There are a million things you can do with the tools in Gimp. (You have to install these scripts manually, and I’ll write about that process soon.) I run into errors when running some of the scripts with Gimp 2.8 on Mac OS X, but these scripts work well: Paul Sherman at has kept many of the Script-Fu scripts running. These examples show the effects under the Filters > Beautify > Border > Texture Border menu: These examples show the effects under the Filters > Beautify > Border > Simple Border menu: These examples show the effects under the Filters > Beautify > Border > Rip Border menu: Render > clouds > solid noise (as a layer) These example show the effects under the Filters > Render menu: These examples show the filters under the Filters > Noise menu: These examples show the effects under the Filters > Map menu: Light-shadow > lighting-effects, xach effect Map Light-shadow > lighting-effects, supernova Light-shadow > lighting effects, more glowing, less shiny Light-shadow > lighting effects, drop shadow Light-shadow > gradient flare, bright star These examples are under the Filters > Light and Shadow menu: These examples show the effects under the Gimp Filters > Edge menu: The lines/stripes are because I did not do that.)ĭistort > wind (many options) Edge detect (I should have made the next two images “transparent” PNGs. These images show examples from under the Gimp Filters > Distorts menu: These images show the effects under the Filters > Decor menu: This is an example of an effect under the Gimp Filters > Combine menu:Ĭombine > filmstrip of several images Decor Gaussian > blur (background blur only) Combine The result in this case is that the trees look sharp, and the background is blurred: This is a really nice technique to use when you have people in the foreground and stuff in the background that you don’t care about. In the next image I (a) quickly selected the trees, (b) inverted that selection, then did a Gaussian blur on the background. These are examples of the filters you can find under the Filters > Blur menu: These are examples of the filters you can find under Filters > Beautify > Beautify.īeautify > smart color (50) + strong contrast (20) These examples show the effects you can find under the Filters > Artistic menu: The original imageīefore showing all the different Gimp effects, here’s the original image: Also, most of these effects have different controls that you can adjust in most cases here I have just used the default values. Note that these are “one at a time” effects you can combine filters together to achieve an infinite number of possible effects. I put the name of each filter/effect to the right of each image. To help with this problem, I created this page as a “ Gimp filters cheat sheet” to help remind me of what all the filters look like.Īs a result, this page shows over 130 examples of Gimp effects that are applied one at a time to a photograph I took of Denali when I lived in Talkeetna, Alaska. There are so many filters available with Gimp - and no simple way to preview them all - that I forget what they all look like. If you know how to use Gimp and just want a reference page of what the effects look like, I hope these examples are helpful. This allows you to either save the filter by tapping on the icon that looks like a downward arrow inside of a box, or begin using it right away by tapping 'Try It.' Once you begin recording, the filter will automatically begin sorting.īesides Pokemon, other popular filters that allow users to determine their character from a fictional novel, movie or video game have begun popping up.Summary: This page shows over 130 examples of what you can accomplish with filters and other effects in Gimp. Now that you've reached the filter page, you scroll until you see 'What Pokemon are you?' Tap the video at the top right in the photo above.(It looks like a smiley face with two stars coming out of it.) You access the Pokémon filter by tapping on the middle filter icon.There are a couple versions of this filter, but the one on hughesp1's page is the most popular. Photos shown below are in reference to the 'What Pokemon are you' filter, but this method works with each of them. The first step for obtaining any of these filters is going straight to the source.The Pokemon filter game on Instagram was the first to break through. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

Disney filters for photos