UTC (over 20 years ago)

dreamy look

I am guessing only but I'd say the tutorial forgets to mention that the upper layer (the blurry one) needs to be set to Screen mode. I can get a result that comes very close by following the tutorial and changing the layer mode to "Screen".

What can I say? That's exactly what was missing. Thank you very much!

William Skaggs
2004-08-11 21:27:05 UTC (over 20 years ago)

dreamy look

Milos Prudek wrote:

I am guessing only but I'd say the tutorial forgets to mention that the upper layer (the blurry one) needs to be set to Screen mode. I can get a result that comes very close by following the tutorial and changing the layer mode to "Screen".

What can I say? That's exactly what was missing. Thank you very much!

The other thing is that the "radius" of a Gaussian blur is somewhat arbitrary, because there is no sharp edge to it, so it is very likely that a radius of 6.0 in Gimp is not the same thing as a radius of 6.0 in Photoshop.

Best, -- Bill


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