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Dream SmoothingMy cameras, lenses and ancillary equipment are all still in storage in Scotland, pending our move to the new home, sometime in March or April perhaps. Meanwhile, I continue my updates and explorations of editing software, particularly The Gimp, https://www.gimp.org/, along with the very powerful add-on known as the G'MIC filter suite, https://gmic.eu/. Taken together, the Gimp and G'MIC provide an enormous image editing resource and all of it free. In this feature, I am going to explore one filter found in G'MIC called Dream Smoothing. If you have the G'MIC add-on installed on the Gimp, Dream Smoothing is found in the Artistic sub category. It is said by the Gimp and G'MIC community to be a popular filter and has been included in the suite since about 2014. As with so many of G'MIC filters detailed information of how to use it is sparse, but in the following examples I have used the filter mainly with its default settings. The one parameter that I have varied is called "itera

Description
Dream SmoothingMy cameras, lenses and ancillary equipment are all still in storage in Scotland, pending our move to the new home, sometime in March or April perhaps. Meanwhile, I continue my updates and explorations of editing software, particularly The Gimp, https://www.gimp.org/, along with the very powerful add-on known as the G'MIC filter suite, https://gmic.eu/. Taken together, the Gimp and G'MIC provide an enormous image editing resource and all of it free. In this feature, I am going to explore one filter found in G'MIC called Dream Smoothing. If you have the G'MIC add-on installed on the Gimp, Dream Smoothing is found in the Artistic sub category. It is said by the Gimp and G'MIC community to be a popular filter and has been included in the suite since about 2014. As with so many of G'MIC filters detailed information of how to use it is sparse, but in the following examples I have used the filter mainly with its default settings. The one parameter that I have varied is called "itera