Is that girl you or your daughter, Issabella? If your daughter, then get a bat to fend off the boys; if you, still the same.

Lyle, , no, the girl in the photo is very pretty but my daughter is even prettier.
I see that you have liked the results after applying the filter and your method.

Pat, very nice contribution. I like the combination Glass-Flamboyance.

I am happy to see nice results from everyone!!
Dinasset: following your shining examples and Lyle's tuts!
have finished a final version (left flashdrive home today, sorry).
In the meantime, here is a butterfly scene.

I like your butterfly scene a lot. It's really beautiful in detail and colours. I'm looking forward your next filter, animicule. Thanks for sharing it.

Wow; fantastic Brian. Your work surpassed anything I could have come up with. Very much look forward to your update. Don't forget your thumbdrive tomorrow.

Lyle, it would not have been possible without your direction!
Here it is, final version (to stop my tendency to overcomplicate further).
If you would like changes in a preset, please let me know.
Hope that this will be fun for everyone!

Here are a couple nice ones and one for Pat.
No editing, these are untouched outcomes.

The effects of your (Lyle+animicule) filter are very nice.
I'm glad Lyle has a new interpreter of his "dreams" using G'mic.
You became very quickly a good script coder, animicule, congrats!

Thank you Dinasset for the Texture By Color Area and all your other scripts that I learned from!!! I have a long ways to go yet...

Animicule, I like the effect. Thank you for the kittens!

Wow, Brian; your results are stupendous. Can't wait to try something (sort of tired at the moment). I downloaded your plugin and will soon give it a whirl, but maybe you can provide a tut as to all the various controls.

Thank you Lyle!
I have found that subject selection always seems to be a large
part of success with manipulation filters and is most likely
the 'secret' to getting a great outcome.

Basic instructions:



Intensity = number of convolution layers created before being merged
Double size will override Process width and scales image up x 2 before processing
Target width will scale process width up or down to width selected (speeds filter up and
gives different results at different sizes).
If double size is not chosen and target width is 0, it will
process the subject image at the subject image size.
--(personally I like to start at about 1/2 size with all other settings
at defaults for medium width subjects (around 2000-3000 width)
for larger subjects I like to lower them to about 1000 or 1500. This
give me a much quicker result to look at and decide if it is nice or
if it might be better at a different size or with some effects)
After the 1st run, then the fun begins (or if the result is terrible, a new
subject may be selected).

Lyle's secret layer is a copy of the convolution layer added to the top of the layer stack

Rodilius off / on if on - Effects tweak sets choice of light or dark rodilius
Boost off / on if on - Effects tweak sets choice of chroma or graphic boost
Emboss off / on if on - Effects tweak sets choice of low or high level of emboss

Rodilius is 0(light) or 4(dark)
Boost is 0(chroma) or 2(graphic)
Emboss is 0(low) or 1(high)
add the numbers of the effects you want ON and move the
Effects tweaks slider to the correct value to set.
(or if you are just using one effect that you want 'high' you can set it to 7)
Effects tweaks slider doesn't matter if you have not selected an effect.
unless you are using a preset in which case it may or may not matter.

Modes are pre-sets which may override some or all other settings.
and they may not, so choose effects you may like to see and set
the fx settings and run, change them and run again to see the results...'
some will add many layers, others may take layers away....
mostly just for fun. Tested as much as possible and they work fine on
some things, great on a few things, terrible on others.
1 and 2 are basically add color
2 and 3 will give both chroma and graphic boost layers
4 and 5 will add art effect.
most will give a bigger selection of layers to play with in the stack.
most of the presets will increase processing time.

Thanks for the information, Brian. Again, extremely pleased and impressed. This one's pretty much straight your plugin (playing with some controls) on a Christmas cactus capture I took last Christmas. Just as a side, I have a heck of a lot of buds popping out this year; looking forward to the blooming soon.

Nice!!
The 'effect texture' looks Fine Sized.
If you processed it again at a smaller width size I would
expect the 'effect texture' to enlarge.

Yeah; a lot of renders benefit from starting with a small image and zooming it.

Thank you so much for this new version, animicule. It's a great filter and the results are really fantastic!

Wow Issabella, that is beautiful and well done Animicule - now I must find this new filter and play with it. So difficult to be able to spread my time to all these new features ...

On your lyle layer, I ran Rodilius and then darkened to taste to blend. A few other things as well (don't remember; the nuance stuff; lol).

ref: http://www.fontplay.com/freephotos/seve ... 107-12.jpg

https://www.flickr.com/photos/34520999@ ... 2/sizes/o/