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GEGL is a plug-in library that comes bundled with Gimp. It adds effects to your Gimp design work. These effects are noted as "operations" and you will see them in a dropdown list format. Below you will find a short tutorial I mocked up for it's use.

City Life - Dreamy Dioram Effect

While on vacation with family, driving through Puerto Rico, we captured a breathtaking shot of downtown San Juan. Here is the original photo.

1. Download Gimp 2.6+ and load a simular photo

2. Once the photo is loaded, use the "Ellipse Select Tool" to wrap around the focal point of your photo. For me it was the street

3. After making a circle to capture your focal point, press CTRL-I to invert the selection

4. Go to Select > Feather and put in any value between 400 and 500

5. Go to Filters > Blur > Gaussian Blur and put in a value of 11

6. Then press ok

7. To brighten thing up, go to Colors > Curves and adjust the curve to your likings

8. Finally go to Tools > GEGL Operation... and select "brightness-contrast" from the drop-down options. Set your Contrast to 1.28. Press ok - Done

You will achieve something similar to the following photo...

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