ref: https://pixabay.com/photos/chimpanzee-m ... o-3707270/

Like the illustrative like result using this technique.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/163034485 ... 97/sizes/o

I'd be interested to know how long it would take to do this on a much larger scale. You got me thinking of an elephant photo for my daughter's birthday.

Lyle, really love this technique!

Appreciate the words.

Not sure, Mahvin. If you have a beefy enough PC, then I doubt much time at all. I set the stencil to b/w and also ran (duplicate layer of original) my engrave preset trying to match the line size with the string size of the stencil. I set to darken to create the b/w stencil which I fed into blend>shape average (located in my test folder; David was so kind to preserve this preset upon my request many years back and I use it often; he put it into my name's folder). I then did a bit of anti-aliasing cleanup work and other enhancements.

I don't know if I managed to get the same effect, but I tried to follow the tips given by lylejk in discuss.pixls.us/

Anyway, I really liked the result.

Thank you Lylejk!

lylejk, it's great as usual. Krikor

lylejk,with the confinement periods imposed by the Covid, could you not redo tutorials as you did about 10 years ago? I am convinced that I would not be the only one to appreciate.

Hi level_0, thx by comment.

I can share the xcf with the sets used in G'MIC (which are shown in the name of the layers) applied in my attempts.

But I think that they do not reflect the steps used by lylejk, it is only an approximate attempt (or even that).

In this forum the maximum size for an attachment is 5 MB, so I posted xcf.zip on this link https://www.sendspace.com/file/5kmi45

Looks great, Krikor. To get longer threads if you will, you can play with the Anisotrophic settings. Below's mine (which I call fake smudge).

I still work 2 jobs, level_0. lololol

One's mission critical, and the other is a part-time retail job. Little time for fun. lol

lylejk,it's too bad for us!

OK; found your Gorilla at Pixabay (believe it's yours). I did remove the effect on the backgroun as you did. Using the Aniso settings mentioned above and setting the Stencil radius to 1 (and iterations set to half way point), below's the result.

ref: https://pixabay.com/photos/gorilla-silv ... al-448731/

Thanks for the settings Lyle. Will try this when have time the results are so cool.
Got only one job, but things are so busy I forgot to eat today!

Lyle - What is good for chimps must be good for wombats - sort of used your 'pixls' instructions but did some other mods too. Thanks for your inspirational post!!

Definitely should work for any marsupials, OMG. lol