clipped from www.ephotozine.com Creating shallow depth-of-field using GIMP Creating shallow depth-of-field using GIMP - If you want to create a shallow depth of field in your photographs but have not got the necessary equipment at the time, you can always recreate this effect later on using image manipulation software such as Gimp. If we only want the central petals of this rose to be in focus we can easily arrange for this to happen in a few simple steps using a layer mask and Gaussian blur to recreat a similar affect that depth-of-field has on focusing. Following this Gimp tutorial you will learn how to select the subject and then make the background appear out of focus.