Thought it would be kind of cool to introduce a photo, and see what everyone can do with the same photo. Doesn't matter what you do, whether it's to enhance, make look like a painting, etc. Please post what you do, as this can be a good learning experience for us all. Here's the photo, of some kind of plant I took last year or so. Have always liked this photo:



Here's what I did with it. Duplicated the layer, G'MIC>Black & White>Pencil Portrait, stroke length set to 21.75, and mode set to overlay:



Let's have fun with this, and see what we can come up with. Feel free to make several posts of your results.

distort,Lens distortion(tweak as You want it to look)
then scriptfu: 3d screenshot

im not good at photomanipulation but Photoadvanced2 just posted a new IS tutorial that i wanted to try

Pencil Shader with a twist.

I duplicated the image. This allows you to keep an original as the bottom layer.
I ran the filter with 100% shade, line opacity, kept the layers and the rest of the settings stayed as default.
After running the filter.
Switch line and shade layers so the shade layer is on top.
Set the shade layer to COLOR mode.
Set the line layer to GRAIN MERGE mode.

Embroider-Stitcher-with another twist.
I first rendered out the center cactus, and ran color balance on the new render.
All settings shadows, midtones, and highlights, set to max red and max yellow.
Then i merged down and ran Embroider Stitcher filter.

Awesome stuff, keep em coming. I have to go hang out with the wifers for awhile, will give it more goes when I return. Dang woman takin' up my GIMP time, grrr...

My quickie offering. Slight cartoon effect and burned honeycomb overlay, with contrast adjust.

this is a combination of the G'MIC Water filter and Relief Light

here's what I came up with:


I duplicated the layer twice
changed the mode to screen
then I went to G'MIC black & white: ink wash.. changed a few settings

K1Te beat me to the Rodilius so went book illustration instead.

Awesome stuff peeps.

Original:



Duplicate layer twice. Top layer G'MIC>Artistic>Black Crayon Graffiti, layer set on hue, second layer gradient mapped with a blue and black gradient, mode set to color over the original layer:



Same as above, with upper layer set to soft light:



Duplicate layer twice. Top layer G'MIC>Artistic>Black Crayon Graffiti, layer set on soft light, second layer gradient mapped with a blue and black gradient, mode set to overlay over the original layer:



Same as above, with second layer set to subtract:



Animated:

my favorite so far is mackenzieh's version

its an improvement of the original without any "weirdness"


another mutation

Yeah, I know. I'm sick.

Another warped idea

Couldn't help it.

Impressionistic GMIC inkwash + Paint


Colors & Contrast


Above with GMIC dream smoothing