EDIT 2011/1/8
i corrected a error if you got the script before download again


To avoid confusion (2 may seems a version number ) i renamed PhotoComix Graphic Boost 2 as Graphic Novel Fx

same improvement then for the other filters:

fixed application of Value mode
better default (at least in most cases )
preview default 1:1
support multiple input/output
respect transparency
in the gui embedded link for a presentation/help page

a example of BEFORE /AFTER(better if seen at original size ! )

AFTER


Graphic Novel Test by PhotoComiX, on Flickr

PLEASE check at full size !http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5121/5315936645_255981d5e8_b.jpg

BEFORE


DSC27347, Sculpterra Winery and Sculpture Garden, Paso Robles, California, USA by jimg944, on Flickr

to confront see http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimg944/53 ... x-mandala/

INTERFACE


Graphic Novel Fx by PhotoComiX, on Flickr



old presets may not work, i will add here a new preset gallery (that above is "ProtectSky-Dark")

The new code below DON'T CONFLICT with the older version now in gmic in the Preset/testing menu

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#@gimp Graphic Novel Fx : gimp_photocomix_booost2, gimp_photocomix_booost2(0)
#@gimp : sep = separator ()
#@gimp : note = note("Apply Local Normalization")
#@gimp : SKIP this step = bool(false)
#@gimp : note = note ("Check the box will disable the 4 sliders below")
#@gimp : sep = separator ()
#@gimp : note = note(" Local Normalization Controls")
#@gimp : LN Amplititude = float(2,0,60)
#@gimp : LN Size = float(6,0,64)
#@gimp : LN Neightborhood-Smoothness = float(5,0,40)
#@gimp : LN Average-Smoothness = float(20,0,40)
#@gimp : sep = separator ()

#@gimp : sep = separator ()
#@gimp : note = note(" Pencil Options")
#@gimp : Pencil Size = float(0.12,0,4)
#@gimp : Pencil Amplitude = float(14,0,200)
#@gimp : sep = separator ()
#@gimp : note = note(" Do you wish to smooth the pencil effect ?")
#@gimp : Activate "Pencil Smoother" = bool(false)
#@gimp : note = note(" If unchecked the 3 sliders below are disabled ")
#@gimp : sep = separator ()
#@gimp : Pencil Smoother Sharpness = float(0.5,0,2)
#@gimp : Pencil Smoother Edge Protection = float(0.54,0,1)
#@gimp : Pencil Smoother Smoothness = float(1.12,0,10)
#@gimp : sep = separator ()
#@gimp : note = note ("Boost Merging Options")
#@gimp : BOOST Merging Option = choice (Overlay , Multiply, Soft light,Color Burn,Darken,Stamp,Hard Light,Value ,Freeze)
#@gimp : Opacity = float(1,0,1)
#@gimp : sep = separator ()
#@gimp : Add Painter's Touch = bool()
#@gimp : note = note(" If unchecked the 3 sliders below are disabled ")
#@gimp : sep = separator ()
#@gimp : Painter's Touch Sharpness = float(0.5,0,2)
#@gimp : Painter's Edge Protection Flow = float(0.54,0,1)
#@gimp : Painter's Smoothness =float(0.78,0,10)

#@gimp : sep = separator(), note = note("<small>Author : <i>PhotoComiX</i>. Last update : <i>2011/1/6</i>.</small>")
#@gimp : note = link("Filter explained here","http://www.gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=775")

gimp_photocomix_booost2 :
-repeat @# -l[$>] -split_opacity -l[0]
-if {$1==0} -gimp_normalize_local $2,$3,$4,$5,1,3,0 -elif {$1==1} -gimp_do_nothing -endif
--gimp_pencilbw $6,$7,0,0,0
-if {$8==0} -gimp_do_nothing[1] -elif {$8==1} -gimp_anisotropic_smoothing[-1] 60,$9,$10,$11,1.1,0.8,30,2,0,1,1,0,1,0 -endif
-if {$12==0} -gimp_compose_overlay[1,0] $13
-elif {$12==1} -gimp_compose_multiply[1,0] $13
-elif {$12==2} -gimp_compose_softlight[1,0] $13
-elif {$12==3} -gimp_compose_colorburn[1,0] $13
-elif {$12==4} -gimp_compose_darken[1,0] $13
-elif {$12==5} -gimp_compose_stamp[1,0] $13
-elif {$12==6} -gimp_compose_hardlight[1,0] $13
-elif {$12==7} -reverse[1,0] -gimp_compose_value[1,0] $13
-elif {$12==8} -gimp_compose_freeze[1,0] $13 -endif
-if {$14==0} -gimp_do_nothing -elif {$14==1} -gimp_anisotropic_smoothing 60,$15,$16,$17,1.1,0.8,30,2,0,1,1,0,1,0 -endif
-endl -a c -endl -done


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Cool! I had my empty .gmic file ready and waiting for your next code, PhotoComix, so it was ready for copy and paste time.

I had just rendered this image of colored pencils so just for fun I ran it through your new filter. Nothing serious here but I like the results. Top before filter, bottom after.

thank for testing

more are coming soon , i am fighting with Kool Draft just now

about changes for example now is even possible use all the updated filters for sort of batch :

1 open everything as layers
2 set input option to "all layer"
3 set output to "new images"

just don't exagerate with numbers and sizes of the images, is a intensive filter, and gimp may have problems with dozens of images opened simultaneusly..but only limit is the computer power

As explained in the first message i changed the filter name

OMG O!
I was just creating this image for my new 2.8 splash screen for Gimp 2.8 when it comes out!...wow! Talk about weird.



And PC thanks! I grabbed it up.

I did kinda rob the gimp.org site for the bg image...hope they don't mind.
I did add the brush shadow and the colored pencils though!

O i am just freaked out now ... lol

Here are my colored pencils after graphic novel fx

Very nice PC! Your turning into David, better watch it ...

@ PhotoComix - Got my .gmic file updated with the newly-named filter.

@ Rod ... nice colored pencils there. Do you have each pencil as a separate image? Nice splash screen for GIMP 2.8!

No ,no, David is a command line guy that even learned how to make excellent Graphic Interfaces,
... but the Gui is for the others, for sure he prefer play and work with a terminal

I am a graphic guy, first i see in my mind what i wish and the manual steps needed to get it

After i just see the graphic interface to support that at best , all my focus go on sliders , controls and preview

,Only when the gui is ready i feel sufficiently motivated to find how to write the real filter code , meaning the real part that will do something to an image

Instead i believe all developers focus just on the code,( even in the elegance and armony of the code as it was music or poesy )and saw the gui as an accessory, something that should be done because for some reason is needed by the Others , the users ... but in the deep of theirs heat they will prefer convince users to use the terminal, than to have to spare energy in something almost superfluous as a graphic interface.

( This is general, again David created for Gmic the best graphic interface i saw in a gimp plugin...)

@ O
Glad you solved, Ink Wash will be in the Artistic menu of the next release with Graphic Boost,...not sure for Graphic Novel fx i am still working on it (trying to make the interface more intuitive and to add possibility of visual control not only for the final result but also on each of the main steps )

Original image, here's the Bing link. You will need to click, See full size image, to view it.

I played with the controls just a little with this one a little to get more color and less white around the edges.

O
"Forbidden" link

That is really weird. That's the link I got the image from.
Here's the Bing link. You will need to click, See full size image, to view it.

Sure do in the xcf, you want it? I attached it.
The pencils are pretty much just rectangles with duplicated glossy white blurs.
The leads are pretty easy, the hardest part was getting the wood part (cone), under the leads right.
It is included in the xcf though.

If you want to make the pencils a dif color just alpha to select one and colorize.Then just add the cone.
Pretty simple.

Thanks! Got it!

If you already insatalled please get now the correct version (in the first message or http://pastebin.com/Ffar5WGM )