{"id":1762,"date":"2013-11-27T22:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T03:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2014-01-26T20:04:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T01:04:45","slug":"gimp-edge-fadeout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2013\/gimp-edge-fadeout\/","title":{"rendered":"Gimp edge fadeout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always seem to forget how to fade the edge of an image in the gimp&#8230; so here&#8217;s a note-to-self:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ol>select the area to preserve; IF YOU WANT THE EDGE TO FADEOUT, SELECT A BOX JUST INSIDE THE ENTIRE IMAGE; YOU CAN ALSO USE THE MAGIC WAND TO SELECT AN AREA, AND SHRINK AND GROW AS NEEDED<\/ol>\n<ol>SELECT->FEATHER, GIVE IT ABOUT 5 PIXELS; THIS APPEARS TO DO NOTHING BUT PUT A BIT OF ROUNDED CORNERS ON YOUR SELECTION, WEIRD EH?<\/ol>\n<ol>NOW, INVERT THE SELECTION, AND HIT DELETE &#8211; vioala, GIMP FADES OUTWARD.  YEs, IT&#8217;s weird!<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n<p>soRRY ABOUT THE caps, IT&#8217;S HONESTLY EXACTLY how the letters are spewing out on my macbOok prO, Now That i&#8221;ve Mananged to get it humming and then spill a full glass of water on it.  AWESOmENEsS.  AND that&#8221;s With another Keyboard attacheD.  aPPARENTLY THE MAIN KEyboard is flicking THe shift KEy on aND OFF LIKE A CHRISTmAS TrEE.  AND IT&#8217;S not EVen ThaNKSGIving Yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always seem to forget how to fade the edge of an image in the gimp&#8230; so here&#8217;s a note-to-self: select the area to preserve; IF YOU WANT THE EDGE TO FADEOUT, SELECT A BOX JUST INSIDE THE ENTIRE IMAGE; YOU CAN ALSO USE THE MAGIC WAND TO SELECT AN AREA, AND SHRINK AND GROW [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opensource","category-tricks-tips-tools","tag-gimp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M11L-sq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1803,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}