I have a grinding headache today, which of course is the day that the handyman chose to replace my back door, complete with insanely loud power tools and lots of hammering. Meanwhile all my cool air is flowing out the open door (and the heat index today is 102F - 39C). Also the landlady's in and out measuring windows for new blinds and talking
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The Gimp stuff, I'm using scripts that I downloaded from various places. Let me find the links...
Vintage look - Once installed, you find it under Filters -> Artistic -> Vintage Look
Many different ones - find under Colors > Curves > the triangle button next to the + button > Import Settings from File, and then a pop-up window comes up for you to choose them from. That second link also tells you where to install scripts.
I typically duplicate the layer first, because sometimes the effect is just too much, so I'll apply it to the duplicate layer then dial down the opacity. If that makes sense.
I also nearly always fiddle with them a little bit. While you have the Curves dialog open, for instance, you can just adjust it (I have no idea what I'm doing, I just tug it around till it looks okay). With that Vintage look one, the first link, it actually puts in new layers of color and a "bleach process" layer, whatever that means. I think the bleach layer has too much contrast so I usually dial it back a bit.
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For some absurd reasonI just thought it came with all of these and I was somehow missing them.
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