For my pleasure

level_0 · **Posted:** Mon Apr 01, 2019 10:32 am **(#101)**

Issabella wrote:

the problem it's that I'm lack of artistic talent. :hehe

It's the joke of April 1, too funny!

level_0 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 04, 2019 1:40 pm **(#102)**

level_0 · **Posted:** Fri Apr 05, 2019 3:28 pm **(#103)**

Ella · **Joined:** May 17, 2014 **Posts:** 1445

level_0, I like your very personal style :paint

level_0 · **Posted:** Sat Apr 06, 2019 1:25 am **(#105)**

Ella Louise wrote:

:wvy

level_0, I like your very personal style :paint

Thank you Ella

for your encouragement

level_0 · **Posted:** Sat Apr 06, 2019 6:14 am **(#106)**

dinasset · **Posted:** Sat Apr 06, 2019 6:58 am **(#107)**

You are on the right track to reach artistic digital effects.
I like the last one, except for one thing:
- the subject on foreground is less "focused" than the background; was is your choice?

Are you playing intensively with G'MIC?

level_0 · **Posted:** Sat Apr 06, 2019 2:36 pm **(#108)**

dinasset wrote:

I like the last one, except for one thing:
- the subject on foreground is less "focused" than the background; was is your choice?
Are you playing intensively with G'MIC?

thank you dinasset for being here

The result was wanted and I liked it so ..

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Are you playing intensively with G'MIC?

Of the 517 G'mic filters, only a few of them put in favorites. At this moment, I am focused on the effects of colors (and in this area, I am at level _100), so some G'Mic color filters but also those of Gimp interesting: channel mixers, chromatic tonalites, map, and precisely to better discover the filters of the menu colors of Gimp, I launched a challenge today; starting from a vintage image of a lady, pretty but with faded colors, this one:

I wanted to see if I could relook more modern.I found some interesting effects with the filters: colors / map + xxxxxxxx modes of fusion then filter of samj (artistic / flamboyance) then again xxxxxxx modes of fusion
at the end of my tests:

and with "morphological filter":

In short I explore constantly and am depressed by my ignorance.And I say it seriously.

dinasset · **Posted:** Sun Apr 07, 2019 12:38 am **(#109)**

The starting point is irrelevant, when you apply a set of so strong effects, it could have been also a perfect modern image; at the beginning I tought you wanted to improve the colours because they are faded, but this was not your aim.
"Provando e riprovando" is the correct technique, but IMO you have to add other two rules:
- 1: simplify (no need to sum up the effects of many filters)
- 2: throw away what does not result good, re-try/improve only what seems to create an interesting look

level_0 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 07, 2019 2:32 am **(#110)**

dinasset

The exercise I had imposed on myself yesterday:
1) Explore the filters of the "Colors" menu (except the first 10 + threshold that I use often)
2) With source, a vintage image (to better distinguish filter effects and their strength)

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at the beginning I tought you wanted to improve the colours because they are faded, but this was not your aim.

I started with that ...

then in the end I had fun with 2 G'Mic filters

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throw away what does not result good, re-try/improve only what seems to create an interesting look

I agree.Yesterday I did not "improved" according to my taste

because it was not my first aim, which was the discovery of filters in the menu Colors.