nice toy in wood (very difficult to build manually....)

Thanks animicule for your answer.

I love it Pat. Nice result.

Issabella, I meant not seamless tileable. I have examples
Example 1 has 2 patterns (both same but different sizes), one very large 2000x2000, the other 64x64.
Ran the plugin with defaults.
Example 2 has 3 patterns (all the same but different sizes) with the middle on 128x128

Here is one for fun

Here is one for fun.

animicule, it's very interesting your idea. I like it. Thanks for sharing your idea about your pattern shape.

Thank you Dinasset & Issabella. I understand the filter better now.

Outcome with 3 patterns. 1 xlarge abalone rotated for wave look. 1 gold mother of pearl slab (large) for beach area. 1 burnt wood for grays/black (xxl).

Same photo with various wood patterns

And last one with hummingbird wing pattern, gold mother of pearl block and pearl gradient converted to pattern.

Guess what happends when you are three, get your first harmonica and have to go outside to play it in the middle of winter.

Did you play long enough to get your lips or tongue frozen to it?

Dinasset: I love playing with this filter! Wish I had enough time to do more. Hard to keep up with the group. You all have so much talent.

nice butterfly; maybe a bit more colour?

How do you control the colors?

Good guess Pat. Raw lips.
I use the first option in both of the drop down boxes for gmic filters and choose not to flatten the
image so that I can turn the different layers on/off, or duplicate them and use different modes.
I scale the "original" the same size that I would like the result. Then use the same size
in the filter. If need be, I put only patterns with similar color into the pattern folder and run it again,
sometimes with only 1 pattern to get the color into the area it "should" be. When I
do that I try to use the same number of iterations and it is easy to make new layer from visible
and copy it into the "original" workspace and use the "original" on top of the pasted layer and
with the original active and both visible I erase the color I didn't want from the original so
the pasted layer color shows through. It may not be the best way but it is all I know.

Thanks animicule for sharing your flow.
I did my dragon in wood.

That is very nice Isabella! The dragon should be cautious of breathing fire....

This one has lots of patterns. White and Gold mother of pearl, some woods, rabbit fur, tree leaves to get the green in the jacket, some feathers, abalone, denims and a burnt wood.

Beautiful work animicule, Issabella and Pat

I'm currently experience a creative mental block hope to catch up soon.

Thank you amimicule, for your help with the colors.I love your images.
Issabella: beautiful work with the dragon. Was that very tedious to do to get all the colors correct?
Dalia: Thanks for the nice comment. Your creative block wont last long. You do beautiful work.