Still continuing on with my binge. lol

Took one of Dad's pumpkin stencils and converted it thusly. Click on the image for the hirez link (at Flickr).

Thanks Gram; really liking Flickr's Terabyte offer; it will be at least, based on my current track record, 40 to 50 years (if ever) before I use this amount of image storage. lolol

lylejk: really nice! the effect works great as a wood carving. i still haven't tried it with the stained glass filter, i might get the time for that this evening.

It looks so much like carving in wood. Really nice, Lyle. Almost like bas relief.

If you use a sold black on white template like a pumpkin carving, you pretty much have to use the stained glass preset (blended with the original set to light) before running Stencil preset. Anway, thanks for the feedback AnMal.

Thanks O; to break up the repeating pattern of the wood texture that I used, I did run the Python filter fill with seamless pattern plugin.

This came out nicely, lylejk!

One thing which might enhance this would be a source of side-light to add depth to the carving. One way to get this might be to do a mass-selection of the carving part and on a separate layer pull out a radial white->transparent gradient at a low opacity. Then do the same for a selection of the non-carvings, but with an even lower opacity. Might be worth to experiment with doing so only for the non-carving part too, depending on how deep the carving is supposed to be.
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Griatch

Thanks Griatch; played with radial blur before but never seemed to get the result that I was hoping for. Maybe try do do so again the next time I feel like rendering one.