Duplicate, emboss, then set mode to vivid_light

I tried your method, Dinasset, on this breakfast cake I've just made.

Two different approaches on the two pictures.
The first - I have tried to bring out detail - particularly in the darker parts.



The second - something completely eccentric!



PS. The breakfast cake looks delicious. Can I come and eat at your house?

Thanks David.
You did two good actions on the pics. The second one is interesting with a special look.
Of course, you are invited to taste it. May be one day we be able to send something through waves.
These photos (two near Pyrenees) and a street in my city.

Did not use a seamless texture this time. Used Fill with Patter Seamless to create a bigger swatch and then copied a circular selection of the swatch to feed though Mathmap's Circle line and then healed transparancy.

Droste that Bundt

Also healed the transparencies.

Just an photo enhance this time. Did heal out the time stamp.

An interpretation of the last image posted, Issa.

details in the name

...and this one of a previous photo.

(details on the name)

Slight changes - emphasised the reflection in the pavement and adjustments to brightness and contrast.



Must have more flowers!



A play with my equal saturation mask plug-in. I used it to increase saturation mainly in the areas where it was low and for the flowers.

OK; back to perspectives.

I love your results. All of them have its nice interpretation and are beauty.
Lyle, your cake pattern is nice. I save it. Also your perspectives ones. You are a master in it.
Dinasset, I like always your interpretations, I like specially the Ink Wash Burn applied. it is very nice.
David, you gave it your personal touch and with more flowers is perfect!. It seems to be real. well done!

I took these photos in the cave where the antique queens and her help ladies had baths because of the heat outside.

I tried a transformation on this one.

In this picture I like the way that the dark foreground forms a frame.



Here I have cropped the photo to make it symmetrical. Increased saturation in the low-saturation areas and a 10% reduction in medium parts.

Here my modification of IMG_3925.
GMIC Edges, Linear Burn, Visible, Multiply


Issa, IMG_3909 doesn't look to be an "original" photo

Though I have many methods for creating mosaics, I had an epiphany allowing me to do this type of mosaic all in G'MIC. Used anisotrophic smoothing, stencil, and superpixel to create the blocks (transparent color edges) and then used that result to create the block mask which I fed into the Blend>Shape Average for the colorized blocks. Then I applied Local Orientation (set to grain merge on duplicate result) to raise the blocks a bit. that got me to 99% there; some special sauce for the glistening (favorite PS plugin that's no longer free; lol) and voila. I suppose I should have healed the main blocks, but am a lazy filter guy. lol

Had to save and extreme compression to keep it under 5M.

Diego, 3909 image was reduced in size. it was enormous. I scaled it in gimp.
I like your transformation and I will try to do it.
Lyle, It is impossible for me to follow your steps. Thank you for sharing your method as the result is wonderful. You are patient to do it. Thanks.

I reduced the image here with IrfanView. It is better. Thanks Dinasset.

Not in GIMP but is photo play.
Chosen:3593 (4 point-Polygons)
Tried:50107
About this method: https://tinmantaken.blogspot.com/2023/0 ... -idea.html