Painterly Effects by ScaryKitty
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Vladimir Golovin
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Painterly Effects by ScaryKitty http://www.filterforge.com/filters/4577.html  |
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| Posted: October 22, 2007 5:44 am | ||||
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Vladimir Golovin
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Very interesting. I'm just not sure I like the resulting color -- I'd prefer to have an optional way to leave the original brightness/levels/contrast etc unchanged. I'm afraid with the current scheme this may be hard to implement -- you'll need to get rid of all those chained Levels/HueSat components in the middle of the filter. | |||
| Posted: October 22, 2007 5:48 am | ||||
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Vladimir Golovin
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And I think you can easily get rid of at least one Blur component -- see the pic. You're using it to soften the border between the areas of diagonal brush strokes. This can be easily achieved via the Smooth parameter of the Threshold component. |
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| Posted: October 22, 2007 5:53 am | ||||
StevieJ
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Hey scary, long time no see.....still among the living, eh???  
I like the daubs/brush stroke effects of this one  Steve
“Buzzards gotta eat.....same as worms....." - Clint :) |
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| Posted: October 22, 2007 9:52 am | ||||
| Kraellin |
i wasnt sure from the presets if i would like this one or not. often, i can tell pretty well about a filter from looking at nothing more than those. this one, i had to call up the program, get the filter from the downloads and play with it a bit. frankly, i'd change some of those presets. they dont show this off well enough... too much blur in those. so, bottom line, i like the filter, but not the presets.
i played around with my rose picture. the controls are well labeled, so no big learning curve there. so, that's a plus. it has a variety of effects, also good. too much blurring for my tastes, but that's pretty subjective, so no points subtracted for that. (you didnt realize i was grading this, did you  ). so, all in all, a nice addition to the creative category  filters, filters, filters... NO FILTERS FOR YOU!!!
Craig |
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| Posted: October 22, 2007 10:47 am | ||||
ScaryKitty
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Vladimir,
I see what you mean about the dynamic range. I was never happy with how the tones were coming out, though I thought the Levels component was the best shot. Then, after reading your comments, I went back and found that I had a tone curve that was dragging everything down. I started this filter a long time ago and just picked it up again recently, and I was so busy trying to get the brushstrokes right that I missed that tone curve. I don't even know why I included it in the first place! @_@ I also found a dead-end sub-tree, which I also excised. I am a goober. 
Regarding the blur vs. threshold smooth: I actually used threshold smooth originally, but it introduced some strange artifacts at the borders of the shapes, so I went with the blur. [img]http://pics.livejournal.com/schizokitty/pic/0001fxy6[/i [img]http://pics.livejournal.com/schizokitty/pic/0001ge7c[/i Kat
----------------------- "Listen, gotta dash, things happening. Well, four things. Well, four things and a lizard." -The Doctor |
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| Posted: October 22, 2007 11:15 am | ||||
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ScaryKitty
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Why are my images not showing up?  Kat
----------------------- "Listen, gotta dash, things happening. Well, four things. Well, four things and a lizard." -The Doctor |
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| Posted: October 22, 2007 11:32 am | ||||
| Kraellin |
you have to include some text in the thread or the image wont post. images must be 250k or less and they must be one of the accepted formats, like .jpg, .bmp and so on. filters, filters, filters... NO FILTERS FOR YOU!!!
Craig |
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| Posted: October 22, 2007 11:35 am | ||||
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ScaryKitty
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StevieJ: Yup! I'm still here. Though I seem to have gotten a little rusty... 
Kraellin: The presets were difficult for this filter. I had several photographs I was using to give examples of what the filter could do, so I was optimising to presets for them as well as for the anchor. I'm sorry they didn't seem to give you a good impression right off.
I hope to get my examples up in this thread, but they don't seem to be showing up right now (just the html), so I'll try again later. It's obvious one CAN put in pix, 'cause there's your rose! whisky tango foxtrot? 
Kat
----------------------- "Listen, gotta dash, things happening. Well, four things. Well, four things and a lizard." -The Doctor |
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| Posted: October 22, 2007 11:38 am | ||||
| Kraellin |
oh, and one other reason images wont post is, you cant use the same text over and over again in any given thread. the anti-spam thing will kick in and disallow the post.
normally, the biggest reason for images not posting is file size. MUST be 250k or less. filters, filters, filters... NO FILTERS FOR YOU!!!
Craig |
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| Posted: October 22, 2007 11:41 am | ||||
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ScaryKitty
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Um, well, not sure how I ran into anti-spam guards, but it seems to be working now.
Vladimir: here are examples of the difference between using blur after multiblend and using threshold smooth beforehand. http://pics.livejournal.com/schizokitty/pic/0001fxy6 http://pics.livejournal.com/schizokitty/pic/0001ge7c Sort of. At least I have real links... Kat
----------------------- "Listen, gotta dash, things happening. Well, four things. Well, four things and a lizard." -The Doctor |
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| Posted: October 22, 2007 11:48 am | ||||
| Kraellin |
oh, you LINKED to the images. i thought you were posting them here. lol. filters, filters, filters... NO FILTERS FOR YOU!!!
Craig |
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| Posted: October 22, 2007 11:49 am | ||||
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ScaryKitty
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I'M TRYING TO DO IT!!! I hit the "image" button, enter the appropriate url, and THIS is what I get!
[img]http://pics.livejournal.com/schizokitty/pic/0001fxy6[/i GROWL!!!  Kat
----------------------- "Listen, gotta dash, things happening. Well, four things. Well, four things and a lizard." -The Doctor |
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| Posted: October 22, 2007 12:05 pm | ||||
| Kraellin |
ah, dont use the 'image' button. go down to the bottom and use 'attach a file', then browse to your image in your folders and click on the one you want. filters, filters, filters... NO FILTERS FOR YOU!!!
Craig |
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| Posted: October 22, 2007 12:22 pm | ||||
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ScaryKitty
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Sigh.
Thanks, kraellin. ^_^ It's been so long since I've been here, that i've forgotten the difference between my *ss and a hole in the ground.
Well, on that (calmer) note, here's an example of the filter using preset 4:  Kat
----------------------- "Listen, gotta dash, things happening. Well, four things. Well, four things and a lizard." -The Doctor |
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| Posted: October 22, 2007 1:01 pm | ||||
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ScaryKitty
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Preset 9:
 Kat
----------------------- "Listen, gotta dash, things happening. Well, four things. Well, four things and a lizard." -The Doctor |
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| Posted: October 22, 2007 1:01 pm | ||||
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ScaryKitty
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Preset 14:
 Kat
----------------------- "Listen, gotta dash, things happening. Well, four things. Well, four things and a lizard." -The Doctor |
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| Posted: October 22, 2007 1:02 pm | ||||
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ScaryKitty
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NOTE: all these images are copyright Kat Strieby (me!), both the the original photos (exept for preset 9, which is from a photo my husband took of me) and the "artistic" results.
Preset 15:  Kat
----------------------- "Listen, gotta dash, things happening. Well, four things. Well, four things and a lizard." -The Doctor |
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| Posted: October 22, 2007 1:03 pm | ||||
| Kraellin |
you're welcome
the first two show the thing about too much blur. the last two show the painterly effects much better. filters, filters, filters... NO FILTERS FOR YOU!!!
Craig |
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| Posted: October 22, 2007 1:26 pm | ||||
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StevieJ
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Welcome back.....just like old times LOL..... Steve
“Buzzards gotta eat.....same as worms....." - Clint :) |
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| Posted: October 22, 2007 8:21 pm | ||||
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Vladimir Golovin
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Yep, looks like Blur is appropriate here. |
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| Posted: October 23, 2007 7:36 am | ||||
Crapadilla
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I have the feeling that the last default preset was more 'marketable'. --- Crapadilla says: "Damn you, stupid Mac version!" |
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| Posted: October 24, 2007 9:50 am | ||||
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Vladimir Golovin
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I agree -- please bring the old one back. However, I like the color of the new one better. It would be great to make a new default preset that combines the strokes of the old preset, and colors of the current one. |
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| Posted: October 24, 2007 10:29 am | ||||
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ScaryKitty
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Um, does anyone have one of my earlier versions? I can't remmeber what the last preset looked like, and, of course, I've updated over everything.  Man, my goober factor has been WAY up this week...
If anyone has a copy of the earlier filter, could s/he do a quick render of the last preset and post it here? Once I see it again, I'm sure I could re-create it. ^_^ Thanks for all the help on this one, folks! Kat
----------------------- "Listen, gotta dash, things happening. Well, four things. Well, four things and a lizard." -The Doctor |
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| Posted: October 24, 2007 10:56 am | ||||
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Crapadilla
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The current variation 6 comes pretty close to the original default preset, IIRC. --- Crapadilla says: "Damn you, stupid Mac version!" |
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| Posted: October 24, 2007 11:06 am | ||||