Hi everybody,
I was wondering whether some of the many good artists playing around here is willing to define and publish for release new pre-sets for Gimpressionist; having tried here and there on those available so far I didn't succeed in creating appealing results; maybe other pre-sets are already around in the gimp world but I didn't find them, if any is there.
thanks to any volunteer!

How about a rice mosaic; it was originally inspired by a T. Rowe Price commercial back then. Now I had to do some post processing for my liking. First, I desat the image, then, after GIMPressionist, I dupped then ran Dilate on the top layer and blended to taste to rid the black border around the rice kernels. I then ran plastic wrap script-fu to add a little gloss sheen.

http://www.gimptalk.com/index.php?/topi ... _p__342798 {while GIMPTalk is still up; the rice rush and code posted there}

Thanks K1! What you said is what i tought, i.e "Gimpressionist is more like for adding some texturized look to your images. ...If your are looking for artistic effects, there are tons of more interesting plugins for that. Gimpressionist is age old plugin and mostly forgotten now."
Well, I will use it only for adding texturized look.
btw the contents of your attachment was already in my pc, anyhow thanks;
for the rest (Lyle and K1 examples of use...) I'm too lazy ... sigh!

i have a little collection of preset (none is mine ) i am going to see if overlap that already published
or there is something more to share

if i remember well i have 1 or 2 preset from Fenceposte , a nice series that came with a script fu , "PhotoEffect" by Eddy Verlinden , maybe something more found on the net somewhere (maybe other 2 from Lylejk ? really not sure i have to check the folder )

ok..i will be back later to add mine if differents

I just played with it the first time and liked big textured strokes with variable "size" linked to "value" (brightness) .. I had a test image with strong dark/light contrast but will come back to Gimpressionist now I know what it can do.

Hy seems that i have not only presets but also brush and paper for gimpressionist
i attach the zip

Glad you liked the result Graechan. Used G'MIC's Local Orientation preset for the gloss this time.

That is really cool Graechan.

Thanks P.C.! I downloaded your zip and comparing the content with the stuff I have on my folders related to Gimpressionist I found four pre-sets I didn't have yet
(equalizer, equalizer2, lite-brite, mosaic); I will give them a try, thanks.
All the rest including brushes and paper was already in (sigh!).

(addendum) I tried also the additional four pre-sets: again, nothing exciting for me. The problem is very likely that the title and the menu placement is misleading (at least for me): the name recalls "Gimp Impressionist style" and the menu entry is artistic. So I was expecting pre-sets like: Monet-style, Pissarro-style, Sisley-style etc. I have to say that I work on photo editing (not on fantasy pictures created by myself), so the only use of that plug-in remains applying a texture to improve a photo appearance. Anyhow, thanks to everybody for the nice contributions.

(to Graechan: "ev-iccii used gimpressionist in many of its painting styles, look for 'ev-iccii-photo-effects.scm")
many thanks, I had already the ev-..pre-sets but not the script; downloaded and cleaned somehow (because some of the single effects defined inside were replaced by versions updated to gimp 2.8 by the set FU-...); given a try, some effects are not bad, I'll use them.
thanks again

(to K1 "Maybe it's my misunderstanding of your expectations...")
no, you are right. So I decided to download AKVIS Artwork trial; yes, it produces many pleasant effects, even if not...Renoir or Sisley! in the sense that they do not have a predefined style; anyhow AKVIS software is very expensive (and that is the reason why I didn't try it before). May I suggest you to try (if never done so far) Mediachance Dynamic Auto Painter? There you can select a style, and - interesting - the transformation has a continuous small steps approach so that you can stop the process when you see a pleasant result...
Thanks for your comments and suggestions

There is a program close to what you want ... quite good cheap but not free, maybe offer a trial (not sure about)

see http://www.mediachance.com/dap/index.html