YAFU wrote:
Sorry if I'm giving bad publicity to the filter with my examples
its not like that Yafu and it was not meant as an offence to you
i see in general the wish of the gimpcrowd for getting a script or filter for everything
i think there are several problems with that
one is, that i think a lot of stuff can be done in a superior way by doing it by hand
i see it with texteffects all the time
and a lot of stuff just cant be duplicated with a script
i tried your horses image, with a simple invert/levels layermask technique and i found the result much better
the image is very easy to render with that method because of the contrast
and it didnt take long either
but people like to use a filter instead, because it seems easier and quicker
but often: not better, imo
i didnt find the hair image convincing either, because hair is always hard to render and there are some very complex techniques around for doing it the "proper" way
yes the result was
pretty good, but then again you have to ask: for what job ?
if you want to have really well rendered hair for a classy piece of art, then the result the filter provided will not be good enough
i do think a filter/script has its place for some uses
sometimes a quick and dirty result is good enough
and as i just said, this script is excellent
still im sure there will be a lot of cases where doing it the manual way will be better
on the other hand, you can have the best of both worlds by using garagecoders filter, then alphaselecting the foreground-object and applying a layermask from selection to the original
then you can fine-tune the layermask by hand