Playing with my photos

Issabella · **Posted:** Sat Sep 09, 2023 4:47 am **(#732)**

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12531

Thought I would try to fake an HDR; halos are killing me. lol

Tried to mitigate some of the issues with haloing, but alas, I'm only human. Maybe someone will come up with an anti-halo AI to help me with this. lol

Issabella · **Posted:** Sat Sep 09, 2023 11:33 am **(#734)**

Thanks Lyle.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12531

Corncob Mosaic

Had to recreate how to make one of these (it's been a few years). lol

Been wanting to try for a while (believe it or not), but work got in the way; not this week though (since I took off). lol

My only question to you is, would you take a bite out of it. lol

PixLab · **Posted:** Sun Sep 10, 2023 2:45 am **(#736)**

Lyle, it's:

IMHO the best mosaic I saw from you, even zoomed at 100% :jumpclap

Issabella · **Posted:** Sun Sep 10, 2023 5:00 am **(#737)**

Patrice I completely agree with you. :hehe

Lyle

More please. :coolthup

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12531

Thanks, Patrice/Issabella. Might try another one soon. Have to pick a good subject to do so, of course. Trick is to create the selection which I then use Mosaic Tile Helper to generate the paths and then stroke said paths with dots. I then feed those dots into G'MIC Skeletonize to create the actual tiles mask. Then use Blend (Shape Average) to colorize (under testing>lylejk; David saved this preset for me when he went another route which didn't do what I wanted).

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12531

OK; smoothed out the tiles for Patrice.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12531

This one's for Patrice. lol

Yes; bored on my staycation.

PixLab · **Posted:** Mon Sep 11, 2023 12:50 am **(#741)**

lylejk wrote:

Thanks, Patrice/Issabella. Might try another one soon. Have to pick a good subject to do so, of course. Trick is to create the selection which I then use Mosaic Tile Helper to generate the paths and then stroke said paths with dots. I then feed those dots into G'MIC Skeletonize to create the actual tiles mask. Then use Blend (Shape Average) to colorize (under testing>lylejk; David saved this preset for me when he went another route which didn't do what I wanted).

I don't understand :oops:

what selection?
what is "Mosaic Tile Helper"?
what dots?
Sorry if I look like a fool, I need a more step by step explanation, or may be it's a bit too :geek

for me

lylejk wrote:

OK; smoothed out the tiles for Patrice.

Another great one, I love it :hi5

lylejk wrote:

This one's for Patrice. lol

Yes; bored on my staycation.

Thank you

A different type of tiles, but yes! Excellent as well, it also shows a very good versatility of results with your method :clap

Issabella · **Posted:** Tue Sep 12, 2023 4:54 am **(#742)**

Issabella · **Posted:** Tue Sep 12, 2023 4:55 am **(#743)**

Issabella · **Posted:** Tue Sep 12, 2023 4:56 am **(#744)**

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12531

PixLab wrote:

lylejk wrote:

Thanks, Patrice/Issabella. Might try another one soon. Have to pick a good subject to do so, of course. Trick is to create the selection which I then use Mosaic Tile Helper to generate the paths and then stroke said paths with dots. I then feed those dots into G'MIC Skeletonize to create the actual tiles mask. Then use Blend (Shape Average) to colorize (under testing>lylejk; David saved this preset for me when he went another route which didn't do what I wanted).

I don't understand :oops:

what selection?
what is "Mosaic Tile Helper"?
what dots?
Sorry if I look like a fool, I need a more step by step explanation, or may be it's a bit too :geek

for me

lylejk wrote:

OK; smoothed out the tiles for Patrice.

Another great one, I love it :hi5

lylejk wrote:

This one's for Patrice. lol

Yes; bored on my staycation.

Thank you

A different type of tiles, but yes! Excellent as well, it also shows a very good versatility of results with your method :clap

Haven't seen RobA in a while; anyway, he posted a cool script-fu many years ago, Patrice. Need to read through his thread to understand how to use it. It requires a selection before running it. I use various ways to create the selection but lately, I've been using G'MIC's Convolve present and use the select by color GIMP tool to create the selection of the image I'm using.

viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2714&hilit=mosaic+tile+helper#p34988

PixLab · **Posted:** Tue Sep 12, 2023 8:18 am **(#746)**

lylejk wrote:

PixLab wrote:

lylejk wrote:

Thanks, Patrice/Issabella. Might try another one soon. Have to pick a good subject to do so, of course. Trick is to create the selection which I then use Mosaic Tile Helper to generate the paths and then stroke said paths with dots. I then feed those dots into G'MIC Skeletonize to create the actual tiles mask. Then use Blend (Shape Average) to colorize (under testing>lylejk; David saved this preset for me when he went another route which didn't do what I wanted).

I don't understand :oops:

what selection?
what is "Mosaic Tile Helper"?
what dots?
Sorry if I look like a fool, I need a more step by step explanation, or may be it's a bit too :geek

for me

lylejk wrote:

OK; smoothed out the tiles for Patrice.

Another great one, I love it :hi5

lylejk wrote:

This one's for Patrice. lol

Yes; bored on my staycation.

Thank you

A different type of tiles, but yes! Excellent as well, it also shows a very good versatility of results with your method :clap

Haven't seen RobA in a while; anyway, he posted a cool script-fu many years ago, Patrice. Need to read through his thread to understand how to use it. It requires a selection before running it. I use various ways to create the selection but lately, I've been using G'MIC's Convolve present and use the select by color GIMP tool to create the selection of the image I'm using.

viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2714&hilit=mosaic+tile+helper#p34988

Thank you so much Lyle!
Now I have hope :yes

I'm gonna to study that :bigthup

Again

david · **Joined:** Nov 15, 2014 **Posts:** 866

I have not forgotten this thread! I am in Greece with my small travelling laptop and a slow wifi connection. (Earthquake proof buildings have a lot of steel which blocks the signal.)

The experiment with contrast masks within luminosity masks.

IMG_7661. Scaled 50% width & height.

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Here is the Layers Pallette, where Lum 1 copy has been desaturated, inverted and a small amount of Gaussian blur added. The mode has been changed to soft-light. This reduces contrast in the darkest parts.
Lum 4 copy, desaturated and changed to soft-light mode to increase the contrast in part of the sky and the sea.

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IMG_7661_1 is the result. This is an experiment and I need other people to tell me if this could be a useful technique!

Issabella · **Posted:** Thu Sep 14, 2023 12:12 pm **(#748)**

Happy vacation David! :clap

About your contrast Mask in luminosity masks seem to work perfect. I see the result really nice and balanced. :jumpclap

Issabella · **Posted:** Fri Sep 15, 2023 2:13 pm **(#749)**

Issabella · **Posted:** Fri Sep 15, 2023 2:14 pm **(#750)**

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