lylejk wrote:
Appreciate the words, Patrice; saw your comment at work earlier (but only got home a hour or so ago; lol). Anyway, the strokes started with the image being fed into FotoSketcher (free program) using Painting 11 (new preset; even better than Painting 10) and then enhanced the strokes further using G'MIC (Anisotrophic Smoothing followed by lylejk stencil (thanks again to David for keeping this preset for me; different then the current stencil) which I created a convolution layer by dup and running Bilateral Smoothing (note, all the things mentioned besides FotoSketcher are G'MIC presents) and merging down. The convolution layer I set to Grain Merge and dup/adjust opacity to taste to get the desired result. I then use ImpressionFX (no longer free, but the version I use is over a decade old and free; lol) paper preset to add the glints to the strokes. Way too tired and lazer to do image tutorial. lol
Still, following just the FotoSketcher and G'MIC steps hopefully aren't too difficult. If you do download and install the program. just don't install any of the additional software that the installer may ask you too (not sure if he still adds options like that; he did in the past but gives you an out. I suppose the guy has a right to make money by adding additional things). Don't believe I can link FotoSketcher site here, but not too hard to do an online search.
Thanks a lot Lyle for your well detailed explanation
I'll try to find a way to bypass FotoSketcher as there is no Linux version (I'm on Linux).
The picture I saw on the FotoSketcher's gallery are quite impressive and give a good idea about what this piece of software can do
Again thank you very much, much appreciated