Authentic strokes effects. I like them, Dinasset.
mahvin, thank you so much for your nice comment. It means much to me. Thanks.
Diego, thanks for your filter and comment, too.

Very nice outcomes, great portrait !

Thank you so much, Dinasset.

Wow, new masterpieces.
"Palace": you may print it and frame it, to put on one of your home walls. It is a painting, no doubt!

The white house is on the hill beside Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. I've been told it was a favorite residence for law students. The picture was taken from a public park some distance away with a Mavica digital camera at full zoom, x20 if memory serves.



The "repair" was to eliminate the power lines, phone lines, whatever they were, which was done at various times in various ways in the last 20 years. The prep for the Free Painting, Landscape Preset, version was simply to lighten the image with a white layer on overlay mode with reduced opacity. A Soft Light mode is also effective for this.

I rarely used painting effects on my own digital photos before beginning to use GIMP a couple of years ago. Not to suggest the photos are somehow too good to deliberately distort (they certainly are not) I just didn't care for the look I usually got from the effects. Diego's plug-ins, especially the recent ones, have been different enough from what was previously available to me to completely change my mind. Feels like I've been waiting a long time for this. Very glad to have it available now.

I agree with your thinking on this. I've passed up all sorts of "painting" effects because they never really captured the true essence of what one would expect a painting to look like. Diego has outdone himself this time, and as soon as my school chores are done, I'm going to start giving his filters a good run.

Many thanks Neurolurker and Mahvin for your very nice comments on my effort.

Just one more, especially for oldmangrumpy.

I'm not the addressee, Ella, but I feel the urgency to post my opinion: a very nice and "credible" real painting; I hope you think the same.
Thanks for posting it.

No, you weren't the addressee, Diego.
But I put the outcome in your thread, not in oldmangrumpy's
I also thought it was a successful and credible result



These are for you, Diego

Thanks Ella !
Fantastic paintings of Roma !

Bravo to all for your superb outcomes.

Enjoying this effect.

Issabella
Nice outcommes.I like very much the first.
I would like to use this filter but I need to translate the tutorial and at the moment I don't have time.

First default result (and original) - i will experiment more

Excellent results, Issabella.

Yes, Issabella is like a professional tester. Always amazing results from her.

Thanks my friends. I feel quite

I love the portraits, Issabella
Although I notice the outcomes have been posted 2 years ago already