[Gimp-user] smooth the image

[rich404 <forums gimpusers com>]

> trying to make the spiral smooth.
>
> I tried manipulating the selections many different ways and even made
> some paths but none helped make it smooth.

No easy way that I can think of. 

Using the gmic_gimp plugin www.gmic.eu First a smooth(NL-Mean) then a
Constrained Sharpen gave a sort of result, a bit too much 'fuzzy', which made a
big 3 MB file. (even a xcf.gz was > 1 MB)

Using paths is the way to go.

Truthfully Gimp is not the best tool, use a vector application such as Inkscape.
However not easy to get that exact spiral even in Inkscape, so a center line
trace, then back into Gimp and stroked the path. That one not too large, so
attached. The path is in the paths dialogue.

Guessing you originally used gfig - ancient plugin, should be retired.

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* http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/1069/original/log-ink.xcf

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