Illustration amplication step is dup G'MIC Bilateral filter followed with a few passes of Wavelet Denoise and then set that layer to Grain Extract and merge down. Use this new layer as Grain Merge.

Anyway, the result sort of looks like Wicker to me. lol



ref: http://www.fontplay.com/freephotos/imag ... o-1455.jpg

OO I like that lyle

Very nice, looks like fibers.
I second the fact that applying a local contrast filter does enhance the fiber effect. I personally used 'G'MIC / Colors / Local normalization' instead of ACE for my own experiments

Haven't played too much with Local Normalization (G'MIC) David, but might try that next time. Appreciate the comments Lorri; David too.

I am sort of using a edge enhancement variation to get some cool looking results in another FF-3 filter i am currently working on.


Lyle that is far out!

You can call it toothpicks Rod. Looks cool.

I tried the Local normalization because I don't have ACE and I like the effect. thanks for the heads up!

Lyle that is beautiful...your how to is far to be clear (you can't merge down 2 times if you have only 1 dup...here there is something wrong with the math, you should have create another dup, or directed a output on a new layer to be able to merge down twice ) ...but the result is stunning

i love Local Normalization too you have just to play a bit with the setting to got how works and what may do

and has a advantage on ACE ...the LN preview is much closer to the output. that from ACE is often almost unrelated

Maybe so PC; just been using ACE since 2004 (or was it 2003) and it's been good to me all that time. lol

Like your result too Cecilia.

I like too it is still in my DA gallery because from long was hard to find

But you should explain me better
you have the Rodilius layer,
a dup, that make 2 layers you do something and then merge down in Grain Extract

so only 1 layer remain, how you could merge down in Grain Merge a single layer ?
Obviously should be another layer but wich...maybe a dup but a dup of what ?

Run Rodilius, dup, run G'MIC Bilateral filter followed by Wavelet Denoise (2 to 3 times here using ctrl-F) and merge down. The part in red is what I call Illustration Amplication. Set this highpass like result to Grain Merge and dup til happy. I do this quite often and with some additional tricks, you can really get a good Norman Rockwell render with this.

'G'MIC / Local normalization' is one of my favorite filter, particularly when applied on the 'Luminance' channel. Applied on RGB, it tends to boost the colors too much, but on Luminance channel only, that gives a very nice contrast effect. The algorithm behind is quite dumb, but it is enough to make the fibers stand out.

The effect below has been rendered only using Rodilius and Local Normalization filters from G'MIC :

That's a very cool looking effect.

That is awesome David. I actually did play with Value and Luminance and got similar results as with ACE (but again, on this one, I'm more comfortable with using ACE). This all could probably be done in G'MIC but I can't even image the procedure to include all. lol