Define gimp
My oval radial blend leaves me a dark top edge in the foreground, so I could reverse out the blend and redo it with an adjusted selection, or perform another blend with a new selection.I want to clear the selection bounding box, so choose Select None from the Selection menu then switch focus to the background layer in the Layers palette, just so I can see the blended foreground without any clutter.This is the destructive step that applies the blend to the parent layer (I can Undo this using the Undo History to get back to the un-blended layer, or even re-load the source image if the blend goes horribly wrong. When I'm happy with my blended layer, right click it in the Layers palette and select Apply Layer Mask.I can keep re-applying the blend to play with the results, it doesn't take effect until I apply the layer mask to the parent layer.You can also choose foreground-to-background or the other way around depending on how you want to work. You can play around with this and try different results. This only affects the layer mask, not the layer itself. Click and drag the Blend Tool across the layer to blend.In the Tool Options palette, choose your blend mode here I've gone for normal mode, radial pattern, no repeat, no offset, dithering is on.In the Toolbox palette, select the Blend Tool.In the Select menu, I choose Invert Selection and also Feather Selection to define a softer edge for the blend area.I drag my selection tool around the centre of the logo to define the part I want to protect.I'll select the part of the layer I want to blend and protect the rest of it here I want the logo title to fade at the edges, so in the Toolbox palette, I choose the Elipse selector, then in the Tool Options, anti-alias and feathering - 25px radius - are on.Select Add to add the layer mask in that mode.
#DEFINE GIMP FULL#
Choose a mask mode - I use White, full opacity.From the Layers palette, select Add Layer Mask (right click on the layer and choose from the Layers menu).Make sure the layer to blend has an alpha channel to allow transparency, so that the edges fade into the background.Select the layer to blend this is typically my foreground to blend into my background.Resize the canvas and arrange layers as I need them.My way of doing things goes something like this:įrom the Menu, select File, Open as Layers. For example, I want to place the BBC's Musketeers logo over a photo of the cast. Did I mention is it also free?īlending is a common task, compositing one image onto another with a soft fade effect. Available for almost all operating systems (Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X), it is a powerful alternative to Adobe. Image Manipulation Program) is an open source alternative to Photoshop for image and photo editing.