GIMP Version: 2.8.2
Operating System: Windows
OS Version: XP - SP3
GIMP Experience: Beginner Level
URL or Image link: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/407/44687811.jpg/

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Hi People!

How do you get this result?
Applying textures so that it perfectly to shape the face?
I tried (and still looking) videos or text tutorials about this technique.

Already thanks!

I would think it'd be quite a challenge to get the realistic lighting of face paint using some sort of general recipe or filter. You could theoretically colour and shape the squares on a separate layer and mold it onto the face with careful use of something like the warp tool ... but it will not look realistic out of the box. The fatty surface of face paint is different from the subsurface-scattered naked skin. It requires some careful consideration.

I would personally solve this by manually painting the colours using brushes on one (or more) separate layer(s). This is a pure painting exercise though and I couldn't give a simple recipe for it ... You need to apply new highlights and use textured brushes in a rather subtle way. Making it look like a photo is a lot of work.

Most flexible is the 3D suggestion above, but building a realistic 3D head/body and lighting it in a realistic way is not a trivial exercise in itself, facepaint or no facepaint.
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Griatch

Here's a quick one, is it kind of what your looking for?



Make a selection of the face and save it to a channel.
New transparent layer, Fill (whole selection) with a pattern.
Layer mode: Subtract
Opacity: 65.

K1TesseraEna and Griatch, thank you!
I never imagined it could be so complicated. I will test you can and see how I approach this result.

Odin,
In your example, was not as "flat". Perhaps the geometry of your diversified pattern has contributed to give that 3D look.

In my case, the black and white squares are very uniform, regular, and the end result is not what I seek. It was very flat.

For now I have in mind to follow the suggestion of K1t and test with "Map_Object." Although I do not know how to use this filter, but I will do experiments.
I want to see what I can with "Map_Object" and "displacement"

Thx!
Image test.

I think that is cool akros.

I believe the flatness you get comes from two points:
- A face is not square it's composed of curves, you have to see a face as basically a sphere, so your chessboard has to follow the facial curves, you nedd to be guided by the curves as in a sketch, examples: http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs40/f/2009/ ... Ditroi.jpg
- A painted chessboard, in reality, can't be treated as an overlay, it's blended into the skin, it becomes the skin, just look at your picture and see how value and grain of the chessboard appears to blend into the skin, for instance black is not black, it's a range of blacks, also note thos tiny natural cracks/dots/holes of the skin, they are preserved.

I use this way.
Notice: sometimes, I change the multiply mode to hard light if order the texture.

If you are willing/able to use G'MIC I have a filter called "warp map" that may help, I can't demonstrate just now (on lunch break!) but it can map images over other surfaces with certain settings - smoothness around 2 and high depth, blend mode multiply or none for a new layer. If there's any interest I might do a short explanation of it. See also: http://www.flickr.com/groups/gmic/discuss/72157632548321472/

Thx Molly, Actually, even that was not bad ... but not what I was seeking.

Thx anarkhya1 Do not know how I could still get this result. But googled and found a few hours ago that the PS has 2 filters that allow you to get that look!
Displace filter and a displacement map - http://designshack.net/articles/softwar ... ment-maps/

jamac4k, The look was good! I'll read your PDF, it may be what I'm looking for! Thx!

garagecoder, I do not know exactly how your filter works. It may be the solution! Would that work as filters Displace filter and a displacement map. Thx!

Before I was trying with a technical, but very distorted texture, and chessbord was disfigured.
Primitive technique - test


Then I found the tutorial link I showed above, and changed the way we were trying to do. Improved greatly, but I think it is still not satisfactory technique. I'll keep seeing what I can!

Technical development - test
Examples 6 - 3 with chessbord texture, and 3 with the texture of a rock.


Rock texture used.


Thx All !

Yes it's similar to a displacement map (in fact it's most similar to Map > Warp in gimp). I would try increasing both smoothness and depth to map more to the overall features rather than bumps in the skin.

used displace

With a chessboard i result this:

Image → Duplicate and Desaturate image (DL) → Chess (Render→ Pattern → Chess (100x100)) → DL2 (hair mask layer)

Create the chessb layer(*) and apply it map → displacement → default values DL1 as map
Set Chess layer in softlight mode and duplicate it, and decrease its opaccity about 50 %. Merge down both chess layers and set in softlight mode. (*) I change #000000 (black) into #333232 in the chessboard.
Merge down with DL1. → R1

Add layer mask, oppacity (black) to R1. Copy and paste DL2 on layer mask.

Apply layer mask in R1 layer. Apply a bit of curves (darken). Bump map: 3 depht with Image as map.

Add on top a new layer fill of #828282, set this one in overlay mode. Use white & black colors, low oppacity, to dogde and burn as lights and shadows.

That article explains indeed what is required to make to transform an overlay pattern into something believable. I think jamac4k is almost at the point where it is believable, if we forget about shadows induced by overlapping hairs, it still misses the face perspective, the patterns should recede where the cheeks recede for instance. But hey, that's good so far, this thing is not easy to work with.

As painters say:
Thinking "volume" instead of "pattern" is the key to develop drawing skills.

Attempt with Warp Map:

Chessboard with G'mic ([G'MIC] Chessboard : -gimp_chessboard 100,100,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,255,255,255,255,255,0 #1)

Warp Map: Deep (2.50), Detail (1.76), Smoothness (1.40), Blend mode (Multiply)

Same procedures that in the previous attempt


#K1TesseraEna:
You can try with several texture layers in differents perspectives playing with them.

pfff just about spat my coffee out jamac4k that's far better than I could manage! I'll stick to the coding I think

I thank everyone for their interest in this topic add up and help me with this question!
Jamac4k still can not follow your steps above. But I will try to achieve. ¡Muchas gracias!

A thank you all for the help and hope to learn more and give back the same way whenever you can.

They are both excellent, jamac4k