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Posts Tagged ‘gimp’

Switching, merging or swapping, call it what you like – it’s a pain to pull off. You need to spend a lot of time tuning the colors, blending the edges and smudging to get a decent result. So I wrote a plugin for the wonderful GIMP program that helps this process. The merge is done using a blending algorithm that blends in the colous from the original image into the pasted image.

I’ll write a little bit about coding GIMP plugins, which is very simple, and some about the algorithm and its sources.

Let’s see how it’s done
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I wanted to share with you a (very simple and short) method for creating cow-skin patterns, totally random each time, for your GIMPin needs.
This can actually work the exact same way in GIMP, PS or Paint.NET.

I will demonstrate with GIMP, but it is so simple you can do it in any of the aforementioned programs.

So here goes:

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