Re: Fabulous Filters - GMIC>contours, Lighting Effects, Path Blend +++

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Tue Jun 16, 2015 4:49 am **(#21)**

I am still exploring the GMIC>contours>++ and Lighting Effects filters in combination and am startled at what I can get out of them.

When I first joined Gimp Chat, I noticed a post from Lylejk in which he said "... of course I'm a filters man ..."; not long after Dinasset urged me strongly to play around with GMIC.

Here are some more results of a fractal passed through the above filters ...

Issabella · **Posted:** Tue Jun 16, 2015 6:03 am **(#22)**

Great OMG, Nice outcomes :clap

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Fri Jun 19, 2015 1:22 am **(#23)**

Issabella - thank you; here is a photo of part of Sydney skyline at night from Darling Harbour passed though various of these filters.

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Sat Jun 20, 2015 5:57 am **(#24)**

WOW there are so many GMIC>contours filters that can be used as bump maps ...

sallyanne · **Posted:** Sat Jun 20, 2015 9:30 am **(#25)**

You have really got the creative side of gimp going OMG. Well done!

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Mon Jul 13, 2015 5:45 am **(#26)**

Computer/network down for a couple of days so I am suffering GimpChat withdrawal symptoms! So I had a play with some fractals and then GMIC then good old 'lighting effects'.

sallyanne · **Posted:** Mon Jul 13, 2015 10:40 am **(#27)**

oldmangrumpy wrote:

Computer/network down for a couple of days so I am suffering GimpChat withdrawal symptoms! So I had a play with some fractals and then GMIC then good old 'lighting effects'.

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Yum. They look like toffee chocolate :yes

Even better because it is cyber it is fat free.

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Wed Jul 15, 2015 8:31 pm **(#28)**

Sallyanne thank you; appreciate your comments.

Well its cold and wet here so I do not need an excuse to keep on Gimping. Following images are from Arakne path creator>Graechan's Shine Alpha>GMIC contours>Lighting Effects>Map/fractal trace.

For those of us who cannot draw or paint, there can never be enough filters. Just having fun with GIMP.

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Fri Jul 17, 2015 12:33 am **(#29)**

Still cold and wet - so still Gimping in the warm ...

The list of fabulous filters (especially in combination :hi5

) grows daily.

2-ton · **Posted:** Fri Jul 17, 2015 8:15 pm **(#30)**

You are becoming quite an expert in Gimp and how filters combine and the effects they create.

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Sun Jul 19, 2015 4:36 pm **(#31)**

2-ton - thank you for your kind words, but 'expert' not really; I am just exploring, learning and trying things out. But most of all I am just having a lot of GIMP fun ... my garden though is now getting neglected!

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Tue Jul 28, 2015 2:12 am **(#32)**

Filters from Script-Fu and Python can produce great results too - this one derives from the same set of paisley paths I have used in Anmal's paisley thread, but now it is difficult to see them so I posted it in my 'fab filters' thread instead ... because I can

AnMal · **Posted:** Tue Jul 28, 2015 9:44 am **(#33)**

oldmangrumpy: very nice! like a piece of jewellery out of carved amber.

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2016 4:47 am **(#34)**

Got away from 'glass' today and played with the 'continuous droste' that others are raving about ... also made a 'tim tam' chocolate biscuit brush. Combined the outputs from droste (still using Lyle's preset) using that brush with another of my old favourite fabulous filters, 'lighting effects' ...

There is a lot more to discover here

Pat625 · **Joined:** May 12, 2015 **Posts:** 4693

OMG: So many creations and all are magnificent!

Pat625 · **Joined:** May 12, 2015 **Posts:** 4693

May I share a few? They are much more mild than OMG's beautiful creations but I am just beginning to experiment with G'MIC filters now that I have updates (courtesy of Dinasset).The first is the lane to my house in winter. The other two are with other filters.

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Pat625 · **Joined:** May 12, 2015 **Posts:** 4693

Same picture as above: Droste, added a center design.

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Pat625 · **Joined:** May 12, 2015 **Posts:** 4693

Red & Yellow roses with Kaleidoscope filter.

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Kimba · **Posted:** Fri Jan 29, 2016 5:26 pm **(#39)**

They're all beautiful, Pat. I'd be careful in that Lane, it looks dangerously icy.

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Fri Jan 29, 2016 6:26 pm **(#40)**

Pat625 - there is no stopping you now; lovely results using GMIC and I am so glad that you are having so much fun after your download problems. From my own experience it is not unusual for GMIC updates to fail aas the site is not available.

I especially like that 'mirrored' effect on your lane and the roses kaliedoscope; by the way what is all that white stuff that covers your trees :hehe