Kevin, I had to smile at your description, "Blurry thing," Good description, I like it!

Anyway I had already done this image before you posted your script and I haven't tried the script yet. I used YAFU's way of doing it but I made the selection 100px smaller than the picture and centered it and inverted it. I also blurred by 10 instead of 5. That might be a possibility for your script. In the xach effect, if the selection was 100px smaller than the picture, the X & Y offsets could be 50 ... maybe.

I'll give your script a try.

This is a picture of Bandon Beach that is not far from me. Again, it's from stockxchng.

Nice results!

HEHEH! This makes for a really cool smoked glass effect for many uses.

@ paynekj, excellent! Thank you!

Now would be great an option to add noise/grain to emulate the ground/frosted glass



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Haha, Rod and the cow...

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@Oregonian, nice picture!

Here's my adventure with the script. Very nice, Kevin.

I'll leave that for someone more artistic to develop a method.

I'll say goodnight now:


Kevin

Thanks Kevin, nicely done.

Hey Kevin, great script. works very well, Kudos

Hey Rod, I think your cow must have cataracts.

I just ran my ripple script on the blur layer after to make it look like pebbled glass:



-Rob A>

@paynekj, I like your last design.
@RobA, interesting result

It seems to add noise/texture is necessary to work with one of the two layers that have associated a mask. The named "copy of name-image" and "Highlight". I said earlier I do not understand well the use of masks. But I have seen better results if you apply the effect on the mask in layer "Highlight" or on the image of layer "copy of name-image" (not on the mask in this case):


With GIMPressionist texture possibilities are endless.

Next, angular and radial blur:

Great effect! Endless possibilities for making frames. PC's stuff would look good with this.

Cool!

Good one Rob!

this give me a nice the "Sherlock Holmes Cyber Lens" filter
(you chose the Radius of the lens, and the task as example refocus, Cartoon reference,Details enhancer)

if "refocus" is selected a new duplicate is create above and blurred and the lens copied as Layer mask
so it will look as the lens may refocus

Same but using a cartoon filter: will look as the lens may recover the original photo used as reference from the cartoon

Humm ...a good Sherlock Holmes Lens should offer a magnify factor but this maybe would complicate much the coding

I explained well the idea ?

Nice idea

excellent implementation, Akros!