I used script "old photo" to make look my photo as old one. The results is
nice but there are no scratches :( which makes the photo to look a bit
artificial.

How to add scratches?

Is there  any plugin or script-fu? Cant find anything :(

Dont have neither any idea how to do it well manually.

( i have gimp 2.2.3 for windows and i make first steps in gimp)

gostek wrote:

> I used script "old photo" to make look my photo as old one. The results is
> nice but there are no scratches :( which makes the photo to look a bit
> artificial.
> 
> How to add scratches?
> 
> Is there  any plugin or script-fu? Cant find anything :(
> 
> Dont have neither any idea how to do it well manually.
> 
> ( i have gimp 2.2.3 for windows and i make first steps in gimp)

Get this plug-in which is also available at the gimp plug-in registry:

http://registry.gimp.org/person?id=4503

I'm not exactly clear how you do this in Windows but you will probably have
to open up the command prompt window and do the same thing as in Linux
which I'll describe here:

I use konqueror in file browser mode and select -> Window -> show terminal
emulator.  This opens up a terminal in the konqueror file browser below the
main window so I can see what I'm installing.  Otherwise open up a terminal
like konsole and cd to the place where you download your plug-ins to.  This
is a matter of personal preference, so either one is o.k.  Now type     
'gimptool-2.0 --install-script filmgrain.scm' . Leave off the ' ' marks
though.  This will install the plug-in.  For other plug-ins replace
filmgrain.scm with the name of your plug-in.  However, the
'--install-script-(name of script)' is for script-fu scripts only
(something.scm)..For other plug-ins do this: gimptool-2.0 --help , for a
list of options for binary plug-ins and others....

So basically, in Windows, open up the command prompt window, chdir to where
you saved the plug-in to and do:  gimptool-2.0 --install-script
filmgrain.scm .  That should work !!  But again, I don't use windows !!

Good luck, and let us know if that works... :~)

P.S.  Consider upgrading your O.S. to Linux !! Or at least add Linux to your
box.  

gostek wrote:
> I used script "old photo" to make look my photo as old one. The results is
> nice but there are no scratches :( which makes the photo to look a bit
> artificial.
> How to add scratches?
> ..

Easy to do manually. Get a piece of black paper and photocopy it (or use
white paper and alter brightness down to zero)-- you will have a piece of
paper with toner all over it; now scratch it randomly with a tool, etc.,
then photocopy and/or scan that. You will now have a digital scratched up
image to use for layering with other images for scratch effects.

"gostek" <gostek7777777@wp.pl>, you wrote on Tue, 8 Mar 2005 18:06:09
+0100:

>I used script "old photo" to make look my photo as old one. The results is
>nice but there are no scratches :( which makes the photo to look a bit
>artificial.
>
>How to add scratches?
>
>Is there  any plugin or script-fu? Cant find anything :(
>
>Dont have neither any idea how to do it well manually.
>
>( i have gimp 2.2.3 for windows and i make first steps in gimp)

A third method may be using Gilberto Gomes Junqueira's Fissure
tutorial: http://www.wingimp.org/tutorial/fissure/fissure.html

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stoomvaartlijnen die als draden over de zee�n zijn getrokken,
Dezen wereldkloot in zijn tuimeling door het heelal breng ik U.
  "Grashalmen", Walt Whitman, http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14281

> Get this plug-in which is also available at the gimp plug-in registry:
>
> http://registry.gimp.org/person?id=4503
>

yeah, thanks - with that grain its looks definitely better but still dont
have scratches -  the idea proposed by Beowulf is interesting (make
scratches on a piece of paper and photocopy it) but i would prefer that each
photo has a bit different scratches, so it would mean much more work - dont
u know any script-fu script which makes scratches in random way as that
script which makes grain?

of course i could try to pain some white lines, but it doesnt look naturally
:(

> A third method may be using Gilberto Gomes Junqueira's Fissure
> tutorial: http://www.wingimp.org/tutorial/fissure/fissure.html
>

thanks

its another step in the direction i want although i have impression that
scratches made according that method still look a bit artificial, not
natural :(

Michael Soibelman wrote:
... open up the command prompt window, chdir to
> where
> you saved the plug-in to and do:  gimptool-2.0 --install-script
> filmgrain.scm .  That should work !!  But again, I don't use windows !!
> 
...

I have Gimp 1.2 running on Mandrake Linux 9.2.  Where would I get gimptool
to use to install those scripts for use with my version of gimp?