Innards. (don't look if you are having dinner)

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

i get exactly the same, its the filter value that changes everything, as i told you :heart

Gino D · **Joined:** Nov 06, 2012 **Posts:** 239 **Location:** Italy

AnMal wrote:

am i the only one who gets nothing but spaghetti or larvae in the lava filter? what pictures do you guys start from? no matter what i change in the settings or what picture i have started out with i only get spaghetti (= long, white lines, more or less tangled up) or larvae (short, white lines, more or less tangled up), with far too little red, yellow and orange around it. if i use the relief light on it i get no real effect out of it because all the areas that get highlighted were white lines anyway. :hoh

this is extremely irritating and i demand to know why erisian, gino d and esper all get nice looking lava when i don't!

Yes, the G'MIC's "Lava" filter always tends to produce textures reminding of spaghetti, so the problem could not be attributed to it. Indeed, the trick for transforming those thin strings into bowels is to change some of the settings provided by the "Relief light" filter, where it is expecially important to set the "Image smoothness" slider to a higher value than the default 0.00 (for example, 1.00 is an appropriate choice).

Anyway, in my previous post I attached a detailed explanation on how to operate to obtain that particular result.
Take a look:
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=7241#p92129

AnMal · **Posted:** Wed May 15, 2013 11:39 pm **(#23)**

esper and gino d: of course you're right, i bow to your greater knowledge :hehe

. the problem was that no matter what i do in the relief light filter i don't get anything similar to erisian's or your results. i had to run the filter twice on the same layer before it had the same effect, but now i can make innards or amber looking text as much as i like

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Erisian · **Posted:** Thu May 16, 2013 4:33 am **(#24)**

AnMal - it might be relative to the size you are working on. I worked originally on 1024x1024 at 300dpi.

Molly - I tried some text.

AnMal · **Posted:** Thu May 16, 2013 11:22 pm **(#25)**

erisian: looks like bacon text, not very gruesome at all.

i haven't really tried on a blank canvas that size, though i have ran the filter starting from an image on larger than that - don't remember if it realy made a difference, so i will have to try.

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

i just found out: you can get the same effect without the lava filter, and use the 'Seamless turbulence' instead
that way you will get grayscale innards

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

interesting PS tutorial for making a texteffect from guts:

http://www.tutorialwiz.com/guts_text

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Erisian wrote:

AnMal - it might be relative to the size you are working on. I worked originally on 1024x1024 at 300dpi.

Molly - I tried some text.

[ Image ]

I like that Eris

Erisian · **Posted:** Thu Jun 13, 2013 7:12 am **(#29)**

Nice work Esper, quite gruesome. Thanks for the link.

Thank you Molly.

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

Erisian wrote:

Nice work Esper, quite gruesome. Thanks for the link.

i didnt make that, just posted the pic from the PS tut

Erisian · **Posted:** Thu Jun 13, 2013 7:35 am **(#31)**

Ah sorry. I hadn't followed the link at the time - I thought I would come back to it if I had time at the end of my session.

The Warrior · **Joined:** Jun 02, 2013 **Posts:** 2090

I did something similar a few years back, but don't remember how I did it. I think I found a tut on it somewhere:

AnMal · **Posted:** Thu Jun 13, 2013 1:28 pm **(#33)**

the warrior: nice slimy stuff

. do you remember if there were any scripts involved or anything? i like the effect of the plasti-wrap script and the g'mic relief light filter, and i have been thinking it would be nice to know how to make it manually too, so if that tutorial was on how to get the effect manually i'd start hunting for it!

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

AnMal wrote:

it would be nice to know how to make it manually too

my guess is, you cant

i think some filters are just mathematical stuff

but you could ask Rononours, as he wrote the Relief Light filter

The Warrior · **Joined:** Jun 02, 2013 **Posts:** 2090

AnMal wrote:

the warrior: nice slimy stuff

. do you remember if there were any scripts involved or anything? i like the effect of the plasti-wrap script and the g'mic relief light filter, and i have been thinking it would be nice to know how to make it manually too, so if that tutorial was on how to get the effect manually i'd start hunting for it!

I actually found the link later last night. I guess it's okay to post this here: http://www.gimptalk.com/index.php?/topi ... -tutorial/

Erisian · **Posted:** Fri Jun 14, 2013 7:34 am **(#36)**

That is gruesome Warrior!!! It's put me off my tea.

The Warrior · **Joined:** Jun 02, 2013 **Posts:** 2090

Erisian wrote:

That is gruesome Warrior!!! It's put me off my tea.

Haha, thanks. My job is done here. :mrgreen:

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

dont fall for Erisian's trickery, Warrior
hes just trying to troll AnMal :rofl

a coffeedrinker he is

AnMal · **Posted:** Fri Jun 14, 2013 1:19 pm **(#39)**

the warrior: thanks for the link! they used the plasti-wrap filter, though, so no help with the manual making of the effect there. maybe esper is right, but it seems like there should be a way to do this "by hand" - after all it's only shadows and highlights!

erisian: i'm wondering, which tea would that be - the nice smoky chinese blend that you're so fond of or the ceylon pekoe that you haven't even tried?

esper: :mrgreen:

- but to be honest i don't think he was trying to pick a fight here, he was probably using "tea" in the meaning of "late afternoon meal".

Erisian · **Posted:** Sat Jun 15, 2013 5:36 am **(#40)**

AnMal wrote:

erisian: i'm wondering, which tea would that be - the nice smoky chinese blend that you're so fond of or the ceylon pekoe that you haven't even tried?

Chinese tea? Sorry, I don't usually drink out of ashtrays. :hehe