I hope that the tut will be understable.

Original pic here

It's a good idea to post what this tutorial is intended to create.
As it stands now, no one will have any idea what we are suppose to achieve by trying this tutorial.

Sort of looks Draganesque to me; I'm a pretty big fan of the Dragan look.

http://andrzejdragan.com/

# Wallace:
It seems to me a mixture between a pic and illustration with lighting effects and enhancement. This would be better appreciate in other kind of pics:


original pic here

# lylejk:
This effect was foaled in a ... and if when I was working on a method to make the Dragan effect, based in this tut for Ps but with some added of mine. The result of it could be:

jamac4k, you don't know the name of the effect and I don't know what I did but, I wanted to give it a try. I know it's not easy to write original tutorials and for that alone, I appreciate it. Thank you.

The first image is the original, the second after your tutorial and I like the effect. I see things that I didn't quite see in the original. The beautiful image I used is from DizyDezi at deviant art.

# Dalia:

Thanks for your words.

I think that this effect works in order to obtain a pic that seems an illustration.
We can obtain different results as we play with the blend mode of gradient norm layer, also with the smoothness values of that filter. A fine and hard work with lights and shadows help us well to do it.

Now try this:
In the layer stack of your steampunk girl, at the top:
make New from visible.
duplicate visible and apply
FxFoundry → Artistic → Wrap effect (10; 8,5; 1,9; soft and set, when gaussian blur gui appears, the values to 8 px).
Set the blend mode of this layer as soft light and the oppacity = 50 %

The result is the attachment:

Wow jamac4k that's really amazing. I love that result. That's what happens when someone, who knows how to work with those filters. Really nice.

I will do as you've suggested above. Once again, thank you.

Holla Jamac4k,
The effect highlights, emphasizes the picture, very interesting.
With L1selected apply (Filters →Enhance → Advance tone mapping) and set the values as are
showing in the following capture:
My Gimp does not have that filter.
I'll try to find it and download it.
Thx for tutorial!

P.S:
Curious, trying to see how this effect was obtained, read the entire tutorial, but has not yet downloaded the filter mentioned above.
Discovered that other filter non-existent in my Gimp would be needed:
FxFoundry → Light and Shadow → Paint with Light (two layers)

Looked like it would be so easy ...

Jamac4k,
The result is interesting. I'll play some more with other images to better understand the whole process and the action of the filters used.
Here's the links where I found the scripts needed for this tutorial:

Advanced Tone Mapping
Paint with Light(two layers)
Wrap Effect...

# Akros:

Muito obrigado.

Excuse me for forget adding the links to the filters as usually I do.
Hope that Gimp Chat users appreciate these links.

Thanks again.

Thank you jamac4k, I tried to do your tut and I got to improve the pic with your method. Thanks for sharing.

I would like have chosen a better picture.

Very nice tutorial.
Thx jamac4k!

Very interesting effect, indeed! There were a couple of filters I didn't have and some things I had and never tried.

Thanks for a real learning experience!

Some close results using DaveHillEffectQT (Jamack style), you may give it a try.

I've playing with the Dave Hill Effect Python-Fu. Great filter!