I'm always game for new scripts and plug-ins. This is one that was just added today at the Registry. Seems promising. Of course, I cheated just a little and used PC's smoothing filter to soften it.

http://registry.gimp.org/node/24930

My test example:

Thanks for the heads up Mahvin. Just downloaded it and may play soon.

Is this soon enough? lol

Definitely a keeper. Caption's of my brother and my 2 nephers. Going to have some fun with this one.

ooooo I like this plugin

I'm such a sucker for scripts (... and fonts, patterns, brushes, etc.).

This is fun. Good default settings, too.

I got an error message when I didn't uncheck the grayCstoration choice.

This is probably the best filter for doing "cartoons" from photos Very nice presets.

Does anyone know if it is possible to pass settings from a script such as such as this to G'MIC? If so, we could suggest to Joe1GK that he modify his script to do so rather than call GREYCstoration - which I don't have and has of course been superseded by G'MIC's own Anisotropic smoothing/Patch-based smoothing. Applying a small-radius gaussian blur might work in a pinch

I know the smoothing could be run before applying the cartoon script, but I'm thinking it's more likely that a user would have G'MIC than the unmaintained GRAYCstoration, thus eliminating the need to turn something off or perform a manual step.

Or, we could tear Joe's script apart and turn it into a G'MIC preset...

Thoughts? Flames?

It can be done. I've seen it done, somewhere.



This is what I did, after I ran the script. But I did add GREYCstoration just to see what the difference was. It would be better off being passed to G'MIC, instead, because the smoothing preset has been upgraded since.


I like this idea as well. PC is getting quite good at making presets. I have a lot of catching up to do.

It got added in a while back.

I can't find the request and samples, but I know one script that call gmic is here:

http://www.aljacom.com/~gmic/36motifs.scm

-Rob A>

I think found the exact section we (that could be a royal "we") need from 36motifs, lines 136-142:

Lucky for me, I had already installed GREYCStoration a few years back; haven't played with the new version (I installed both; I use the old version). If you use one or the other in a particular GIMP session, it will break the other, so, if I need the old version (which most of the time I do) if I run this script, then I will have to close and re-open GIMP (no biggy).

As other's have mentioned, it would be cool to modify the code so that it would use G'MIC instead of GREYCStoration. Any coders out there? Maybe even code all the code as a G'MIC plugin. This cartoon effect is the best that I've seen of this genre thus far imo.

It is possible there is even a sort of template...hem ...somewhere in the Gmic documentation(i always stumble on it when i look for something else, then i forgot where it is exactly but is in the gmic doc on sourceforge.

About port the script as gmic plugin not sure if may done,it depends from the manual steps used
if they may be replicated with GMIC plugin or command line then should be not obstacles.

I agree that is one of the best "Comic" script i saw (and i think i try them all)

RobA (and other interested on Script fu and Gmic) maybe this may help ?
http://gmic.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ ... iew=markup

Pretty nifty results with this. =)
Definitely one of the better comic strip filters.

Wow, Joe tweaked out the script to accommodate both scripts and commented out posterize (which made the cartoon ugly, imo). Now you can cartoon and half-tone your image in one process. Double sweetness!



We should have a National Holiday for coders. I really really need to start learning this stuff...

Wow! You guys got results fast!

Same parrot with g'mic function.

Hey O; I actually commented out the GREYCstoration part in the code so that I can continue to use the old GREYC for fake smudges. Not sure if the G'MIC version is any faster the GREYC one, but G'MIC more currently supported. Glad you can benifit from the smoothing now. Really do like this Script, but I still actually like to run Comic-Strip separate from CarTOONize, so I just unclick the dither option and then run Comic-Stripe on a separate duplicate (it's just me of course). However you want to do to skin a cat I say.

Definitely an improvement, O.

I've been waiting for a script like this for a long time.

@ Lyle ... Whoa! You customized it even more to suit your preferences. WTG!

@ Mahvin I like those little dots you made. Going to have to fiddle in there some more.

It was certainly worth the wait. That's a superior cartooning script.

Not a coder, but it's not that hard to look at a Script-fu and see what's going on. lol