{"id":6003,"date":"2011-06-06T23:09:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T03:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365sketches.org\/?p=4120"},"modified":"2020-07-11T16:26:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T20:26:17","slug":"day-157-using-selection-and-blur-in-gimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2011\/06\/06\/day-157-using-selection-and-blur-in-gimp\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple tutorial on marquee selection and applied blur in the GIMP by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4121\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Simple tutorial on marquee selection and applied blur in the GIMP by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110606.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4121\" data-attachment-id=\"4121\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/20111107-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20111107.png?fit=809%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"809,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20111107\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20111107.png?fit=809%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-4121 \" style=\"margin:5px;\" title=\"Simple tutorial on marquee selection and applied blur in the GIMP by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org\" alt=\"Simple tutorial on marquee selection and applied blur in the GIMP by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110606.png?w=750&#038;ssl=1\"  \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simple tutorial on <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Marching ants\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marching_ants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener noreferrer\">marquee selection<\/a> and applied blur in the GIMP by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here is a simple video tutorial and introduction to marquee selection and blur in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"GIMP\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener noreferrer\">GNU Image Manipulation Program<\/a> (GIMP). Video is below.<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1170\" height=\"659\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9ZoQOzEy1AQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p>Click on the post title to visit the post, then click the image to see it full size.<\/p>\n<p>If you like it, please share it, and thanks!<\/p>\n<p>lemasney, design, open source,\u00a0<a title=\"Creative Commons\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener noreferrer\">creative commons<\/a>, cc-by, typography, poster,\u00a0<a title=\"Inkscape\" href=\"https:\/\/inkscape.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener noreferrer\">Inkscape<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"GIMP\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener noreferrer\">GIMP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look at my favorite images from this project on the\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/365sketches.org\/slideshow-and-catalog\/\" href=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/graphic-design-portfolio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Portfolio page<\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size:1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2012\/12\/25\/20121225-a-universal-human-hand-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-creativecommons-design-humanism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20121225: a universal human hand by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design #humanism<\/a> (365sketches.org)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2012\/12\/30\/two-vices-nicotine-caffeine-cc-lemasney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20121230: two vices: nicotine &amp; caffeine by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design<\/a> (365sketches.org)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2012\/12\/22\/20121222-we-go-way-back-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-creativecommons-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20121222: We go way back by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design<\/a> (365sketches.org)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a simple video tutorial and introduction to marquee selection and blur in the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). Video is below. Click on the post title to visit the post, then click the image to see it full size. If you like it, please share it, and thanks! lemasney, design, open source,\u00a0creative commons, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3654],"tags":[230,335,1820,365,405,411,3870,486,532,599],"class_list":{"0":"post-6003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portfolio","8":"tag-creative-commons","9":"tag-gimp","10":"tag-gnu-general-public-license","11":"tag-graphics","12":"tag-image-editing","13":"tag-inkscape","14":"tag-john-lemasney","15":"tag-linux","16":"tag-microsoft-windows","17":"tag-open-source","18":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110606.png?fit=460%2C688&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-1yP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6054,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2011\/07\/28\/day-208-intense-focus-gimp\/","url_meta":{"origin":6003,"position":0},"title":"Manual tilt shift lens effect in the GIMP by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #blur #focus #depthoffield","author":"lemsy","date":"2011-07-28","format":false,"excerpt":"In GIMP. 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