Blurring Tutorials
Lear how to blur photo with different applications!
Blur photo with GIMP
How to blur photo with GIMP
Let’s look how to blur photos with gimp, which is free graphic software which can do many more than just blurring. It’s relatively easy to use and you can install it even on linux or macOS.
![Blurring Image Example](https://blur-photo.com/images/tutorials/blur-photos-in-gimp/1-image-cut.png)
But if you don’t want to download and install anything, you can just use our blur photo editor tool, which helps you blur your photo online just in browsers, and it’s free!
![Gimp Website](https://blur-photo.com/images/tutorials/blur-photos-in-gimp/2-gimp-website.png)
But to continue, You can download gimp from it’s official website https://www.gimp.org/.
![Gimp Website Download](https://blur-photo.com/images/tutorials/blur-photos-in-gimp/3-gimp-download.png)
Just clik on download and choose download gimp directly, or via torrent.
![Gimp Installation](https://blur-photo.com/images/tutorials/blur-photos-in-gimp/4-gimp-installation.png)
After downloads finishes you can click on installer and run it.
![Gimp Installation](https://blur-photo.com/images/tutorials/blur-photos-in-gimp/5-gimp-installation.png)
Depending on you OS you go through installation process.
![Gimp Installation](https://blur-photo.com/images/tutorials/blur-photos-in-gimp/6-gimp-installation.png)
With next next next method you get gimp installed and ready to launch.
![Gimp Start](https://blur-photo.com/images/tutorials/blur-photos-in-gimp/7-gimp-installation.png)
After installation start gimp by clicking on it’s icon.
![Gimp Start](https://blur-photo.com/images/tutorials/blur-photos-in-gimp/8-gimp-start.png)
It’s take some time to load so don’t be scared.
![Gimp Start](https://blur-photo.com/images/tutorials/blur-photos-in-gimp/9-gimp-start.png)
After GIMP finally loads you should see something like this.
![Gimp Started](https://blur-photo.com/images/tutorials/blur-photos-in-gimp/10-gimp-empty.png)
Load your image, you can do so by dragging image from your desktop to gimp window or by just clicking and file open and choosing the file from file explorer.
![Gimp load image to blur](https://blur-photo.com/images/tutorials/blur-photos-in-gimp/11-gimp-image-load.png)
![Gimp load image to blur](https://blur-photo.com/images/tutorials/blur-photos-in-gimp/12-gimp-image-load.png)
After image has been loaded, you can now edit it as you want, there are many tools at you tool pallete but if you only want to blur photo we will stick to blurring icon.
![Gimp blur tool](https://blur-photo.com/images/tutorials/blur-photos-in-gimp/13-gimp-blur-tool.png)
Click on blur icon and now you can tap and drag on your photo to apply blur to it.
![Gimp blur photo](https://blur-photo.com/images/tutorials/blur-photos-in-gimp/14-gimp-blurring.png)
If you need to you can specify size and other parameters of blur brush in your bottom left corner.
![Gimp blur photo](https://blur-photo.com/images/tutorials/blur-photos-in-gimp/15-gimp-blurring.png)
After you are done with blurring your photo, you can now export you blur photo.
![Gimp exporting photo](https://blur-photo.com/images/tutorials/blur-photos-in-gimp/16-gimp-exporting.png)
To export your blurred photo click on file at the top ribbon and chose file -> export as.
![Gimp exporting photo](https://blur-photo.com/images/tutorials/blur-photos-in-gimp/17-gimp-exporting.png)
Chose name of your image and file quality as well as format of image. To not be confused stick to default values, and save image.
![Gimp exporting photo](https://blur-photo.com/images/tutorials/blur-photos-in-gimp/17-gimp-exporting.png)
After saving your image will appear at your desired folder, and thats it.
![Gimp blurred photo](https://blur-photo.com/images/tutorials/blur-photos-in-gimp/final.jpg)
If this looks complicated to you, try to use our blur photo tool, which does exactly what we cover in this tutorial, but without installation and configuration, just click on blur photo editor and upload your image.