Not your mother's sugarplum fairy.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12845

lol

Combination of several G'MIC presets (bilateral and anisotrophic or starters) and more then a few gradient tricks (too lazy to elaborate) not to mention cloning and healing brush work and more then a few (dare I say it) manual smudges and voila. lol

Thanks to jlior for providing the reference image for play.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/34520999@N ... otostream/

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

That's an awesome image there Lylie, If I was to pick anything it would be the face lines seem a bit harsh but the dress looks stunning.

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

Very cool Lyle... Pink hair is in today.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12845

Thanks for the feedback he4rty. I definitely need to work on vexel conversion of facial features; a weakness of mine I admit.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12845

molly wrote:

Very cool Lyle... Pink hair is in today.

Maybe so Molly. lol; by the way, you ninja'ed me while I was responding to he4rty.

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

lol, I have it happen to me more times than naught.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16173

Nice results Lyle.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12845

Thanks Rod.

Fullback66 · **Joined:** Mar 02, 2013 **Posts:** 73

is there a tutorial on how to do this?
very cool!!!!

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

Fullback66 wrote:

is there a tutorial on how to do this?
very cool!!!!

Your asking the wrong person, but if plead really nicely and look doey-eyed, Lyle will sometimes oblique. :mrgreen:

Fullback66 · **Joined:** Mar 02, 2013 **Posts:** 73

ok. PLEASE! I we use GIMP in one of my high school classes. Maybe someone has already done a tutorial like this and would like to share.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12845

I work a 12 hour shift in a few hours; maybe when I'm off after my 40 hour weekend next week I'll share hints. For starters though, one of the biggest hints is G'MIC's bilateral filter; result by itself can give you cool watercolor effects.

Fullback66 · **Joined:** Mar 02, 2013 **Posts:** 73

Thank you. I will take it.

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

lylejk wrote:

lol

Combination of several G'MIC presets (bilateral and anisotrophic or starters) and more then a few gradient tricks (too lazy to elaborate) not to mention cloning and healing brush work and more then a few (dare I say it) manual smudges and voila. lol

Thanks to jlior for providing the reference image for play.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/34520999@N ... otostream/

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Love it!!

Fullback66 · **Joined:** Mar 02, 2013 **Posts:** 73

I have GIMP 2.8
Downloaded G'MIC. I do not have G'MIC's bilateral filters
Where can I download this at?
FB66

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

if you download GIMP 2.8 from parthas website then you will have G'Mic built in I believe.

http://partha.com/

fluffybunny · **Posted:** Mon Nov 18, 2013 8:17 am **(#17)**

@Fullback66 I assume that filter is GMIC version dependant. What version are you running?
I note Lyle has v1.5.8.0 beta, that Bilateral filter is not in my GMIC v1.5.6.1 either.
Perhaps Lyle or someone else will answer soon.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12845

It's under Repair>Smooth (bilateral). I created a custom preset and named it Bilateral.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12845

You already have the image reference (I cropped it for the tut). It's a simple tut and I did a few more nuiance steps in my final result, but hopefully this will get you to a point where you can get happy results with your image. See the screen captures since the layer properties are the steps.

Dup then ran bilateral smoothing on top layer; set the result to Grain Extract:

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Created an all visible layer; result thus far:

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Fake smudge step; shared this preset here before. Did tweak the sliders some. Still, it's the Anisotrophic smoothing preset under Repair:

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lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12845

Now look at the layer properties:

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Bilat again for the final magic:

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And the result (without any nuance); you folk may actually like the result though:

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