hy back here...welcome in my labirinths
still playing with the idea of a new filter , maybe 2...

But i don't want promise nothing the idea seems good but when is time to code ..

But anyway i want share some idea
the original is http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... us_R01.jpg


El_Gouna_Bus_R01_000002 by PhotoComiX, on Flickr

here i combined gradient norm and the kuwahara filter, the first i used to add white edges (actually green edges i coloirize the layer)


bus3 by PhotoComiX, on Flickr

here a attempt for a bw filter, i post a detail only because scaling screws up dithering effects (and that is their big disadvantage )


El_Gouna_Bus_R01_000015-det by PhotoComiX, on Flickr

Another possible "artistic" BW convertion

without dithering (combiing gradient norm and Bw pencil , darken mode )


El_Gouna_Bus_R01_000013 by PhotoComiX, on Flickr

with extra dithering (as before but for dithering after BW pencil)


bus-bw by PhotoComiX, on Flickr

Now the 2 in bw combined with the original


El_Gouna_Bus_R01_000012 by PhotoComiX, on Flickr

well this is simply a soft preset for kuwahara...


El_Gouna_Bus_R01_000003 by PhotoComiX, on Flickr

Stronger


El_Gouna_Bus_R01_000004 by PhotoComiX, on Flickr

And this is simply the effect of another nice gmic filter
maybe no much know, is Morphological Operation, this is "erode" with "circolar option"
very nice effect


El_Gouna_Bus_R01_000007 by PhotoComiX, on Flickr

To the Kuwahara 1 is overlayered the 2nd in BN


El_Gouna_Bus_R01 by PhotoComiX, on Flickr

now you remember the BW dithered? well that combined with the kuwahara



Untitled by PhotoComiX, on Flickr

or with the other without dithering


bus by PhotoComiX, on Flickr

AARGHH

again just a little variation of the image size and the effect of dithering become a ugly moire

sorry i don't delete the images even if now looks ugly...may be a warning to never use dithering effect if the image will be seen scaled, because if scaled may start to look as crap!!

Another possible "artistic" BW convertion

without dithering (combiing gradient norm and Bw pencil , darken mode )

Now the 2 in bw combined with the original


are my favorites overall

I want a ride on the magic bus!!

I fell in love with the dithering and resized the original bus to fit the dithering.

Here is one result.

I love all of your results PC. Great!

gmic + fractalius

I guess you do have fractilus; oh well. lol

Like all of these PC. G'MIC does give you so many possibilities that's for sure.