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GUADEC: GNOME OS conversations

Posted Aug 23, 2012 12:23 UTC (Thu) by zuki (subscriber, #41808)
Parent article: GUADEC: GNOME OS conversations

> Plus, as the photographs in the story above hint,

A question for the editors I have long wanted to ask: how are the beautifully fuzzy edges of photographs at LWN produced?

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fuzzy edges

Posted Aug 23, 2012 13:13 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Basic gimpery. Pull in thumbnail, ^a to select all, set a fuzzy brush, set color to white, edit->stroke selection, then stroke with the paintbrush tool.

If we actually knew what we were doing we would script it, of course, but it doesn't take long to do it by hand.

fuzzy edges

Posted Aug 30, 2012 18:38 UTC (Thu) by oak (subscriber, #2786) [Link]

Gimp "Filters" -> "Decor" menu has also "Add border" & "Fuzzy borders" and "Rounded corners" options which can do something similar. I myself prefer latter with smaller than default rounding and larger than default shadow.