{"id":47293,"date":"2026-03-20T11:34:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=47293"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:34:18","slug":"willkommen-bienvenue-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2026\/03\/20\/willkommen-bienvenue-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Having fun with GIMP filters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/55158455359\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55158455359_14813ca71e_b.jpg?resize=640%2C687&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Having fun with GIMP filters\" width=\"640\" height=\"687\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>I&#8217;ve been playing around with this <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/07\/06\/all-that-jazz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scanned negative<\/a> in the free, cross platform, Photoshop alternative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GIMP<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing around with this scanned negative in the free, cross platform, Photoshop alternative GIMP!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[317,14,2093,700,16],"tags":[158,6291,325,3656,118,66,6,480,6292,6290],"class_list":["post-47293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-photo-manipulation","category-photography-2","category-pixels-versus-pigment","category-sketch","tag-analog","tag-bienvenue","tag-digital","tag-gimp","tag-photography","tag-photoshop","tag-tina-garceau","tag-usa","tag-welcome","tag-willkommen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-ciN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19426,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/08\/13\/the-gates-of-hell\/","url_meta":{"origin":47293,"position":0},"title":"The Gates of Hell","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"August 13, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0I know that we're basking in the dog days of summer, but Halloween is just around the corner! 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