@sallyanne
Everything is better in the morning. Here on the Atlantic seaboard, we are swinging into the day that you folks down under are just leaving. Sleep well.

@Issabella
I love all of your outcomes, and if there are some I seem mute about, it is because I cannot keep up with you!

I am curious about the first of the three; it is the one of this set that I'm not sure how I would go about reproducing. Don't tell me! I like puzzling things out. In any case, it reminds me of sponge-painting.

I mentioned to sallyanne that I am not fond of hedcut in its color mode, but of all that I've seen, you seem to carry it off in that mode the best. I think it is because that whatever else you do, the R G B primaries are no longer quite those colors anymore; they have been shifted in hue and/or muted - to good effect, I think.

Take care!

Garry

Garry, I can't stop applying your wonderful filters. It's always so fantastic outcomes after applying them. I'll drop my results in your thread if this can be useful to you in some way. Thank you so much Garry for sharing your filters and teaching us to understand their behaviour on images.

Garry,
you "invoked" me and here I am!
But beware, I'm not so productive and creative as Issabella (wonderful her outcomes!).
One single attempt



grey hedcut on duplicated layer, then played with modes and nuances...

Hi Friends.
I need help.
I am running Gimp 2.8.14 32-bit portable - Partha VER.
I Refresh my G'mic Filters.
And i can not find the Hedcut Filter.
The Filters is not under testing -> g'mic tutorials
Thanks Doron.

I Found it.

Thanks Thanks ......

I followed grosood's directions and my second attempt is a bit better, but still not there. I made the image very large before opening it in GIMP.

Sort of has a pointillist appeal Issabella. I do like it.

Here we are - first attempt at 'hedcut' filter (and yes I did read the instructions!!); a moody late evening photo of mountains in Norway with some tweaking of course. I really like this one ...

Thank you Lyle, I like this filter to transform pictures in this style, too.
Oldmangrumpy, I love your photo mountains in Norway and your tweaking, the result is fantastic and perfect!

OMG, your outcome is superb!

Dinasset, your outcome is really very good. I like the final nuances on the picture too.
I'll continue practising hedcut in colour and grey.

These first outcomes have been applied blur by cololour - hedcut grey.

These outcomes are in blur by colour - hedcut.

The following ones are being applied blur by colour - hedcut - grey.

and three more.

I realised Garry did a very nice bumped sample. I wanted to get that look he gave to it. Finally and after some questions that my friend Dinasset solved for me, here are two new outcomes similar to the one that Garry did. I hope!

More tries in the style.

I didn't think that I would have a use for this plugin. Then I saw all of Issabella's fantastic work. That inspired me to give it a try. Hope I can get close to Issabella's genius with this.

bilbo9955 what fantastic you are in this thread too. we all learn and enjoy seeing outcomes of others. G'MIC is the best combination with GIMP. Huge thanks to who make it possible with his/her work and talent.

@OMG
I like the way the Nordic landscape fairly scintillates, a nice use of small-scale hedcut pattern. The color scheme, gold, silver and grey-black echos your signature. Another subtle way to sign your image?

@Issabella
I'm a bit shell-shocked by your output. It has been a pleasure these past few days to open this thread up, and like a box of Cracker Jacks, seeing what prize(s) has/have been left inside. The bumpmap collaboration with dinasset almost dissolves these rustic scenes into complete abstraction - but not quite! and the way they teeter betwixt the two interpretations is the charm.

@dinasset
Your winter scene also fairly scintillates. As discussed, a wider range of native scales will be in the next hedcut version; what I have also in mind is to combine step size and smoothing into a single control, that alters the pattern geometry from one of extreme turbulence to one of extreme following-of-edges. Where possible, I always try to reduce the number of user interface sliders and whatnots. Not sure when that will occur. Week or two maybe.

For my next contribution to this thread, a few more thoughts on the combination of Contours->GradientRGB, Testing -> Gmictutorials -> Blur by Color, and Hedcut, also in the testing folder.

I used this image in Finger paint testing: Ambersweet Oranges from the US Dept. of Agriculture gallery. These images are in the public domain in the US, likely in your countries as well.

A hedcut of the oranges: quite a coarse interpretation: image reduced to 800x902.

The hedgecut parameter (top down): 0.863415,0.497561,1,0.902439,1,off,on
Convert the black and white hedcut pattern to a control file for Blur-by-color

using Contours->GradientRGB. It's parameters, top down: 1.75,0,100,on,off
Apply Jerome Boulanger's Details -> Sharpen (Gold-Meinel).

It's parameters: 10,10,2,1,1,7,0,24
Apply Blur-by-color. The highly sharpened oranges are the target image; the GradientRGB converted hedcut pattern is the control image.

Blur-by-color parameters: 3,0.5
Tom Keil's Details->Highpass (for glints and highlights

Highpass parameters: 3.09735,4.98673,off,off. Further enhancement: Colors->autonormalize
Layer merge of Highpass image

layer mode: Color. opacity 17%
That's it. A Lazy brush stroke kind of oranges.
Garry

@Issabella - WOW I have just been offline for a couple of days and your outstanding productivity just astounds me. I will now need a couple more days just to catch up with you!!

@Grosood - thank you, I am still very much in learning mode, appreciate your scripts and am enjoying them a great deal. Hopefully there is more to come from me using them over the next few days!