Just released at the Gimp Registry.

Creates a bokeh effect from available light sources in the active layer. The shape and the size of the bokeh effect is taken from a selection the user must make before using this plugin

Pretty cool little script. - http://registry.gimp.org/node/28052
The script is actually 2 in 1 scripts together.You will find them at Filters/Bokeh/free-form-auto-bokeh
One uses selections and one uses a selection and a path through the light source.

Thanks Hans@GPR



Much better example can be found here - http://registry.gimp.org/files/Christma ... 0Bokeh.jpg
And here - http://registry.gimp.org/files/Bridge%2 ... 0Bokeh.jpg

rod: that looks really cool! thanks for watching that hans guy for us .

Thanks for this one Rod. Looks really useful.

This looks like a nice effect, but what is meant by using the paths tool to make selection? Can't a selection be made with any of the selection tool for the script to create the effect from an image's light source?

I keep getting error messages when I run these. Are they designed for 2.8? It might be that I'm using 2.6.11.

Erisian what error message do you get?If you are using 2.6 it's probably a deprecation warning.Does the script still run?

Wallace i believe when using the free-form-semi-auto-bokeh selecting the 2 path nodes give you super control over the colors used for the shape.You still have to use the select tool to create a bokeh shape the path determines precise color for the bokeh.So be careful where you place these two nodes.

More on the free-form-semi-auto-bokeh.
In this plug-in the user must mark the light-sources he or she wants to produce a
bokeh's from.
This is done with the path-tool, in which the nodes must be placed on the chosen
light-sources. The path between nodes and the order of the nodes is irrelevant.
Because the colour of the produce bokeh depends on the colour in the image beneath
these nodes, care should be take in placing these nodes. Enlarge the image during placement of the nodes for better results.

I must not be holding my mouth right or something. I've spent a couple hours working with this script, and have tried different settings in each choice, and haven't come up with anything I like yet. Think I'll stick to bokeh brushes and Dynamics. It looks like a nice script but just doesn't do much for me. Hopefully someone else will figure it out.

@Rod,

I'm still not sure what your getting at.
Are these 'nodes' part of the script, or do I have to manually place them in my image before I use the script? If so... then it's really not a path, but just path-nodes. Without any real path.
Is this correct?

Here are my results showing the selections from path in top image and the final results in the bottom image with the selections still showing. I turned off the blurred layer and didn't like the bokehs over the original layer.

In case anyone wants to know how to pronounce bokeh.

It loaded with the end showing. You can play it to start it from the beginning.

Thanks O.

Yes you have to manually add the single line path with 2 nodes before running the script.
The bokeh's should be colored the pixel color directly beneath the nodes themselves.This is why the author states be careful where you place the nodes and use magnification while setting them.Perhaps i should ask the author to allow for color selection from the picker also?That would probably be a nice third option.
color select from the picker
color select from the 2 nodes
color select from lighter areas in the image.

O-ka...

So I just place 2 nodes using the paths tool and then run the script?

@Oregonian
I can't get this script to do anything.

Create two nodes , create a selection (any shape or size) and run the script.
It isn't necessary to create a path with the other menu choice (free-form-auto-bokeh).You only need a path with the free-form-semi-auto-bokeh menu item choice.

free-form-auto-bokeh - Only a selection any shape or size is needed to run it.
free-form-semi-auto-bokeh - Both path and selection are needed to run this one.

Hope that clears things up for you.

O i am not sure whats going on with yours.

Well as you can see, Wallace, I didn't get it to do much either. Since it has to have an activated selection, it takes on the shape of the selection. Putting two path points won't work, they won't activate. Putting two path points and making a separate selection really doesn't give me much. Just making a selection and running the first one just gives me some bokehs but not much of an image.

@Rod,
This is what I get when I use 'free-form-auto-bokeh' with a simple selection.

If you are running 2.6 that is probably the reason for the error.If that is the case you will have to fix the deprecations in the script itself.Run Gimp-2.6 and open the procedure browser.Type in gimp-image-insert-layer
You will probably see only gimp-image-add-layer in Gimp-2.6 and the PDB call in Gimp-2.8 is INSERT not ADD.
Changing that in every instance may help you.I am not positive it is gimp-image-add-layer because i don't have gimp-2.6.11 installed right now.But it will be something similar.

I will install gimp-2.6 and make sure.