dipstick

Not mad at all. I post things because I like to post what I consider is cool. Not at all interested in winning. If people like it, then it's cool, if not, that's fine too, as everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Art is first and foremost very subjective... If I make something I like in the future, I'll post it, rest assured.

First of all, the animation was indeed done in PDN. The chrome reflection is made using one of my E-Maps, which I've previously posted in another thread about chrome reflection. Since this is getting a little ridiculous, please omit my entries from this contest... Thanks.

Here's an animated version just for fun...

The dragbike was one of racerx's shapes which was color filled and heavily modified.

The dithering is only in the GIF version. The full resolution loop video clip is much smoother. Here it is if anyone is interested in a loop video of moon and clouds. Moon_Clouds.mp4 (3.2 MB). Get it while it's hot as it will be deleted in 30 days.

Thanks for the moon Idea. It got me going on making a loopable Moon/Cloud animation to use as a background for video projects.

Just for giggles...

Used shape3D and a custom moon map.

Be sure to tick the "internet" box, then click the Refresh button to update all filters.

That looks awesome nitenurse79, looks like you've got the hang of that filter pretty quickly.

That's very cool, I didn't know that was even possible....

When you're done, do post an image of your results. I'm curious as to what you come up with....

The shape is one of racerx's. It was modified with G'mic's Illuminate 2-D Shape Filter. All PDN.

Really, PS? you could've easily done this with free open source s/w. I wouldn't call that that a triumph by any stretch of imagination. But if it makes you happy, go for it...

Gimp also supports Vector Graphics in the form of paths saved as .svg. Here are just some samples that I've made with Gimp and transferred to blender for rendering. Edit, many of those shapes were originally created with PDN using the ShapeMaker plugin, then made into paths in Gimp....

This is actually good for making seamless texture patterns. I used my chrome butterfly to make this...

I'm running Win7x64 in a VM that's locked down with no internet. I don't want to install the needed resources for the latest PDN version. Paint.net v4.0.19 works well enough with G'mic plugin v1.2.0, so I'll stick with that one.

Version 1.3.0.0 doesn't seem to work with my paint.net v 4.0.19 for some reason. EDIT: I just found that I can use v1.2.0 G'mic dll along with the newer v1.3.0 folder with the support files. Now I'm running G'mic v2.4.4 while using the compatible v1.2.0 G'mic dll for my PDN version. The best of both worlds now...

Cool outcomes from this filter...

You may also want to try out the G'mic plugin. It has a cartoon filter among many others..

Thanks null54, your latest build is indeed much faster. As a test I combined the two top images to get the bottom image. It is easily 5x faster....

You can certainly improve any image in PDN using various filters and blending modes. Since you mentioned wanting to get effects like "Lightroom", I suggest you check out DarkTable. It is immensely powerful and free, I use it in Linux mostly for my RAW images. You can check out many of the available tutorials for darkTable on YouTube for guidance. Here is an example of an image I shot in RAW, then edited in DarkTable:

You won't find much information about G'mic Stylize Filter because it just got released and is still in Alpha stages. The best source of information can be found in This Thread.

1) put your car image on the bottom layer. 2) put your style on the top layer. 3) select the bottom layer and hit Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+D 4) run G'mic and switch to use bottom layer instead of top layer. 5) hit OK button. It should Finnish around 5 min with those small images. The bottom layer will be replaced with the new image created. OK, here's one I did earlier. I made the Style layer using a Lightning brush;