Pranav wanted my flow for how I would fake a Dave Hill. I responded and thought I would share here too. Not sharing a tut, but am sharing my XCF file which pretty much is self explanatory (i.e., better then a tut).

ref (for non-commercial use only): http://www.flickr.com/photos/cabbit/4402209095/sizes/o/

Compressed XCF: http://cid-924d59d1561f4c34.office.live ... le.xcf.bz2



Hosted free thanks to Flickr

edit:

For some reason, the link no longer works. Below's link should.

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=9 ... file%2cbz2

Wow, Lyle. That's remarkable. Nice work!

That particular "focussing" effect so many people ask me, and I actually recorded a tutorial of it, just haven't got around to making the introduction.

Anyway nicely done my friend

Thanks. There is a missing step though. After you run Three Bar Sin gradient, the result needs to be inverted then dupped. Anyway, appreciate the comments. Again, it doesn't work for all cases (as yet haven't found a do all technique with the same flow), but this method works 80% to 90% of the time.

I believe Graphic Novel Fx may do something similar

i used this just cropped to speed up the rendering

ORIGINAL


Stay Golden by inorman88, on Flickr

i only used Graphic Novel


Testing Graphic Novel for faking D Hill by PhotoComiX, on Flickr

lighter


Testing Graphic Novel for faking D Hill by PhotoComiX, on Flickr

lighter & smoother


Testing Graphic Novel for faking D Hill by PhotoComiX, on Flickr


BACK IN THEME


Testing Graphic Novel for faking D Hill by PhotoComiX, on Flickr

Sweeet!

I discover something else cool about GMic filter & Gimp

, , when a image is saved as XCF the name of the filter used and the values settings used remain preserved as layer name

In simple words if you forget the setting used for a cool effect ,they could be extracted from the layer name so you may ,as example save as new preset

i try with the man too seems to require very different settings but i think will mostly need some manual work

the first is the most excessive now fis skin looks of as that of a Cernobyl Victim


skin disease by PhotoComiX, on Flickr

more moderate


pranav 2_000006 by PhotoComiX, on Flickr


pranav 2_000005 by PhotoComiX, on Flickr


pranav 2_000004 by PhotoComiX, on Flickr


pranav 2_000003 by PhotoComiX, on Flickr

Way cool, PhotoComix. Very nice results.

Yes, very nice. PC now could you shave the goat thingy off the chin?

Great works!
@PC your last result looks cool :-)