Re: SPARKLE PLUG IN

[Caroline Zamanian <hyehealth@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oh wow, you are so knowledgeable with the gimp program, wish I could understand your explanation but I'm at a loss.........Are you by any chance from Michigan? Wish I could have you help me do this................. Thanks so much, you're very kind... But I'll keep trying it with your directions, may be I'll figure it out sooner or later.
Thanks again and again.


----- Original Message ----
From: Kent Paul Dolan <xanthian@xxxxxxxx>
To: gimpwin-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 3:33:46 AM
Subject: Re:  SPARKLE PLUG IN

=> From: "hyehealth" <hyehealth@yahoo. com>
=> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:43:14 -0000

=> Does anyone out there know how I can add sparkle to
=> a photo I'm trying to enhance? The sparkle will be
=> on a diamond in the photo. Thank you so
=> much........ .......

This works in GIMP 2.3.19, but it might be overkill
for your needs.

Put a transparent layer over the existing image.

With the pencil tool, and the single pixel brush,
put a white dot everywhere you want a sparkle to be.

On the image menu, do:

<image>=>Filters= >Light and Shadow=>Sparkle

and take the default settings by clicking OK.

Each dot you made will become a huge sparkle, which
you can now merge down onto the gemstone.

If that's too much for your needs, while the once
transparent layer is still a separate layer, on the
layers dialog, do an

Alpha to Selection

then from the image menu do a

Select=>Invert Selection
Select=>Grow (by 1)
Edit=>Clear

This will trim away the outside row of pixels
off of the sparkles, making them smaller.

I hope that was what you needed.

xantian.




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