Interesting Effect

So, I was asked today about how to install the GIMP for Mac OSX, and I ran into the funny situation of trying to recall how I'd done it. I thought I was using the Gimp.app version, but after a quick check it appeared that I'd installed the basic source version via the utility fink. So I figured I should probably go try the Gimp.app version, as it was mentioned as being a lot easier to use, as well as a lot nicer. The only tricky thing about installing it was that the X11 window system needed to be installed - it's on one of the utilities discs that comes with the Mac, but isn't installed by default. After that it was just clicking the downloaded file, dragging the program in the resulting folder into the applications folder, and done. And wow, it looks a whole lot nicer, plus some of the confusing things about the previous version I was using are a lot better organized. I opened up an image of Cao Cao and fiddled around with some of the filters, and came up with a pretty cool looking image from what was a pretty crappy one:


That was made by running an edge detection filter, which I thought made Cao Cao look pretty cool, and it also hid the general blurriness of the photo.