Painterly Effects by ScaryKitty

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.

Hey scary, long time no see.....still among the living, eh???

I like the daubs/brush stroke effects of this one

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[/img]


[img]http://pics.livejournal.com/schizokitty/pic/0001ge7c[/img]

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.

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.

oh, you LINKED to the images. i thought you were posting them here. lol.

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.

Preset 9:

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:

Welcome back.....just like old times LOL.....

I have the feeling that the last default preset was more 'marketable'.

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Crapadilla wrote: I have the feeling that the last default preset was more 'marketable'.

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!

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Crapadilla wrote: The current variation 6 comes pretty close to the original default preset, IIRC.

Heh heh heh... That's because preset 6 IS the old default. I liked it too, but got flustered and worried about the "paintings" being too abstract. I can put that back easy. Thanks for responding, 'dilla!

Brushstrokes in the preset 7 of the updated filter look good as well (but its color could be better). Anyway, here's the original:

Painterly Effects nOriginali.ffxml

Thanks, Vladimir! I'll get that out today.

Thanks for all the help, reallyl. I sweated a lot of blood over this one, for some reason, and I want it to be "right."