Kitten Manip

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

Wife took this photo of a kitten, at my neighbors cabin.

Did a bit of Fractalius, and G'MIC magic to it, and ended up with this. Kinda like the result:

The same with green eyes. Like the blue better, but, just to be different:

2-ton · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2015 9:27 pm **(#2)**

I like it, I think the green eyes are a bit more "cat-like".

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

2-ton wrote:

I like it, I think the green eyes are a bit more "cat-like".

I agree, albeit a bit too bright of a green. But hey, it's art, haha.

Wallace · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2015 10:08 pm **(#4)**

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Here's one I did using G'Mic's Graphic Boost filter.

Before Graphic Boost.

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After Graphic Boost.

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I must admit, the settings I used make the effect very subtle.

dinasset · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2015 12:12 am **(#5)**

nice manipulations, Wallace
let's add mine
(my personal G'MIC ToneMapping + FreakyDetails)

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Wallace · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2015 12:37 am **(#6)**

dinasset wrote:

nice manipulations, Wallace
let's add mine
(my personal G'MIC ToneMapping + FreakyDetails)

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

It seems that anything that darkens it up a bit looks better.

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

dinasset wrote:

nice manipulations, Wallace
let's add mine
(my personal G'MIC ToneMapping + FreakyDetails)

That makes the metal bit stand out more, compared to others.

Personally, before any attempt at playing with funky filters, I would:
1) straighten up the picture (post should be vertical)
2) crop it to square or vertical format (to remove the uninteresting gravel on the left).
3) remove the chair/foot in the background
4) attenuate/decontrast/darken the metal fixture in the post.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12854

G'MIC engrave with some added embellishments.

AnMal · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2015 9:36 am **(#10)**

the warrior: i like that! are you sort of gradually easing out of a binge here? you started with fractaliusing bigger cats and now you're down to kittens :hehe

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wallace: i like that too. graphic boost is a simple but useful filter, i think, i use it a lot.
dinasset: nice! i use freaky details a lot too. i can agree with ofnuts that it made too much of a fuss about that metal piece though.
lylejk: that's very good, almost believable as an engraving.

david · **Joined:** Nov 15, 2014 **Posts:** 878

Taking ofnuts advice!!!

david.

dinasset · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2015 10:29 am **(#12)**

Ofnuts,
do you like better this amended version?

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ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

@david: isn't it better that way?

@dinasset: square format is cool too. However, a small defect in the "fixed" picture gets exacerbated by the later processing:

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

AnMal wrote:

the warrior: i like that! are you sort of gradually easing out of a binge here? you

Thanks. I guess so, haha. Nah, I just liked that photo. The neighbors had two kittens, Silver, and Gravity, the one shown. They called it Gravity because it's back legs were sprawled out, and it couldn't walk right. It later came out of it, however, and can walk fine now.

BTW, I didn't want to crop it. I like it just the way it is. I like extra stuff in the background. Not everything in life is framed and symmetrical.

Wallace · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2015 9:50 pm **(#15)**

Here's another try.

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sallyanne · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2015 11:49 pm **(#16)**

[align=center][align=center]Cropped, symmetrized. Cut the kitten out of the original picture and then blended layers.
Then I just ran dream smoothing.

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Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Oct 22, 2015 12:00 am **(#17)**

sallyanne wrote:

Cropped, symmetrized.
Cut the kitten out of the original picture and then blended layers.
Then I just ran dream smoothing.
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Nice one Sallyanne! :bigthup

dinasset · **Posted:** Thu Oct 22, 2015 12:32 am **(#18)**

ofnuts wrote:

@david: isn't it better that way?

@dinasset: square format is cool too. However, a small defect in the "fixed" picture gets exacerbated by the later processing:

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fixed, I hope

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