How Do You Simulate Shallow Depth Of Field In Gimp?
With today’s little point and shoot digital cameras, there is no problem with having good depth of field. It’s when you want to limit it that you have issues. They are designed to provide that view. However, with Gimp, you can get around that. • Open your image in Gimp. Create a layer mask of your photo. • Examine each resultant image to see which one provides the greatest contrast. For this particular picture, the blue channel provides the greatest contract. • Delete the two layers that will not be used. • Lessen the amount of required work by tracing around the desired part of the image by drawing around it with the lasso tool. • Invert the selection (CTRL I) and then fill in the area with black. • Be sure that black is the foreground color, that FG Color Fill and Fill Whole Selection are selected. Your image should look like this. Force the outline of your chosen subject to white. • Click in the histogram and drag it towards the right. Watch as the image turns to black and white. •
• Open your image in Gimp. Open your image in Gimp. Create a layer mask of your photo. • Separate the image into RGB channels. Click on Colors >> Components >> Decompose. • Examine each resultant image to see which one provides the greatest contrast. Examine each resultant image to see which one provides the greatest contrast. For this particular picture, the blue channel provides the greatest contract. • Delete the two layers that will not be used. • Lessen the amount of required work by tracing around the desired part of the image by drawing around it with the lasso tool. Lessen the amount of required work by tracing around the desired part of the image by drawing around it with the lasso tool. • Invert the selection (CTRL I) and then fill in the area with black. • Be sure that black is the foreground color, that FG Color Fill and Fill Whole Selection are selected. Be sure that black is the foreground color, that FG Color Fill and Fill Whole Selection are selected. Your image should
