brainstorms

Wednesday June 08, 2005

harley dreams [multiple exposures in digital] gimp edition

i previously wrote about generating multiple exposures (one synthetic, one real) with photoshop. i did not show a gimp example [i rarely use gimp for serious photographic work] so after blogging those multiple exposures, i fired up gimp2, and tried. there were some counter-intuitive results, so i gave up, went back to gimp1.2, and produced the image on the right: a hd fatboy engine block, five exposures. on my ibook g4, both versions of gimp became noticably slower as the number of layers increased. [it may have something to do with gimp's memory management. i did not have a chance to go back and look at it more analytically.]

[script-fu: sure can do, but it is really not that interesting; i prefer blending actual multiple images, or blending synthetic ones by hand and carefully deciding each layer's position. to me, this is not just a special effect.]